[HD7970GHZ]

Hi everyone,

I want to share my story but I want to make sure I do it right. I need advice and I know for a fact that I am not the only one this has happened to. Please feel free to contact me on this post or via private messaging. Change is necessary in the mental health care system and perhaps, with some help, we can start making change.

Anyone know of a good place to share? If forum moderators see this post - can you please contact me about the rules and regulations regarding this topic. Can I share details? Can I share names and specific program names? Please feel free to contact me and I will NOT share anything until I hear back from a moderator.

In short, I am a victim of a coverup in the mental health care system, in Canada. I have witnessed a dark, twisted insight into the industry and into the power that they have. I have been brutalized and abused in the worst possible way. I am lucky to be alive. If I had not been threatened by the corporation that did this to me, I would be filing complaints and a lawsuit against 15 - 20 mental health care professionals including doctors, nurses, therapists, psychiatrists, psychologists, management, clinical supervisors and health records staff. They have already tarnished my records, altered documentation, deleted documentation, spread lies and deceipt in the event that I was to file a lawsuit... They have done a brilliant job - but there's always a paper trail...

I am in the process of doing polygraphs to prove that I am not lying, simply because I want my closest friends and family to know that I am not making it up. I have enough evidence to raise eyebrows and certainly enough to defend myself. I am not diagnosed with psychosis. I do not have a bad memory. I have no reason to lie about such things.

I consider myself lucky to have experienced this. Now I believe every story I hear about corruption, lies and abuse. I am a filmmaker and I am writing a screenplay but I know there are many victims out there who need to be heard. My story is only one story. I want to hear more. I want to be inspired and motivated by the pain that others have experienced. This topic needs to be brought to light.

I will not argue with people whether or not I am telling the truth. Trying to convince me that what I experience is real or not is no different than a group of unionized health professionals banding together in a coverup. Any union must protect itself at all costs. Especially when the government funds it...

I will not doubt anyones story - no matter how fantastical it is. Your stories need to be heard! We need to get this out there.

I believe the system is wholly flawed. It gives too much power to health care professionals. Mental health patients don't stand a chance if and when they witness a major mistake and vouch to tell the truth. All a professional has to do is claim insanity or alter documentation. But when several thousand stand together - it makes all the difference.

For those of you who see this post and have also been through similar issues - you are NOT alone. And together we can do something about it. Do not be afraid to come forward privately. I am a fellow sufferer and I have been wronged by the system. All of this is anonymous. No need to share personal information.

I will say that this has happened through strange circumstances. In over a decade of utilizing this health care system I have had zero issues. This really did happen. And I think a handful of unethical people are to blame moreso than the system itself. But I do believe these people get away with it because the system gives them too much power.

My advice: Do not pick fights with corporations.

Thanks,
HD7970ghz

No need to argue your sanity here. You sound more together than the people you relied on for help. I agree mental health care professionals have too much power. Unethical therapists....make up stories about clients to suit their own needs and to cover-up mistakes. The vulnerable client becomes a victim yet again. The injustice of it all is excruciating.

You have my support and I encourage you to fight with all your might to clear your name. I'm sorry you have to go through this as I know for myself it is the worst nightmare to endure.

[The_little_didgee]

You are definitely not alone. I'm also Canadian so I know all the BS that is present in healthcare. Hardly anyone has the courage to speak up. I thought people went in healthcare to help people and advocate for their clients.

I've been profoundly hurt by psychiatry back in the mid to late 1990s, because they misdiagnosed me. They put me through hell and tried so hard to break me so I could fit their assessment of me. It was the first time my ethnicity was used against me. Apparently all First Nations individuals come from dysfunctional families with histories of abuse and addictions. This is BS. I also was told I had repressed memories of sexual abuse. Apparently my Cree father did it. None of this happened. Then I heard my personality was disordered, that I was manipulative, dramatic and EVIL. I was told over and over again that there was no hope. In the fall of 1994 I was threatened by a psychiatrist. She threatened to send me to the Brockville Psychiatric Hospital via a Form 4. I was 16.

My hell all began when I started taking Zoloft, the drug that was supposed to alleviate my depression. It changed me and disturbed my family even myself. I reported the suicidal ideation it was causing but I was ignored. None of the professionals seem to realize the medication was causing it and all the out of character behaviors. I went through 9 months of suffering. It all stopped when I refused to take the medication.

No one seem to realize the medications were making me crazy. Paxil made me manic. Prozac induced a psychotic mania. When I ended up in a psychiatric ward for that I was told my personality was disordered. I'm not sure how they missed the mania because I was incoherent, confused, and delusional. The police and family saw it but the psychiatrists for some reason didn't. Something is wrong there. They see what they want to see because it is easier.

They even falsified my records based it all on assumptions. They would never admit to that. I've been labeled with PTSD, bipolar disorder, BPD, and even histrionic personality disorder (that one was surprising because I'm nothing like that).

It costs a lot to sue and plus the College provides superb coverage to its members. Doctors really think they are above us.

[*Laurie*]

In my experience, most doctors really do think they are God-like. It's terrible.

[Sesiley]

My mother in law has schizophrenia....we got her into the hospital where someone stole her purse.....then central state..mental hospital...whichever one, let her out twice where she was in no condition to be in society. She was robbed in raped in the city. They just dropped her off in the middle of no where...she wasn't all there to know what to do or anything

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HD7970gh, I am not doubting you, but I am not entirely sure what happened to you?

