"Systems abuse, misdiagnosing me and then refusing to accept responsibility"

Increasingly over a 30 year marriage I was a victim of serious coercive control including not only psychological abuse but also financial abuse, identity theft, multiple forms of fraud committed in my name/identity and severe, complex technology abuse.  

Discovering the extent and nature of all this over a period of two years after I separated from my spouse, especially already being traumatised as a victim of long-term abuse, was profoundly difficult. It was very time-consuming learning about everything and gradually checking every concern with experts (especially difficult as I live on a remote farm). I was irritable, with disturbed sleep/appetite and hyper-vigilant about technology security.  

My spouse was able to convince several of my children to believe that I had become delusional and "needed help" so they contacted the local mental health team who never checked whether my claims of abuse were false or not - I believe they merely presumed they were false and referred me to Bunbury Regional Hospital, despite there being no bed available, despite me asking to speak with my GP and to go to a private clinic instead (I had insurance).  

They just kept writing me off as "lacking insight", I believe because I did not agree with them that I was delusional.  Even after staff reluctantly conceded that every one of my claims was based in reality and would have been very traumatic, they still refused to accept that my irritability, emotionality hypervigilance about technology and focus on getting myself out of this situation (not on housework) were understandable responses to my situation.

The apparent rampant misogyny and ignorance of the consultant psychiatrist still gives me nightmares and panic - it was exactly the worst kind of treatment I could have received.  They even decided, with no discernible logic or evidence in my record, that my reaction to this stresses became pathological because I was taking (prescription) ADHD medication which the psychiatrist discredited to a room full of strangers as dubious "for all these middle-aged women".  

It took 12 months just to get written acknowledgement that it had been a misdiagnosis but even then I feel WACHS shrugged this off as quite common in first presentations.  WACHS refused to answer questions about my referral/assessment for more than 12 months and actually repeatedly told me I did not have the right to this information.  I was finally granted access to most of my records 16 months later but some parts of the record were entirely missing (not redacted but missing) and I was repeatedly told these documents did not exist.It took until very recently (more than 2 years later) to be given these.  This whole nightmare  is still continuing today and still affects my life, my health, my legal situation and my children's wellbeing two years later.  I believe WA Country Health have utterly failed to uphold their responsibilities under the Mental Health Act and continue to do so today.