It will give you renewed awareness and energy for living

A broken heart is worse than a broken arm. Sensitize yourself to the pain of others. It will give you renewed awareness and energy for living.

Rabbi Noah Weinberg

There are things that I have to say that make people uncomfortable when such things are voiced; as if leaving things unsaid, would make the ideas less--it does not.  Not for me anyway.  Remarkably--(not really)--I have a flair for the obvious is all; saying these things out loud helps make the bad not so...bad.  Somehow, it does.

Trauma Can Cause Symptoms of Mental Illness

2003

He is bracing himself on the tree, and trying to smile---

I can't really tell you what it was like to see my son at 15 and 16 years old stumble to the ground like a toddler---because he was so drugged---or how horrifying it was leaving him in a place I dreamed of hiring mercenaries to rescue him from...and the obvious---well, let's just say one of the hardest things I've had to learn to deal with---is how unkind and not fully human people can be.

Psychiatric Drugs As Agents of Trauma

Dr. Charles Whitfield's article concludes that trauma is the cause of most symptoms which are used for psychiatric  diagnoses of mental illnesses, alcoholism, and addiction. The symptoms are treated with psychotropic drugs almost exclusively; in spite of the lack of empirical evidence to support this Standard Practice. Which begs the question, is it even an ethical standard of care being used by psychiatry?  How did using psychotropic drugs to treat symptoms  become standard for any condition or symptom without empirical support?  I would say it is definitely not ethical, therapeutic or medicine in the Hippocratic tradition.  The focus is solely on an attempt to control symptoms; even if the patient does not believe it is a "need" to  control the identified symptoms...

We knew what the primary cause of his PTSD symptoms was; why mental health professionals refused to provide the recommended treatment that was in their own practice parameters; or even listen to us. he professionals used brain damaging drugs in their futile attempts to control behavioral symptoms. Doing so, they committed Medicaid fraud; but worse that that, the treatment repeatedly traumatized and eventually disabled my precious son. My beautiful son Isaac had an IQ of 146 at the age of seven; and today at twenty-four, cannot do the things he did at the age of seven...

My son was as a victim of horrific abuse in foster care and as a result, had trauma-induced PTSD; he also has Left-Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, which is caused by a traumatic head injury.  Instead of the recommended treatment, he was repeatedly traumatized by pseudo-medical mental health treatment. His longest hospitalization was for over 4 years where a psychiatric researcher, Jon McClellan, further traumatized him and disabled him in the TEOSS drug trials. It is illegal what he did to my son; forcing drugs upon him, over my protests. Jon McClellan used my son like a guinea pig in Washington State's only state-run psychiatric facility for children, Child Study and Treatment Center. Quack Master Jack is a "lead researcher" for childhood schizophrenia; and the Medical Director of CSTC; the man had no right to play God, he had no right to use my son in the way he did.  The effects of trauma were ignored, minimized, or misidentified as symptoms of whatever diagnosis was subjectively determined to need the massive amounts of teratogenic drugs to "treat" it. Permission, i.e. "Informed Consent," was not needed; Jon McClellan needed only his own permission apparently.  The deleterious effects of the drugs on the patient; irrelevant.

Dr.Whitfield used data from over 300 studies; in writing this article.  Some are the same ones I had read and used in my futile attempts to advocate for my son.  I can assure you, there truly are circumstances when there is no comfort in being right.  Using data from, "the work of numerous psychiatrists and psychopharma-cologists" and his own experience in private practice, Dr. Whitfield provides the evidence supporting his conclusions; he additionally explains, "most common psychiatric drugs are not only toxic but can be chronically traumatic."  Dr. Whitfield's article in, "The International Journal of Risk and Safety in Medicine" concludes that trauma, and the PTSD symptoms which result, are often misdiagnosed; the symptoms are almost always treated exclusively with drugs. Dr. Whitfield states for some people, this "medical treatment" traumatizes them further; exacerbating, instead of alleviating their distress.   (I have noticed in ten+ years of doing research, research like this that questions, or is not supportive of drugging symptoms of distress is seldom published here in the US)

Both my son and I have been saying he was traumatized, not treated.  Quack Master Jack, Jon McClellan lied to me; and failed to follow legal and ethical standards; his "medical treatment" mainly consisted of using my son as a guinea pig trialing drugs that were not approved for pediatric use. Drugs not approved for use in children, some of the drugs were not approved until years after my still traumatized son no longer was a child; some still are not approved for children.  Neuroleptic drugs are known to cause brain damage, heart damage and be potentially fatal.  "Off label" means experimental use, according to the FDA.  He never obtained Informed Consent; in fact, he claimed, he didn't need it.

In the Psychiatric Summary from May of 2004, which is in a previous post, he implies that my son was taking the drugs "willingly."  The report in this same post, is from 2001, the year my son turned 13 and the age of consent law is one of the excuses this "researcher" used as an excuse to not need my consent.  Given the condition my son was in, there is no way in hell anyone, even a young child, would have thought Isaac had the capacity to give consent.  Quack Master Jack knows that both he and other staff members told my son if he did not take the drugs; he would never get to leave the hospital.  To be Informed Consent, there can be no coercion, my son could have assented, but was in no condition to provide "Informed Consent" just because he was thirteen!   My son had no choice, as an adolescent in a locked facility, he naturally wanted to leave, and if you want to leave, you have to do what you are told.  I was forced to pretend to buy this thug's diagnosis and "treatment" in order to have any chance in hell of rescuing my own son.  Jon McClellan's care was obviously heavy on the (drug)study, negligent, fraudulent and abusive in the extreme.  Isaac has said he thought he was kidnapped; and I have no problem understanding why he would have thought or believed this.  Jon McClellan ignored the Hippocratic Oath, the US Constitution, the Ethical Guidelines for Informed Consent and the Nuremberg Code in the "treatment" he inflicted upon my son.

"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm." 

Hippocrates 

Read Dr. Whitfields article here...
Originally posted  January 16, 2011 "Can Trauma Be A Cause of Mental Illness?"

Model RC-47C and an introduction to Patient Fizzy

Via ImShockGirl

Featuring Richard Abrams of Somatics, Inc., Robin and Gorham Nicol of Mecta and EasyBar, and introducing Patient Fizzy.


Please note that this is a lampoon, but that the facts contained in the video are true: 

1. The risk list comes directly from the FDA Executive Summary, January 27-28, 2011 meeting of the Neurological Devices Panel.

2. Robin and Gorham Nicol do own Mecta, one of the two major manufacturers of ECT devices, as well as EasyBar, which makes beverage (liquor) dispensing machines. I find the combo of shock and booze to be enchanting and hilarious. You can't make this $hit up.


3. Richard Abrams and Conrad Swartz do own the other manufacturer, Somatics, Inc. 

Mecta is the Volkswagon. Somatics is the Caddy. Which machine does YOUR doctor use? Insist on the best. Use the Thymatron for that something special.

4. The whistleblower is real, and the FBI did investigate.


vintage ad source

TMAP Tragedy and Medicaid Fraud not all that important it seems

If we don't change the direction we're going, we're likely to end up where we're headed.

chinese proverb

The State of Texas recently settled a lawsuit with J&J that was ripe, good to go, all the ducks were in a row--know what I mean?  The suit was for $1 Billion then suddenly, it was settled for $158 million, a small fraction of that amount.   The corporate thugs are continuing to disable the populace on the taxpayers dime--with impunity; because in all reality, this amount is a drop in the bucket.


