Data shows an increasing number of people suffering from hallucinations and delusional thinking over the past two years in England (and across the world) during which time our lives were plagued by the social isolation caused by numerous lockdowns. The Guardian has the story.
There was a 75% increase in the number of people referred to mental health services for their first suspected episode of psychosis between April 2019 and April 2021, NHS data shows.
The rise continued throughout the summer, with 12,655 referred in July 2021, up 53% from 8,252 in July 2019.
Much of the increase has been seen over the last year, after the first national lockdown, according to data analysed by the charity Rethink Mental Illness. More than 13,000 referrals were made in May 2021, a 70% rise on the May before when there were 7,813 referrals. …
A study earlier this month found that anxiety and depression around the world increased dramatically in 2020, with an estimated 76 million extra cases of anxiety and 53 million extra cases of major depressive disorder than would have been expected had Covid not struck. Women and young people were disproportionately affected, the researchers said.
Psychosis can involve seeing or hearing things that other people do not (hallucinations) and developing beliefs that are not based on reality (delusions), which can be highly distressing. It can be a symptom of mental illness such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder or severe depression, but psychosis can also be a one-off, potentially triggered by a traumatic experience, extreme stress or drug and alcohol misuse.
Despite the continued pressure on mental health services, Rethink Mental Illness is highlighting the importance of rapid access to treatment to prevent further episodes of psychosis and reduce people’s risk of developing severe mental illness. …
Brian Dow, the Deputy Chief Executive of Rethink Mental Illness, said: “Psychosis can have a devastating impact on people’s lives. Swift access to treatment is vital to prevent further deterioration in people’s mental health which could take them years to recover from.
“These soaring numbers of suspected first episodes of psychosis are cause for alarm. We are now well beyond the first profound shocks of this crisis, and it’s deeply concerning that the number of referrals remains so high. As first presentations of psychosis typically occur in young adults, this steep rise raises additional concerns about the pressures the younger generation have faced during the pandemic.”
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‘Psychosis can involve seeing or hearing things that other people do not (hallucinations) and developing beliefs that are not based on reality (delusions), which can be highly distressing.’
Hard to tell if this is satire from The Guardian. The lack of self-awareness is quite incredible.
” beliefs that are not based on reality “
That’s half the nation, albeit induced.
And all of SAGE.
They don’t believe. They know it’s lies.
Nah. They don’t believe it.
Indeed Rick…
And when the truth is deliberately suppressed, voices are removed…
7 in 10 of the people who are dying of Covid in the UK right now are double-jabbed… a podcast worth the time
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/the-rogan-conversation-is-up/comments
The BBC seems to think 73% of the population has been jabbed … single versus double not fully clear from this report but let’s assume ~73%
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55274833
Anyway, what seems to stand out from that crude comparison, both being around 70%, is that the product may be, er, utterly f***ing useless … and it also clots your blood if you draw the short straw.
Of course, the product *is* very useful to pharma boards and shareholders … trebles all round for them as Private Eye used to say.
If anyone here still reads the Eye, maybe send them some entries of this kind for their regular ‘Number Crunching’. You never know, they might publish it, as they did for some of my past suggestions. (Only joking … they seem to be as Covidian as the rest of them).
At 60% of victims, blood clotting seems to be the long straw – it’s short if this occurs in the heart or the brain.
The issue is that the reported incidents are just the canary – not the mine.
The 6th Form prefects of the Eye never really offend the headmaster and establishment staff room with their rag mag. And Hislop loves going to prayers to worship real authority. Rock with ‘BBC’ right through it.
I’ve been ordering Private Eye for over 25 years and am disappointed in its propaganda as far as ‘Covid’ is concerned. I thought P-Eye was supposed to investigate and expose scams and wrongdoings, yet with Covid it looks like they’re just printing what Chris Whitty dictates.
Why no exposure of the companies running the PCR testing, such as RT Diagnostics of Halifax? Or how Serco got the Test & Trace contract. Or how the Mitie marshalls operate, and how Mitie got the contract.
Did you know that Hislop and Hancock had the same headmaster?
What, the one married to a horse?
I suggest everyone on SAGE gets tested immediately
Agree
Some of the popular delusions are
1 There is a pandemic
2 They will die from a cough
3 Politicians have their best interests at heart
4 Somebody actually wanted to shag Matt Hancock
No. 4 there savours of rabid insanity.
But but we still should have locked down for longer and harder because, you know we have to save “our” NHS. And it’s important to “stay safe” regardless of the consequences. Any life “saved” is worth the cost. We must prevent further “surges” and we must all accept the “new normal” including “vaccine passports” even tho “being fully jabbed” does diddly squat to stop people catching “it” or passing “it” on.
And yes I have just been sick in my mouth writing that using their language. This reeks of irony!!!!!
