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Once I stopped watching television and. listening to the radio at the end of 1990, "they" had to find other ways of committing. abuses. So they took what must be for them a tried and tested. route; they get at you by subversion of those around you. Since they wouldn't be able to do that with my family. or friends, that. meant getting at people in the workplace to be their
mouthpieces and do their dirty work for. them.

They supplied my employers in Oxford with details from what was going on. in
my private life, and what I and other. people had said at my home and accommodation in Oxford. So people. at work repeated verbatim words which
had been said in my home, and repeated what. I'd been doing recently. Often
the most trivial things, the. ones from your domestic life, are the ones
which hurt most. One manager in particular at Oxford continuously. abused me for ten months with verbal sexual abuse, swearing, and. threats to terminate
my employment. After ten. months I was forced to seek psychiatric help and start taking medication, and was. away from work for two months. I spoke
later with a solicitor about what. had happened at that company; he advised
it was only possible to take action if you had left the company as. a result
of harassment, and such an action would have to. be started very soon after leaving.

Over a year later the same manager picked on another new. worker, with even more serious. results; that employee tried to commit suicide with an
overdose as a result of the ill-treatment, and. was forced to leave his job. But he didn't take action against the company,. either. Abuse at work is comparable to that elsewhere in that tangible evidence is. difficult to produce, and the abusers. will always have their denials ready when
challenged. And even if a court accepts. what you say happened, it still remains to prove that abuse causes the type. of breakdown I had at the end
of 1992. In a recent case before a British court, a former member. of the
Army brought. a case against others who had maltreated him ten years previously. Although the court accepted that abuse had occurred, it. did not agree. that depressive illness necessarily followed, and denied justice to
the. plaintiff.

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