Posted on September 3, 2008 by hymes
Commissioner: Western State must transfer mental-health patient
Wednesday, Sep 03, 2008 - 06:53 PM
The state’s mental health commissioner today ordered administrators at Western State Hospital to develop a plan to transfer a longtime mental patient from Western State to another facility.
Cesar Chumil, now 58, has been held in some form of seclusion or restraints at the Staunton hospital since February 1986.
But Commissioner James S. Reinhard... Read Full Story
Hat tip to F.R.I.D.A for this. The wonderful Ms. Cripchick is guest blogging at Feministe for the next 2 weeks. After giving up on Shakesvilledue to excessive use of the term “wingnut” and other variations of bad or stupid or corrupt behavior equals psychiatric disability it was a real upper to see that Feministe has invited a feminist disability blogger to guest blog. Read Full Story
Posted on September 2, 2008 by hymes
http://psychrights.org/PR/080902PsychRightsvAlaskaNR.pdf
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 2, 2008
CONTACT:
Jim Gottstein
907-274-7686
jim.gottstein@psychrights.org
PsychRights Sues State of Alaska to Stop Its Massive, Harmful Psychiatric Drugging of Alaskan Children
Today the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights (PsychRights) announced that due to the State of Alaska’s unwillingness, or inability, to enter into substantive talks, it... Read Full Story
Dr. Sally Satel is at it again in the New York Times, this time writing an essay that conflates intentional behavior with both circumstances someone is born into and illness someone does not choose to acquire. She rails that we should not say that drug and alcohol addiction does not discriminate because some ethnic groups are more prone to it and because children who are sexual abused are more prone to it as adults and because people with co-occuring mental illness have a harder time... Read Full Story
I don’t have a history of violence, but I know darn well that if I spent even a month in a room with a locked door and no one speaking to me in English, my native tongue and food shoved in a slot in the door my only interaction with the outside world and every staff person in the place having been told by other staff or by institutional history or myth or memory that I was a dangerous, scary person not to be trusted or treated even as well as other state hospital patients, I would be hitting... Read Full Story
Notice
The State Human Rights Committee
will consider a request for variance to the
Rules and Regulations to Assure the Rights of Individuals Receiving Services from Providers Licensed, Funded or Operated by the Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services at its meeting on
September 5, 2008
Request for approval of variances will be considered from the following providers:
Hallmark Youthcare Richmond (extension request)
12VAC35-115-110. Use of... Read Full Story
I am too old to think life should be fair but I find myself still there far into middle age. Which made me think of your poem, written after a trip to D.C. for a protest against the Vietnam War when I was 9 years old. You entitled it: “On The Way To The White House”, back then one could actually protest in front of the White House. The old days, when Presidents were not so afraid of the American people.
On The Way To The White House
Your hair nestles red against your neck;
your blue beret... Read Full Story
Proponents of outpatient commitment (forced drugging and so called “treatment” in their own homes of folks labelled with psychiatric diagnoses) usually use one of two arguments or both to persuade others that it is a good idea. The argument most often used by E. Fuller Torrey and his Treatment Advocacy Center is that people with mental illness are dangerous ticking time bombs if not force medicated in their own homes who will kill you or your child or your sister on the street if you don’t... Read Full Story
Posted on August 21, 2008 by hymes
http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/suicidal-patient-would-shy-away-from-help-court-told/2008/08/20/1218911828311.html
ALLEGED comments by a senior nurse that a patient’s attempt at suicide was “attention-seeking” may have contributed to the patient’s subsequent death, an inquest has heard.
Emily Chapman, 20, took her life in February 2006 while being treated at the Cumberland Hospital psychiatric unit for a serious mental disorder.
It is alleged... Read Full Story
