The pointlessness of even trying

[MO64]

My wife is my world, I know I am insane with the depth and unconditional nature of my love for her.

I have been with my wife since 1998 and quickly learnt that she was traumatized from a childhood full of abuses, sexual, physical and psychological. Even to this day. Due to the ongoing nature of the psychological abuse, it is difficult to compensate for the unjust treatment my wife receives from her own family. Which is primarily due to the manipulation of her mother, telling her children to stay away from their mother due to her being dangerous and crazy. Which they have done. Her mother has found a way to commit the perfect crime and continues to do so. From my perspective, my wife's mother has damaged her to such an extent that her children have seen aspects of their mother that they didn't understand, that her mother caused and her mother used that behaviour to reinforce the illusion that my wife is dangerous.

From my understanding of psychiatry, this is the typical type of situation patients have always been in. The victim suffers a trauma from a family member or care giver. That trauma is then denied by the guilty party and the victim is silenced through what ever means is currently acceptable as humane by the psychiatric profession. The reality is that the psychiatric profession have evolved to the point where they are literally above the law.

My wife is currently being held against her will under a Section 30 and Section 46. My wife and I have spent the past six weeks coming off all the prescribed medication due to it possibly causing a new symptom of migraine storms. I have been caring for her palliatively without complaint or support.

My wife had successfully come off all her medication and the migraines stopped. We were at the stage of getting her diet sorted when a kidney infection presented. She has a long history of renal issues due to the chronic abuse she suffered.

My wife presented at ED, due to a possible reaction to medication she was put on 2 days earlier.

My wife was in the middle of an antibiotic course for the infection.

My wife's symptoms were interpreted as psychiatric.

She is now a prisoner and getting worse. Both psychiatrically and medically.

Fact: Psych patients have no rights.

If you have a underlying medical condition with neurological symptoms, it will be misdiagnosed if you have a pre-existing mental health issue.

You are also 350% more likely to die from oesophageal cancer if you have a mental health issue.

Pointless

[TimTams]

I could not agree more with your post about psychiatry ignoring failures of the law.

For victims of crime their mental health is being used as a scapegoat for society ignoring the behaviour of others.

As a victim of crime, I had a psychiatrist treat me in the same manner: both me and my ex-partner must have personality disorders. Actually, I was assaulted and my personality was not the problem. Societies reaction to what happened to me was.

I was also held against my will and the person punished for what crime someone else did.

Thank you for your prose, truth and absolutely perfect portrayal of our current abysmal system.

[MO64]

It would appear to not be as pointless as I have been lead to believe.

The original post was in the morning of the 30/06/2019, later that day my wife was return to me, covered in bruises and malnourished due to the dietary requirements not relevant in high dependency(HD). Obviously the dependency to which they refer is not related to the basic medical needs of a human being.

The separation of the psychiatric needs out weighing the medical needs of a patient is a profession wide delusion that I told to the face of the treating psychiatrist, almost 60 hours after my wife was first incarcerated unjustly, like too many others.

The impunity with which the psychiatric profession behaves, in this day and age, is unconscionable. There is a law relating to this exact type of behaviour, but it only applies to businesses. I am unsure if there is any similar law that applies to humans.

This behaviour lies solely on the head of the treating psychiatrist. I felt the entire nursing and support staff had a type of PTSD that manifested in the form of blank stares when faced with traumatized family members who only want their loved ones home. A familiar environment and stable routine are critical in any mental health treatment.

The total disregard of supportive family members or carers opinions does nothing more than create a situation that feeds the mass delusion of the psychiatric profession that they have the ability to asses an individuals mental health to such a degree in 24-48hrs(Section 30) that then gives them the power to imprison them for up to 28 days, with the option of infinite extensions. When it takes a judge and jury, with witnesses and evidence, examination and cross examination a lot longer. In terms of actual time spent with the patient, a psychiatrist might spend a total of less than 1 hour of actual bedside manner time with a patient, before they are satisfied that they deserve less rights than terrorists.

I truly hope I have misinterpreted what I have witnessed at the local public hospitals psych ward. But it appears to be a very typical situation that seems to be one of those cases where everyone knows that there is a serious problem with the mental health system, but no body has any power over the treating psychiatrist. I even asked the police to do a welfare check on my wife, obviously they said 'no'.

The staff that manage to stay true to themselves, while working in a world that rarely makes sense, thankyou.

It is no surprise if they don't.

[TimTams]

You summed it up perfectly and I have no more to add. They definitely do not have the power to assess someone and their personality in a week of knowing them. It is a complete sham to make up for the justice system which is also a sham. Knowing you are not the only person who realises this I hope helps. Truly sorry about the way they treated your wife.