I went back in time in my mind to attempt to restructure when the brutal
criminally insane American psychiatrists first started to turn the same
type of mental health care human rights abuses as I have been fighting a
lifetime to wipe out against me.
My senior year of medical in
Hawaii at Kapiolani Children's Center in Honolulu where I did an
elective in Child Psychiatry I did not prescribe one drug for one of the
kids and I did not put down one definitive diagnosis of anything on the
charts. If it appeared the kids were having some problems in their
lives I talked with them pleasantly about some nice things they might be
interested in, such as the beach, played with them, and even finger
painted with them.
My senior year back at Jefferson Medical
College in Philadelphia I took a Psych ER elective. I released every
patient that did not want to be there as long as they were not wanted
for a major crime, such as murder or rape, and as long as they did not
express any desires to commit any serious crimes.
During a month
working as an intern at Temple University in Philadelphia I was starting
to feel pretty sad that I was being ordered by Dr Steinhouse, the
Residency Director, who is still there, to tie most of the patients up
against their desires and force them to have electric shock treatments
every morning. Dr Steinhouses disgusting attitudes about human rights of
the patients and his arrogance in dealing with me lead me to quit.
During
a one month period during an internship at Maricopa Medical Center in
Phoenix, Arizona I again let go as many patients as I possibly could. I
remember a motor cycle rider wearing a black leather jacket brought in
by the police, who I guess wanted me to put him in a hospital for
evaluation. He wanted to simply get back out in the fresh air and
soar away on his motor cycle. He was not charged with any crimes aside
from speeding and he had no interest in committing any crimes. I told
him to please try to follow the speed limit and that I couldn't help him
if he lost his drivers license over that, wished him well, shook his
hand, and told him to get out there and enjoy the open road!
Late
one Saturday night there was a middle aged guy being held in a strait
jacket on the second floor at Maricopa Medical Center. He was virtually
in tears from the pain and humiliation from all of this. I read his
chart and realized he had actually done nothing much aside from maybe
raising his voice in some type of debate or argument. I asked him if he
wanted to be in the hospital or if he was planning to hurt anyone. He
said no and I ordered the strait jacket taken off of him and I signed
the release papers, shook his hand and wished him good luck. I told him he could call me if he wanted to talk about anything at anytime.
There
was another patient who was being held under a judges order even though
he had not committed any crimes. He was a teen. In this case his family
was fighting for him, not against him. His mom called me and asked
how we could over-ride the judges order and get her son out of that
place. I suggested perhaps a call to the governors office might work in
opening up an investigation because I did not ask for the judges
order and I could not over-ride the judges order. And so I placed a call
to previous Governor Babbit's office about this case to try to have the
kid released.
Clearly, the American psychiatrists, who have
demonstrated their thirst for holding, drugging, humiliating, beating,
isolating, labeling, handcuffing, stigmatizing, and committing as many
people as possible have been furious at my initiatives to bring some
humanity to mental health care and together decided to retaliate against
me by having me enslaved, tortured and slowly murdered by the same type
of brutal mental health care human rights abuses as I have spent a
lifetime fighting to wipe out!
Harold Mandel, MD
MandelNews.com
