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09/27/2025

09/27/2025

A group of Minnesota Republican lawmakers are seeking autopsy and toxicology reports for the Annunciation shooter to examine the role psychotropic drugs may have played in the shooting – despite research that shows no link between the drugs and mass violence.

09/27/2025

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09/27/2025

“Forced treatment in psychiatry is a crime against humanity”

Peter C. Gøtzsche

Read more here:

https://publichealth.realclearjournals.org/perspectives/2025/01/forced-treatment-in-psychiatry-is-a-crime-against-humanity/

09/27/2025

The traumatised, alienated child psychologically ‘splits’: there is a good parent and a bad parent. One must be obeyed. One must be rejected. It is excruciatingly hard for the child to hold two opposing realities. They cannot manage being in two camps at the same time, and the alienating parent makes them choose. This is coercion. It is emotional and psychological abuse.

The alienating parent shapes the child’s apparent decision by flooding an innocent, impressionable, frightened mind with negative beliefs, distortions, and often outright lies. False accusations are common. This shared belief system is sometimes described as a shared delusional disorder.

The more pressure the alienating parent feels, the more extreme their behaviour may become. This is one reason family courts, which are adversarial by nature, often, unfortunately, can make matters worse: the conflict provides fresh opportunities for the alienating parent to demonise the targeted parent.

Even as a last resort, it is often the only resort a rejected parent has (if they can afford it), and this so desperately needs to change. Long before families ever enter court, professionals in schools, therapy, healthcare, and counselling need to be trained to recognise the signs of alienation. Psychological splitting is one of those signs. A child doesn’t naturally cut off contact with a loved and loving parent. When they ‘split’ like this (good/evil), without just cause, there will be undue influence/alienation. The child is not rejecting the love they once felt, but cutting themselves off from it, because it has been made forbidden. This is deeply painful for them. They feel they have no choice. Splitting becomes a survival tactic, outside their conscious awareness. They do not know they are behaving this way to survive. They do not know they are being psychologically abused.

For those who one day break free, the recovery is complex. Many struggle with shame, guilt, and the grief of what was lost. They may find it hard to name what happened to them. For the alienated parent, the task we face is healing ourselves as much as possible: to work through our anger, grief, and despair. By doing so, we keep themselves ready for our children, whenever the opportunity for reconnection arises.

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When a parent is dumped by their own child without explanation, it is a primary trauma… abandonment and trust issues develop…

If people act like friends up front but jump ship when the chips are down, the parent is re-traumatized.

Alienated parents avoid getting close to other people for this reason… they have small reserves for additional trauma... Isolation feels necessary and protective.