Horrorcow Susan Schofield Cabana, Cory Cabana, & Michael Schofield / Schofield Productions / @bipolarnation - A Tragicomic Tale of Psychiatric Munchausen's by Proxy

[sugarcummies]

May this be the one case where a Munchie is actually caught without one of the kids dying.

 

[heavycream]

both asked Susan to stop filming the kids and uploading videos and Susan refused, claiming she is an "advocate."

This is, in my opinion, the most enraging thing about Susan. Second only to her killing her children, she does everything but advocate for the mentally ill and only perpetuates stigma. Insisting that all violent crimes, homelessness, drug addiction, suicides, are the acts of unmedicated mentally ill individuals. And insisting that the only therapeutic pharmacology is to be inebriated to the point of brain atrophy.
Glad that someone else who can potentially make a difference picked up on this in person.

 

[Syo]

Seeeeeew grateful for the ABA therapists over the last 5 years. But why dont we see any one them for more than 1-2 "episodes" of The Susan Show? Like, whatever happened to Hot Jennifer the ABA therapist? Or Taya, the tutor? Susan cycles through staff at an almost unbelievable rate, and has for over 10 years.

The only steady characters we see are Paris (black dude) and Carlos (Mexican dude), both minimum wage state paid respite workers, who have zero medical training and have the easiest job in the world: dole out whatever pills Susan says to give to the kids, and agree with her on camera that they need more medicine / medicine Susan says they need / the medicine she got now is great. Other than that, just kick back and read your phone for 8 hours; the ABA therapists are supposed to bathe and toilet them. The more comatose the better.

And this is why trained staff refuse to attend this family any longer. Susan will fire them with bad reviews if they do anything effective, and just doing their jobs properly they'll offend her.

Minimum wage slaves it is, plus whatever mentally ill adults from Facebook like Susan's posts enough. That's who raises the kids.
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An ethical ABA is not going to allow the video taping that goes on. You can't get consent from a minor and they both would be considered not able to give assent. ABA only works if its followed religiously when the therapist are not there. There ABA is probably one of the lower interns and acts as a glorified babysitter.

 

[melty]

Throughout the video, when we see Jani or Bodhi, both children have a slack jaw appearance and do not smile or seem to be enjoying themselves at all. They do not smile in this video. They look confused.

They almost never look happy in these videos. I think Susan enjoys these chaotic events and confuses her feelings for her children's, or doesn't care. I'm not sure Jani and bodhi have consistent friends and these events always seem to be full of adults roaming around. Scooters Jungle event appears to have few kids that are actually their age.
They also both go to the same events even though 11 year old boys and 16 year old girls don't usually have the same friends group....
See also: "Jani and bodhi don't feel embarrassment!" No, SUSAN doesn't feel embarrassment and projects that on the kids.
See also: offering 1am trips to Denny's to bodhi as a treat in the recent seizure video. Does bodhi even enjoy going to Denny's? Every video I've seen where they're at some shitty restaurant bodhi is unhappy and being interrogated by Susan. She offers it like a treat but I question if he enjoys going at all, or Susan just enjoys going and projects that on him.
I don't trust anything Susan says the kids like or don't like, I don't think she has any idea.
Someone posted a little while ago that Susan tried to keep the kids engaged because she's afraid they'll have hallucinations if they don't. Susan probably can't stand being alone herself with her manic thoughts.

 

[UT 514]

I Don't live in CA, so maybe its different there, but I have NEVER heard of a long term, constant ABA therapist. I am skeptical they are ABA interventionists at all, but possibly special behavior PCAs. It does not make sense that she has more than one with her at basically all times. They don't really do that.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

This is, in my opinion, the most enraging thing about Susan. Second only to her killing her children, she does everything but advocate for the mentally ill and only perpetuates stigma. Insisting that all violent crimes, homelessness, drug addiction, suicides, are the acts of unmedicated mentally ill individuals. And insisting that the only therapeutic pharmacology is to be inebriated to the point of brain atrophy.
Glad that someone else who can potentially make a difference picked up on this in person.

Claiming to be an “advocate” or “raising awareness” is just a label attention whores have latched onto to justify their behavior.

Half the insane troons in the rat king posting gross naked selfies claim they are doing it as trans advocates.

The irony is most people calling themselves advocates online are doing far more harm than good. The terms Advocates and activists have been coopted by unemployed or egotistical loonies to try and make attention whoring sound like a legit occupation.

