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@Rosa_Rojo videos of both kids severely and obviously overmedicated

Jani, 11/19/2017

Bodhi 12/19/17

Bodhi 4/1/18, Susan takes him to the loudest place possible, shouts at him, and he's completely out of it

9/30/18 Susan coaches Jani to say Bodhi needs more medicine, specifically lithium. Susan pulls her away from her breakfast for this. Then, Susan coaches her to say that clozaril specifically makes all her hallucinations go away, and even "killed" 400 the cat, 0:45. But by 0:55, Jani is swaying and falling over repeatedly; earlier in the video she grabs a pole for support at 0:38, and once she releases it, it's clear Jani is having trouble standing, even AFTER her thorazine was stopped a month before.

Videos of parental alienation

6/18/18, fathers day, Susan coaches Jani to say that Cory "stepped up to be a dad"

6/22/18 Susan is angry with Jani for revealing to her father that she's been experiencing breakthrough menstrual bleeding; this happened because it turned out Susan had been neglecting to give Jani her minipill. But at the time Michael found out via his nightly phone chats with Jani, no one knew why. Michael asked Susan to book an appointment with an OB/GYN, and Susan got extremely defensive and cagey. She outright refused to take Jani to any OB/GYN, and said she'd maybe book a phone appointment with an endocrinologist in 3 months. This set off alarm bells for Michael, because breakthrough bleeding can be caused by any number of things, including sexual abuse.

Susan's response was to film and publicly publish this video of her grilling Jani to say she lied to her father, as a tearful Jani denies that she did. The video is titled "Jani playing for attention", and Susan implies that Jani is just a little drama whore who wants attention when she tells her father factual events in her life. This will become a theme that later leads to physical abuse.

 

[Clockwork Dragon]

Even IF Jani was "hallucinating" (I think it's synesthesia)-- instead of panicking about "schizophrenia", there are better ways to handle it. Accept the hallucinations, but find strategies to minimize their importance, and learn to live with them and just keep going. But no one could teach Jani coping skills, because the adults didn't have any.

She was a little kid. Little kids quite frequently have imaginary friends they talk to, and they say and do weird shit. It doesn't mean they have any mental issues. It means they're a little kid and have fertile imaginations. She seemed pretty normal to me, if wild and ill-behaved, in her earlier videos. That's down to shitty parenting, not mental illness.

 

[bastian]

Bodhi has been doing very well with Michael the past two days.

Hes been calm, answering questions immediately, present in his eyes, asked to go to the park. Hes eaten well, and eaten NEATER than anyone has ever seen (vs. pulling the food apart and spilling everywhere). He had a small tantrum regarding something he wanted but didn't get, but nothing more serious than a typical 11 year old

Out of the blue, he told Michael he wanted a new home. Michael asked him if he wanted to come live with Daddy...he said "yes". He kept telling Susan he wants a new home...

So wonderful news! But I am really scared he will be doped up very soon again. I hope that the forthcoming Dr. Phil show will help this little boy to not get put on the meds again...

 

[storm22]

I’m thinking this story is so detailed that they might film it over two days. He’s mentioned that before dr Phil that some stories he covers need two days of filming and two days of air time. I would be surprised if they didn’t.

 

[large_farva]

There are 50 rants here by Susan about getting Bodhi on more meds. It's fucked.

This is what I have got dated and organized. There are more but I didn't get the timestamp when I took the screenshot, so there's no way to get them in the right place. Still working on that.

 

[heavycream]

@Rosa_Rojo
Thank you for the information. Right now i just hope nobody on that set is buying Susan's current BS about being a victim of 'the system' and how Dr. Rizvi put Bodhi in this state after she railed and raved about getting him on clozaril, and constantly demanded more meds and higher dosages. That should be absolutely crystal in everyone's minds.

EDIT: And this! Should be shown to DFCS, as i said before. I hope Dr. Phill is aware of this.

Susan admits she'd already been giving Bodhi thorazine without a prescription for an unspecified amount of time.

 

[bastian]

One thing I have been wondering is that how Jani is feeling now when she sees her brother be awakening from the medical coma, and being more alert and able to talk again? Is she able to guestion things at all concerning the meds or is she as easily fooled as this Carlos guy? Susan must be ranting constantly at home how bad a turn things have taken now for Bodhi after the meds were withdrawn...

At least some lamp has lightened in poor Bodhi's head because he wants a new home... He has been suffering so much and cried when Susan and Cory came to pick him up from the hospital a while ago... This speaks books I guess.

 

[TheLetterK]

I hope I'm wrong, but I just feel like this whole Dr. Phil thing is going to do nothing, it's just all going to go back to how it's always been. They've gotten away with mistreating their children this long, a decade or more, and there are never any consequences, and it just gets worse. It doesn't seem like Mike wants to take responsibility for the children he brought into this world (he's not ideal, but better than Susan), so they're going to be left to their incompetent and malevolent mother. He has no plans to try to swoop them away, only false solace by promising to visit them once in a blue moon. He's a failure as a father, and the only way he can even begin to make up for what he's done is to put all of his effort into gaining full custody to protect them. If he doesn't do this, his children will have a life not worth living, and he will have the guilt for the rest of his life for failing his children a second time. If there is such a thing as hell, he would surely belong there if he doesn't take advantage of all of these moving pieces right now.

CPS seems unwilling to take an in depth look into this family, for whatever reason, so Susan is probably going to contrive a scenario where Bodhi just "HAS" to be put back on anti-psychotics, even though he seems to be a calm little boy with autism, because that's what she DOES. That is her mission in life, to drug up her children so that they have no way of escaping her grasp. She probably doesn't even realize it, but she's made it her life goal to never let her children go, by any means necessary, and she's found a way that also gets her applause for being a great mom by the masses. It's sickening.