What I really want to know is why are WE the People allowing these modern day Robber Barons to rob ALL of us?!  This is no wild west spaghetti western sci fi!  These thugs are robbing ALL of us!  Texas was just the  proving ground for TMAP, the large-scale fraudulent psychiatric drug marketing agenda that spread to other states.  It was Texas that allowed these modern-day Robber Barons to incubate their illegal marketing agenda in the second most populous State in the Nation.  MY issue is how this New World Order marketing agenda was exported post-haste to Washington State, where I live and how it was crammed down my little boy's neck...


And then, I read this: via Health Care Renewal January 25, 2012:

Unequal Justice Under Law - Comparing Cases of Alleged Misbehavior by Large Health Care Organizations and Individuals

an excerpt:

On January 3, 2012, Bloomberg reported:

Two units of Actavis Group Hf will pay $84 million to settle a lawsuit over drug pricing, Texas officials said, less than half the amount an Austin jury said the company should pay.

The state accused Actavis Mid-Atlantic LLC and Actavis Elizabeth LLC, subsidiaries of the Iceland-based company’s U.S. division, ofinflating billings to the Texas Medicaid program by falsely reporting drug prices. The state court jury in February ordered the units to pay the state $170 million.

The settlement resolves that litigation, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said today in a statement.

Note that Medicaid is a joint federal-state insurance program for the poor. The company's statement had a familiar ring to it:

'Actavis denies any and all wrongdoing, and denies that it has any liability relating to the Texas judgment,' the company and the state said in the settlement agreement. The parties reached a settlement 'to avoid the delay, uncertainty, inconvenience and expense of continuing the litigation.'

Nothing to see here, just move along.  read here at Health Care Renewal

This settlement is more than the Attorney General of Texas settled with J&J for in the Risperdal illegal marketing case, which is less than 20% of what Texas should have collected.  Why would settlement with these thugs even be an option?  I am beginning to wonder if these lawsuits are just for show, e.g.  not actually meant to curtail the ongoing fraud and corruption---which is continuing unabated.  Are they being undertaken only to give the appearance of taking federal crimes committed by pharmaceutical companies seriously?  When it gets right down to it, the people who are being disabled and killed are not getting anything but screwed either way...

"a reasonable expectation of safety"

Via Med Page Today:

FDA Supplement Guidance Not Strict Enough, MD Says 

By Emily P. Walker, Washington Correspondent, MedPage Today
Published: January 26, 2012

"An FDA proposal to require dietary supplement manufacturers to submit data proving their product is safe doesn't go far enough, according to a physician writing in the New England Journal of Medicine.

More than 100 million Americans spend more than $28 billion on vitamins, minerals, herbal ingredients, amino acids and other natural products in the form of dietary supplements each year, "assuming they are both safe and effective," wrote Pieter A. Cohen, MD, of Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance.

But they have no assurance that the products are safe because FDA regulation of supplements is too weak, Cohen wrote in a Perspective piece.

By law, ingredients that were used and sold in supplements prior to 1994 can be marketed without any proof that they are safe or effective. But under a law called the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA), manufacturers of any ingredient introduced after 1994 must provide the FDA with evidence supporting "a reasonable expectation of safety."Cohen said that part of the law "has thus far not been enforced.""

This is the statement that set off my bs amplifier detector:
"Cohen also said that under the guidance, manufacturers would not be required to submit both favorable and unfavorable data to the FDA, so they could cherry-pick only positive data to submit." read here

The good Doctor, Pieter A. Cohen, MD, of Harvard Medical School and the Cambridge Health Alliance is concerned that people assume supplements are safe; which is definitely a valid concern. However, people also assume that FDA approved drugs are safe; and many are in fact approved on cherry picked data. Many drugs have been approved using biased research that is conducted unethically---some of this marketing research has been done at Harvard---Even worse, some drugs were approved based on falsified data; the FDA proclaimed the drugs 'safe,' without requiring that new drug trials be conducted.

I would hope that addressing the safety of FDA approved drugs, known to be fatal would be prioritized. I suspect that the regulatory focus is purposely being put on nutritional supplements, and labeling of food in an effort to divert the public's attention from the Adverse Events Reported for FDA-approved drugs...

FDA AERS 

Perception and Perspective: my hope for my son

Photo by Scott Fisher

google.com had a search query in May of 2011: "will my son's anosognosia go away" directed to my blog, my article titled, Psychiatry Has Anosognosia  was listed as the #1 hit for this query.

My son has some iatrogenic damage which limits his ability to process complex information and situations unaided.  I would not say anosognosia is an apt description description of how his iatrogenic injuries are manifested.  The fact of the matter is, he is aware of the iatrogenic damage; and the cause of it.  He tells me he is alright with it, which blows me away.  He pities those who caused it, which humbles me entirely.  He says he feels sorry for their morality.  He remembers being more functional---he remembers things he does not want to think about.  He experiences overwhelming fear and pain when he remembers...

He has a great deal of insight, and just wants to have what any adult who has never had a psychiatric diagnosis, takes for granted---He wants to be treated with respect, to make his own choices, and not be questioned as to why he should have the right to do so.  He believes this is important.  I want this for him too; and I know my son is right.  Life has been severely complicated by the lack of honesty on the part of the professionals that we relied on to be ethical and to have integrity; professionals who betrayed our trust.  My child is now a man.  I believe his expectation that he deserves to be treated with respect like anyone and everyone else takes for granted, shows a great deal of insight on his part.

I find the search query, "will my son's anosognosia go away" sad on so many levels.  Mostly, I think the query is symptomatic of the lack of accurate information being shared by mental health professionals with patients, family members, and the general public.  This has bred skepticism and mistrust; which is not surprising. (or it shouldn't be anyway)  It is a natural consequence of the failure to disclose risks about psychiatric drugs; and more it is a consequence of the harmful teratogenic drugs instead of what psychiatry  claimed to be providing; e.g. effective medical treatment grounded in scientific principles known as evidence-based care.

Instead, psychiatry instituted Treatment Protocols based on flawed, biased subjective opinions; instead of deriving treatment recommendations from clinical research data.   Then, psychiatry claimed to be providing Evidence-Based treatment for mental illness.  This is fraud; and this fraud has been perpetrated for decades in spite of the overwhelming scientific evidence refuting treatment standards not to mention the ongoing toll of human tragedy caused by the teratogenic drugs and the inhumane social control methods used.  The drugs cause a myriad of negative health effects, increasing chances for disability and early or sudden death.  Given the reality of what passes for 'medicine' in bio-psychiatry, and the negative life outcomes for a significant percentage of psychiatry's patients; I am confused, and at a loss to understand why this profession still has the power, privilege and authority that it does.  There are still those who are willfully blind.  Thankfully, there are also those of us who not only question the bio-psychiatric paradigm; but take a stand against it.

