An intelligent person has a well-working human brain. The child mind is a physical senses orientated, powerless, naive mentality, automatically reacting to the environment. A positive environment empowers mental wellness, the process of acquiring the mental tools of the adult mind — self-esteem, self examination, self-knowledge, self-dependency, self-healing.
    A negative environment dysfunctions the mind with the separation of fear or anger. I was an intelligent, gentle child in a negative environment. Not knowing any better, I learned what I was taught — the mental illness and dysfunction of fear/flight/blaming myself/delusion of inferiority. Others with an aggressive nature react to a negative environment automatically controlled with the dysfunction of anger/fight/blaming others/delusion of superiority.
   
I was committed to psychiatry when 20 years old and labeled schizophrenic. After subjected to electric shock, just as after any horror to horrifying to be real, I had hysterical amnesia — which psychiatry touts as relieved mental illness. I vaguely remembered I had been locked up by psychiatry.  Until  the flashbacks. Then exploding into suicidal and homicidal terror, I was committed back to psychiatry.
    Knowing I could not trust psychiatry, I was labeled paranoid schizophrenic. I was subjected to mind altering drugs.  Just as alcohol and illegal drugs, psychiatric drugs altering conscious awareness to the subconscious at first seems to help. Like a pressure cooker, nothing showing on the outside, underneath the chemical lid, in the subconscious the suppressed emotions and drug-caused physical sickness build and rebound into periodic exploding terror and despair, suicidal and homicidal drug rages. Ever more frequent, becoming a constant reacting terror and despair. Then psychiatry switches to a different drug and the agonized hopeless despairing continues to premature death.
     A nurse said,  “Go to Alcoholics Anonymous. They teach people how to get well.” It only took me 6 months to learn the mental tools needed to live in this world and enjoy it, changing into the equally worthy person, useful to myself and others.
    Save untold lives and dollars. Teach the mental tools/step program in schools, psychiatric-drug rehabilitation centers. and prisons. (Humans Universal is a 10-step program, avoiding religious concerns) A world cured of mental illness is a world freed of torture, drugging, crime and war.

Clover Smith-Greene, Founder and Director, Welcome World.