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(Last edited/updated Oct 2, 2024)

Clip is an excerpt from "Willowbrook: The Last Great Disgrace" ( Geraldo Rivera 1972 )

Note: I didn't put a lot of effort into this page at this point & there may be added content.

(No, I'm not Eliza Lucero, .... etc.,etc. Read on.)

This is a sociology presentation (work in progress) about a young woman's insistence on using the publicity of local social issues to develop a modeling portfolio ... or something sinister like that. (Just go with it, wth?) Content here is included in fair use in this criticism.)

This page was from a template of sorts, from another website that was a result of a retired Army captain being all stupid on the VA's Facebook. It's what I do. I've never got into any argument with Eliza Lucero, online or any where else. I've never alerted her to my existence & that's not what this is about. I don't really care to know anything about her more than what I've seen on her Facebook. I'm not having any kind of problem with her and I think I actually saw her name in a local news article, probably something related to housing issues & renting ... unscrupulous landlords abound! (No, I'm not being sarcastic there ←, either! Lack of adequate oversight and enforcement of laws, and all. I got into an argument with an apparent investor regarding the Ivy Crossings Apartments fire. He was complaining about the cost of maintenance and associated his rant with pandemic woes, but I pointed out that there was gov't relief programs in place for landlords too.)

The point is here that the problems associated with renting housing (apartments) affects people on gov't housing assistance too, even though there's safeguards included with gov't housing vouchers that are meant to keep landlords compliant with relatable laws. I had one landlord even sign a state housing program form (a 30-day Notice) where I listed as a reason to let me out of their lease as "Landlord is violating lease by threatening arbitrary hundred dollar fines." Seriously! They don't have to worry about doing things like that because they know that in the end nobody gives a ff! I suppose I'm jealous of Eliza in a way since if male landlord(s) did to her what these middle-aged women apartment managers were doing to me there'd be thousands of people all tripping over their own tongues wanting to know my story. The point may be to educate me on the fact that there are people in worse straits, that's usually the case, since an average man who's worth a salt would never allow anybody to wrong him or hurt him (type thing). I can be stigmatized as an ingrate, actually I have been. Yet I've also had counselors with masters degrees break down and cry upon realizing my history. (I've survived some serious brutality & the majority of my childhood friends have already passed away.)

(Quick introduction to the subject matter: The VA will post informative articles about their mental health services and one was regarding "schizophrenia". Admittedly the condition is not one that people would be comfortable with as being associated with military veterans, but the crux of the issue is that psychiatric conditions are not as clearly defined as people in the general public think. The reality is that the people that end up in the mental health system have suffered some kind of physical violent trauma in their lives. The people who are diagnosed with psychiatric conditions are actually scapegoated by their families. What people don't often realize is that even if a child that has been physically abused by somebody other than parents or immediate family, their parents & siblings will often be dismissive of it, and just fault the victim. It's embarrassing, is the thing. "Good people aren't hurt in this world" is the Just World ideology, it's just easier & less messy with that worldview. It's known that people will take just about anything to the extreme and there are families that will deny the suffering of one of their own to the extreme. People will joke about how being whipped as a child helped them, whatever, but I also have other personal anecdotes of sporadic physical abuse that I've endured including one when my father attacked me with a softball bat. The point always was that i was supposed to fight back ... have any idea why? I understood that and it was so hurtful!

Oh ... the possibility of military veterans diagnosed with schizophrenia thing; The condition can have a late onset to where a person won't manifest any "symptoms" until their late tweanties, so a person could very well have served in the military, received an honorable discharge, and still be labeled schizophrenic later. When that is understood then a person might realize that a veteran could have also experienced trauma in the midst their service which could exacerbate a mental health condition. If so, where does one condition end and another begin? The first psychiatrist that I ever spoke with ended up yelling at me. I didn't raise my voice to him or threaten him, but he started screaming at me. Why? (I warned him!) He was showing me the inkblots, trying to see if I'd get agitated since they all look like various feminine body parts, when I figured it out and I started chuckling. He asked why and I said I was reminded of a dirty joke and he said that he wanted to hear it. I went ahead and told it but changed the people involved to the doctor's wife & their neighbor. He was pissed. I then explained to him the simple fact that I didn't know why I'd be expected to talk to him any differently then people have talked to me. I told him that if the roles were reversed, and it was me upset for being insulted, then all he'd care about was my reaction and not admitting to insulting me. I told him that was what I was used to (..."that was my past experience" is the way I'd phrase that now).

This was what I originally had written for the Army captain...

Research has shown that people in the "mentally ill" demographic are more likely to be victims of violence than an average person. People in the demographic are survivors of abuse and trauma, etc. (I usually do my best to make that clear ... the reality would only stand to reason but the topic can sure make people reveal their true character!) The movie "Girl, interrupted" is about a young woman who is diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, but it would be inconceivable that there was no possible way that the woman's overall problem could be connected to some prior trauma that she experienced. The issue then usually gets to be about what trauma she could've experienced, and who caused it. Of course that'd be human nature to consider that, but there's possibilities to be aware of in regards to her circumstances or socioeconomic status. The first point is that anytime people discuss a person's possible prior trauma it can be assumed that the trauma was during childhood and then, by extension, it might be assumed that the abuse was committed by her parents. It's also common to associate the (possible) child abuse with being parental and then, by extension, figure that the parents would be stereotypical abusive parents who were consistently abusive, instead of being a few isolated events. Of course it could then be assumed that maybe the woman is exaggerating when there were a few times when she was physically abused but nobody ever noticed. The strange phenomenon that is overlooked by people who aren't familiar with trauma and the effects is that it's really never only one person in the person's life that was abusive toward them. Time and again you can hear people who've suffered child abuse reveal that there were other people in their lives who were also physically abusive, including siblings and even friends or acquaintances. In brief, people who've suffered trauma can be a bit strange (to others) and sometimes that strangeness might be merely revealing a compassion or sympathy for other people that the person's cultural group (i.e., their family, friends, coworkers, etc.) do not agree that the others are worthy of the consideration. Undocumented immigrants are a good example for that point.

