Caring nurses

 I received a comment about a recent article, which I published on the blog. The person posting the comment is "Anonymous," but their identity is not hard to narrow down. Whoever it is seems quite bitter about the article, and calls me a snake and a little puppet without a single thought of my own. I don't know how I can be both... a "snake" is presumed to act intentionally in a deceitful, underhanded or backstabbing way; but a puppet without a single thought of its own would have no intention.

Other than this evident confusion, the comment is reasonably well written, which makes me think the person who posted it may be educated, perhaps a professional of some sort (like maybe a nurse). The commenter seems to accuse me of slandering either him/herself or some other person he/she is defending as a "caring nurse" from whom I may someday need help.

If various pictures I have recently posted (e.g., here, here, here) show what is meant by "help" then I definitely don't want it, for myself or for any other human being!

Since this commenter said he/she would pray for me (the promised "prayer" sure reads like a covert curse, but never mind), I'll offer a couple bits of biblical perspective on whatever help I may someday need:

Give us help from trouble, for the help of man is useless. Psalm 60:11.

My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121:2. 

It's totally amazing to me that people who produce such terrible results while claiming to be in a "helping profession," and who say they only intend to "help" when they clearly harm others every day, can live with themselves at all, let alone presume to judge others' actions. I am happy when people sometimes say I have helped them, although I never promise to do so or claim that I have done so. Help is only in the eye of the receiver. Trying to authoritatively declare some medical or health care "specialty" of help is ridiculous and insulting to human dignity. Believing that help can be forced on a person is the root of most evil.

This is potentially a conversation that I would love to have with the person who posted the comment about my article mentioning Nurse Cecily and Nurse Anita, and others at Kiley snake pit. I might find out I am misestimating them, and I might apologize and retract things I have written. Help is always negotiated.

But people with guilty consciences have to remain anonymous.

Suborning perjury, conspiracy, obstruction, at Elgin Mental Health Center & throughout IDHS

Dr. Vikramjit Gill, N Unit staff, and all IDHS mental health clinical employees: you need to take careful note of federal and state criminal law.  

18 U.S.C. 79, Section 1621, Perjury generally, states:

Whoever--(1) having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true; or (2) in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury as permitted under SECTION 1746 OF TITLE 28, United States Code, willfullly subscrices as true any material matter which he does not believe to be true; is guilty of perjury and shall, except as otherwise expressly provided by law, be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. This section is apllicable whether the statement or subscription is made within or without the United States.

And Section 1622, Subornation of perjury, further states:

Whoever procures another to commit any perjury is guilty of subornation of perjury, and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more that five years, or both.

Section 1623, False declarations before grand jury or court, also states:

(a) Whoever under oath (or in any declaration, certificate, verification, or statement under penalty of perjury as permitted under SECTION 1746 OF TITLE 28, United States Code) in any proceeding before or ancillary to any court or grand jury of the United States knowingly makes any false material declaration or makes or uses any other information, including any book, paper, document, record, recording, or other material, knowing the same to contain any false material declaration, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years or, if such proceedings are before or ancillary to the Foreign Intelligence Surveilance Court or the Foreign Intelligence Court of Review established by Section 103 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveilance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803), imprisoned not more than ten years, or both. 

(b) This section is applicable whether the conduct occurred within or without the United States. 

(c) An indictment or information for violation of this section alleging that, in any proceedings before or ancillary to any court or grand jury of the United States, the defendant under oath has knowingly made two or more declarations, which are inconsistent to the degree that one of them is necessrily false, need not specify which declaration is false if--(1) each declaration is material to the point in question, and (2) each declaration was made within the period of the statute of limitations for the offense charged under this section. In any prosecution under this section, the falsity of a declaration set forth in the indictment or information shall be established sufficient for conviction by proof that the defendant while under oath made irreconcilably contradictory declarations material to the point in question in any proceeding before or ancillary to ant court or grand jury. It shall be a defense to an indictment or information made pursuant to the first sentence of this subsection that the defendant at the time he made each delaration believed the declaration was true. 

