20 years in isolation? ‘Egregious’ use of seclusion prompts calls for independent review of Ontario mental health system

[shockedcanadian]

When Charles Dickens was writing about the slave labour in England almost 200 years ago, little did he know he was writing about Canada in 2026.

20 years in seclusion. Is this what Americans believe is a progressive, advanced nation?

We are a backwards nation of abusers that has infiltrated all of society from our Creepy Ones to our courts. THIS is Canada.

Star investigation into ‘egregious’ use of seclusion prompts calls for independent review of Ontario mental health system

Leading experts have described Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care’s practice of isolating patients as “abusive,” “egregious,” and “grossly in excess” of other facilities.

www.thestar.com

An Ontario psychiatric hospital’s practice of keeping patients locked up alone for years — and in at least one case decades — is sparking calls for an independent review of the use of seclusion in the province’s mental health system.

And Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care says it’s open to the idea.

An ongoing Star investigation has revealed that Waypoint is keeping severely ill patients in isolation for prolonged periods of time despite the fact that psychiatrists — and Waypoint’s own policy — say seclusion is meant to be an emergency measure of last resort to prevent imminent risk of harm, to be used for as short a time as possible.
Camelott Hamblett, the man at the centre of the Star’s series, has spent the last 20 years and counting in seclusion at Waypoint, the province’s only high-secure forensic psychiatric facility in Penetanguishene.

Leading experts, including the mental health professionals behind the best practices to reduce seclusion that Waypoint claims to be implementing, have described the hospital’s practice as “abusive,” “egregious,” and “grossly in excess” of other North American facilities.

 

[DGS49]

Charles Dickens was writing about people of normal mental capacity who were treated inhumanely by the society in which he lived.

That's not what this is about. You are now looking at people who are psychotic - literally have lost touch with reality (if they ever had it), and cannot care for themselves in addition to being a danger to others.

For Leftist outsiders - you know that's who this is - to pass judgment on the heroic people who voluntarily run and operate facilities like this is beneath contempt.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Charles Dickens was writing about people of normal mental capacity who were treated inhumanely by the society in which he lived.

That's not what this is about. You are now looking at people who are psychotic - literally have lost touch with reality (if they ever had it), and cannot care for themselves in addition to being a danger to others.

For Leftist outsiders - you know that's who this is - to pass judgment on the heroic people who voluntarily run and operate facilities like this is beneath contempt.

Errr. How hard is it to place a dish of food under his door 3 times a day? Is that the new standard of "heroism"? The person has been in isolation for 20 years ffs.