I suspect that we have been somehow primed over the past years (prior to Covid) to unquestioningly accept these buzz-phrases and our indoctrination by the state with a chosen set of beliefs. It seems that being a law-abiding citizen or the supine complicity with government guidelines or rules has been elevated to the highest virtue.
The question is, how do people snap out of this trance, learn that they are being played (we know this because of written evidence), and become the free, independent thinkers we are meant to be by virtue of our God-given brains?
Iain Davis over on UKColumn has written another good piece on how ‘anti vax’ has been turned into domestic terrorist. Mr Dee below describes how this mirrors a ‘cult’ in operation. RickH and Mark have eloquently described how it operates at a subliminal level.
Sadly mass pyschosis doesn’t end quickly ( unless there is an enormous system ‘shock’ like a violent war) , it ends very slowly individual by individual, and only then after the indoctrination is turned down or off. There is little sign of that happening in the near future.
We’ve all been victims of violent and unwarranted government intrusions into our lives. And we can’t all suffer from Stockholm syndrome. If the government hurts the people, it’ll end up having to hide from them. Actio <-> Reactio.
If just one overweight 86 year old with diabetes can live for an extra 6 months it was all worth it
Here’s another article from the Guardian, from 2009.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/may/27/cults-definition-religion
“The question:what makes a cult?”
Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton wrote a paper titled Cult Formation in the early 1980s. He delineated three primary characteristics, which are the most common features shared by destructive cults.
1. A charismatic leader, who increasingly becomes an object of worship as the general principles that may have originally sustained the group lose power. That is a living leader, who has no meaningful accountability and becomes the single most defining element of the group and its source of power and authority.
2. A process of coercive persuasion or thought reform.The culmination of this process can be seen by members of the group often doing things that are not in their own best interest, but consistently in the best interest of the group and its leader.
3. Economic … exploitation of group members by the leader and the ruling coterie.
Here are 10 warning signs of a potentially unsafe group or leader.
Every single one of these can arguably be applied to the way the leaders of the UK and elsewhere have manipulated our society. Instilling fear, which their ‘experts’ know breeds extreme mental health issues, is one way they try to control us.
The government, Sage, the media, etc, are effectively cult leaders, who have imprisoned our society using methods of cult control.
That’s quite remarkable
Even more remarkable is that people are falling for it
No. It’s not ‘remarkable’. It’s based on well-known psychological tricks, but carried out in a blanket fashion.
Pandemic Podcast: WHY DO SO MANY STILL BUY INTO THE NARRATIVE?
With Mattias Desmet, Professor of Clinical Psychology at Ghent University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLDpZ8daIVM
I’d like to second this – this is a great podcast, well worth the time to listen to it.
You could also apply it to the EU.
Charismatic leader? The rest of the points I agree with, but most countries do not have a charismatic leader. I guess some people might claim it for Johnson (although I wouldn’t agree), but Biden? Macron?
It’s not necessarily the leaders of the government that are the cult leaders.
I mean, look at the title of this article from the Telegraph as a quick example (I simply typed in ‘Van Tam’ and ‘cult’ to find it).
“Jonathon Van Tam: How a lover of metaphors became an unlikely cult hero.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/03/jonathan-van-tam-lover-metaphors-became-unlikely-cult-hero/
Here’s another – “Leftists Hypocrisy and Biden’s Cult of Personailty”
https://thecitizen.com/2021/02/02/leftist-hypocrisy-and-bidens-cult-of-personality/
“Speaking of Stalin and Mao, the other thing that drives me nuts about Democrats is their foolish insistence on the nobility and wonderfulness of Joe Biden.”
We don’t understand the attraction or charisma of these ‘cult leaders’, because we can see them for what they really are: charlatans. But to a fully paid-up Branch-Covidian, Biden or Van Tam, etc, might be seen as the saviour incarnate. I mean, look at Charles Manson – how the hell was he seen as charismatic by his Family? But he was worshipped as a near-god by them.
I suspect that by ramping up the fear factor, and rolling out the same narrative across the world, the need for truly charismatic figures to head up the cult is lessened. If people are afraid enough, they’ll do anything.
Every incidence of the word “pandemic” in this article can be substituted with “lockdown” or “government restrictions”. A virus alone does not have the power to make someone mentally ill.
What we’re describing here (psychosis) is literally what happens when people go mad. This is what confining innocent, healthy people either to their homes or to a very restricted lifestyle and separating people, does to them. It turns them INSANE!
You can expect that number to rise and rise with each successive attempt of the state to truncate people’s lives and throw fear slogans and propaganda stories at them.
What an excellent lasting legacy.
There’s a good academic argument to be made for the hypothesis that the pandemic response has been one huge global episode of mass psychosis.
