Whistle blowers and mental health issues

Whistle blowers and mental health issues
Genuine whistle blowers have a hard time, and many of them will suffer mental health issues as a result of their treatment. There are other reasons why those who claim to be whistle blowers have mental health issues. Their difficulties at work may actually have been caused by their mental health issues which have made it extremely difficult for their colleagues to work with them. It defies all common sense for someone with self-confessed mental health issues to claim that mental health issues were invented to discredit them as a whistle blower.

Of course false allegations of mental health problems can be used to explain away the revelations of genuine whistle blowers. But just like not all people who claim to be whistle blowers should be accepted as bona fide whistle blowers, not all claims of mental health problems should be dismissed as dirty tricks.

Looking at some NHS "whistle blowers" in the limelight at the moment, it is apparent that several of them suffer mental health problems. Julie Bailey has admitted to hearing voices to such an extent that "It used to just be my mum’s voice I heard in my dreams..But now there are so many voices in my head, so many stories, they’ve all become confused". For further details see here:  http://skwalker1964.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/hounded-heroine-the-cure-the-nhs-myth/
This suggests a psychotic illness, if Julie Bailey is telling the truth. It has been suggested to me that both Julie Bailey and Deb Hazeldine may be suffering post-traumatic stress disorder. I say this with no sense of satisfaction, I'd like to see their issues dealt with rather than exacerbated by people exploiting their grief for political purposes (or to sell newspapers).

Other "whistle blowers" clearly had their mental health issues before. Kay Sheldon admits to having mental health issues. Her colleagues describe how she went missing from a meeting to be eventually found confused in an episode that sounds like an hysterical fugue, or even psychosis. "Phyllis Stein" was diagnosed with Munchhausen's Syndrome by Proxy.

Some of the people associated with Cure The NHS recklessly interfere in a way that exacerbates the mental health of some Cure supporters - one individual with mental health issues (who has threatened NHS staff in the past and is very agitated judging from his Tweets) has his anxieties heightened and validated by people only seeking to inflate their own importance.

If all the concerns of the whistle blowers are valid, then resolution offers them a way out of their situation. If however their concerns are inflated and their aims totally unrealistic, then they are truly stuck with no hope of closure whatsoever. As they come to realise that this government will not do what they want, their psychological health can only worsen.