THE GREATEST PUNISHMENT – LPFT
The greatest punishment is to send a vulnerable person hundreds of miles away from home and family and for contact to be virtually severed as we have experienced under Cygnet Appletree.
I used to visit Elizabeth every week and my journey time took three hours in total but now it would take me 7 hours and require an overnight stay which is expensive if you visit regularly.
To send someone away hundreds of miles like this is cruel and even more cruel to take the phone away that we as a family pay for under contract.
We used to correspond by text messaging via WhatsApp but the last time Elizabeth picked up her message was on 28 June 2023.
When you phone Cygnet Appletree you get put through to a succession of people. There was supposed to be a meeting about contact following a call that came out of the blue by the Responsible Clinician of Pippin Ward. Nothing has changed because still the WhatsApp messages were last viewed on 28 June 2023.
Day before yesterday I had a voicemail message, the first message I have ever had from my daughter stating she was not doing well that day and was clearly struggling. I immediately phoned the ward and as usual got put through to several people ending up speaking to the ward manager, Keeley who said that Elizabeth did have her phone so I said in that case how comes her WhatsApp messages had not been picked up since 28 June? I asked for the phone to be given back to Elizabeth but this was not done. It was then admitted that the phone was charging. We pay a monthly contract on that phone.
Today I spoke to the ward secretary as she had contacted me as Cygnet Appletree want the private scan results but when I asked for the email address to send these to she asked me to send them to her email address. I did not have a pen handy at the time so I asked her to write to me so I had her email address. Just looked and no email received.
There are no plans as yet to visit and virtually next to nothing in contact with my daughter with former hospital having involvement. A former NHS hospital is responsible for sending my daughter far away namely Ash Villa. When this is done absolutely no consideration is made towards the carer and no assistance with any costs yet there is an abundance of funding towards a very expensive facility namely Cygnet Appletree where Elizabeth is now held and is clearly missing home, asking about her cat and when I will visit next. It would appear that smoking is allowed at this private hospital as Elizabeth has said she has started smoking again.
The Responsible Clinician actually sounded quite nice when he phoned me and promised contact would be reviewed but really nothing has changed. If things had changed then she would have her phone back and be able to pick up her messages.
Psychiatric Abuse UK 
I really feel for you and Elizabeth. I can’t understand why you are not allowed to look after your own daughter, what kind of country are we living in???? You would be better off if she was in prison, at least you would have visiting rights.
I wish we had gone abroad somewhere like Norway where the law has been changed with regard to forced drugging. That is all Elizabeth is getting under both NHS and private. In prison at least you know when you sentence ends. However why should she be in prison. We moved hoping so much for a fresh start. We could not get the “treatment” of Clopixol depot up and running leaving her without it for six days. She was being reduced off it anyway as all her conditions are now physical to do with the central nervous system and abnormal findings on a scan. She was taken away by Lincolnshire Partnership Trust and put in one of their dreadful facilities on a dormitory ward then transferred in a caged vehicle not fit for animals to Ash Villa where she was treated like a restricted prisoner, deprived the research testing of her Dr who at the time was Dr Shahpasandy. He wanted to get rid of me as NR and refused the scan for his own research. After that she was treated for months like a restricted prisoner and I was treated like a criminal. 20+ months of totally inadequate “care” with no psychological input yet they have money galore to take people to court and spend a fortune of taxpayer’s money using the council to assist in this respect and their motto “Be Kind” is a joke! Now there is nowhere apart from home where she would be welcome and they will not let her come home. My daughter has been stolen by people who havent a clue what best interest is all about.
Sorry to hear that this has happened to your daughter and that this bad practice and institutional abuse is going on.
Yes, I cannot think of a better word than institutional abuse and to think Elizabeth was not even sectioned before in the former area of Enfield but we had no support, no care and she could not use the bath as it was totally inadequate. Noone cared under Enfield to help get this in place and for so many years we had nothing but bullying. We had hoped so much for a fresh start in a new area but all the time the “care” was retained by Enfield and I thought that by 20 + months this would have been passed over. What a system that allows this to go on and there is no accountability.