It is my personal opinion that many people with a psychiatric diagnosis are labeled with anosognosia because they dare express an opinion which is deemed 'unacceptable' by mental health professionals; and the person is labeled, "noncompliant" or "treatment resistant" to justify the professional's abuse of authority.  This is not to say that people who are experiencing extreme states or psychosis, can not temporarily lose some or all of their ability to express their understanding of what is happening to them; in terms others can readily understand.   However, this loss should not be assumed to be permanent, or automatically assumed that a person lacks understanding or abilities.  A person's wishes should never be effectively dismissed, because "they just don't know what's good for them" either.

Here is an excellent paper on Mentalism in the mental health treatment system: Identifying and Overcoming Metalism by Pat Risser.  Thanks to Ed Knight for sharing Pat's paper with me.
Portions of this post appeared May 28., 2011 titled, "Google Search #1 will my son's anosognosia go away" this post is a slightly modified version of the original.

America's Veterans Are Having Second Amendment Rights Violated

A well regulated militia being necessaary to the security of a free state,

the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

text of the Second Amendment

via CBS News Investigates:
December 7, 2011 1:44 PM

Documents: ATF used "Fast and Furious" to make the case for gun regulations

By

Sharyl Attkisson

Topics

News ,

Law and Order

(Credit: CBS)

Documents obtained by CBS News show that the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) discussed using their covert operation "Fast and Furious" to argue for controversial new rules about gun sales.

PICTURES: ATF "Gunwalking" scandal timeline

In Fast and Furious, ATF secretly encouraged gun dealers to sell to suspected traffickers for Mexican drug cartels to go after the "big fish." But ATF whistleblowers told CBS News and Congress it was a dangerous practice called "gunwalking," and it put thousands of weapons on the street. Many were used in violent crimes in Mexico. Two were found at the murder scene of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

ATF officials didn't intend to publicly disclose their own role in letting Mexican cartels obtain the weapons, but emails show they discussed using the sales, including sales encouraged by ATF, to justify a new gun regulation called "Demand Letter 3". That would require some U.S. gun shops to report the sale of multiple rifles or "long guns." Demand Letter 3 was so named because it would be the third ATF program demanding gun dealers report tracing information.

On July 14, 2010 after ATF headquarters in Washington D.C. received an update on Fast and Furious, ATF Field Ops Assistant Director Mark Chait emailed Bill Newell, ATF's Phoenix Special Agent in Charge of Fast and Furious: read here

via the New York Post: 
January 22, 2012 By LARRY CELONA

Arrested guy’s the real SEAL

His story about being a Navy SEAL wasn’t so fishy after all.

The Virginia man arrested for gun possession in Manhattan Thursday and thrown in a psych ward when he claimed to be a member of the elite military unit but couldn’t provide proof was telling the truth, The Post has learned.

Shaun Day, 29, was on a two-week leave when cops harpooned him for running a red light at 12:30 a.m. at Second Avenue and East 26th Street.

When cops searched his pickup truck, they discovered a 9mm semiautomatic and three ammunition clips.

During the arrest, Day was rambling incoherently and harped that he was a SEAL — but had no proof for cops.

He claimed he was an elite commando with “top- secret clearance,” cops said.

Sources told The Post the Navy sent staffers to talk to Day in Bellevue Hospital, where he was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.

“He was released [Friday] in their care, and they were going to treat him for post-traumatic stress,” a  source said.

The charges against Day of weapons possession and a traffic violation have been deferred.

SEALs, the Navy’s Sea, Air and Land teams, are credited with killing Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in May. read here

via The Blaze:

MARINES RALLYING AROUND FORMER PFC ARRESTED FOR TRYING TO CHECK GUN AT EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Buck Sexton

Ryan Jerome risked his life for his country and was honorably discharged for his service, but now New York City wants to throw him in jail for what seems to be an honest mistake.

Jerome  carried his handgun —  a.45 Ruger legally registered in Indiana — into notoriously 2nd-amendment-averse New York City. During a visit to the Empire State Building, Jerome tried to check his weapon with authorities on September 27th, and is now facing over three years in jail.

Before arriving in NYC, Jerome checked online with his phone to determine if his Indiana carry permit was reciprocal with New York, but had problems with his cell phone.

His Leatherneck brethren are outraged at what appears a heavy-handed miscarriage of justice, and they refuse to let one of their own go down without a fight.

According the the New York Post, Jerome said that “It is just overwhelming, the love and support I am receiving from my fellow Marines.” Jerome was a former private first class (PFC) who was a TOW gunner before his honorable discharge in 2005. He comes from a long line of marines — his father and grandfather both served in the Corps.

It has not been lost on the public that a man who is both highly trained with weapons, and highly trusted by Uncle Sam, would now face several years in prison for an honest mistake with absolutely no negative outcome. Nobody was injured, nothing was damaged — it does not appear that anyone at the site of the incident was even particularly alarmed.

Dave Bruce, a former Marine himself and Boston lawyer,  is putting together an online campaign through leatherneck.com that, according to the NY Post, “will send its first 14 e-mails to Kelly, Mayor Bloomberg and DA Cyrus Vance today.” There is also a Facebook group that supports Ryan Jerome’s release.

There have been a number of tourists arrested in NYC for gun possession in recent months, spurring analysts and onlookers across the country to wonder how it is possible that a city government can, in their view, so blithely abrogate the 2nd Amendment and threaten citizens with years of imprisonment. read here

via NRA-ILA

New York City gun law triggers confusion, arrests for visitors An online campaign in support of a former U.S. Marine arrested for attempting to security check his pistol while visiting the Empire State Building is bringing new attention and a fair amount of scrutiny to one of the nation's toughest gun control laws. Ryan Jerome, 28, was charged with criminal possession of his .45 caliber Ruger while visiting the famous New York landmark during a September vacation with his girlfriend. Jerome has a license to carry the weapon from his home state of Indiana, but New Yorks state gun laws do not recognize out of state permits. Read About It: CNN News Wire Posted: 1/23/2012 9:53:30 AM Note: Many news sites archive stories after a short period of time. If the link above is expired please contact the site for information about accessing this story.

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I LOVE my Country, but it's becoming harder to recognize 

The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave...

Not a metaphor...It is FDA approved fraud

If you have not logged on to the new Mad in America Science, Psychiatry and Community website you are missing something truly marvelous.  It is set up like a webzine with various bloggers, news and information on psychiatry and mental health care.

On Monday January 23, 2011 in 'Psychiatry's Grand Confession', Jeffrey Lacasse, Ph.D. and Jonathan Leo Ph.D. wrote about the serotonin hypothesis.  The authors point out that although it has been reported that although there is no evidence that depression is caused by a serotonin imbalance, this claim is still being used to market antidepressants.  It is still something that patients are told by prescribers. referring to a NPR reporter, the authors state, "the reporter seems to not understand that the idea of telling a falsehood to patients because you think it is good for them is a serious violation of informed consent,"  the authors ask some very important questions about the situation.  These issues are not being accurately reported in the mainstream media often enough...read here

A false claim of this type, is fraud.  The nature of an act is not changed, it does not become a benign act because of the professional status or supposed altruistic intent of the person making the claim.  False claims of this type are meant to alter a person's behavior. Specifically it is meant to induce treatment compliance with a prescriber's recommendation to take one or more prescription drugs to treat an unidentified, or "metaphorical" imbalance. When a person who relies on the truthfulness and validity of a false claim experiences adverse consequences, the person is a medical fraud victim.

