Arbour HRI Hospital records

December 22, 2014

Female social worker, women's partial hospitalization program, June 20, 2014:

This woman was also my social worker for a while when I was an inpatient in October of 2014.  She had almost nothing positive to say about me then, either.

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Male director of partial hospitalization program, June 20, 2014:

Who believes that this man or any of the staff who called me paranoid actually thought that I was paranoid?  Isn't it more likely that they knew that I'm sexually stigmatized by the conglomerate, that they were enjoying harassing me, and that they were lying?

I don't know how they formulate other patients' treatment plans or what they write about other patients.  I was focused on every task that was given in every group, tried to give and have appropriate space from other people, and was as social as I am ever able to be in a situation in which I am being abused.

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Female clinical coordinator, partial hospitalization program, June 20, 2014:

What I have noticed about a lot of people who say that they want women to be assertive is that they feel threatened by, derisive about and condemning of women who are actually assertive.  I do not care if someone who is being a jerk to me dislikes me or gets angry when I refuse to let the person push me around. In those situations, I am not placating.  I do not prioritize mutual agreement or the continuation of the relationship above not being trampled by someone dishonest and domineering who wants to get his or her way.  I am not what people like those who run the women's partial hospitalization program expect, and these people had already heard enough of the conglomerate's propaganda about me to be more than happy to lie to and about me, to blame all conflict on me and not to consider the idea that anyone in my situation would need emotional support.  

Whether or not they know it, I'm sure that  I wasn't the first and won't be the last victim of voyeurism, involuntary pornography, conglomerate-type harassment, stalking, or other variations of corrective sexual assault and slut-shaming.  They should change their attitude to be modern about women's capabilities, and they should add groups and other counseling to their programs to deal with women's issues in the 21st century.

They should also check the bathrooms for hidden cameras.  How blase will the hospital employees who called me paranoid be if they find out that the janitors or others who work at the hospital have videotaped them in the bathrooms for years?

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Another female clinical coordinator, partial hospitalization program, January 15, 2014:

The description of my "current risk factor" for suicide is the same in this note as it was six months later in my file, shown on every page written about me.  

Records written by people with this level of empathy, intelligence, skill and attention to detail follow patients from one hospitalization to the next, from one provider to the next.  I don't know if most of the public realizes that almost all providers treat almost all mental patients as if what providers say about patients is The Truth, as if what patients say about themselves is negligible, and as if patients who disagree with providers Are Always Wrong And Are Causing Problems Because Their Illnesses Prevent Them From Realizing How Wrong They Are And How Difficult And Bad They Are Being And Lots More Medication Would Probably Help.

The next page of the records shows that the "current risk factor" was written and unchanged from as long ago as February 19, 2013. So is the treatment plan shown in the note from January 15, 2014.


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