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How SEIU F***** Over Trauma Survivors
Several years ago, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) put up a website saying that they were looking for stories from people who had been gaslit, threatened, and otherwise abused by Universal Health Services (UHS), America’s largest psychiatric hospital chain. … Continue reading
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Tagged Behavioral Health, delaware, DOJ, exploitation, fraudulent billing, lawsuit, Mental Health, psychiatric hospital, SEIU, UHS, Universal Health Services
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My Manufactured Mental Health Crisis
On June 12, 2018, seven years ago today, I sat in the office of ChristianaCare psychologist Dr. Alan L. Schwartz and told him I had been triggered by unexpected contact with my mother. I told him I had cut myself … Continue reading
Medicalized Trauma: ChristianaCare’s Behavioral Health Fail
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
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Tagged ChristianaCare, neglect, psychologist, Psychology, Rockford Center for Behavioral Health, UHS
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Profiteers of Human Misery: the Corporate Greed Behind Unchecked Psychiatric Abuse
In 2016, BuzzFeed published an investigative report that exposed widespread abuse within the psychiatric industry, specifically targeting Universal Health Services (UHS), one of the largest operators of behavioral health facilities in the U.S. The report uncovered disturbing practices, particularly the … Continue reading
America’s standard treatment for childhood trauma: more abuse and neglect
If you had “good enough” parents you were blessed with a fairly regulated nervous system, integrated brain, and secure attachment style. These contribute greatly to a sense of well-being from which health arises and a good life can unfold. If … Continue reading