(d) Where, in the same continuous court or grand jury proceeding in which a declaration is made, the person making the declaration admits such declaration to be false, such admission shall bar prosecution under this section if, at the time the admission is made, the declaration has not substantially affected the proceeding, or it has not become manifest that such falsity has been or will be exposed. 

(e) Proof beyond a reasonable doubt under this section is sufficient for conviction. It shall not be necessary that such proof be made by any particular number of witnesses or by documentary or other type of evidence.

In light of the foregoing federal criminal statute, here's a serious question based on two decades of my own experience in state-operated mental health and developmental disabilities facilities:

Could a psychiatrist or other clinician be prosecuted for subornation of perjury when he tells a court or leads a court to believe that a patient is willingly taking psychotropic medication, when he has also told that patient to merely say he will take it to obtain release or placement in a community facility, while knowing that the patient intends to stop taking the medication, or encouraging the patient to believe he may stop taking it, as soon as the court has ordered his release?

In Illinois, 720 ILCS 5/31-4, Obstructing justice, states:

(a) A person obstructs justice when, with intent to prevent the apprehension or obstruct the prosecution or defense of any person, he or she knowingly commits any of the following acts:

(1) Destroys, alters, conceals or disguises physical evidence, plants false evidence, furnishes false information... 

In Illinois, 720 ILCS 5/8-2, Conspiracy, states:

(a) Elements of the offense. A person commits the offense of conspiracy when, with intent that an offense be committed, he or she agrees with another to the commission of that offense. No person may be convicted of conspiracy to commit an offense unless an act in furtherance of that agreement is alleged and proved to have been committed by him or her or by a co-conspirator. 

(b) Co-conspirators. It is not a defense to conspiracy that the person or persons with whom the accused is alleged to have conspired: (1) have not been prosecuted or convicted, (2) have been convicted of a different offense, (3) are not amenable to justice, (4) have been acquitted, or (5) lacked the capacity to commit an offense.

In light of these Illinois statutes, here's a second serious question based on two decades of my own experience in state-operated mental health and developmental disabilities facilities:

Could clinical and administrative staff be prosecuted for obstruction of justice, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and conspiracy to suborn perjury, if they follow a common institutional practice or procedure of telling or inducing a patient to lie about his willingness to take psychotropic medication merely to obtain placement by a court in a community residential facility, while knowing that the patient intends to stop taking the medication as soon as possible?

I believe such criminal prosecutions are viable. In fact, I intend to do my best to convince State's Attorneys and Justice Department officials to investigate these crimes and indict people for them. I know at least one "patient" at EMHC who was recently, explicitly, told by his psychiatrist to just pretend he will take Abilify for long enough to get accepted for a placement and enable conditional release; then he can refuse the drug or stop taking it once he's out of EMHC. In fact, the same psychiatrist has occasionally joked with me about his supervisors and superiors committing this kind of obstruction of justice by prescribing psychotropic drugs off-label or in subclinical dosages for patients who only present symptoms which the "doctors" admit will not be effectively treated by the "medication" (eg, personality disorders).

I told a patient today, and I have told many clients for decades: DON'T conspire in perjury or obstruction! Be honest about the meds. If meds help you, fine, I have no necessary problem with that. 

But DON'T LIE! Let the slave masters and the overseers do the lying, they surely will. They will also try to make their "patients" lie. But by whatever steadfast recalcitrance or cunning contrivance, resist invitations to such conspiracy.

Psychiatrists have no valid diagnoses or successful treatments. They MUST lie just to keep their jobs.

Psychiatria delenda est! 

Federal court awards damages, fees to plaintiff who was sexually abused in Illinois forensic psychiatric custody

On March 31, 2026, Judge Sara Ellis of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago awarded Plaintiff Michael Dopson $150,000 for pain and suffering, plus $25,500 for therapy expenses, and legal fees, after Dopson was sexually abused by a female mental health technician at Chicago Read Mental Health Center while he was an involuntary psychiatric patient in that facility.

