http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/12/30/from-becca-which-rights-need-protection/ A blog about mental health Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:55:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/12/30/from-becca-which-rights-need-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-4210 Alison Hymes Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:11:11 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2008/12/30/from-becca-which-rights-need-protection/#comment-4210 I tried to post this before and it never went through. Cesar Chumil is Spanish speaking and has very little English. In all these years there was only one short period at a different hospital when he had a Spanish speaking psychiatrist. He improved under his care, but when that psychiatrist left Cesar was shipped back to Western and seclusion. He did not have anyone to speak to in his language for years and years. Attempts were not made to get him Spanish language treatment. That is a big piece of this story that is missing. I tried to post this before and it never went through. Cesar Chumil is Spanish speaking and has very little English. In all these years there was only one short period at a different hospital when he had a Spanish speaking psychiatrist. He improved under his care, but when that psychiatrist left Cesar was shipped back to Western and seclusion. He did not have anyone to speak to in his language for years and years. Attempts were not made to get him Spanish language treatment. That is a big piece of this story that is missing.

]]> http://blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com/trouble/2008/12/30/from-becca-which-rights-need-protection/comment-page-1/#comment-4209 Sally Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:00:36 +0000 http://trouble.pwblogs.com/2008/12/30/from-becca-which-rights-need-protection/#comment-4209 Good though provoking piece. Chumil should be treated like a criminal because he assaulted people. We don't even know that he would be prosecuted for assualt. Why isn't he entitled to a trial? What part of his behavior is due to the fact that he was incarcerated without a trial to "help" him, he was tied to a chair for years. Is there anyone reading this would wouldn't become violent after being tied to a chair or locked in a room for years? It's the involuntary treatment that causes the violence. Good though provoking piece. Chumil should be treated like a criminal because he assaulted people. We don’t even know that he would be prosecuted for assualt. Why isn’t he entitled to a trial? What part of his behavior is due to the fact that he was incarcerated without a trial to “help” him, he was tied to a chair for years. Is there anyone reading this would wouldn’t become violent after being tied to a chair or locked in a room for years? It’s the involuntary treatment that causes the violence.

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