Arbour HRI Hospital records

December 12, 2014

Social worker note, October 8, 2014:

The only threat that I ever made toward the doctor was that I would write about what happened in the hospital when I got out.

I never told anyone that the shelter was a good place for me to be. What I said was that I was feeling better, having had some time not to be there, and that if I had to go back to the shelter I would deal with it.

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Social worker note, October 7, 2014:

I was harassed in that hospital every day.

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Social worker note, October 6, 2014:

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Note from activities therapist, October 27, 2014:

This note was written by a male activities therapist.  When I got my records a few days ago and read the notes that he had written in my chart about me, I was surprised by how negative almost all of them were.  He wrote this one the day before the court hearing.  He probably expected me to be committed and court-ordered to take medication, and wrote this note according to what he thought was going to happen to me.  I never gave him or anyone else at that hospital a reason to think that I was delusional.  These records are a written testament to the power of groupthink and denial, to the subjectivity of mental health diagnosis and treatment, and to the way people think when they want to please their supervisor.  My doctor was also the medical director of the hospital.  This activities therapist probably didn't expect that I would not be court-ordered to take medication or that I would be discharged right after the court hearing, which is what happened. 

During one of the first groups that this activities therapist facilitated, near the beginning of my stay at this hospital, he had the patients in his group draw.  He also drew; he drew a picture of a man with his arms and hands out, away from his sides, and a love-shaped (not anatomical) heart in his chest.

At no time during this hospital stay did I step outside the boundaries of the patient-staff relationship with this therapist or with other staff.  It could be that he didn't like that.

It's not true that I have NEVER had remorse for the times when I snapped because of being harassed all day and every day since 2010. It's not true, and I never said that.  The entire situation is horrible.
 

This is a note that he wrote on October 24, 2014:

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This is a note written by a female activities therapist on October 24, 2014:

I think that the "Treatment Plan Problems & Objectives Addressed" are written by the social worker and approved by the doctor.  Then, that list of problems and objectives is at the top of every page of the patient's chart that pertains to the behavioral part of the patient's treatment.  The activities therapists don't write these lists; they read them, though, and observe and describe the patients through the lenses given to the rest of the staff by the doctors.

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Male activities therapist, October 23, 2014:

 

I never said that I was an expert; 2 decades of hospital admissions and counseling should have taught me something, shouldn't it?  Also, how was I supposed to talk about what upsets me to someone who persists in calling me paranoid and delusional?

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This is a note written by another female activities therapist on October 22, 2014:

She did not have to ask me to leave the room; she chose to do that, rather than to tell the patient to stop harassing me.  She even supported the patient who had harassed me, telling her "Don't worry."  That patient harassed me from the time she got to the hospital until she left. 

I talked to the activities therapist's supervisor about this incident.  The supervisor said she would talk to the therapist.  The therapist did not mistreat me in a group again.

She's very pretty, which the conglomerate noticed, while watching through the windows and the hospital's camera system.   I would not be surprised if she has noticed that the conglomerate noticed her. 

Sarcasm Alert:

Those are some delusions I have, aren't they?  They could even make someone who calls them delusions famous.

End of Sarcasm Alert.



Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, December 12, 2014 @ 8:55 p.m.