Medical Support and Refuges
Medical support is that provided by
practitioners and hospitals who/which assist psychological and physical
problems in a medical way. Practitioners provide a diagnosis of the problem and
medicine to relieve or get rid of it. There are two main forms of medicine. The
most common is institutionalised medicine or that which is practised within
traditional, organised and state endorsed medicine. These practitioners are
doctors, specialists such as psychiatrists, and nurses, and use scientific
methods and scientifically obtained chemicals. The other form is alternative
medicine which uses natural remedies and methods to relieve pain and problems.
These practitioners are naturopaths, masseurs, instructors in yoga, meditation,
etc. Not all practitioners within institutionalised medicine keep within its
supposed role. Many open minded doctors and psychiatrists will also prescribe
natural remedies and suggest alternative and non chemical ways of relieving and
stopping problems.
Most victims/survivors need medical
support that relates directly to the abuse. This could be for psychological or
physical problems. Psychological issues include sleeplessness, intense memory
flooding, psychosis, PTSD, DID, chronic depression, chronic fatigue syndrome,
etc. Physical problems caused by the torture can be intestinal, heart related,
scarring of tissue and the skin, genital and anal mutilation, etc. Both
physical and psychological problems can be from recent or past abuse. A medical
practitioner can also be a long term counsellor or someone who will sympathise
with your concerns.
Most victims/initially come into
contact with Institutionalised Medicine
either by choice or necessity. As said before this is medicine which is
traditional, scientific,
organised and state endorsed. By state endorsed I mean supported by the
state in an ideological way as being a societal institution, and in a way in
that the training of practitioners is done at state run universities, and the
state financially supports it as with Medicare. The approach is one of a
medical model of scientific detachment, observation, diagnosis and treatment.
The worst practitioners of institiutionalised medicine do not see emotional trauma
as being the cause of psychological pain. It simply sees an abnormality in the
persons psyche, or to use a physical illness comparison, its like having a
cancer that can be gotten rid of with medication. Institutionalised Medicine
practitioners are doctors, specialists called psychiatrists, and psychiatric
nurses. Hospitals can be private and public, can be general, and which may have
a psychiatric ward, or be specific psychiatric ones. Doctors and psychiatrists
can be found in private practice or in hospitals. Psychiatric nurses are mainly
in hospitals.
Doctors
A doctor in private practice or a
GP is good to have as s/he can prescribe medicines to assist with sleeping,
intestinal problems, etc. Like a psychiatrist, s/he can also write importnat
medical reviews for Centrelink Disability Support Pensions. A sympathetic and
open minded doctor whom you see over a long time is even more valuable as s/he
can understand where the problems come from ie the agmc. It is not necessary
however to disclose about agmc if you do not wish to. Most doctors do accept
that widespread sexual assault and organised pedophilia exist which you/the
survivor was subjected to, and which cause sleeplessness, genital and anal
mutilation, etc. A GP, unless s/he is counselling you, is not a direct primary
caregiver as with your counsellor. S/he is secondary and helps out with medical
issues. However, it is still importnat to have an open minded doctor who will
address medical issues cuased by the abuse. To find a GP who will be open
minded and sympathetic, its good to ask your counsellor or a sexual assault
agency or concerned community group. A good doctor is also someone who will
take their time to listen to your concerns and is genuinely interested in you.
A bad doctor is someone who only “treats the problem”. S/he does personally
removed diagnoses, is judgmental, etc, and generally sees you as a “task within
a specific time period”. A good doctor will also prescribe medicines when you
and s/he both agree that it is necessary, and will use as least possible, the
amount of artificial chemicals, especially drugs that cause dependency such as
valium. The emphasis is upon your own physical and psychological abilities to
relieve and stop the problem. A doctor
who is “stuck in the medical model”, will emphasise the use of detachment,
observation, testing, drugs, etc. This can cause dependency upon testing in
itself and in using drugs. S/he is mainly looking at the problem and not at how
the person is dealing with the problem. In the reverse, a bad doctor will also
not prescribe any drugs whatsoever even when it is obvious such as lacking
sleep for a week, that some form of medication is needed. For example, valium
in the short term will be helpful to assist the person to get some sleep and
then do either general things or recovery. Again the doctor is not looking at
how the person can be assisted to help him/her self.
