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

[Cataloons]

Powerlevel: I worked as a researcher in a dental hospital for a while (I'm not a dentist). A couple of post-grad students were working on 3D imaging software relating to bite marks to be used in forensic work. The teeth impressions on that bite are particularly clear - I think the impression on the upper left are from Bodhi's upper teeth. What confuses me, though, is the two abrasions within the bite mark. They don't seem to be distinct enough to be made by the teeth. Maybe they are suction marks, kind of like a hicky, but I'm pretty sure they are not from Bodhi's teeth.

 

[Jd1]

Susan has a picture on facebook of something that she says is a bite from Bodhi. It's from 2016 when she was desperate to get him on Clozaril.

It’s absolutely no wonder that he would resort to biting her at this point.

To be fair to him he has tried disengaging, ignoring her, giving her “shut the fuck up eyes”, turning his back and has even told her he wants a new home.

The child can’t make it any clearer, he fucking despises her.. she’s lucky he didn’t chew off her whole god damn arm, considering what she’s fucking putting him through. At least that way she wouldn’t be able to shovel pills in him!

 

[KeepHopeAlive]

Powerlevel: I worked as a researcher in a dental hospital for a while (I'm not a dentist). A couple of post-grad students were working on 3D imaging software relating to bite marks to be used in forensic work. The teeth impressions on that bite are particularly clear - I think the impression on the upper left are from Bodhi's upper teeth. What confuses me, though, is the two abrasions within the bite mark. They don't seem to be distinct enough to be made by the teeth. Maybe they are suction marks, kind of like a hicky, but I'm pretty sure they are not from Bodhi's teeth.

My experience with bite marks is only from my "Serial Killler Studies" but I wondered about the raspberry-looking abrasion as well.

Thanks @Fattyroad for putting up the pic, I was too tired to look it up right now. Next time, Bodhi needs to go for the jugular vein, bite down hard and only let go after he gets to the ER or he's exsanguinated Susan. Do you think there's a therapy that could teach him that???

@lameandgay2 I wanted to give you a "feels" emoji too, but went with the other one. So here it is.

 

[ans1a]

DCFS, really? Bitch admitted to violating your orders. Knock her door down, please. Also, Dr. Phil, wtf? Don't you have an enormous talkshow host ego to defend?

 

[snuffleupagus]

So something that is bothering me but may have already been addressed and I missed is the fact that Bodhi was (is) on a shit ton of meds and then he was just cut off cold turkey?

I spent two years on a chemical cocktail of some serious hardcore meds, three of which I’ve seen prescribed to Bodhi (one wasn’t super hardcore - trazadone, but depakote and geodon were two gnarly ones). After I switched providers and it was determined I’d been misdiagnosed and over medicated, I began a six month withdrawal procedure as my doc decreased dosages of certain meds at increments.

When it came time to kick the heavy anti psychotics, I went in patient for a week to monitor my reactions and make sure my body didn’t go into shock and I didn’t go off the deep end mentally. I don’t think I slept more than 30 minutes straight for that entire week. I was an absolute wreck coming off that shit and needed to be inpatient. It was ugly, I was physically ill on top of crawling out of my skin.

Why the fuck isn’t Bodhi inpatient to come off that cocktail? Detoxing off meds can kill you. Shit even alcoholics go in patient to detox because DTs can be fatal. There is just too much wrong with this story.

I sincerely doubt that cunt rag of an egg donor ever took him off everything like she claims.

 

[lameandgay2]

So something that is bothering me but may have already been addressed and I missed is the fact that Bodhi was (is) on a shit ton of meds and then he was just cut off cold turkey?

I spent two years on a chemical cocktail of some serious hardcore meds, three of which I’ve seen prescribed to Bodhi (one wasn’t super hardcore - trazadone, but depakote and geodon were two gnarly ones). After I switched providers and it was determined I’d been misdiagnosed and over medicated, I began a six month withdrawal procedure as my doc decreased dosages of certain meds at increments.

When it came time to kick the heavy anti psychotics, I went in patient for a week to monitor my reactions and make sure my body didn’t go into shock and I didn’t go off the deep end mentally. I don’t think I slept more than 30 minutes straight for that entire week. I was an absolute wreck coming off that shit and needed to be inpatient. It was ugly, I was physically ill on top of crawling out of my skin.

