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I kind of doubt that because no one has shown her how to do basically anything to survive. Cook, clean yourself, go to school alone etc.
She can't get to school alone, but Jani actually likes to cook, though she doesn't get much opportunity to do so. It was a feature of some of the follow up on her circa 2012; Jani can cook her own food and likes to cook for the family if they let her. She can shower and make food if it's there, so the worst that can happen is she misses a couple days of school and is a bit hungry (and her feelings are hurt because Cory will still ignore her, even if she's the only one there.)

Oh, she’s still making videos. Did you forget about her groundbreaking documentary? She’s even said she’s still filming (for her doco), she just isn’t uploading.
Most definitely. This is the woman who has been "documenting" her and her future children's lives since the day she and Michael eloped to Vegas, complete with making him say the date and leave a message to their future children. She's never stopped documenting.

If we have anyone who is friends with her on Facebook, that's where she's likely to post the videos she's shooting right now, once she can't stand being muzzled one second longer.

And she'll put the YT channel back up the second Phil's woo woo facility doesn't give Bodhi a schizo Dx and fistfuls of pills.
 
Some psychologist are pissy about meds because they can’t prescribe them so they tend to push treatment methods that don’t involve medication. I’m sure theses were some old buddies of Phil.

I’d usually piss on a place like this but when it comes to children first trying to use other methods besides medication is good (using woo BS based therapies? Not so much but better than meds). Too many parents just want a pill to “fix” their kids and that’s rarely the best solution.

In Susan’s case this place is perfect because they don’t believe in solving kids issues with meds. But in the case of Susan any legit facility that had prescribing psychiatrists would write a script to further her medical child abuse so she doesn’t have to lift a finger to raise her kids.

We all know the only real hope for the kids is removal from Susan’s care. No matter what the facility says or does she is totally incapable of caring for anyone. We can only hope the facility aides in her eventually losing custody.

As someone's who's a pretty big skeptic of places like these, I agree that this is an ideal set up for Bohdi. No medication in a semi-supervised setting is definitely an improvement from being stuffed with whatever drugs Mommy gets her hands on. Great point, Mirna--Follow the money trail, I'd be willing to bet that Phil and the folk (CEO, director, etc etc)at this "ranch" go way back to college or grad school.

Insurance companies don't pay for woo-woo medicine, and since they're careful in their language not to promise any sort of "medical treatment, advice or therapy" they can get away unregulated with little oversight. Rich (mostly white) parents who are convinced little Juniper and Legend's behavioral issues are speshul cases eat this shit up and sent their tots for what amounts to overpriced placebo (chelation, heavy metals and whatever else are utter bullshit). The therapy and counseling are probably highly beneficial (if Susan cooperates with them LOL) but insurance would cover that from a certified local psychologist or therapist. Bodhi didn't need to get shipped to Texas for that. The difference between Juniper/Legend's parents and Susan is that they cough up the funds on their own, and are pissed when they realize they've been duped without recourse. Susan relies on the charity of talk show hosts, so she and Bodhi have nothing to lose.

In general, if a doctor is trying to sell you a vitamin or supplement that they're marketing, or has their face on it--I'd be skeptical as hell. There's a reason the vitamin/supplement market is booming--it's unregulated, you can basically make whatever claims you want (with the small print disclaimer "This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease") and you're legal. People are optimistic and gullible, and willing to cough up funds to try something even if it hasn't been proven to work at doing XYZ. These places and companies have slick marketing and rely heavily on emotional appeal and anecdotes from "success stories" as well as paranoia about Big Pharma. https://www.fda.gov/Food/DietarySupplements/UsingDietarySupplements/ucm480069.htm#claim_evidence
I'm not saying all of holistic/alternative medicine is bullshit, just the majority of it. You have this really cool organ that "detoxifies" your body for you--its called the liver! As long as you don't have liver disease, you don't need chelation. But hey--if a patient is taking shots of bee pollen and says it helps with their migraines, I wouldnt try to stop them or change their minds. The bee pollen probably isn't hurting them (other than their wallet). Wouldnt convince me to prescribe bee pollen to other patients with migraines, though. "Mainstream" medicine would do good to treat patients as real people rather than disease processes, and increase bedside manner. But it DOES have data, studies, statistics, and science on its side, even if it's sometimes impersonal and cold rather than touchy-feely and comforting.

