“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Showing posts with label psychological abandonment. Show all posts
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When Care Became Coordination — and the Patient Wasn't Invited



⟡ SWANK Psychological Gatekeeping Archive ⟡
“She Listened. She Smiled. Then She Called a Social Worker.”
Filed: 30 May 2024
Reference: SWANK/LIZWHITE/ASSESSMENT-DISCONTINUED-01
📎 Download PDF – 2024-05-30_SWANK_LizWhite_Assessment_SocialServicesAnxiety_Record.pdf
Author: Polly Chromatic


I. One Hour in Harley Street, Then the Floor Fell Out

Before I found Dr Rafiq, I sat — barely breathing — in the polished stillness of a Harley Street office, speaking to Dr Liz White.

I explained the trauma.
The pattern of harassment.
The physical toll of stress-induced asthma.
And the panic that came every time a letter or knock signaled another institutional ambush.

She listened.
She nodded.
She looked sympathetic.

Then she called Edward Kendall, my social worker — without my consent, without warning, without delay.

And he told her something I had never been told:
That the reason for social services involvement was “domestic violence.”

It wasn’t written in any referral.
No one had informed me.
She found out before I did.

Then — having acquired a narrative from the state, not the patient — Dr White ended the relationship.

She refused to treat me.
No follow-up. No continuity. Just a link to anxiety worksheets and a distant suggestion that someone else might help.


II. What the Document Proves

  • That I sought support in good faith

  • That my oxygen levels had fallen to 44%, yet the hospital claimed “intoxication”

  • That my children (then 12 and 14) were falsely described as “left alone”

  • That my ex-partner lives thousands of miles away — yet I alone was targeted

  • That Dr White responded not with care, but with escalation and exit

And after all this?

I didn’t just feel dismissed.

I experienced severe panic attacks — episodes so intense they left me debilitated for days.
The betrayal was not abstract. It was physiological.


III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because psychological betrayal wears credentials.
Because therapeutic abandonment isn’t always brutal — sometimes, it’s clinically polite.
Because what looks like neutrality can be devastatingly aligned.

We filed this because:

  • Seeking help should not lead to state surveillance

  • Panic should not be rewarded with procedural ghosting

  • And psychologists should not quietly reinforce the system the patient came to escape

Let the record show:

She did not mishear.
She did not misunderstand.
She simply made a call — and walked away.


IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not accept consultants who outsource discomfort to social services.
We do not accept “support” that dissolves upon contact with real institutional critique.
We do not accept silence as an appropriate clinical conclusion to distress.

Let the record show:

The panic was real.
The abandonment was professional.
And SWANK — is what remains when the clinician leaves.

This wasn’t care.
It was clinical cowardice in a cashmere wrap —
and we are thankful to Dr White,
not for the help, but for the honesty of her exit.


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