He also said that the service agent told him in the call about having helped another veteran access MAiD through VAC including supporting that person’s children.
The service agent reportedly said ‘ better than blowing his brains out all over the wall or driving his car into something’, when discussing the separate case.
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It’s hard to believe someone would actually say that to a person who wants to live and is seeking help. How disgusting.
Haha, this is sort of unrelated, but - there is a big difference between the way medical or mental health folks treat a potential client, i.e., someone asking for help, that is based on your, ah, let’s say demographics. If I try to get mental health services, unless I have some serious financing, I won’t be treated as someone who deserves to live, much less get the help that is being requested because of my politics. (I’m not in the military but I can imagine how much worse it is for them.)
Like, a good example is: Did you ever watch that TV series “Criminal Minds”....? I used to watch it when we had nfx some years ago. Every time the psych forensic people who are the main characters go to interview some creepy serial killer, they’re almost always nice to him. I realize this is a technique to get the subject to warm up to one - and a lot of the time they are interviewing someone who’s already charged with a crime and in custody - but they’ll be talking to a guy who has raped, mutilated, and killed a bunch of gals, let’s say, and they’re calling him “Mr So-and-So” and smiling at him, all in the name of getting him to talk.
But if the subject is a white guy, especially a tough-talking male who’s associated with survivalism or a gang, they will get all tough back and get sort of insulting and provocative.
I realized that’s how cops always talk to me - and if I’m asking them for help, they will (in a belligerant, angry tone of voice) tell me to go to mental health. Where the mental health person will start off right away talking all tough to me, like, “Now see here, we’re not going to take any sh*t off you, lady!”
I think the dweebs who work in the Canadian version of the VA are taking the same basic tack, where they have little respect or regard for veterans and only care about their desk job, seeing it as a separate thing from the actual client they’re supposed to be serving.