Psychiatrists
A psychiatrist is a doctor who
specialises in psychological problems such as PTSD, DID, etc. In private practice,
and sometimes in hospitals, they see victims/survivors over a long period. They
are both counsellors and doctors and can use both to assist you/the
victim/survivor. Like doctors, they fall into either the medical model or
humanitarian ones. The medical model psychiatrist abuses chemicals or
medication a lot or insists on not using them at all. The humanitarian ones
will emphasise
counselling, your abilities to solve problems and only use chemicals when both
the person and psychiatrist agree that it is necessary. Like a doctor, a good
psychiatrist can be found by talking to your counsellor, sexual assault agency,
concerned community group or your doctor. As a psychiatrist is a counsellor it
is important that they believe you with the agmc. A psychiatrist who believes
that organised pedophilia, systemic government corruption and ritual abuse
exists should be open minded enough to believe that agmc exists. Again you need
to ask a sexual assault agency or your counsellor to find a believing or open
minded psychiatrist. I have had a psychiatrist who believed in ra and systemic
government corruption.
Hospitals
As with physical pain, when a
victim/survivor is in extreme psychological pain, a hospital is needed. A
hospital is a place when there is a severe crisis and a person cannot look
after him/herself. Its a place which provides particular attention and care and
allows for short term recovery to the point where a victim is able to look
after him/herself. There are three types of hospital where victims/survivors
go. They can be general, general with a psychiatric ward, or be specific
psychiatric ones. In small cities and towns there are general hospitals. In
larger cities, hospitals have psychiatric wards, and psychiatric hospitals can
be anywhere. Depending upon the severity of the crisis, victims/survivors are
either kept in a general hospital or moved to psychiatric wards and hospitals.
All these types of hospitals can be both privately and publically run. In
general hospitals, there is usually a psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse, or one
in a nearby hospital who will visit. In larger hospitals on the psychiatric
wards and in psychiatric hospitals the staff is all psychiatrists and
psychiatric nurses.
A severe crisis which requires hospitalisation is when a person is
at risk to him/herself ie suicidal, is having a major panic attack, is having a
psychotic episode or in laymens terms is stuck in a painful memory and cannot
be in the present, is severely depressed, in constant painful memory flooding
and again cannot distinguish the past from present. Crises are extremely
horrible times. A victim/survivor feels she will lose it, is in agony, has
difficulties breathing, is extremely disorientated, etc. In these times it is
very important and even crucial to call or go to a hospital, call your
counsellor, call a telephone crises line or call a friend to take you there.
Severe crises have physical problems such as not being able to breathe such as
when having a panic attack, and psychological ones where a person is suicidal
or so disorientated that harm can easily happen such as falling down steps,
thinking that someone is a perpetrator and causing harm, etc. Hospital staff on seeing the severity will
either admit straight away or will see how you are coping and then admit. A
doctor, psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse will see how bad you are and then
determine if a psychiatric ward or hospital is necessary. Some
victims/survivors just need rest for a day or so such as with a panic attack,
some need longer hospitalisation as when severely stuck in a painful memory.
Hospital Staff
As most hospitals, both public
and private, are within institutionalised medicine, the hospital staff have
been trained in university courses that emphasise science, use of drugs, etc. There
is an objective diagnosis and the treatment. Many of the staff, particularly
psychiatrists, treat the problem within personally removed and scientific terms
eg a psychotic episode. This is different to a more humanitarian approach which
would see a “psychotic episode” as being the reality of losing it when having a
painful memory. Ive also found a certain arrogance and prejudice among many
psychiatrists in hospitals. Once when I was having difficulty deprogramming and
was feeling suicidal I was admitted and then told to be diagnosed by three
psychiatrists. I explained that I was having painful memory of organised
pedophilia abuse and that was why I was there. In the report, it mentioned
nothing about the memories or organised pedophilia, but that I was a
“homosexual wearing different clothes to other people”. What my sexuality had
to do with the memories or the “diagnosis” is irrelevant. My approach with
hospitals now is to use them in case I am in a crisis so that I recover, and
then leave. Institutionalised medicine, particularly hospital psychiatrists are
not in the main very human. But the hospital is important for recovery. The
most personable of staff at hospitals are usually the psychiatric nurses. They
are there all the time and emphasise counselling for recovery. If in hospital
try to find a psych nurse whom you can relate to and tell your problems. You
dont need to explain about agmc if you feel the nurse might not be open to
understanding it. Organised pedophilia, widespread sexual assault and government
corruption are known to exist publically and you can talk about these.
