I got a copy of the report of the shrink's notes from my bougus psych hospitaliziation last year. I've copied and pasted this so as to keep typing it over and over. It seems like my shrink really believed I was pychotic by the report so to me it's the hospital's fault then for admitting me on less.
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I don't know whether or not you remember about all the trouble I had in the old neighborhood last year that I moved from just this past January. Well, my ex-next door neighbor made my life hell harrassing me and then my landlord seemed to join in because I had taken him to court for flea infestation. I was admitted to a pysch hospital within a regular hospital for bogus treatment instead of being treated for high blood pressure like I had gone there for. The shrink did not believe me when I told him about my old neighbors and the landlord harrassing me. The shrink thought I was delusional according to his notes. I had made the joke, well, just put me in Tuckers, the psych unit. So next thing I knew I was being asked questions by an intake nurse like if I was suicidal or had thoughts of hurting anyone. I told her no and then she asked me if I have ever had any fleeting thoughts in the past of hurting myself and I said, "well, I suppose I have." Next thing I know I was in the psych ward. Since then I have been billed $1,100 for an over night stay. Now I am fighting back and have an organization that may investigate it. I also am still busy collecting evidence in my favor like a police record of the old neighborhood, court record of me taking my landlord to court and such which resulted in harrassment by the landlord. In the shrinks nortes he talks about how I told him I was being harrassed by my landlord because I complained about fleas the previous summer. I also told him how my apartment was almost broken into and such which it was. This is whe the police record will prove I was telling the truth. The shrink stated in his notes that what I was saying I kept insisting it was the truth like he didn't believe me.
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Since typing that I have received by email a police report of 911 calls to my old neighborhood in the past year. In just one year there were around 176 calls made to 911 from the small apartment complex where I lived. Ten of those calls were made for breaking and entering. I had told the shrink that my apartment was almost broken into and he didn't believe me. My shrink made me out to be paranoid and delusional in what I told him when in reality it was all true. I will be picking up the police report of the time my old apartment was almost broken into.

I know this is long but the thing I want to bring out in the open is how when someone is labled with a mental illness that they are not taken seriously. And in most cases that is usually all the time. Because my shrink had taps on my disagnosis he jumped to conclusions that what I was telling him were nothing but delusional thinking. It resulted in a $1,100 bill to me that I don't believe i should have to pay when they didn't act in my opinion with a real reason to admit me. And from some of the responses in this post I can see that not being taken seriously is not a problem only I have experienced. What in the world can we do to stop this kind of injustice?

barbara