Why the fuck isn’t Bodhi inpatient to come off that cocktail? Detoxing off meds can kill you. Shit even alcoholics go in patient to detox because DTs can be fatal. There is just too much wrong with this story.

I sincerely doubt that cunt rag of an egg donor ever took him off everything like she claims.

He was cut off cold turkey due to the Clozaril nearing killing him, his white blood cells were fucked and the poor kid looked like he was already dead and had somehow been reanimated.

I've taken myself off multiple psychiatric drugs, the worst of which I'd say was Seroquel, I was violent, screaming constantly, hardly sleeping, sweating, it was horrible. The Lyrica almost sent me into shock but the NHS is so tight with their wallet that they can't afford to hospitalize for things like that.

Maybe after the initial emergency treatment, the insurance said 'no thank you, goodbye'. Or maybe Susan was just making sure child services didn't pick up on anything when Bodhi was getting back to normal and was no longer lolling about half dead.

 

[Jd1]

I’m thinking that Susan May have pulled the “oh we are about to air on Dr Phil to highlight Bodhi’s Schizophrenia” card.. Michael needs to be contacting who ever prescribed it pronto!!! She hasn’t requested meds in response to this incident, they’ve been demanding them for several different reasons since medwash was ordered.

Also, we saw Susan raise her voice, get angry and point st Phil and we have seen Cory spiral shouting at the DCFS and blackmailing them.. Bodhi is going through hell with them and he’s probably terrified. If he has attacked Susan it’s probably because she was hurting him and he was protecting himself.

I cannot believe they’ve given her drugs!!

 

[lameandgay2]

I wonder where she got it. I hope she had to drive WAY out of her area and waste a fuck ton of gas money. Fuck her.

 

[[V A P O R W A V E]]

I just dont get why he wasnt admitted immediately to a facility that gave him 24 hour care away from Susan's meddling. Like everyone knows Susan is the problem. Letting her keep Bodhi isnt helping anything and fucking with treatments.

 

[LilNuTTz]

At this point if i was Michael id be calling DCF myself and not waiting on Dr Phil or anyone else. He knows Bodhis life is on the line every second he is with screechy, he needs to step up and put a stop to it. She took him to the ER fully aware that anything they gave him would mess with any tests the PNP provides, on top of doing this while Michael is on his way out to LA, sabatoging the trip to TX. I think her initial plan was to make Amy give birth alone, she saw the opportunity and is running with it. Why chester hasnt stopped her who knows, maybe shes allowing an affair like she did with Michael and hes not there, so theres no one to stop her abusing that poor kid.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Hi I'm new here and I have been following this story since the beginning. I wanted to correct something a few people were saying a couple of pages ago.

Jani did get diagnosed with "autism and anxiety" by numerous doctors before they took her to UCLA and she was eventually diagnosed as COS during an inpatient stay. The "autism and anxiety" diagnoses are specifically spoken about by her parents in at least one of the professional "documentary" films that were made about them, and also their struggle to get her diagnosed with schizophrenia was part of the story from the beginning. Susan was hung up on the schizophrenia diagnosis and doctor shopped until she got someone to agree with her, in effect.

I know you're going to say you don't believe me so I'll see if I can find the exact video to link you to, but that isn't the only place I got this information from (a lot of the very old stuff that was on the internet is gone). The only explanation I can think of for why people think she wasn't diagnosed is maybe that Susan took her away from those doctors the minute they told her what they thought, maybe before she could see a specialist or something. Or else they just lie about it now (also possible).

It might be tomorrow before I can find the video, I'm very tired and there are a lot of videos.

edit: just watching the original born schizophrenic video and they tell an entirely different story. They definitely complain that doctors kept telling them it was "autism and anxiety" in one of the videos though. Still looking ...

You might be confusing discussion about Bodhi, but please post these video clips of them discussing Jani having autism you refer too. I’ve never seen them.

I think Jani probably got a lot of different diagnoses from the various doctors Susan took her too. There’s an old joke about going to ten different doctors will get you ten different opinions.

Jani was again assessed last year for autism. The fact that even with all the damage her brain has suffered she still didn’t meet the diagnostic criteria very definitively rules it out. (I also think Susan would like an autism diagnosis now because she realizes it means extra free services and baby sitting. They have stated that’s why they accept Bodhi’s diagnosis, they like the waiver services it gets them.)

