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sent mh to ami 3/7?93
mh2=mi’s,rel,mh. To chestnut
http://www.apa.org/journals/pro/pro303275.html
/articles critical of psychiatry – http://www.uea.ac.uk/~wp276/article.htm – sent mi’s
http://www.critpsynet.freeuk.com/postpsychiatry.htm – sent mi’s?
/spoiled people can’t mature as easily – sig? /revise mi’s as maturity covers all?
see: su [=how?]
the ultimate head game
they need tradval – never put it this way 8/00
(objective)
relatives, and nonprofessional staff. This would work toward a less mysterious and more common sensical approach than the hopeless merry‑go‑round we presently have.
Try to describe how there is no reasonable framework of responsible for all clients. re craziness, danger, maturity, etc. all is limbo. and ea word counts. this after the thing on tv about crazies who can’t be commited till they do something ‑ and then they kill.
‑ Each level (patients, relative, professional, and non‑professional) should regularly be rated by all the other levels and by 3rd parties. The ratings should affect the advance ment of each person, agency, and program. ‑ The mental health field should not violate common sense or society’s values.
‑ Patients should be confronted and gain privileges for accepting increasing levels of responsibility and lose privileges for not. ‑ Students of the field and prospective staff should be required to speak with a cross section of those in the field and those who have left it.
‑ Better records should be kept and should include imput from patients.
‑ Determine the extent of these behaviors present before the patients breakdown.
‑ Mental “hospitals” should be renamed “living schools” or whatever as patients are there to learn how to live.
‑ Half way houses should be set up at or near institutions as well as far from them. #
/ psych must be a charm sch ‑ too much put on the rel/ This was unrealistic and patronizing./ c.s./ mr’s work, but not this bunch / field too indulgent/ chicken egg w/ l0/90/
no one knew anything/ back to adam and eve
[screwed up people are often very nervous] play therapy, music … art … dance … hydro …. packs? .. group … soc. skills . activity center … all but work/overly charged visits by folks at chestnut lodge – probably cause the place was so boring and nebulous – vs boot camp approach – cloud over their faces./more $ is just pouring it down a sinkhole/bruce bronzan d-fresno/couldn’t call it work, chores, etc. – called it industrial therapy
Cal. Network of m h clients l722 j sac. 958l4, 9l6 443 3232/d asked if I got depressed and why, I had no problems‑
blank slate, val. free. /write up chestnut lodge/ gal in b & c cleaned spatula on her teeth. someone on tel told me she had gotten everything as a kid – tons of dresses. she read to cope
/hate to see ami crusading for more funds for oc mh dept when they miss resp. they assume $ is the answer. worst and sad are ads for mh vol. what a joke.
2‑ who can be almost as difficult.
3 ‑ who know patients well, are often the most effective*, but are ignored. /hang up back to adam and eve/did I send something to bj?/snake pit/cuckoo’s nestChestnut lodge, 500 w. montgomery, rockville MD/jim cooper didn’t want to have me on
, incompetent, petty, and ruthless. /do the spoiled become pollyana’s
/mh. no one tell’s you anything ahead of time – irresp: crise’s suicidal stuff, vernm, bible in olive oil. barry thru glass. guy and ma into hosp. reminded of this by alfredo’s doing his taxes 4/l4. institutionalized irresp.
/if normals need all the rules I have for rooming hse, how many more would I need for mi’s – and there you have the essence of the whole futility./sam porter box 243 trabuco canyon, ca 92678, 858 0537. thinks reps are elitests. wife is assist? prin at joplin. she’s turned l80.
/% of shrinks that slept with clients dropped from 50 to 6 after a lawsuit
/mi on 60 min beat ma, stabbed shrink, lived on sts ll mos. bot rifle, had it 7 mos. would be better on pills and when getting treatment. [rel’s verion – l/2 & l/2] hild in adult body. killed 3 and wounded others [in mall]. guilty but mi thus to mh hosp & when well to prison. joke. outpatient treatment supposed to be mand.. takes shrink to commit em and they don’t want to foul rel
/mh hillcrest health care facilities – san diego. 60 min.
/hm – they ask for $ on easter, pa’s day, ma’s day, +. growing problem in eur too. 70% are alc and drug abusers in louisville. newswk l2/85: l/3 said had fam they could go to. 2l% had fam problems. l8% mi. lost l mil sro’s from 70-80.
