| "There is something wrong with you and I want you | | | | 4) If you are told by the evaluation center to bring |
| to come to the counselor with me. If you don't, your | | | | another person to your evaluation that can provide |
| contact with your grandchild will be supervised!" | | | | information about you. |
| Sound familiar? Now on face value this looks like a | | | | 5) If you are told that you must do the above in |
| concerned parent attempting to keep her child out of | | | | order to have something rightly yours that is being |
| harms way. | | | | withheld, like your visitation rights. |
| However, when you look more closely at what's | | | | ...Then chances are you are being backed into a |
| going on here, your see the danger is not coming | | | | psychiatric nightmare that will define and limit you, |
| from the supervised grandparent; to the contrary, | | | | indefinitely. |
| the danger is toward the supervised grandparent. | | | | If you are scratching your head wondering how this |
| How do you know who is in danger under these | | | | can happen, stop wondering and start recognizing |
| circumstances? | | | | how psychology and psychiatry can be used to carry |
| 1) If you are told that you must see a therapist that | | | | out another person's agenda. It's not about you! |
| someone else has selected. | | | | If you are the person endangered by the threat to |
| 2) If this therapist has contact with the referring | | | | use mental health to punish, discredit or control you, |
| family member without your consent. | | | | proceed with caution before the crazy-making |
| 3) If the therapist refers you for an evaluation under | | | | psychological abuse spirals out of control. |
| the guise of referring you to another therapist. | | | | |