Where are the Bodies Buried?
I have to say, right off the bat, that my first encounter with the Mental Health System – second hand as it was – occurred about 26 years ago. It was not the nicey-nicey, “touchy feely” encounter that you would expect from part of the “Health Care System”. It was certainly not the benign “Loveable doctor doing whatever is necessary to aid a patient in recovery” story that you can find spattered all over the internet – especially in Psychiatrist’s blogs and other internet posts (tweets, comments, etc.) and even in papers in the scholarly journals. It was, instead. a story about what should have been a simple case which became complicated by incompetent therapies, incompetent psychiatrists and a Mental Health system which was – and is - totally incapable of responding to the incompetence of its practitioners. One of my early responses to the details, as I knew them at the time, was that “Psychiatrists could get away with murder.” I was to find out, in fact, that similar sentimen...