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Chromatic v Time: On the Misdiagnosis of Grief and the Bureaucracy of Theft



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The Anxiety Rebuttal

Or, How the State Mistook Grief for Diagnosis and Control for Care


Filed: 19 November 2024
Reference Code: SWK-WELLBEING-DISTORTION-2024-11
PDF Filename: 2024-11-19_SWANK_Letter_Westminster_AnxietyMisuseAndChronologicalTheft.pdf
One-Line Summary: Polly Chromatic responds to years of unjust scrutiny by clarifying that what Westminster calls “anxiety” is actually indignation — and it's warranted.


I. What Happened

On 19 November 2024, Polly Chromatic sent an email to Westminster Children’s Services, multiple agencies, and legal counsel.

Subject: Anxiety
Tone: Surgical
Purpose: To end the farce.

She wrote:

“I’m not anxious about anything. I want to move on with our lives… You’ve already wasted all of Regal’s childhood and it makes me cry so much when I think about it.”

The message, while short, delivers a fatal blow to the narrative of pathology the system continues to peddle.


II. What the Complaint Establishes

In 136 words, Polly decimates the following assumptions:

  • That grief over institutional harm = mental illness

  • That emotion = dysfunction

  • That refusal to cooperate = instability

  • That a mother crying for her stolen time is somehow the problem

The message is not about anxiety. It’s about time theftbureaucratic harassment, and the refusal to let families heal.

The “concern” here isn’t clinical — it’s colonial.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because when institutions weaponise therapy-speak to justify cruelty, someone must write it down.

Because a mother’s refusal to “reassess the past” is not avoidant — it’s strategic.

Because we consider the phrase:

“I’m tired of you wasting my time with my kids”

to be both a diagnosis and a demand.

This email is a literary footnote to a decade of malpractice — and a full-body rejection of being observed instead of helped.


IV. Violations

  • Article 8 ECHR – Interference with family time disguised as “assessment”

  • Misuse of Mental Health Tropes – Recasting trauma as dysfunction

  • Childhood Erosion – Safeguarding actions that robbed the eldest child of formative years

  • Chronic Procedural Harm – Repetitive re-traumatisation disguised as concern

  • Disability Ignorance – Dismissal of the mother’s respiratory and communication disabilities


V. SWANK’s Position

We file this not as an emotional email, but as an expert witness statement from a mother who has nothing left to explain.

Her words are not erratic — they are exact.

Her refusal is not resistance — it is recordkeeping.

Her grief is not instability — it is evidence.

And her child’s stolen time is not a footnote — it is the crime.

Let the archive reflect: this was never about anxiety. It was about power. And Westminster misdiagnosed both.


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