When I came to US, I was naïve, idealistic and thought this was a land of freedom and common sence
I am positive we agree on the following statements.
1. Crime shouldn’t pay, even if is low level crime.
2. If physicians or another person make statements and sign it and it has a huge impact on someone else’s life, they should be held responsible for their actions.
3. One’s basic personality does not undergo massive and permanent shifts near the age of 40
4. It is easy to spot a person whose connection to reality is not good; it would be obvious if somebody had an incurable major mental illness.
Here are some short statements and known facts that show that my story is not merely speculation. Variations of what happened to me happened to thousands of people in the US.
In the 1970’s, there was lots talk about the political abuse of psychiatry and human rights violation in the former U.S.S.R. It’s hard to believe, but in the U.S. psychiatry is abused for fraudulent profit in the past and now. Here are two samples of this kind of abuse. US senator Chuck Grassley, from Iowa, investigated Tenet healthcare and what he found was that “NME was a scandal-plagued corporation accused of, among other allegations: maintaining a corporate policy at its psychiatric facilities of paying doctors for patients referrals, imprisoning patients for insurance payments, milking insurance until coverage was exhausted” Another known example is the investigation by Patricia Schroeder of “Unjustified psychiatric commitment in the US”. Pharmaceutical companies reap the profits with the help of psychiatrists before they run out of patients. Proof children as young as three years old in foster homes are routinely given antipsychotic medications, this is not just a crime, and this is a tragedy. Psychiatrists have the unchecked power to erroneously diagnose, confine and drug a patient, depriving a patient of all civil rights, including by falsely labeling the patient and facing no consequences for this abuse of power.
I was born 8/30/1960 in the former USSR, Ukraine. From 1978-1980 I served in the Red Army. I got married in 1981. I got an engineering degree in 1986 in the electronics field. My now ex-wife immigrated to the US in 1989 and in 1990 I also moved to the United States. I was naïve and idealistic and thought this was a land of common sense and freedom and I trusted all institutions. However I ended up victim of base greed and abject lies with lifelong impact.
In July of 1999 I experienced extreme stress caused primarily by my ex-wife (my ex told me that God told her that demons possessed me. In response, I took my hand gun to the police department because I was concerned that next time God might “tell” her to shoot me.) I started to suffer from insomnia. I called for medical help. I blacked out in the ambulance and when I awoke I found myself in a medical facility surrounded by obviously strange and abnormal patients (West Seattle Psychiatric Hospital). It was unjustified psychiatric commitment for two and one half weeks. I was put on psychotropic’s medications against my will (Haldol, Zyprexa, and Depakote). I felt like I had been raped.
These drugs can produce the following side effects: Abnormal thoughts, confusions, memory loss, agitations, nervousness, depression, euphoria, delusions, manic reactions, schizophrenic reaction, hostility, involuntary movements of the arms and legs.
Diagnosis: psychosis NOS. “Ruled out alcohol/abuse dependence. His mental status examination is complicated by his relatively limited command of English.” In the admission form it says that I have had psychiatric treatment in the Ukraine, this is a literal lie.
How is it possible to treat a patient with poor English against his will with psychotropic medication?
They invented a fake mental illness. I do not believe it was an honest mistake or misdiagnosis of psychosis. It was done deliberately to milk my insurance company.
I was employed by a high tech company in research and development department. Psychiatric diagnosis led to my layoff in six months. Prior to this I had never been fired or laid off from a job in my life.
I don’t care about the diagnosis or what people say. Those psychiatric labels have had a huge lifelong impact on my life.
In October of 2000 I decided to take a short vacation alone and my ex-wife went ballistic and even involved my parents to try and talk me out of the idea. I told all of them to leave me alone, which they did, but then after a couple of hours, two police officers showed up at my place. They told me everything was fine and asked if I would step outside, so I did. They proceeded to tell me that my family was concerned about my state of mind so I was to be taken to West Seattle Psychiatric Hospital. I released after three days.
