BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

FOLLOW UP - MEGAN MEIER'S SUICIDE FROM MYSPACE ONLINE LIES After posting about this story yesterday , my hit counter has gone crazy. The hits don't stop! I have rejected numerous comments with the perpetrator's phone & cell numbers and rants about forcing Mrs. Lori Drew(a mother herself - who posed as "Josh Evans" on MySpace) to "throw herself off a building" or worse. I don't ascribe to persecution, harrassment or this sort of vigilante justice. Ever. Almost 4 years ago I was in a situation where, as my trauma counselors & victim's witness explained to me - I wasn't simply manipulated by someone I'd known over 25 years and had no reason not to trust. But I was used for kicks and emotionally raped for 2 years prior. I had been defenseless. I went to the hospital a number of times after finding out for non-stop vomitting, ended up self-harming for the first time in 22 years because I realized I meant nothing - which sent me...

ARE THE NEOCONS TRYING TO PUT US IN A TRANCE ? Thought Reform Exists: Organized, Programmatic Influence ("Thought Reform" throughout this article can be read as synonymous with "Brainwashing" & "Coercive Persuasion". For further information read up on Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Sales Techniques and Cognitive Dissonance) Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D. Recently, cult apologists have attempted to create the impression that the concept of thought reform has been rejected by the scientific community. This is untrue. As recently as May of this year, the new Diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association cites thought reform as a contributing factor to "Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified" (a diagnosis frequently given to former cult members). Thought reform (notes 1,2,3 below) and its synonyms brainwashing and coercive persuasion (4.5) were also noted in DSM-III (1...