Mental Health Affects Everyone, From The Fed, State, Local, Family, Friend, Jail And Church
Some killed or injured law enforcement officers. Some were killed or injured by law enforcement officers. Some killed family friends or strangers. Almost all were off treatment for mental illness at the time.
No doubt that many of these could have been prevented if the individual was receiving appropriate treatment, something Kendra’s Law might have helped to ensure. (Source: Treatment Advocacy Center Preventable Tragedies Database.)
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Date: 2/2010
Location: Bronx, Bronx, NY
Summary: On February 21, 2010, Satnam Singh, 32, was killed by two police who caught him bashing his mother Kaur Balbir, 61, in the head with a frying pan. Singh refused to drop the pan. "Go away! Go away!" Singh screamed at the cops. Singh, sources said, was bipolar, pummeling his mother with a flat pan and Officer Brian McCarthy and an unidentified sergeant fired multiple shots at Singh who died at the scene.
Balbir was taken to Lincoln Hospital, where she was in critical condition with a cracked skull, a fractured left shin and a busted left arm. Source: NY Daily News, 2/22/10
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Date: 5/2010
Location: Manhattan, New York, NY
Summary: On May 11, 2010, 33-year-old Devi Silvia threw her 19-month-old child into the Hudson River before jumping in herself. The girl was hospitalized in critical but stable condition. Silvia was charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.
Silvia entered into an insanity plea deal in December with prosecutors. The judge told Silvia she must continue treatment, stay on her medication and provide status reports to the court. Source: Associated Press, 5/12/10; WABC-TV NY, 6/21/10; New York Post, 6/22/10; DNA Info, 11/21/11, 2/10/12
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Date: 7/2010
Location: Poestenkill, Rensselaer, NY
Summary: On July 13, 2010, 70-year-old Robert Pryor Sr. called his daughter, 49-year-old Laurie Fisher, and his granddaughter’s boyfriend, 24-year-old Anthony Delgado, home from a trip to a local grocery store and then shot them both in the chest as they came through the front door.
Pryor then turned the revolver on himself Authorities believe Pryor may have battled mental illness. Following the shootings, Delgado was in critical condition and Fisher was in serious condition at Albany Medical Center Hospital. Source: TimesUnion.Com, 7/14/10; cbs6albany.com, 7/14/10
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Date: 7/2010
Location: Manhattan, New York C, NY
Summary: On July 19, 2010, 33-year-old Julian Kurita fatally stabbed his father, 70-year-old Fumitaka “Frank” Kurita in the neck in the family's apartment and then slashed his own wrist, police said. Police say he appeared to be mentally disturbed, and neighbors were at a loss to describe what could have sparked a confrontation between father and son.
Julian Kurita left college after a bout with mental illness. She said she believed he had struggled with schizophrenia since his early 20s. He faced murder and weapons charges. Subsequent History: On May 21, 2012, the 30-year-old Kurita was convicted of murder. Source: DNAinfo.com, 7/19/10; NYDailyNews.com, 7/20/10, 5/2/12, 5/21/12
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Date: 7/2010
Location: Buffalo, Erie, NY
Summary: On July 31, 2010, 26-year-old Keith John, an inmate at the Erie County Holding Center, committed suicide. Family members said John was diagnosed with Paranoid Schizophrenia. On July 28, 2010, John was arrested for violating a protective order against his girlfriend. Source: WIVB, 8/02/10; WKBW.com, 8/2/10
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Date: 11/2010
Location: Long Island, Queens, NY
Summary: On November 20, 2010, 48-year-old Thomas Scimone, was armed with a shotgun and threatened to kill firefighters was shot by police as he ran from his burning home. He was in critical condition following the incident. A relative said she believed Scimone was not taking his medication for bipolar disorder.
The incident began when Scimone set a fire in his living room. Police said he then threatened to gun down responding firefighters. He jumped out of a window and ran through the neighborhood with his shotgun. Police gave chase. He didn’t respond to their commands to drop his weapon, rather turned and pointed the shotgun at police who opened fire.
