You have done a huge disservice to Ohana in this article, minimizing the horrific traumas of her childhood and pointing fingers at social media as the problem. You also seem to put immense stock into Ablow, who had his license revoked and was known to be abusive and coercive to patients. He was a parasite to her, and you credit him with having helped her at all. This is awful, as someone who deeply, deeply loved the girl behind the music and the name I have cried endless hours over how her story is being treated. You should be ashamed.
Thank you for the comment. Without Dr. Ablow Ohana would never have recorded her EP. Nor would she have credited him with being immensely helpful to her, as she certainly did. I am unaware of any early trauma in her life. If you have evidence for this, I’d like to see it—truly. The article is a tribute to Ohana Haas’s courage in the Face ID devastating mental illness. Her family strove from the early onset of this illness to get Hannah the help she needed. Let me know the evidence you have for your remarks about her early trauma.
First off, he's not a doctor- license revoked because of the danger he posed to patients. More suits are coming out against him even now. Since part of his license revokation was due to the misuse and overuse of medications such as Ketamine, I find it revolting that there is no consideration to the VERY real possibility he was abusing her like he was abusing other patients. Abused folks with dissociative disorders often struggle to, in the moment, recall the harm. Are we going to ignore the type of person he is proven to be just because she didn't speak out on him before she died?
If you're unaware it's because the people close to her purposefully kept it from you. I don't have her therapy notes, and as litigation never arose from her being sexually abused repeatedly at the hands of a martial arts instructor I don't have evidence. Conveniently, all of the music she wrote about it seems to not make it into the articles about her. However, as another person diagnosed with DID, I can tell you it's not about being a sensitive person. It is a trauma disorder that comes from repeated, intense trauma inflicted on a person at a very young age. She had trauma, or she wouldn't have had a trauma-based disorder. She talked about it a LOT, so again, it seems like purposeful subterfuge to not mention it. And asking for evidence of early childhood trauma, especially when the victim is no longer alive to present her own evidence, tells me only that you are more dedicated to telling this constructed story of her life than actually believing HER about what happened.
Again, thank you. I will follow up with Dr Ablow as to his response, although I will say that ketamine, despite being regarded as out-of-bounds for many years, is now widely used and readily accepted as a beneficial treatment for depression, etc. Many physicians have been vilified for being on the forefront of care only to be vindicated laters. I will also ask about the allegation of abuse by a martial arts instructor. If true, as you point out, that’s a crucial element to the story. I have no knowledge of this but am willing to be corrected and re-write the story to reflect this, if it is true.
I do find it odd that you presume I am acting in bad faith. I suppose this is understandable if you believe my depiction of Ohana is willfully in error. I assure you that’s not the case. As I told the story, my heart went out to her. The story’s intent is to celebrate her life and I think that’s abundantly clear by its tone.
I would encourage you to do your own research on Ablow. If you are writing in good faith, then seeing the patient testimonials of what he has done should hold much more stock than his own word. It's not at all hard to find information from his victims about what they experienced. You're correct about ketamine- my husband is in the field of psychiatry and is looking to further the use of ketamine as well as treatments such as psilocybin. However, a substance is only as beneficial if the person prescribing does so in good faith and with the intent of bettering the patient. Ablow lost his license for using beneficial medications to abuse patients in a dissociative state.
I hope that there is future revision that gives a more accurate picture of who she is. It is indeed a crucial piece of her story- it turns her from a victim of her own mind to a victim of atrocities that left her with a breaking mind. The insistence that she wasn't a victim of trauma was something that came up while she was alive, as well, and the disbelief of her parents caused so much heartbreak and turmoil for her. I would encourage research into her conditions, as well, because as I stated the conditions she had (DID specifically) do not come about in absence of trauma. This disorder being such a part of her life is a pretty clear indicator that there was something more going on than just faulty brain chemistry. To deny that is to deny her the right to having her story known in its whole truth.
This breaks my heart. While tragic, it’s also the perfect example of music’s power to heal.
IMHO, the world has it backward. Highly creative people aren’t prone to madness. They are simply so receptive to the external madness that surrounds them, that it becomes internalized. Creative outlets are simply a method by which they can expel the consumed madness. Not knowing or practicing a creative outlet results in self harm. How else to release the onslaught of continuous external madness (especially with social media)? In Ohana’s case-- music was the answer.
Society has taken the arts out of schools and toxic masculinity has ruled artistic expression as only for the weak. So our open-minded and open-hearted friends have nowhere else to turn but inward. And the self-destruction begins.
I think it’s also poignant to note that “Ohana” means “family” in Hawaiian. Ohana, herself, is perhaps a personified symptom of our human family’s state of disrepair. And a warning that our collective hearts may soon fail all together unless we create more, destroy less, and love others as we love ourselves.