I see a big red flag anytime I see the claim of “advocate” or “activist” on someone’s SM profile.

 

[heavycream]

An ethical ABA is not going to allow the video taping that goes on. You can't get consent from a minor and they both would be considered not able to give assent. ABA only works if its followed religiously when the therapist are not there. There ABA is probably one of the lower interns and acts as a glorified babysitter.

I was going to say that almost everything documented about Jani and Bodhi's behaviour indicate whatever ABA they're getting has been completely unproductive and futile. Susan does everything she can to reinforce bad behaviours and ignore beneficial behaviours, possibly those being encouraged in ABA therapy. Any real therapist would probably pick up on this discontinuity quickly and should be putting pressure on Susan to enforce them outside therapy. Any self-respecting therapist wouldn't 'buddy up' with her and blissfully nod along, agreeing with everything Susan does and that she's #1 mother of the year. So i take the 'ABA' stuff with a pinch of salt.

 

[KeepHopeAlive]

Bodhi's schooling most likely consists of this:

He attends a class that has 1 credentialed sped teacher and 2-3 aides, 5-9 kids(these numbers/parameters might have changed a bit recently, but the idea is the same.)There are also counselors and other therapists usually involved.Generally the aides have very little training but that too might have changed recently. Paris and Michael obviously have little training/understanding of much.

He is in either a DD (Developmentally Disabled) or ED (Emotionally Disabled) most likely given his condition he's DD. Other types of kids could include profoundly retarded, severely autiststic (head-bangers with helmets), profound Cerebral Palsy, kids in wheelchairs and other possible conditions. They are all in the "severely disabled" category.

Some kids stay all day, some only part like Bodhi. Some kids needs to be diapered daily or have clothes changes due to accidents, some don't require that at all. Their education consists of social skills, rudimentary learning (think kindergarten stuff, hence why Bodhi likes his nursery rhymes) and whatever is in their IEP's. Non/limited-verbals are getting language training in various different forms according to needs/abilities.

On the language: Some autists have language issues. Their language is very 'concrete', abstract language is very hard for them. When Susan screeched at Bodhi to "say something" he responded with "something" because that is exactly what Susan told him to say, in his mind. He could have been making a joke but it's likely that was his concrete understanding of language. What Susan said and Bodhi's response is the exact example I use when explaining how some autists experience language.


The pee chart could have come from the school, Susan or dr recommended due to his current health issues. His input/output needs to be monitored atm. It could also be the school's documentation of diaper/clothes changes to provide data and personnel protection(against abuse claims).

I saw a reg ed class once that had 3 students that each had their own one-to-one aide all day long (they were ED kids). These aides are often high school diploma'd workers, sullen and ineffectual. Few are absolute gems. We've seen an explosion of this unsustainable practice, thanks FAPE.

@JanusJupiter WOW on the dr's remarks of Bodhi living to 20-30!! Michael and Susan arguing in the appt might have been the best time they ever did that, at least for Bodhi and Jani. Great news on that front, thanks for updating us!!


Agreed Susan doesn't comply and undermines any ABA or other constructive therapies.

I think Batshit and Creepster really fucked up with filming/posting the last video. Such a slap in the face to all who are trying to help Bodhi and Jani and against dr's specific, pointed recommendation. I can imagine the DCFS worker's jaw dropped when she saw it and she probably IMMEDIATELY messaged her supervisor if she hadn't already after the dr appt. You go gurl!!!

 

[multiverse]

Scooters Jungle 2018 is the video you're referencing. Cory and Bodhi had just returned from a play room, nothing seems odd about that but here's the timestamps that show both kids looked drugged tf:

Total tinfoil, but I also thought Cory looked way too happy in that moment he'd just gotten back from having Bodhi alone in the wrecking ball room, holding him tightly.

Both the new psychiatrist and Michael both asked Susan to stop filming the kids and uploading videos and Susan refused, claiming she is an "advocate." Michael accused her of uploading videos for the ad money. I think that refusal was part of why the doctor recommended a forensic investigation, which DCFS picked up on, along with the doctor stating very clearly that Bodhi seemed overmedicated. He stated he would not be comfortable putting a child that young on Clozapine and lithium. He also specifically said he wants to ensure Bodhi lives into his 20s and 30s. I think all these things, along with a DCFS agent who seems committed and deeply bothered by how Bodhi's been, is making her go up the chain of command trying to get a forensic investigation.