Yes, the lockdowns may or may not have saved lives, but the isolation definitely increased the mental anguish of people.
I personally think this whole episode has been the “fifth trumpet” ( https://txti.es/fifthtrumpet ), complete with authority to sting people like scorpions, five month campaigns (vaccines seem to lose their effectiveness after about five months), and mental torment thrown in there too. “And in those days people will seek death but will not find it, and they will want to die but death will flee from them.”
Either way, it’s a pretty good analogy for what’s been going on these past 18 months or so.
A comment on your post, @OliveTrees, and also on @MrDee’s above:
we should expect explosions of even wackier mass-delusional “thought” than what’s been discussed so far in this thread – probably prepared, because it’s extremely unlikely that those who are responsible for running public opinion aren’t aware of what the time is or soon will be ripe for, or to put it another way, what kind of opportunity is there for their taking.
A few references:
Another useful reference (it took me a while to find this in my library!):
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_memoranda/2008/RM365.pdf
Could be. Although in that case, they’re exploiting it against themselves, since the authorities want people vaccinated.
Or there could be a simpler explanation. But based on your language, you’ve personally ruled that out.
No shit, Sherlock. Whitty, Vallence, Van Tam, to name a few.
I doubt they are delusional. More likely they know what they are doing is wrong and they do it anyway because they are getting away with it and in too deep.
I do think they’re delusional. The one thing which does set COVID-19 apart from illnesses very similar to it is that it’s caused by a new virus. Someone presumably saw this as chance to eradicate it before it could become endemic. All the mad nonsense, eg, the gross overstating of the actual danger from Sars-CoV2 follows neatly from an attempt to get the world on board with that despite every living person on this planet can expect nothing but harm from the attempt.
Delusion A: Despite Sars-CoV2 kills very few people, eradication is worthwhile at whatever cost to the current population of this planet because it’ll save an infinite number of lives in future.
Delusion B: It’s still possible to accomplish this goal if we just keep trying harder.
I have a little experience of people (not me) who have suffered from various mental problems, some of which were induced by events or conditions at times in their lives. Whilst a lot of physical ailments can be addressed, cured or otherwise dealt with in such a way that they are removed or mitigated by medicines and other treatments, it is the case that doing the same for mental and behavioural disorders is far more difficult. Many individuals are thus condemned to a lifetime afflicted by such problems, to one degree or another, with or without periods of “remission”. The entire catastrophe s exacerbated by the dismal mental health facilities available, or not, from “our NHS”.
Those who are sceptical of what psychosis is, need to understand that it is very much as described. I have had to deal with a family member in the past, with this issue, with no prior knowledge of how it happens and what the symptoms are. Be assured that it is gut-wrenching to watch a young person battle through this. In many cases mental health services are needed quickly, because if not treated, the brain can suffer further. The victim faces a recovery road of many long months and there is always the danger of a breakthrough, where the recovery is set back by further delusions.
That same person is now eleven years older, still on medication but thankfully vastly improved and working full-time, thanks to the support we had years back from the mental-health crisis teams.
These lockdowns have caused absolute terror and despair, for all ages. The government needs pulverising into non-existence for what they have inflicted on the population. There are hardly enough suitable words in the language to describe their behaviour.
Sadly hardly a surprise, except, perhaps, to lefty outlets like The Grauniad. This has a personal significance to me as an elderly relative’s mental health took a serious turn for the worse since the start of the pandemic, mainly because of the lockdowns/restrictions on travel and seeing other people/events.
Many people living on their own and/or the elderly rely heavily on interpersonal contact with friends, family and (often former) work colleagues for their mental well-being, more so than people living in family groups or shared households.
The lack of things to do or see and people to talk to – especially to chat about new things – appears to have taken a heavy toll on many, my relative included.
That the same people pushing for both hard, lengthy and seemingly (still) new lockdowns are now bemoaning many of the detrimental effects of them, especially when their own lives haven’t changed much because they are often well off, having political clout to get around the very rules they push or just ignore them is hard to take.
God knows what this lot would have been like during either of the World Wars, or the Great Depression. Pathetic.
Lockdown has been a constant assault on the human mind.
The Great Depression and bith world wars came from German philosophy, as, ultimately, lockdown did.
The people experiencing mental collapse have, alas, much worse to come.
Economically. And tyrannically.
In a time when officials and ministers preen themselves as ruling by “data”, is there an official figure or even an estimate yet for the number of deaths caused by lockdown – or for the number caused by SARSCoV2-themed restrictions generally?
This would include all deaths reasonably attributable to the restrictions, including some suicides, doubtless some murders too, and – probably exceeding those two categories by a long way – deaths of people who were deprived of the health treatment they otherwise would have got, or whose care for looking after their diet and physique was shot to pieces during lockdown, and who have died as a result.
