Douglas 🏳️‍🌈 @caycepollard@appdot.net

I’m going to keep sharing this until people get it

I'm scared to have a #mentalillness. I mean, are my doctors just fucking me up further? Am I actually being treated or just controlled?

I mean, #Freud developed #psychoanalysis just over a hundred years ago. And even though his methods are outdated, they established psychotherapy practices for today.

Are we doing this right or are we just as barbaric as those in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries?

https://cvltnation.com/horrifying-psychiatric-treatments-from-the-age-of-reason/

Shit. I mean, my dad was alive when ”psychiatrists” were treating the #mentallyill by shoving an ice pick through the eye and ripping out a piece of the brain.

Is #Mentalhealth treatment today just as barbaric? Only, instead of lobotomy, we have #psychopharmacology?

The neurologist who originated Lobotomy as a form of treatment for mental illness shared the Nobel Prize in 1949!

FRIGGIN 1949! RIPPING OUT A PIECE OF THE BRAIN WAS CONSIDERED NOBEL WORTHY IN LESS THAN 100 YEARS!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy

”The originator of the procedure, Portuguese neurologist António Egas Moniz, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine of 1949 for the "discovery of the therapeutic value of leucotomy in certain psychoses"...

Please think about donating to my fundraiser here: https://www.facebook.com/donate/2440101596308563/?fundraiser_source=external_url.

Even a dollar. Thanks

We can end the nightmare of places like Lakeshore Hospital.

Mental Health is grossly ignored in Western Culture. It's as much, or more, important than physical health. Nightmare sanitariums that lock away people suffering from a mental illness are not the answer. Medications simply provide a floor.

The health care system is broken, especially for the mentally ill.

The psychiatric hospital where I was forced to stay for five days is facing legal challenges and is being asked to be forced to shut down after reports of #childsexualassault, #sexualassault, and #grossneglect of patients.

I experienced this first hand as a patient. I wrote about it here https://blog.douglas-shoback.com/my-hospital-stay/ (**updated today**).

#mentalhealh #mentalillness #psychiatrichospital #inpatient

Of course, you’re free to purchase directly from my publisher as well: https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/douglasshoback

I can issue coupons from my publisher for free versions.

I would love everyone’s input and opinion if you have time! Thank you! ‪#ebook #sciencefiction #culturalanalysis #indiewriter‬ #speculativefiction #nonfiction #essay

‪Both my books have been updated and published on Amazon! If you haven’t bought them yet, I would greatly appreciate it if you’d at least consider purchasing a copy. If they’re too expensive, let me know and I’ll try to get you a free copy. ‬

You can also get a paperback version of my essay. If $12.99 is too much, let me know and I can get you an author’s copy for $2.95.

 Books should be updating soon. And your libraries will also be getting copies to be loaned out.

‪Hey everyone. Both of my books are free right now on Amazon. Go get them and read! Then come mock me. Go my minions. #freebook ‬
‪https://www.amazon.com/s?k=douglas+shoback&ref=is_s‬

When you politicize the weather to look like a hero, well, that’s a certain level of stupidity and desperation #trump #noaa #Idiocracy #MAGA #winning

President Trump pushed staff to correct NOAA tweet that contradicted his inaccurate Alabama hurricane claim

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/09/11/lawmakers-commerce-department-launch-investigations-into-noaas-decision-back-presidents-trump-over-forecasters/

New blog post: La faute de la Démocratie

https://blog.douglas-shoback.com/la-faute-de-la-democratie/

Why do I let my ex, who is severely emotionally confused, upset me and make me determine my worth as a person? She throws my past into my face, viewing me as the person 10 years ago and not the person today who struggled and fought through IOP and PHP to change behaviors and be different.

I am surrounded by my ghosts. I can’t escape them. The trudging march of my past will constantly define me

My literary idol, @GreatDismal, otherwise known as William Gibson. I met him once. Told him I wrote my graduate thesis on Pattern Recognition. He said, dryly, “At least it was good for something...”

I don’t know where this was taken. But Gibson fits right in. A #nearfuture underground where humans wait for AI travel

Are there any mature #games for the #XboxOne or the computer? I mean, mature story. Not plowing through zombies or destroying monsters or any of that. Something complicated and not black & white that has a deeper meaning?

I’m asking too much aren’t I?

#Thoughts and #Prayers incoming. And then a return to our comfortable disregard of the actual problem. #guncontrol

Multiple victims have been injured in a shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, a CNN affiliate reports - CNN

https://apple.news/AoXcJ24XxQzGwa3JbFF9A0g

Hahahahahaha. I’d love an Apple Card. But they’ll glance at my credit score and ban me from ever having one

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2019/08/apple-card-offer-special-financing-plans-certain-purchases.html

Want to see one of the very first trademarks? It’s a nightmare. Named Bibendum otherwise known as the Michelin Man. Introduced in France in 1894, he continues his nefarious work today

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelin_Man

Madonna and the Beastie Boys doing what they do. 1985. I’m old.