While I am glad MB and his attorney are exposing Greystone, I kind of wish they had waited until Michael has been completely released from the crooked and power hungry Taylor. I don’t trust that judge.
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There’s probably a statute of limitations running.
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I’m happy to see MB holding Greystone accountable and I hope the next thing we see is the suit against SS.
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More Greystone issues.
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That poor mom.
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That article gave me chills. I wonder if his mom will ever find out what really happened to him.
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How we treat mental illness in this country is abhorrent.
Thank God Michael had many people invested in him and financial support. This case is a perfect example on what happens to the “regular” population.
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How tragic!
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I came here to say this. Theres a nancy jaffers article about barisone’s mental health treatment that says the treating psychiatrist at greystone said he had some sort of “grandiose“ self perception due to the fact that barisone said something about being on s colbert’s show and being approached about some sort of movie. Well, its true, but the dumb psychiatrist claims he never investigated to see that it WAS true. The dumb head shrinker took it as a dillusional lie.
I believe his treatment at greystone was more nefarious. Id seriously look for connections somewhere along the line to kaneraks or someone with connections to kanareks.
I had the pleasure of briefly working for a behavioral health residential operation (2nd largest in my state) and i can definitly say really shady stuff is going on there. It’s really sad, but theres no money in mental health industry and nobody with any kind of power cares. All the subsidies (as well as the high priced tech assets) go straight into the pockets of the ppl at the top. Service providers consistently shutting off power/ utilities/ internet due to non pmt to the group homes & even to the offices. If you say anything, or ask the wrong question, you better have another job lined up. Its a really sick environment The turnover rate there was wild.
The residential programs are as rife with corruption as nursing homes and long term care facilities.
These industries seem to attract shady psychpaths who have no problem taking advantage of the weakest members of society. Its easy money.
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This contradicts your statements that people are getting rich running these facilities.
And yes, you won’t get the best and brightest if you can’t pay them a living wage, or afford to hire enough staff. But this goes hand in hand with the American philosophy that behavioral heath is all in your head. If you’d just bootstrap more, you would not have these problems we’re all to embarrassed and ashamed to talk about.
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Probably like so much healthcare in the US, the owners and CEOs of the facilities and insurance companies make money, but they don’t pay well and cut corners to save money and when people complain they cry poverty.
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CEOs of all stripes have to afford those jets and fourth vacation homes somehow.
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Yes, the old, “Just snap out of it!” philosophy.
Also, I’ve always found it interesting, and quite frankly sad, that someone’s physical health including chronic conditions, surgeries and dire prognoses, can be interwoven into daily conversation. Yet mental health is often considered something that’s kept under wraps or only whispered about, even among family members.
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I hope you’l indulge me for a minor detour. I recently watched “A Complete Unknown,” the movie about Bob Dylan. Early in the movie they featured Woody Guthrie’s stay at Greystone. After he was picked up for ‘vagrancy’ in New Jersey in 1954, he was admitted into Greystone where he was diagnosed with Huntington’s Disease and was there until 1961.
As soon as they mentioned Greystone I thought, I know that place! I looked it up and sure enough, same place. Sounds like it wasn’t too great back then, either.
Thank you, and carry on!
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Question: In reading the pleading, the doctor who evaluated Mr. Barisone for the Krol release hearing was not a psychiatrist or psychologist, but rather an osteopath. Might that have had any bearing on why the review board denied the release? (IMHO, from spending close to two decades working for primary care physicians, I don’t think I heard of an instance where a patient who had been referred for in-patient psychiatric evaluation was released based on evaluation by a general practitioner/internist, but rather on whether the attending psychologist/psychiatrist determined that the patient had stabilized sufficiently to return home.)
“This is the first time The_Entertainer has posted — let’s welcome them to our community.”
WHY???
Why what?
That is a forum feature to post that for new posters.
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Because the post of the Entertainer was essentially self back patting ,and while telling a sad truth, it’s one we already knew.
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The welcoming aside, it’s often useful (and telling) to know that it’s someone’s first post.
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My Dad was a psychiatrist and a DO. DO vs MD would mean zero. A Dr of Osteopathic Medicine would also have a specialty just like any MD.
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