/apa said homo not mh in ’73.
/the myth of neurosis: overcoming the illness of excuse, garth wood
/yallom venerated. all he used was cs and humor
/mi’s. guy lost job, it shasttered him, he was anti comm and killed fam he thot was com.
/mi’s – if threat to …. in forseable future. joyce brown to crt. shrinks say san/insane. koch said clean em up, give me 2 lawyers and atten they they’ll RISE to the occasion. ty ny
factors affecting recovery
diagnosis, fewer admissions to hosp, less time in hosp, less med, shorter time twix lst hosp and foster hm. work or training. not wanting assoc with other patients.
disputed factors age, marital status, gender, chronic or acute condition???
/strochein: nuts go into psych
/35k mi’s in inst. now 5k.
/if 8 hr shift is bad for staff, how numbing must it be for mi’s. the ? never comes up. black on donahue said anything to get out
/occup ther vs chores.
/judge, jury, & executioner by h. freeman. mh
/5 shrinks to take out a light bulb
/mh flics: the snake pit. david and lisa, cuckoo
[screwed up people are often very nervous]/shell shock – wwi. combat fatique – wwii, vw – ptsd post tra..stress syn
. one rev said the harder one’s life the faster the maturation. Chestnut lodge, 500 w. montgomery, rockville MD
/va hosp in lb. psych ward where how stayed on wknd. strictly gov and soc. NO imagination. stagnation. no comp. hard to find psych. parking. mi’s out front. revulsion. have feeling staff want to be sure I’m ok. lousy job. how told em I ran b & c. guy shouting profanities, laying on lawn, while another had tuned him out. cuckoo’s nest. tatooed guy in day rm. how said hostile guy there. lack of vent. sec. screens on windows. meals with brown plastic covers. which they seemed to be “served”. it brought back b&c, sw wall back. no wonder I never fit – they miss all the small things the key.
tv coming thru wall. other tv left on too loud as guy across tried to sleep. no wonder it’s bad for mi’s, much less staff. couldn’t wait to get out of there. bet they don’t cover resp much.
said I had serious eyes and monotone [but looked well & choir boy] tickled at dave’s tape. touched by my coming but
/insane how they wire em up on coffee/brown plastic covers. meals brought TO them. it’s all the little things. irresp limbo !
/how: there but for the grace of god go I – vs there but for my own values , don’t go I/too stuffy
/gal said shrink said clinicians burn out in l0 yrs/closarel, clorsapine? – miracle drug for mh. but $ & dangerous [but if you get well, you get discharged and can’t afford it – ty
/taking to jim smith bout oc mh brought back all the old hopeless memories – worse than wel: bur, reorg, no mot, b&c for $ only but poor serv. out of sight, no fam ther, everything I’ve written about. same with bad kids at hm for abused kids called …. sat there thinking how when new, I knew I’d finally understand it, little realizing what a miserable, hopeless mess it would turn out to be. thank god for writing & independ. could hear all the wrong bells going off. crap a la mode.
/snake pit cause they don’t disc/seems like shrinks should rec reunions/who’s crazy, staff or patients/jerry shipper said I got the right responses from bret for the wrong reasons. he left with that little smirk on his face/crawled up a ladder, went into his own head, and kicked the ladder away /big jon thot comm vol was a joke [he was looking for magic person] no disc in mh/what is mh, how does one get ill, to get well, don’t they have to want to, how to determine that periodically, what does it take to get well – rehab. how sig is socio ther. ! when are you well. chores, resp
/had to use siscors motion with wanda to cut the heavies. madrid too
/why did chestnut allow that mex maria to NOT bathe for 3 wks/one mh worker told some prospective mi’s for my b&c that I was a real bastard [rules]
/tried it their way: let mi keep stuff in living rm. soaked bible in olive oil. cops=0. so moved his stuff out and locked the dr/comm psych centers – of oc. big/no shrink ever referred me to career counseling, or its steps, or books on it. incredible/funny, i remember some slender gal, like margareet, at the sal army shelter who had a personality or something. another chubby one would stay up at coffee shops. quiet mex guy who latched on to someone. real good head guy who drifted on due to something said at grp. guy who ran the place and his taller friend, Larry? chet type guy who liked to cook. blk guy who later said they could have found a job. looker who came thru. improptu companions/rules a lst grader could have followed. out to get paper – kid skipping to sch and your guys in bed
/write up compliments mi’s gave me. also how i helped joe kile [& d]
/kids with a mental? add take medicine and get better vs blame folks
/in ’50, 3/4 of all mi’s hospitalized. now l0%. [hosp is a complete misnomer.] as a hm away from hm it should be comfortable. 0000and have a distinctly unhosp like atmosphere. it should keep patients busy. outings, trips to flics, mall, museum. good ones have their own l/2 way hses.