The case is 19-cv-0577, Dopson v. Corcoran, et al., one of a series of civil lawsuits brought for plaintiffs since 2017 against mental health professionals in the employ of the Illinois Department of Human Services (IDHS), by the law firm Kretchmar and Cecala. 

Sexual abuse of mental patients is absolutely endemic on the psychiatric plantations run by IDHS. It is very difficult for victims to obtain justice for this crime, especially when the perpetrator is female and the patient is male. Almost no one wants to admit it's happening, even when rumors about "inappropriate relationships" are constant, and strict protocol in which all staff are trained annually requires prompt reporting of the slightest suspicions. An obvious question arises from the contradiction: Why would this department of the executive branch of state government go to the trouble and expense of such elaborate training, protocol, meticulous definitions of (e.g.) what an "allegation" is and exactly how and when mere suspicion must be reported by anyone (even the guy who refills the vending machine) who ever comes within eyesight of a "patient" in a state psychiatric institution if this proscribed behavior were not a real problem?

I recall being informed by Rodney Yoder in about 2001, that a certain minority of women are inexplicably attracted to men in criminal or involuntary mental health custody. (Rodney knew, because he married one such woman.) He explained it as sort of a sexual fetish which is more common than most people know. Sexual abuse of a psychiatric patient is a sex crime in fact. A Defendant in the first case brought by our law firm, apparently a boring suburban mom and housewife, was convicted and sentenced to prison. That civil case was litigated for seven years before the state finally settled. The victim had to wait long after the perpetrator had been released, for his compensation.

But the real problem is not that people have "fetishes" or that men naturally want sex while females are naturally intimidated by males. Most women want sex, too; and men can very easily be intimidated by anyone who has legal authority to forcibly control their bodies and their minds. Recall the terrifying arrogance of Nurse Ratchet, and the violent demise of Randall McMurphey that she was still able to confidently orchestrate, despite his powerful spirit and his ironic moral superiority. People think One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is anachronistic, but in fact psychiatry is an uglier totalitarian threat now than it was when that movie was made.

The real problem is that some people think they are innately superior to others as humans. They think the world should be better organized by themselves being in charge, able to compel lesser humans' proper thinking and behaviors. That point of view has always enabled slavery.

But people with that point of view are fools. Today is Passover.

Nurse Cecily! Nurse Anita! (at Kiley snake pit)

Nurses are "helping professionals"--right? But are they supposed to help patients, or just their institutions?

These two supposed "nurses" (Cecily and Anita) recently violated a long-prescribed, critical treatment protocol for a developmentally disabled resident. They substituted a cup with some Dr. Pepper poured into it, for a freshly opened can of Dr. Pepper, to facilitate the resident's taking his anti-seizure medication.

Nurse Anita offered an excuse for this: she had been told that, "They (perhaps meaning the evil psychiatrist Dr. Cosgrove, or Tanika Hankerson who runs the Kiley snake pit, or some other perpetrator) want the amount of Dr. Pepper given to this resident to be reduced." In other words state bureaucrats are second guessing the doctor in charge, based on some agenda of their own. 

Patients and their doctors and guardians are never told who the particular state bureaucrats are. (Sincere apologies to the evil Dr. Cosgrove and Tanika Hankerson, in case they were not involved this time!) The bureaucrats always remain nameless for their protection, no matter what harm they cause to unprotected patients in the shameful pursuit of immunity, convenience, or profit. Nobody ever knows who said what on what authority... bad things just happen all by themselves!

Nurse Anita might know who told her to give this particular patient Dr. Pepper poured into a cup instead of following the prescribed protocol. But under deposition, she'll likely answer with a standard, "I do not recall at this time." She'll certainly deny any bad intent. 

But if the patient has a seizure and dies because he was unable to take his medication, somebody will eventually pay. 

The state snake pit, as irreconcilable with reality as it may seem, is supposed to help people, not kill them.

