Open Letter to Prof Simon Wessely -Without Apology

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Reference:

*Apolgies to Prof. Simon Wessely*
Help ME Circle, 7 January 2011
See Co-Cure: http://bit.ly/hwC4br
Or this blog: http://bit.ly/gz4FIA



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WITHOUT APOLOGY:
OPEN LETTER TO
PROFESSOR SIMON
WESSELY:




Gurli Bagnall




8 January, 2011



There I was, sitting in my motorized wheelchair
trying to control the pain that racks my body and all
but consumes it. To my amazement, I came across
Jan’s apology to you.


While the apology was no doubt triggered by
someone who is *well intentioned*, Jan is an
informed person and I suspect he takes comments
such as those raised – namely that you had once
again, been misjudged and maligned – with a pinch
of salt.


You appear of late, to have taken a back seat –
keeping a low profile and basically, WHEN we hear,
ALL we hear from you are denials and that
disingenuous: “Who? Me?”

In short, the manipulative behaviour with which we
have been “favoured’ for so many years, has come
home to roost. If you have one consistency, it is
your constant inconsistency. When it suits, you say
or do one thing; when it doesn’t suit, you deny
having said or done it.


You know very few of us, but most of us have known
you for years! You have ignored the scientific
findings and were sometimes foolish enough to deny
them outright.

Please do not deny that IN YOUR MIND your
opinions outrank science. Your actions speak for
themselves.

How can anyone believe a word you utter? You rely
entirely upon the equally foolish assumption that we
are all a bunch of idiots. That we can actually read
and operate a computer must have been a terrible
blow to you.


The crucial point for you now, is does anyone really
care any more about whether or not you have been
misjudged and maligned? Having been repeatedly
misjudged and maligned by you, why should they?


At this moment, my dearest wish after more than
two decades of hell, is that you were here beside me
in your own wheelchair; then you could show us
YOUR mettle – for what it is worth.


Would you bear your lot with courage and fortitude
as the rest of us have to do, or would you wail and
howl that you cannot stand the pain; that you do not
have the strength to cut up your own food and when
it is cut up, are you able to chew and swallow it?

Can you manage such things as the transfer from
chair to toilet on your own? Or...oh dear...were you
just a little too slow and now need to expend
strength on changing clothes? And how is the
breathing – a little tight perhaps? And those
arrhythmias...what a bloomin’ nuisance (and worse)
THEY are.


And if on the advice of someone like yourself, you
were incarcerated in a mental institution, I wonder if
anyone would bother to leap into the swimming pool
after throwing you in, to save you from drowning?

But then why should they? Didn’t little Ean Proctor
learn to swim by being thrown in at the deep end.
Yes....well... Hmm... That subject is taboo, isn’t it!



I’m sorry if I appear to be a little personal here, but
isn’t that what this is about? You are very personal
where sufferers are concerned.

And here is a puzzle for you – I’ve never been able to
figure it out. Why is it that my career and earning
capacity, (or anyone else’s, come to that) are of no
importance compared to yours?

According to you, I need to show I am sick so I can
gracefully retire and live a life of leisure on a
sickness benefit! (On a sickness benefit? Are you
joking?) Well, I’ll be darned! Here was I living under
the illusion that appreciation for your services to
things like the insurance industry, the MoD and oh...
You know them better than I do, showed their
appreciation by handing out a pen or two now and
then.

How could I have supposed they actually paid you
for it? Oh by the way, how was your caviar and
champagne last night? My water and boiled egg
were quite nice....thanks for asking.



Seriously, bullies and those who get their own way
through manipulative behaviour, are generally also
cowards.

I wonder how you will regard your brand of humanity
when you are on the receiving end as you are jeered
at? When your treatment package includes being
laughed at and ridiculed?



Having read Jan’s apology, a number of questions
have come to mind that I would like to put to you.
They are as follows:



* When can those who suffered as a result of your
untruths and general influence, expect an apology?

* When can the families of those who took their
own lives because you and your bleating followers
left them no other options, expect an apology?

* When can society expect an apology for false
claims of expertise?

* When can the children who were forcibly removed
from the parental home and protection to be
admitted to a mental ward and literally tortured by
staff due to your direct or indirect influence and/or
instructions, expect an apology?

* As a result, will those children and even adults,
ever be able to trust the medical profession again
throughout the course of their entire lives? When can
they expect an apology for being inflicted with a
lifetime of fear of those they are supposed to trust
with their very lives?

* Your profession in general, is in bad odour. It is
clear that major changes are needed to salvage
whatever credibility is left. You and your kind have
had a large part to play in this – you are the empty
drums that made the most noise. When can your
colleagues expect an apology from you for (a)
making utter fools of them and (b) for making the
lives of those who did their best to work within
ethical parameters, so difficult?

* A wise person once said that when everything
has been taken from you, there is nothing left to
lose. When can the multitudes you have stripped of
everything by your machinations, expect your
apology?



THESE ARE MY PERSONAL THOUGHTS AND
I HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE. YOU MAY
HAVE GATHERED THAT I FEEL VERY ANGRY
AT THIS TIME.





Gurli Bagnall
New Zealand








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