Scimone, died at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center. Source: NY Daily News, 11/21/10; NBCNewYork.com, 11/21/10, 11/26/10
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Date: 9/2010
Location: Greece, Monroe, NY
Summary: On September 29, 2010, 23-year-old Kurt Neusatz fatally stabbed his mother, 53-year-old Monica Neusatz in their home. His family reported he had been treated for schizophrenia since the age of 17. Source: 13WHAM.com, 9/30/10; DemocratandChronicle.com, 12/1/10; Associated Press, 1/4/11; GreecePost.com, 1/4/11
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Date: 5/2011
Location: Syracuse, Onondaga, NY
Summary: On May 5, 2011, 55-year-old Benjamin Campione was fatally shot by police near the Regional Transportation Center. According to police, when Campione was confronted by Officers, he pulled a pellet gun that looked exactly like a Smith & Wesson revolver from his waistband and pointed it at Officers prompting them to open fire.
Campione’s two cousins said he suffered from mental illness and was often homeless, wandering the streets of Syracuse. Campione’s brother said he’d been to police three times in the past year, alerting them that his younger brother wasn’t taking his medication and was slipping deeper into paranoid schizophrenia.
According to the brother, Campione had a history of stopping his medication and acting bizarrely. Source: CYNcentral.com, 5/5/11, 5/8/11; The Post-Standard, 5/7/11
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Date: 2/2011
Location: Syracuse, Onondago, NY
Summary: On February 1, 2011, 19-year-old Ravaun Mitchell was shot by Syracuse police after he refused to drop a knife. On June 29, 2011, a judge ruled that Mitchell was still mentally ill and dangerous. The judge ordered Mitchell held in the secure custody of state mental health officials for the next six months until another evaluation can be conducted. Mitchell’s defense attorney said the February 1 incident was the onset of mental health problems for his client and that Mitchell had responded well while on anti-psychotic medication following the incident. Source: 9WSYR.com, 2/24/11; The Post-Standard, 6/29/11
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Date: 8/2009
Location: Schenectady, Schenectady, NY
Summary: On August 1, 2009, 25-year-old James Tomlin, diagnosed with schizophrenia, was fatally shot by a Schenectady police officer. When officers caught up with him, they tried to get him to drop the knife. When Tomlin lunged at Officer Ed Ritz, Ritz shot him. Tomlin's mother told the DA that her son, diagnosed with schizophrenia, was not on his medication at the time of the incident, according to the report. Source: CapitalRegion.ynn.com, 8/4/09; Times Union, 7/7/11
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Date: 12/2009
Location: Bronx, Bronx, NY
Summary: On December 17, 2009 30-year-old Vladimir Makarov, suffering from depression and paranoia, went to the roof of his grandmother's 24-story building and leapt to his death. Makarov’s suicide occurred only days after he was released from Montefiore Medical Center. Makarov checked into Montefiore on October 29, 2009, following a long hospitalization in Westchester County and prior suicide attempts. He told doctors he was hearing voices commanding him to jump off a building.
When Makarov's family begged his doctors to let him spend Thanksgiving at home, they refused, according to his mother. She was surprised two weeks later when Makarov asked to leave and was discharged on December 9. Subsequent History: On July 8, 2011, Makarov’s mother sued Montefiore Medical Center for letting him leave the hospital's psychiatric unit despite signs he was suicidal.
According to the suit, five days before his discharge, Makarov told doctors, "I lack the will to live. I feel nothing." Then he stopped taking his medication. Source: New York Daily News, 7/19/11
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Date: 8/2011
Location: New York, New York, NY
Summary: On August 10, 2011, 23-year-old Jorge Ruiz threatened to jump off the 70th-story ledge of the 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Ruiz suffers from schizophrenia Source: New York Daily News, 8/11/11
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Date: 12/2011
Location: Spring Valley, Rockland, NY
Summary: On December 14, 2011, 48-year-old Herve Gilles was fatally shot after he attacked Spring Valley Police Officer John Roper and took away Roper’s nightstick. Roper responded to the scene where Gilles was throwing rocks at a bar. It was the second time that day that Roper had been called to the bar to deal with Gilles, who had been at the bar screaming unintelligibly about an hour earlier. Gilles’ friends said he was a chronically mentally ill man who could get out of control when drunk or off his medications.