You have done a huge disservice to Ohana in this article, minimizing the horrific traumas of her childhood and pointing fingers at social media as the problem. You also seem to put immense stock into Ablow, who had his license revoked and was known to be abusive and coercive to patients. He was a parasite to her, and you credit him with having helped her at all. This is awful, as someone who deeply, deeply loved the girl behind the music and the name I have cried endless hours over how her story is being treated. You should be ashamed.
Thank you for the comment. Without Dr. Ablow Ohana would never have recorded her EP. Nor would she have credited him with being immensely helpful to her, as she certainly did. I am unaware of any early trauma in her life. If you have evidence for this, I’d like to see it—truly. The article is a tribute to Ohana Haas’s courage in the Face ID devastating mental illness. Her family strove from the early onset of this illness to get Hannah the help she needed. Let me know the evidence you have for your remarks about her early trauma.
First off, he's not a doctor- license revoked because of the danger he posed to patients. More suits are coming out against him even now. Since part of his license revokation was due to the misuse and overuse of medications such as Ketamine, I find it revolting that there is no consideration to the VERY real possibility he was abusing her like he was abusing other patients. Abused folks with dissociative disorders often struggle to, in the moment, recall the harm. Are we going to ignore the type of person he is proven to be just because she didn't speak out on him before she died?
If you're unaware it's because the people close to her purposefully kept it from you. I don't have her therapy notes, and as litigation never arose from her being sexually abused repeatedly at the hands of a martial arts instructor I don't have evidence. Conveniently, all of the music she wrote about it seems to not make it into the articles about her. However, as another person diagnosed with DID, I can tell you it's not about being a sensitive person. It is a trauma disorder that comes from repeated, intense trauma inflicted on a person at a very young age. She had trauma, or she wouldn't have had a trauma-based disorder. She talked about it a LOT, so again, it seems like purposeful subterfuge to not mention it. And asking for evidence of early childhood trauma, especially when the victim is no longer alive to present her own evidence, tells me only that you are more dedicated to telling this constructed story of her life than actually believing HER about what happened.
Again, thank you. I will follow up with Dr Ablow as to his response, although I will say that ketamine, despite being regarded as out-of-bounds for many years, is now widely used and readily accepted as a beneficial treatment for depression, etc. Many physicians have been vilified for being on the forefront of care only to be vindicated laters. I will also ask about the allegation of abuse by a martial arts instructor. If true, as you point out, that’s a crucial element to the story. I have no knowledge of this but am willing to be corrected and re-write the story to reflect this, if it is true.
I do find it odd that you presume I am acting in bad faith. I suppose this is understandable if you believe my depiction of Ohana is willfully in error. I assure you that’s not the case. As I told the story, my heart went out to her. The story’s intent is to celebrate her life and I think that’s abundantly clear by its tone.
I would encourage you to do your own research on Ablow. If you are writing in good faith, then seeing the patient testimonials of what he has done should hold much more stock than his own word. It's not at all hard to find information from his victims about what they experienced. You're correct about ketamine- my husband is in the field of psychiatry and is looking to further the use of ketamine as well as treatments such as psilocybin. However, a substance is only as beneficial if the person prescribing does so in good faith and with the intent of bettering the patient. Ablow lost his license for using beneficial medications to abuse patients in a dissociative state.
I hope that there is future revision that gives a more accurate picture of who she is. It is indeed a crucial piece of her story- it turns her from a victim of her own mind to a victim of atrocities that left her with a breaking mind. The insistence that she wasn't a victim of trauma was something that came up while she was alive, as well, and the disbelief of her parents caused so much heartbreak and turmoil for her. I would encourage research into her conditions, as well, because as I stated the conditions she had (DID specifically) do not come about in absence of trauma. This disorder being such a part of her life is a pretty clear indicator that there was something more going on than just faulty brain chemistry. To deny that is to deny her the right to having her story known in its whole truth.
This is well reasoned and fair. I will look into these aspects as you suggest.
This breaks my heart. While tragic, it’s also the perfect example of music’s power to heal.
IMHO, the world has it backward. Highly creative people aren’t prone to madness. They are simply so receptive to the external madness that surrounds them, that it becomes internalized. Creative outlets are simply a method by which they can expel the consumed madness. Not knowing or practicing a creative outlet results in self harm. How else to release the onslaught of continuous external madness (especially with social media)? In Ohana’s case-- music was the answer.
Society has taken the arts out of schools and toxic masculinity has ruled artistic expression as only for the weak. So our open-minded and open-hearted friends have nowhere else to turn but inward. And the self-destruction begins.
I think it’s also poignant to note that “Ohana” means “family” in Hawaiian. Ohana, herself, is perhaps a personified symptom of our human family’s state of disrepair. And a warning that our collective hearts may soon fail all together unless we create more, destroy less, and love others as we love ourselves.