About me
I am 57 years old. I’m lonely. I have schizophrenia. For about 9 years I lived in the Nursing Home for the chronically mentally ill. It is a difficult life. Most people are sick and would not be able to cope on their own. Most people have never worked. After a professional break, I started working. I started my education at a post-secondary school and obtained a diploma of an IT technician. I started studies in computer science, I got to the 5th semester. I was able to get a job in a large company. I became a Junior IT specialist. I was promoted to the position of IT specialist, and then became an IT administrator. I earned little because I wanted to work. I have a second disability group. I decided to become independent. For two years I applied for an apartment in Chorzów. And this is where my drama begins … I was left without funds. After many difficult experiences, I returned to the Nursing Home. The Social Welfare Center demands about 4,000 GBP from me. My financial situation is dramatic. No funds for the simplest things. I drink tap water, I need to top up my phone, cosmetics are needed, art. offices, I correspond with offices, with OPS. I try, but for everything you need money. Nursing Home only provides soap, razors and toilet paper. More bad things happened than I write. I am suffering a lot because of the injustice that has happened to me. In the “Files” menu I have put files confirming what I am writing…
Apartment
After 2 years of efforts, I got a beautifully renovated apartment in Chorzów, including gas heating. I was happy. It was my first apartment without tiled stoves. But the apartment was empty. I had no friends, no family. Everything was needed. From furniture to a garbage can and a broom I was without financial resources. As an IT specialist, I earned slightly above the national minimum, and 70% of my income was collected by the Social Welfare Center. I counted on at least a little help from the Social Welfare Center and the Nursing Home in gaining independence. However, I was met with reluctance and rejection. I tried to get help with integration. Social Welfare Center runs various programs. This was also denied me. I don’t know where from but the knowledge that I am mentally ill was common in the estate. I heard from strangers that my place is back in the Nursing home. The former president of the company where I worked promised me to buy furniture for my apartment.
The current president has fulfilled this promise and bought me furniture. They come unassembled. The assembly of the furniture costs about 350 GBP. You cannot make it on your own. I did not have money. A washing machine and refrigerator were necessary. I was looking for cheap and good quality products for a long time. Costs of transport, bringing etc. This is another 600 GBP. I had to take loans. The Social Welfare Center and the Nursing Home did not recognize the fact that I had been given a flat. I signed a lease agreement with the Chorzów City Hall on November 15, 2019 and checked in. Instead of any help, 70% of my income was asked for. I lost my job. At that time, my pension was approximately 220 GBP/month + care allowance of approximately 35 GBP .The remaining amount would not even be enough to pay the rent. I realized that my situation would be difficult. I started to feel a lot of stress .. I felt that all this was leading to bad things for me ..
Social Welfare Center
The Social Welfare Center to which I began to come helplessly, not only that they refused to give me any help, but as if they were glad that I had problems. Ladies clerks seeing my desperation indulged in jokes. I was already living in a beautifully furnished apartment, waiting for a visit from someone from the Social Welfare Center. I thought that when they saw a beautiful apartment, they would change their mind about me. One of the employees told me “We will not come to you because you have a hiding place”. Now I understand that these were excuses, and the real reason was that, according to the OPS (Social Welfare Center), I was still a resident of the Nursing Home. I started receiving decisions from a OPS payment of 70% of my income .. I was extremely stressed. I had no one to at least listen to me. When I tried to advise someone, I was referred to the Social Welfare Center. Someone started writing denunciations on me. The Social Welfare Center calmly collected letters. A psychotic state began to develop in me. I started to be afraid. My mind was working at high speed. I felt desperate. Then, when I was left without funds, even for bread, the OPS even refused me a container of soup, which he gives to the poor. He was forced me to get food in Katowice’s eateries. I do not understand the heartlessness of officials. I felt that all this was leading to bad things for me. The Social Welfare Center has filed 3 lawsuits against me:
– for compulsory psychiatric treatment as a person dangerous to the environment
– for court placement in a nursing home
– for incapacitation
When in January 2021 I came to the psychiatric hospital in Toszek, after a few days of stay, the Social Welfare Center sent me a letter to the hospital demanding a payment to the OPS account of more than 2,000 GBP within 7 days. At the same time, the Nursing Home demanded a payment of approximately 1,000 GBP also within 7 days. You can imagine how I felt ..