Prior History: Gilles had been arrested for criminal offenses 33 times since 1990, including eight felonies, four of which were violent. However, as the D.A. noted in the report, when Gilles wasn't drunk, off his meds, or high on marijuana, he was a great guy who did volunteer work with his church. Source: LoHud.com, 12/15/11; Village Voice, 5/8/12
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Date: 4/2009
Location: Manhattan, New York, NY
Summary: On April 27, 2009, Ex-Nets star Jayson Williams became 'suicidal' at Manhattan hotel and was tasered by NYPD police. Williams, 41, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in the runup to his 2004 trial for fatally shooting his chauffeur. Source: New York Daily News, 4/29/09
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Date: 4/2009
Location: Binghamton, Broome, NY
Summary: On April 3, 2009, Jiverly Wong barricaded the back door of a community center with his car and then opened fire on a room full of immigrants taking a citizenship class, killing 13 people before committing suicide, officials said. On the day of the killings, Wong mailed a letter to a Binghamton TV station, along with his driver's license, gun permit, and photos of him posing with pistols.
The letter unleashes a slew of bizarre, paranoid accusations against police officers whom Wong, 41, believed were persecuting him, repeatedly saying breaking into his room, stealing from him, causing him to lose his job and trying to stage a car accident with him. The missive, whose claims are unsupported by any publicly known facts, suggests Wong was deranged. "Put these actions and the theme of the letter all together, and it could point to major mental illness, quite possibly paranoid schizophrenia."
Wong's sister told NBC's "Today" show that she could "see that he was very depressed from losing his job, and he was very frustrated with his English-speaking skills." Source: KDA2, 4/3/09; New York Post, 4/6/09
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Date: 10/2002
Location: Queens Village, Queens, NY
Summary: Robert Jeanlord, 25, suffocated his mother Marie Jeanlord, 52, on October 28, 2002, before stabbing himself in the chest, because he thought she was poisoning him, authorities said. Police found Robert on the porch waiting for officers to arrive and his mother’s body in the bathroom of her Queens Village home. Police said Robert Jeanlord, who was undergoing psychiatric evaluation at Mary Immaculate Hospital last night, suffers from schizophrenia. He apparently stabbed himself twice with a kitchen knife. Source: Newsday, October 29, 2002
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Date: 7/2011
Location: Utica, Oneida, NY
Summary: On July 19, 2011, 30-year-old David. L. Trebilcock fatally stabbed 6-year-old Lauren Belius, while her twin sister Erica watched. On February 14, 2012, a judge found Trebilcock not criminally responsible for fatally stabbing Lauren due to mental disease or defect. During the trial, a forensic psychiatrist for the defense testified that Trebilcock suffered from paranoid schizophrenia with a poor prognosis. Source: OneidaDispatch.com, 7/21/11; New York, Observer-Dispatch, 2/14/12
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Date: 7/2002
Location: Troy, Rensselaer, NY
Summary: Ray Valigorsky was arrested July 19, 2002 on an open-container violation and sent to Rensselaer County Jail after police found him passed out on a lawn in a public area in Troy, NY. Valigorsky was a paranoid schizophrenic who fought a lifelong battle with alcohol and had left his wife and children to live on the streets, refusing their efforts to help him.
Sheriff's Department officials said that, after his arrest, Valigorsky was given Librium to ease alcohol withdrawal symptoms and was monitored by corrections officers every 15 minutes. But he was found unconscious in his cell, with no pulse, and was taken to Samaritan Hospital for resuscitation, where he later died.
Former jail doctor Morteza Naghibi later told state investigators he'd given Valigorsky a muscle relaxant instead of Librium because an article he read in a medical journal recommended it, according to documents. Naghibi also said he'd never "had the chance" to see Valigorsky. Valigorsky's children filed a $72 million federal wrongful death lawsuit, blaming Naghibi and prison nurses for directly causing Valigorsky's death and criticizing the County Executive, the Sheriff, and other jail workers for failing to monitor the medical staff.
The lawsuit was based on a state Commission of Corrections' report that said the homeless alcoholic was subjected to an illegal medical experiment -- and his death could have been prevented. Prior History: Valigorsky had 89 prior arrests in the city of Troy; 82 were for open container violations or failure to pay fines. Source: Albany Times Union, November 3, 2002 Times Union (Albany, NY) July 18, 2003 The Times Union, April 3, 2004
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Date: 9/2002
Location: Cicero, Onondaga, NY
Summary: John Victor Figueroa, 18, killed himself on September 10, 2002 by stepping in front of a truck on Interstate 481 near Syracuse, NY. Figueroa had been diagnosed with schizophrenia four months earlier after a suicide attempt and had been in and out of the hospital for two months prior to his death.
