Standards & Whinges Against Negligent Kingdoms (SWANK London Ltd.): Therapy Denial

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Stop Expecting Us to Breathe Like You Do

🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 24 November 2024
“Therapy Is Not a Cure for Institutional Ableism”

Filed Under: Adjustment Denied · Therapy Blocked · Disability Misunderstood · Verbal Coercion · Community Exclusion · SWANK London Ltd

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Dear Kirsty,

“I’d love to go to therapy but no one will provide adjustments for my disability needs…”

That is not defiance.
That is the documentation of exclusion.

Not a lack of willingness — a lack of access.
Not refusal — obstruction.
A blockade made of unacknowledged needs and verbal tyranny disguised as procedure.

“This limits my ability as well as my kids’ ability to integrate into the community at all.”

And yet, the blame lands on us—
As though exclusion were a matter of attitude, not architecture.

“You keep expecting us to behave like people who don’t have a disability, and we can’t.”

Can’t, not won’t.
That difference defines the law.
Your refusal to grasp it is not a misunderstanding. It is a violation.

“Someone needs to call the mental health practice and help them understand…”

Indeed. Because until they comprehend communication that does not rely on breath and noise,
therapy is not therapy.
It is a performative corridor of pain, lined with clinical ignorance.

You do not get to say I “declined support” when no support was ever offered in an accessible form.

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📍 Untherapised by Refusal, Not Resistance
Polly Chromatic
Advocate of Non-Verbal Integrity
✉ director@swanklondon.com
🌐 www.swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Adjustments Enforced.

When Silence Is the Only Accommodation You Won’t Offer.

🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 24 November 2024
I’M NOT AVOIDING THERAPY. YOU’RE AVOIDING ACCESS.
Also Titled: “When Silence Is the Only Accommodation You Won’t Offer.”

Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic, Director, SWANK London Ltd.
Filed Under: Therapy Denial · Institutional Inaccessibility · Verbal Disability · Community Exclusion · Communication Barriers · Mental Health Discrimination · SWANK Correctional Filing

To: Kirsty Hornal
Cc: Dr Philip Reid, Gideon Mpalanyi, Laura Savage, Simon O'Meara
Bcc: Nannette Nicholson, Curator of Access Denied

💬 THE MESSAGE YOU RECEIVED—AND STILL FAILED TO DECODE:

“I’d love to go to therapy but no one will provide adjustments for my disability needs, and this limits my ability as well as my kids’ ability to integrate into the community at all.”
“It is not our problem. It is your community’s problem.”
“You keep expecting us to behave like people who don’t have a disability—and we can’t.”
“I think someone needs to call the mental health practice and help them understand that I can’t explain everything verbally, since they couldn’t understand when I told them, apparently.”

🧠 TRANSLATED FOR THE VERBALLY DEPENDENT, ACCESS-ILLITERATE PROFESSIONALS:

I requested therapy with adjustments.
You offered verbal performance instead.
I disclosed my communication needs.
You pathologised my precision.
I named exclusion.
You escalated it.

🗣 ACCESS STATEMENT—STILL UNREAD, STILL UNMET:

“I suffer from a disability which makes speaking verbally difficult. I prefer to communicate telepathically to minimise respiratory strain; however, email is fine.”

You offer assessments with no access.
You offer support with no structure.
And then you call us “noncompliant.”

📎 CLOSING NOTE FOR FUTURE TRIBUNALS:

This isn’t therapy avoidance.
It’s documentation of access denial masquerading as care.
Your system resents the quiet.
Mine will publish it.

Polly Chromatic
Director, SWANK London Ltd.
Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swanklondon.com
✉ director@swanklondon.com
⚠ Written Communication Only – View Policy

Therapy With Conditions, Speak or Be Excluded

⟡ “You Keep Expecting Us to Behave Like People Who Don’t Have a Disability” ⟡
*A Formal Rejection of Adjustment Denial Disguised as Service Provision

Filed: 24 November 2024
Reference: SWANK/WESTMINSTER/EMAIL-10
📎 Download PDF – 2024-11-24_SWANK_Email_Westminster_TherapyAccessDenied_VerbalDisabilityComplaint.pdf
Email documenting inability to access therapy due to verbal disability exclusion. Highlights failure of local services to accommodate and the structural bias embedded in mental health provision.

I. What Happened

In this message, Polly Chromatic addressed GP Philip Reid, social worker Kirsty Hornal, and others to clarify that she was willing to engage in therapy — but blocked by a system that refused to adjust for her disability.

The issue was not internal motivation. It was external rigidity.

“No one will provide adjustments for my disability needs and this limits my ability as well as my kids’ ability to integrate into the community at all.”

And the indictment was precise:

“It is not our problem. It is your community’s problem.”

She closed with a direct call to action: someone needed to contact the mental health provider to explain — again — that she could not speak verbally.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

Disability adjustments were not honoured by mental health professionals
Verbal-only service models remain structurally exclusionary
Denial of access is misframed as client unwillingness or dysfunction
Parental participation and child integration are harmed by discriminatory design
The refusal to understand is the disability — not the disability itself

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because mental health services claim to treat distress — while structurally enforcing it.

This email documents the precise moment where a disabled parent requests therapy, is excluded from it due to systemic non-accommodation, and is then subtly framed as the barrier to their own wellbeing.

SWANK logs this because no one should have to explain — repeatedly, in writing — why they can't speak aloud in order to be allowed to heal.

IV. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t refusal.
It was a boundary rejected because it made the system uncomfortable.

We do not accept that a person must speak to access psychological care.
We do not accept that “community integration” means impersonating the non-disabled.
We will document every offer of participation that was turned into an accusation.

⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡

Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.

To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.