Resident service office
All that I described above was only a prelude to my problems. I started receiving letters from the Residents Service Office that she was devastating property, that I was knocking on other tenants’ doors at night. Copies of these letters were sent by BOM to a number of offices and to the Police. Police night visits began. An ambulance came one night and I was taken to an ambulance. Nurses asked me if I wanted to set fire to the house. They wanted to give me an injection. I was breaking out. Finally, I was released from the ambulance. When I wrote to the Resident Service Office on what basis they write such letters to me, I received a written reply that, in accordance with the GDPR, they cannot provide me with information (sic!). I started living in full panic. I was afraid of everything, neighbors, people in the estate, the Police. Anyone could write such denunciations. I was completely hounded. Financial problems worsened. I started to run out of money for everything. I lost one pension. I started, now I know, brusquely to ask for food and cigarettes. I thought the whole estate knew me. Anyone could be a potential denunciator. I didn’t know what to think. The high-speed mind prompted various thoughts. It could have been an initiative of the Residence Service Office itself. I watched everything pick up pace. On the basis of these letters, other institutions started sending me letters as well. An avalanche of writings has begun. Police visits. I was afraid to go back to my apartment. I was afraid to turn on the light or turn on the water tap. I didn’t want anyone to know I was in the apartment. I was completely alone. From the file of the case that the Social Welfare Center did for me, I learned that Residence Service Office sent letters with very slanderous content to many institutions without informing me about it …
Local government
I know that only now. Living in Chorzów, I was subordinated to the local OPS (Social Welfare Center). Desperate, I turned for help wherever I could. I was asking for help. All they did was send letters to the OPS, sometimes with negative content for me. I was sent to the OPS everywhere, so I went there. A certain manager of the Silesian Voivodship Office explained to me that this is how the local government system works. Wherever I turn, no one will help me, but It will just send a letter to the my local Social Welfare Center. I was in a snare ..
Silesian Voivodship Office
Completely helpless, I turned to the ŚUW (Silesian Voivodship Office). It was a period of intensification of Covid with full restrictions. The psychotic state continued to develop. I could hardly function. I protested at ŚUW, I screamed. I wanted someone to really help me. I started to throw various writings into the ŚUW urn. I was indifferent to the content. I just wanted someone to take an interest in me. The only effect was that these absurd letters were sent to my local Social Welfare Center. The OPS gathered them busily and waited. I managed to get the Department of Family and Social Policy of the ŚUW interested in my case. The Department carried out ex officio administrative proceedings in the Social Assistance Center. In May 2021 I received an official letter from ŚUW informing me that there were no grounds for monetary claims against me and the decision to refer me to the Nursing Home should be repealed. I breathed a sigh. However, prematurely. The Social Welfare Center did not take into account the recommendations of ŚUW. He did not reverse the decision, and is currently demanding about 4,000 GBP from me …
Getting food
For 2 months I was without any money. In order to have any means, I sold my computer equipment at a pawnshop for almost nothing. I even lacked money for a photocopying machine. For a month I did not manage to collect 8 zlotys for a hairdresser. I was walking in untied shoes. At home I had a pair of shoes but no laces. In the store, they cost 6 zlotys. I got to know the drama of the street people. At least I had an apartment. I had a hard time finding free eateries. I turned to the Social Welfare Center for any help. I was even denied the small portions of soup that the OPS serves at the parish house. Never in my life have I been in such a situation that there is not enough money just for bread. With time, I got to know a few eateries in Katowice. During these two months I lost about 20 kg, not even from hunger but from stress and the many kilometers that I had to overcome every day. The eateries are quite a distance from the bus stops. People in my situation are in a hopeless situation if someone does not help them. I was looking for a part-time job. I wanted to hand out leaflets. They pay after a week of work. But you have to eat something this week. I posted an advertisement on a board in Kaufland three times that I was looking for any job to buy food. Nobody called. I had a problem with the water. I got a plastic bottle and used an open toilet on the market square in Katowice. I got to know a new brutal world. This experience changed me. I am writing about it on the “Faith” subpage.
Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Love
I devote a separate chapter to missionaries. I used to go to them for 2 months for breakfast. I was full of anger then. The threat of hunger kills humanity. In retrospect, I really appreciate them. In my time in 2020, they served food 6 days a week from 8.30am to 12.00pm, as I now learned, they served around 400 people a day. There was a huge queue there since morning. They had very good tea which they poured into plastic bottles. And food neatly packaged. Two large slices of bread, and usually “Góralki” bars, sometimes bananas. They dispensed some over-the-counter medications at times. They helped different people in all sorts of ways. I wanted a prescription for the drug I’m taking. Unfortunately, the hospital on Warszawska Street issued me a prescription for narcotic drugs and the sisters were unable to get it. I have received a beautiful New Testament from Mother Superior Margrit. She died of covid and her gift is a treasured memento of her to me. In gratitude, he maintains telephone contact with Sister Konstancja. Not very common, but constant. Seriously ill homeless people live with the Sisters – 10 people. Sisters do really God’s job. I admire them very much.
