09/17/2025
Hello!
In honor of the innocent elderly parishioners and young students, that were shot and traumatized at my parents church, Annunciation, in Minneapolis, MN.
As a former "practicing Catholic", student of 12 years at Catholic school, becoming an expert in my field of health psychology, trauma, PTSD and Yoga therapy"
Do "Actions speak louder than prayers"?
My mother, who passed 10 yrs ago, music director at that church, celebration of life, at that church, my dad, 86, NOT at church that day...prayers did not help that poor, mentally ill man that took his life and 2 chilfren that fateful day. In my experience with private schools, there is a lack of getting help for mental sensitivities. We had the "smart" kids, and the "special ed" group.
Weakness, or inability to be a sheep and be as good at learning as the majority, was nit treated, the symptoms were disguised with awards, grades and extra tutoring after school. Silent depression was considered something to pray about, to ask for more power and concentration, instead of less pressure to succeed to be something one day, and ovwrachieve to make it into college, becausr then you coupd be a successful wife, mother and church goer, like everyine else...
Getting an assessment with a mental health professional was overshadowed my confessing sins, having "conversations with God" and making sure there was no "lack of faith" that made a person weak, thus no real help for students I knew, including my own mother, who ended up in a psychiatric hospital my senior year of high school. No one knew. No one asked how I was. People just prayed as they always did, and she went back to leading the choir, no one asking how her kids were doing or iffering any help.
MY siblings and myself suffering from anxiety, depression and learning disabilities. Not treated, we all excelled in art, music and sports, yet silently suffered from depression, and the younger 2 were medicated, I was not, for ADHD, which I now believe was a form of epilespi/overstimulation of the brain.
I don't like it when I was told my sister ended her life at age 19, as a "choice". With 25 yrs of brain research, being a licensed therapist, done with my PhD coursework, still looking into su***de prevention and causes...I now know her brain was dis-eased, esp when poisoned by undertrained prescribers/ doctors that give out ADHD meds without looking at what they ate, no EEG, only prayers at church instead of THERAPY FOR THE FAMILY. Currently, it's screen time abuse, obesity, diabetes and autism.
Millions of young adults did not "choose" to be forced on meds as a child! Murder= the act of assisting a child end their life with unnecessary forced drugs?
