amanda thompson 5/9/2012 4:04:00 PM Dear Daniel, Thank you so much for speaking at the Salt Lake City Library on May 7, at the event sponsored by Empowerment Services! I want to let you know how much I thoroughly enjoyed and was fascinated by your talk - I could have listened to you for several more hours and continued to ask questions. As a person myself who has been diagnosed with several diagnoses, and who has been on more medications than I care to remember (antidepressants, anti-anxiety medications, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics), and who is currently on seven psychotropic medications, you inspired me to take the step that I have been wanting to take for some time, and finally get off off these harmful medications. Since I started the last couple of medications, I have gained 70 pounds, my blood pressure has gone up and I physically feel horrible. I feel like listening to you very well will add years to my life. I want you to know that I will continue to spread your message through Empowerment Services and will be contacting you in the near future about screening one of your films here in Salt Lake City. Thanks again and warm regards, Amanda Thompson, Empowerment Services Jeroen 5/7/2012 5:50:06 PM This letter can be read on Alice Miller’s website: Monday January 22, 2007 Dear Alice Miller, I would like to ask you if you think Mr. is right, namely that total exploration of my child history is possible (and therefore total healing), or if you are right, that total exploration is \'hubris\' ? J. W. AM: Usually, I don\'t respond to people who don’t really know my books and got confused by people who WANT to confuse them. But as you say you know my books and want to understand my meaning of the word hubris, I will try to respond. In your quotation, the word hubris is taken out off context. You can find the context in the DRAMA and read the whole text on your own. Around 1997, I heard of some people who became addicted to primals in the hope to eventually liberate themselves from their past and empty the \"pool of pain.\" They tried to do their best, they cried and cried, without any resolution. They felt not good enough if they didn\'t succeed in healing. At the same time they were unable to question even the cruelest behavior of their parents. To me, this was exactly the reason why they were blocked. I do think that you don\'t need to recall every traumatic event if you deeply felt the devastating effect that your mother\'s or father\'s hatred for you created in your soul. It is not only a hubris, but it doesn\'t make much sense to mistreat oneself. Of course, flashbacks may come again and again and will help us to understand our feelings (of the past and of today) once we are open to our feelings. You can find my concept of effective therapy in my recent articles on this website. Leslie 5/6/2012 4:21:23 PM David, I just found your website late last night and have spent the whole morning checking it out. I\'m amazed at the parallels between your own story and mine and just as Mikel (above), I have no formal college education but I have come to almost all of the same conclusions as you have. Until today, I was seriously considering that I might be the only one in the universe who had survived this depth of trauma long enough to get to those conclusions. You\'re an amazing person, and so courageous in your truth telling. Thank you so very much for being you! I feel on more tiny step closer to my own healing just by the feeling of validation I\'ve received from reading what you have here. 🙂 juliestoneham 5/3/2012 4:39:05 AM ps.. I sent this out The Advantages of Being Conventional The world loves the conventional. No one attacks you. No one hates you. No one criticizes you. No one rejects you. No one steps on your toes while at the same time accusing you of stepping on theirs. But the conventional are dead. They were long since routed out of the best of themselves. They were long since hated and criticized and civilized into soul-numbing defeat. They were long since divorced from the best their potential had to offer. Their now-loving parents once injected poison into their veins. This prepared them for life in the soft lane. This prepared them for conventional work, conventional relationships, conventional parenthood, conventional life expectancies, conventional nights of warm sleep, and conventional perspective. The sick take care of their own. But so do the healthy. The healthy freely share of their gifts. The healthy know greater truth, because they nurture their relationship with their deepest selves. The healthy don’t love you because you are dead. They healthy love you for your spark. The healthy are not your parents. Your parents love your placid success because it reminds them every day how good of a job they did in trimming off the sharp edges of your radical truth. Your deadness proves to them that they are worthwhile people, because they are dead too. Our world doesn’t need more conventional people. Our world is a mess, and we need a new breed of super-people to rise from the ashes of the old and truly call this stinking garbage dump of lies by its rightful name by Daniel Mackler julie stoneham 5/3/2012 4:30:08 AM I really really appriciate what I have read and heard from you on your website. I am graduating with my msw in 3 days at 52. I undertand what you say, as I have become an msw because of experience, yet am amazed at how few get it.... in the field.. I hope to make a difference, and yes, I already have. I have put my neck out there more than once.. but now as i enter the field as a proffesional, I see so much more than when I started.. I would like to talk to you if you have the time. I admire your work and your insight... Julie Linda harrison 5/2/2012 3:39:29 PM I first came across ur hilarious smell bullshit song on tube. I posted it straight to Peter Breggin via Facebook and they laughed and said u had been very helpful if not a little eccentric I. Getting all ur messages across. As a survivor of psychotropic meds.... Well still have a ways to go on the xanax (man is that stuff the bomb) I agree with all ur tube vids finally a voice for what I\'ve always Believed about the world being in a mess... The norm being sick n the dangers of getting stuck in therapy! I especially agree about ur views on not having kids... If u wanna read something tragic type in \" I hate being a mother\" via google... What comes up is \"I hate being a fucking mother\" n the monstrosities on that forum r hideous. I\'ll look into your friend Alice as she sounds great. I like realists hope to find ya on Facebook Linda yvonne 4/23/2012 10:10:09 AM Just saw your youtube \"Childhood Trauma and the Process of Healing (by Daniel Mackler)\" and totally happy in finding someone who has the same idea\'s an similar childhood and finding the same solution (inner search, keeping a dairly as a companion and explaining own dreams to understand the unconsiousness). Thanks for charing!! Kelly Jameson 4/17/2012 6:42:07 AM Our paths and where it has taken us are eerily similar, the difference though is in the expression. I have found the experience of spiritual non-duality to be of great importance to my own evolution. I reached this in part by living an asexual life as both genders exposing me to the extremes of yin(she) and yang(he) creating a fusion of both that resulted in needing neither. This was not a conscious intention but it was an inevitable one. If you are searching for something you may find it in the non-dualistic thinking of the East if you can avoid the trap that belief creates. Alulia Baca 4/7/2012 10:14:53 PM Hello Daniel! I found you on Mad In America and thought I would drop you a note. I was on neuroleptic meds for more than 30+ years. It was very stressful to get off of Abilify (my last med) but I did around 2.5 years ago. The changes were extremely positive for me except I began experiencing trauma because of betrayal, condemnation and people trying to force a pill down my throat with implications that I am evil. I finally had to cut my family almost totally off of me. My positive changes have been: 1) creativity greatly boosted, 2) I can cry now, 3) I feel like a woman instead of a zombie, 4) my vision has improved so much I have probably 20/20 or close, 5) I\'m much more active than I ever was, 6) my biological clock turned back as I look much younger now, 7) my mind is sharper, etc. Please don\'t send an email to me because I think my computer is hacked. Also, I can\'t get anyone in my home state to listen to me because I\'m sure they have been warned I\'m a \"nut\" case without meds. I was wrongfully evicted out of my home and was psychologically tortured in a detention center for one night as I was held there in my hometown for a hearing to be evaluated to see if I needed to be in a psych ward. My case is truly bizarre as I wondered for a few months mostly in Oklahoma and Missouri trying to find help and survive. I would love to speak to you about this personally. Thanks! Jennifer Kanary 4/6/2012 9:28:20 AM Dear Daniel, Thank you so much for making and sending the films. I received them yesterday and am halfway through. They are great! I look forward to quoting them in my research. As a filmmaker you might find the project Labyrinth Psychotica that I am working on interesting, it is a project in development that tries to understand, from an artistic perspective, what it is like to be psychotic. On of the aspects is \'The Wearable\'. It forms an augmented reality multimedia interactive cinema multipath \'game\' that is first experienced and then discussed. Here is a link to a draft of the first 7 mins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkA8hHSU3PM&feature=relmfu Hope you like it. In any case, cheers! Jennifer Kanary NL 4/1/2012 2:56:19 AM Accidentally came across your website while googling about trauma. Found your writing reflects a lot of what I\'ve been thinking, reading and my own journey of self discovery and healing. thanks so much. Nice to know that there are others out there who are on similar journeys. Love & peace. Linda 3/17/2012 2:27:32 AM You are truly speaking to me. I am a frightened and sad little child in a grown up (and old) body. I have wanted to heal from past trauma inflicted by my family members for a long time. I love your video The dangers of psychiatric medications. I have tried to live without them and invariably end up in the lock up. I know I need help and that the only one who can really do this is me. The saddest part is that I am also a Mom who has traumatized her child. I have not physically or sexually abused him. I admit that I was not a very good Mom. I will refer him to your website. I think that maybe he would be better off to be away from me geographically and emotionally. I am very concerned for his mental well being. Do you believe in hopeless cases? I do not. I wish you all the best. Wayne Lambright 3/10/2012 7:07:22 AM Thanks for speaking the truth for many. David Hopkins 3/5/2012 8:01:33 AM Hi Daniel, Hey thank you for making the film about Open Dialogue Therapy. What a great service you did going there and helping us to see for ourselves what is going on. Really appreciate that. I am excited to show other folks the dvd. You also sent it so quickly. I so enjoyed watching. It gave me more fuel in my hope burner. That is even brighter now. Cheerio David Jessica Lee Daley 2/23/2012 6:49:59 PM I stumbled upon your website while researching a project for a Psychology of Drugs and Human Behavior course. Found what I needed for my project (with appropriate credit cited) - thank you! But I\'ve found your essays and video series speaking far more loudly to my personal life, and coming at a much needed time, as I\'ve recently begun to struggle with parenting ... the advice I receive from other parents, pediatricians, etc. is so unhelpful and blase. \"It\'s just the terrible two\'s,\" I heard. But I couldn\'t shake the feeling that it\'s me - not him. He\'s a baby, his world is limited by only two years of life experience, so I kept thinking that if he\'s frustrated - it\'s because I\'m giving him a reason to be. I\'m not in tune to something he needs - not sure yet what specifically it is (it may be multiple things), but I am inspired to work harder to find out without becoming frustrated or exasperated back. Looking forward to the journey! Mikel Sims 2/21/2012 5:07:39 PM Daniel, I was astounded while reading your essay “ALICE MILLER IN A NUTSHELL: A BRIEF CRITIQUEâ” I only found out about Alice Miller today and stumbled upon your page by accident five minutes later. Your opinions and the expressions you voice of Alice’s resound deeply with me and project volumes of likeminded conclusions I have come to alone. I am an uneducated person academically and not a reader of books although I have reached exactly the same opinions you discussed about the inappropriateness of people having kids. (And others) I applaud you for having the courage to openly discuss what I believe to be a major downfall of society. Too many people are having children that should not be having children. Humans have evolved so far that they should have the intellect to resist the urge to procreate until their minds and souls are healthy enough to become perfect parents to their perfect babies. Congratulations Daniel and good luck.