I was not messing around when I said I put myself on an involuntary hold as a precaution. I went to the police years ago and in a good state of mind told them about me and what to expect and consented to go to one when the time was needed. I happened to pay attention to the entirety of the process, from the dumb ass security guard at St. Luke's to the idiocracy we call a legal system. The police were fucking awesome. Everything in my blog that I said about them is true.
The security guard at St. Lukes had to be escorted out of my room because of his behavior. He had a huge ego that got him in trouble. From the get go he was aggressive and came at me that this was his hospital and I would be following their policies, blah blah type bravado, I follow the law, not policies especially when I am on a hold, those are two VERY different things in facilities. I called him out right there and asked for his supervisor and an administrator and called out his behavior, he came from across the hallway and got nose to nose with me, the patient, the one on the hold. The police had to escort him out of the room. Since then I have met others with similar stories about security guards at St. Lukes at other properties. That is a huge issue that must be addressed.
As far as the legal system, well get this, I will admit I was under the influence of THC, I use it from time to time. However, it doesn't mean what I am saying is a lie, all it does is relax me and help me speak. Well in front of the judge is where I had issues, I couldn't keep it together and stop talking about civil rights. They did the right thing by making me get some sleep, however where they really fucked up is with diagnosing me. They tried to argue it was both a cannabis induced psychosis and tried refuting the VA's 20 year treatment of me and made up their own diagnoses of bi-polar non schizophrenic, I ask you this, If I was on THC then how can you diagnose someone? You must wait until it wears off and they were going off of what the original state examiner saw when I was still at St. Lukes, after having that security guard in my face. Unless someone tells you or you know their medical history, you can not diagnose someone if they are under the influence, the impairment skews the results. How could they tell what it was? I mean I took 500 mg of an edible to ensure that RAGE would not be an issue when the police came. That is 500 mg, at once. The judge allowed for both of those arguments to be made, and I couldn't stop rambling about civil rights I was so tired. How can you allow both of those, and then force treatment based on that evidence alone?
This tells me the judge and state examiners are not properly educated on diagnosing. To top it off, everyone I met there that was on a hold was prescribed the same drug, that is a red flag to me, that is one hell of a coincidence, it means they are just using a blanket approach to address individual issues, and we won't solve this crisis using a method like that.
Just my thoughts on my observations, I hope someone can do something with this and make some legitimate policy changes. I would hate to have to do another involuntary hold audit like this one day. I am a fan of first amendment auditors (the good ones), and I am actively trying to find a way to probe the system without actually putting myself in jeopardy. My memory is my camera, I don't forget things I experience. This is me being proactive about the issue.
This post is another example of me having a flashback and using the energy from it to do something good for the world. The artwork is all my work too!
Thank you,
Mikey