Evil clinician at South Shore Mental Health

January 3, 2015

Last night, a clinician who works for the crisis team at this facility had a patient from this unit sent to a hospital.  The patient was ignorant but not malicious.  The last time that I saw her last night, she was being seatbelted to a stretcher, with at least four security personnel around her, two of which seemed to be Quincy police officers.  The patient had been at this unit for a few days, and I had not observed her doing anything as disruptive or threatening as what I get subjected to by several male patients every day.

The clinician is the person upon whose recommendation I was committed to a mental hospital in 2013, after my landlord at Braintree Village had the police liaison for Braintree Village show up at my apartment because I had filmed maintenance workers and other people who had stalked me at that development.  The police liaison, another police officer, and two paramedics, all male, were in my apartment when they told me that they were taking me to an Emergency Room for a psychiatric evaluation.

When I was at the Emergency Room, this clinician was the crisis worker who did the evaluation.  I was committed to the Arbour Hospital in Jamaica Plain.  When I was in the hospital, I got my first eviction notice from the property management at Braintree Village.  There's no question that the commitment helped to support the landlord's decision to try to evict me.

I have been homeless since February of 2014.  It's stressful to be homeless, and I have voluntarily sought admission to hospitals and crisis units several times since being evicted.  I encountered this clinician during one of my stays at this crisis unit, months ago, before I had a respite bed.  One of the male patients was chronically harassing me.  He was young and seemingly physically healthy, and I had some concern for my safety.  The clinician was called, and she laughed in my face and implied that I was paranoid, until the patient walked past me right in front of her and said something so inappropriate that she couldn't ignore it.  Then, instead of talking with him about his behavior and helping him to understand what he needed to do to be appropriate, she had him sent to the hospital.

I think she likes sending people to the hospital.  Maybe she likes the drama of calling security and the police, and of feeling her power.

Copyright L. Kochman, January 3, 2015 @ 2:30 p.m.