SSWAHS and its allies - Part 3

Socrates had hoped that the brother of the adversarial blogger would have attempted to advise his brother against inflaming further the situation he has already ignited with his misdirected and salacious remarks forwarded to Socrates and to another blogger's site. I'm told that the person who moderates the other blog has decided to no longer re-publish my postings, and has allowed to be published the defamatory and denigrating comments previously forwarded to it by the blogger, Paul C.

Today, Paul C launched another attack amounting to bullying and harassment of others. To suggest that this can be validated by stating it is done in the presence of a mental illness or alcoholism is hardly sustainable when the same person has already indicated in his blog that very soon he will have been alcohol free for 18 months and, presumably, also mentally well. As Socrates has no intention of being accused of causing any deterioration of this person's mental state, the following is simply a cut and paste of the blogger's own posting.

Monday, 20 December 2010

he is at it again

The local male psych nurse, who was sacked by the Area Health Service last year for some very strange and very unprofessional behaviour, is involved again in posting material about me and others on the internet.

One of the reasons that this does not really bother me too much is that I know that the two blogs he is involved with will probably never have more than a dozen people in the whole world ever bother to read any of the rubbish they post.

I know over the last four years I have at times posted some pretty insane stuff on this blog but I believe this can often be explained by the fact that I suffer from episodes of bipolar schizoaffective disorder and alcoholism. When I become sober and mentally well again I have often gone back and deleted some of more insane stuff I have posted.

What excuse or explanation can this disgraced male psych nurse have for his very strange, bizarre involvement in two internet blogs?

What is posted on these two blogs is often written in this pompous, grandiose style. It is as though the writer believes he is writing for thousands of readers. If these two blogs become any more grandiose the people involved will probably start to believe that their rambling nonsense is going to bring about something like a Royal Commission into SSWAHS (the Area Health Service) LOL.

I have family members and friends who believe this male psych nurse is mentally unwell. If they are right, I suppose he should probably be pitied. It is a strange situation when someone who used to somehow function as a mental health professional is himself very psychologically flawed and has little or no insight into this truth.

Oh well, I can only wait and see what will appear next on either of the two blogs that this sad, troubled man is involved with.

Posted by Paul C at 3:50 PM; and Posted by Paul C at 6:46 PM - 2 comments

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have read everything posted on the "Shalwyn" and "Socrates" blogs you are referring to.

Little do you know that they have rocked the very foundations of SSWAHS (the Sydney South West Area Health Service).

I am certain that every morning the first thing the premier, the health minister, the ombudsman, the SSWAHS bosses and many others read is the "Socrates" and "Shalwyn" blogs.

Also, how dare you describe my uncle, who is the finest mental health clinician to ever work in the Southern Highlands, as a sad, troubled, psychologically flawed man. You are defaming a true giant in mental health!

Yours,

Jimmy O'Tool,
forensic patient,
D (Psychiatric) Ward,
Long Bay Jail.

20 December 2010 6:46 PM
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well said, Jimmy!

I have been a client of your dear uncle.

He truly is as you say, a giant in mental health.

Just prior to my recent hospitalization I had my medication adjusted and reduced and I then wrote many threatening letters to the Nobel committee demanding they award the next Nobel prize for medicine to your dear uncle. I still believe this was reasonable, rational behaviour.

Martha O'Springer,
Locked Ward, Waratah House,
Campbelltown.

20 December 2010 7:20 PM

SSWAHS and its allies - Part 2

Socrates has been "warned off" by the brother of the blogger mentioned in the previous post. This is another person who also thought Socrates' blog was "sad".

"That's not bizarre or crazy. Sounds like a lot of fun actually. For an example of bizarre and crazy, you only have to visit:
http://sswahsandbowralhealth.blogspot.com/
but I wouldn't visit it too much, it's way too sad and pathetic. Give my regards to Willie. Tell him I love the reworking of "Friend of Mine" he did for Brokeback Mountain."

1 December 2010 2:07 PM

When the world's media is currently preoccupied with governments and government agencies being kept accountable (Wikileaks), one would think a simple blog like mine is in keeping with world trends.

If other bloggers can publish comments that can be deemed to be controversial or defamatory surely they can expect to be challenged by their readers. I accept the comments of the brother of the blogger mentioned in my previous posting - but I don't have to engage in any dialogue with them and I choose not to.