This is tremendous news, and I'm glad someone in a position of authority heard a doctor say they doubted Bodhi would live even as long as his 20s or 30s with the way Susan has treated his poor little body. We can't hope Susan felt anything about it because I doubt she was listening to that part.

Now that the doctor said he would never give a child that young clozapine and lithium, is there any hope for Jani getting off those medications? She's been on them way longer than Bodhi has, and it's a miracle that she hasnt gotten as sick yet. But those same drugs are shortening her life all the same. Can we hear Michael's plans to get Jani's meds addressed? With the doctor saying how much these drugs shorten life, this should be an urgent concern for her as well.

I was going to say that almost everything documented about Jani and Bodhi's behaviour indicate whatever ABA they're getting has been completely unproductive and futile. Susan does everything she can to reinforce bad behaviours and ignore beneficial behaviours, possibly those being encouraged in ABA therapy. Any real therapist would probably pick up on this discontinuity quickly and should be putting pressure on Susan to enforce them outside therapy. Any self-respecting therapist wouldn't 'buddy up' with her and blissfully nod along, agreeing with everything Susan does and that she's #1 mother of the year. So i take the 'ABA' stuff with a pinch of salt.

Susan used to have effective ABA when Bodhi was younger, maybe 5-6, and Susan describes how she didn't follow anything they did and interrupted the sessions to be a drama whore. She even says at one point in the book that they dont send the "good" ABA any more.

And remember that Susan sexually harassed Zac, who was from a respite agency.

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Regarding Susan's dramatic announcements that she "might" get or have Alzheimer's and therefore that's why she wrote the book: that's just Susan trying to steal her dad's thunder for having an illness that's taking her mother's attention away from Susan. Oh, and her dad hadn't been diagnosed yet when she wrote the book; she wrote the book because Michael had a book and people loved it, and so she thought she could do it better and make more money. After all, she IS a (traffic) reporter!

Hmm. One of Susan's excuses for having her kids on such old, dirty psych drugs known for causing brain and other major organ damage, was that BIG PHARMA couldn't profit off them as they were off patent. Wow, good for you for sticking it to "big pharma" by melting both your children's brains and nearly killing your son outright. I'm sure they they feel their lives are a worthy sacrifice in their mother's Facebook activism.


But Susan, wasn't there a psychiatrist in his office on Monday, telling you how to save your son's life by keeping him off all medications? He didn't seem to be either playing golf, or taking kickbacks. Weird.

 

[storm22]

Im new still and apologize if links are not allowed. Ihavent seen this video before but its susie q on tv insisting bodhi be on clozaril. I have seen a lot of videos anout her wanting it but not this one. https://youtu.be/-r_qKl6QK-M

 

[multiverse]

Im new still and apologize if links are not allowed. Ihavent seen this video before but its susie q on tv insisting bodhi be on clozaril. I have seen a lot of videos anout her wanting it but not this one. https://youtu.be/-r_qKl6QK-M

Nice one whoever made this

From the last Discovery episode? Or local tv?

 

[storm22]

Nice one whoever made this

From the last Discovery episode? Or local tv?

I found it deep in the comments on a thread with a bunch of reply’s on the latest toilet video. Thankyou for respostibg it so the video appears on the thread. Don’t know how to do that lol

She can blame rivzi all she wants now but we all know she sought out for clozaril and she can say all day long she was following docs orders however it becomes her responbility to make sure her child is responding to the meds. Regardless if a doc prescribed you something if it made your child wither into oblivion and you kept dosing him that makes her just as guilty if not more.

 

[SourDiesel]

Nice one whoever made this

From the last Discovery episode? Or local tv?

Yes this is from the Born Schizophrenic Big Changes episode. I just watched that a few days ago.

 

[Mr Whisper]

Lol at Susans constant questioning of “where are the psychiatrists”...

Hiding from you and the mess that youve made not only of YOUR life but the lives of two innocent children.

Its like she expects every psychiatrist to drop everything else in their lives and just work full time screening every single person every single day to prevent all crime.

Sort of like her- IEP for every kid plan- just make sure that the taxpayers pay for it. Meaning the 2 or 3 who somehow manage to avoid a schizophrenic diagnosis in the world of Susan.

