About Me and My Case
What Happened?
In May of 2020, I was working with Lindsey Hockridge, a marriage and family therapist, who filed a false police report on me that resulted in me being locked up without cause in the hospital. Among other things, she essentially said that I needed to be put in handcuffs by police because I am a healthcare worker and would say all the "right things" to avoid being involuntarily committed. She said, in so many words, that I was a liar, and not to be listened to, all because I was begging her to help me get into residential mental health treatment and she was refusing to help me get care. It's absolutely destroyed my life.
I sued the Kaiser Permanente hospital where I was abused, but this therapist is in hiding and refuses to take accountability for what she said and did. The company she worked for, Foresight Mental Health, has been just as evasive and obstructive. They retained an attorney in order to (I'm assuming among many reasons) shut me up. Lindsey's plan worked. I was hauled away, in shackles, by law enforcement and taken to Kaiser San Rafael Medical Center, where I was gaslighted and punished for asking for help. Two Kaiser mental health workers are directly responsible for this egregious deprivation of civil rights. I was left in seclusion for nearly 24 hours. After being forced into an ambulance and taken two counties away to a behavioral health facility, then forced to stay two extra nights because, as I was basically told, I was lucky to get out at all. Initially, there was no follow-up psychiatric care scheduled for me– I had to raise hell to get an appointment.
My psychiatrist waited 3 weeks to meet with me, at which point he proceeded to gaslight me about what I had experienced. He wouldn't own up to the fact that he had refused to advocate for me, his patient, during one of the most vulnerable times of my life. The gaslighting continued for months. He refused to provide even basic care, or acknowledge the horror I went through. He refused to report the abuse I disclosed. He refused to help get me the care I needed to deal with the trauma of this ordeal. And since then, Kaiser has been stonewalling, lying, and breaking their promises.
No one should be treated like this. Ever.