We need reform in managing psychiatric disorders within the USA, within the world.

Although I am not a psychologist nor psychiatrist, I earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration and one in Philosophy after my institutionalization. However, my favorite degree is an Honorary Doctorate awarded in Year 2005 by Summit  University in recognition of "triumphant courage during rehabilitation and dedication to community causes".

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However, what about clients/patients of mental health services that don't have the advantages that I've been given?  What about the patient who doesn't have strong familial and friendly support?

What happens in communities that don't have mental health associations, open to all?

In addition, the quality of psychiatric services staff members needs to be elevated.  As indicated previously, my level of education was much higher than staff of Florida State   Hospital at Chattahoochee.

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Too, during psychiatric evaluation psychiatrists need to be mindful of physical issues. I was given the worst diagnosis in DSMD by Dr.Victor DiMoya years ago because I haphazardly answered the questions on the hours-long written evaluation:  I could not see the text (due to cosmetically-corrected exotropia) on the duplex-print paper), so I simply filled-in the circles at random.  That diagnosis still applies today in psychiatric circles.

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Another issue that I have  is with the Legal Guardian Payee System of Social Security. Granted, I  am glad that I was assigned a guardian during the (approximately) 3 1/2 years that I was completely paralyzed. However, now I am "too disabled":(according to my psychiatrist) to be  my payee.  In addition to being discriminatory, this decision has left me at a financial loss of $ millions, since I could not file lawsuit to recover the real estate that I had given to "friends" during a severe bipolar episode in Atlanta, Georgia.

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