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Histrionics and Narcissism
American Psychiatric Association (APA) publishes a manual [01] that enables consultants and psychiatrists to diagnose mental disorders. The definitions used here paraphrase that manual. The apparent serious mental condition of Council House administrator Stephen (aka Stefan) A. Mitchell needs defining in psychiatric terms to explain his abusive behavior toward senior citizens. This article refutes the humiliating and abusive statements that he has made about them. It also explains the psychological condition that probably caused him to make them.
The directors have employed successive administrators with psychological, or at least chronic emotional, problems instead of qualified people as required by US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) regulations. Congress allotted funds for a qualified service coordinator (social worker/geriatric counselor). That position calls for a person holding particular academic credentials, also professional qualifications and experience, to meet tenant needs.
Journalists only disclose the mental condition of people whom they interview when essential to the story. They prefer to use that sort of information as background to maintain ethical privacy levels. However, mental health evaluation essentially forms part of these essays.
Council House directors placed mental health criteria into evidence. They entered false and misleading data into the public record by filing libelous or derogatory mental health statements about their adversaries. They also used mental health propaganda to try to prevent publication of these essays and to cover up their abusive behavior. They opened the door to evaluation and rebuttal themselves.
Congress did not intend federal funds to support theatrical enterprises by out-of-work actors posing as mental health counselors. At Council House, misappropriation of federal and other non-profit funds on theatrical (and other interests that include pornography and a cover-up of the activities of an Islamic terrorist sympathizer) now runs into many thousands of dollars. [Tall Structure Terror]
HUD specifically mandates that the directors may not use funds, allotted to employ qualified service coordinators, for administrative purposes. It has done nothing to enforce its own regulations although aware of the misappropriation. It has allowed the situation to repeat itself with the employment of yet another unqualified, inexperienced, and violent person as service coordinator.
Federal regulations do not allow people with mental health problems (vulnerable adults) to occupy independent-living facilities let alone manage them. In the opinion of several lay people and professionals, Mitchell needs professional psychiatric treatment before he victimizes more senior citizens. [Vulnerable Adults]
Mitchell had several tenants confined for psychiatric evaluation without probable cause and generally treats anyone over the age of 62 as mentally incompetent - probably a projection of his own condition. Diagnosis remains the prerogative of professional psychiatrists. Consequently, the definitions used here relate to evaluation not to diagnosis in a psychiatric sense.
Definitions
For the purposes of these essays the term “lunacy” means mental illness that destroys individual responsibility through psychotic belief. Typically, a disordered mind imagines facts without evidence to support them. People suffering from lunacy rail against all evidence without establishing a reasonable hypothesis or an argument to the contrary.
The lexical definition of “histrionic” means theatrical arts with exaggerated emotional behavior. Excessive love or admiration for oneself after regression to an infantile stage of development defines narcissism. In the theater it provides entertainment and pleasure.
However, the same term applies to more sinister behavior in mentally disturbed people. Then, an admirable art form becomes a dangerous means of controlling the lives of others. The creative attributes become pernicious tools to instill fear. The condition becomes a dangerous phenomenon when managers use those tools ideologically - especially when younger people assume authority over senior citizens. [Thespian Liar]
APA definitions overlap. Some histrionic personality definitions also apply to narcissistic personality disorder. The terms both describe a pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior) and a need for admiration concurrent with a lack of empathy. People who suffer from narcissism have a grandiose sense of self-importance. They exaggerate their achievements and talents and expect recognition from their managers without commensurate achievements.
Preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love, they believe themselves special and that they should only associate with other special people - particularly high-status people or institutions. They demand excessive admiration from both superiors and people over whom they have power.
Their sense of entitlement demands favorable treatment and automatic compliance with unreal expectations. Interpersonally exploitive, they take advantage of others to achieve their own ends. They lack empathy - they cannot recognize or identify with the feelings and needs of others. They envy others or believe that others are envious of them and exhibit arrogant behaviors or attitudes.
Psychological Abuse
Journalists can only report circumstances. They can neither project outcomes of insane situations nor provide solutions to people who deny that a problem exists. They only evaluate, define, then document information to support their conclusions. To that end, several laymen and a professional counselor studied Mitchell’s behavior over a three-year period then reached a consensus supported by a cross-section of Council House tenants.
That consensus showed that Mitchell needs psychiatric diagnosis of a dangerous sociopathic condition. Evaluation based upon APA standards categorized him as suffering from a combination of histrionic and narcissistic personality disorders. They saw him as a seriously disturbed individual on a tyrannical and self-destructive bent. They evaluate his Kapos (thugs) in similar terms. APA clinical definitions describe the conditions in greater depth.
