Mind-Brain Illnesses 5
Mona Daniella was wronged by the Mental Health System II
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Mona went to the 3East Residential program at McLean Hospital (Belmont, MA), considered the "Ritz Carlton" of psychiatric hospitals. The therapist assigned to her - Dr. Gillian Galen, was not licensed, nor had the Board certification when she started to treat Mona (end of January of 2009 - we were not told this. For the amount they charged per month, around $45,000+ Thousand (today it costs more) we assumed and expected McLean Hospital to assign to Mona Daniella a licensed doctor, who had the Board Certification, experience, competence, and professionalism. We didn't know. Mona was subjected to years and years of traumatic, violent, forceful, and sometimes abusive hospitalizations, forceful restraints, heavily sedated, drugged, and being thrown in isolation rooms. We were never notified; reportedly HIPAA laws are used by psychiatric institutions to their convenience.
We were crying and horrified when we found out what had happened to our daughter. The initial unethical and harmful treatment scarred, and traumatized Mona severely. The wrong diagnosis/wrong treatment as diagnosed by her last treaters, was continued by her subsequent treaters who never questioned why the treatment wasn't working, and why Mona kept deteriorating.. We wee never told of this. Also we were not told the program was only a year old. The treatment team gave Mona the wrong diagnosis/wrong treatment. They never ran the OCD test. For years and years in a row, she was subjected to abuse, verbal and physical assaults, violent restraints, and thrown into isolation rooms (with make-up called "Quiet Room" in a manicured way). We were told Mona is "difficult". Research shows in fact that any "normal" person, subjected to the treatment Mona was subjected to will also become "difficult". Mona wrote this: “…Eventually, I grew too old for adolescent programs and found myself in hospital wards full of patients who no longer expected to get out, and doctors who no longer cared. I was restrained for self harm, then again for locking myself in a restroom, then again for not following directions. Up to six members would pull me down onto a bare mattress in the quiet room, and wrangle my limbs into leather cuffs, which would keep me still until the injected sedatives took effect. This is how I spent my early twenties.” Two doctors from her treatment team, Gillian Galen and Blaise Aguirre's wrote a book with plagiarized content, passages from Mona Daniella's journals, and her writings, by law considered Mona Daniella's intellectual property. The name of their book: "Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder: Relieve Your Suffering Using the Core Skill of Dialectical Behavior Therapy" by Blaise Aguirre MD (Author), Gillian Galen PsyD (Author). It is available on amazon.com. Initially some of the plagiarized content was displayed online. Due to our outrage about this fact, either amazon.com and/or the doctors removed it from public display, but only after multiple complaints. We are working on getting these two doctors held accountable for their actions, among others, for their plagiary of our daughter's intellectual property. A friend wrote to us he isn't surprised about their plagiary; he wrote that these two doctors in all probability not having known how to diagnose Mona correctly, might not have known how to write either; hence their plagiarizing Mona Daniella's intellectual property, her writings. Gillian Galen used Mona as her editor; she used to tell us (parents) on the speakerphone while Mona there how brilliant Mona was; she had picked up errors, etc. Coincidentally, when the book was printed, Gillian Galen "dumped" Mona. Gillian Galen and Blaise Aguirre took Mona's confidential patient-doctor emails, and included in the introduction of their book. In addition they added her case in the book. Mona was categorically against it, and was very upset by it. By law they needed a HIPAA form signed consent. Mona didn't want her confidential patient-doctor email, nor her case in their book, that's why she wouldn't sign it. She didn't sign a consent. In fact she sent an email making her wishes crystal clear: that neither Gillian Galen nor Blaise Aguirre could use any of her writings, especially in their book. They included her intellectual property anyway, completely disregarding Mona's wishes. Mona filed a complaint, to this day nothing has been done. The book continues to be sold with Mona's intellectual property, still disregarding her wishes. When I complained last year to Dr. Tsimprea, Chief Quality Officer of McLean Hospital - at first she said by law a signed consent is needed - on a phone call naturally overheard by my husband. On another phone call, again naturally overheard by my husband, Dr. Tsimprea simply said, Mona didn't sign a consent form, but Gillian Galen and Blaise Aguirre said that "she gave consent verbally". This is self-serving, and a blatant lie, as there are crystal clear emails from Mona which informed Blaise Aguirre specifically not to use any of her writings . It is against the law, They plagiarized her intellectual property even though it is illegal. |
HIPAA Laws - we were never told of these restraints. Once Mona called crying, they had restrained her for asking to charge her laptop. When we called the hospital, Proctor II, we were told they didn't charge electronics. We had just been there, a line of patients wait for their turn in front of the nurse station, waiting for their electronics to be charged. Mona never spoke to us about how they restrained her - we did not know about this until recently.
