Tag Archives: neglect

When Speaking the Truth Changes the Dynamic: Reclaiming Agency After Harm

Posted on June 3, 2026 by Shay Seaborne, CPTSD

For a few years I felt helpless about something awful that had happened to me. An abuser had sexually assaulted me, and for a long time it felt like the story ended there: harm done, no meaningful response from any … Continue reading →

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How I Came to See the Mental Illness Industry as One of the Biggest Frauds of All Time

Posted on October 10, 2025 by Shay Seaborne, CPTSD

For most of my life, I believed the people in white coats were there to help. I thought psychiatrists and therapists were part of a system built to understand suffering, to care for people in distress, to ease pain. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Mental Health | Tagged abuse, Behavioral Health, diagnoses, fraud, gaslighting, Medicine, Mental Health, mental illness industry, metal illness, neglect, profiteering, psychiatry, revenue, standard treatment, treatment | Leave a comment

Standard Treatment Is Abuse: What ChristianaCare Taught Me About Mental Health “Care”

Posted on June 30, 2025 by Shay Seaborne, CPTSD

It’s been seven years since a ChristianaCare physician lied, gaslit, and coerced me into agreeing to psychiatric hospitalization. Here, I share the grievance I filed with ChristianaCare’s Patient and Family Relations department two years later. As the system continued to … Continue reading →

Posted in Abuse, Psychiatry | Tagged abuse, Behavioral Health, black box medication, ChristianaCare, disabled, Emergency, Emergency Room, exploitation, Lexapro, Mental Health, neglect, patient safety, pharmacogenomic testing, psych medications, psych meds, psychiatric abuse, psychiatric hospital, Rockford Center for Behavioral Health, safety fail, SSRIs | Leave a comment

ChristianaCare Protects Itself by Protecting a Bad Psychologist

Posted on June 18, 2025 by Shay Seaborne, CPTSD

I told a ChristianaCare psychologist about a serious concern on June 18, 2018. I said I was having increased suicidal ideations (SI) since the prior visit. I told Alan L. Schwartz, Psy.D., about my father and difficulties with Father’s Day, … Continue reading →

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Medicalized Trauma: ChristianaCare’s Behavioral Health Fail

Posted on May 31, 2025 by Shay Seaborne, CPTSD

Seven years ago today, I first met with Alan L. Schwartz PsyD, the “embedded” psychologist at ChristianaCare’s Family Medicine Center at Foulk Road, having been referred to him by an intern at that facility. Schwartz (I refuse to use the … Continue reading →

Posted in Mental Health, Uncategorized | Tagged ChristianaCare, neglect, psychologist, Psychology, Rockford Center for Behavioral Health, UHS | Leave a comment