Then Alice Went Down The Rabbit Hole

Let's keep in mind that my interview with Matt Spencer only lasted 45 minutes and I do not recall any subsequent interviews concerning my mental health during my time in OSH. From his brief examination Matt concluded that I suffered from the following psychosis and/or disabilities:

• Current danger to others: threat
  
• Poor personal hygiene
• Visual limitations
• Suspicious
• Anxious
• Detached
• Paranoid
• Bizarre
• Auditory hallucinations
• Visual hallucinations
• Memory impaired remote
• Memory impaired recent
• Insight lacking
• Impaired abstract thinking
• Impaired judgment
  
• Bizarre behavior
• Generalized anxiety

I left out a few items that were incomprehensible to the layman but that still leaves nineteen to ponder. There was scant explanation of the reasoning behind each entry that would allow a person of normal intelligence to gain some insight into the patient. "Bizarre" for instance. What is the meaning and significance of this accusation? Only Matt knows for sure.

Moving on through Matt's report you might get the impression that getting me committed to Osawatomie was going to "make his day".

Below are items from the report that were check marked.

• Recommend involuntary admission to Osawatomie State Hospital in accordance with KSA Statute;

(must meet criteria 1,2 and 3, plus 4 and/or 5 below)
from pg. 5B of screening form-the items below were all check marked.

• 1. Is suffering from a severe mental disorder to the extent that he/she needs involuntary care in a State Hospital.
• 2. Lacks the capacity to make an informed decision concerning his/her need for treatment
• 3. Is not manifesting a primary diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder, chemical abuse/addiction, mental retardation, organic personality syndrome, or an organic mental disorder.
• 4. Is likely, in the reasonably foreseeable future, to cause substantial physical injury or physical abuse to self or others or substantial damage to another's property, as evidenced by behavior causing, attempting, or threatening such injury, abuse or damage; or
• 5. Is substantially unable, except for a reason of indigence, to provide for any of his /her basic needs, such as food, clothing, shelter, health, or safety, causing a substantial deterioration of the person's ability to function with current level of support, care or structure.

Concerning the 5 items above, they are pure Bullshit!!! Matt had to swear that this crap was true or I walked on him. First he says that I am a "Current danger to others: threat" and then for good measure adds #4 on to the charges. I thought there were intruders in my house and threatened them with a gun. If those people were actually there, then the Castle Doctrine applies. Click here for explanation. If the people did not exist then I threatened no one.

If I were actually a "Current danger to others: threat" then I would have shot my house completely full of holes. The OK Corral dust up would have looked like a tea party by comparison!

But nothing violent occurred. I thought I was in danger and I called 911. Matt was pulling whatever it took out of very thin air in order to make a case for my commitment to Osawatomie. Four County employees must get points for locking people up.

And let's not overlook the profit motive. My short stay in Osawatomie cost $7,000. Medicare paid $6,000. Where does the rest come from? I'll have to wait and see. And after I was dismissed from the hospital Four County had their hooks in me and I supposedly owe them $1000 because insurance won't cover the group counseling they offer.

But here is a question that literally begs for an answer; If they locked me up for being crazy, why is the only treatment I have received and continue to receive is for Drugs and Alcohol?


If Lewis Carroll were alive today he would be begging to write a book about these events.