Jani did not present as autistic as a young child. ADD? anxiety? ODD? Sure I could see the diagnostic criteria for any of those applying to young Jani, but not autism.

Kaiser ER staff are an island. They have no connection to the new, out of network doctor's orders, nor to Dr. Phil. All they know is this woman brought her son, who has a history of taking lots of antipsychotics, says her son can't sleep for days. They cannot legally give her clozapine until Bodhi's blood tests show more white blood cells, but they have no orders not to give him meds.

Susan is using multiple systems - Urgent Cares, Kaiser ER, and outside doctors - to keep the right hand from knowing what the left does. They only way she can get caught is if DCFS is given proof she gave Bodhi meds against doctor's orders; or if she tries to hide the meds from Michael, who has joint physical and legal custody.

Dr. Phil isn't the law, but he can take away her medical vacation to Texas and the big evaluation if she doesn't play ball. Medication will alter the tests they are going to do.

I think DCFS will be quite harsh with the Dr shopping she’s doing now. They have tons of evidence she uses multiple doctors to skirt the system to get the drugs she wants. Bodhi was ordered on a med wash. The only person who should reverse that is the doctor that ordered it and Susan damn well knows it. She has been told no meds period but has never complied.

Going out of her way to find a busy ER doc who doesn’t know Bodhi’s history or the reasons a med wash was ordered is clear deception on Susan’s part to get what she wants - Bodhi zombified. I would hope this would get a formal DCFS investigation opened. She’s had the father, doctors, Dr Sophi, DCFS all tell her no meds. Just because she can find a naive ER doc who has no idea of the history doesn’t magically make it all ok, but that’s Susans plan for getting away with it and why she proudly cries about it on FB. Susan loves the drama she’s creating - she’s got everyone paying attention to her right now thanks to her antics. But now her usual antics are endangering Bodhi’s life and I think she’s get high off of this, it’s her sick way of punishing him for being inconvenient for her.

 

[LU 010]

Y'know what gets me? What kind of absolute retard of an ER doc is prescribing powerful antipsychotics like this to an 11 year old on an obviously manic screechbeast's say-so?

They don't have a medical history on this kid, they obviously havent contacted any of his previous doctors to check into it, and outside of truly extraordinary circumstances, you should not be giving this shit to a kid that young.

They may not know Susan's a munchie, but they sure as shit know what they don't know, and that should be enough to keep any competent dr from prescribing this shit without more information.

Everyone in this poor child's life is negligent.

 

[LilNuTTz]

Susan has a picture on facebook of something that she says is a bite from Bodhi. It's from 2016 when she was desperate to get him on Clozaril.

Just an odd observation, why did she still have indent marks days after that bite? They arent raised like a bite would be after an hour or so but indented like it had just happened, yet this is the “healed” photo? Just odd...

 

[lameandgay2]

At this point if i was Michael id be calling DCF myself and not waiting on Dr Phil or anyone else. He knows Bodhis life is on the line every second he is with screechy, he needs to step up and put a stop to it. She took him to the ER fully aware that anything they gave him would mess with any tests the PNP provides, on top of doing this while Michael is on his way out to LA, sabatoging the trip to TX. I think her initial plan was to make Amy give birth alone, she saw the opportunity and is running with it. Why chester hasnt stopped her who knows, maybe shes allowing an affair like she did with Michael and hes not there, so theres no one to stop her abusing that poor kid.

Agreed. She must be loving this. Michael watched me give birth to two of his kids, he watched you give birth to NO KIDS. It's so petty that it's sickening.

In other news, Englishwoman confused again, how the fuck can you go to the ER and walk out with antipsychotics? My medical records have a long history of antipsychotics, if I'm off meds and have an episode, I can't just walk into the ER and get meds. They sedate you with other things until you can be assessed. Jeeeeesus. As I've said, there's nowhere to run or hide here at all. It completely blinds me every day that Susan can get away with this.

 

[LU 010]

Agreed. She must be loving this. Michael watched me give birth to two of his kids, he watched you give birth to NO KIDS. It's so petty that it's sickening.