When a nutritional supplement manufacturer or a natural food distributor says their product prevents illness or treats a condition; the FDA regulates it---by stopping it.  When the claim is made by medical professionals who prescribe FDA approved drugs; or the claim is made in direct to consumer advertising of FDA approved drugs; or the claim is used by advocacy groups in public education programs to 'bust the stigma;' the FDA does nothing.  

It is clear the FDA uses it's regulatory authority to regulate non-life threatening 'risks' of nutritional supplements, and raw food, while it simultaneously neglects it's duty to protect people from the  false claims made in order to illegally market FDA approved drugs.  Even when the drugs do not correct an identified metaphorical imbalance, or effectively treat an illusory disease.  All of this is evidence that the FDA is abdicating it's mission and it's protective, regulatory duty. Failing to hold drug and medical device makers and their professional KOL's accountable for their unethical tactics, gives the false claims a patina of legitimacy. Worse, failing to warn the public about serious risks of disabling and fatal effects of the drugs, and devices, the FDA is in fact complicit, an active participant in an ongoing criminal enterprise.  In effect, and in fact, the FDA is the only authority which can regulate or approve the content of Direct to Consumer advertising, and the labels of FDA approved drugs and medical products, and their uses---but utterly fails to do so.  A massive amount of Medicaid and Medicare  fraud has been perpetrated with the FDA, federally-funded academic researchers, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry aiding and abetting the human rights crimes which are victimizing vulnerable people and defrauding pulicly funded programs to pay for it all...

Christina Walko Alleges Forced Outpatient Psychiatric Drugging in Pennsylvania

This MindFreedom International member, Christina Walko of Pennsylvania, is being forced to take many psychiatric drugs on an outpatient basis, even though she is living peacefully in the community. She says, "People do not heal when they are bullied or forced!" Her hearing is this Friday, 27 January 2012. Please take action.

Christina Walko says Pennsylvania is forcing her to take multiple psychiatric drugs on an outpatient basis.

Enough Is Enough! 

Southwestern Pennsylvania Human Services is Bullying Me to Take Psychiatric Drugs Forever

by Christina Walko

I have spent more than 20 years of my life trying to understand and navigate both the real world and the mental health worlds, often on myriads of prescribed psychiatric drugs. This gave me much confusion and also a "created dependency." 

Now, at 43, I am way older and wiser. I am more well in thinking and wanting to know what life really is before its too late. I want out of of this vicious cycle. 

But the mental health system won't let me. I have yet to really live yet, and am so tired of "sleepwalking" through my life on psychiatric pills!

Currently, I am under forced outpatient treatment and drugging by the Washington County, Pennsylvania mental health system with the A.C.T. program - "Assertive Community Treatment." This is a mobile unit that can come out to your house, thus bringing the mental ward to you, with your pills and injections. 

My Mental Health Care: Humiliating and Degrading

My experience with A.C.T. has been disappointing, at times humiliating. A.C.T.'s imbalance of power has made me feel degraded and frustrated my feelings of confidence, dignity, respect and security. I am experiencing iatrogenic (treatment-induced) symptoms as I have in times before with other mental health organizations. 

Here in my home in Charleroi, Pennsylvania, I am court-ordered to take:

1. Monthly injections of Invega Sustenna (156 mg), a long-acting 'antipsychotic' neuroleptic drug
2. Abilify 15 mg (another 'antipsychotic' neuroleptic drug)
3. Geodon 240 mg (a third 'antipsychotic' neuroleptic drug)
4. Levetiracetam 1000 mg (mood stabilizer)

I have had major emotional problems at times. Many mishaps in my life that led me to mental health's attention came about from being on pills that my system would not tolerate, or from being stressed and sleep-deprived, or a combination of both. However, the mental health system would rather label me as "severely mentally ill" and keep me in its clutches, than try to fix the mess they made. 

I am court-ordered to go to a drug/alcohol group, in which, I would like to, over time, detox from psych drugs. To me psych drugs are still drugs, all dangerous in long-term use. But, instead of seeing my viewpoint, I am given another label as "addict" though I never use street drugs and rarely alcohol. The pills themselves and the State of Pennsylvania -- not God or myself -- have control over me. Knowing this is just overwhelming and unnerving and brings on anxiety symptoms. 

The two hospitalizations directly before my involuntary drugging were horrid. Fortunately I, unlike most of the other patients, am experienced in this and was able to do all my own finances, keep my apartment and not have them appoint me a "payee," so I've kept some aspects of my life as my own. 

It is a small miracle that I can still walk, talk and chew gum through all that was done to me, some of which is too traumatic and fresh to even talk about. I want to keep all of my sense of self that I can - including health and appearance. 

My Request For Voluntary Mental Health Services

My pastor has been counseling me. We believe in wellness and healing and recovery - not just "forever treatment." Several of my friends have been indispensable in this matter. 

I ask for support from other psychiatric survivors in this also. If you can help, please email me at rainbowsend2@live.com

One of my requests to get back to work through the State Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, as I was previously. A.C.T. will not allow this. Without harassment by the mental health system I could be ready to work very soon.

At my hearing, I request regular doctor/therapist outpatient treatment. However in order for healing to begin it must be voluntary. 

People do not heal when they are bullied or forced. 

MindFreedom International Shield Action: 

Please contact Christina's county mental health system and the Governor of Pennsylvania. 

Sample message (your own words are best):

"I read allegations that the Assertive Community Treatment (A.C.T.) team for Washington County Southwestern Pennsylvania Human Services (SPHS) is abusing an American citizen, Christina Walko. She said she is being forced to take a number of powerful psychiatric drugs against her will, even though she is living peacefully out in the community in her own residence. 

"Ms. Walko maintains that she is not being offered common sense voluntary non-drug help and advocacy. Please give Christina Walko choice about her mental health care. Please immediately investigate these serious charges about abuse, violations to her life and liberty, and waste of taxpayer money."

Contact:

Washington County SPHS ACT Team

75 East Maiden Street

Washington, PA 15301

Phone: 724-222-2687

Web feedback form: http://bit.ly/wash-county-mh

[note: if this form doesn't work, try a different browser]

Email: postmaster@sphs.org

Additional action: 

Contact Scott A. Berry, Administrative Management Supervisor at Washington Communities Mental Health, at 724-228-6832

Additional action: 

Contact Governor of Pennsylvania Tom Corbett 

phone: (717) 787-2500 

web form: http://bit.ly/penn-gov

or email directly to: Governor@pa.gov

Constitutional Rights Violations Committed Under Color of Law in Washington State

