©2018 Dr Romesh Senewiratne-Alagaratnam
- Between 1999 and 2002 I was locked up and assaulted with injections of antipsychotic drugs several times at the Alfred Hospital (Prahran, Melbourne).
- I was not suffering from a diagnosable mental illness at the time but I was punitively diagnosed with several serious mental disorders including “schizo-affective disorder” by two psychiatrists (Kym Jenkins and Robert Shields), and “psychotic disorder (Schizomanic type) superimposed on narcissistic and paranoid personality disorder” by another (Mark Taylor).
- These disease labels seriously damaged my personal and professional reputation.
- Psychiatrists at the Alfred Hospital also contacted the Medical Board of Victoria claiming that I had “schizoaffective disorder”, in an effort to stop me from working as a doctor.
- The Director of Psychiatry at the Alfred (Dr Peter Doherty) also provided selected documents to the Medical Board of Queensland in 2002 in a further effort to stop me from working as a doctor.
- When I was locked up between 1999 and 2002 I provided ample evidence of my sanity in the form of my writings and publications but these were pathologised and misrepresented as “hypergraphia” and evidence of mental illness.
- My claim to be doing research on the brain was also described as a grandiose delusion.
- My concern about the Stolen Children, human rights abuses against Aboriginal people and the role of eugenics in causing genocide were misrepresented and presented as evidence of mental illness.
- My support of the allegation (first made by others) that HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) was developed as a biological weapon was pathologised and referred to as further evidence of mental illness and “paranoid delusions”.
- My concern that the medical system and government were dominated by Freemasons was pathologised by the psychiatrist Mark Taylor as evidence of mental illness.
- My concern about the possible role of the Mossad and a cabal of Jewish psychiatrists in persecuting me and calling me mad/mentally ill was pathologised as evidence of paranoid delusions by psychiatrists at the Alfred (including Peter Braun and David Lowenstern who are Jewish).
- My concern about the possible role of MI5 in my incarceration was likewise pathologised as evidence of mental illness and paranoid delusions by Mark Taylor and Kym Jenkins, who are both British; Kym Jenkins went on to become the President of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP); Mark Taylor moved to Scotland in 2002 but is now working in Brisbane and has been made my “treating psychiatrist” by Metro South and the Princess Alexandra (PA) Hospital.
- My claim that my father was a supporter of terrorism for his support, propaganda and lobbying efforts for the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) was likewise pathologised as evidence of mental illness.
- The repeated false claims of my hostile father that I was “paranoid” and “psychotic” were uncritically acted upon by the hospital CATT team (Crisis and Assessment Team) without checking the veracity of his and my claims.
- During each admission my behaviour and observations of it were not consistent with the claims of the admitting doctors, but I was still held for several days in the LSA (Low Stimulus Area) and unnecessarily (and abusively) injected with short-acting Zuclopentixol Accuphase injections, which caused involuntary spasms in my back and legs as well as difficulty speaking (a single injection only on three of the admissions).
- Despite the fact that I have never suffered from hallucinations, I was recorded to have ‘thought disorder’ by some, but not other, psychiatrists.
- My justified anger at being abducted from my home and locked up for no good reason was pathologised as an “irritable mood” and “hostility”.
- My statement that I was talking legal action against the hospital for deprivation of my rights was pathologised as well, with records that I was “litigious”.
- My 40-point Peace Plan for Timor was pathologised as an “extremely thought-disordered letter sent to Kofi Annan of the UN”; it was a list of proposals not a letter and was not sent anywhere (I gave a copy to the Jewish GP who had employed me to do sessions for him at what he called “Melbourne Wholistic Medicine”, Abraham “Abe” Mass – it was Mass who referred me to the Alfred Hospital on 16 September 1999 with the claim that I had “schizoaffective disorder”).
- The hospital recorded that Abraham Mass was my GP and not my colleague, though the psychiatrists referred to the fact that I had been referred in by a “GP colleague”.
- I stopped working for Mass at this stage and the hospital recorded that I was an “unemployed medical practitioner” qualifying that it was “as of last week”.
- Mass attempted to change from being my employer to being my doctor after the first admission (which he arranged) though I had not and would not seek his medical advice.
- On discharge from the Alfred Hospital I was ordered to attend Dr Peter Braun of the Waiora Clinic (an outpatient clinic of the Alfred); I confronted Braun with my suspicion that he was working for the Mossad, which he did not deny but wrote to the Mental Health Review Board that my concern that “doctors” work for the Mossad were evidence of mental illness and paranoia. Braun also confirmed during our discussions that the Israeli military had trained both sides in the war in Sri Lanka, but defended this action on their part.
- In 2001, following another report about me my father (and a resultant admission), the decision was made to start me on injections of a depot antipsychotic – Zuclopenthixol (Clopixol) to be given every 2 weeks under as Community Treatment Order (CTO); this decision made me leave the State of Victoria and seek safety back in Queensland, where I went to school and graduated as a doctor, despite the fact that my father lives here; I hoped, at this stage, to convince him of my sanity.
