Resources for group stalking targets in the MH system

People who report stalking by groups to the authorities often end up forced into the mental health system. This post is to offer a couple of items which may assist group stalking targets in the mental health system:

1. An e-booklet giving a good overview of "organized" (group) stalking which provides statistics to support your claims that this is a prevalent crime and not imagination, and is minus some of the hysterical theories which this crime unfortunately prompts some targets to relate to the authorities:

http://www.stopos.info/osatv.pdf

I've had several crisis support staffers thank me for this e-booklet, which printed out becomes a "desk reference" for encounters with organized stalking targets.

2. A published book about organized or group stalking in the workplace, which has come to be called by professionals studying it, "mobbing":

http://www.randomcollection.info/mobbook.htm

3. A practical tip based on personal experience.

Like many other targets, I was referred to the mental health system when I reported being stalked by groups to the police and my doctor. By God's grace, I was moved to locate a lawyer with mental health advocacy experience. She explained to me that there is variation among psychiatrists on their approach to many different issues, and she referred me to a psychiatrist who was completely objective, and could separate clinical signs of mental illness from the common (false) presumption that stalking by groups doesn't happen.

I gave that psychiatrist a binder of information about organized stalking.

The psychiatrist gave me a clean bill of mental health in spite of my explaining what organized stalking was in considerable detail. This support allowed me to avoid further pressure to enter the mental health system.

As it turned out, the lawyer actually had a client who WAS a member of a stalking group, so she knew all about the crime. (The client was having difficulty exiting the stalking group.)

4. Another practical tip: While working to educate local crisis support staffers about stalking by groups, a colleague and I were amazed to learn that several local rape crisis counselors were also already familiar with organized stalking.

** Note: I am NOT claiming that everyone reporting stalking by groups is actually being stalked by groups. What I am writing here is for the significant number of genuine group stalking targets who are in the psychiatric system at any one time.