On the first or second visit I told her of house I bought with retroactive SSDI check. Sounded very positive at first. Said many clients have own homes in this area. Problems I was having with furnace companies I discussed with her staff as recommended by Dr. Cohen. Staff seemed caring and ready to advocate at first, soon after, full reversal...
The initial problems I was able to solve without their help, but they created new problems far worse. Soon city inspectors along with social worker at my house kicking me around big time. They waited until the deep freeze, and then shut off my heat.
I was told I was being taken to temporary shelter until I could have needed repairs done. There were no actual repairs that needed to be done. Was instead taken to residential assisted living facility. First thing they asked me is what is my former address. Third day there the manager of Merrit House asked me if I'm getting used to it there. That outfit has another House here in town, but they took me to Biwabik, 20 miles away. I made it home, but I don't know for how long. I will also be selling my house as fast as I can. Through a lot of my work, it is now worth four times what I paid for it, $7,000 up to $28,000, and I have no mortgage. It's mine.
Range Mental Health Clinic really frowns on this sort of thing.
Again, safety issues were given as the reason for shutting off my heat, but Range Mental Health Clinic later admitted that they just felt I would be happier in a structured community environment. The other patients at Merrit House are so heavily medicated they can't even talk, so there is no community. No one at that place does anything but eat and go to the bathroom.
All discussion was based on that I like it there. No discussion on how to get back home.
On the sixth day there they told me that I was going to fill out a change of address form so that the SSDI check will be sent to them. However, by then I had managed to find a lawyer that would talk to me, and on her advice, I was free to go, so I left. Checks come to patients at that place that they don't even have to have the patients sign them before Merrit House just helps themselves to the money. The patients there are left with three dollars per day, and are stuck there.
In my case, that would have been $1,000 per month, for a "shelter".
I can still live at home, because I have a wood burning stove, but I don't know how long they are going to let me use it.
One month ago, they had previously suckered me into agreeing to go to this shelter, that I should call RMHC Bell Center to arrange for a ride, but then they just blew me off. Now they are saying that I never called. That didn't surprise me.
I later learned there were no vacancies back then, but now there are four or five.
I put myself through college washing dishes, worked nearly 20 years in the corporate world, paying into the SSDI fund the whole time. This is insurance that I now have to collect on. That money is for me. It is not for Dr. Cohen and her desperate billionaire friends.
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