Comments: Fuller Torrey Is Dangerous
Oh boy I have to come back to this later...1.
http://researchadmin.asu.edu/compliance/iacuc/specialtopics/safety.htm
..."If You Are Pregnant or Planning a Pregnancy
Toxoplasma is an infectious agent that is shed primarily in cat feces. it can infect unborn babies of women exposed during pregnancy who do not have immunity to the agent. Asymptomatic toxoplasma infection is common before child-bearing years, and many women have elevated antibody levels indicative of immunity"...What has Torrey said happens to the unborn baby?
2. I will send the link to the Violence article re: women, which my daughter hit just about every reason for being violent according to that acticle that speaks re: chronic psychosis, violence is higher in women.
My daughter attacked me for no reason,from the back, I learned to live on my feet, and listening, and using mirrors etc to watch for her coming to prepare myself.(well reason could be driven by her illness, flaring up, full blown psychosis, due to the fact that she usually only attacked me when she was the sickest). Many times. Those were the scary ones. Having someone come at you from behind is the worst. She was also always med compliant. Never skipped a dose of anything.Med compliant, chronic psychosis, and it took me 11 days of many assaults for me to get up my own guts to 'drag' her to the hospital. The worst days of my life were those days I had to place my safety over love of her, and see the Domestic Abuse that was happening to me by her. This is a large topic, that I am sure stands alone, is how many loved ones try and ignore and do not tell others their child assaults them. I still wish she was home, and when I saw her recently (at her hospital)I told a staff that she was 'so sweet' and he told me "she is sweet but she punches you'. Hard.Very hard.
Posted by Stephany at May 15, 2006 06:34 AM
'credit to Ishmaels who have returned'..then speak up and let them know you are here. Keep writing that. Give them something else to write about.
Posted by Stephany at May 15, 2006 05:54 PM
Torrey speaks in Seattle:
http://www.nami-greaterseattle.org/events/torrey.htm
"Your chance to meet and hear from one of the nations most respected mental health researchers and authors on the latest research findings on schizophrenia."
Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, Associate Director of the Stanley Medical Research Institute, President of the Treatment Advocacy Center, and author/co-author of Surviving Schizophrenia and Surviving Manic Depression, joins with NAMI Greater Seattle to present:
Research on Infectious Causes of Schizophrenia
Tuesday, June 27th, 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Northwest Hospital, Lindsay Gould Auditorium
1550 N. 115th St., Seattle
$10 admission (proceeds benefit NAMI GS)
Posted by Stephany at May 20, 2006 08:58 AM
I've posted an Open Letter to the WashPost that may interest you. In it you'll find info about the number of police deaths during the "handling of deranged persons." Get ready for a BIG surprise.
It's just unbelievable that TAC's sloppy statistics go unquestioned. Cheers! Jean Arnold,
National Stigma Clearinghouse
Posted by Jean Arnold at June 22, 2006 01:28 PM
Torrey in Seattle! yes what an opp!!!!!
Cheers!
Posted by Stephany at June 22, 2006 05:30 PM
I attended the forum and YES Torrey believes in his cat poop theory to the extent that he said:
"Do I believe that my sister is schizophrenic from her pet cat that was sick? Yes.Can I prove it?No."
-He said and I confirmed with my own question to him regarding this statement he made:
Women are told not to scoop the litter box while pregnant, but if the poop sits there for 24 hrs, the toxoplasma gondii becomes airborne, to the extent that then we are all breathing in this infectious air and are all exposed, and also the poop in the sandbox at playgrounds , well this can become fluffed up and airborne for 18 more months.
So damned if we do and damned if we dont because according to him, the cats eat the rats, the cats live in the barn and poop on the livestock feed.
Were doomed, and most likely we are all toxo positive (he is) and it lays dormant waiting for a trigger or age bracket, to release schizophrenia.
Another major point he made was that antipsychotics= antiviral. He said Haldol is the best one that decrease these antibodies.
I asked him to clarify how antipsychotics were antiviral and he said "I can't."
He used chlorpromazine as an example, and he said Haldol reverses effects of "T-Gondii" in rats, webster et al 2006.
I will leave it at that.
The longer I listened, the more I agreed with his very own words:
"my system is delusional".
You are so right Torrey.
I also believe that telling the public not to get a cat for a 6 year old but for a 19 yr old sounds like that old medicine man junk.
Oh, and schizophrenia is 'recent' since the 1800's right when it became popular to have cats as pets.
He also wishes he had his sister's pet cat's brain to add to "their cat brain collection".
Yes, he even has cat brains; he says cats can go "mad", and are "neurotic".
Bottom line ladies, dont worry about not scooping the poop when pregnant,(according to Torrey) if you breathe the air over the litter box with 24 hr old cat poop in it, youre endangering your baby.
This man wants forced treatment laws.
I think he needs to get a cat, and retire from making a fool of himself in public.
I'm afraid the folks at NAMI think he is on some sort of ground breaking discovery, and by promoting his research, they need to remember that he also wants "crazies" off of the streets, and medicated for public safety.
Posted by Stephany at June 27, 2006 09:50 PM
Torrey's sister was schizophrenic.
Given that siblings of schizophrenics often exhibit the same cognitive deficits, I would bet that Torrey is plagued by delusions. It's very dangerous for us. He has placed himself in a position where he can foist his delusions on the gentle majority of the mentally ill through their desperate family members.
Posted by Leslie at February 9, 2007 07:37 AM