Episode 32: Malpractice in the Mental Health Industry

Welcome to The Barrier Breakdown: Disrupting Mental Health!
Kapil Nayar is a native to Philadelphia and an LPC with a forte in substance use disorder treatment. In addition to his experience with addiction treatment, Kapil has been a source for grand jury investigations into various parts of the country including Florida. Kapil has been a force for patient advocacy, social justice, citing research and information to hold corrupt, fraudulent treatment facilities accountable. Kapil has also participated with local and National reporting agencies both inside and outside of the counseling field across the country!
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[@Tsudkyk]

Profit over people is malpractice- we just need the laws to reflect that fact.

[@Beep974]

I was told I would be “evaluated” and they wrote that I was suicidal and gave me very strong medication to try and “cure” me

[@MisuTee]

My sister right now is seeing a psych for depression. The psych prescribed meds and now my sister is much worse due to the meds she always complains about being tired and sleepy always. Lately she tried to kill herself three times. And now the psych is recommending increasing the med and implementing electric shock treatment for her brain. The family is discussing now firing the psych and getting another one

[@les2150]

Have your sister go to a functional medicine practitioner or naturopath to figure out why she's depressed. There's likely a physical component to this that mainstream medicine knows nothing about. Could just be a vitamin deficiency.

[@williamackerson_chemist]

This sounds like the facility I was just forced to stay in for over a week. They took me off my SSRI without taper while in opioid WDs with no aid. I've never gotten so bad in my life. They kept trying to force me to take medications I've already tried and know don't work. It took 5 days of begging EVERYONE I met to finally get back on Lexapro and now I'm fine, but that was clearly malpractice. Honestly I want to sue the facility because almost everyone there had the same experience (it was my third stay).

[@kylepope6805]

I think I have a textbook mal practice case against a psychiatrist who called me a liar after getting 5+ years of professional therapy and treatment from a psychiatric MD and took me off all my medication, where I’ve been living in a state of psychosis ever since, and even worse than it was before I seemed this new psychiatrists help. Makes me fear for my life just going to see a general doctor

[@ricklicks42]

Where can someone find legal representation to file a lawsuit against a behavioral health hospital? I've asked many lawyers in my area (Houston Tx) and no one will even LOOK at the situation

[@les2150]

I'm in Texas too and was misdiagnosed with severe mental illness when what I had was a chronic physical illness. I now have a 200 page false, defamatory mental health record, an involuntary commitment court order and have lost my 2nd Amendment rights all because of misdiagnosis that I can prove was misdiagnosis but no one will do anything about it because Tx has no laws that allow for expungement of false records or reversal of misdiagnosis. I've written letters to the TMB, the hospital, HHS, the judge who signed the court order, and the hospital board members and I got nothing. We need to change the laws in TX. If you don't mind, can you tell me your story. If it's similar to mine, maybe we can work together to change the laws.

[@Native722]

Can lack of informed consent be grounds for a lawsuit?

[@ballerinaTV]

From a counselor in training- yes it absolutely can!

[@SomeGuyWho759]

What crimes would a college professor face for allegedly tricking a student into psychiatric experiments without their knowledge?

[@EricPham-gr8pg]

It is not nice to use the word fraud. It is scientificaly unqualified case is better terminology