 

[RisingPhoenix]

Bodhi has been doing very well with Michael the past two days.

Hes been calm, answering questions immediately, present in his eyes, asked to go to the park. Hes eaten well, and eaten NEATER than anyone has ever seen (vs. pulling the food apart and spilling everywhere). He had a small tantrum regarding something he wanted but didn't get, but nothing more serious than a typical 11 year old

Out of the blue, he told Michael he wanted a new home. Michael asked him if he wanted to come live with Daddy...he said "yes". He kept telling Susan he wants a new home...

It's nice to know someone at least is treating Bohdi like the 11 year old lad he is, rather than as so much luggage or as if he's still doped up. The tantrum is a little unusual for 11 IMO - kids normally have learned by then that having a paddy isn't going to work but I guess that's down to arrested development and other issues. But it's some relief that he sounds more like a normal child again to some degree - but then why does Bohdi still seem a bit out of it when Susan's filming him? (yes I know we sort of know the answer, but I think a valid question if he's capable enough when there isn't a parent shoving Benedryl down his gullet)

Still I dunno, I hope Michael isn't giving Bohdi false hope just to dash it. I'm sure it's a big decision with everything going on - but the poor lad needs something stable in his life and wouldn't want him hanging on that hope anymore than Jani might of been hoping Dad stays long term.

I hope I'm wrong, but I just feel like this whole Dr. Phil thing is going to do nothing, it's just all going to go back to how it's always been. They've gotten away with mistreating their children this long, a decade or more, and there are never any consequences, and it just gets worse. It doesn't seem like Mike wants to take responsibility for the children he brought into this world (he's not ideal, but better than Susan), so they're going to be left to their incompetent and malevolent mother.

To be fair some of this is how the law will generally be biased towards the mother. It's not as easy as going out there and saying "I think I would be the fitter parent" and you win on that evidence. Both parents have rights to their kids and generally you won't lose that unless you legally give it up, or someone can prove that said parent is being abusive. This situation sadly, isn't really a cut and dry case in that regard. But it would also be sadder if it was to be honest. I think most of us just hoped Susans main issues were just ignoring the kids a bit and drugging them up, it's honestly been sad to hear she may of added physical punishment to the list during all this.

Somewhere *very* deep down Susan thinks she's doing the best for her kids. Mostly in that she's convinced herself over years that her kids would be homicidal maniacs if they ever came off the meds. She does also send them to school, feed them ect. - in a checklist sense she's doing all the things she should be doing, but it's like having a robot raise a human child (if the robot had manic setting you could never switch off and a constant camera strapped to its head)

Being just a little sympathetic to Susan for a moment, the way she views her children is depressing. She's afraid of seeing the true Jani and Bohdi, and assumes or focuses on the worst case scenario for her own kids if she can't suppress them. I also know it's selfishness, but if there was any way to get her to understand that her kids don't need to be up to the gills on meds, that would at least be a start. (I know, optimistic and that sort of self-reflection is a hard one - even if Susan became aware of it - I wonder if she could handle the guilt...)

But going on TV shows rarely fixed things overnight, I don't know what sort of after-show care Dr Phil provides. But usually these shows just want people for the juicy drama, hopefully Mike can take something for it to make a legal case or something. But at least it's something...

 

[Vaganabanana]

Just a heads up for those of us who don't have cable. Apparently you can watch all of the Dr. Phil episodes for free through the Dailymotion app.

 

[AbraCadaver]

Fuck Michael and his sob story about how much he cares. It’s no big prize to say “I’m not the parent drugging my own children into mindless oblivion, I’m just the parent who lets it happen.”

 

[bastian]

This is from Cory's fb wall...

 

[雑音🐈]

For anyone else who doesn't have access to american tv, I think Dr Phil airs on CBS which is watchable for free on this website - http://watch.ustvnow.com/guide

You have to make an account, but you can skip adding payment method and CBS is part of the free plan. Dr. Phil is airing right now, so it might be at this time slot when the episode is out.

 

[Fattyroad]

This is from Cory's fb wall...

He probably won't think it's so great after the evaluation is done.

 

[AbraCadaver]

He probably won't think it's so great after the evaluation is done.

Does he think the evaluation is going to happen in their gross flat and just be Susan listing what medications she thinks bohdi needs to be on??

 

[Ido]

This is from Cory's fb wall...

hmmmm, now why is it on Cory's fb and not Susan? Susan would've absolutely posted this but she she under the dr phil "gag order" until the show airs? I'm just saying because the background makes it look like something Susan would post.

 

[AbraCadaver]

hmmmm, now why is it on Cory's fb and not Susan? Susan would've absolutely posted this but she she under the dr phil "gag order" until the show airs? I'm just saying because the background makes it look like something Susan would post.

Probably because susan is angry bohdi is getting an evaluation she can’t control. Cory doesn’t seem smart enough to see this will anger her, he’s just in it for the attention. He may not realize how much Susan fears losing control and narrative of the situation.

 

[bastian]

I'm wondering where the evaluation will be done and what it includes.

 

[throwingmuses1]

I'm skeptical considering Cory and Susan try to spin everything. I mean, Bodhi probably gets an evaluation but I wonder if Susan does also.

 

[Bunny at Law]

I'm wondering where the evaluation will be done and what it includes.

According to this article, the Dr. Phil show has arranged $30 million dollars worth of aftercare services for guests, so it's likely going to be very extensive.