Imagine the gall that ministers have to speak of “public health” without publishing such a number, not even 19 months into fascism. That’s how much they care about human life.
At a very simple level this should be easy to do.
Look at the excess deaths for each category – cancer, suicide, domestic violence etc – compared to pre-lockdown averages and that would be a reasonable approximation.
Though some would take years to manifest such as suicide and cancer as the root cause (economic deprivation, failure to diagnose early enough and so on) may be lockdown but the result wouldn’t be known for potentially years.
But until the numbers returned to where they were in 2019 you could legitimately claim they were due to lockdown.
If you wanted to avoid any ‘whatabout-itis’ you could even strip out those deaths that are ‘attributed’ to Covid to give a base level number.
I really hope someone who has access to that kind of data is looking at it this way.
Don’t think that would work because a large number of those who died “of” Covid would have died around the same time or soon afterwards anyway – either from their other ailments or from / with flu or another respiratory virus.
For the technocrats, they are merely collateral damage. My nervous breakdown in April last year being one of them.
They clearly don’t give a shit about the harm they cause.
Masks are just one example – they know full well that one of the reasons people can’t wear them is because of various mental health issues, and that is one of the “valid” exemptions. But at the same time, they actively encouraged the hounding of anyone not muzzled (and they must have realised the impact this bullying would have on people who already had mental health issues). Although the guidance stated that “proof” should not be requested they knew very well that it would be requested, and there were absolutely no sanctions for companies who did so. The unmuzzled could be fined, but companies or invididuals bullying the unmasked could do so without fear of any consequences.
“without fear of any consequences.”
That’s why they’re winning.
One of the other exemptions was breathing difficulties due to physical co-morbidity.
But it was not mentioned. Thus many suffering from physical illness were branded mentally unwell by the vast majority of those in shops and everywhere indoors they went.
If they had opted to wear a mask in order to not be falsely accused by absolutely everyone everywhere they went, supermarkets would have had dead bodies on their shop floors within far less than 3 minutes.
In my view, pressurising someone into committing suicide is murder
I’m a fairly solitary person, and comfortable that way. But over the last 18 months I’ve begun to understand better how some people just need other people.
One of the resistance groups based in Melbourne has proposed surrogate family networks – connecting with people within the governmentally approved field of movement. Clever idea. A neat sidestep around the regulations and it can help people stay sane.
“…..had Covid not struck…..”
Nothing to do with Covid. Everything to do with the lunatic Lockdowns. The WHO and Governments around the world are responsible for this, not a low consequence infectious disease.
Clearly the government was badly affected with their delusional policies throughout
What a surprise. People cracking up because they have been scared to death for nearly two years with no end in sight. Not only that, but the pile of scares just keeps growing. Fuel shortages, food shortages, churches shuttered, nonessential shops closed, gyms closed, can’t leave your home for more than one hour, further lockdowns, mask wearing, social distancing, can’t hug family or friends. Gee what a surprise people have suffered mental illness. By the way, bojo just met last night with twenty members of the WEF. Expect more draconian measures because the one thing britain has is PLENTY of the experimental biologicals. Cases just keep rising and we just keep injecting. Hmm.
There is evidence of the pyschosis everywhere. People walking in the countryside with masks on, and regarding public transport as a high risk Covid hotspot when it is not, with others still shut away in their homes for no logical reason. Is there a cure? Yes our so called leaders should tell the public the truth i.e that the risks of serious illness or death from Covid were never that significant in the first place and lockdowns were only really for show so that Government was seen to be doing something. It can then offer to fund the therapy sessions of those it has damaged and whilst they are at it compensate all of the businesses that have folded as a result of their foolish policy.
Shall we CLAP on our balconies for Our elected Politicians who ostensibly have our best interest at heart ( certainly whilst gathering Votes) & their Coaches tonight???
“hallucinations and delusional”
“Women and young people were disproportionately affected”
“Highlighting the importance of rapid access to treatment”
Not high enough proportion of women of child-bearing age, children or ‘conspiracy theorists’ jabbed, so tactic adopted to label them mentally sick and lock them up at drop of a hat?
Sane have been locked up in ‘mad houses’ by insane many times before now.
‘Cold war’ era, behind ‘iron curtain’, etc
Or usual campaign for money when size of problem increases?
Problem governmentally caused already mentioned.
Remove cause quickly and symptoms caused disappear more quickly than waiting for money to be thrown at problem while cause of it continues.
They even say so, but instead of strenuously campaigning for immediate removal of cause (today 19th) they talk about money.
In my book, people’s lives are more important than money.
Numbers being quoted by those campaigning for money; raising questions about conflicts of interests and even accuracy of numbers.
I’m aware this makes me a target but as no one else has said it, I reluctantly do so