I second that reveiws in general are unreliable and highly biased and skewed. In your own life, when do you usually bother to write a review? When you're PISSED and want to vent your anger and frustration toward a company, warning others of your shit experience, right? Even when you gush to friends/family how good food is at a particular restaurant, do you go online and right a glowing review? (I don't, and doubt I'm in the minority here). Companies with deep pockets can pay to have good reviews written for them, or offer incentives to pleased customers to click the 5-stars for a free appetizer or whatever.

I thought someone mentioned that they would need to have done an MRI sometime previously, then do one now and compare the two to see if brain damage has occurred. Can any helpful medkiwis weigh in? Will one MRI actually show damage in Bohdi?

One MRI can (and probably will) show damage, but the value of repeat imaging is that it can show whether the damage is progressive. If Bodhi had gotten an MRI while he was at UCLA,and I distinctly remember Screechy posting on Facebook that they weren’t able to do this because Bodhi would have to be sedated–which isn’t a reason not to do an MRI, for clarification–that MRI may have shown damage or may not have, and could be compared with an MRI taken now to see whether and where there were structural changes or grey matter loss and how it is different from the earlier MRI.

If @HyggeandHof or any other medical Kiwis want to expand or correct, please feel free! I’m just an EMT and psychology student so I have some knowledge from neuro classes and whatnot.

Appreciate the tag, but I don't have much to add here! You're right. An MRI or CT at the current point would absolutely show existing damage/loss of gray matter/lesions--hope not.../enlarged ventricles. Having a "before Clozaril" or rather "before Michael left" MRI to compare to would be ideal. But doing one without that comparison doesn't make today's useless. This one can be Bodhi at 11, and if Susan allows him to make it to 13-14, they can do another and see if there have been any improvements or changes.

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It would be a copyright infringement if he left the Dr Phil footage and didn't have permission to use it.
Not how it works. The videos are clearly used for commentary purposes. There's just a minute long gap where I'm fumbling to open the video in YouTube because MPC won't play the video and I can't livestream VLC.

Took 20 minutes to render the video with that cut out, then I ran out of disk space, so I'm rendering it again lol
 
Not how it works. The videos are clearly used for commentary purposes. There's just a minute long gap where I'm fumbling to open the video in YouTube because MPC won't play the video and I can't livestream VLC.

Took 20 minutes to render the video with that cut out, then I ran out of disk space, so I'm rendering it again lol

I knew it applied to copyrighted music, I assumed it was the same for stuff like Dr Phil. Well, you know what they saying about assuming...

Great stream, thanks.
 
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Did you see last night she was asking if anyone lived in an area in Texas? She took that post down pretty quick. Next time I will get a screenshot.

I did see it, and I thought it was very fishy. I thought she may be trying to troll for meds for Bodhi while they are there. I don't put anything past her. Either that, or she's looking for "company". It set my Spidey sense tingling.
 
The YouTube channel is absolutely going back up. Give it time. Cory said in an email like one day later that they will not honor "the agreement" if they are not satisfied with the progress. The agreement was Dr. Phil pays for the treatment if they take down the channel. He said this because apparently Bohdi powers through OTC meds & they want more Thorazine. I give it a week tops.
 
Did you see last night she was asking if anyone lived in an area in Texas? She took that post down pretty quick. Next time I will get a screenshot.
Hmm. My guess is she's looking for backup when she goes to the clinic, because her hotel will be paid for. She wants supporters around to be her audience - and to watch Bodhi at night. Susan is never alone with him, and she hates caring for her kids.

