They prayed to cast Satan from my body (Australia) | eldritch
“They say they take in the world’s trash, so what happens when you are Mercy trash?”Two months after she had been expelled from Mercy’s Sydney house (her crime was to smoke a cigarette) Johnson ended up in Royal Perth Hospital’s psychiatric unit. From there she started seeing a psychologist at an outpatient program two to three times a week.
Counselling involved working through a white folder containing pre-scripted prayers.”Most of the staff were current Bible studies or Bible college students, and that is it, if anything. You just cannot play around with mental illness when you do not know what you are doing. Even professionals will acknowledge that it is a huge responsibility working in that field, and that is people who have six years, eight years university study behind them.”
“I called and spoke to her counsellor in person,” Julie Johnson said. “She told me that Naomi was lying to me, that Naomi was just rebelling … she was making the wrong choices.”But instead of taking her mother’s concerns on board, the staff punished Naomi for disclosing anything about her time at the Sydney home.
It appears that there is one registered psychologist at Mercy’s Sydney house, although the Heraldunderstands that the little contact she has with the residents is around scriptures, not psychological care. She did not respond to a request for an interview.
Yet she was unable to detail what qualifications each staff member had, or how many had qualifications beyond their one registered psychologist.On the allegations that young women are denied medical and psychiatric care, Watson had this to say: “Residents’ mental and physical health concerns are taken very seriously, and appropriate treatment is made available.
Before long, Smith began to harm herself in other ways. Again she alerted the staff to her concerns. They reprimanded her for wasting their time, calling her a “fruitcake”, she said.”The [staff member] said I was attention seeking, bringing negative energy to the environment and taking her valuable time away from girls who really need her.
“She was extremely upset. She didn’t want to come back at all … she was in a real mess,” said the relative, who did not want to be identified. “I was extremely fearful that she was likely to commit suicide. It was an extreme shock that this ministry we all had decided was the real deal had turned out to be a worse problem … it left her in a worse state than she had ever been in before.”For two years just keeping her alive became a full-time job, he said. “Whenever she was alone for any length of time it was always a fear that she may not be alive when you got back. When you did get back there were quite a lot of times when she had a knife and she had been scratching her wrists.”
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They prayed to cast Satan from my body (Australia) | eldritch
“They say they take in the world’s trash, so what happens when you are Mercy trash?”Two months after she had been expelled from Mercy’s Sydney house (her crime was to smoke a cigarette) Johnson ended up in Royal Perth Hospital’s psychiatric unit. From there she started seeing a psychologist at an outpatient program two to three times a week.
Counselling involved working through a white folder containing pre-scripted prayers.”Most of the staff were current Bible studies or Bible college students, and that is it, if anything. You just cannot play around with mental illness when you do not know what you are doing. Even professionals will acknowledge that it is a huge responsibility working in that field, and that is people who have six years, eight years university study behind them.”
“I called and spoke to her counsellor in person,” Julie Johnson said. “She told me that Naomi was lying to me, that Naomi was just rebelling … she was making the wrong choices.”But instead of taking her mother’s concerns on board, the staff punished Naomi for disclosing anything about her time at the Sydney home.
It appears that there is one registered psychologist at Mercy’s Sydney house, although the Heraldunderstands that the little contact she has with the residents is around scriptures, not psychological care. She did not respond to a request for an interview.
Yet she was unable to detail what qualifications each staff member had, or how many had qualifications beyond their one registe
red psychologist.On the allegations that young women are denied medical and psychiatric care, Watson had this to say: “Residents’ mental and physical health concerns are taken very seriously, and appropriate treatment is made available.
Before long, Smith began to harm herself in other ways. Again she alerted the staff to her concerns. They reprimanded her for wasting their time, calling her a “fruitcake”, she said.”The [staff member] said I was attention seeking, bringing negative energy to the environment and taking her valuable time away from girls who really need her.
“She was extremely upset. She didn’t want to come back at all … she was in a real mess,” said the relative, who did not want to be identified. “I was extremely fearful that she was likely to commit suicide. It was an extreme shock that this ministry we all had decided was the real deal had turned out to be a worse problem … it left her in a worse state than she had ever been in before.”For two years just keeping her alive became a full-time job, he said. “Whenever she was alone for any length of time it was always a fear that she may not be alive when you got back. When you did get back there were quite a lot of times when she had a knife and she had been scratching her wrists.”
This entry was posted on Saturday, July 23rd, 2011 at 8:14 pm	and posted in Australia, exorcism, Protestant.	You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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