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I was at a party this Labor Day weekend and I talked to a New York Port Authority Police Officer who was originally from Peru.\u00a0 His mom had cancer My friend\u2019s wife has cancer and they are not too positive about the prognosis.\u00a0 He changed the diet, she starting radiation and such, but he was considering cannabis oil as a treatment.\u00a0 When distilled in a certain way it has some studies that show it is Well, in the US you only need to look at the way the election is being portrayed by our media.\u00a0 On one hand, the news wants us to believe we have a criminal who relayed the highest level government secrets over her personal internet server against all rules, then covered up that she did, and the other hand we have a ruthless businessman who can\u2019t control the things that he says, who he pisses off and ran a scam of a university.\u00a0 Seeing that they are vying for the highest government position, is it a wonder that we can\u2019t trust them to regulate our medical treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n But it happened before that, remember when the system decided that medical treatment had to be controlled because physicians and psychologists were abusing the system.\u00a0 So we hired lawyers to control the doctors, who controlled our treatment and they called it managed care.\u00a0 What a bizarre notion that we take people who go to medical\/psychology school to help others and have them controlled by people who go to school to argue someone elses opinions and lies, not their own. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Honesty is an endangered species no matter how you look at it.\u00a0 Soon it will be gone completely from our day to day dealings with life.<\/span><\/p>\n In policing, we have reported that cops, regardless of their own race, want to beat up and even kill people because of their skin color or possibly their religion.\u00a0 A cop is no longer allowed to refer to things that give them a clue to intentions, such as being told a person is armed, or clothing that suggests gang involvement.\u00a0 All those pre-employment tests where you were asked about key observation are now thrown to the wayside when you are a real cop.\u00a0 That would be profiling, which used to not be a bad term in policing.\u00a0 Cops are supposed to react to attacks, but not threats as they see them. \u00a0Again, if a cop is honest and told the citizenry what caused them to be suspicious of a certain person, they would be blasted and the lawyers would make them pay, so better not to say anything.<\/span><\/p>\n No wonder honesty is an endangered species.<\/span><\/p>\n The society holds all accountable for the questionable actions of a few officers that may be prejudiced.\u00a0 The society holds all doctors accountable for the few doctors that may be money grabbing.\u00a0 Yet they will alter statistics, minimize effect and not report real concerns in order to save a good story.<\/span><\/p>\n With all the litigation over deflategate where Tom Brady supposedly deflated balls\u00a0 on the way to the superbowl, I said society might as well change the way American Football is being played.\u00a0 I said everyone should get a ball, then the lawyers should come out at midfield and negotiate who get the balls when, who can borrow someone elses ball, and even when someone can be sued for their ball. \u00a0We don\u2019t need players any more.\u00a0 The attorney with the most balls at the end wins.\u00a0 It would mirror life better that way.<\/span><\/p>\n Most doctors I ask about blister beetles and cannabis oil state it doesn\u2019t have great statistical support but if you want to try it, you have to do it without their knowing.\u00a0 They would be happy if someone was cured regardless of what the method.\u00a0 Most cops I know say if you can get one person on the right path and protect the others, they would be happy also.\u00a0 They don\u2019t want anyone getting hurt regardless of race or religion.\u00a0 Sure there are some people that aren\u2019t as altruistic in all professions, but there are not as many as you think.\u00a0 Entertain the realm of possibilities, but be honest when you get there.<\/span><\/p>\n I always tell the officer to say \u201cI didn\u2019t wake up wanting to hurt anyone today, only to help them.\u201d\u00a0 The doctor would say the same thing.\u00a0 It needs to be said to others and to yourself, over and over when there is a problem or you are being accused.\u00a0 \u201cI didn\u2019t get out of bed wanting to hurt anyone,\u201d you\u2019ll be surprised how much power that statement has on you own mental being.\u00a0 \u201cI wanted to come home to my family tonight with no one hurt,\u201d is another variation.\u00a0 Make it like a broken record, and you\u2019ll find that people will give up trying to pin something on you \u2013 at least temporarily.\u00a0 We all talk too much when accused.