After almost eight years of trying to get treatment and rehabilitation out of ACC I now have a severe mental illness. They just cut all my care against all my teams advice.There are no mental health services, I keep getting arrested after phoning ACC begging and telling them the terrible violent and suicidal thoughts going through my head. The police have stripped me naked because of my disorder (I am a casualty of sexual abuse), I now refuse to go quietly unless they promise I won't have to remove my clothes. Recently all my art and poetry as banned from a community mental health art studio, I was told my political work was disrespectful and no art that objected to any organisation would be allowed - what country do I live in and what year is it?Tell me how anybody gets an assessment by a suitably qualified specialist, mostly it is ignorant GPs paid off by ACC's arrogant bigoted staff.Part of my disorder means I have become very creative, I wrote this poem on the footpath outside Masterton ACC last week.Mr Smith, Honourable MinisterMr Smith your idea's sinisterYou expect your workers to deliverShit balls rolled in cabinet roomsYou expect your workers to deliverA service that breaks all rulesInstead help me Mr SmithHelp me Minister, help me NickBecause a damaged man he raped meEvery way he couldA damaged man he raped meBecause he knew he couldHelp me justice systemHelp me lawyer, help me chiefI've been asking for care and justiceEvery way I couldI've been asking for care and justiceBecause I knew I couldHelp me health providersHelp me professionals, help me guidersThe injury of abuseTreatment and neglect's unfairThe injury of abuseShould follow models of health careHelp me please my peopleHelp me heal, help me beat itYou took from me those onesThose that understandYou took from me supportThat steady guiding handHelp me Mr Keys, help me Ministerhelp me please
Would someone who coauthored Massey Guidelines stand up? I presume ACC partly funded this research but to have it used this way is so wrong. It is being used to "spin" and bears little resemblance to the actual document. Even though your future funding may be cut please speak out......
I am concerned that "best practice" is seen so selectively- where is the substantial input from the mental health workers who are actually doing the work. The Massey Guidelines are touted as showing "dragged out" counselling- did Nick Smith read them? Where is that conclusion??? I certainly cannot find it. It is the "spin" of selected research being wrongly used.
When you find out let me know cherie..
Can someone please tell me why we were paying families of suicide victims ACC. Was it accidental suicide?Just askingThere must be a reason?