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Care adversely affected by mental health stigma

I am a social work student at UNCG. Currently, I work in the mental health field, and last year I did a research project on the quality of care individuals in the mental health system are receiving. Thus I feel uniquely qualified, as well as obligated, to comment on the mental health crisis in North Carolina.

A major concern is the difficulty many find obtaining and retaining services. Many insurance providers place a cap on the number of visits to a therapist or substance abuse treatment provider. This is disservice to those who have mental health issues.

Would we accept it if insurance providers told someone dying of cancer they could only receive chemotherapy six times before they would have to pay out of pocket? I think not!

It is the stigma that society places on mental illness as well as the lack of seriousness we attribute to it that keeps many from receiving proper care. As a society, we must do more to erase the stigma placed on mental illness and inform others about the failing system.

Johnette Walser
Winston-Salem

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rb2dye [TypeKey Profile Page] said:

Counterpoint to Johnette Walser's LTE. Mental Health has had a major breakdown in that it hands out mental health drugs to incompetent care providers using them as a means of fraud. I have personal experience in that my son is held hostage by my ex taking illegal guardianship over him in September 2002 to intentionally disable my son for financial control and disability fraud. He overdoses my son each morning before he leaves to go spend a day at a job where he does nothing. My so is denied a case manager at my ex's discretion according to Gloria Selgado at Guilford County Mental Health. He is also denied a psychologist to whom he can be counselled about the drug abuse fed to him each day and being left in a state of catatonia whereby he is rendered incompetent and unable to cry out for any type of help. The abuse starts again when my ex arrives home somewhere after 8 p.m. every night after he has fed his face, leaving his hostage with no food to absorb the over dose of psycho meds fed to him. Then the abuse starts, since the drug overdose is to silence my son from being able to coherently talk to anyone about the daily abuse he receives as substantiated and documented over the years. Such abuse was also substantiated during his three years of high school while at Grimsley High School from 1999 to 2001. He made exceptionally good grades but the reports by his teachers and instructors all stated that he could not stay away in class. He did not stay up all night like most kids, he was overdosed on Ritalin to shut him up so he could not talk, since he would talk about the abuse he received at home. Finally in August 1999, my son ran from his abusive environment, only to have DSS substantiate the most graphic sexual, physical, mental, educational, and emotional abuse but at the same time they failed to submit their substantiated and documented report to the then newly elected DA, Stuart Albright in 2000 so that my ex husband could be indicted. In July 2000, I would win all the appeals in the 16-year period of our domestic case in which my ex and I had joint custody but my ex kept my sons from me knowing that some day the abuse as the reason he abandoned the marital home in October 1986 would surface. As well, all of the residences that he moved to were kept hidden, while he used the attorney I hired for a divorce in 1984 over the last 20 years to now carry out a financial fraud while using mental health fraud to state that my son was and is mentally retarded because of ADHD at age 5 in Sept. 2002, 19 years later. He kept that illegal proceeding secret, as he along with Kitty Hatfield used the clerk of court to orchestrate, direct and carry out the conspiracy of financial fraud while using both of my parents through the years and currently my mother for financial gifts to the one son in the military who never receives such gifts after his marriage in Dec. 2005 with my mother in attendance to make it again look like no one cared about his so called perfect son financially and turned everyone against my sons and myself included by alienating my family so that the son held hostage is not by my ex allowed to call anyone, go see anyone, or anyone come see him as stated in open court in May 2007 for fear Dan would run as he did in August 1999. I filed appeals and another federal suit in November 2003 and 2004 after my father was used as a third party for Kitty Hatfield over the years from 2001 to the present time to ascertain her source of fraud by extortion using my father now that my mother had been extorted for 18 years as the care taker of my sons during the early court years. My ex at the direction of attorney Kathryn Hatfield implimented mental health fraud for disability fraud to pay her legal services until she could carry out the financial fraud set in place by her conspiracy using every judge, DSS, Mental Health, local and county law enforcement agencies to obstruct the fraud