Particulars:
Admission from 16 September 1999 to 27 September 1999.
16.9.1999 – Referral by Abraham Mass of 257 Tucker Road, Ormond
Abducted by Ian Katz and Victoria Police from 149 Bambra Road, Caulfield and taken in handcuffs to the Alfred Hospital
House was rented from Avi Jawarowski via real estate agent Hiam Sharp of Caulfield. Avi Jawarowski’s brother Sol is a psychiatrist, who worked previously for the Alfred Hospital but has now returned to Israel. Avi Jawarowski who is a chemist is listed in the Burnet Institute Annual Report as a Senior Lecturer at the institute. The Burnet Institute is located at the Alfred Hospital and part of the Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct (AMREP).
Katz wrote (in all capitals):
39 YO SINGLE UNEMPLOYED MEDICAL PRACTITIONER, ADM INVOL VIA ISCATT
BACKGROUND/
PSYCHOTIC DISORDER, VARIABLE DIAGNOSES (BIPOLAR, DELUSIONAL DISORDER ETC)
ADM (Admissions) X 5 1995 X 2
1998 X 3
HOPC (History of Presenting Complaint)
2-3/7 OF PARANOID IDEAS, IRRITABLE, LITIGIOUS, HYPER-GRAPHIA, GRANDIOSE
NON-COMPLIANT RECENTLY
ΨTRIST – DR PROCTOR
REFERRED VIA COLLEGUE GP
DR (Omits the name – Abraham Mass)
MSE/ HYPERAROUSED, IRRITABLE STOCKY MAN OF DARK COMPLEXION IRRITABLE, THOUGHT DISORDERED, GRANDIOSE, BIZARRE PERSECUTORY DELUSIONS OF POLITICAL/SCIENTIFIC THEMES, NO INSIGHT, PRESSURE OF SPEECH
ASST (Assessment)/
EXAC (Exacerbation) OF PSYCHOSIS
?SCHIZOAFFECTIVE
ADM INVOL (Admit Involuntarily)
MEDICAL BOARD INFORMED AS PER STAT LEGAL REQUIREMENT
I KATZ
Seen by Kym Jenkins (psychiatrist) who wrote:
STAT REVIEW
39 yo unemployed (as of this week) medical practitioner. Referred to CAT team by a medical colleague [again omits name]
Recommended under MH Act [by Ian Katz] because of grandiose and persecutory delusions
PΨHx (past psychiatric history) – delusional disorder/hypomania
MSE/
Well groomed
suspicious
hostile
verbally aggressive
speech pressured
some flight of ideas
Content of thought:
Delusional belief that he is persecuted by a Jewish mafia, British colonial regime
Belief that he is involved in research into the brain – grandiose delusions re this
Delusional belief that Alfred Hospital staff responsible for disseminating HIV to 3rd World, East Timor and sending letter to Kofi Annan at UN [This is a misrepresentation of my views and behaviour – I did not send a letter to Kofi Annan or anyone else – I was working on my 40-point Peace Plan for Timor but had not sent it to anyone; the reference to Alfred Hospital staff “disseminating” HIV to Third World countries this was a reference to my writings on the Burnet Institute which had recently relocated to the premises of the Alfred Hospital – details can be found in my book ‘Eugenics and Genocide in the Modern World’]
?disorders of perception
Insight: nil. Thinks he is in hospital as part of plot/persecution
Imp (Impression): psychotic episode hypomanic presentation
ΔΔ (differential diagnosis)
Schizoaffective disorder/Bipolar Affective Disorder
Plan/
Certification upheld
Patient informed of this & has “rights” leaflets
Very close observation LSA
At risk to others if absconds
Collateral Hx – Private Ψ
Length of psychosis
Past treatments and response
Medical Board to be informed
Commence antipsychotic Rx – rispiradone 2mg nocte
Needs full organic work up – admits to cannabis usage
Needs mood stabilizer ?not been on lithium
Kym Jenkins
17.9.1999
Seen again by Kym Jenkins while being kept in the “LSA”
She wrote:
Remains hostile, guarded ++, thought disordered, speech less pressured, totally insightless.
Believes there is a political plot against him and continues to have grandiose and persecutory delusions.
Stat dose 100 mg Zuclopenthixol (Acuphase)
Romesh would like a 2nd opinion.
20.9.1999
Seen again by Kym Jenkins with registrar Tejpal Singh
After the interview Jenkins wrote:
Romesh presents :- much less elevated
More pleasant
Not openly hostile
Speech not pressured
Thought stream slowed – no flight of ideas
Apologising for previous insulting behaviour on admission
Decrease in grandiose and persecutory ideation
Impression/ Hypomanic episode resolving
Plan/
Can be nursed in open ward
Needs close obs (absconding risk)
Continue rispiradone
Reassess MSE tomorrow – may be masking psychotic Sx [symptoms]
Discharge planning – will need assertive follow up to ensure compliance
Address issues re medical registration.
To be continued…..