-Blip-Casual Contributor
Permanently falsely diagnosed
Hi, this is more an exploratory post as I've come to the end of the legal journey.
Several years ago I was inaccurately diagnosed with various mental health issues on the basis of false claims by police after they assaulted me. They had me scheduled. Subsequently a neighbour learnt of these matters and made some malicious claims to the local mental health clinic in an attempt to have me scheduled. All this happened over several years without my knowledge and I was never informed.
This came to a head when I made a workplace compensation claim for an unrelated matter. The insurer requested my medical records (which i didn't even know existed) and this started coming out. It was very difficult to get actual evidence due to obstruction from basically every agency involved and the ongoing harassment as my medical records were also publicy distributed. Basically it ruined my reputation and life.
None of this is legal but because I didn't know or was stumbling around in regard to legislative requirements, various timeframes to take action including access and rectification of my medical information expired. That's the end of my legal journey under the HRIPA (NSW).
My issue now is that these mental health records are permanent. It also means I am constantly under threat of scheduling and forcefully medicated (as has occurred) for inexistant mental health conditions. At the same time I have a police "profile" on the basis of these inexistant mental health conditions. This means I cannot make a complaint or report when I'm assaulted or am involved in a car accident as it is deemed a figment of my imgaination. Or if something adverse happens in the neighbourhood the police come straight to my place. Another example is that my employment was diagnosed as a figment of my imagination and an attempt to have me scheduled on that basis was attempted. A further systemic issue is that doctors don't really assess the patient. Instead past records are relied upon and so the same and similar inaccurate assessments are repeated.
All this of course causes great fear because I have already been forcefully scheduled and experienced the complete loss of freedom, the loss of decision making, and the uncertainity of being scheduled for an unknown length of time.
