Restrained by the sterile table in the exam room, a repeatedly abused Olympic athlete could only pray that she would not be “put to sleep.” Oh, she’d been spared the grim reaper’s favorite rave on several other occasions thanks to her unwavering faith. But this time it was different. This was a Mental Health MD endorsement of “Protect State Workers”. Her prescription might contain the authority to end the tortured troublemaker who wouldn’t keep his mouth shut.
She believes that a benevolent God gave her the right words.
“I can follow the rules,” he insisted, “I just have to know what they are!”
“These things never happened,” the Dr informed him. “Do you understand that?”
“Okay, they never happened,” the now-vulnerable victim agreed. “But, the attempts on my life seemed so real,” she half pleaded, knowing that if she wanted to be convincing, she couldn’t give up so easily.
“These kinds of paranoid and false memories are most insidious,” the good doctor assured him. “After all, when you lost your home and children, you desperately needed to find someone else to blame. Now, my dear, I understand how much you don’t want to believe this,” he explained condescendingly. As a specialist in psychiatry, I see it too often. You’re one of many,” she continued persuasively speaking off-camera, under the door video that she didn’t disclose that she was talking to anyone but herself, as involuntary tears welled up in the mad woman’s eyes.
“But,” he began to protest. “But, well… I guess it must all be in my imagination, huh?”
“Yes, I’m sorry it is,” the cleverly undercover MD assured him. “These things never happened! You really aren’t very insightful. I’ll transfer you to another part of our facility for 21 days. I will. I’ll see you every morning. With some prescriptions and the right advice, we’ll help you forget. Every time you If you’re being attacked by these delusional fantasies, you need to remind yourself that these things never happened. We’ll let you go home if you’re thinking clearly,” she concluded, pointing to the help that would take her elsewhere. still tied to the stretcher.
[To be continued in An Olympia, WA Crime Victim’s Account — Part two]
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The following excerpt is from Lisa Trei, News Service: 8/1/04
as published by the Stanford University News Service
Research reveals that the brain has a biological mechanism to block unwanted memories
For the first time, researchers from Stanford University and the University of Oregon have shown that there is a biological mechanism in the human brain to block out unwanted memories.
The findings, to be published on January 1. 9 in the journal Science, reinforce Sigmund Freud’s controversial centennial thesis on the existence of voluntary memory suppression.
“The great news is that we have shown how the human brain blocks an unwanted memory, that such a mechanism exists and has a biological basis,” said Stanford psychology professor John Gabrieli, co-author of the paper titled “Neural Systems Underlying Memory.” suppression of unwanted memories. “It makes you overcome the possibility that there is nothing in the brain to suppress a memory, that it was all a misunderstood fiction.”
The experiment showed that people are able to repeatedly block out thoughts of experiences they don’t want to remember until they can no longer retrieve the memory, even if they want to, Gabrieli explained.
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Questions might well be asked:
Do doctors, law enforcement agencies, courts and child protective services work with the WA state capitol administration to prevent prosecution of “significant state employees” who flagrantly violate laws to prevent that their involvement in illegal drug use, addiction and bullying be exposed? of victims and other clandestine activities? Why are washing state employees not required to undergo substance abuse testing? Where can victims of violent crimes find justice when attorneys in Olympia, WA fail to handle the “hot potato”? Why haven’t the federal authorities ‘upended the fruit basket’? For one victim, at least, these questions still demand answers.
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