In other news, Englishwoman confused again, how the fuck can you go to the ER and walk out with antipsychotics? My medical records have a long history of antipsychotics, if I'm off meds and have an episode, I can't just walk into the ER and get meds. They sedate you with other things until you can be assessed. Jeeeeesus. As I've said, there's nowhere to run or hide here at all. It completely blinds me every day that Susan can get away with this.

Ech. "Pay attention to me or I'll kill your son."

And she can do this because of a combination of incredible understaffing and underfunding in psych departments, no centralized medical history where they can see that she's a munchie docshopper, and most importantly, ratfuck moron doctors who are willing to irresponsibly prescribe wildly inappropriate, dangerous drugs so long as it's the path of least resistance.

Legit mad on the internet at this one lads.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

I think it's increasingly possible Susan will seriously injure or kill Bodhi before the show airs. I wish I had more hope, but at this point I think it's a real possibility this ends with Bodhi dead within the next two weeks.

I also think Cory's getting ready to dip right on out of the whole situation when he sees the blowback they get from the show.

 

[lameandgay2]

Ech. "Pay attention to me or I'll kill your son."

And she can do this because of a combination of incredible understaffing and underfunding in psych departments, no centralized medical history where they can see that she's a munchie docshopper, and most importantly, ratfuck moron doctors who are willing to irresponsibly prescribe wildly inappropriate, dangerous drugs so long as it's the path of least resistance.

Legit mad on the internet at this one lads.

That sounds super borderline. I wonder whether she'd want another child by Michael given the chance.

Not meaning to backseat moderate, but I believe being mad on the internet and a-logging Susan are completely acceptable here. Rage at what these children are suffering is what fuels us and hating Susan's guts is the byproduct.

I think it's increasingly possible Susan will seriously injure or kill Bodhi before the show airs. I wish I had more hope, but at this point I think it's a real possibility this ends with Bodhi dead within the next two weeks.
I also think Cory's getting ready to dip right on out of the whole situation when he sees the blowback they get from the show.

I do not want to think about that. It hurts my brain and my heart.
I think I'd cry if Bodhi died. A lot. And then cry more for the pain Jani will feel.

 

[CosmosMom]

Poor Susan, she's still thinking she's got months for this to die down - and that she deserves to be on during May sweeps. Buckle up, buttercup: this is coming at you fast.

it's going to be on soon... the promo clearly states this feb. Please tell me someone here will be able to upload it. A lot of times youtube doesn't have the full episodes on and I don't have a DVR.

 

[MirnaMinkoff]

Agreed. She must be loving this. Michael watched me give birth to two of his kids, he watched you give birth to NO KIDS. It's so petty that it's sickening.

In other news, Englishwoman confused again, how the fuck can you go to the ER and walk out with antipsychotics? My medical records have a long history of antipsychotics, if I'm off meds and have an episode, I can't just walk into the ER and get meds. They sedate you with other things until you can be assessed. Jeeeeesus. As I've said, there's nowhere to run or hide here at all. It completely blinds me every day that Susan can get away with this.

Because there is no cohesive system in the states among hospital. Each one is a private business or organization, they don’t share patient records with each other unless a patient requests it. It’s nothing like the NHS system where everyone is on the same page.

ER docs are very busy and aren’t there’s to review medical history but treat and stabilize a patient in the present until they can get to a doctor or specialist. If you come in presenting something serious, like symptoms of a heart attack, they stabilize you, order tests and then pending the test results you are handed off to a heart specialist and either admitted the a hospital or told to follow up with a cardiologist.

Susan was told to follow up with Bodhi’s psychiatrist after getting her Rx. She also got booted by Jani’s former psychiatrist for abusing ERs for meds. Susan knows how the system works and how to get what she wants and is relentless in pursuing it.

Still it is fucking insane an ER doc gives a juvenile seroquel. I’d love to hear what Susan tells them. I’m sure she has a whole list of drugs she tells them have worked in the past and should be prescribed again. From her list it seems the docs decide to write out a script for one. I think screaming about Bodhi being a “severely autistic, self harming and hasn’t slept for weeks” gets them to write out something to shut her up. I’d be shocked if she mentioned the med wash to this doctor though.

 

[Karl der Grosse]

Someday a true crime book is going to be written about the Schofields, and the archive of info on this website is going to be invaluable.

At this point, all we can do is document and pray. I don't often pray for specific people, but I'm praying for both children.