We were told there are no locks in restrooms. How could Mona lock herself in a restroom? And restrained for that? Good questions. Another good question: how did a patient manage to overdose on Tylenol, and complete suicide in McLean Hospital? I have not been able to find an investigation about this. And yet another good question: why did McLean Hospital hide a Sex Scandal from the prior president of McLean hospital for over a year? Why does McLean Hospital try to hide so hard? Dr. Carlene MacMillan manipulated Mona to see her inexperienced, husband Dr. Owen Scott Muir, who has bipolar (badly treated or untreated), and lacked the training to treat "suicidal people" by his own admission in a text to Mona. He threatened and terrorized Mona in her last year. She wanted to stop seeing him. She texted and told his wife many times that she did not want to see him. Mona wrote to Dr. MacMillan about her husband Dr. Owen Scott Muir:: "He is not normal" "His anger is dangerous" "He is dangerous", "I have never been this afraid of a therapist" On September 26, 2016, Mona completed suicide, after her last phone call with Dr. Owen Scott Muir. He threatened her, evidenced by her last email. Studies show the lasting psychological damage caused by restraints, and locking individuals in isolation rooms; PTSD, serious, significant and sometimes dangerous psychological, emotional trauma, physical pain and injury, and even death. Although there are federal rules which restrict those practices in nearly all institutions that receive money from Washington to - hospitals, nursing homes and psychiatric centers, among others, despite that, it’s a fact that those institutions routinely subject mentally ill patients to those “treatments”. Such limits don’t apply to residential treatments who don’t report what goes on.Studies also show that the chances of staff members getting injured by trying to physically restrain somebody are so much greater than the chances of getting injured while trying to calm them down. Some patients reportedly died while being restrained or isolated over the course of two decades, the Government Accountability Office found in 2009.It's hard to believe this kind of treatment is going on in America, in institutions without consequences. It’s disgraceful. If parents did this at home, they would be arrested. Sources: Propublica news articles, among others on the internet. 
Mona Daniella's last New Year's Eve, at Elio's, an Italian Restaurant she had been going since she was born.
New York, New York, December 31, 2015 / January 1, 2016 |
from Mona Daniella's aunt:
Aunt B. your support is remarkable.
" it might be helpful if you could edit this status to include some resources like this number you can text if you are in distress:
TEXT “GO” TO 741741
FREE, 24/7, CONFIDENTIAL. or this number 1-800-543-3638. I hope many people share this status - if one person is in crisis and able to reach out to another human for help through someone's copy and paste it'd be truly amazing."
"Can't say it enough...Many people think that a suicide attempt is a selfish move because the person just does not care about the people left behind. I can tell you that when a person gets to that point, they truly believe that their loved ones will be much better off with them gone.This is mental illness not selfishness. TRUTH: Depression is a terrible disease and seems relentless. A lot of us have been close to that edge, or dealt with family members in a crisis, and some have lost friends and loved ones. Let's look out for each other and stop sweeping mental illness under the rug. If I don't see your name, I'll understand. May I ask my family and friends wherever you might be, to kindly copy and paste this status for one hour to give a moment of support to all those who have family problems, health struggles, job issues, worries of any kind and just need to know that someone cares. Do it for all of us, for nobody is immune. Hope to see this on the walls of all my family and friends just for moral support. I know some will!!! I did it for a friend and you can too. You have to copy and paste this one, no sharing. To copy simply hold your finger on the text and the copy option will appear. Click on it. Then click on your status and paste."
Aunt B. your support is remarkable.
" it might be helpful if you could edit this status to include some resources like this number you can text if you are in distress:
TEXT “GO” TO 741741
FREE, 24/7, CONFIDENTIAL. or this number 1-800-543-3638. I hope many people share this status - if one person is in crisis and able to reach out to another human for help through someone's copy and paste it'd be truly amazing."
"Can't say it enough...Many people think that a suicide attempt is a selfish move because the person just does not care about the people left behind. I can tell you that when a person gets to that point, they truly believe that their loved ones will be much better off with them gone.This is mental illness not selfishness. TRUTH: Depression is a terrible disease and seems relentless. A lot of us have been close to that edge, or dealt with family members in a crisis, and some have lost friends and loved ones. Let's look out for each other and stop sweeping mental illness under the rug. If I don't see your name, I'll understand. May I ask my family and friends wherever you might be, to kindly copy and paste this status for one hour to give a moment of support to all those who have family problems, health struggles, job issues, worries of any kind and just need to know that someone cares. Do it for all of us, for nobody is immune. Hope to see this on the walls of all my family and friends just for moral support. I know some will!!! I did it for a friend and you can too. You have to copy and paste this one, no sharing. To copy simply hold your finger on the text and the copy option will appear. Click on it. Then click on your status and paste."