My mentioning immigrants may seem unrelatable but a person who's experienced trauma and felt outcasted could relate to the insurmountable difficulty of changing your circumstances while living in an environment where you're oppressed. It's not difficult to figure out that it's people who are abusive to other people that would even argue about the precise definition of oppressed, what it entails exactly, or some other trivial aspect of the given example. People have a natural tendency to sympathize with or defend a person or entity that's in a more powerful (or influential) position, initially anyway. In social science that phenomenon is the "Just World" ideology, where people will lean towards an idea that people get what they deserve. Another way to explain it is with the rudimentary philosophy of Theory of Forms, where there exists the perfect form of the associated entity that is unchangeable and so if a person experiences a problem with the entity then the person is the one who bears the responsibility by not accepting or conforming to the entity's immutable standards. Of course the people who like to impose the double-standard on people who are vulnerable and disadvantaged are not so accepting when it's some entity that they have dealings with that is corrupted. There's the people who use language such as "allowing yourself to be a victim" that insist on setting the criteria for what constitutes another person's strength or weakness.

In a relatable issue, it's culturally acceptable to charge minors as adults for crimes in an arbitrary fashion and is a human rights issue but is one of the issues to where I would be expected to accept it as being congruent with our nation's posit, to put it simply. In reality though it's another issue to use to abuse people who are compassionate, is all.

Please note: I get into many debates with people on social media and this is my way of finding/presenting resolution. This page is a template of sorts that I'm re-using for this douche, Cpt. Anonymous (I'll call him), so the text may be a bit dis-jointed at this time. I will work on it but in meantime it's critical that I make this point that in this case, with what this man said about "schizophrenics not being in the military because they'd never make it through basic training" is not true. I attempted to explain that there can be an onset of the condition in a person's late twenties and so a person could very well have served in the U.S. military, received honorable discharge, and be diagnosed with schizophrenia just the same as any other specific diagnoses of "mental illness". All this man is doing is relying on and promoting the reinforcement of stigma and stereotype of a cultural label that's based on anecdotal evidence (rumor) that really only exists because of a human desire to consider some other person(s) as inferior, even if that means blatant exaggeration and deliberate misinterpretation (see: Wikipedia's article: Fundamental attribution error). So what this man is actually doing is in contradiction to the maxim of "No man left behind" since the real veterans that are being referred to here are being ignored and abandoned in their plight due to bias. It could even be argued that veterans were falsely imprisoned in the psychiatric system (as were civilians) and so there would be a point for the captors to justify the action or else they'd be committing a terrible crime. Nobody who was part of the medical community has ever used their position and bureaucracy to cover up their crimes? Do people really think psychiatry is that perfect?

Sites of mine that are immediately relatable to this issue:

• allofus.report is in regards to the VA's participation in pseudo-scientific research of genetic association with human behavior
• atadcrazy.org/va is information for those involved with VA behavioral health
• psychrights.net/ is general sociology information related to behavioral health

The articles that I often link to in my comments (and then subsequently mocked, of course) are these:

• Victimization and Serious Mental Illness - Treatment Advocacy Center
• Victimization of Mentally Ill : Mental Illness Policy Org

So her comment didn't really violate the NextDoor Community Guidelines on the surface but again, her wording could be considered as perpetuating a stigma that very well could result in violence committed against people who are "mentally ill" or are perceived to be so. The 6th Guideline of "We prohibit any activity that could hurt someone, from physical harm to scams." is relevant but unfortunately it takes a bit of explaining to reveal how it's pertinent. It is difficult to do so with these people since they are arrogant, obstinate and defensive.

I will clarify here that the continued cultural posit of proliferating the association of "mentally ill" with violent behavior deliberately to scapegoat is contempt & potential violation of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution (which provides for equal protection of laws). That is a crucial point as it relates to anti-discrimination laws, as well as in relation to warranting aggravated charges for crimes committed against vulnerable citizens that may be designated disabled do to mental health reasons. (In the latter case HIPAA Health Information Privacy Rights apply too which is critical since that can confuse (oblivious) people.)

It is getting extremely obvious that people in the demographic of "mentally ill" are so marginalized that they're exploited in the sense that it's culturally acceptable, encouraged, & defended to disparage and stereotype them. Advocating for the mentally ill demograpic is ridiculed because of bias. It's all the epitome of the sociology described with the Power Threat Meaning Framework to where agreement with whatever popular consensus dictates even though the majority of people are not aware of the history of western psychiatry and the "data" that was gathered, much of it a record of patients' distress when being treated as subhumans ... the rights many other citizens take for granted are openly & blatantly denied. Visit my Ban ECT site.