Editor’s note: ( how did I get into a fight with a couple of dirty traffic cops?)
They were ticketing my mum & all her neighbours $100 for driving on their own street between 7-9 am
My mum & her neighbours didn’t know the law says Local traffic is allowed…So they just paid…It was a cash cow for these dirty cops…
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Comment: Two traffic cops were ticketing my mum & her neighbours for driving on their own street between 7-9 am…They did not know that local traffic was allowed to drive on their own street, so they all were paying $100 fines each time they got ticketed…
One day, I drove from my mum’s house, down her street towards my home, & saw these traffic cops, one in the middle of the street, one already with a car pulled over…They made big money on old forest hill road, & were hungry for more…
I reversed my vehicle into my friend’s driveway…
But they saw me & went commando, hopping into their police car to speed furiously 2 minute chevrons…
They were going to get me…
I was scared…
They were very aggressive with me…
I ended up getting handcuffed, with the other man on top of me in the missionary position, holding me down…
Handcuff traffic cop put on cuffs dangerously tight, I realized they were trying to hurt me on purpose…
Anger, violence, rage, I smelled a little marijuana on the one as he was so close…
The other just seemed to be enjoying being on top of me…
I flailed with my knee, & handcuff cop punched me as hard as he could right in the eye…
I screamed for help & yelled into their walkie talkie for a female officer to assist…This was police brutality…
15 officers arrived, one female officer…
She riled my belongings, found all my id & license & insurance were in order, & told the two traffic cops that they had to take me to a hospital, after she saw my eye…
In the police car, the two traffic cops, drove very slowly, & I saw them erase all files audio or visual that had recorded the incident…
One said to the other to get their story straight…
When they dropped me at St. Joseph’s they made sure to tell the emergency room doctor that I was acting bizarrely & had been driving erratically, which was not true…
But the emerg doctor dutifully noted that on a medical suspension form, & My driver’s license became suspended…
Enter psychiatry in Canada…
I did not have a psychiatrist so I had to find one to write a medical appeal form to get my driver’s license back…
Good luck even getting one…
Finally I just got someone at St. Joseph’s, & had to Uber from my home, 25 minutes to there for appointments…
I was told it would take a year for a doctor to assess me correctly, to be able to vouch for me…
How could they know what I was like before then?
Apparently there is no test I could take, no blood test, mri, ct scan, saliva, written multiple choice, nothing I could do to prove my own sanity…
I was supposed to just show up for a year…
So that someone’s opinion could be made…
Great…
I got tired of the time it took to go to those appointments, the cost, & it was eating up my work week…
Not to mention, it felt like psychiatrists were just intent on diagnosing people with something, anything, so they could prescribe drugs…
No interest in nutrition, behaviour, events, nothing really but just drugs drugs drugs…
So I finally found someone else who possibly had credentials to write a medical suspension appeal, & switched…
Nope…
Nothing…
Once again I was supposed to go regularly, for a long period of time…
I had thought maybe I could speed up the process of getting someone to vouch for me…
Nope…
My old Gp said he wasn’t qualified to fill out the form because it was a mental health thing…
Great…He can dole out prescriptions for drugs but cannot stand up for me when I needed help…
I found out that the only way police get away with brutality is because they say someone was acting nuts or driving erratically…That is their loophole…Someone was acting nuts, so I shot him…Someone was driving erratically so I had to punch her in the eye, handcuff her & though she had a Contre Coup concussion from the blow, it is all legal, because on paper I said she was this or that…
Anyways…
My licence is still suspended…It is 2018, 2 years later…
Uber has all my money…
I am starting to enjoy being chauffered around…
The new shrink is a drug dealer too…Her mandate is also to diagnose people with something, then prescribe a drug for that…
She doesn’t even bother with talk…
I realized that it is all the shrinks in Canada…
They don’t care about if you ate breakfast, or how you slept, or your relationship with your husband…
The reason they want you as a regular patient is because that is how they get paid…
They don’t want one session clients…No money in that…
The longer they keep you coming back, the more regular income they get…
If they can possibly diagnose you with something, & put you on a drug, they are even happier…I guess because then you go for life…You get so screwed up by the drugs that you have to always return…
Then they can buy a house…
I guess I sound cynical…
Sad…
My father was a doctor…Up till the age of 14, we didn’t have OHIP…So he earned a decent living & was smart & taught & did research…
When OHIP arrived & cut his salary into bits, that was the end of the creativity…
I see that OHIP has ruined medical care…
These doctors are scrounging for by the hour wages that are low…Their offices are tiny & I noticed the first doctor was jealous when I mentioned I was going to the opera…She could not afford that…The second one shows up in sweatpants…She recently gained a huge amount of weight & I suspect she is taking Abilify now, her own drug…I guess she is now drinking her own koolaid…
Psychiatry has moved away from diagnosing people, labeling people as defective…They have found that statistically, the vast majority of so called labelled cases, are merely event related…That people are not “this” or “that”, but are merely experiencing traumas temporarily…
That they could be treated then get better…
But the Canadian medical system is the civil service now just like the traffic cops greedy to give out illegal tickets to local traffic…
Inept…Corrupt…Useless…Unfair…We have socialized this country so much that we are like old Russia…Standing in lines for cheap clothing at Winner’s like the old video of Russians standing in lines for American jeans…
There is not a lot of religion here now either…
I did not get an apology form the traffic cops for injuring me so severely…They did take the sign down on my mother’s street that forbade driving between 7 am & 9 am…
So I guess I saved the neighbourhood several thousand dollars in traffic tickets…Not really sure Forest Hill noticed…
They were all in Florida when this happened…Not one witness…
I had been staying at my mum’s house dogsitting & dogwalking her Portuguese water dog named Austin…
The last time I saw shrink number two, she told me she wasn’t sure, but she “thought maybe” that I had schizoaffective disorder, & that I needed to be on Abilify(some people have gained 100 lbs on this drug), for her to write the medical suspension appeal letter…
I guess I should have known better when I found out her appointments were limited to 20 minutes only, & she told me that she doesn’t talk, she just prescribes drugs…
Why would I have thought it was going to go down differently?