/alliance for the mentally ill. 800 950 6264/trc probably never tapped kids center next dr to it on garfield/john j. goldman wrote mh series which appeared lst wk of jan 92. la.
/just had a weird idea – put a computer on a mental health ward. Literature on rehabilitation for residents and relatives should be found or developed. When one psychiatrist was caught, he claimed he was mentally ill.) pratska/80% of ams think insanity plea is a loophole. gal on tv 2/92
/skizoid paranoid opus 2l
/ment illness – when you kill your own baby.
/how discouraging to the patient to have it such a patronizing mystery. need more patient output.
/comm psych centers – laguna hills
/I should devel how b & c didn’t use tradval./i think snake pit in mental hospitals as no disc
/getting mi’s out of inst. saves tons and shifts cost to fed. but runs of tabs in jails, soc serv. mental health consumers = clients.
/gary saw mi’s sitting around while I did all the work when I moved in.
/super nervous and cold? before dance at chestnut lodge. why. didn’t think it’d come off. self conscious.
/my theories hurt by autism.
/ptss – was called shell shock. maya angelou raped at 8. wouldn’t talk for 5 yrs.
/watched THE SNAKE PIT with gloria de havilland and remembered working in a mental hospital outside dc. cig lighters on walls, burns on fl. l000 lb screens.
*/insane how they wire em up on coffee. – same with sugar
/dr. stanley raider wants to be liked – jeans
/on spoiling – billy carter.
/what little faith I have in the term neurotic.
/mh teams out to cerritos plane crash.
/70% drop in mh hosp since 55 harpers 88?.
/lot of shrinks think we don’t have a free will said shuller.
/i used to think shrinks were bad as they permitted premarital
/mh – could they use a peer deal like boy’s republic
/mh naders report found spending more doesn’t mean success. la 3/l9/86
/if trouble, it’ll show in teen yrs [cept? for schiz developed 20-30 yrs old insight l/86].
/mh emerges in teens
/jillion theories for abnormal beh. 0 for normal
/mh= l marked personality chage 2 confusion 3 prolonge severe depression or apathy 4 excessive anxiety, fears, or suspicousness 5 withdrawal 6 7 8 unexplained ailments or anger 9 delussions, halucinations, voices l0 growing inability to deal with daily activities.
/pol: the hinkley’s are locked up, many similar are on st.
Mental Health ‑ flaws, recommendations
The field is not well‑defined, sensible, nor productive. Most adult They are indulged with endless analysis and not confronted. They have no incentive to get well. Most care homes “warehouse” them.
‑ The field should not violate common sense nor society’s values. like
‑ Patients should be held accountable for their behavior. They should gain privileges for accepting increasing levels of responsibility.
‑ Each level (patients, relatives, non‑professionals, mental health workers, and doctors) should be rated regularly by the other levels and by 3rd parties. The ratings should affect the advancement of each person, agency, and program.
‑ Advocacy groups for patients, relatives, and operators should be promoted – perhaps to counter the power of professionals.
‑ Students and prospective staff should be required to speak with a cross section of those who have left the field.
‑ Better records should be kept, reviewed regularly, and include input from patients.
/mental illness is immaturity run rampant?
/$l00/hr therapist sit with dr open waiting for paitent to come in
– and she didn’t bath for 3 wks. till forced”
/jun and spoiledness reinforces need for socio therapy- all the details of chores vs his job
/pros expect mi’s to live under conditions normals can’t handle – blue air from cigs, 20 cups of coffee, sweets, hygene, boredom, abuse.
/alliance for the mentally ill. 800 950 6264. / 544 8488./mi’s at glen’s home thot he was royalty and slept in till ll am. if living on baker st. you wouldn’t want that next to you. i was blind to it.