Kiley Developmental Center in Waukegan, IL

These pictures were taken in a patient's room at Kiley snake pit within the last few days. Illinois taxpayers, in full and perhaps willful ignorance, fund these horrible places, where developmentally disabled adults are warehoused, neglected and abused with absolutely no provision of effective treatment or habilitation, whatsoever. Where the money really goes is anybody's guess, but reportedly there are justice investigations in progress, so maybe we'll find out soon. Maybe some of the heads heads that ought to roll, finally will.

Kiley is run by the Illinois Department of Human Services ("IDHS"--which could more appropriately stand for the Inhuman Department of Horrific Slavery). Key names of perpetrators of this disaster at Kiley snake pit include Tanisha Hankerson, Tanya Piephoff, ("The Evil") John Cosgrove, and Kinga Mucha.

"Experts" on the mind (optimism)

Recent events seem to validate what is a reality for me, but a reality that has not been shared by most people or the society around me, maybe until recently. This would be a victory. (I am proven right, and "they" are all wrong.) But there is also sadness and a strange fear. 

My sadness recalls a scene from the end of the movie Schindler's List, when Oscar Schindler (played so brilliantly by Liam Neeson), was surrounded by a crowd of liberated Jews whose lives he had saved from the Nazis. The war was over, Schindler was a saint to these people. He had once been very rich but he was broken now, he and his wife wore the poorest clothes as disguise to escape from advancing Russians, and he broke down, sobbing uncontrollably when he looked at the car he was about to leave in, mumbling, "I could have got more out, I should have sold this car. One more, one more...."

Since 1945 there has been an ongoing holocaust of souls perpetrated by the Gruppenführers and Oberführers of psychiatry. I weep for every individual who has succumbed. So many people I should have rescued but didn't or couldn't, even some people I loved!

The fear I harbor recalls plots from the Robert Redford-Brad Pitt movie Spy Game or various, far darker versions of case officer-agent relationships. These remind me of Richard Helm's understanding of trust (there's never sufficient reason for it, ever: it is always an arbitrary decision taken purely as a luxury that can be afforded), or the tragic conclusion of Smiley's People by John le Carré: "I have destroyed him with the weapons I abhorred and they are his. We have crossed each other's frontiers. We are the no-men of this no-man's land." I've had nightmares where I become a psychiatrist, psychiatrists and their slaves are my only friends, and no one else understands me.

I have adopted (and adapted) an old habit from Cato the Elder, adding "Psychiatria delenda est!" to almost any conversation or statement, however non-sequitur. The Roman was right about Carthage, and I believe I am right about psychiatry, it must be destroyed.

A Congressional roundtable hearing on mental health was held yesterday morning in the U.S. House, by the Oversight Committee. I was thrilled to discover that Laura Delano was one of three guests invited to testify. When I first met Laura more than a decade ago, she was a nobody (but for her family name), who was still trying to recover from psychiatry, and my sense was, still afraid. Now she is a thought leader, an expert. She is as effectively anti-psychiatry as anyone I know, although she goes to pains to disavow that label. (I wish she wouldn't!) I hope she is completely secure, because people will surely try to ruin her.

The Chairman of the hearing (Congressman Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin) opened with a statement that included, "I think the mental health establishment in this country is such a total scandal... We have so many people entering the mental health establishment thinking they will solve their problems, and in so many cases instead of solving their problems, they made their problems so much worse." He added at one point that he believes many people who seek help from psychiatrists would be much better off never having anything to do with them at all. He is 100% right about that!

Meanwhile, Bob Whitaker and Mad In America just put out a compelling article exposing the apparent trend toward re-institutionalization (under a guise of protecting the public from all the dangerous crazy people) as leading to policies that violate basic human rights. I know from my own legal work in Illinois that the morale of institutional mental health workers continues to tank. United Nations authorities have weighed in for a couple years now to say involuntary psychiatric "treatment" should be abolished. Even Federal Reserve banks are weighing in against involuntary "hospitalization" and "treatment". It is worth recalling Thomas Szasz's prediction that psychiatry will wither away if it loses its legal authority to coerce people and force drugs or shock on them in the name of "medicine". That is exactly what I understand various obvious social trends, and many political conversations and events, to portend.

