Wow thanks for the responses. I know this industry has the ability to help, but it also has the ability to harm. Not everyone's experience in the healthcare system is wholly positive: do not shame people for wanting or needing to vent their negative experiences. If anything it is vital to spread awareness and educate one another so as to prevent this from happening to others and to improve the healthcare industry. Be lucky that you have not had negative experiences because believe me - it has been by far the hardest thing to deal with in my entire life. When someone in an ethical position of power decides to abuse you like this, it ruins your ability to trust and gives you a long list of additional ailments and traumas...

TheLittledidgee,

The other thread is dead and I put it in a different sub-forum. I want to get this topic out into a bigger audience. People need to express this stuff!!! It is becoming a huge issue and needs to be made known.

I left out a lot of information for the sake of keeping things short. Thank you for asking some questions I will clarify the best I can. First off, the parties involved are in fact, guilty of malpractice. Altering and falsifying documents is both highly illegal and unethical, as is breach of confidentiality and deleting important evidence. Manipulating and gas-lighting is sadistic and socio-pathic, protecting friends and colleagues at the expense of an honest victim's credibility is beyond evil. The list goes on and on...

Firstly, I should note that I was given permission to express anger in therapy prior to leaving the voicemails. I was told that I could not speak about my issues via phone coaching (which is indeed correctly in line with DBT modality) and thus, my anger would have to be saved for individual sessions. I had repeatedly asked my individual therapist to speak about anger in session, but she kept pushing it off and said it would have to wait until she returned from vacation. After she returned, she drew up the contingency plan: essentially barring me from talking about my anger. This is arguably unethical AND it also pushes the bounds of DBT modality. I have asked DBT therapists about this and they say it seems a bit harsh considering the importance of talking about issues in therapy, (let alone DBT) especially when I had given weeks of notice of my building anger. I told my DBT therapist I would go find another therapist outside of DBT to vent my anger to, if she did not allow me to, and the response I got was that I was not allowed to have another therapist outside of DBT... See my predicament? I had just started DBT groups and so I had next to zero knowledge of the skills; so how could they possibly expect me to handle the anger on my own? Usually these things come on gradually after a patient is taught the skills, not the other way around.

Secondly, I have been in the hospital many times and I am well aware that on staff physicians and psychiatrists do a psych evaluation on patients at each visit. This is not the same evaluation that I am referring to. Have you ever been forced to do over five hundred true and false questions and threatened to be discharged if you decided against it? I was told I had a monster under the bed for $@#% sakes, that alone was traumatic! Everyone in the hospital was reacting to a series of malicious lies written in my charts. In order to get back into DBT: they gave me no choice but to do a full-fledged psychological examination by a forensic psychologist. This is the type of professional who is assigned to sociopaths and serial killers in law enforcement and litigation. It was traumatizing! This, in addition to the fact that this was all occurring because of a series of falsified medical records; namely the ridiculous accusations that I was somehow faking my illness despite having been traumatized by the abandonment of my therapist and also accused of threatening to kill people I loved and trusted?! ABSOLUTE NONSENSE! This made things even more strange. Not to mention I had already done the DIB-R intake to get into DBT and had the borderline diagnosis for approximately 5 years at the time. This was all very strange and they knew it, so I threatened a lawsuit and they ended up covering up the mistake to large extent.

Thirdly, the original documentation stated that the program supervisor said these things and had requested psychological examinations... A program supervisor IS NOT a physician: so requesting such examinations is both illegal and malpractice. LOL BIG MISTAKE! My assigned psychiatrist was away on vacation and the only people present during this entire ordeal was myself, my therapist and the program supervisor, and security and police. They attempted to have me banned from the program because the content of my voicemails challenged the program and my therapists unethical contingency plan. I mentioned how unfair it was for them to claim I was not utilizing phone coaching as it was designed, when they did not even offer phone coaching as per DBT modality: (due to union policies) and thus, they could not be considered a certifiable DBT clinic. Funny thing is, one of their therapists was indeed offering phone coaching (despite union policy) while the rest were not - and I had also mentioned how unfair this was... I also felt it was rediculous to give me permission to express anger in therapy, yet not allow me to express it via phone coaching or in individual sessions, and expect me to deal with it all on my own without having taught me the skills; and that if I was to find a therapist outside of DBT in order to handle it, I would be terminated...

I found some major flaws in their program and in my therapist's style. She was both unprofessional and in my opinion, bordering on unethical.

So you see - there are many reasons they didn't want me in the program. When it comes to public healthcare; IF someone is in DBT and does not fit the criteria of borderline - they are immediately removed from the program to make room for others. By intentionally and maliciously trying to have me misdiagnosed, this would have been easy, except that I happened to see these false claims in medical records and threatened a lawsuit before they could get away with anymore of their antics. In the end, however, they altered the records to make it look like a different psychiatrist from the DBT clinic had made the request for psych evaluations (despite the fact that she was not present during the ordeal on the day this all happened and I have never even met her).

I understand the whole, "medical records are merely opinions," argument - but try to convince a courtroom of that when they are requested through a subpoena and authored by, "professionals." It doesn't matter how much of an opinion it is - when you have 25 healthcare professionals who are friends and colleagues and have a common interest to protect one another, and thus, write the same malicious content in order to cover-up a series of very serious events; you cannot possibly hope to defend yourself in court with the simple argument that medical records are merely opinions. Sure, medical professionals are supposed to treat medical records as opinions and take a patient at face value, but do you really think they will listen to someone who suffers from mental illness over charts written by their fellow friends and colleagues?

I don't know about you, but, I live in Canada - and apparently if I wanted to change a document I would need to make an official request to the author... In this case - I would be requesting for changes to be made by conspirators in a cover-up... Do you really think they would be willing?

Thanks,
HD