Psychiatry, America's Holocaust: the Twelve Steps Curing Mental Illness, Developing the Nonviolent Adult Mind: From Sleeping on the Streets to Founding a Nonprofit Organization
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Collapsing from the grief of not being loved, twenty years old, Clover Greene was committed to psychiatry. Just as after any horror to horrible to be real, after four electric shocks, Greene developed hysterical amnesia, vaguely remembering being locked up by psychiatry.
Psychiatry, Americas Holocaust: The Twelve Steps Curing Mental Illness, Developing the Nonviolent Adult Mind chronicles author Clover Greenes journey back from the precipice of suicidal and homicidal terror. It is a collection of Greenes thoughts, original poetry, and helpful information designed to help the reader to better understand the ups and downs of recovering from mental illness.
Over a period of time, Greene was recommitted through psychiatry and forced to take drugs. Unable to escape to the outside, Greenes suppressed feelings of confusion periodically built up and exploded into suicidal and homicidal drug rages. Real doctors in real hospitals saved Greenes life from suicide attempts and the life-threatening physical
damage caused by psychiatric drugs. After thirty-one years under a psychiatrists care, Greene was incredibly still alive, saved by a twelvestep program and the support of others in the same position.
In this memoir, Greene shares the harrowing account of escaping psychiatry alive and being reborn in the spirit of love.
Clover Greene
After thirty-one years of psychiatry, Alcoholics Anonymous developed Clover Greene’s adult mind, and Greene escaped psychiatry alive to found the nonprofit Welcome World, a 12-Step Humans Anonymous, and Clover’s Dream Thrift Store and Food Bank. Clover is married to Richard Greene; they live in Colorado.
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Psychiatry, America's Holocaust - Clover Greene
CLOVER GREENE
From Sleeping on the Streets to Founding
a Nonprofit Organization
Psychiatry,
America’s Holocaust:
The Twelve Steps Curing Mental Illness,
Developing the Nonviolent Adult Mind
iUniverse, Inc.
Bloomington
PSYCHIATRY, AMERICA’S HOLOCAUST:
The Twelve Steps Curing Mental Illness, Developing the Nonviolent Adult Mind
From Sleeping on the Streets to Founding a Nonprofit Organization
Copyright © 2012 by Clover Greene.
Author Credits: Clover Greene, Autjor, Escape From Psychiatry, Founder, Director, Welcome World
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Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Author’s Notes
Night Shades
Psychiatry: Terror Cures Fear
From Escape from Psychiatry
MENTAL ILLNESS IS ALSO SPIRITUAL ILLNESS ARRESTING MENTAL DEVELOPMENT LOVE AND TRUTH IS THE PREVENTION AND CURE OF MENTAL/SPIRITUAL ILLNESS EVERYONE IS DEPENDENT ON OTHERS FOR THE VITAL NEEDS OF LOVE AND TRUTH FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE ADULT MIND AND SPIRIT
Welcome World
About Chemical Balance
and Imbalance
Quiet Miracles of the Brain
Fulfilling the Human Purpose
Warning:
Psychiatry’s Co-opted 12-Steps
Profound Change/Enlightenment
Highlighting the Low Points
Twelve Psychological Laws
The Promises of the 12 Steps
Chapters 62,68,
Escape From Psychiatry
Psychiatry Hospital Record, Excerpt: 11/28/79
About This Discharge Summery:
My Life Miracles
Psychological Report: 10/7/81
About this Impatient Drug Treatment Center Assessment
An Untreated
Mental/Physical Illness
About the 12 Steps
of Humans Anonymous
12-Step Humans Anonymous
Stock home Syndrome
!Celebrate!
!Equally Worthy Humans Day!
People of Love
Escape from Psychiatry:
Poetry
Bibliography
Resources
*WARNING!
When trying to withdraw from many psychiatric drugs, patients can develop serious and even life-threatening emotional and physical reactions. In short, it is dangerous not only to start taking psychiatric drugs, but it also can be hazardous to stop taking them. Therefore, withdrawal from psychiatric drugs should be done only under clinical supervision. Principles of drug withdrawal are discussed in, Your Drug May Be Your Problem: How and Why to Stop Taking Psychiatric Medications by Peter R. Breggin, MD, and David Cohen, PhD. More information is available at http://www.breggin.com.
Disclaimer:
The information, ideas, and suggestions in this book are not intended as a substitute for professional advice. Before following any suggestions contained in this book, you should consult your personal physician or mental health professional. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be liable or responsible for any loss or damage allegedly arising as a consequence of your use or application of any information or suggestions in this book.
To the millions of people tortured, maimed, and killed by psychiatry and those still struggling without hope
A world cured of mental illness is a world reflecting the unconditional love of God, a world of equally worthy people living in heaven on earth, solving problems, freed of superiors, inferiors, alcoholism, drugging, crime, and war.
Foreword
By Gwen Olsen, Author of Confessions of an RX Drug Pusher
Surviving psychiatry is a remarkable feat in and of itself. The brutal treatments
used in psychiatry can leave one—if not dead—not only physically disabled, but psychologically debilitated as well. The author, Clover Greene, has not only survived many years of psychiatric treatment, but she has spiritually transcended the experience and provides others a pathway of hope for escape
and recovery through her work. Clover’s story is a powerful testimony to the resilience of the human spirit and the unparalleled healing power of love, even when the psyche and body are brutally traumatized.
