The Pre-Game Show

The parents and therapist play hot potato with whose fault it is the kid is messed up. (Displacement of responsibility )

Until a consensus is reached that "numerous" things caused it. (Diffusion of responsibility )

Then they label the child, as to strip the child's humanity away, because now they are defective.(Dehumanization of the enemy)

But they are defective in a certain way...making them not unique..a part of this whole defective collective of diagnosed children. (Deindividuation)

Then once the child has been diagnosed and made "aware" of their problem, behavioral therapists try to train the children how not to be BAD anymore. When the child can not comply with the wanted protocol, due to all the previous emotional turmoil of being labeled etc... they are blamed as resisting treatment. (Attribution of blame to victims)

Until finally nothing the child says is taken seriously because they are just a BAD and defective child, and everyone knows defective children aren't in their right minds, so why listen to their crazy tales. (Graduated desensitization)

This is all done in a "medical" system sanctioned by the US government, thus making it socially acceptable child abuse. (Hygenic Positioning)

Imagine that you are in a balloon high in the air, looking down at a tree. You grew up in the desert and you've never seen a tree or even heard of one. Looking down at the tree, all you can see is the leaves. You can't see the trunk or any of it's branches. For all you know, each of those leaves might be a separate individual. Looking closer, you notice that each leaf is a little bit different from each other. Now you're sure that they are all different individuals. You look at one particular leaf a little closer. This leaf is clearly unique; in fact it really is an amazing leaf. All the things that make this leaf a leaf are the same in all the leaves, and yet each is slightly different. The leaf right next to your leaf is different, and one next to that one is a tiny bit more different. The further away from your leaf you look, the more different they become, until you see that the leaves on one side of the tree are completely different from those on the other side. But each leaf was only a tiny bit different to the one next to it. Someone next to you says "That's an old tree. It's been growing many, many years." The thought that this mighty thing with it's many parts has grown like this all on it's own seems wondrous to you. You ask your companion to take you down to the ground so that you can study the tree more closely, but he says "we can't do that because this tree doesn't grow through air. This tree grows through time. It is the great tree of life."