Another very encouraging development is the unexpected difficulty and increasing complexity of getting psychedelic drugs approved for treatment of psychiatric conditions. The so-called "renaissance" of psychedelic research thankfully did not bring these psychosis-inducing poisons out of the anti-drug "dark ages" after all. Hopefully this impossible so-called "science" will be remembered as a brief, quirky chimera or simply forgotten by history.

More and more people, if cautiously, seem to accept my admonishment that the study of the mind, as distinct from the body or the brain, and the healing, as distinct from mere profitable servicing, of mentally-caused ills... should not be alienated from religion or condoned in non-religious fields. Mental health is NOT naturally a medical issue. The mind is not understandable as a bio-mechanical machine, and a person is absolutely NOT a mere animal to be controlled.

In any event, I sure hope my grieving for souls lost to the psychiatric holocaust can soon be over and my nightmares will not come true!

You shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free

This title is well known from 8:32 of The Gospel According to John, and as the official motto of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The coincidence is interesting and perhaps darkly ironic.

The truth will set people free from having to cover up and constantly service their own lies, that's for sure.

In civil litigation, lawyers are cynical. "The Truth" is reduced to whatever portion all the ornate rules and complex tactics will permit each side to tell. I am a mediocre lawyer at best: I certainly do not have the ornate rules and complex tactics at my fingertips the way some attorneys do. I came to this professional practice for the sole purpose of eliminating psychiatric coercion and harm from mental health. My purpose contains enough truth to feel like it sets me free, or should. Most of the time I hate servicing lies.

I've been a lawyer for 25 years now, so my truth is not entirely impractical. At the moment I represent the Plaintiff in a civil rights case in the middle of discovery, and the Illinois Attorney General's office lawyers who represent the (state-employed) Defendants seem to be mis-estimating my client in a major way. Basically, they think he's a crazy liar when he's not. They will be happy to short-cut the Plaintiff's deposition, by keeping it remote, not investing in the necessary logistics to do it in person.

Ultimately, the Defendants' mis-estimation would be to my advantage. In theory, I should let them make their mistake. That's how a corrupt, secret intelligence operation or a proper Sun Tzu strategy could work (as beautifully depicted for example, in my latest favorite TV series, "Berlin Station").

People think John 8:32 and the CIA motto is about God and spies. In fact, it's only about an individual spirit with a purpose that may be worthwhile or true. The error is seeking the living in a place of the dead. (Luke 24:5-6, just to stay a bit biblical.)

Truth is not there in ornate rules, complex tactics, the tomb. It is risen.

Tanisha Hankerson: WHY does criminal abuse & neglect continue at your institution?!

... and just incidentally, how in hell did you ever get appointed to the Governor's Office Academy of Leadership? That's pretty embarrassing when your institution is a DISASTER. You are only an "emerging leader" in snakepit bureaucracy and corrupt waste!

Division of Developmental Disabilities, Illinois Department of Human Services

This is what they do with our tax money: here are just a couple of many ugly pictures documenting criminal abuse and neglect, showing the supposed "professional expertise" of these corrupt bureaucrats:

Tanisha Hankerson! You are CRIMINALS and liars at Kiley!

Yesterday I sat for a few minutes in a meeting at Ann Kiley Developmental Center in Waukegan, IL, as an advocate for a developmentally disabled adult and his mother/guardian. The facility had about eight clinicians and administrators in the room. There were additional people in Springfield on remote conference, and a detailed agenda, including an elaborate but utterly cynical "service plan" which everyone apparently expected to spend considerable time working through. I had the following statement prepared, and I made it pretty quick.

Janauary 3, 2026 Statement to Staff at Kiley Developmental Center

To be clear, I do not yet represent this resident of Kiley or his mom and guardian as legal counsel in any formal proceeding in any jurisdiction. I'm here only because they asked me to be present, and you invited me to the meeting.

