REALLY up for grabs! Addendum 2

On March 3, 2025, Judge Ron Motl of the Third Judicial Circuit Court of Madison County conducted a hearing on the ability of the Illinois Department of Human Services to provide any safe or therapeutic environment for the care and treatment of mentally ill persons at Choate Mental Health Center. Sworn testimony from 5 witnesses, all current employees at Choate, showed that IDHS in fact has no such ability. The case was No. 2024MH322, In re S.B. It was cited in detail, with transcripts attached, in a Motion by Allen W. James, Attorney for the Guardianship and Advocacy Commission, filed on April 22, 2025, in combined cases Nos. 2025MH5, -6, -8, -9, -10 and -13, in the circuit Court of Union County. Allen James' office number at Choate is (618) 833-7025, for anyone who would like his opinion of what I am saying in this article. He may have important disagreements with my views.

Choate is severely understaffed. No psychotherapy is being provided for patients. Professional staff consist of 4 social workers (only 3 are licensed), no regularly scheduled on-site psychiatrist, one remote psychiatrist, no psychologists, and perhaps a score of nurses, for all shifts and all clinical units. There are over 70 patients to be served at Choate. This situation basically means Choate cannot be considered to provide effective mental health treatment in a least restrictive environment as required by law. Choate only provides incarceration, and "patients" are not supposed to be incarcerated, that is unconstitutional.

But the thing is, it's the same situation in all IDHS mental health facilities. There are differences in manner or degree, but Chester, Elgin, Chicago Read, Packard, Alton, and Madden are ultimately no better than Choate. None of these plantations is a legitimate hospital. No one goes there for medicine or help, unless they are forced to by a court. IDHS has no ability to provide any safe or therapeutic environment on any of these psychiatric slave plantations.

Elgin has been rationing toilet paper for weeks. Joe "dumb-as-a-rock" Basso argues with Gus about how many sections he needs. (Gus should ask Joe if he wants to come into the stall himself, to wipe....) There's no library use, because the librarian finally got fired for sexual harassment of patients after Michelle "expert-in-sexual-trauma" Evans missed noticing his widely known behavior for many years.

Drs. Kashe, Treanor, and Gadson down at Packard are just mean as hell to anyone (even pregnant patients) who doesn't worship them and toe the line. At Chester patients die (and not from mental illness). Chicago Read is falling apart physically, the building would actually be condemned if it were a normal residential facility. But the almighty James Patrick Corcoran, "Statewide Forensic Medical Director," has his own reserved parking place which he will happily kick your car out of, even if he hasn't used it himself for weeks.

These are just examples, and there are an unlimited variety of more examples. Everywhere in the system, the staff are demoralized, paranoid, confused.

People think this is a complicated problem. It's not, it's a very simple one. The psychiatric plantation system pretends to be a medical endeavor to help people and protect people, when in fact it's a social control operation to remove people who are dangerous or disliked. That fundamental lie makes the scene appear too complex to solve.

The bottom line is, both medicine and the law are discredited. This is bad for society. It may be just a part of the larger political scene that we're all getting so sick and tired of these days in the USA.

Or it may have substantially caused the larger "catastrophic failure of confidence in authority." (See my musing from 15 years ago: https://refusingpsychiatry.blogspot.com/2010/01/psychiatry-and-national-health-security.html)

This is why psychiatry must be destroyed.