Hospitals cant be Refuges
A lot of victims/survivors can be
so fearful of perpetrators accessing or intimidating, that they see hospitals
as refuges. They also dont know they are actually seeing it as a refuge. This
is understandable from the victims/survivors point of view. A hospital is safe
in that it has full time staff who look after you and stop intruders coming
onto the wards, and has security guards. Many victims/survivors on seeing this
will hold onto staying there even when the crisis has passed. What happens
though is that hospital staff get very annoyed and demand that you leave. This
is understandable from their point of view. Hospitals are for crisis periods and
the crisis has passed. What victims/survivors need to do for their own sake as
a hospital may not readmit if another crisis happens, is to address the safety
issue. Talk to staff, particularly the
social worker, at the hospital about fears of harassment. S/he will advise
about going to the police, creating better safety at your home or even about
going to a refuge which is for people who are being harassed. Please see the Safety
webpage and ‘Refuges’ further on this specific page.
Medication
Again as with phsyical pain,
there is medication to help with psychological pain. Medication is for
assisting wiht periods of painful memory, stress, with migraine, etc.
Medication is a drug or a chemical compound that affects the body and mind.
Most drugs replicate the normal things a body and mind does. Replication is
when a drug takes over the normal functioning and aspects of the mind and body.
For example, with sleep, valium and temazepam are used. For daily being, major
drugs are used. They can also lessen physical pain as with migraines.
Institutionalsed medicine doctors and psychiatrists mainly see medication as a
panacea ie its not like panadol to relieve pain, but will take the pain away
and solve the problem. As said before, institiutionalised medicine generally
doesnt see emotional trauma as being the cause of psychologicasl pain. It
simply sees an abnormality in the perosns psyche like a physical cancer which
can be gotten rid of with medication. However, as most victims/survivors
realise, like the body fixing itself naturally, so the mind also is able to
recover naturally. Medication is only for releiving periods of stress.
Humanitarian minded doctors and psychitrsists view medication in this way and
will prescribe when both you and him/her agree that there is a period of stress
and medication is helpful for the short term.
The major problem with medication
is that it can overatke the mind and bodys ways of doing things which leads to
a dependancy. For example, with valium and temazepam, these simply replicate
sleeping. They dont actually help your mind and body to sleep, but actually do
the sleeping aspect. Once you take these away you fall back onto your body and
minds abilities to sleep. If you allow the drugs to fully do the sleeping
aspect you lose the natural sleeping ability and this is why it can be really
difficult to give up valium. The other problem is that inhibits or stops the
natural ways people work out problems. For example, confusion happens a lot
when deporgramming as there is so many conflicting thoughts. But confusion is
actually part of the healing process. You have your own true ideas coming
across the lies of perpetrators. With
having confusion you can work out what is real and what are lies. When having
medication that keeps you in a “peaceful” state of not thinking about problems,
you dont have the ability to see the confusion and lies.
The benefit of medication is that
sometimes deprogramming is so intense that its difficult to do things. If you
are lsoing sleep constnatly its really difficult to concentrate and have a
daily routine. These things in themselves are importnat in deprogramming. A
negative cycle occurs of nat having enough sleep leading to getting more
stressed and less ability to both deporfram and to fo normal things. Valium and
temezapam in the short term helps out so that you can get back to having some
sort of sleep and can start afresh.