However (perhaps along with my clients--that will be up to them), I shall refuse to pretend that this is a meeting with "helping professionals" who ought to be respected for their good intentions and special ability. Some part of this group I'm talking to right now (not everyone here, I'm sure), are just flat-out criminals. I do not work with criminals, and I will not show them any respect. You know who you are better than I do, for the moment.

Going forward, I will work with people like the Illinois State Police and the U.S. Justice Department, who can bring the criminals in this room to justice. And I will work with members of the media who can expose the criminals to everlasting opprobrium.

Now I am going to leave.

That was all. I stood up and put my coat on, only inquiring about whether a transcript of the meeting would be available. The apparatchiks around the table, of course, vaguely and dumbly disclaimed any knowledge or any ability to answer that question. I also commented unofficially that if my clients were asked to sign anything that was not true (as I knew was the plan), they would be wise to refuse.

My clients joined me outside right away. It was their observation that the Kiley people had been shocked, which was fine, I don't care. The bottom line is, there are about 20 million taxpayers in Illinois who fund these people's salaries, benefits and pensions, and they would be shocked if they sat in on a day of what these so-called "public servants" actually do. For example, they brutalize people who are dependent upon them for "care":

This picture was taken by the mother/guardian of a resident at Kiley snake pit, within the last month. These wounds are barely healed. But the psychological wounds are definitely still festering. This resident hides in his room 22/24 hours a day, to avoid the violent criminals who do this to him. This is the "therapeutic milieu" the State of Illinois has created for its most vulnerable citizens! This is the "quality of care" provided by mental health professionals!

Xiamara QUIT Gus' team!

Xiamara Ramirez left Gus' staffing in a hurry last week. She pretty well raced down the hall ahead of me toward the Administrative offices. I don't know for sure, but at the time the thought I had was, "Oh, of course! She's going to complain about Gus and me." We had just made the point that there was no way she could be Gus' social worker. For some reason beyond rational imagination, she had just been appointed to that job after Joe Basso had been transferred elsewhere.

Gus was distraught, because he had been led along the garden path for most of a year with assertions that the "hospital" wanted to conditionally release him, and that his treatment team was working hard to find him community placement, which was the only task left before a petition could be brought to the court. It turned out to be all lies. Xiamara's appointment to the same position she had ostentatiously resigned back in the summer of 2024 (as Gus' caseworker) was the final blow which revealed the lying and once again, perhaps finally, ended this patient's willingness to consider that anyone at EMHC ever intends to help him.

There was more proof of the complete corruption Gus had long seen. Soon after the staffing and Xiamara's dash to Administration offices, Gus started hearing that he would shortly be transferred to White Cottage. There's not that much wrong with White Cottage itself. It's just that a transfer will mean no conditional release for him any time soon. That's a huge departure from what all these guys had been saying for months. It's a dramatic betrayal, which I unfortunately may have aided and abetted, by encouraging Gus to be cool and to believe that Dr. Gill and the rest of the treatment team and the administration were honestly trying to get him released. Gus' mom died last year. His father is not doing well. His sisters want him to be able to help, and he loves his family.

One interesting bit is that the facility can't actually transfer Gus right now because he had a positive COVID test (he was in fact very sick), and he has to test negative before they can move him around. He recently went to a local hospital for another medical procedure in a van while the security guard, Paul Bennett (Badge No. 45), was coughing and sneezing all along the way. Badge 45 was even told by the hospital receptionist that he had to put on a mask (but he never did). I told Gus to get better, but don't test negative for COVID! Are they going to force him to take a COVID test the same way they brutally force people to take unwanted psychiatric drugs, just hoping the test will be negative so they can transfer him to White Cottage even if he'll make other people sick? That would be interesting, right? EMHC is a "hospital" (it's totally laughable).

Whoever is pushing this transfer is cynically harming Gus' whole family for no reason but retribution (or possibly for the convenience of the institution, or possibly to further some cover-up of why Xiamara was papering over the window in her office door contrary to regulations). They need to make an example that tells all the other slaves at EMHC and the other plantations, "Don't ever complain, don't ever snitch, we will get you for that!"

