Words Matter

Words Matter: “It is language that provides the key tool for communicating prejudice interpersonally and cross-generationally.”
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Community Containment By Individual Restraint
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“Changing how the public labels categories changes the associations those labels invoke in people’s minds, which in turn changes their affective attitudes toward what is being described.” David Green, Hofstra University

Oppression breeds the Native mind, psychiatrically labeled as the Criminal mind, but where there is no crime. Wherever/whenever, its seed threatens to take sprout; it must be redefined and recharacterised as malign. The Native mind must be quelled, discounted, demeaned, debased, denigrated, negated, and nullified out of existence. It is a threat to all that is patriarchally sacred (individualism, consumerism and conflict) in – our – dominant culture.

Containment and restraint are general terms employed as descriptive for the force used by the mental health industry in its coercive management of our socially unacceptable feeling/thoughts via their agents of social-control-over. Psychiatric agents follow a dogmatic belief system based in bio psychiatric eugenics or rule-over-other by divine right of genetic superiority.

There are times when peoples’ subjugation to a diversity of oppression so alienates us from the exercise of our personal-power, that the survivalist’s capacity to cope within environment, either the public domain or the private domain or both, has become criminally enfeebled. We may seek out a witness to our pain, an expression of our fearful sense for its potential volatile effects. I.e. As we near the point at which revelation of our private pain is a possibility, we fear the oppression that has been absorbed into the essence of our being, thereby warping its otherwise shining expression, will spill out onto other in our environment. The seeker’s (mis)behaviour becomes a communication to others that there is something amiss, something that has become unmanageable and must end or in some manner be resolved or in some way a sense of closure must be achieved.

The help being searched for is that of an empathetic person to be available to bear witness to the harms done to us and so the harms corrupting from within us alienating us from our humanity. Often, however, the response from the people around us is to treat the victim’s righteous mental (intellectual/emotional) upheaval as though oppression’s victim were abnormal or dangerous. Oppressions’ phantasm is the belief that the intensity of crisis, a product of extreme conflicts in living, can only be dealt with by avoidant submission.

Deaf’s denial is a form of community retraumatisation exorcising societal irrational fear and hate by the agents of PhRMA in the highly profitable form of powerful sedative drugs and ECT, for example, which are forced onto oppression’s victims, thereby quelling their pleas even from themselves. Another form of community retraumatisation is to ensure that there is no place in our dominant culture, which will offer asylum, haven, refuge, or sanctuary from acculturated issues, to those who need a safe place in which to begin mindful-healing into a spirit-recovery.

What is needed is a form of empathetic holding, a soothing of internalized hurts. It is when oppression’s unreasoning depths can be heard within a relationship of empathetic sharing that the underlying oppression’s phantasm can begin to affect change. Our victims, the community retraumatisation personified, will continue to be revictimised and therefore will continue to grapple, both successfully and unsuccessfully, with a powerfull empathetic understanding and appreciation for the truth that we are all creatures of value - equal value.

Kathleen Hill June 2006.
Based on: ‘On Learning from the Patient’ By Patrick Casement

About Involuntary Commitment: “…all history teaches us to beware of benefactors who deprive their beneficiaries of liberty….There is neither justification nor need for involuntary psychiatric interventions….” Szasz