This time, there was one massively important difference: I was no longer covered by medical insurance. In both instances, the attending psychiatrist assessed me on the fifth Axis of diagnosis (Global Assessment of Function or GAF) at 10. This is significant because at this level, I was supposedly “a persistent danger of severely hurting myself or others”. The first time, they responded to this assessment by institutionalizing me for two and a half weeks at a rate of $1100 per day. The second time with the exact same GAF score, I was only held for 72 hours. The only conceivable reason that in the second instance I was released after so short a period is that either I was, in spite of the documented GAF score of 10, normal individual, or that I no longer had medical insurance to milk and was therefore not worth the effort of “treatment”. The underlying tenets of all medical practice as verbalized in the Hippocratic Oath reveal either the base incompetence or malpractice of any psychiatrist who releases onto the public an individual that they believe to be a persistent danger to themselves and others.
While I was institutionalized, my former significant other filed a restraining order against me based upon multiple falsehoods. She claimed that I was not working and drinking heavily every day. The Social Security Administration and the IRS have records of my earnings through my entire life in USA. These records put to lie my ex’s claims and reveal her willingness to lie under penalty of perjury.
October 22, 2000 I was arrested on an alleged violation of a restraining order. I was booked in King County Jail, general population. In the evening I was moved to solitary confinement. (I didn’t know why I was moved but I found out later that my ex had called the jail and said that I had been a patient of West Seattle Hospital, I have a record of this). I was released on PR the next day.
After I got the restraining order from my ex I stayed at on a motor yacht in the Ballard Marina. My friend Michael Harris, (whose boat I was staying on) had started to drink heavily. He was acting very careless and falling asleep with lit cigarettes in his mouth and other such behavior. Because of this, On December 5th 2000, I decided to move. Mr. Harris accused me of stealing his cell phone. Without any evidence of the crime, I was arrested and booked in jail. While in jail I missed a court date about my alleged restraining order violation. I told the jail staff about my court date but they refused to let me attend my court appointment. I was released on bond, and at my next hearing (for the alleged phone theft) my public defender notified me that the courts were attempting to send me to Western State Hospital for a mental evaluation simply because my wife told the courts that I had mental problems.
Regarding my medical records, here are a few possibilities (the doctors refused to record the conversation and even would not allow me to have a pencil to record the conversation).
1. Psychiatric labels tend to stick in a way that everything a person does is interpreted in accordance with the diagnostic label once it has been applied.
2. Total incompetence on the part of staff (they were not able to see the difference between an angry person and a person with an incurable mental illness).
3. Or it’s just about money; Western State Hospital charged $535 per day.
On page 4 of a Western State Hospital document (enclosed) dated 14 Feb 2003, the doctor states, “it is also highly likely that he will need to continue lifelong treatment in order to decrease the frequency and duration of illness episodes. Need to stay away from alcohol.” However I have a couple drinks almost every day, I don’t take any medication and I there are no symptoms of any mental issues.
In July of 1999 my involuntary psychiatric commitment had serious consequences, major side effects from the drugs I was forced to take, psychiatric labels, and it was first time in my life that I had ever been laid off from a job.
January 2001 I was put on mind altering psychotropic drugs before my appearance in front of the judge regarding the violation of the restraining order. I understand that people are wrongfully arrested and charged with a crime but the justice system treated me like I had a major mental illness because of my labels so I entered a plea of guilty to get out of jail. INS picked me up because I was not a citizen, just a green card holder and tried to deport me but the USSR no longer exists. I have become de-facto stateless.
One’s basic personality does not undergo massive and permanent shifts near the age of 40. How does one go from being normal to suddenly becoming a violent and dangerously mentally ill person? Base greed and abject lies destroyed my life.
If you use simple logic, my case does not require lots of footwork from an investigator.
It is easy to spot a person whose connection with reality is not good. It would be obvious if somebody had an incurable major mental illness (bipolar disorder type 1 and schizoaffective disorder). In 2004 after being released from immigration jail, with no belongings, I ended up in a shelter in downtown Seattle. Two years later I made a gross annual income of $171,000. Something doesn’t add up here, my income and my alleged mental illness. In the 12 years since my alleged incurable major mental illness, I’ve been self employed and have been an employer myself, I’ve worked for a few different employers and have met many people who will testify that I do not have any single mental issue. I never took any psychotropic medication on my own. People get away with lying in court daily. Perjuries testimony poses one of the greatest threats to the justices system. A widely known example is the Duke La Cross case where accuser the women has not received one bit of punishment.