London – hospital
In November 2020. I received a full pension. I paid what I could and bought a bus ticket to London and 20 EURO. There were no pounds in the exchange office. I have been to the UK several times before and know English. I was looking for my chance. I also experienced and experienced a lot there. Eventually, I ended up in the day ward of a psychiatric hospital. It was a great experience. I have received “section 2”, ie a stay of 6 months. However, I really wanted to fight for my beautiful apartment. I asked for permission to return to Poland. The hospital bought me a plane ticket to Warsaw and from Warsaw to Katowice. He ordered a taxi to Heathrow airport and gave 40 GBP for the first days of his life in Poland. It was a gift. The hospital does not claim reimbursement from the Polish National Health Fund. How can you not be very grateful to them? I was stopped at the airport in Warsaw because it turned out that that the Nursing Home reported me to the Police as, in their opinion, I did not extend my leave. I spent about an hour and a half in confinement. Everything was explained. In the “Files” folder there is a certificate from London that I called about vacation ..
Psychiatric Hospital in Toszek
After my arrival in Poland, an application from the Social Welfare Center awaited me for compulsory psychiatric treatment as a person dangerous to the environment. I went to the hospital myself, in Toszek. I spent 4 months there in the general ward. It was a good time to think. OPS sent slanderous documentation to the hospital. The effect is that what OPS sent was entered by the hospital on the discharge from the hospital. And this is another duplicated document that speaks very badly of me. Ultimately, the court discontinued the case for placing me in the hospital. The hospital was weird. My stay was short. People stayed there for years waiting for various matters to be settled. Whether it is for DPS, benefits from MOPS or for a place in a drug rehabilitation center. The branch acted as a storage room. The record holder was there for 21 years. He just lived there. He refused to consent to going to the Nursing Home. He would be deprived of 70% of his income. His father’s pension was high. He ordered exclusive food from the restaurant every day. He ate and slept. He spoke little and never complained. I met some calm and kind people there,
who were waiting for the Nursing home for the chronically mentally ill. I realized that my home OPS (Social Welfare Center) is no exception. When someone loses their apartment for various reasons, all they do is write a referral to the Nursing home. It does nothing to keep such a man in the environment. Later, OPS pays huge amounts of money to the Nursing Home.
social welfare Home
I lived here from 2013 to December 2019 and after a break from July 2021. Although the DPS (Nursing home) is of the opinion that during the period in which I was registered in my hometown and I had a signed lease agreement with the city of Chorzów, I also lived in the DPS (Nursing home). The DPS did not help me in any way to become independent. When ZUS started to send me the full pension, he sent a letter to ZUS (Social Insurance Institution) demanding 70% of my pension. It works very closely with the OPS. Nevertheless, while staying here, I obtained a degree in IT technician, I worked. The Relief House gave me freedom to act. Now that I’m back and going to hearings, I feel alone. Nevertheless I am relatively calm and feel secure.
Hacked accounts
I had huge problems with phones and SIM cards. I had to change them often because they stopped working. Phone calls made themselves (I saw it in the call history) and text messages sent themselves. Occasionally I missed the content. I lost my notebook with passwords to various portals twice, strange content appeared on my profiles. Someone wrote them on my behalf. There was a lot of it.
Unauthorized transfers and BLIK transactions
It was my financial tragedy. Means were gone. I don’t want to go back to that. I know banks are powerful. I filed complaints, I was in a fever and waited for the banks to act quickly. Now I know it doesn’t work that way. For banks, a poor individual customer does not matter.
Seeking Help
I was very naive because I thought anyone cared about my fate. I was especially counting on offices and institutions. Now I know that they are indifferent to the fate of an ordinary person. I was asking for help. This was not the time to wait. I needed help immediately. For a year and a half, I failed to meet a lawyer to look at my papers. I have been to many institutions. I tried frantically to explain my situation and that I was simply hungry. The only effect were letters from these offices to my local Social Welfare Center. He didn’t do anything to help me. On the contrary. In the period of my lack of money, I posted an advertisement on a board in Kaufland Market three times that I would take up any job to buy food. I wanted to distribute leaflets, but they paid after a week and I had to go to eateries. I was giving ads, that I will give an English lesson or repair the computer. The phone never rang about working for me ..
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