investigation when the financial fraud crime played itself out on February 21, 2006. Hatfield had set in motion trumphed up charges in false warrants altered by her partner Jack Hatfield when I retained an attorney to fight the charges so that the lies and deceit based in incompetent application of the law would fit the lies and deceit of my ex evaluated to be a sexual pedophile in July 1987, narcissistic, introverted, schizophrenic, and paranoid as well which is his personality profile today as well as that profile of Mike Devlin the kidnapper of Shawn Hornbeck. I have filed my case with the attorney general since the DA's former, past, and present are all involved in the crimes of this case to obstruct any fraud investigation or any investigation into mental health fraud not reporting the abuse of drug overdose by my ex, since they admit they see the problem, but do nothing about it. You are right when you state that insurance companies will not pay for something they suspect as fraud, but mental health does nothing to stop the fraud in this case. I know that those so called shrinks that my son sees sit and look like they are starring at a bug on the wall. When the warrants didn't work, then the chief district court judge was used by Hatfield in a falsified trumphed up charge of my calling him 55 times using a detective with the GPD. With such involvement and no justice or due process, then the fraud involved in this case involving Mental Health, DSS, and the courts was obstructed from being investigated and all those agencies who continue to allow the ongoing abuse of my son currently held hostage. Along with the false warrant, my ex was instructed to obtain unsubstantiated 50B Orders saying that my son, as a plaintiff, was afraid of the mother he begged to be with and that he had to be put on anxiety medication to overcome his fright and thoughts of his mother as stated by my ex on several occasions in court. He states that my son has not seen a medical doctor for any well man's check ups since he didn't know what I meant. IF my son were to go to a doctor, a doctor would be able to suspect a problem, therefore no one is to be allowed near my son. I am kept away by the illegal abuse of the 50B's without any due process since I live out of town since I was exiled to shut me up in December 1997. If my ex had any restitution owed to him during the time I was exiled, or illegal child support I was entered into illegally in May 2001 by attorney Hatfield to set up the motive of her financial fraud crime, then he should have filed a law suit. He failed to file a lawsuit as of August 2000 or to overturn the appeals by the NC Supreme Court's ruling of constitutional and civil rights violations where it vacated every order and motion falsely used over 16 years from 1986 to 2000 and then again from 2001 to the current time in a case without any jurisdiction. If you know the mental health system as well as you do, then let's see you look into mental health fraud, whereby my son is obstructed along with all other subpoeaned DSS APS workers, mental health staff and doctors, neighbors, as well as my son since he is not in a vegetated state of mind, deaf, dumb, blind, or mute. He's begging for his life while I'm in the process of filing another federal suit suing mental health for aiding and abetting premeditated murder in the first degree by my ex with one slip of one of the ten pills he overdoses my son with daily to get at me. Mental Health does nothing to stop this crime, but states the county attorney is who I need to talk to. Ms. Sharon Kurtz of Guilford County as the county attorney has yet to return one of my calls for over a year and a half. As well, I finally got to personally speak to the new director of DSS yesterday, 2/5/08, Mr. Robert Williams, who had never received one of my calls and my messages were erased by his administrative staff since all are controlled by Kitty Hatfield since this case and crime would be exposed if my son were to be set free or run to someone he could trust. He can't trust my family since my ex has lied to them about orders that do not exist. Do not try to paint a good picture about Mental Health, since they create the fraud and insurance companies denying claims or assistance to those who have mental health problems and needs. I would like to see a complete investigation of the many cases that have been used by mental health fraud by Kitty Hatfield, as I now have 56 documented cases and more to come involving the same crimes during their domestic cases. Kitty thrives on abuse of every legal and public servant and government officials whereby it is a federal crime by those officials and employees of any government agency to deprive the public of "honest services." My ex receives medicare and medicaid pay while working a full time job and drawing more pay than allowed by law. Mike Mosely and his dirty crew in Raleigh are of no assistance to stop this fraud, so I will be suing the North Carolina Government involving all government agencies involved in this crime. Let's see your response to this letter to your letter.

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