I suggest to the blogger's brother that, rather than encouraging his brother to publish derogatory and statements about others, he might consider the laws against vilification and defamation and caution his brother from publishing more of the same.

I have studiously avoided naming the blogger or his brother as I, unlike them, prefer to have nothing to do with either. They both seem to have a perception that Socrates has multiple personalities. In fact, Socrates has one personality but a number of informants who have corroborated the documentation provided in regard to the failure of the SSWAHS Executive to deal with a number of serious complaints made against some of their senior staff members. Complaints which are still to be reported upon by SSWAHS to the complainant. Yes, this is indeed a sad state of affairs when a statutory authority has failed to deliver that which it promises in it's own documentation.

I have no doubt that this blog entry will be scrutinised by the other blogger and his brother. What happens next will be up to them. If both, or either, wish to demonize Socrates (or any others known to him) then they will have to be aware of the consequence of their actions.

SSWAHS has its ally - or some might suggest: "With friends like this who needs enemies"

Socrates has had a short break but now it's back to business. There was one interesting interlude which arrived as a form of comment from a fellow blogger who thought that the information in this blog was "A very sad case". The following is their opening gambit:

"I have been a client of the local mental health service on and off since 1994.

"About two years ago, there was a front page article in a local newspaper that was highly critical of the local mental health service. I stated on this blog that I was one of the people that spoke about my problems with the local mental health service to the journalist who wrote the article."

Below is what the same person stated about the local mental health service on the 23 October 2008 about the time that the blogger refers to in the comment above.

"Another day when I had every opportunity to drink but I didn't. I have the house to myself. I have money and I am feeling a bit stressed with this article coming out in the paper. BTW: the journalist wanted my full name to go into the article. This would not have worried me but some of my family did not want this, which is fair enough. I feel stressed wondering who is talking to this journalist and what they are saying.

Also, I feel stressed worrying that (while I feel nothing about most of the useless clowns that work there) there are three people who work there that are OK and have treated me all right.

Since 1994, there have been a lot of times when either no-one who worked there or maybe only one staff member had any time for me .......... but now, when the article is written there are three working there that are OK. The journo has promised that she will not "hang me out to dry" and she will show me the last draft before the thing is in print.

To repeat myself, I hope the article causes maximum discomfort and embarrassment to most of the people there who have in various ways treated me like shit but I feel bad about helping with this article when three people that work there have treated me OK.

If I was a nicer or better person I would think more of Harry, Alan and Gillian and I would have said "no" to any involvement but as it turns out I could not resist the chance for a bit of pay-back against the majority of BMH (Bowral Mental Health), who I think really deserve it: AND as it turns out, I am not the only one they have done the wrong thing by."

"What happened quite a few times since 1994, was that a local shrink could schedule me to a place like CRC for 4 weeks, but they could discharge me after a week and then I'd come back to this area, still mentally unwell and usually receive zero follow up, support or supervision from the &%$#@S that have worked in the local mental health team.

They are obviously not to blame for everything but on a number of occasions they were a factor in me running around this area (longer than I had to be) off my head, getting into legal trouble and putting some members of my family through hell.

"I hope I can get to November 29 without drinking again; that will mean one year, 365 days, with only three days drinking A 99+% success rate. 2008 will be the most sober year since I was 16. I also will have achieved this without being in jail or rehab ....... and I also did it without "swapping the witch for the bitch" ie: I have not used or abused valium, xanax, pot or any other drug this year."

Socrates simply makes the point that a person affected by a chronic substance abuse may not have the best attitude about the persons who provide health and support to those so affected. The comments from the blogger posting the quoted text from 23 October 2008 would suggest that they have had little interest in taking responsibility for their actions, preferring instead to lay the blame upon the clinical staff that they were so anxious that their action "causes maximum discomfort and embarrassment to most of the people there who have in various ways treated me like shit but I feel bad about helping with this article when three people that work there have treated me OK.

"If I was a nicer or better person I would think more of Harry, Alan and Gillian and I would have said "no" to any involvement but as it turns out I could not resist the chance for a bit of pay-back against the majority of BMH (Bowral Mental Health), who I think really deserve it."

Now, Socrates does think that this is more than a bit sad!