Is Worcester's Newtown Psychiatric Hospital operating a funding scandal?

I’m sure I’m not the only inpatient to have said this, but the question of whether a funding scandal is happening at Newtown hospital is perhaps an important one.

Twice now I’ve been detained under the mental health act for saying that I believed my life was at risk from members of the criminal underworld, and twice no real investigation has been done in order to find out if any of my claims could have actually been true.

Just imagine you were in the same position where over time you were sure you had seen plenty of signs that an organised murder plot was actually been put in place, not by the the local neighbours in your block of flats that you suspected were involved, but someone higher that seemed to have the ability and the funds to outsource such underworld hits to local firms that would be quick enough to take the money.

It really doesn’t matter what elements have been involved in order to ensure that a hit stays ‘clean’ and undetectable because once you’ve told mental health or hospital workers any of it nobody seems to not only believe you anyway, but nobody is going to take the time to investigate why you think it was happening in the first place. You’re simply sectioned under the mental health act with no questions asked. Immediately delusional according to the consultants and psychiatrists that we may presume live in completely different worlds on their £100k+ wages. Sometimes I wonder if they are much more closely connected to the criminal underworld and police corruption than we ever first thought though, especially when they have willingly become a part of a cover-up of your own story. The whole situation gives me ‘Eyes Wide Shut’ vibes.

My own story of forced injections at Newtown Hospital has been nothing but a completely dirty one, and was pushed forward twice by consultant psychiatrists specifically in an attempt to stop be having time to get any sort of legal consultation and from everything I’ve seen, many of us already know that the whole system is pretty much rigged against us.

Before my forced depot injections I had already notified the hospital that they were breaching The Human Rights Act under article 3, 5 and 8 which had related to my specific situation.

I’m very lucky to have the motivation to be writing this write now, as I know the antipsychotic tablets I’ve also been put on will soon kick in, rendering any sort of motivation and normal cognition completely deflated.

It’s crazy that this can happen and that West Mercia Police can simply stonewall you in such a situation too. I’m in a completely hellish situation which only those that have been here can comprehend or understand. I don’t expect most people to understand because this hasn’t happened to everyone, especially consultant psychiatrists that only find themselves in the grips of crime unless they’ve had their wrists bent, and sometimes I really do wonder.

On the ward I’m on there are notices and posters everywhere about advocates, complaints procedures and the like, but pretty much all of it is a useless illusion because nobody ever steps up to do what they say they do anyway.

Expecting an advocate? Expect nobody to listen or truly speak up for you.

Expecting the complaints procedure to understand your concerns? Don’t bother, just expect everyone to pass around the hot potato and nothing to be done anyway.

Not even my emails warning people of criminal breaches of Human Rights and breaches of codes of practice to even be acknowledged.

Simply put, I believe Newtown Psychiatric Hospital to just be one of many hospitals that have gone completely rogue, operating under their own rules likely due to the cuts and stress that the staff find themselves under. Why am I here? Perhaps because each new patient admitted ticks a funding box and helps keep the very people that are diagnosing me in the well-paid jobs that they enjoy.

There’s not much else that I can say right now, except that I feel completely railroaded.

I’m still in shock that I live in a system that detains people in secure hospitals based on 10-minuite consultations that aren’t worth having anyway because it seems that consultant psychiatrists seem not only pen-happy to write people going through difficult situations as paranoid schizophrenics or delusional, but also to push forced drug injections onto those same patients.

For creative musicians and writers like myself, it pretty much feels like a death sentence because I know the drugs that they are giving me aren’t helping me, they are just blocking my dopamine which doesn’t give me much feeling to do anything. I look around the ward and see others like me that are just left to fester away with their only outlets of expression often being the few art sessions put together by well-meaning occupational therapists, but it still feels like a prison sentence for many of us. There are those like me that if they didn’t feel suicidal before they were detained, then the feeling of having so many of your basic human rights taken away is certainly enough for some people to want to end it all, especially when coming in as an informal patient on the advice of my (hopefully former) mental health worker who tells you that you won’t get sectioned, but instead you do.

I’ve likely already said this before, but my respect for the mental health is pretty much gone. I know by know that it’s a criminals golden ticket to be able to get away with whatever they like.

Think you’re hacked? They’ll say it’s delusion.

Think a group of people are going to harm you? They tell you that these things are just in peoples heads.

I guess it’s a comfortable outlook when you grow up in the suburbs.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are fucked.

But why are psychiatrists so quick to label people as delusion based on 10-minute consultations?

Maybe just maybe it’s those like me that are detaining are just another box ticket in order to keep the funding they need for the hospital. They’d make no money if they labelled us as healthy.

I’ll say it again, the system has either gone rogue, or it simply always was.

I better end this article now as the Aripripozole is starting to kick back in.

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