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Danielle Paul 

Instagram: @thelaughingstars 

Email: danidayandnight@gmail.com 

My name is Danielle Paul and I am a victim of healthcare fraud and abuse. I am choosing to disclose the details of my experience in order to ensure accountability from the professionals who harmed and to warn others of the reality of abuse within psychiatry. 

I am diagnosed with DID and I suffer from severe dissociation and amnesia. Additionally, I became disabled after ECT caused damage to my brain. It has taken me a long time to uncover my memories and sort through records and evidence.

The fraud and abuse that I experienced occurred at the Shore Counseling and Consulting Clinic, located in Wauwatosa, WI. 

Originally, I had requested my records after I experienced harm while in therapy with Diane O'Donnell, but my records were withheld from me and when Thomas Troast, the CEO of Shore Clinic confiscated them and insisted that I meet with him, I began to question if healthcare fraud had occurred in addition to the abuse that I experienced.

For the past three years since meeting Thomas Troast, I have been dedicated to proving that I had experienced abuse while in therapy with Diane O'Donnell and that Thomas Troast had interfered with my attempt to obtain my records in order to protect Diane from consequences of harm.

Recently, while organizing my evidence and billing statements, I began to notice a pattern developing in the claims submitted under the name Marla LaRock. I discovered multiple claims submitted with multiple diagnostic codes all associated with the same date of service. Then I started to track the pattern and found 177 claims that reflect fraudulent activity.  

The evidence suggests that Marla was submitting claims to medicare that would intentionally be denied, leading to reimbursement through medicaid. However, after consideration, I have come to believe intuitively in Marla LaRock's innocence. All possibilities must be explored and we recognize that our attachment to Marla must be considered a bias if we are to remain rational and objective in our examination of the evidence. In the same way, we will not invalidate our personal experience and we can consider ourselves a character witness, so to speak.

I have known Marla LaRock for 11 years and never suspected that she would cause me intentional harm. When we discovered the fraudulent claims, we initially felt betrayed. The evidence suggested that Marla LaRock had exploited us and used us and kept us sick.

However, it stands out to me that over the course of the past three years, I never considered looking through the records provided to me by Marla LaRock, and if I imagine that I want to hide fraudulent activity, it would seem convenient to scapegoat Marla LaRock.

The evidence was there, but because I had developed an attachment to Marla, I was never looking in the right place. My denial was preventing me from finding the missing piece but in the end, it was denial that was the missing piece.

My assertations are not the truth, only the direction I am following to seek the truth.