Societally Sanctioned Sociopathy: This kind of evidence is rapidly emerging in almost every established area of public discourse specific to corruption and associated administrative immorality. No one explanation better serves in terms of coming to understand how and/or why the one's most directly responsible for overseeing The Arizona State Hospital have gotten away with defiantly rejecting their obligations to ASH's patient community, to date.

(RERUN: Originally published in 2012. As the one's most responsible for engaging in blatantly unethical misbehavior in the highest ranks at ASH and in the Arizona Department of Health/Behavioral Health Services continue to deny, defer, and otherwise fail to do the right thing with respect for the rights and care needs of ASH's seriously mentally ill and disabled patients, it is paradoxically becoming evident that these highly entrusted state employees have some very grave psychological issues in their own right. Issues that underlie their common misbehavior as highly entrusted state employees. In essence, how else can it be that persons in a position to meaningfully better the life experiences of highly at-risk human beings instead choose to aggravate the affects of serious mental illness?)

(photo above: Dr. Pervaiz Akhter, native Pakistani, educated in Pakistan, etc., and only one such senior ranking, foreign trained [in nations such as India and the Philippines, where commonly recognized human rights are minimal at best] primary care psychiatrist at The Arizona State Hospital, who I attest via my own experience have no interest in adhering to contemporary medical standards.)

For that is precisely what is going on at ASH today. Endemic exhibitions of graphic emotional, psychological, and physical abuse- imparted on ASH patients by some proportion of ASH staff at virtually all levels of employ- that would shock the conscience of any reasonably compassionate person. I attest to this, for by being subjected to the deeply unjust mistreatment of such individuals when I was hospitalized at ASH [Jan. 2011-Feb. 2012], my own sense of self and the associated elements of my mental disorder [major depressive order and associated suicidal ideation) were at times most definitely exasperated, causing obvious- even to myself at the time- deterioration of whatever progress I had acquired in the Tucson facility that referred me to ASH in the first place; and the reoccurrence of suicidal ideation that most definitely had me considering offing myself there within the confines of ASH. That said, I will today introduce my sincere belief that the ones running ASH, and their various lackeys at the clinical and operational level [psychiatrists, senior level nursing staff, technicians, security, etc.] all exhibit the most basic behavioral characteristics suggested in the following data.  

Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight

        M.E. Thomas2013 Random House, Inc

Sociopathy is a personality disorder that manifests itself in such traits as dishonesty, charm, manipulation, narcissism, and a lack of both remorse and impulse control. In 1980, criminal psychologist Robert Hare developed the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), the universally heralded method for diagnosing psychopathy—used most often to determine whether a criminal is suitable for parole or poses such a danger to society that he deserves the death penalty. But Hare doesn’t believe psychopathy is confined to the prison system. In fact, quite the opposite: 

“You’re four times more likely to find a psychopath at the top of the corporate ladder than you are walking around the janitor’s office.”

It follows without any doubt that these perversions can and will occur in settings wherein highly vulnerable and arguably defenseless persons are kept under virtual lock and key, well out of the publics' line of sight, for people possessing traits specific to sociopathic and/or psychopathic mentality thrive on the thought of acquiring access to weaker individuals who have no meaningful way to defend themselves. And in terms of high functioning sociopaths, (such as we might find at the top of the corporate ladder [above]), it a matter of recognizing the fact that these sorts of people purposefully seek clear and unfettered opportunities by which to wage their sadistic practices with as little risk of being exposed as may be possible. Today, it is still a reasonably recognized fact that public mental health care facilities are rife with patient abuse and related clinical depravity; and in certain terms, such facilities serve as one of the last secure vestiges in existence today for society's most perverted sociopaths to find highly vulnerable persons on whom to prey, with little to no fear of exposure.

(2014: Keep in mind the arrest of conviction of ASH security guard Roger Allen Forney in late 2012, a man with an established criminal record and prior conviction as child sexual abuser [pedophile-predator]. See this blog "One Example of Filth II", November 4, 2013. A gravely depraved man who was attracted to and then granted full time employment in a medical facility required to protect and preserve the health/wellbeing of highly vulnerable adults, hired in fact by the administrative staff at ASH in graphic defiance of his known criminal nature. This, again, a matter of standard practice at ASH, which is also reflected throughout the much broader history of mental institutions in general.)

In this specific context, no setting more thoroughly includes the relevant elements than The Arizona State Hospital. My contention applies to certain staff at all levels of employ at ASH, but it is most horrifyingly in effect through the illegal and immoral practices of ASH's senior psychiatric physicians and administrative medical staff, who have the full support and protection of both the facility's executive staff, as well as the state's attorney general. It is as graphic a recipe for disaster in terms of sociopathic abuses of power and related sadistic abuses of ASH's highly vulnerable patients as can be imagined, right there smack dab in the middle of Arizona's largest city, and it is ongoing. 

AS A MATTER OF STANDARD PRACTICE.  

