My Doctor in 1998 forced retirement on me from being a National Health Dentist in Wales. For reasons I STILL haven't discovered as the whole of the Health Service in Wales turned against me. The Health Service is now separate from that in England and will not help me gain the truth.
I was seeing that Doctor, and having counselling" because of stress with an acrimonious divorce and, topically in the UK at the moment, I was recovering from my business being washed out in a flood. He never informed me that I was to be retired but wrote in the document that retired me at 48 that I was doing atrocious work and that I was suicidal (I was not to both accounts). I discovered later that he had "witnesses" one being my sister, also a doctor,who was "helping me in the divorce" and also that my Doctor was helping her cover up a serious Malpractice or criminal act and she was deflecting instead of helping as she used me to preserve her reputation. I discovered I was fully retired when I was told by my Divorce solicitor 3 months after the event having been CONSTANTLY told I was "off sick". He had given my lump sum to my wife without my authority. MY practice and life's work were destroyed.
On that day I was rang by a psychiatrist at my Dental Practice one day and told I had to go to a psychiatric hospital and would be immediately sectioned if I refused, which I did. I rang the Governing Body/ Local Health Authority, and THEY too said I had no choice BUT to go to hospital and that THEY had taken over the running of my practice and in effect suddenly I was "off sick".....but no documents from the Pension Authority had ever arrived. I discovered that they had also suspended my license to practice because of my "mental illness".
I then made the wrong decision and agreed to go for the weekend but did not anticipate the horror of a psychiatric hospital where NOONE listens. I was FORCED to take medication and everytime I said I AM NOT suicidal I got more meds and "a high security "watch placed on me. Everybody stopped listening to me. I was told in hospital that I was to stay for weeks "until I got better" and so tried to "sign my self out" but that just started the worst 4 weeks of my life as then my every move was watched...even going to the toilet........no shoe laces, no belt, no locks on ANY door, in fact NO doors on the bathroom.
I now receive a small pension £16k for 23 years work for the National Health Service (NHS) and have a £100k debt for life I can never clear. The pensions authority say that I should NOT have had full retirement forced on me but refuse to help in trying to sort out the mess caused. As do ALL legal counsel in Wales. Politicians "seem" to be embroiled in this mess, I add allegedly, as the original Doctor gained many high posts in and out of the NHS assisted by these *******'s. Every doctor in my town tell me to forget my dental career and that I have ever been a dentist and treat me with contempt. I have left coronary heart disease written as being caused by the stress with all the above and eventually had a heart attack and a carotid coronary bypass graft but had to FIGHT to get treatment for that in 2006-8. I now have reduced usage of my left arm and find it difficult playing guitar and piano after starting both at the age of 6. I am 63 now.
I had to "cold turkey" the meds to retreive some semblance of life and this took quite a few years as the need for the drugs was horrific. I also became an alcoholic and stopping alcohol, once I realised I had a problem, was easy in comparison. Before I get flamed that is an example of typical British understatement as it was HELL.
I fight suicidal thoughts almost daily yet when I ironically ask for help from the service that should be in place to help,the Psychiatric Services, they tell me to change the way I think, change my symptoms in effect, before they will consider ANY form of help. However each "professional" then writes that I refuse treatment but thanks to technology one appt IS recorded, and listenable, and this shows I AM RIGHT!
Allegedly, there is a lot of corruption in NHS Wales which equals the scandal in the UK with the BBC and the alleged paedophile Jimmy Savile..
I had 3 burly policemen around my house a few weeks ago and they gave me 10 minutes to prove to them that I should not be sectioned after someone rang them with "concern". I showed them documents and things relaxed. They advised I saw the Fraud office who will look into my case once I have collated the reams of evidence. SO I have to go through it all again....

Pat you ask about early retirement and this is just part of MY story. I visit PG Music to get away from all this **** so will stay away from here until this topic has disappeared from the front page and then I hope I will resist the temptation to look for it and read it!
I have written hundreds of songs about being forced to be a mental patient and so will now post them soon for all to hear.
THANK YOU Band in a Box for keeping me alive, Mr Gannon you do not realise how much I NEED your program.

I will have a quick squint round the Showcase and then be off for a few weeks.

Alyn

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