First posted July 19, 2011 but the post was high-jacked and I am re-posting here verbatim.  "Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks -- no form of government can render us secure. To suppose liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men. So that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them." James Madison, Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, June 20, 1788 This post consists of email communications between myself and Yakima County Commissioners and employees; State Legislators, and Department of Social and Health Services employees.
To: "Moorhead, Ronald (DSHS/HRSA/DBHR)"
Mr.Moorhead, My brother Mark called my yesterday evening to see what was going to be done about the errors that made in Isaac's care.  He echoed my concern that this series of mistakes be thoroughly addressed with the result being that the court record be expunged and all notifications be made to erase this egregious misapplication of the commitment statute.  Justice Powell delivered the opinion of the Court: “Written submissions do not afford the flexibility of oral presentations; they do not permit the recipient to mold his argument to the issues the decision maker appears to regard as important. Particularly where credibility and veracity are at issue, … written submissions are a wholly unsatisfactory basis for decision.” And in the U.S. Supreme Court case Joint Anti-Fascist Comm. v. McGrath, 341 U.S. 123, 168 (1951) (Frankfurter, J., concurring), Mr. Justice Burton, speaking for the court, stated that: "The right to be heard before being condemned to suffer grievous loss of any kind, even though it may not involve the stigma and hardships of a criminal conviction, is a principle basic to our society." This type of court order does carry a stigma of being labeled and entered into a tracking system.  The rules promulgated to effect the recently expanded involuntary commitment statute were not developed with any formerly committed individuals; and I bet without any individuals with the diagnoses that are most likely to be at risk for having these orders obtained against. (I mean on their behalf)   Respectfully, Becky Murphy -- ...choose for yourself this day whom you will serve...Joshua 24:15

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Moorhead, Ronald (DSHS/HRSA/DBHR)	Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:04 AM
To: Rebecca Murphy
Good morning Ms. Murphy, yes,  procedural due process rights are mandatory in civil as well as criminal cases.  The Fifth and fourteenth amendments of the U.S. Constitution require it.  This one of the things we will be discussing today at our meeting.  Thanks! from Rebecca Murphy  to Steven Hill  date Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:04 AM subject Human Services mailed-by gmail.com Mr. Hill: In your letter to me dated August 18 you directed me to take up my complaints about CWCMH employees with Rick Weaver, CEO of CWCMH.  I would have already done that before speaking to you if I believed that my concerns would be taken seriously as you and Mr. Weaver profess they in fact would be.  My belief is based on contact with this agency off and on since 1993.  As a member of GCBH RSN, Yakima County has you, the Director of Human Services' to serve as a gatekeeper; to ensure the public trust is maintained.  It is in fact your signature on these very contracts.  To me, that means that as a public servant you have a duty to make sure the laws, policies and procedures which govern these contracted programs and services are upheld by contractors.  The following is from a report done by Clegg & Associates for Benton Franklin Human Resources. The italics are mine. There is a common belief that contracting for service delivery will increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve quality because of the competition gained from making use of non-public providers. There’s no clear evidence in the literature that contracting provides inherently more effective or less effective services. Efficiencies may be gained by contracting through nonprofit organizations because of differing pay scales. There may, however, be concerns about the service delivery and meeting the needs of clients and the community. The possible pros and cons of contracting identified include: Potential pros: Increased flexibility resulting from a reduction of bureaucratic complexity and procedures Reduced costs resulting from lower pay scales for non-public providers or if a competitive process rewards the lowest bids Greater ability of director to manage employees and personnel issues Potential cons: Relinquishment of public responsibility for public funds Profit motivations to cream easy-to-serve or likely successful clients and minimize costs Reduction in service Funneling clients into other agency programs Public’s loss of ability to address issues and concerns Among the county human service directors interviewed, there was agreement that regardless of whether a county delivers services or contracts for them with community-based providers, the onus of responsibility in terms of assuring quality services remains with the government (county) in the public’s eye and in reality. As one county human services director summarized, “There may be cost savings. However, there is a public mandate for provision of services and a need to deliver the best services possible. You want to move the funds into the community for service delivery, but not hand over responsibility. You don’t do this business to make money. Private businesses are driven to make a profit, so when they talk about gaining efficiencies that make them less expensive, it’s usually at the expense of the client.” The key factors related to success in both the public or non-profit arenas appear to be clear goals and objectives, accountability for results, and established criteria for contracts and contract monitoring. Also, I am puzzled because this same report refers to Yakima County having recently taken back from a contractor the involuntary commitment program.  The report was written in 2007and I would like to know who had the contract prior to the County taking it back; and when and to whom it was then awarded?   Respectfully,  Becky Murphy -- ...choose for yourself this day whom you will serve...Joshua 24:15

Steven Hill	Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:08 PM
To: Rebecca Murphy
Has been sent to attorney Steve Hill Director Yakima County Department of Human Services 509-574-1520 On Aug 24, 2010, at 1:59 PM, "Rebecca Murphy" <yobluemama@gmail.com> wrote: > Mr. Hill the last email I sent you ended with me requesting > information about the contract to provide involuntary treatment > services.  Please respond.  Thank You. > Becky Murphy > > -- > ...choose for yourself this day whom you will serve...Joshua 24:15

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Rebecca Murphy	Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 2:38 PM
To: Steven Hill
A simple request for what should be information available to any citizen of Yakima County is forwarded to your attorney?  What is there to hide? On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Rebecca Murphy <yobluemama@gmail.com> wrote: Mr. Hill the last email I sent you ended with me requesting information about the contract to provide involuntary treatment services.  Please respond.  Thank You. Becky Murphy -- ...choose for yourself this day whom you will serve...Joshua 24:15 Rebecca Murphy Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:47 PM To: Kevin Bouchey Mr. Bouchey, This is not the conduct expected and accepted of employees and contract service providers, is it? I wondered if you are informed about this travesty?  My son was robbed of his civil rights when he sought to be hospitalized voluntarily.  Nancy Sherman, DMHP, forged a document, and offered perjured testimony in her petition, and failed to "attach" as she testifies said document.  this fraudulently obtained court order was then extended by Dr. Jeffery Jennings, a quack who is employed by CWCMH.  CWCMH staff tells me that the court clerk lost it, "they do it all the time."  This is a ridiculous statement.  I have never seen such  unprofessional, unethical and illegal behavior (in the name of cover your ass) as I have seen exhibited by Nancy Sherman, DMHP, CWCMH; Dr. Jeffery Jennings, CWCMH; Rick Weaver, CEO CWCMH; Steve Hill, Director of Human Services, Yakima County; Dan Polage, Deputy District Attorney; and Jennifer Lesmez, Assigned Council.  I have filed complaints with every law enforcement agency which address the crimes committed.  Yakima Police Department, FBI, and Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights.    You should know that Isaac Murphy chose to get his mental health services in Benton County almost a year ago.  He made this decision because he did not believe his doctor, Dr. Phillip Rodenberger, listened to him.  We have been driving 80 miles to get mental health services for Isaac all of 2010.  These mental health "professionals" do not display the conduct deserving of the title nor the  respect implied.   Respectfully, Becky Murphy "I believe we must speak our conscience in moments that demand it, even if we are but one voice." Richard Sanders, Washington State Supreme Court Justice On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Kevin Bouchey