Many will question the validity of Clover’s observations herein simply because of the labels given to her by authorities in an industry comprised of demoralization . . . but I know the truth of which she speaks in a most intimate fashion because I have also seen the deliberate destruction of the human body and mind by psychiatry. As a former drug representative who received fifteen years of indoctrination and dogmatic training by Big Pharma, I was personally culpable in assisting in the dissemination of misinformation campaigns directed at medical prescribers and consumers of psychiatric drugs.
As a patient, I have suffered both the hellish effects of physical addiction and protracted withdrawal from psychotropic drugs. Drugs were prescribed to me to ameliorate mild symptoms that significantly worsened over a short period of time with treatment. Eventually, doctors added more and more drugs to manage the unwanted side effects, which impaired my cognitive function as well as damaged my memory.
As a volunteer child advocate working in the Texas state foster care system, I saw the blatant corruption of government agencies by the pharmaceutical industry’s direct influence and tried to help the vulnerable, young victims they claimed—children who were often snatched from the clutches of their dysfunctional parents and delivered into the hands of profiteers for treatment
with psychiatric drugs via Child Protective Services (CPS).
And finally, having survived a young niece who burned herself alive attempting to withdraw from a cocktail of psychiatric drugs and as a writer/researcher who has researched and written numerous books and articles on this subject matter since her passing, I have become a voice of truth and opposition to psychiatric drugging. I, along with others like Clover, continue to educate parents and caretakers on the agendas of the pharmaceutical companies and to sound the alarm about the real dangers of psychiatric drugs being forced upon our population in the name of treatment.
Clover Smith Greene is an inspiration to many, but especially so to me. She embodies the qualities of grace, compassion, and forgiveness, beautifully teaching us that we can not only transform ourselves through love . . . but we can also transform our world!
Acknowledgments
In grateful acknowledgment to the real doctors in real hospitals who saved my life both from my psychiatry-induced hopeless suicide attempts, and psychiatry’s drugs life threatening physical damage, a male nurse in an emergency room who told me, "Go to Alcoholics Anonymous, they teach people how to get well there, the 12-step adults who turned my life around, and loving humans Dolores Mobley and Stephanie Lloyd and my husband, Richard Greene who helped make this book possible.
Permission for the Twelve Steps and other quotations from Alcoholics Anonymous, by Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., is gratefully acknowledged. Alcoholics Anonymous states the following: This material is reprinted with permission of Alcoholics Anonymous, World Services, Inc. Permission to reprint this material does not mean that AA has reviewed or approved the contents of this autobiography, nor that AA agrees with the views expressed herein. AA is a program of recovery from alcoholism only; use of AA’s material in connection with programs and activities that are patterned after AA, but that address other problems, or in any other non-AA context, does not imply otherwise.
Author’s Notes
Name Changes
My name changes in my autobiography as my name changed in my life. A woman in twelve steps said to me, You are green and growing, with little, white, joy laughter blossoms, a comfort to others. Your name ought to be Clover.
Later, I legally changed my name to Clover. Even later, I married Richard Mills Greene, to whom I am still married. I have not used the real names of any other persons or places. All incidents may not be remembered in the exact order in which they occurred, nor is the horror transferable into precise words.
Non-Gender Wording/Spelling
I used non-gender wording/spelling where appropriate.
Hse = he, she, him, her, his, himself, herself.
Night Shades
We rehearsed well
Our defaulted roles
You the exulted psychiatrist
I the nothing
Equals cast into hierarchy
Conditioned and addicted
We followed the script
Of our stuck on labels
You cold and arrogant
Double crossing your eyes
Zapping zap zaps
And colored pills of poison
Judged as worthless
Condemned and agonized
I and my eyes cast down
Into the Nazi throwback
Nightshade solution
Practiced in blindness
You just couldn’t see
Our faces were the same
The face of a human
Psychiatry: Terror Cures Fear
Psychiatry’s dysfunctioning of the brain with electricity and drugs guarantee the person cannot develop hse adult mind—and developing one’s adult mind is the cure of mental illness
Terror acts powerfully upon the body, through the medium of the mind, and should be employed in the cure of madness. Fear accompanied with pain and the sense of shame has sometimes cured the disease.
This quotation is from Medical Inquiries and Observations, Upon the Diseases of the Mind, written in 1818 by Dr. Benjamin Rush, father of American psychiatry and the first president of the APA, whose face appears on the official seal of the American Psychiatric Association. Rush advocated and practiced terror by designing and using the straitjacket, the tranquilizer chair, and fear of death.
Between 1950 and 1964, more people died in United States federal, state, and county ‘mental institutions’ than the number of Americans killed in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, the Korean War, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf War combined.
This quotation comes from the 1995 Funk & Wagnalls World Almanac and Book of Facts (p. 163).
Suicide is the eighth leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for more than 1% of all deaths. An additional 500,000 Americans attempt suicide annually. The total number of deaths caused by conventional medicine is nearly 800,000 per year. It is now evident that the American medical system is the leading cause of death and injury in the US. By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2001 was 699,697, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 553,251.
Gary Null and associates wrote this in Death by Medicine" By Gary Null, PhD; Carolyn Dean MD, ND; Martin Feldman, MD; Debora Rasio, MD; and Dorothy Smith, PhD. http://curingmentalillness.org/toppling_psychiatry.asp
About ECT, Electric Convulsive Terror
Just like after any horror too horrible to be real, electric shock, known as electric convulsive terror, causes PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. In PTSD, a person experiences hysterical amnesia, only dimly remembering having been there but none of the details. The person eats and sleeps in a