L. Ron Hubbard was addicted to psychiatric drugs from an early age until
the day he died. Even though he told his followers not to take psychiatric
drugs, he did so himself to the extent that he was addicted to them. They
are the source of the very strange "OT" levels on which people
are expected to talk to the souls of dead space aliens called "Body
Thetans."
He was well aware of the mental problems he was having. Until he
"invented" Dianetics® he had no money for psychiatric help
and so he once wrote to the Veteran's Administration and begged for
psychiatric help:
This is a request for treatment.
[....]
I was placed on certain medication back east and have continued it at
my own expense.
After trying and failing for two years to regain my equilibrium in civil
life, I am utterly unable to approach anything like my own competence. My
last physician informed me that it might be very helpful if I were to be
examined and perhaps treated psychiatrically or even by a psycho-analyst.
Toward the end of my service I avoided out of pride any mental examinations,
hoping that time would balance a mind which I had every reason to suppose
was seriously affected. I cannot account for nor rise above long periods
of moroseness and suicidal inclinations, and have newly come to realize
that I must first triumph above this before I can hope to rehabilitate
myself at all.
I cannot leave school or what little work I am doing for hospitalization
due to many obligations, but I feel I might be treated outside, possibly
with success. I cannot, myself, afford such treatment.
Would you please help me?
Sincerely,
The Veteran's Administration declined to assist Mr. Hubbard -- which is
unfortunate since had Hubbard acquired the psychiatric help he sought so
desperately, he never would have created the criminal enterprise known
as Scientology.®
Amusingly, everybody probably knows by now that Scientology's fake front
group they call their "Citizens Commission on Human Rights" is
a Scientology front group. A human rights activist wrote an amusing
letter to the fake front group which talks about some of the things that
L. Ron Hubbard suffered under -- his freakishly bizarre beliefs that he
-- and everyone else -- is infested with invisible murdered space aliens.
Read Human Rights Activist writes to the CCHR Front
Group.
Gentlemen;
L. Ron Hubbard
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