I received an email. It was from a person who had worked
with a charity organisation involved with homeless persons in the inner
city area of Sydney. What I learned completed my
picture and corrected my reality, but did not make me feel any better at all.
However from the information I received it seems her
release
from hospital and her likely ongoing association with
psychiatric services, did not prevent or note that she had become
involved
with uncharacteristic heavy street drug use.
Suzie was never a drug user.
But after her "treatment", which I am sure involved an ongoing
medication regime, she had somehow become addicted to
the serious hard street drug Heroine and lived as a perpetually homeless person in
the Darlinghurst area.
She was from a large and well-off family from the north
shore in Sydney, and it seems clear to me that she had no desire to
associate with her family after "what they had done to her".
Clearly
Psych treatment was not what she wanted. She often spoke to me on this
subject, though after many years I can only wonder what or who else
could have actually had the resources to help someone like her at the
time.
It amazes me how many groups, organisations, services
and so on that are set up in our society to "do so much good." When they
are really needed they are never there. They don't help and almost all
seem to believe sincerely that they are referral services only. I later
had personal experience with many of them trying to help two other
people.... so I will
have to try to tell some stories about that later.
