Anyone else have some stories of how the privacy rules were violated? When I was locked up they kept going on about how it would be 'private' information if I agreed to take their poisonous anti-psychotic drugs. I knew it was total BS. And when I went to court for my competency hearing I really found out how little privacy meant to the mental health Nazis and the courts:
I was accused of simple assault on a child molester. But of course he denied being a child molester and said I was crazy. He HAD told me that the high school principal had had an affair with a student then told me there was nothing wrong with helping students get in touch wit their sexuality. Then later he denied saying it. I made the mistake of telling an administrator at the school - he called the mental health Nazis and told them I was delusional. I was really mad and when I saw the teacher on the street I swung at him and chased him down the street - with him yelling help help! I scared him a bit then went home.
A few minutes later the cops show up and arrest me. I was charged with simple assault - thought I would make bail and be out. Nope - I got 90 days for evaluation in the psych hospital. Never got a chance to talk with a public defender until day 85. The shrink had found me incompetent which meant an indefinite commitment to the hospital. I told the public defender that there had to be a way to get another evaluation. I knew a guy on the ward who had been there 4 years after throwing a thermometer at a nurse in the hospital. But the lawyer really wants me to go with the incompetency thing because I get found not guilty by insanity - and she wins her case.
In court the first guy to testify is the child molester who I was accused of simple assault on. He gets up on the stand and tells this ridiculous lie that he had interpreted a dream of mine to my English class when I was in school and I was obsessed with it and wanted him to remember what it was. (By the way - that did match at all when the psychiatrist said I was saying when he testified.)Then he sits down 20 feet behind me and gets to hear the entire 'private' evaluation that the psychiatrist goes on about for an hour while testifying. My lawyer doesn't object to this privacy violation. The judge doesn't object to this privacy violation. The psychiatrist doesn't object to this privacy violation. WTF???
I never even made a specific complaint about it until about a year into my two year incarceration. I was going on to my shrink (a different shrink than the one who found me incompetent) about how the child molesters at the school are lying to cover their child molesting perversions and trying to make me out to be crazy - and they see it's been working. He says they don't know why I'm locked up - because my mental health records are PRIVATE. I wanted to punch that a-hole in the FACE. I said they know all about what's been going on and he asked how. I told him how the child molester had heard all the forensic psychiatrists testimony and he just blubbered 'that's not supposed to happen.'
The privacy rule is a total crock - the Nazis only use it so they don't have to let anyone know how they are abusing people's rights.