Alternative Medicine
As its name says, Alterantive
Medicine is that which provides an alternative to the Institutionalised. Apart
from hospitalisation, alternative medicine has its equivalents to the
instituional. Practitioners inculde naturopaths who prescribe natural, not
chemical drugs, to physical and psychological problems. For example, Valerian
tea instead of valium for sleeping. To relive pshycial stress, swedish massage
for example can be used. Alternatiev medicine stress the body and minds
abilities to recover thmesleves and so nutral ways to enhance these. It also
uses a wholistic process in that it sees the whole person rather than simply
the problem. The problem is caused by the abuse done to teh person and the
person has the ability to recover from
it. Therefore an Alternative Medicine practitioner will ask about possible
abuse and listen. Even though many are open minded and will definitely belive
that widespread sexual assault, organised pedophilia and even ritual abuse
exists, they may not be open to agmc. However, they woudl be more open than
what instituitionalised medicine practitioners are and will not see you as
“crazy”.
Advantages and Disadvantages
of Institutionalised and
Alternative Medicine
Both Institutionalised and
Alternative Medicine have their advantages and disadvantages. Unfortunately, Alternative Medicine is costly
in comparison as Medicare cant be used. Some practitioners give a
discount for people on Medicare. Some private health insurance companies give
some rebate for specific types of alternative medicine. With Institutionalised
Medicine, people with full Medicare rebate such as people on Social Security
are fully covered with public hospitals, and many doctors and psychiatrists who
give full rebate. Some doctors can only see people on Disability Support
Pension and Senior Cards with full Medicare. You need to check the doctor or
psychiatrists beforehand. Private
hospitals want health insurance or partial Medicare. Also from a practical
viewpoint, if applying for Disability Support Pension, Centrelink generally
want reports from doctors and psychiatrists. Alternative Medicine practitioners
reports are unfairly treated as minor.
From a philosophical viewpoint, Alternative Medicine is far better
than mainstream Institutionalised Medicine. It is about treating the whole
person, using natural substances and therapy such as massage and meditation,
and emphasises the persons independence and ability to recover. However, there
are many doctors and psychiatrists within Institutionalised Medicine who do
similar. They will emphasise using natural products and see you as a person
first. A lot depends upon finding the right doctor whom your counsellor or
sexual assault agency can recommend.
Another consideration is that
both can have reminders of abuse. Within Institutionalised Medicine, drugs,
hospitals, doctors, psychiatrists and Institutionalised Medicine in itself as
not being empowering but causing dependency, can trigger badly. With
Alternative Medicine, ritual abuse survivors maybe triggered by the herbs
abused in satanic style “ceremonies”.
Refuges
Refuges or shelters are places
where people can go if being harassed and intimidated and/or do not have the
ability to obtain and maintain accommodation. They arent in a severe crisis and
not needing hospitalisation, and yet cannot obtain accommodation due to
psychological abilities or fear of being harassed. Refuges are either state
supported and run, or run by a welfare agency.
In larger cities and towns they are gender, age, sexuality and race
specific eg a mens shelter. The cost depends on the refuge. Generally, state
run ones are free or minimal, whereas welfare agency ones cost more. Many agmc
victims/survivors need to use refuges from time to time. Harassment, whether
real or perceived occurs and victims/survivors simply need a safe place. Many
victims/survivors may also be suffering from too much PTSD or DID and do not
have the ability to find and maintain their own accommodation and therefore
become homeless. Many homeless people become so because of fear of
perpetrators, and have PTSD and DID. There is no need to explain that you are a
agmc victim/survivor, if you dont want to.
In “applying” for a refuge you
need to explain that harassment is occurring or you fear it. You can explain that you are being harassed
by an organised pedophile group that you were abused in. State run refuges
would accept that organised pedophilia groups exist. Welfare agency ones may
not. You can also talk to a social worker at a hospital or even Centrelink or
your counsellor about going to a refuge. They can recommend good ones and even
do the talking for you. In general, state run refuges are more open minded and
are more “loose” in how they run. However, welfare agency ones are generally
very strict and even judgemental in how they see you and how it is run.