A Call for Comfort Brought the Police Instead. Now the Solution Is in Danger

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From KFF Health News: “Overcome by worries, Lynette Isbell dialed a mental health hotline in April 2022. She wanted to talk to someone about her midlife troubles: divorce, an empty nest, and the demands of caring for aging parents with dementia.

“I did not want to keep burdening my family and friends with my problems,” Isbell said.

But she didn’t find the sympathetic ear she was hoping for on the other end. Frustrated, she hung up. Little did she know ending that call would set off events she would regret.

Police arrived at her home in Terre Haute, Indiana, handcuffed her, and had her committed to a hospital, records show, resulting in more than $12,000 in hospital charges.

“The whole thing was an absolute, utter, traumatic nightmare,” she said.

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  1. “behavioral health professionals now lead the response via mobile crisis teams, not law enforcement, such as the officers who handcuffed Isbell.”

    Yet the “mental health professions'” goal is taking people to hospitals, for profit, just like the police, government, and paternalistic religions, who own the hospitals.

    And I’m not generalizing, I’m speaking from personal experience, as one with medical evidence of eleven anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders, by the now FBI convicted Dr. V. R. Kuchipudi, and his psychiatric “snowing” partner-in-crime, Dr. Humaira Saiyed, who deserves to be arrested, too.

    I dealt with, if I recall correctly, just over $30,000 of fraud based “treatment,” paid for by my insurance company, for Kuchipidi and Saiyed’s anticholinergic toxidrome attempted murders. But Kuchipudi and Saiyed were hoping to make their fraud from my medical insurance carrier over $120,000, with an unneeded tracheotomy … since I was fraudulently admitted to that hospital, with a non-existent “chronic airway obstruction.”

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  4. The entire mental health system’s “standard of care” is profoundly unhealthy—even downright brutal, overtly and subtlety.

    People should stay away from individuals and institutions not truly dedicated to a more humanistic and nuanced approach.

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