Apart from their egregious abuse of tenants, Mitchell and his attorney have classified all Council House residents as “vulnerable adults” (mentally impaired in varying degrees). In company with the directors, they apparently consider anyone over age 62 as having diminished mental capacity. This alone indicates their own mental inclinations.
People who suffer from histrionic personality disorder exhibit a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking. This behavior begins by early adulthood and presents itself in a variety of contexts. If not the center of attention then they become uncomfortable.
To overcome their rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions they use physical appearance to draw attention to self. Their interaction with others often manifests in inappropriate sexually seductive or provocative behavior - they exaggerate the intimacy of relationships.
Histrionic individuals use excessively impressionistic speech that lacks detail (Mitchell has extensive training as a stage actor). Self-dramatization and theatricality figure strongly in this evaluation. Circumstances or disruptive people easily influence or coerce them. Mitchell succumbs to subversive influences from a sort of Rasputin sans intelligence and a sycophantic elite among tenants.
The directors should have Felippe Jacques, a self-styled sadist and misanthrope held under observation for his violent attacks, death threats, and subornation. Many tenants live in fear of him. He acts as Mitchell’s principal Kapo and “advisor”. Together they cook up propaganda for hacks at The Jewish Transcript to publish (a Council House director sits on the board of that rag). [Propaganda]
Jacques composes hate messages then sends them to a variety of people by email, reads them aloud at tenant meetings, and posts them on locked bulletin boards. He boasts that he can do whatever he wants under a court order that grants him immunity. Jacques apparently controls many of Mitchell’s thoughts and actions. [Noblesse Oblige]
The directors have ample grounds to refer Mitchell for psychiatric evaluation in light of his aberrant behavior. His unbalanced attitudes and hysterical outbursts suggest a serious psychological condition that needs urgent attention. He certainly should not work as a senior citizen administrator. His lack of credentials, his contact with tenants' relatives to make trouble for them; his defamatory letters to their friends and colleagues; his frivolous lawsuits; all indicate incompetence and diminished responsibility let alone dereliction.
His inveterate lying, hysteria, and public disclosure of his sexual problems also show a need for professional intervention. Documents show that Mitchell, a pathological liar who uses several aliases interchangeably, has psychological problems which include sexual and emotional insecurity. Not only does he surf the Internet for susceptible liaisons but also indulges in pornography. His unpublished writing, connected with his activities at Center for Spiritual Living, confirms him immaturity. [Tyrant by Day: Saint by Night] [Thespian Liar]
Mitchell publicly claims all tenants, most of them about the same age as his parents, as his grandparents then abuses them. He uses his power to discriminate against people unable to defend themselves, a practice specifically outlawed in government financially-assisted housing (or in any other ethical establishment). [Cruel and Inhumane Treatment - WIP]
He perpetuates a class system based upon affluence and victimizes people at the lower end of the economic scale. With his directors, he dictates an undemocratic ideology and pseudo-theocracy enforced by thugs supported by a vindictive elite. Together they share delusional beliefs. Similar conditions generally occur in long-standing abusive and ideological relationships.
Conclusion
Federal regulations do not allow people with mental health problems (vulnerable adults) to occupy independent-living facilities let alone manage them. In the opinion of several lay people and professionals, Mitchell, needs professional psychiatric treatment before he abuses more senior citizens. He has had several tenants confined for psychiatric evaluation without probable cause and generally treats anyone over the age of 62 as mentally incompetent.
Statistics show that on any given day 40 percent of mentally ill people go untreated - most of them rank as highly creative oddballs. A few become dangerous (Judge Doerty take note). The situation at Council House falls into the dangerous category with lunatics and thugs running an apartment block that they have converted into an asylum.
A study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association [02] evaluates prevalence, severity, and treatment of DSM-IV mental disorders in fourteen countries. The research documented mental disorders as having greater effects on role functioning than many serious chronic physical illnesses. It showed uniformly that most mental orders remain untreated.
The surveys were carried out in mostly developed countries, making it impossible to generalize results worldwide. However, prevalence of mental disorder ranked generally higher than any other chronic condition. Among the fourteen countries surveyed United States (26.3%) ranked highest for mental disorder and Italy (8.2%), Germany (9.1%), and Spain (9.2%) lowest. They did not survey Great Britain.
Even professional psychiatrists have difficulty determining where eccentricity ends and pathology begins because the ground shifts according to time and place - a sort of pathology du jour. This creates a paradox. One part of the psyche wants to disappear into oblivion while the other wants to grow into a powerful tyrant. Simply put, sociopathic people have a crowd in their head and try to sort out the good from the bad. This causes them to have mood swings that result in dangerous behavior which adversely affects those with whom they have any connection.
Two people dead through alleged criminal negligence, and four tenants incarcerated without probable cause, indicates a dangerous situation. A community of senior citizens lives in fear. An out-of-control manager who holds constructive immunity under a court order portends disaster.
Nmesis.
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