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Susan believes that schools never call the cops when one child injures another, that assaults are left totally unchecked.
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This is important to her, because many of her last videos were of herself coaching Jani to claim she was repeatedly assaulted by an aide. This "assault" was having Jani leave the class room after she slept through class and gave attitude about it, and for the one-to-one aide not allowing Jani to dawdle in the halls flirting with a teacher she likes (the aide's job is to get Jani from class to class without distractions; Susan is pissed when they do their jobs. Her little princess can flirt all she wants!)

Susan's vendetta against this aide began when they gave Jani a "welcome back to school" present that Susan thought was classroom material. The aide knew that Jani loved the movie Coco, and bought her a little book about the movie. Susan was irate, and made a video about it the second Jani got home from the first day of 11th grade, ranting about the school's failure to educate Jani. Jani clutches the book to her chest; she didn't seem to realize her mom would freak out when shown the gift she was excited about. [Unfortunately, I don't have this video any more, but I have others, from later in the semester. ]

But Susan herself, not a month before, tried to get a very stoned Jani pumped up about receiving the Coco soundtrack as a birthday gift from a long time supporter. So Susan also encourages Jani's infantilization, and knows that Jani loves that movie. What pissed Susan off was that the aide was developing a close friendship with Jani, one that threatens Susan's role.

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I don't think she and Cory know about the stream yet; they probably won't unless one of their Facebook minions tell them about it and send them a link.
 
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The YouTube channel is absolutely going back up. Give it time. Cory said in an email like one day later that they will not honor "the agreement" if they are not satisfied with the progress. The agreement was Dr. Phil pays for the treatment if they take down the channel. He said this because apparently Bohdi powers through OTC meds & they want more Thorazine. I give it a week tops.

Sounds like someone needs an internet lumberjack.
 
As someone's who's a pretty big skeptic of places like these, I agree that this is an ideal set up for Bohdi. No medication in a semi-supervised setting is definitely an improvement from being stuffed with whatever drugs Mommy gets her hands on. Great point, Mirna--Follow the money trail, I'd be willing to bet that Phil and the folk (CEO, director, etc etc)at this "ranch" go way back to college or grad school.

I agree that this "assessment" for Bodhi is essentially harmless and won't allow Susan to get her elephant tranquilizing outdated medications. However, it would have been much more valuable to have an experienced multi-disciplinary team evaluate Bodhi so that he could get a valid diagnosis and treatment plan. They would also test IQ and academic skills. I would like a team of qualified individuals (autism specialist, psychologist, psychiatrist) to say "He does not have schizophrenia and he should not be on those medications." An OT and PT could address his sensory needs. At the very least, it would give the school district and Michael something to hold out as a valid evaluation for future interventions/treatment.
 
Anyone who completely assumes Susan's desperation to find one of her mental health munchie friends in TX isn't regarding extra sedating antipsychotics/benzos/ambien etc lying about is ignorant in my opinion.
Blissfully ignorant.

We all know Susan has a very very long track record of overdosing her kids and giving them medication not prescribed directly to them, over 15 years now.
And she CANNOT bare Bodhi.

Jani maybe, but Bodhi without his special clozapine? She fucking hates that kid, she only likes the money his misery makes for her.

Will Susan try to find a child psychiatrist, in Texas, who also takes MediCal, who will also prescribe Clozapine to a child? Who knows. But it would make things a fuck ton easier and off the radar for her if she found a munchie friend she could slip a bit of her tugboat for those sweet sweet meds.

Nobody's seen Dr Phil yet. Susan's little asslickers still very much love her and her sweet schizo child trope.
 
MediCal only works in California. Hence the name. She has no insurance in Texas, unless she uses Mike's private insurance.

She's looking for "respite" while she's out of town, most likely.

Ahh, forgive me. English.
I googled MediCal quickly and thought I read practitioners in other states can bill Medical
 
Ahh, forgive me. English.
I googled MediCal quickly and thought I read practitioners in other states can bill Medical
No problem, our healthcare system is weird and unique and confusing even to most people in the States. The welfare health care is tied to the state you receive it from; it's from the state government. We have no federal system of healthcare, not even a general welfare one.
 
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