Informs me he is aware of my concerns and is monitoring the situation!   Rebecca Murphy Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:59 AM To: Kevin Bouchey Mr. Bouchey, I want you to be aware that I have been told that all hard copies of the paperwork generated by CWCMH in the Emergency commitment of my son have been destroyed. I was told they were shredded. This is highly illegal. I am still amazed that this agency apparently has no respect for the contract they have with Yakima County, or the laws of the State of Washington. I realize that I requested what may seem to some, outrageous demands to correct the conditions and hold accountable individuals who failed to maintain ethical standards and or duties in regards to contracts and the law in the involuntary commitment of my son, Isaac. Please know this is only the latest debacle that CWCMH and Yakima County Human Services have created and or caused by failing to do what is required ethically and morally in Isaac's care. To say I am tired of the lack of accountability, would be like saying Mother Theresa was a little bit Catholic. Isaac was in Child Study and Treatment Center for 2 years after he no longer need to be there because Steve Hill failed to do his job. His care for that period cost close to a half a million dollar! Ultimately, Catholic Community Services out of Pierce County facilitated his return home, because CWCMH refused, as it had no interest in abiding by it's contract with Yakima County. That CWCMH has been allowed to abdicate their contractual obligation to the most needy of Yakima County's youth for decades under Steve Hill's watch is criminal. I have lived in this community since 1993. I moved here because I was born here and believed I would be able to recover and help my child heal from the trauma he experienced in foster care. Isaac was repeatedly beaten and locked in a closet. The woman who did this to my precious boy, killed 4 babies in this state as a foster parent. That was the beginning of his life-long difficulties. A system that should have bent over backwards to address the serious harm done my son while in it's care made me fight for what help I did get for him. To say that it has been a long road would not truly describe the affront to my sense of decency; the belief that given an opportunity people will do the right thing is gone. I trust God, but some of his people disgust me. That I have been maligned because I have and will name names and report events in which public servants/employees fail to do what is required, is not what bothers me. What bothers me is my son was and continues to be victimized by those who are purporting to act in his best interest and for the public good. I was raised to by moral people who taught me the meaning of integrity. My Dad was a farmer and my parents raised 13 children. My Dad was active in the Farm Bureau and the GOP and many times went to the State Legislature to advocate for farmers, families and children. The most important lesson I learned from my Dad is no matter what anybody else does--have integrity:"you can't make the right thing happen by doing something wrong." My point, I hope, is obvious: If in fact employees of CWCMH were trying to do the "right thing," why did they have break so many rules, policies, and ignore the law? They made a mockery of the Yakima County prosecutor's office, and the Yakima County Superior Court. I wish to remind you that my son, Isaac wanted to go to the hospital. He has never refused to take medication as prescribed.  Here are what other's have said about involuntary commitment: "The mental health establishment has snowed the American people: it launches the most unimaginable brutal psychological and physical assault on human beings in distress, calls this 'medical treatment', and then blames the outcome on 'mental illness'. Seth Farber, PhD "Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on." Pat Schroeder, U.S. Representative, 1992 "...legal systems have been established in a majority of states for involuntary and compulsory hospitalization and treatment of neurosis. These state laws have been based on a prototype bill published originally by the Federal Security Agency of the Public Health Service, now a part of the Department of Health, Education & Welfare. Entitled a Draft Act Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill, it is, in fact, a skeleton bill designed for adoption uniformly by federal, state, and territorial governments to radically alter commitment procedures... if you won't consent to voluntary treatment, a police officer can arrest you. You can be subjected to 3 to 5 days of treatment of the psychiatrist's choosing before you even get a hearing to protect your rights in most states. Treatment can include electric shock treatments, chemotherapy, hypnosis or conceivably a frontal lobotomy... Basically, all that is necessary to revoke all the constitutional rights of any citizen is to accuse him of being mentally-ill." John A. Stormer, "None Dare Call it Treason" This last one is from the Washington State Supreme Court Justice Sanders: "Deprivation of these statutory rights in the context of such a massive curtailment of liberty as commitment to a mental institution also constitutes a deprivation of that process due under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution because the deprivation is without lawful authority," Justice Richard Sanders How many others have been Involuntarily Committed by CWCMH when seeking to be hospitalized? I am certain my son was not singled out. I suspect they are not used to having their petitions even questioned--not even by assigned counsel for the accused! Respectfully, Becky Murphy "I believe we must speak our conscience in moments that demand it, even if we are but one voice." Richard Sanders notification Rebecca Murphy  Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:37 PM  To: "Moorhead, Ronald (DSHS/HRSA/DBHR)"  Mr. Moorhead, I am indeed saddened by the lack of accountability exhibited by so many. I will indeed take your advice and follow up with the RSN. However, I am also taking the advice of others who advise that a complaint with HHS Office of Civil Rights and a report to the FBI of the crime of forgery among others is also necessary. I am now in possession of the documents that allow me to know that Nancy Sherman, and Dr. Jeffery Jennings broke the law, and did not follow the policies and procedures established by GCBH in their contract with CWCMH to ensure the involuntary commitment law is implemented lawfully. I am telling you this because the HHS complaint form asks if I have reported this matter to any one prior to filing the complaint, and I will need to share that I reported it to you and the FBI. The differences in the court paperwork provided my son at the hospital, the paperwork he got from his attorney, and the copy of the entire court record he obtained from the clerk of the Superior court have major differences. The most glaring is that what Isaac was given was paltry, nothing close to what the law requires--copies of all documents. That he had to pay .50 a page to obtain the entire record on file with the court is ridiculous to say the least. Isaac was given 13 pages of documents, 29 pages were filed with the court, and there were 31 pages in the record he received from his attorney. The witness list and the forged document, Witness Statement form MHP-7 (7/01) were not filed with the court , but were in fact part of the record his attorney had. On the petition for the 72 Emergency Detainment Nancy Sherman testified that she gave me verbal notice and that this "witness statement" is attached to her petition. It is obvious to me that it is not accidental that these 3 pages are not part of the court record. Given the conversations both Nathan, Isaac's brother, and I had with Isaac's Assigned Counsel, Jennifer Lesmez, and the fact she was in possession of a copy of the forged document and the witness list are evidence to me she put on NO defense for my son. The deputy Prosecutor, Dan Polage was also in possession of these documents. Both he and Dr. Jennings were required by law to notify me of the hearing that took place on August 2nd and failed to do so. Central Washington Comprehensive Mental Health is also required by law to keep the original documents on file until the expiration of the court order. Isaac and I were informed that all documents have been shredded. It is policy I am told. I have filed a complaint with the Department of Justice Office of Civil Rights, Criminal Division. I have also forwarded my complaint to the Governor's office.  Forgery, purgery, prosecutorial and defense counsel misconduct are actions that are not excusable. And as for the RSN, the ombudman tells me that they can do nothing about the court order--they have no authority. I have to protect my son from the mental health professionals and the representatives our society entrusts to implement programs, policies and procedures and the laws from whence they are derived. I would much rather just take care of my son's daily needs. The mistreatment of my son by employees of the State of Washington, Yakima County and Central Washington Comprehensive Mental Health is being read by people all aver the globe. It is still my hope that maybe for the first time, somebody will do the right thing. Respectfully, Becky Murphy -- ...choose for yourself this day whom you will serve...Joshua 24:15 Moorhead, Ronald (DSHS/HRSA/DBHR) Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:16 AM To: Rebecca Murphy Cc: "Reed, David L. (DSHS/HRSA/DBHR)" , "San Nicolas, Ronald J. (DSHS/HRSA/DBHR)" Ms. Murphy, thank you for your email. If I had not done so before, I would suggest you contact the following organizations and/or agency’s regarding your allegations. You may contact: · The Administrator of the Superior Court of the State of Washington for Yakima County to address the concerns you have your son’s court hearing.  · The Commission on Judicial Conduct re the judge who presided over your son’s case. · The supervisor of Deputy Prosecutor, Dan Polage at the Yakima County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office to explain your concerns to him/her. · You may report your concerns to Jennifer Lesmez’s supervisor too. · The Washington State Bar Association to make a complaint on both Mr. Poage and Ms. Lesmez. DBHR does not have the authority to address the legal issues you speak of below. What the RSN and DBHR can investigate are your concerns regarding how the MH system performed.  