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That video of Bodhi at the bounce house place literally made my stomach churn. Way way too handsy. Always with Bodhi, never ever really Jani... I dont want to presume because sexual abuse is a big deal... but that level of touching...

In any case. Their relationship lacks blundries- best case scenario... and either way Bodhi is the one suffering

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

They almost never look happy in these videos. I think Susan enjoys these chaotic events and confuses her feelings for her children's, or doesn't care. I'm not sure Jani and bodhi have consistent friends and these events always seem to be full of adults roaming around. Scooters Jungle event appears to have few kids that are actually their age.
They also both go to the same events even though 11 year old boys and 16 year old girls don't usually have the same friends group....
See also: "Jani and bodhi don't feel embarrassment!" No, SUSAN doesn't feel embarrassment and projects that on the kids.
See also: offering 1am trips to Denny's to bodhi as a treat in the recent seizure video. Does bodhi even enjoy going to Denny's? Every video I've seen where they're at some shitty restaurant bodhi is unhappy and being interrogated by Susan. She offers it like a treat but I question if he enjoys going at all, or Susan just enjoys going and projects that on him.
I don't trust anything Susan says the kids like or don't like, I don't think she has any idea.
Someone posted a little while ago that Susan tried to keep the kids engaged because she's afraid they'll have hallucinations if they don't. Susan probably can't stand being alone herself with her manic thoughts.

A major component of Susan’s mental illness is her inability to be calm or alone with her own thoughts. She feeds off others to escape her own emptiness. SM allows her to do this as a fix inbetween stirring up drama IRL.

She reflects all of her own manic issues into her children. They don’t need constant stimulation to remain “present” it’s a absolutely absurd concept, but Susan absolutely needs constant stimulation to feed her mania.

I think any real unusual behavior or problems the kids exhibited early on was entirely due to having a manic mother. Even as newborns both kids were blasted with constant stimulation, noise and chaos.

I still can’t get over Susan wheeling a newborn Jani around her local mall constantly, to the point she thought she was “friends” with ever person working in the complex. Susan couldn’t bare to sit home with a baby and provide the basic soothing, calm environment they desperately need for the first three to six months. She’s subjected both her kids to her constant mania and need for stimulation which ofc was going to lead to issues. The kids don’t even know what it’s like to exist without constant chaos.

Yes this is from the Born Schizophrenic Big Changes episode. I just watched that a few days ago.

A regular poster here has their avatar as that screen shot of Jani holding up the brightly labeled pill bottles. Watching Susan make Jani show the cameras the chemical lobotomy pills she gives her while screeching about Bodhi needing the same (cloazril, lithium and Thorazine) is sickening

 

[s0mbra]

I hope now that a lot of people have eyes on this mess, and the new doctor flat out said he'd never put such a young child on these meds, that the attention shifts to the crazy fucking immigrant quack that allowed all this for so long. Hope he loses his fucking liscense in the end.

 

[theshep]

I really disagree with Susan's continual filming, it's such an invasion of privacy. Yet, I feel conflicted because it's really the only way to see what is going on. If she goes dark for a week, a month, who knows what state the kids will end up in.

It's like watching a trainwreck Big Brother.

 

[Janki's Mom]

I don't think we've had a new video in a week. I think DCFS may have warned them that one more video, those kids are going to be taken away. But I know that Screechy and Mung follow this page, and they're so fucking dumb that they'll do another one just for spite.

I can't wait to see it and what follows.

I know the only reason Mung posted on their last video (Thing #2 taking a dump) is because we taunted him.

So go for it, Screechy and Mung. We're waiting.

 

[multiverse]

Bodhi is with the downs kids at school, so he's placed with developmental disabilities, not emotional disabilities.

And Susan claims something about teaching?

 

[Muttnik]

Bodhi honestly functions on the same level of a downs kid at this point, sorry to say. Poor kid never had a chance. I think he's more aware than we give him credit but he's emotionally stunted at the level of a child forever unless some magical Flowers for Algernon treatment comes out that reverses all the damage Susan did to him.

Susan has really been up on her high horse lately. It's all gotta be posturing so that the DCFS peeps will think of her as a righteous activist warrior mom and not a crazed loon. Luckily for us, Susan is shooting herself in the foot and they don't appear to be buying any of her shit.

Edit: New vid btw