I think there’s a 2000-character limit for the poll text. Submitting this comment for additional context. This is posted to HN because this is the main area where I’ve organized some of my thoughts on my efforts to assert our rights to make medical decisions for ourselves. Some of the responses to my /r/legaladvice submission were very helpful, but their moderators deleted the most helpful comments so they could make fun of me. For example, this was part of a lawyer’s deleted comment:

Ignore the snide and superior comments here (some of which are just plain wrong) from
members of the Guild of Wizards. Like all guild members, they're very touchy when a layman
practices magic without having undergone the prescribed rituals of consecration.

First… This is no longer me trying to protect a girlfriend, but about principle. In America we supposedly have rights and freedoms, privileges and immunities. But in the real world, rights are subordinate to the medical industry: if the doctors says they can help you, whether it be by palliative psychiatric medications or… some other medical experiment, you can’t refuse their help.

In February of 2020 I emailed Robert Whitaker, founder of the Mad in America foundation, to clarify what was important about the Soviet Psycho Prisons’ use of Haloperidol. His answer was simple: “American psychiatry and others in U.S. called it torture.”

Mad in America has published two of my blog posts about the harms of forced ‘treatment’ that I’ve observed in my friend’s scientific deterioration by Arizona’s mental health industry:

Malignant Do-Gooderism: The Tragedies of Allopathic Psychiatry - https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/02/malignant-gooderism/

Cargo Cult Psychiatry - https://www.madinamerica.com/2022/06/cargo-cult-psychiatry/

I populated the key documents from my U.S. District Court filings into the Free Law Project:

Fraud on the Court: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18212672/8/mihaylo-v-ru...
My filing to point out that this ‘motion to dismiss’ was obviously fraudulent: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18212672/9/mihaylo-v-ru...
Handwritten Notice to the District Court of Fraud: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/18212672/14/mihaylo-v-r...

My friend got released from probation in September 2019, and drank herself into guardianship proceedings in October 2019 (alcohol was her treatment for emotional stress, and her genetic condition of being malnourished by folic acid). By February 2020 she’d mostly recovered from that alcoholic binge (antipsychotics are observed to enhance psychosis over time: she certainly would’ve recovered much more rapidly if not for the tranquilizers). She talked to her attorneys and guardians: ‘how do I get out of this care home?’ Their response was, essentially, ‘never - this is your life now.’ She escaped from that first care home on November 1 2020, with the help of someone she’d met on OK Cupid’s ‘friends’ section. After a day she decided I was her best option - she called, I picked her up.

We filed separately to replace her guardian. Her guardian filed a counter-petition for protective order. This counter-petition was granted in March 2021… My petition to replace the guardian was dismissed. Her lawful letter asking for a new guardian was ignored.

My earliest comments (and court filings) referred to this friend as my girlfriend, but after her guardian got the order of protection and locked her up in a hospice home we drifted apart. She still calls, sporadically, and still considers me her best friend. In February 2023 I had a new romantic interest come into my life.

My Supreme Court petitions are #21-6444 and #21-1493:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/do... (petition for writ of mandamus)
https://www.supremecourt.gov/search.aspx?filename=/docket/do... (paid petition for writ of certiorari)

The paid petition cost … ~$1300. Both of these have a petition for rehearing. The State of Arizona filed a ‘Waiver’ on #21-1493, which basically acknowledges everything I stated in my petition, and says ‘so what?’

My friend’s latest escape from her latest care home was in February 2023. I learned of this when I got a call from a private investigator in April 2023, then a call from my friend’s father. This time she’s stayed sober, and chooses to live in the ‘ghetto’ rather than in a care home. The ghetto has the advantage of only perpetrating regular violence, rather than #MedicalViolence. Her guardianship case’s public record doesn’t mention any of her escapes.

This is a tweet thread to Matt Might, my HS classmate who’s now doing precision medicine. It’s about some things I think are relevant, if only the allopathic doctors forced on my friend cared about being precise: https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1595562260453548034

Chris Palmer MD’s book, Brain Energy, makes the case that mental disorders are caused by metabolic problems, and can be treated with a metabolic approach. There’s nothing new in the book, he just nicely organizes the research. Google books has a preview: https://books.google.com/books?id=FoxlEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT233&dq=B...

This link is to the section of the book that discusses why alcohol is so problematic for many people. This has been known for 10+ years [0], but … the alcohol treatment industry doesn’t care?

[0] my comment from April 11, 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14085230

My tweet about how alcohol is a substitute source of the substrate for cholesterol synthesis for people whose mitochondria are dysfunctional: https://twitter.com/JamesKnochel/status/1667570759034888192 (cholesterol is the precursor for pregnenolone, the steroid & prohormone which is used to make all the other steroid hormones).

The problem with Brain Energy is that ketogenic diets are very problematic for some people. In the tweet thread linked above there’s a link to another tweeter who makes the case that mass-fortification of flour is a health disaster. Maybe Dr. Palmer’s observed benefits of the ketogenic diet mostly come from avoiding fortified white flour?

I have another friend who spent years starving herself of carbohydrates, trying to lose weight. Once when she came to visit, she appeared with my carton of ice cream asking, “why does my brain work when I eat Haagen Daz?” I told her the brain requires glucose, AND fructose, and it’s much more efficient to eat a little bit of sugar than to turn protein into glucose and force the brain to turn glucose into fructose. It took another 2 years of her barely functioning on a low-carb dieting before I was able to convince her to eat oranges.

I’ve given up on more filings. I need help from a legal team… I’m thinking of doing a Change.Org petition asking the new Arizona Attorney General to go back to the Supreme Court and ask that they restore me & my friend to the protection of the rule of law. I think this case would also help people who believe that women whose pregnancy fails shouldn’t have to travel to another state for medical help with their failed pregnancy.

But for now it’s easier to just submit a poll here. My new girlfriend doesn’t like that I’m still trying to help my last girlfriend not get euthanized by the State of Arizona, so… your upvotes and votes will help me make the case that this is something important that I can make a difference with.

Your comments on my situation will be much appreciated.

Thanks,
James Knochel