As someone who has been put through a grilling with medical records being accessed by media, I would love some contemplation by politicians on what policy really matters.
Release of your medical records did not effect you. Why? You have someone pulling for you.You are smart. You obtained an education. You built a network of people who would pull for your strengths and not your weaknesses. Your built your credibility on this enough to elevate.
Who is Dan Patrick? He is such a good example. An advocate on lowering taxes, 2nd amendment and promoting choice in where one goes to school. He was not defined by his rehab. Media released his medical history and he carried on.
I do not agree with the chasing of politicians (on either side) about a rehab they went to, or surgery they had in their 20's. Yet this freely happens all of the time. It happened to him.
Conversely and Ironically...
I cannot actually get any medical status privately about my own brother and consult with his social worker on his care. Social worker, are you helping him heal? Social worker, can I give you some perspective?
I would have loved to try to undo years of damage my sister did telling him he did not need help because we all needed help. We are caught in the most vicious cycle in Texas of them all. Health care. Our brain is an organ, and if you mistreat it, feed it the wrong inputs, the wrong outputs are produced. Our brain requires health care.
My brother should have had someone who cared, he could trust 22 years ago now. A person whom I could speak with, who knows I love my brother. A person he could speak with.
Who was the healthy person that was going to keep his trust, and win him over that to forgive is divine? Tell him he is loved. He was loved. That he had already spent years beating himself up for his "misdeeds" "guilt" and he was in a vicious cycle?
No one. I set my father up with Dan Deshazo of MHMR. The hope was that someone independent could help Tim get help. What happened with that while I went my separate way to focus on my job and own personal development?Everything died on the vine in 2006 when my mother passed away. Every bit of someone CARING Tim can have some rehabilitation and find some quality /joy somehow.
I cared. I cannot help him because I am forced by law to yield to parents and guardians unless I am rich enough to defy the law.
I am not rich enough to see if anyone has tried healing him or WITH him.
I'm simply here waiting for media exposure on whatever flaws I may have once or still do have. Why?
I consulted a lawyer. Do you want guardianship? They always ask this like a broken record.
You are asking me....does my brother want the psychological impact of someone he needed to resolve his guilt about having power over him would be unhealthy. That is guardianship. Are you kidding me?
I love my brother so much, I am actually the only person who understands half of his condition was bred out of guilt and grief. The other half the drugs he put in his body.
No I want him to HEAL. I do not want him to have a power issue with me. That power dynamic will never heal him.
I want to know someone is caring for him each and every day and that he is not locked up with the man who tricked him to work the Texas laws. (harm to self or others). It was a trick to get him out of the group housing he was in. The man who did it communicated with me the ENTIRE TIME he did it. On a mobile game so he could bypass telecommunications monitoring.
I want to see the quality of care in my brother's treatment plan and I want to know someone CARES is there for him every minute until he takes his last breath on this planet - whether that is gaining some semblance of independence or not.
My brother has been mistreated for a very long time. It pains me so deeply.
What are the rules here? Some that need to change I reckon. Instead of vigilantes accessing medical history that is irrelevant to skewer people in media, when is private negotiation possible for people who need to be part of the solution to a problem?
We really need a deep introspection on records management in this country and how we treat one another.
I have had some nut chasing me about media assessments, instead of helping solve actual problems. In fact they made them worse.
It is amazing that news agencies are able to collect more information about an individual's medical status than an actual family needing to help a sibling in some way.