My very real experiences at ASH, as well as in terms of my attempts to shed light on these issues, have proven to me that these issues not only exist at ASH, but also extend well into the highest offices of authority specific to overseeing ASH, including but not limited to the Arizona Department of Health/Behavioral Health Services, and (as stated already), the Office of the Arizona Attorney General. The very structure of these administrations and their related status in the state power system directly supports this premise, and I know that this can be proven. 

(UPDATE 2014: Consider if you will the impacts of a nurse(s) willing to scream at a person who is suffering the affects of post traumatic stress disorder and associated depression/suicidal ideation due to having been abused as a child by a mother- the most trusted individual in most anyone's developmental stages as a human being- who could not control herself and similarly screamed at you for no justifiable reason, setting off the manifestation of mental and emotional instability that in time led you to attempt suicide. This is only one example of what I experienced as an ASH patient, with diagnostic features to my mental disability matching the above example. A technician named Elaine Traylor (Palo Verde east), known by all (staff and patients alike) to be highly aggressive and subject to high voltage temper tantrums that only an unstable adult is capable of, did verbally and physically attack me in May, 2011 in this exact fashion; as did a senior level charge nurse named Mary Anne (also Palo Verde east at the time), not so much a physical attack in her case, but most definitely a verbal one, explosive to the nth degree and so far out of line that I each time this occurred (at least 5 times to my recollection), I was struck by terror rooted in my childhood history, when another individual/woman I was willing to trust turned on me- my mother, that is. Both of these incidents so triggered my most personal fears that I was literally left sick to my stomach, and the attendant anxiety became one core aspect of what it was like for me as an ASH patient. These are only two such examples that I was subject to, but far from the only, for this is how most staff at ASH behave. Not all by any means, just most. It is that bad.)

THIS WILL PROVEN IN DUE TIME. 
  

I am not adding any new data to this journal for the time being, and I cannot divulge why that is at this time, beyond referencing my broader writing project and the related legal dynamics of that process, which- I am happy to say- is coming along spectacularly. But I am still very much involved with investigating the graphically unlawful administrative misconduct at The Arizona State Hospital, and each and every one of the primary suspects whom I have to date worked to expose in this context (and repeatedly named in the blog itself) are still very much in the spot light. My research at this time does include treatises flowing from medical journals and related data bases, and contemporary revelations specific to socially sanctioned forms of ineptitude and immorality are of particular interest to me, such as the very recently published book that I cite at the begin of this post, "Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight", and psychologist Robert Hare's comments about societally sanctioned sociopaths. The fact is, I am still dumbfounded by the things I witnessed while hospitalized at ASH, and when it comes to the manner in which ASH's highest ranking staff systematically suppress all attempts to report these issues while also rejecting the presence of directly applicable rules, regulations, and law, I am more than convinced that we are looking at people so sickeningly addicted to power that they simply are not able to do the right thing, no matter what the cost(s). Herein reside some of modern society's most dangerous members, engaging in their wrongdoing with no understanding of how dismally out off sorts they are with common law and policy, at the expense of the state's taxpayers, and to the direct detriment of Arizona's most seriously mentally ill citizens. And they are getting away with it.

Peace and Frogs.

(Update 2014: DISHONESTY, CHARM, MANIPULATION, NARCISSISM, AND A LACK OF BOTH REMORSE AND IMPULSE CONTROL. Enter the mindset of the following ASH staff, who I attest from very real experience each exhibited some if not all variations of the characteristics underlying sociopathic behavior: Joel Rudd [egoist, dishonesty, manipulator of legal standards/facts, lack of remorse/sense of ethos/duty], Cory Nelson [dishonesty, charm, narcissist, manipulator of facts/records, lack of remorse/sense of ethos/duty], Donna Noriega (charm, dishonesty, manipulator of facts/records, lack of remorse/ethos/duty] Dr. Steven Dingle [narcissist/egoist, manipulator of facts, lack of remorse/ethos],  Dr. Laxman Patel [dishonesty, manipulator of facts], Dr. Pervaiz Akhter [dishonesty, narcissist, manipulator of facts, lack of remorse and impulse control], Dr. Lynn Lydon [charm, manipulator of facts/patient-clients, lack of ethos/duty], Dr. Ruby Ramos-Roxas [dishonesty, manipulator  of patients, lack of remorse/ethos] , Dr. Sylvia Dy [dishonestycharm, lack of duty/ethos]; nurse Peggy 1 and Peggy 2 [dishonesty, charm, manipulator patient-clients], Mary Anne [charm, lack of sense of ethos/duty and impulse control], all Palo Verde east 2011-12; behavioral health technicians Rick Tong [dishonesty, charm, manipulator of facts/patient-clients, narcissism, lack of sense of duty and impulse control] Elaine Trailor [dishonesty, manipulator of patient-clients, lack of remorse/sense of duty and impulse control], Saeed  [dishonesty, charm, manipulator of facts, lack of remorse and impulse control], all Palo Verde east 2011-2012..... And on the list goes as per my records. But do keep in mind, I was only exposed to one specific section of the much larger facility, indicating that there are many more such rat Bastards currently carrying on with their depraved misbehavior as a matter of standard practice. It is that bad.) 

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