His mother said his medication wasn't helping him, he became increasingly paranoid and began talking about suicide every day. On the day he died, he was scheduled to see a psychologist at Hutchings Psychiatric Center, an appointment he had waited two weeks to get. Source: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY), February 16, 2003
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Date: 7/2005
Location: Queens Village, Queens, NY
Summary: Billy Audobon, a 28-year-old man with a history of mental illness and substance abuse, was shot in the arm by a police officer on July 3, 2005 after the man's family called 911 saying he was acting erratically.
According to his family, Audubon, who has bipolar disorder, called them shortly before the confrontation to say he had broken into his father's bedroom in the Audubon's Queens Village, NY apartment and taken a handgun. He then threatened to kill himself. When police arrived, Audubon was holding the gun at his side. The officers yelled at him to drop it, and when Audubon didn't respond, one of them fired a single shot, striking him in the right arm and forcing him to lose his grip on the gun. Source: Stamford Advocate, July 4, 2005
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Date: 6/2012
Location: Rochester, Monroe, NY
Summary: On June 21, 2012, Rochester Police officers fatally shot Israel Andino outside his home after he fired a shotgun at them. Andino's stepfather said he suffered from bipolar disorder and was off his medication. Source: WHEC, 6/21/12
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Date: 3/2012
Location: Jamaica, Queens, NY
Summary: On March 15, 2012, 30-year-old Shereese Francis died after a confrontation with police. The incident began when Francis’ family called for assistance to get her to the hospital. Francis, who wasn't taking the medication prescribed for her schizophrenia, had become emotionally distraught. Source: Gothamist.com, 4/3/12; Village Voice, 6/26/12
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Date: 7/2002
Location: Buffalo, Erie, NY
Summary: Michael T. Bennett, a 28-year-old man with schizophrenia, died in the Erie County Holding Center on July 5, 2002 after a struggle involving at least six sheriff's deputies who were trying to take him from the jail to Erie County Medical Center. Medical experts for the state determined Bennett died from traumatic asphyxia, contradicting the county medical examiner's finding of cardiac arrhythmia associated with coronary artery disease.
A grand jury cleared several jail deputies of criminal wrongdoing, although a state commission said Bennett's death could have been prevented if he had received proper emergency mental health care at the holding center.
Bennett's mother, Reola Bennett, said she had called police to report that her son was acting strangely and that she feared he might crash his car In August 2008, Erie County agreed to pay $1 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit. Source: Newsday, 1/24/04; Buffalo News, 1/25/04, 8/15/08; The Associated Press, 2/1/04
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Date: 2/2004
Location: Southampton, Suffolk, NY
Summary: On February 4, 2004, 35-year-old David Glowczenski's parents dialed 911 for help in subduing their son. Four police officers from the Southampton, NY police department arrived and found him screaming and wailing incomprehensively. Within moments, all five were in a wrestling match.
It took more than two minutes for the officers, using Mace and a stun gun, to get Glowczenski on his stomach with his hands cuffed behind his back. He continued to kick and scream, but abruptly stopped. The officers told investigators that when they turned Glowczenski over on his back, they noticed he was unconscious and not breathing.
Less than an hour later, he was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital. Glowczenski's family said he was treated with unnecessary force. Det. Lt. Jack Fitzpatrick of the Suffolk police homicide unit said the officers acted properly, and that Glowczenski, who was schizophrenic, had taken himself off his medication a week earlier.
The incident began when Glowczenski overheard his mother and two brothers talking about their plans to hospitalize him. Subsequent History: On September 20, 2004, Glowczenski's family filed a lawsuit in Federal District Court against the Village of Southampton, its Police Department and Suffolk County. The family also sued Taser International Inc. for $1 billion.
The complaint said that Glowczenski was beaten, sprayed with Chemical Mace and shocked nine times with a Taser by the four police officers. The Suffolk County medical examiner's office termed the death natural, and due to "acute exhaustive mania due to schizophrenia." Glowczenski's family later hired an independent pathologist to review reports from two separate autopsies and other materials about his death.
