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The 'voices' told my brother to kill me!
Three large knives under her couch, advertising exec forced to leave home
Thursday, January 06, 2011
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An advertising executive who says that she has been traumatised by her brother, a mental health patient, gave this harrowing account of how she had to flee her home, after he informed her that voices had instructed him to kill her.
She told her story after reading a letter in the Sunday Observer from Sandra Jones-Williams of Albion, St James, pleading with Montego Bay to help Horace Peterkin, the former president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) who was admitted to Ward 21 of the University Hospital where mental illness is treated. The executive hoped that by telling her story, others would go public with theirs, and bring attention to the problem:
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The writer is very passionate but we must not chastise others for their ignorance of this disease or how they deal with it as an individual. Bi-polar and Schizophrenia are not diseases that pick on colour, social classes or age. I come from what most Jamaicans would call an upper or middle class and over the past 5-6 years I have been experiencing the same bi-polar and schizophrenic behaviour from my brother; what's unfortunate is that due to the bi-polar part of it, these persons are very intelligent, which makes it hard to detect that this is what your family member is suffering from.
Due to his disorder and paranoia, unfortunately I had to leave my home and I mean literally move out and leave him in it as one day he wrote me a letter telling me 'the people' told him to kill me but he knows I am still his sister and that is why he hasn't done it; that day I also found three large knives (looked more like machetes) under my couch. The letters Horace has written (he is someone I know very well also) are nothing in comparison to those I have from my brother and I plan one day to do a Memoire -
"Am I my Brother's Keeper" - as most of the family live abroad and I am here dealing with the day to day reality of it.
What have I done, couple years ago I got the Bellevue personnel van to pick him up; they injected him with some medication and then sent him home with tablets to take; no room available for admission. Well tell me how do you make a man who is schizophrenic take medicine when he already thinks the world is out to get him. So we pay his rent, utility bills and buy him food and continue to pray for a miracle. That is when he wants to live under a roof, sometimes he chooses to live in backyards or have even slept on the roof of the Pavillion Plaza (in Kingston) for six months till the security found out and beat him down.
Where is my brother now? Well, unfortunately these persons with this disease reach a stage that due to the paranoia they are a danger to others as well and he stabbed a man (thank God the person is alive) and is now serving time in Spanish Town jail. Again I ask, how does that help as the judge or no one has seen it fit to ask for a psychiatric evaluation to be done or to institutionalise him in a proper facility as jail is not the solution.
I actually fear his release as I don't know what is next as he is still not being treated. By the way he is 49 years of age.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Jamaica continues to ignore this situation because when the Court can sentence a teenager to 50 yrs (the child Fray in Montego Bay) who also definitely suffers from this condition and therefore held the people on Air Canada hostage; what better is to come?
In closing, Dear Editor, in my field I get to socialise with many persons and this disorder is vastly spread and plenty of persons have a family member suffering from it but are too embarrassed to speak about it due to their social background. Well thanks to your writer I am speaking up and beckoning all who have a voice to do so.
The Government and health system of Jamaica need to take heed; you can't tell me that my brother needs to be willing to sign himself in to get help because he is an adult, when he doesn't even think he has a problem due to his mental demise.
Editor's note: The advertising executive submitted her name and photo but asked that only her e-mail address be published.
jamaicamirhatid@hotmail.com
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1AG8zhBCL
Three large knives under her couch, advertising exec forced to leave home
Thursday, January 06, 2011
<A href="mailto:?subject="The " voices? told my brother to me!?&body="Link:" http: www.jamaicaobserver.com news The--voices--told-my-brother-to-kill-me-_8272181 | Jamaican News Online - JamaicaObserver.com? kill>An advertising executive who says that she has been traumatised by her brother, a mental health patient, gave this harrowing account of how she had to flee her home, after he informed her that voices had instructed him to kill her.
She told her story after reading a letter in the Sunday Observer from Sandra Jones-Williams of Albion, St James, pleading with Montego Bay to help Horace Peterkin, the former president of the Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) who was admitted to Ward 21 of the University Hospital where mental illness is treated. The executive hoped that by telling her story, others would go public with theirs, and bring attention to the problem:
BELLEVUE HOSPITAL... no room available for admission
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Although it is 5:00 o'clock in the morning, I am lying here catching up on the news and came across your letter on January 2 entitled Montego Bay, please help Horace Peterkin. First of all to the writer, thank you for expressing yourself so openly. I, however, disagree with the title, I would have much rather it stated Jamaica please help the mentally ill. 1/1<A style="FILTER: alpha(opacity=40); ZOOM: 1" class=next href="#" jQuery1294318257330="17"> The writer is very passionate but we must not chastise others for their ignorance of this disease or how they deal with it as an individual. Bi-polar and Schizophrenia are not diseases that pick on colour, social classes or age. I come from what most Jamaicans would call an upper or middle class and over the past 5-6 years I have been experiencing the same bi-polar and schizophrenic behaviour from my brother; what's unfortunate is that due to the bi-polar part of it, these persons are very intelligent, which makes it hard to detect that this is what your family member is suffering from.
Due to his disorder and paranoia, unfortunately I had to leave my home and I mean literally move out and leave him in it as one day he wrote me a letter telling me 'the people' told him to kill me but he knows I am still his sister and that is why he hasn't done it; that day I also found three large knives (looked more like machetes) under my couch. The letters Horace has written (he is someone I know very well also) are nothing in comparison to those I have from my brother and I plan one day to do a Memoire -
"Am I my Brother's Keeper" - as most of the family live abroad and I am here dealing with the day to day reality of it.
What have I done, couple years ago I got the Bellevue personnel van to pick him up; they injected him with some medication and then sent him home with tablets to take; no room available for admission. Well tell me how do you make a man who is schizophrenic take medicine when he already thinks the world is out to get him. So we pay his rent, utility bills and buy him food and continue to pray for a miracle. That is when he wants to live under a roof, sometimes he chooses to live in backyards or have even slept on the roof of the Pavillion Plaza (in Kingston) for six months till the security found out and beat him down.
Where is my brother now? Well, unfortunately these persons with this disease reach a stage that due to the paranoia they are a danger to others as well and he stabbed a man (thank God the person is alive) and is now serving time in Spanish Town jail. Again I ask, how does that help as the judge or no one has seen it fit to ask for a psychiatric evaluation to be done or to institutionalise him in a proper facility as jail is not the solution.
I actually fear his release as I don't know what is next as he is still not being treated. By the way he is 49 years of age.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that Jamaica continues to ignore this situation because when the Court can sentence a teenager to 50 yrs (the child Fray in Montego Bay) who also definitely suffers from this condition and therefore held the people on Air Canada hostage; what better is to come?
In closing, Dear Editor, in my field I get to socialise with many persons and this disorder is vastly spread and plenty of persons have a family member suffering from it but are too embarrassed to speak about it due to their social background. Well thanks to your writer I am speaking up and beckoning all who have a voice to do so.
The Government and health system of Jamaica need to take heed; you can't tell me that my brother needs to be willing to sign himself in to get help because he is an adult, when he doesn't even think he has a problem due to his mental demise.
Editor's note: The advertising executive submitted her name and photo but asked that only her e-mail address be published.
jamaicamirhatid@hotmail.com
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1AG8zhBCL
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