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Author: Sheila Matthews

Psychiatric Oversight of Lawmakers, Who Really Controls the Powerful?

February 3, 2025

Senator Smith Antidepressants “MAY” Cause School Shooting, RFK Confirmation Hearings. HHS

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) hasn’t yet been added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, (DSM-V) but the apparent mental disorder appears to have taken hold of the Democrat party to such an extent that psychiatric specialists have been brought in to help those lawmakers deal with the newly elected Republican President.

Donald Trump, the 45th and 47th President of the United States, is a force all his own and, apparently, the Democrats in Congress are having a tough time coping with the hurricane of Executive Orders and Directives coming fast and furiously out of the White House and have enlisted the help of shrinks to deal with what can only be described as Post Traumatic Election Disorder (PTED).

Maryland Democrat and minority leader of the House Judiciary Committee and past impeachment manager against Trump’s second impeachment lalapalooza, Representative Jamie Raskin, explained that the mental health specialists were brought in to talk “about basically communication styles during the Trump era.”

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AWARDS DINNER, FEBRUARY 8, 2025 TICKET ACCESS

Annual Awards Dinner

“Breaking the Narrative”
The Plaza
Vero Beach, Florida

RESERVE YOUR TICKET


Flying & Staying in Vero Beach, Florida
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Airports

Vero Beach Airport
https://www.verobeachairport.com/

A small airport that services private planes and Breeze Airlines.

Breeze Airlines
https://www.flybreeze.com/home

Melbourne Airport: Approximately 40-minute drive

West Palm Beach Airport: Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes

Orlando Airport: Approximately: 1 hour 15 minutes

Hotels

On the Island

Resort area of Vero Beach walking distance to restaurants & shops, Uber to Event

Costa d Este
https://www.costadeste.com/

Kempton Hotel
https://www.verobeachhotelandspa.com/

Ocean Breeze Inns
https://reservations.oceanbreezeinns.com/vero/

The Caribbean Court – South Beach walk to some restaurants
https://thecaribbeancourt.com

On the Mainland

Near the venue, box stores, and bustling Miracle Mile & downtown Historical Area

Hampton Inn & Suites Vero Beach Downtown
611 20th Place, Vero Beach, Florida, 32960, USA

Hilton
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/flvrbhx-hampton-vero-beach

Vero Beach Chamber of Commerce Travel to Vero Links
https://business.indianriverchamber.com/list/ql/lodging-travel-15

Be the Voice for the Voiceless

Every dollar you give is a powerful statement, a resounding declaration that the struggles of these families will no longer be ignored. Your generosity today will echo through generations, ensuring that the rights and well-being of children are fiercely guarded. Don’t let another family navigate this journey alone. Donate now and join us in creating a world where every child’s mind is nurtured, respected, and given the opportunity to thrive.  As a 501(c)3 organization, your donation to AbleChild is not only an investment in the well-being of vulnerable children but also a tax-deductible contribution to a cause that transcends individual lives.

FREEZE ON $8 BILLION MENTAL HEALTH BUDGET, TIME TO REASSESS EFFECTIVENESS

January 28 2025

In a surprising move, President Trump has put a hold on federal grants, loans, and other assistance, including funding for mental health programs. The pause comes at a crucial time when billions of dollars are being spent with little to show in return. The freeze provides that time to take a hard look at where taxpayer funds are going and if it’s really helping Americans. In the case of mental health funding, it’s an opportunity to assess whether hundreds of billions being spent is actually working or is it a colossal failure.

On the bright side, this break in funding could lead to better ways of helping people with mental health issues, without relying so heavily on psychiatric drugs that don’t treat any known abnormality. Yes. The drugs will change behavior, but horrific side effects come with each of the known drug “treatments” but none of the drugs correct any known abnormality.

