Back in 2022, I began writing about one female staff at EMHC who, based on credible reports, was sexually abusing (or "violating boundaries" with) a male patient. My first article was September 24 that year. It was satirical, but based in information I believed was true. I followed that first article up with several more related articles, repeating or implying the same or similar allegations. I still believe my allegations against this person were true or credible, but I was very sorry to hear that she recently passed away from cancer. I think she was only in her thirties.
How does someone die of cancer in their thirties? It seems highly unlikely or tragically unjust. I was reminded of an L. Ron Hubbard policy letter that every Scientologist knows, written in 1967. LRH gave an example for why it is so critically important that instructors ferociously challenge reports saying counseling techniques have been found "unworkable", when in fact those exact techniques are not only workable but invaluable or lifesaving.
Given almost any opportunity or excuse, people can go off on crazy tangents for pure sensation and weird "entertainment" rather than just patiently doing their regular jobs and helping others. This unfortunate tendency is a sad part of the human condition. Those who want to help and create a better world have a natural duty to resist it in themselves and discourage it in their comrades.
The example given in the 1967 policy was about a group of students who went out of control into off-beat practices, landing themselves in moral and spiritual confusion. (I might speculate given the year, that maybe this incident involved psychedelics. But I don't know.) Hubbard wrote that these students, "were in a state of electrification on all these new experiences," and one student's wife died of cancer resulting from physical abuse. He lamented that a hard, tough instructor in that moment might have salvaged two confused students and saved a woman's life.
When I read this again (for perhaps the 1000th time), I wondered how some bit of moral and spiritual confusion might make anyone physically abuse his wife in some precise (hypothetically severe?) way to cause fatal cancer. The narrative seemed non-sequitur. How does that work? Does it actually happen? Nobody thinks of cancer as being caused by abuse, let alone spiritual or moral confusion. It's cellular, right?
But I thought about it some more and recalled that confusion and evil are related, perhaps inseparable. If a person is sufficiently confused, he/'she will be uncontrollable by self or anyone else, and will manifest evil. Parts of the body and cells seem inseparable from the whole person, so maybe they react similarly. Maybe cancer is confused cells. We certainly treat it medically as evil cells.
Psychiatry, especially the psychiatry I know very well at Elgin Mental Health Center, is the ultimate morass of confusion. Working in that morass, lying constantly, simultaneously participating in or seeing and failing to stop abuse, could be the perfect environmental setup to encourage cancer.
Gabby had people who loved her and who will miss her. She should rest in peace, and I am sorry this article is brutal.