Addressing False Accusations: A Call for Change in Mental Health


I have learned many things in my 69 years of life, that make me who I am, and i believe others do the same. We all learn some basics growing up. 1) How to care for ourselves 2) How to interact with others, 3) What we need to do to survive. Like eating, washing our bodies, how to deficate and urninate. The hard part of growing up, is gaining the important experiences needed to survive and make our way in the world, among others.

Some basics we are taught are morals, ethics and manners for instance. Standards are taught us also. Education we get in our schools and then there is the person to person education, of relationships. Most of us don’t get into relationships, with others until we reach puberty folks. Some of us, do so earlier than others but it does come about. As most of society will tell you, rudeness gets you no where, anger is to be avoided, physical violence is a no no. What is not taught, well is how we view ourselves, and how to adjust if needed in society. We all have our own ways of adjusting, if you ask me. We tend to learn, what we consider foolish, or idiotic or stupid as we go along and we adjust and avoid them. What we can’t avoid until we confront or run into them, is people who beliieve they are better than you or I, or are naricistic, or assine and stuck in their ways. We see it everyday in public and private situations, so how do we avoid it. We walk away, we isolate those who do these things. We navigate towards the better people in life and leave those we can not adust or change behind. The physical violent ones, the ones who meantally attack others and deamean others. The ones who lack respect for others thoughts, and can’t say, ok, thats your opinion, not mine an dlet it be. These are the things, humanity may never overcome for we are as diverse as any species will ever be.

Yet we as humans, have our problems beyond the above. We make mistakes and then we can also get blamed for things we never did or would do. In the world false accussations happen folks, people get arrested and blamed and then later we find out they were innocent in the first place. It happens, it’sa flaw in humanity and the American society as we are today. what is missing in these cases, is the actual truth. It is never revealed as widely or as publically as the accussation is it? The Justice system we have, can tar and feather someone for life, ruining their ability to survive or suceed in life. It can take away their loves, their families, their children, their properties, their jobs too. Not all accussations are true, not all convictions are right either. when they are not right, then the person whose life has been ruined or taken away from them, should be compenstated. It should be publically admitted, that it wasa false accusation, revealed why it happened and explained it was not the fault of the person who was accussed. It may not be the accusser’s fault either, it can be brought about by those around the accusser. We as a society recommend theraphies, Doctors and specialist to handle these situations, then we bound them to secrecy. They are not allowed to reveal what they have been told or how they found out. The Doctors, Theraphist, Specialist, that treat thes eindividuals, should be sworn not to secrecy, but to truth and justice. They need to be able to come forward and declare the person falsely accussed of immocence. Instead they are sworn to never reveal the truth or what they find out. In the menatime this process, hurts their patients, the person they falsely accussed, and the lives of all around the incident or matter that happens. Then the falsely accussed has to adjust and live with the accussation hanging over their head, the patient that reveals it has to live with what they did at the behest of someone else, and it ruins lives of the innocents around each individual. Sadly, American medical laws, regulations and restrictions prevent this from happening, so we have men and women who were falsely accussed of crime sthey did not committ having to run, hide, build new lives and try to live a life tarnished by something they never did. Isit fair, is it right, no! But was all know this happens, we have seen it and some have lived it and still do to this day.

I believe and I say this now openly, The Medical regulations and rules need changed. If a Theraphist, physcologist, pschyistist, learns one of their patients, lied, by force, by family, into making false accussations, then I think they should be authorized to and forced to reveal the truth and correct the situation. Apologies do not work in these situations folks, but, a public admittance of what went wrong why it went wrong and letting the world around both accusser and the accussed know, is vital. Lives got changed by these accusssations, these court cases, these false convictions, they seperate families, friends, loved ones and much more. The pain is intense and many have to live with them. Them suddenly out of the blue the Accusser admits they lied becaus ethey were told to, or because they didn’t know better, but it doesn’t change how the situation ended up does it. No, the same intense stain, intense pain and even anger does not disappear, it is swallowed and forced to be held in, by all involved and festers. Is there a solution for such a situation? The only one I can see is the medical professional, being allowed to correct it publically, and helpingboth the patient and the falsely accussed through it all. But, how does one falsely accussed deal with it. some let it fester, some talk about it, some run from it. Yet, they know they didn’t do what they were accussed of, but it stains and ruins their name, reputation and ultimately their life too. So, I ask this question, for all those falsely accussed, and all those false accussers who know what happened, how doe sone overcome it all and correct it? You tell me Medcial experts, you tell me society as a whole! What happens when an accusation is made, and a person loses their repuation, time in jail, and money, then it is found it is all false? release from jail is not enough, monetary payments are not enough, they don’t get back their lost time. They do not regain their reputation do they? They lose in all ways, and then the accusser who rrealizes what they did, has to also live with what they did. They have to look at themselve sin the mirror, and ask why, and what happened and feel the remorse. Then live with it also. It is impossible for the Falsely accussed to forgive the false accusser, it is also for either side to live with the false results folks.

So tell me, Medical Professionals, of emotional and mental health, what is the solution here? How does one recover from these lies? How does the accusser get over the false accussationa nd what they did? How doe sthe falsely accussed overcome the accusation, the lose of time, reputation and family they once had? How does one, stop such things from happening to innocent men and women? And why can’t medical professionals reveal the truth and give som ehelp in correcting these situations? Is there a way, the laws, regulations, restrictions, can be changed in these situations to help not only the patient but the person they galsely accused?

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