\u00a0 Stick to that one fact, \u201cI didn\u2019t wake up wanting to hurt someone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n The other coping statement I give to clients and friends is \u201cpeople have a right to do what they want and be who they are as long as it doesn\u2019t hurt anyone.\u201d\u00a0 We don\u2019t need to be politically correct with anything or overly appropriate at all times.\u00a0\u00a0 As long as someone isn\u2019t going to hurt anyone, let them live their life.\u00a0 Especially when people are in desperate states.\u00a0 We need to feel their pain a little, not correct them.<\/span><\/p>\n These two simple sentences will bring about solid change in your life when repeated over and over.<\/span><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know about swallowing toxic beetles or shoving a hallucinogen up your butt, but if someone I loved had cancer, I might consider it.\u00a0\u00a0 You probably would too.<\/span><\/p>\n Until then, I will pray for a Port Authority officer\u2019s mother and the wife of a friend.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Site Editor:\u00a0 Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D. ABPP<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Please share this article from down below.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Please join the email list on the top of the sidebar and you can get these sent to your email.\u00a0 Also follow me on Twitter for other articles and ideas, Come back regularly for more updated articles on police psychology<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police Psychology | Honesty:\u00a0 An Endangered Species by Gary S. Aumiller, Ph.D.\u00a0 ABPP \u00a0 I was at a party this Labor Day weekend and I talked to a New York Port Authority Police Officer who was originally from Peru.\u00a0 His mom had cancer and I felt real bad for him.\u00a0 She was only given a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17168888],"tags":[17168946,17168797,17168831],"class_list":["post-4022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information","tag-honesty","tag-police-psychology","tag-police-stress"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4726,"url":"https:\/\/policepsychologyblog.com\/?p=4726","url_meta":{"origin":4022,"position":0},"title":"Police Psychology | Eating Bugs","author":"Gary Aumiller","date":"November 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Police Psychology | Eating Bugs by Gary S. 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and I felt real bad for him.\u00a0 She was only given a few weeks to live, then he said that was 4 \u00bd years ago.\u00a0 When she was diagnosed, he went down to Peru and purchased a bunch of cancer eating beetles, bringing them back into the United States in an ant farm type of arrangement.\u00a0 The beetles have to be swallowed whole and alive, but seem to release some kind of toxin that kills cancer cells.\u00a0 The beetles were used in many different ancient medicines.\u00a0 The toxin actually burns you while going down and in the stomach.\u00a0 He said at first week you eat 10 beetles a day, and it increases to 80 beetles a day before it comes back to rest at 10.\u00a0 He said he didn\u2019t know if it worked because they changed her diet and a whole bunch of things she was doing, but he said whether it is real or a placebo effect it definitely worked for his mother. \u00a0I looked it up on the internet, and in fact there is a lot about it, even some studies.\u00a0 Seems it is only the male beetle that releases a toxin, it does offer a legit treatment for skin cancer, but the mythology is that it works with all cancers, sometimes. \u00a0Whoa, 80 burning beetles!\u00a0 Alive!\u00a0 And let\u2019s say 40 are female, so you are\u00a0 eating 40 that you don\u2019t even have to!
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effective, and there are articles on both sides of the effectiveness issue.\u00a0 It has also been used in ancient medicines.\u00a0 But of course, it is illegal except in California, and you can\u2019t cross state lines to bring it back to New York.\u00a0 So we devised some ways to get it back and try it if needed.\u00a0 Not approved by the government for treatment, yet it sure sounds more pleasant than burning beetles from South America.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you are supposed to take the oil in suppositories, so you might get a \u201chigh\u201d in the wrong end.\u00a0 When in desperation, you look for anything to cure the problem, but underlying this is a lack of trust in our government to regulate these types of things.\u00a0 A lack of trust in medicine also.\u00a0 Why is it we don\u2019t trust medicine and the government to regulate these things anymore?\u00a0 Shouldn\u2019t we do something about this problem?<\/span><\/p>\nHonesty in Danger<\/span><\/h2>\n
Make Your Intentions Known<\/h2>\n
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