Maybe I am crazy? Who knows? Either way, I am not going to take drugs to fix it…Studies have shown that people diagnosed with mental illnesses had much shorter lifespans when they took the psychiatric drugs than when they did not…A little factoid the shrinks prescribing do not mention…
Holistic Psychiatrists like Dr. Kelly Brogan in New York where doctors get paid for what they are worth, has patients doing nutrient rich breakfast smoothies…Meditation…Sleeping early…Real behavioural change…
I cannot go to a naturopath for the medical appeal form, because the Ministry of Transportation says it has to be someone from the College of Physicians & surgeons…
So I am stuck with the drug dealers…
I go to the Xiaolan Health centre for acupuncture & other treatments, but Chinese medicine doctors don’t qualify either…yet they are the best doctors I have found in Toronto…
I am going to hire a lawyer…I have one…I was just trying to do this without the vast sums of money a real lawyer requires…
I don’t really want to be featured in a story with my name or image…I have been stigmatized enough by this so called mental illness accusation…
I do not want people to think that I really am crazy…
Even if I am, it is damaging to my reputation…Something that should remain private, if it is at all true…
I have been driving a motor vehicle since the age of 16 safely…
I am 51 now…I am probably one of the better drivers on the road…
And now I cannot even go up the 45 minutes to our family farm…I took an Uber there once last summer, but it was a little odd, me being an attractive female, being on the road with a strange man, arriving in the middle of nowhere…Not exactly the safest plan I thought…
Feel free to use my story anonymously…If you’d like…
Sorry it is not as cut dry as a book or a law case…
They never are…
http://kellybroganmd.com/do-5-million-americans-really-have-bipolar-disorder/
Sari Grove
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Hello, I filed an appeal to my driver's license suspension (medical), but I did not know that it was for mental health... I thought it was because my eye had been injured severely when the police officer struck me in the eye...( I was hospitalized for 3 weeks at St. Joseph's & had a contre-coup concussion)... As a victim of police brutality, I was surprised when my driver's license was suspended... But I have come to learn that the only way that a traffic officer could possibly victimize a legal driver, was by telling the emergency room physician that I was acting bizarrely or driving erratically, which I was not... Apparently there is some sort of a loophole that allows the Traffic officers not only to diagnose behaviours, but also to handcuff & strike legal citizens... Interestingly, I have found that there are NO DIAGNOSTICS for proving mental health in the medical community... So despite the fact that I was & am sane, there seems to be no blood test, brain MRI, CT scan, or other diagnostic that I can submit to prove my mental health... Since I had no psychiatric doctor at the time, I have found that all of them "want to get to know me" for a year, in order to be able to make some sort of evaluation... I am now stuck in a rabbit hole of psychiatry...There is no test I can write or do, I am stuck going to a psychiatrist, while they get to know me... Had I had a mental health doctor, I would have had someone who already knew me... But because I did not, I have been forced to spend wasted time going to a doctor, in order for them to fill out your appeal forms... I have not gone long enough apparently for a diagnostic to be made...Since there IS NO DIAGNOSTIC for mental health... As such, I do not have enough evidence for this appeal now... I thought I could appeal without a medical form... What is the point of having a medical form option or an appeal option , if the appeal option also requires medical evidence??? Anyways...I am cancelling the over the phone pre-hearing, & hearing, because I am sure to fail in my appeal without a medical form... I am considering suing, as I should have done when the traffic officer beat me up...The reason I did not litigate at the time was because 1) I was in the hospital with a serious eye injury 2) I had a Contre Coup concussion 3) I was scared because a police officer had beat me up-how do you use the law to sue a legal officer who is violent & dangerous? 4)The physician at emerg. at St Joseph's did not report the police brutality he saw, instead he chose to write what the officer told him verbatim...Since officers & physicians now are both civil servants, paid by the same trough, there is no independence of medical findings when the police commit acts of violence against Canadian citizens...There is no recourse... The withdrawal form is attached... Sari S. (Married last name is Grove) Note: withdrawal form is attached...There was no fax number given, so I have written to the email address...