Yes, therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists, please heal thyself of non-normieness because you are not healing anyone else of this emotional disease. You lead them to believe that you can help with therapy or drugs but, as a certain funny girl in Hollywood has not quite realized, the disease of non-normieness is incurable. Psychiatry and psychology have exploited their patients for their business profit long enough. They are stealing money for empty promises.  

Are those cruel statements? Not really. Psychology, at best, brings temporary relief for some of the symptoms of non-normieness, but never a cure. Why is that? Because a cure for non-norminess doesn' t exist, and it's time that psychologists, psychiatrists and their professions confess the truth of that statement, not to mention even admitting the existence of non-normieness. Remember, when I told you, "Learn from the alcoholic." Now, let's learn even more.  

Up to 1935, psychologists and psychiatrists had been trying to cure chronic alcoholism. Their success ratio was zero. But did that stop them from extracting millions upon millions of dollars in their pursuit of failure? No. The history of the professions of psychology and psychiatry, in dealing with alcoholism, was to charge vast sums of money for various forms of therapy that were designed to fix a problem, a problem that they had no idea on how to solve. It was a greater sham than Enron. What they were doing was experimenting at the expense of the patient. Today, at least, when we experiment with drugs and therapy, we pay the participants for their time and the process is labeled as an experiment.

I grant you, today, the majority of those in the profession are no longer trying to cure alcoholism, even though some still are with cheloid therapy (blood cleansing treatments).

But most therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists have finally acquiesced to the twelve-step program as being the only effective method for dealing with substance abuse. But they came to this conclusion grudgingly. Why? Because there was no money in it for them. Sending a patient to Alcoholics Anonymous took them out of the picture, financially.  

They answered this financial loss, however, by putting together intensive clinics that, for thirty to ninety days (or until the insurance or the savings ran out), they would lock up and supposedly dry out the alcoholic. The standing order of these clinics, however, was to give these patients more drugs in order to cope with the adjustment of not using alcohol or drugs. 

All that these institutions promised those patients (and their families), however, were two things.  

1. They would follow the twelve-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous precisely (how original) and...


2. They would charge thousands of dollars for the program.

Clinics no longer predicted a cure, or even sobriety. That, they said "is strictly up to the alcoholic." At least they had become honest in that area.

However, the last set of statistics that I saw published on the effectiveness of these programs revealed that, of alcoholics achieving sobriety:

over 80% did it through Alcoholics Anonymous.

11% did it through some religious experience.

less than 9% did it through all other methods combined.

That means, simply, of the thousands of rehabilitative centers offering their services for dealing with alcoholism, they account for not even nine percent of the total sobriety. Yet they represent one-hundred percent of the costs, since none of the other methods charge for their programs.

Now let's look, briefly, at the history that caused all of this to happen.

In 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous began. Simply originating from two men getting together in a non-professional meeting, it has grown into a world-wide organization that has helped millions upon millions of alcoholics arrest, but not cure, their alcoholism. This is why alcoholics will, forever, introduce themselves as a recovering "alcoholic."

Then, in 1949, non-professional people associated with Alcoholics Anonymous discovered the emotional disease of co-alcoholism; a dysfunctional obsession of those close to the alcoholic, on the alcoholic. A.A. answered this problem by formally beginning Al-Anon in 1951, and millions of friends and relatives of alcoholics finally found serenity through effective group therapy for the emotional disease that they were suffering from. Again, psychologists, psychiatrists, and their professions, had absolutely nothing to do with either its discovery or its implementation. And no dues or fees were required.

In 1976 another non-professional, a recovering woman alcoholic named Melody Beatty who later worked with alcoholics as a low-grade counselor (much like I did with Al-Anons), first began to make the link between co-alcoholism and codependency--a term that she popularized during the 1980's in her now famous book, "Codependency No More."

As I stated previously, psychologists and their respective clinics had already, finally, jumped onto the twelve-step financial bandwagon (founded by A.A.). Now, after Codependency No More soared in popularity, suddenly these same professionals uncovered its potential income to them and began incorporating the book's strategies into their own education (almost like they had invented it themselves).

These three discoveries, by non-processionals, were the largest advances in the treatment of emotional diseases in the history of the world. Yet the profession of psychology not only didn't come up with these successful programs, they came to them whining and dragging their feet. They have used and abused the people of this country for their own wealth and glory too long. They have been like gypsy fortune tellers delivering empty promises; like carpet baggers pawning false hope.

NOTE: Something that sticks in the craw of many Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon members is that mental hospitals, who have stolen the programs of A.A. in order to increase their own wealth, now charge those Alcoholics Anonymous and Al-Anon meetings for the space to hold their weekly meetings--forcing, in many cases, desperately poor drunks to cough up a dollar or two each to keep their meeting going. This is like Hollywood stealing a screenplay and, then, charging the robbed author admission to see the resulting movie.

Now, with a shameful history like that, how can we trust them to solve existing problems, such as non-normieness? Frankly, we can't.

Most, if not all, emotional problems emanate from the psyches of non-normies. Non-normies have internal hot spots, and their resulting symbols, lodged in their psyches. These symbols are firmly fixed in place, padlocked in their non-normie brains, by adulthood and no amount of psychotherapy is going to loose them. That is why you hear stories of famous rich people, like that certain Hollywood funny girl, who have been in therapy all of their adult life with virtually no improvement.

Why hasn't the profession discovered non-normieness? The sad answer is almost too simple. It's because:

Most therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists are non-normies themselves.

None of them are going to admit to this, of course. To do that would demean and invalidate them, as well as their profession. It might also cut into their income as people would now look upon them, rightfully so, as very emotionally sick people. After all, the highest suicide rate has historically been non-normie psychiatrists. Naturally this statistic is published with the title, "psychiatrists." I added the "non-normie" in front of it because that's what it should say.

Remember the "Law of Adverse Selection," covered in the section titled, "The non-normie negative effects on groups and countries?" Let me repeat it here and then use non-normies in a word insertion illustration, showing how it affects the profession of psychology

THE LAW OF ADVERSE SELECTION

That, which will do you the greatest harm, is all the more attracted to you because you will do it the greatest good.

In other words:

That (the non-normie), which will do you (the profession of psychology) the greatest harm, is all the more attracted to you because you will do it the greatest good (mental health).