As Xiamara ran past me down the hall, I could almost hear her thinking exactly those words.

Xiamara really is back, OMG!

Social worker Xiamara Ramirez has her old office back, on low-functioning N Unit again. (I haven't heard whether she's papering over the window so nobody can see what she's doing in there.) Amazingly, she was recently re-assigned as Gus' social worker (!!) when Joe "dumb-as-basalt-rock" Basso was moved to another unit for reasons unknown.

Joe was unable to accomplish even the most mundane tasks for his "patient" and apparently chose instead to just flat-out lie about having contacted community facilities which might accept Gus into residential treatment programs when he may be conditionally released from EMHC. Joe claimed he had been talking to people about whether they might accept Gus at the following facilities: Lydic Healthcare Center, HSI, Ecker Center, Thresholds, and HRDI (possibly among others).

The reason Gus is willing to accuse Joe of just flat-out lying about doing his job... is that Gus got the list of facilities Joe claimed he had called, and then checked by calling each of them himself and being told they never heard of Gus, or Joe, or Elgin Mental Health Center. 

In a recent monthly staffing, I also accused Dr. Vikramjit Gill of just flat-out lying, because he said he didn't recall anything about Xiamara Ramirez having previously been unwilling to be Gus' social worker. Dr. Gill was the one who recruited Joe "dumb-as-basalt-rock" Basso to become Gus' social worker when Xiamara unceremoniously stopped talking to Gus and refused to have anything further to do with him, actually quitting her position on Gus' treatment team possibly because she blamed him for my having insulted her on this blog. I even put her name in headlines, back in 2025 and 2024. (See, here, here, here, here, and here, maybe among other mentions in other articles).

In one other article from July, 2024, which has been very popular because of its racy headline, I made the point that sexual abuse of mental patients is absolutely endemic in IDHS psychiatric institutions, because those facilities are not really hospitals, they are slave plantations. The staff act as though they believe that the patients are their property, to be used for whatever benefits might be available. To me, it even harkens back to Sally Hemmings having Thomas Jefferson's babies. I mentioned Xiamara Ramirez in the context of accusing the whole system of such slavery. Maybe I shouldn't have, because I never believed Xiamara's door window was papered over so she could sexually abuse her patients. But it's the kind of thing people think of when they can't explain why she breaks the rules. It's such a corrupt environment that all manner of perverse  corruption almost has to be suspected any time anything looks odd.

Dr. Gill remembers that time, and the problems of Gus and Xiamara in 2024. In the recent monthly staffing, he specifically queried my mention of psychiatric slavery as "an over-exaggeration," maybe for Xiamara's benefit as she continued to sit in the room even after Gus had asked her to leave and made a very direct point that she cannot be his social worker. So I was disappointed that Vik would flat-out lie and pretend he recalled nothing about the whole brouhaha. But he's often between a rock and a hard place. He doesn't like many things about the institution, or at least he pretends he doesn't to me, and he keeps saying he's about to retire, but he never does. Who knows, maybe Xiamara has some kind of effective pull with the administration at EMHC. Maybe she's an agent of James Patrick "The-Almighty-Statewide-Forensic-Medical-Director" Corcoran, and she ran straight to him for air cover,with a new complaint about Gus and me, as soon as that staffing was over! (But this is speculative to a point of absurdity, of course!)

One fact remains. Gus has been told that his treatment team was working on a conditional release packet for the better part of the last year. But nobody has actually done anything. Either Joe was just too dumb-as-basalt-rock to try to find a placement, and lied when he told Gus he was working on it in order to cover his own incompetent rear-end, or there's a whole program from somebody else that is actually intended to mislead Gus and me.

Just incidentally, I noticed that a white KIA Seltos with Illinois plates had taken Corcoran's sacred parking place at EMHC the other day. Somebody is playing with fire!

Weird, weird thing, I sure can't figure it out! Someday it'll all be part of a book.