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Hochul’s Psychiatric Gulag: Liberty Sacrificed, Drug Side Effects Ignored

January 27, 2025

Governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, believes that making involuntary commitment laws stronger in the empire state will make a difference in the increased number of random violent and deadly attacks in New York’s subway system and on its streets. The question that must be answered is this a problem of mental illness or a product of mental health intervention?

Hochul did not provide any specifics about the legislation that will be submitted during the Legislature’s upcoming session but promises to “finally change New York’s involuntary commitment standards.” “Finally?”

This knee-jerk legislative action is in response to the two, now famous, subway attacks where in one case a woman was set on fire and burned to death while another involved a man being pushed onto the train tracks into an on-coming train.  In both cases, the alleged perpetrators were both known to law enforcement.

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Tennessee Needs to Reconsider Bill to Stop Mass Killers

January 24, 2025

Following today’s Tennessee Star breaking news story on 17-year-old Antioch High School shooter, Solomon Henderson, new details have emerged regarding the gunman’s multiple behavioral suspensions from school. These suspensions have intensified calls for access to the shooter’s mental health records. The Nashville Metro Police Department Chief’s continued silence on the matter has fueled demands for greater transparency.

The joint efforts of AbleChild and Reform Pharma, a division of Robert F. Kennedy’s Children’s Health Defense, both nonprofits, worked on language to combat the root cause of the lack of solving these mass killings.  The proposed legislation SB 2937 and HB 2933, aimed at addressing mental health psychotropic drug use in relation to mass shootings; it failed to advance in the Tennessee legislature. Sources suggest that behind-the-scenes interference from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) led to the sponsor not considering the bill.  And AbleChild and Reform Pharma persisted in its efforts to introduce legislation that would expose the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and its pharmaceutical industry funding connections to police training programs.

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ACCESS TO TICKETS

Annual Awards Dinner

“Breaking the Narrative”
The Plaza
Vero Beach, Florida

RESERVE YOUR TICKET


Flying & Staying in Vero Beach, Florida
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Airports

Vero Beach Airport
https://www.verobeachairport.com/

A small airport that services private planes and Breeze Airlines.

Breeze Airlines
https://www.flybreeze.com/home

Melbourne Airport: Approximately 40-minute drive

West Palm Beach Airport: Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes

Orlando Airport: Approximately: 1 hour 15 minutes

Hotels

On the Island

Resort area of Vero Beach walking distance to restaurants & shops, Uber to Event

Costa d Este
https://www.costadeste.com/

Kempton Hotel
https://www.verobeachhotelandspa.com/

Ocean Breeze Inns
https://reservations.oceanbreezeinns.com/vero/

The Caribbean Court – South Beach walk to some restaurants
https://thecaribbeancourt.com

On the Mainland

Near the venue, box stores, and bustling Miracle Mile & downtown Historical Area

Hampton Inn & Suites Vero Beach Downtown
611 20th Place, Vero Beach, Florida, 32960, USA

Hilton
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/flvrbhx-hampton-vero-beach

Vero Beach Chamber of Commerce Travel to Vero Links
https://business.indianriverchamber.com/list/ql/lodging-travel-15

Be the Voice for the Voiceless

Every dollar you give is a powerful statement, a resounding declaration that the struggles of these families will no longer be ignored. Your generosity today will echo through generations, ensuring that the rights and well-being of children are fiercely guarded. Don’t let another family navigate this journey alone. Donate now and join us in creating a world where every child’s mind is nurtured, respected, and given the opportunity to thrive.  As a 501(c)3 organization, your donation to AbleChild is not only an investment in the well-being of vulnerable children but also a tax-deductible contribution to a cause that transcends individual lives.

New Administration Faces Pressure on Thomas Crooks-Butler Assassination Link

January 20, 2025

Goldinger’s Response

It’s fabulous that the 47th President of the United States has been sworn in and finally he, and his new cabinet, can get down to the remaking of America. Unfortunately, there is some deadly serious unfinished business from the last administration that still needs to be addressed.

