So angry >:(
This link was posted on FoggyFriends after a member asked about a certain ME case.
http://peter200015.tripod.com/ME/index.blog?from=20040118
If you are going to read it I have to warn you that it is extremely upsetting.
Basically 12 year old boy named Ean Proctor, who had been suffering from ME since 1986, was seen by Dr Morgan-Hughes (who had confirmed the diagnosis of ME) after a serious deterioration in his health which had left his almost completely paralysed and unable to speak. During one visit, a Senior Registrar in Psychiatry called Simon Wessely had asked the boys parents if he could become involved in his case. They had agreed as they were desperate for help.
Not long after, however, Wessley had told them that children do not get ME and without their knowledge had written twice to the social services expressing his belief that Ean was suffering from "a primary psychological illness" and required "rehabilitation to regain lost function" which would involve separation from his parents because they had become "over involved in his care".
Without a word spoken to the parents, Social Services arrived at the home in June 1988 and removed Ean and placed him into "care" because psychiatrists believed his illness was psychological and was being maintained by an "over- protective mother".
During his time in "care, Ean was forcibly throw into the deep end of a swimming pool because psychiatrists wanted to prove that he would move his limbs in order to save himself from drowning. Of course, he couldn't and sank to the bottom of the pool before being pulled out.
He was also dragged out of the hospital and taken on a Ghost Train because psychiatrists were determined to prove he could speak and so would therefore cry out in fear.
He was left alone on a side ward next to the toilets for over seven hours, with the call bell disconnected because the staff believed he could take himself to the loo when he was desperate enough.
Another part of his "care" involved being raced up and down the coridoors in a wheelchair by one of the nurses who would stop abruptly in an attempt to make Ean grip the sides of the chair to stop himself from being thrown out of the chair. He was unable to.
I felt physically sick when I read this. How can people get away with things like this?