Page 242
1

provided your consent for assessment?

2

A.

For assessment, yes.

3

Q.

Okay.

So here's the document that you signed

4

consenting for admission.

5

document.

6
7

A.

Yes?

It's a front and back

Oh, yes, I recognize this.

All these

different -- seven different topics on here, yeah.

8

Q.

I'm the one that folded that.

9

A.

Oh, okay.

10

Q.

Okay.

11

A.

Yes, ma'am.

12

Q.

Okay.

13

this document?

14

A.

Yes, ma'am.

15

Q.

Did you read this before you signed it, the

16
17
18

Yes.

I'm sorry.

Is that your signature at the bottom?

Was your pastor there when you signed

front and the back of it?
A.

No.

I trusted Mr. Sawyer was talking about

consent to treatment.

That's what I signed.

19

Q.

Okay.

20

A.

For this admission paperwork?

21
22

And you —
I'm sorry.

I

apologize.
Q.

Ms. Trimble, have you -- let me ask you:

23

Given that you're sitting in a psychiatric facility that

24

you've never been to before and you're being handed over

25

documents to sign?

 Page 243
1

A.

Yes.

2

Q.

Or as youtermed

3

A.

Right.

5

Q.

Did you not

7

you as

treatment documents ?

4

6

it, they got sent to

take the opportunity toactually

read what you were signing?
A.

Not in its entirety.

I was going off of what

8

Mr. Sawyer told me, that this document is for this, this

9

document is for this, sign here, sign here, sign here.

10

There was 15 things that I signed.

11

can't say that I read through this.

12

I was admitting myself into a psychiatric hospital, I

13

would not have signed this at all.

So, no, ma'am, I
And had I had known

14

MS. ZAVARELLI: Okay.

15

known," I'm going to object to that as nonresponsive.

16
17

Q.

(BY MS. ZAVARELLI)

From "had I had

Can I see the document

right quick?

18

A.

Yes,

19

Q.

Okay.

ma'am.
And just so we're clear, on the front

20

page of the document, there's a heading that says

21

"consent for treatment."

True?

22

A.

Yes, ma'am.

23

Q.

The heading underneath that says "consent for

24
25

admission."
A.

True?
Yes.

Magna©