Letter to D.C. Department of Behavioral Health

July 30, 2015

3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW

Apartment 136

Washington, DC  20008

Barbara J. Bazron, Ph.D.

Director

D.C. Department of Behavioral Health
64 New York Avenue, NE

3rd Floor

Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 673-7440

I am a consumer of mental health services provided by the Department of Behavioral Health.  I had been in weekly out-patient psychotherapy at 35 K Street with Mohammed Shreiba, M.D., a psychiatry resident working under the supervision of Earl Baughman, M.D.  (St. Elizabeths Hospital).

My therapy with Dr. Shreiba ended on June 18, 2015 with the completion of Dr. Shreiba's residency training program.  I was told that I would be transferred to another resident named Elise Stone, M.D.  Dr. Stone has not yet contacted me. 

Let me apprise you of the seriousness of my case.

In September 1992 I was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder, a psychotic mental illness, by Napoleon Cuenco, M.D.

In February 1996 I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a psychotic mental illness, by Dimitrios Georgopoulos, M.D.

In February 1999 I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a psychotic mental illness, by Albert H. Taub, M.D.

In March 2004 I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, a psychotic mental illness, by Israella Bash, Ph.D.

In October 1991 my former employer terminated my employment after determining, in consultation with a psychiatrist, that I suffered from severe mental illness and that I was potentially violent.  I have been disabled and unemployed since that time.  You may review this disability determination with Dennis M. Race, Esq. at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld (Akin Gump) at (202) 887-4028.  The D.C. Office of Attorney General affirmed that Akin Gump's disability determination was genuine and credible.

The D.C. Office of the Attorney General determined that in August 1989 my Akin Gump coworkers formed genuine and credible fears that I might become armed and extremely dangerous.  The D.C. Attorney General determined that my coworkers formed genuine and credible fears that I might carry out an armed, mass homicidal assault on the firm's premises.

My former direct supervisor at Akin Gump determined in October 1991 that I might carry out a mass homicidal assault on the firm's premises and had the firm take protective measures against such an assault.

In August 1998 the U.S. Capitol Police (Stevan J. Horan, S.A.) advised me that the federal government had placed my name on national registry of potentially violent offenders.

In October 2004 the Metropolitan Police of the District of Columbia dispatched 10 police officers and 4 FBI agents to my residence because of fears that I might become armed and extremely dangerous.  The MPDC escorted me to D.C. General for an emergency forensic psychiatric examination.

I urge the D.C. Department of Behavioral Health to assign me to out-patient psychotherapy at 35 K Street at the earliest possible time.

Sincerely,

 Gary Freedman

  cc: Karl A. Racine, D.C. Attorney General