RE: gross violation of the law Inbox Reply Johnson, Rep. Norm to me show details Sep 1 Representative Johnson wanted you to know that his office is looking into the issue you described regarding your son and the Crisis Center at Central Washington comprehensive Mental Health. He understands that this is a difficult, strained and disappointing time for you. When we have some information regarding this issue we will be in contact with you. If you have any questions in the meantime please do not hesitate to call Representative Norm Johnson’s office. – 360-786-7810. Sincerely, Michele Smith Senior Legislative Assistant to Representative Norm Johnson Leg 426 A P.O. Box 40600 Olympia, WA 98504 Telephone: 360-786-7810 What do I want you to do? 1 message Rebecca Murphy  Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 7:35 PM To: Representative Norm Johnson Cc: Senator Curtis King , Representative Charles Ross Mr. Johnson, I spoke with a member of your staff today who asked me more three times what do I want you to do about the crimes that were perpetrated against my son by Nancy Sherman, Dr. Jeffery Jennings, Deputy District Attorney Dan Polage, and Assigned Counsel Jennifer Lesmez. Well I would have thought it would be obvious. I guess I just believed based on the the experiences I had in seeking assistance from Jim Clements, former Representative of the 14th District, and former Senator Alex Deccio; that I would be heard, and REPRESENTED---get a phone call from a single one of you men who I voted for! As to what specific remedy you and Senator King, and Charles Ross can assist with I can honestly say I did not expect you to "solve" this problem. I can tell you that I have been aware for years that CWCMH as a matter of course breaks the law, violates the ethics guidelines of the medical profession, violates individual civil rights, ignores the need for informed consent, does not provide client-directed services, as Medicaid guidelines require. I am horrified that this agency is to lead the effort to transform the mental health service system for children in Yakima County. Obviously that decision was made by "professionals" that are members of the good old boy network: Steve Hill, Director of Human Services and Rick Weaver, CEO of CWCMH are two men who wouldn't know an ethics guideline or a Conflict of Interest were if they were planted on their faces. I know 3 people that when I met them had no physical or cognitive disabilities, that now do as a result to getting "treatment" from Comprehensive. They have the awful "side effects" of tardive diskenesia and cognitive impairment that are known to be caused by antipsychotics. These people are my friends who no longer have the ability to take care of themselves as they once did. Make no mistake, the psychosis that is part of their diagnosis does not cause cognitive impairment or the debilitating awful grimacing, jaw thrusting and trunk twisting that is tardive diskenesia. They are in fact evidence of neurological/brain damage that these drugs cause. Add to that diabetes, and 25 years taken off the average life span for patients "treated" with antipsychotic drugs and what you have is the standard outcome. This is the "treatment" that the State of Washington now sentences people to by the court orders that demand these drugs be given by force of law. I personally believe that the stigma attached to a diagnosis of mental illness was spawned in the psychiatric community--unethical practioners who aid the pharmaceutical industry in perpetrating this fraud on the American People. If Legislators are interested in cutting the cost of mental heath services, require that Medicaid guidelines be followed--Services need to be Client-Directed, Informed Consent needs to be given more than lip service--it needs to actually occur; and evidence-based treatments be provided. Antipsychotics and other psychotropic drugs are not Evidenced Based Treatments. They have been the standard. They have been most often used treatment; and frequently the only treatment provided those diagnosed with mental illness; but make no mistake, that is not what constitutes evidenced based practice. Respectfully, Becky Murphy Complaint investigation information Moorhead, Ronald (DSHS/HRSA/DBHR) Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:29 PM To: Rebecca Murphy Cc: "Weston, David B. (DSHS/HRSA/DBHR)" Good afternoon Ms. Murphy,  it was nice to talk to you the other day.  I want to inform you that the Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) will review the following issues when we investigate your  complaint: ·         If your son was notified of his patient rights prior to his 14 day detention and 90 day Less restrictive Agreement; and, ·         If he was ever offered a less restrictive alternative.  Before we investigate the complaint I would like to hear from your son to see if he wishes us to proceed with the complaint.   If your son wishes for DBHR to proceed,we may be able to review  this complaint within the next 45 days from the time he notifies us. Sincerely, Ron Moorhead Ron Moorhead, Incident/Complaint Manager, Certification Section Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery Post Office Box 45330 Olympia, Washington 98504-5330 Telephone: (360) 725-3752; Fax: (360) 586-0343 E-mail moorhre@dshs.wa.gov Rebecca Murphy Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 7:36 AM To: "Moorhead, Ronald (DSHS/HRSA/DBHR)" Good morning Mr. Moorhead, I am seriously disappointed in yesterday's email I received from you.  In my complaint, I have been very specific about what laws were broken, and by whom.  The "investigation" you are proposing addresses not a single one of my many complaints.  Constitutional laws were broken as well as State laws about how the Involuntary Treatment Act is  to be implemented or that it excludes people who are willing to accept treatment.  That my son was willing there is no doubt--He waited for 2 hours for his expensive ride to the Hospital at taxpayer expense.  He never tried to leave, prior to discharge; and he took all meds that were given, even the one that Dr. Jennings prescribed at twice the previous dose.  He cooperated with providing samples of blood and urine.  In fact, he was surprised to learn he was under a court order.  He did not know that the papers he signed meant that he was under a court order.  He can not understand why a court order was necessary.  I am disgusted with the lack of real on response from DSHS.  My belief is, at this juncture, is that the law does not protect a young man who because of iatragenic effects of his treatment, is limited to protect himself.  As Dr. Jeffery Jennings observed in his discharge summary, medicated, Isaac appears to be DD.  My son had a 176 IQ at 7, before he was drugged into being gravely disabled.  I have his general and medical powers of Attorney as it is not in Isaac's best interest to know that people lied, forged documents and used these lies and forged documents to slander and deny him procedural due process, and lied to his mother.  People who had never met him, did not speak to his current treatment team, did not speak to anyone who knew Isaac, or know what his level of functioning, day to day family life, or even accurately document information in CWCMH records of his medications upon leaving this agency.   Yes, Isaac was given his rights as a patient and he was informed of his right to refuse medications before the Kangaroo court hearings were held.   As to the being informed of the less restrictive alternative, or understanding what in fact was the purpose of having an attorney, or what the significance of giving up his rights to a jury trial--or any other rights--he signed what the state's devil's advocate, Jennifer Lesmez asked him to, so she would leave him alone.  What he understood was that he wanted to be left alone, and he knew if he did as he was asked, he would be left alone.  Isaac has never refused medication, has never resisted taking it as prescribed.   His level of functioning is well documented in CWCMH records for over two years ending October 27, 2009--it is frightening that two people who are on the staff of this mental health provider thought that taking advantage of his cognitive impairment to further stigmatize him using an acts of forgery, perjury, repeated lies, bad judgement and the unethical practice of medicine.  I assisted Isaac with paperwork the entire time of his getting services there, as I do in all his care still.  That the only reason cited as the reason the 90 LRA was needed and granted is, "To maintain the ethical integrity of the medical profession."  As if Dr. Jennings showed any ethical integrity!     It is ludicrous that because my son went along and signed documents that were placed before him by his own attorney, who claims he understood, but obviously had no experience with or personal knowledge about Isaac on which to base this judgement that she offered as testimony supporting his loss of liberty, instead of defending his liberty as was her duty!.  By August 6th she should have been cognizant that all was not as it appeared on these court documents; that I not only did not know about a petition to court order my son, I did not sign an affidavit in support of this criminal proceeding!  So once again, Isaac Murphy was not only deprived the protection of the United States Constitution, the mental health providers he sought assistance from, the State of Washington, an effective assistance of counsel, but once again, he was denied the protection of his own mother.    Your email does nothing to address the issues that I raised in my complaint about my son's "treatment."  That you did not even address the fact that CWMH claims to have shredded the original documents relating to this proceeding.  It sure is strange that this mental health agency claims to have not maintained it's files lawfully.  The two questions you raised in regards to patient rights to types of treatment and the right to refuse, were in fact the responsibility of Memorial Hospital staff--I raised no issue in regards to Memorial Hospital or it's staff or the care Isaac received from anyone but CWCMH staff, Nancy Sherman and Jeffery Jennings.   RCW 71.05.520 The department of social and health services shall have the responsibility to determine whether all rights of individuals recognized and guaranteed by the provisions of this chapter and the Constitutions of the state of Washington and the United States are in fact protected and effectively secured. To this end, the department shall assign appropriate staff who shall from time to time as may be necessary have authority to examine records, inspect facilities, attend proceedings, and do whatever is necessary to monitor, evaluate, and assure adherence to such rights. Such persons shall also recommend such additional safeguards or procedures as may be appropriate to secure individual rights set forth in this chapter and as guaranteed by the state and federal Constitutions. [1973 1st ex.s. c 142 § 57.] By failing to act on my complaint the State of Washington has failed in it's duty to Isaac Murphy. I want to know who the "appropriate staff assigned to ...assure adherence to such rights" is.  Name, phone number, address and email please. Respectfully,  Becky Murphy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The above section of is what defines DSHS responsibility and grants the authority to investigate!  This is to protect my son and others who are involuntarily committed.