The investigator found that Glowczenski sustained injuries from excessive force and did not die from natural causes, the family said. In May 2005, the Justice Department opened it's own criminal investigation Prior History: The police had responded to calls about Glowczenski's behavior over 40 times in the past five years, according to Suffolk County police.
His sister took out a restraining order against him in 2000 and 2001. Glowczenski had been institutionalized twice prior to his death. Source: Newsday (New York), April 11, 2004; New York Times, September 21, 2004; Daily News, September 21, 2004; Daily News, April 21, 2005; Long Island Newsday, June 7, 2005
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Date: 7/2003
Location: Freeport, Nassau, NY
Summary: Michelle Sambriski, 34, and her 2-year-old daughter, Gina, were found dead on July 23, 2003 in Sambriski's cousin's Freeport, NY home, where they had been living for the past four months.
Sambriski's cousin found Gina's body lying face down in the bathtub, and officers searching the home later found Sambriski hanging in the garage, police said. Sambriski left behind a note that provided detectives with enough information to conclude that she had drowned her daughter and then killed herself.
The child's father, Brian Ramirez, had reported Sambriski to Nassau County child protective services two months earlier when he learned that she had been evicted from her apartment and had gone off medication for her bipolar disorder.
A subsequent investigation failed to show any incidents of abuse or neglect and was closed weeks later. In 2002, Sambriski and Ramirez were due in family court to discuss visitation, the Ramirez family said, but Sambriski never showed up. Ramirez had planned to go to Nassau Family Court on July 29, 2003, to again petition for visitation. Ramizer has filed a lawsuit against Nassau County, claiming Child Protective Services failed to heed his warnings about the mother's instability.
Susbsequent History: An April 2004 report on Gina Sambriski's death by the state Office of Children and Family Services criticized Nassau's Department of Social Services for closing the case prematurely - without confirming Sambriski's psychological history, as the girl's father had detailed. Other mistakes included the worker's failure to ask Sambriski to release her medical records to see if she was seeking mental health treatment.
The abuse investigator also never interviewed relatives who would have been familiar with her emotional problems, even though Ramirez provided a list. Had he contacted Sambriski's mother, he might also have found out Sambriski had previously attempted suicide, county police records show.
The investigator also never pursued why she recently had been evicted or even how she was supporting herself and her daughter. Source: Newsday (New York), July 25, 2003 Newsday, September 7, 2003 Newsday, August 23, 2004
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Not trying to pick a fight, just pointing out a fact. Correct and comprehensive mental health treatment is expensive.
Did you know there is a drug free treatment for depression (as long as the depression is not caused by drugs in the first place), and easily administered if it had the funding? The drug free treatment is incredibly effective yet most professional mental health care providers refuse to acknowledge it.
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Not trying to pick a fight, just pointing out a fact. Correct and comprehensive mental health treatment is expensive.
Did you know there is a drug free treatment for depression (as long as the depression is not caused by drugs in the first place), and easily administered if it had the funding? The drug free treatment is incredibly effective yet most professional mental health care providers refuse to acknowledge it.
i suppose i could have made a better thread..... anything that could be useful should be used.. giving a glass of water to a crazy homeless man who has on a sweater and jacket in the summer ..... i think is useful .....
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Interesting post.
That's a tonne of work. Maybe for your mental health you should step away for awhile.
