Detrimental Consequences of the HCP Effect

In my work over the years, I’ve seen how disastrous the consequences can be when a person cannot get medical/mental health services. The individuals involved – the victim, the HCP effect, the family of the HCP and the family of the victim. It really puts you in a situation of feeling hopeless and helpless to do anything. I’m not sure what the answer is, however, I’m positive that professionals in law, medical, health, dental and mental services have already determined a working protocol for ANY of the circumstances below have occurred in their facility. It is imperative to have a working plan in place, making course corrections as needed, making notes as to what is working and what isn’t. A variety of circumstances can occur with any of the following:

1. The HCP effect turns on the HCP and he/she when they cannot get the mental health support that they need. If hospitalization is required, they may get turned away, because their dishonesty has caught up with them and now they cannot be believed.
2. The HCP effect turns on the HCP and now they cannot report a crime, a fraud that they were the victim of, or because of their involvement with the cartel.
3. The VICTIM cannot get the help he/she needs and is refused medical/health services or drastic assumptions are made resulting in a liability to the hospital/facility. One result is internal damage due to an injury, not receiving life-saving medication in time which could cause internal bleeding, complications, death or coma.
4. The VICTIM does not realize that the HCP is in their family. As a result, the victim is not believed, considered credible and is not taken seriously when an urgent issue (medical/mental) has arisen. 

Examples:

    a. crime that has occurred that they are attempting to receive emergency medical services (being drugged).

    b. A crime that they fell victim to in which they suffered harm. These instances might revolve around miracle cures.

    c. Ingestion of medicine/food/beverage that has been contaminated by a household chemical.

    d. Nutritional supplements that not as advertised (having an allergic reaction, arterial fibrillation) or complication from a current medical/health condition.

5. A victim cannot get medical/health/mental services or law enforcement help – FOR the HCP – in a dire situation – such as – impending psychotic break, increasing bouts of anger, nervous breakdown, suicide attempt, aggressive behavior involving a gun or receiving threats from the cartel. 

The following is a friends recollection regarding a mental health issue: “No one believed me and I couldn’t get help for my husband’s mental illness. He was spiraling out of control. It led to his death."

No one listened to her. She had no help, no support. This event was completely out of her control and she could not do anything about it.

Another said, “I went to the support groups, his alcoholics anonymous group – and found out he got kicked out because of his increasing aggressive threats towards others. He has been lying to me all this time, saying he is going to his groups. He backslid, and now I can’t find him. No one knows where he’s at.”

There are many cases like this around the world. Protocols need to be put into place so that mental health or medical services can be given in an appropriate amount of time, without causing further harm and damage.

Controls that can be installed – could be – depending on hospital policy and your team of legal professionals:

1. You have a Know Your Customer policy. There needs to be additional terms that confirm not only the identity of a person – to prevent healthcare insurance fraud.

• A photo taken of the person requesting services.
• A security camera that is of good quality that can zero in on the person’s face at eye level. Not aiming down from the ceiling. At best you get a distorted view of the top of their head. 
• A password that is only known to the person.
• A known distinguishing feature of the person that can easily be identified by the support personnel. (wart, tattoo, scar on hands, etc.)

2.  In cases of being drugged, poisoned, a contaminated food/water source, you need to investigate through questioning by the doctor – not support personnel or even a nurse – what the symptoms were as soon as they found out there was a problem. What did they experience?  Did they drink? Did they eat? Did something splash on them? When they took a sip – what did they notice immediately? Other symptoms they felt, heat, rash, coldness, lightheaded, etc.

• What NOT to do:

Many victims have experienced this and I’m not sure if this is a go-to-default behavior – but it needs to stop. Assume they are crazy and immediately tie them down to a gurney. Assume that they are a problem, tell them they are having a panic attack, are being sensitive, are hallucinating, or are paranoid. Placing them in a 24-hour observation room WITHOUT treating their concern of being poisoned or drugged or the situation.

Note: This was NO joke. This actually happened – to people without mental illness. Collusion by hospital staff who just weren’t willing to do their job.

3. If possible, small groups of police 2-3 cars need to be in various areas ready to take action if and when a 911 call is placed by a neighbor or the victim where a person or situation is escalating and out of their control.

•  It is amazing how quick the EMT, fire and police can arrive to take care of this problematic situation, BEFORE this person leaves in their vehicle. An “all hands on deck” intervention, and heavy sedation might be administered right there on the sidewalk, while being strapped to a gurney.
•  This kind of attack, from a psychotic break can result in a victim being so severely beaten, that they may be in a coma or die from their injuries. It is important that all emergency personnel work together to dispel any threat of harm done to the victim, or there could be more victims.
• Right before an attack, people may notice threatening behavior: looking over their shoulder, as if being watched, peering around corners, giving menacing looks, not saying much or caustic remarks, banging things around, stomping, slamming doors. Cursing, screaming, yelling – heard down the street from a neighbors house – can happen on a dime. Fine one minute, and out of control rage the next. It is important to protect the victim and get them to safety.

When people cannot get the services they need, it can cause adverse detrimental trauma, harm, and destitution leading to poverty. It creates an atmosphere of hopelessness, despair and helplessness. Multiply that by every single family who has someone with a mental health issue, who can’t get the services they need, and on a dime their loved one switches to an uncontrolled, unbridled rage attack. This creates fear, depression, anxiety and is so overwhelming. It causes debt, heartache, splits people apart. It really is a devastating situation.

It is so important for people to be believed in a mental health crisis. Someone can easily die, experience harm from being poisoned, be raped as the target of a violent episode because mental illness has spiraled out of control. 

4. In cases of someone escaping from being kidnapped, given a rape date drug or being held captive:

• Hospitals should already have a protocol in placed to handle trauma, with appropriate support services standing by.
•  With the case of mistaken identity or stolen identity it is a good idea to have additional questions, processes that are options to help identify the person.
• It is important to not re-traumatize a victim via police interrogation, such as by asking them to repeat the story 3-4 times.

What NOT to do: Most of you may disagree with me on this. After a victim has just escaped a life-threatening situation, they are still in survival mode, experiencing PTSD amongst other strong negative feelings and emotions. Give them time, be patient, be kind. Even waiting 1-2 days to speak to the victim and the family will offer more evidence and information, and is less frustrating and irritating for the victim. A person-centered approach to providing victims with support is favored over the old-fashioned way.

Witnessing or experiencing a crime as a victim, seeing a murder or traumatic event is terrible. Pieces and parts of the trauma will come back as the body returns to homeostasis. And some memories are so deeply buried, it may take 30 years for the final link to appear. 

In my early 20s, I experienced several life-threatening situations by the same person that I was attempting to escape. I survived all attempts at murder, rape, assault with a deadly weapon, being carved up with a fishing knife, and strangulation. This person changed on a dime, with no apparent trigger – he had a psychotic break. It wasn’t until this past summer, that I remembered a crucial part.

The memory came back 30 years later, clear as day. I was being body slammed into a car, nearly knocked unconscious, and having a fishing knife pressed to my throat. My perp threatened to assassinate me on the spot, ripping a line from my carotid artery straight across.

The HCP effect was going on then too. No one believed what happened, despite the bruises and scars. A police report was taken, there was a trial. My family did not attend. I lost, it was dismissed. There were way too many corrupt officials in that town.

Do not let this happen to you, to the next person that comes into your police station, your law office, your hospital. 

This is why it is so important not to be led by deception. 

PC: Gorodenkoff