Junior is no longer an involuntary mental patient: he is now in jail because he violated court protective orders. He says he just wanted to retrieve his clothes and other possessions (including important legal documents), from a woman who had started a sexual affair with him while he had been her "patient" at Elgin Mental Health Center, aka "EMHC", the storied 19th Century psychiatric "hospital." That woman, the so-called "mental health professional"/perpetrator, later threw Junior out of her house after they had been living together as an intimate couple for months. Junior spent a long time on the street, and he was a mess (no shoes, no diabetes medication, etc.).
I believe Junior; everybody who knows how things work at EMHC easily believes him, and I'm pretty sure a federal jury will eventually believe him, too. This particular woman who put Junior out on the street was allegedly the second EMHC staff who had seduced him and used him as a sex slave while he was in custody. (I have to tell you it's pretty gruesome, Illinois taxpayers!)
I have long maintained, and most of the clients I've represented have agreed, that a psychiatric slave plantation is worse than prison. But currently, Junior says jail is petty brutal. He is held at Will County Adult Correctional Center in Joliet, on the misdemeanor charge for violating the court domestic protective orders. He's been beat up by guards a number of times, and medically neglected.
One day not long ago he woke up on Thursday morning paralysed from the waste down. None of the jail personnel paid any attention. They probably presumed he was malingering, and after all, they all knew he was mentally ill, which means too crazy to think of as a regular human being. Junior didn't get better, though. He really couldn't walk. He attended a court hearing Friday morning in a wheelchair.
Several nurses or orderlies in the jail (see their names below) refused to help Junior until Friday night, by which time he couldn't stand up. Finally they shipped him off to the emergency room at St. Joe's Hospital, where doctors (also see names below) ordered emergency surgery after an MRI showed a tumor on his spine. Nobody heard from him for several days (his mother called me very worried) and it was not easy to find out what had happened. He is now recovering, but very slowly, because the jail is refusing to provide the physical therapy that was ordered. The jail is perfectly willing to risk Junior's chance of ever walking again, on the hope that he'll be released soon enough so they'll be rid of him and somebody else can be blamed, somebody else can pay.
Junior is litigious. As I have written elsewhere, this could be good evidence that he is no longer mentally ill. I'm not sure he will ever renounce the status, though. He thinks he needs it to maintain certain privileges and immunities. My tendency is to try to change his mind about that, but I'm his lawyer, not his minister or therapist. I know he didn't end up in his current condition because of "mental illness." He ended up in this condition because he was abused, defrauded, and enslaved by psychiatrists under a cynical guise of "treating" mental illness with snake-oil (fake) "medicine."
The offending and otherwise involved personnel at Will County Adult Correctional Center include several Wellpath agency-contracted employees, and several medical professionals at St. Joe's Hospital in Joliet. I haven't had time to repeatedly debrief Junior on all details, so I can't be sure these are all bad guys: Tom Ranovsky, Rakeya Smith, "Nurse Donna," Erica Paterson, Dr. Tiffney Luckett, "Dr. Rachel," Dr. Gandhi, and Tamir Hersonsky, M.D.(N.B., I think the final two names are surgeons at St. Joe's who are good guys.) This who's who will shake out by the time any new lawsuit is filed.
The situation is not mental health. It's bad people who fail to help others. No amount of scientific research, no new drugs, and no improved legal procedures, will ever turn people who have chosen to be bad, into beneficent doctors and public servants.
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