I hate the system, I just dont have the energy to get into why...

[BadWolfC]

I haven't experienced anything nearly as horrible as what it sounds like you've been through, but I can tell you that the mental healthcare system in the US is not much better off.

I was misdiagnosed with several problems as a child and was put on antidepressants (I think prozac was the first one) when I was 11. I stayed on medication until I was 16 and legally able to decide my treatment, which was when I decided to stop the meds. The entire time I was on the antidepressants I felt sick, wrong, like I wasn't me. I had headaches and hand tremors, and became actually depressed because of the medication. When I was 18 I was going through a rough patch of my life and ended up being admitted to a psychiatric hospital for 6 days. All they did was force myself and the other patients to take more medication than we needed, and made us attend "therapy" sessions during which we had to talk about what we were doing wrong with our lives. I was released because I started pretending to be fine, because it felt like my only option.

I was put back on antidepressants when I was released and was told it would "be good for me" even though the hand tremors and headaches returned, along with the sick feeling. Eventually I was diagnosed as Bipolar because I had a "manic episode" where I couldn't sleep, and was taken off the antidepressants and put on Abilify which actually works for me.

I was stable on the Abilify for a couple years up until last January when my insurance decided to stop covering it. I had to find a new psychiatrist because I had moved recently and was put on Lamictal and tried a few other medications that were supposed to treat me. I figured out after over 6 months of being horrible sick (nausea, headaches, vertigo) that the medications I was on were causing it. I was also extremely depressed and suicidal, and my psychiatrist, who I saw every two weeks during those 6 months, either hadn't noticed or cared. Once I figured it out I stopped seeing that psychiatrist and have found the only decent one in my area, who's put me on the generic for Abilify, and now I'm completely fine.

I'm still incredibly angry that my last psychiatrist had that level of negligence, but I honestly don't think there's anything I can do even though she was well aware that I was becoming more depressed and that I was sick, and didn't bother to check if it was the medications she was giving me. Not only that, she increased the dosage after I started getting worse, which of course made me a LOT worse.

That was longer than I anticipated, sorry for rambling...

[*Laurie*]

In my experience the entire healthcare system in the U.S. is corrupt. They have one goal: to make $$$$$$ for huge corporations. Patient well-being is a joke.

[-jimi-]

They just ruined my life and didn't care. Like I don't matter.

Else than that, nothing bad happened.

[Thane]

Those cesspools ruin lives. Horrific.

[avlady]

i've experienced several bad things in the hands of the psych wards, they are awful.

[HD7970GHZ]

It's sad to think this goes on so often.

I cannot give too much detail about my situation because I've really become a thorn in the health care systems side. I do not doubt anyones story. I believe it completely.

Essentially I was accused of faking an illness and that was proven false. They covered up the nonsense. It was an attempt to have me kicked from a dbt program by a malicious program supervisor who didn't like me because I questioned some things that could have landed some people in trouble. (Union stuff)

I got back into the program and promised copies of documentation I had seen that led to mistreatment in hospital setting. They said dont order health records, save your money - we'll get them for you and together we will look at what happened. So I waited for a long time. Then they said the only way I could get health records is through legal channels... (Why did they not tell me this before? Did they forget the laws around health records?) I ordered them and they were altered. I made it an issue - questioned those involved and they denied the original documents contents. It was traumatizing. These were my therapists whom I had become attached to and trusted. They altered more documentation and began lying in my files in the event of a lawsuit. They have tarnished me on paper. They are the lowest scum I have ever met and they are protected by the government and by a multi billion dollar corporation. I was threatened and hospitalized against my will when I went into emerg saying I had evidence of a coverup. They said I was being hospitalized because I was suicidal. I was not suicidal. The doctor that admitted me said I threatened him. I did NOT threaten anyone. I then said I was audio recording the entire interview - at which point he reversed his claims that I had threatened him - shook my hand and said I did not threaten him! I have all of this recorded people. If there's one thing I've learnt about the mental health system - ALWAYS protect yourself in whatever way is legal. Luckily in canada I did everything legally. I have not broken a single law. But they have. It certainly put these people in their place when I showed up in emergency for apparent suicidal ideation - and was let out in a matter of hours once I told them I have evidence of a coverup and did not want a lawsuit. I said pull up documentation and I'll show you evidence myself.

They write these things in my files so they can prepare for lawsuit. It is unbelievable. These people are doing this without an ounce of regret. I counted about twenty involved that I know of.

I'm just a mental patient. It is an impossible battle fighting a corporation. Better off leaving things alone no matter how bad they are and looking for someone else that can help. I know now how the system works. It is corrupt, disgusting, and no different than it was when psychiatry believed in forced institutionalization and giving lobotamy's and chemical castrations for being homosexual. Only difference now is they can do whatever they want, whenever they want - because the only evidence of what happened is written on paper for which the authors are legal custodians, and the soonest you can get copies of them is one month! Certainly long enough to change, alter and delete documents!

Also - complaint lines. Do not ever call complaint lines run through the corporation / health care system all of this happened in. They have caller ID and they put together a case file and record everything each time you call. They knew who I was before I gave them my name! And if you make a complaint through the corporation itself, they have minimum thirty days to follow up on the complaint before you can involve external agencies outside of the corporation, such as the government or freedom of information and privacy.

My advice, if you are in canada - call the government with a complaint. Never call the corporation that has done these things. Of course no one seems to realize that health care is often times a corporation funded by the government - not the government itself.

Be very careful.