It is by the grace of God that Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt on July 13th in Butler Pennsylvania and was able to walk to a resounding victory in November. But despite numerous promises for complete transparency about what occurred that day in Butler, nothing…nothing of substance has been made available to the American people to even remotely prove what occurred and by whose hand.

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Brooke Shields Reignites Antidepressant Controversy

January 14 2025

Taylor Jewell / AP

During a 2005 interview with then “Today” show host Matt Lauer, actor Tom Cruise claimed that Brooke Shields was “irresponsible” for taking medication for postpartum depression because “it didn’t cure anything.” Fast forward two decades and Shields, in a new memoir Brooke Shields Is Not Allowed to Get Old, lets the public know that Cruise “eventually” apologized for shaming her explaining that “it wasn’t the world’s best apology, but it’s what he was capable of, and I accepted it.”

Gee, that’s so big of the actress considering that Cruise was accurate in his statements. Shields might not have liked the delivery, but Cruise was right that antidepressants “didn’t cure anything.” More galling, though, is that Shields continues to get it wrong. Shields says of Cruise’s remarks that “it was so ridiculous to me. It’s not about the moral thing, or the right thing, or the good thing. It’s about who has more power.”

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How Far Up Does the Mental Health Fraud Go in Minnesota’s Medicaid Fraud Case?

January 13, 2025

Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner with Minnesota Governor Tim Walz

Medicaid fraud is apparently rampant in Minnesota’s Somali-speaking communities and, according to federal warrants, hundreds of millions of taxpayer funds may have been paid for services never provided. How, one might ask, is a financial fraud of this magnitude possible without state officials being aware? It’s simple. Zero oversight.

In a nutshell, the Minnesota legislature created the Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention (EIDBI) treatment program in 2017. The purpose of EIDBI was to provide intensive treatment to children under the age of 18 on the autism spectrum. Since the creation of EIDBI there has been a remarkable boom in autistic cases in Minnesota, especially among Somali children.

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Access to Event Tickets

Annual Awards Dinner

Breaking the Narrative, 2ndThe Plaza
Vero Beach, Florida

RESERVE YOUR TICKET


Flying & Staying in Vero Beach, Florida
Saturday, February 8, 2025

Airports

Vero Beach Airport
https://www.verobeachairport.com/

A small airport that services private planes and Breeze Airlines.

Breeze Airlines
https://www.flybreeze.com/home

Melbourne Airport: Approximately 40-minute drive

West Palm Beach Airport: Approximately 1 hour 15 minutes

Orlando Airport: Approximately: 1 hour 15 minutes

Hotels

On the Island

Resort area of Vero Beach walking distance to restaurants & shops, Uber to Event

Costa d Este
https://www.costadeste.com/

Kempton Hotel
https://www.verobeachhotelandspa.com/

Ocean Breeze Inns
https://reservations.oceanbreezeinns.com/vero/

The Caribbean Court – South Beach walk to some restaurants
https://thecaribbeancourt.com

On the Mainland

Near the venue, box stores, and bustling Miracle Mile & downtown Historical Area

Hampton Inn & Suites Vero Beach Downtown
611 20th Place, Vero Beach, Florida, 32960, USA

Hilton
https://www.hilton.com/en/hotels/flvrbhx-hampton-vero-beach

Vero Beach Chamber of Commerce Travel to Vero Links
https://business.indianriverchamber.com/list/ql/lodging-travel-15

Be the Voice for the Voiceless

Every dollar you give is a powerful statement, a resounding declaration that the struggles of these families will no longer be ignored. Your generosity today will echo through generations, ensuring that the rights and well-being of children are fiercely guarded. Don’t let another family navigate this journey alone. Donate now and join us in creating a world where every child’s mind is nurtured, respected, and given the opportunity to thrive.  As a 501(c)3 organization, your donation to AbleChild is not only an investment in the well-being of vulnerable children but also a tax-deductible contribution to a cause that transcends individual lives.