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Thanks for this post. I gotta say, I could'nt help but think of my brother while skimming through this post. Mental health care is failing him & its not due to a lack of health coverage. He was diagnosed schitzophrenic while serving in the military. Due to the timeing of his diagnosis, he now has full benifits for life... Bobby was staying at a mental hospital in St. Louis Obisbo (not sure if I spelled that right) down by L.A. He had been showing improvments so he was transfered to a different floor in the building which allowed him more freedoms & group meetings. Apperently, everytime someone moves to a new floor that person also recieves a new Dr. who works that particular floor & when that happens current meds are changed. When Bobby's meds were changed he began to spiral down hill. He pleaded to his new Dr. to please change the new meds, he said it felt like he had bugs crawling all over him and out of every orfus of his body. The Dr. told him to just give it some time for the new meds to work & Bobby refused to take them. He is highly trained in mixed martial arts, so when the hospitals 6 man security team came in trying to manhandle him, it didnt work out so well. Hospital staff called the local P.D.... Bobby was relieved to see them, he said "Thank God your here, listen, Im trying to tell these guys that medicine is makeing me sick & I dont want those pills" The police officer made it clear that he was there to assist the Dr. with getting Bobby to take those pills, a fight broke out between them & at some point he threw a piano chair at one of the officers, hitting him in the chest. Now here's where things get really fucked up... The P.D. pressed assult charges aginst Bobby, he went to court & was sentenced to 3 years in prison. I never understood until this happened, that when a person is in a mental hospital, meds can be forced on them, but in prison, a person has a right to refuse meds unless there is a court order. So needless to say, once Bobby was taken out of the mental hospital where he was recieving care for his mental illness & transfered to prison, he refused ALL meds... Here's the kicker...Bobby was shareing a cell with another man who was also diagnosed schitzophrenic. Less that one month into his 3yr sentence & off his meds. My brother stabbed his cellmate in the back of the neck with a pen, missing the man's brain stem by less than a 16th of a mm. The remainer of his 3yr's was served in solitary confinement & Get this... The attempted murder charges were dropped, due to the amout of time it was taking for the courts to deem him compitent to stand trial...He is currently back at the same hospital he was removed from in the first place. Sadly this is just one of many incidents that have occured with my brother while fighting this illness. So I absolutely agree with the title you have given this thread. "Mental Health NEEDS YOUR HELP"
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look into conservatorship over him and his continuing health care needs. when he gets better, u then give back his rights at such a time.... but at least that way, legally u got a lil bite to ur punch.. as far as i know, thats the first thing i would look into for ur brother. and p.s. im sorry.... and dont give up on the doctors... sometimes it takes time to get improvements and sometimes expecting improvements is ur problem, not the doctors!
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Thanks for this post. I gotta say, I could'nt help but think of my brother while skimming through this post. Mental health care is failing him & its not due to a lack of health coverage. He was diagnosed schitzophrenic while serving in the military. Due to the timeing of his diagnosis, he now has full benifits for life... Bobby was staying at a mental hospital in St. Louis Obisbo (not sure if I spelled that right) down by L.A. He had been showing improvments so he was transfered to a different floor in the building which allowed him more freedoms & group meetings. Apperently, everytime someone moves to a new floor that person also recieves a new Dr. who works that particular floor & when that happens current meds are changed. When Bobby's meds were changed he began to spiral down hill. He pleaded to his new Dr. to please change the new meds, he said it felt like he had bugs crawling all over him and out of every orfus of his body. The Dr. told him to just give it some time for the new meds to work & Bobby refused to take them. He is highly trained in mixed martial arts, so when the hospitals 6 man security team came in trying to manhandle him, it didnt work out so well. Hospital staff called the local P.D.... Bobby was relieved to see them, he said "Thank God your here, listen, Im trying to tell these guys that medicine is makeing me sick & I dont want those pills" The police officer made it clear that he was there to assist the Dr. with getting Bobby to take those pills, a fight broke out between them & at some point he threw a piano chair at one of the officers, hitting him in the chest. Now here's where things get really fucked up... The P.D. pressed assult charges aginst Bobby, he went to court & was sentenced to 3 years in prison. I never understood until this happened, that when a person is in a mental hospital, meds can be forced on them, but in prison, a person has a right to refuse meds unless there is a court order. So needless to say, once Bobby was taken out of the mental hospital where he was recieving care for his mental illness & transfered to prison, he refused ALL meds... Here's the kicker...Bobby was shareing a cell with another man who was also diagnosed schitzophrenic. Less that one month into his 3yr sentence & off his meds. My brother stabbed his cellmate in the back of the neck with a pen, missing the man's brain stem by less than a 16th of a mm. The remainer of his 3yr's was served in solitary confinement & Get this... The attempted murder charges were dropped, due to the amout of time it was taking for the courts to deem him compitent to stand trial...He is currently back at the same hospital he was removed from in the first place. Sadly this is just one of many incidents that have occured with my brother while fighting this illness. So I absolutely agree with the title you have given this thread. "Mental Health NEEDS YOUR HELP"
You might want to look into what other services he is entitled to as well, such as free legal aid for example. It is NOT normal for doctors to change medications that are effective. Speak to a solicitor.
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