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Rebecca Murphy	Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 9:04 AM
To: kellore@dshs.wa.gov
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Rebecca Murphy <yobluemama@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:59 AM Subject: CWCMH To: Kevin Bouchey <kevin.bouchey@co.yakima.wa.us> Mr. Bouchey, I want you to be aware that I have been told that all hard copies of the paperwork generated by CWCMH in the Emergency commitment of my son have been destroyed.  I was told they were shredded.  This is highly illegal.  I am still amazed that this agency apparently has no respect for the contract they have with Yakima County, or the laws of the State of Washington.   I realize that I requested what may seem to some, outrageous demands to correct the conditions and hold accountable individuals who failed to maintain ethical standards and or duties in regards to contracts and the law in the involuntary commitment of my son, Isaac. Please know this is only the latest debacle that CWCMH and Yakima County Human Services have created and or caused by failing to do what is required ethically and morally in Isaac's care.  To say I am tired of the lack of accountability, would be like saying Mother Theresa was a little bit Catholic.  Isaac was in Child Study and Treatment Center for 2 years after he no longer need to be there because Steve Hill failed to do his job.  His care for that period was almost a quarter of a million dollars!   Ultimately, Catholic Community Services out of Pierce County facilitated his return home.  That CWCMH has been allowed to abdicate their contractual obligation to the most needy of Yakima County's youth for decades under Steve Hill's watch is criminal. I have lived in this community since 1993.  I moved here because I was born here and believed I would be able to recover and help my child heal from the trauma he experienced in foster care.  Isaac was repeatedly beaten and locked in a closet. The woman who did this to my precious boy, killed 4 babies in this state as a foster parent.  That was the beginning of his so far life-long difficulties.  A system that should have bent over backwards to address the serious harm done my son while in it's care made me fight for what help I did get for him.  To say that it has been a long road would not truly describe the affront to my sense of decency; the belief that given an opportunity people will do the right thing is gone.  I trust God, but some of his people disgust me.  That I have been maligned because I have and will name names and report events which public servants/employees fail to do what is required is not what bothers me.  What bothers me is my son was and continues to be victimized by those who are purporting to act in his best interest and for the public good.   I was raised to by moral people who taught me the meaning of integrity.  My Dad was a farmer who raised 13 children.  He was active in the Farm Bureau and the GOP and many times went to the State Legislature to advocate for farmers, families and children.  The most important lesson I learned from my Dad was no matter what anybody else does--have integrity:"you can't make the right thing happen by doing something wrong." My point, I hope, is obvious:  If in fact employees of CWCMH were trying to do the "right thing," why did they have break so many rules, policies, and ignore the law?  They made a mockery of the Yakima County prosecutor's office, and the Yakima County Superior Court.  I wish to remind you that my son, Isaac wanted to go to the hospital.  He has never refused to take medication as prescribed.   Here are what other's have said about involuntary commitment: "The mental health establishment has snowed the American people: it launches the most unimaginable brutal psychological and physical assault on human beings in distress, calls this 'medical treatment', and then blames the outcome on 'mental illness'.  Seth Farber, PhD "Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on." Pat Schroeder, U.S. Representative, 1992 "...legal systems have been established in a majority of states for involuntary and compulsory hospitalization and treatment of neurosis. These state laws have been based on a prototype bill published originally by the Federal Security Agency of the Public Health Service, now a part of the Department of Health, Education & Welfare. Entitled a Draft Act Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill, it is, in fact, a skeleton bill designed for adoption uniformly by federal, state, and territorial governments to radically alter commitment procedures... if you won't consent to voluntary treatment, a police officer can arrest you. You can be subjected to 3 to 5 days of treatment of the psychiatrist's choosing before you even get a hearing to protect your rights in most states. Treatment can include electric shock treatments, chemotherapy, hypnosis or conceivably a frontal lobotomy... Basically, all that is necessary to revoke all the constitutional rights of any citizen is to accuse him of being mentally-ill."  John A. Stormer, "None Dare Call it Treason" This last one is from the Washington State Supreme Court Justice Sanders: "Deprivation of these statutory rights in the context of such a massive curtailment of liberty as commitment to a mental institution also constitutes a deprivation of that process due under the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution because the deprivation is without lawful authority," Justice Richard Sanders wrote in the unanimous opinion. How many others have been Involuntarily Committed by CWCMH when seeking to be hospitalized?  I am certain my son was not singled out.  I suspect they are not used to having their petitions even questioned--not even by assigned counsel for the accused! Respectfully, Becky Murphy "I believe we must speak our conscience in moments that demand it, even if we are but one voice." Richard Sanders