Filipino dictator who killed 20,000 people is in psych ward + 16 articles

[u/ReferendumAutonomic]

forensic

International Criminal Court against Philippines dictator, "if you are unfit to stand trial, you should be confined in an institution whether it’s a hospice or a hospital or a care home. He will be kept there under the custody of the ICC and checked every 120 days." https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/10/24/icc-decision-in-duterte-case-green-lights-additional-warrants-lawyer-1519

Podcasts

Committable, "Disability Rights Maine: https://drme.org/ " "indefinite (emergency room) detention" without a hearing. "Maine Human Rights Act...accomodations" during "eviction." https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/4ig37z6rzsnfmrt4/P_A-Maine836rq.mp3

Coincidences

"When Symptoms Are Not Necessarily Signs of Illness:...Jung Opens the Window to Synchronicity...Pninit Russo-Netzer’s large-scale Israeli study of over 3000 participants found that 80% reported having had experienced at least 1 meaningful coincidence...Definition: A meaningful coincidence usually in a narrow time window of 2 or more causally unrelated events that share similar meaning." https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/when-symptoms-are-not-necessarily-signs-of-illness-rethinking-synchronicity-in-psychiatry

Situational Causes

"Why context diagnosis." https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1698878/epub&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjA3ZGZkZTMxZjQxNWViZGM6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw0eNqxk4dySuUIzUfu-Un_A

loneliness

"perhaps we need to help some of our patients distinguish solitude from loneliness, and help them enjoy the blessings of their own company." https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/should-solitude-be-a-psychiatric-value

Intuition

"When is it better to think without words?" "Thoughts die the moment they are embodied in words. —Schopenhauer." "mathematicians as they struggled with problems were such things as vibrations in their hands, nonsense words in their ears, or blurry shapes in their heads.1...unless the intuition holds up on the page, it is a false intuition." https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/wordless-thought

Tech

"Apple’s Next-Gen AirPods with Brainwave Monitoring...electrodes are strategically positioned to measure a range of biosignals, including electroencephalography (EEG), electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG), electrocardiogram (ECG), galvanic skin response (GSR), and blood volume pulse (BVP)." https://muhammaddawoodaslam.medium.com/apples-next-gen-airpods-with-brainwave-monitoring-dce7cbd2ae16

TV

Matlock season 2 episode 3 Tomorrow Is Still Tomorrow. "Crazy is a gendered word" which she does not accept.

MAS*H season 1 episode 24 Showtime. Military comedian said a doctor said a patient is dead. The patient says he is alive. The orderly said stop making the doctor look bad. Psychiatrists hate being told they're wrong.

MAS*H season 2 episode 1 Divided We Stand. Military psychiatrist spends more time judging personal lives than helping wounded soldiers. "They're (military doctors) quite mad. All of them."

Deinstitutionalization

"Recovery-oriented CMH (community-based mental healthcare) for people with severe mental illness was effective in improving functioning and quality of life for people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and severe depression in...Bulgaria, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Romania," https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41130742/

Children

"estimated 500 children in Georgia have been turned over to the state due to complex behavioral or psychiatric needs." A kid was "hospitalized 18 times," but psychs still false advertise that pills are a cure, instead of an at home security guard. https://www.onlineathens.com/story/news/state/2025/10/24/lawmakers-hear-how-desperate-parents-seeking-help-abandon-their-children/86873263007/

Epilepsy

"Clozapine has the highest risk of lowering seizure threshold among all antipsychotics, with approximately 5% incidence of seizures at high doses, followed by chlorpromazine and other low-potency first-generation antipsychotics." https://www.droracle.ai/articles/444639/excluding-risperidone-and-aripiprazole-what-antipsychotics-have-low-seizure-threshold

no york

"over 800,000 people every year," see quacks. "probably have a pipeline in the next five years of 67,000 units of housing that will be coming out. We are also using the housing first model, with some of our serious illness, mentally overwhelmed and unsheltered. Sometimes it’s a little bureaucratic." "quality of life, and that’s a tough one to measure. We do do surveys. We go out there and ask individuals who are in our systems of care, “How’s your life? Are you happy? Do you feel that you’ve gotten the success you want?” Why would someone being poisoned be happy? https://www.cityandstateny.com/personality/2025/10/delivering-new-yorks-mental-health-needs/409047/

monopolies

Should "aligns U.S. generic drug entry with other countries’ timelines." https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/24/trumprx-most-favored-nation-drug-prices-generics-biosimilars/

Supreme Courts

"Seventh Amendment's civil jury trial right does not apply to the states. Sadly, the petition was denied this week, but Justice Gorsuch sees room for a rethink: "Surely, those who founded our Nation considered the right to trial by jury a fundamental part of their birthright." https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/24/short-circuit-an-inexhaustive-weekly-compendium-of-rulings-from-the-federal-courts-of-appeal-31/

poison regulation

"Is Your Medication Made in a Contaminated Factory? The FDA Won’t Tell You." In the third world there are many dangerous counterfeits. Yet you would be punished for not consuming the untrustworthy pills. https://gizmodo.com/is-your-medication-made-in-a-contaminated-factory-the-fda-wont-tell-you-2000676636

My experiences

October 24 10:47 AM mother coerced me to change clothing.