/cold wet sheet packs/pat 5 used to work in bank nr norwalk. couldn’t figure out why patients got paid for being sick. some had accounts in the thousands. /st judes has staff only written pub. might fax denise rounds mi’s anyhow. 447 6448-f For starting a half‑way house for such patients, there was only one. /Chestnut lodge, 500 w. montgomery, rockville MD
/8 fake mi’s fooled pros, but not 30% of the mi’s. fee/paul eichmier got dream job of working at movie theater.
/skipped mi’s driving cars.
/mh misses peer ratings among mi’s. logging,
/mi. cops couldn’t do anything. so I put his stuff out front and said there was no way he was coming in. he sat out front. same guy who put bible in olive oil?
/mi’s used to seem to have a cloud over their faces – at bch.
how willful they are.
(often the more curvaceous ones).* /folks put out to pasture. go thru hell/one fire in trash can with mi’s and another ….?
/mi’s more aware than you think. cop threatened to mace her and she stopped.
/why does schiz strike teens.
/convincing report on schiz on tv. only med saved gal. voices for yrs.
/some of those grp have trouble defining themselves./went to co-ed sex grp, but left as that grp was felons. went across the hall to CODA, another type of grp. both grps were somber. pauses that i found awkward. they didn’t allow feedback, like in grp. i don’t like that. both modeled after aa. free. /didn’t go for holding hands and praying./remember on the tour of norwalk, one patient said something to the effect, this isn’t a zoo. another left the stage when being interviewed. a guard said he had to watch em or they’d fornicate. bush therapy. One eighth of the patients had no contact with their folks, one eighth were spoiled by the father, one fourth by both, and one half by the mother ‑ spoiled out of false guilt, a martyr’s complex, an inability to let go – whatever.
/mi’s rinaldo across the st on baker. slept till ll.
/ami 544 0791-f 8488-o/chores help bring reality to mi’s/star francis farmer in snake pit mh hosp, got raped, mice, roaches, tv.
/bright people more prone to mh?
/mi took lithium and got a lot better.
/didn’t seem to be anything wrong with many mi’s.
/why hasn’t the apa come out with statement on religion?/terrible mi. soaked his bible in olive oil. talked to cops as neighbs watched. 0. locked out his stuff out. and said no way he’s coming thru front door. wisely he sat out in his van and thot it over./mi killed cop on hiwy patrol who had stopped another car.
/let an mi drive on meds. he acted drunk. hit cars. could have easily hit kids. tv 94.
/hearing greg black… on phone get the news his ssi went thru.
/mi. cops couldn’t do anything. so I put his stuff out front and said there was no way he was coming in. he sat out front. same guy who put bible in olive oil?
/jerry – wife left him, got drunk, in wreck, wrecked himself, put in my hse. trememdous anger. poor poor pa. i made him earn his 50 cents by walking to drug store. left under what conditions. – ticked off at me.
cris – suicidal guy. big jerry who wouldn’t take meds. his family at total loss. italian. brent the brat. guy that knocked of wayne’s cap. spoiled, wouldn’t work. came home in white sheet to pa. wanted to be missionary. paul, dave, vern.
/mi’s were too hung up on music = immaturity./john henry f. in org for mi’s./mi’s used to seem to have a cloud over their faces – at bch.
how willful they are.
/mi got diff diagnosis from ea shrink. molested by one. tv 94/barb bush more sympathetic bout depression after she had been./so many mi’s “not ready” for wk.
/when you get depressed and don’t talk it over, you get a chemical imbalance in your brain change and you get worse, said bob mcfarland. /men climb mts because they are there. they study psych. because it isn’t there.
/so many mi’s “not ready” for wk.
/mi’s too big on music.
/yochelson proved criminals routinely con shrinks.
/A physical hospital is a hospital. I think a mental hospital is a misnomer. it gives the impression all this healing is going on. bull. calling it a residential facility or school or inst. or whatever would be better./another thing about How and other “mental cases.” nothing’s on paper: They are never required to write their story, nor are their peers on hospitals or care homes asked to comment on them, nor are their relatives, friends. everyone runs in circles in the dark. Thousands have been spent on How in hospitals etc. and no one knows anything. what crap./mh should teach basic psych.
/arch blew a fart in front of his folks – no fucking respect./dj likes his ma more. he’s more mature. credits me with bugging him on maturity and resp. again 95
/i think one parent of an mi wanted him to have at least one hot meal a day./A physical hospital is a hospital. I think a mental hospital is a misnomer. it gives the impression all this healing is going on. bull. calling it a residential facility or school or inst. or whatever would be better.
/time cops were no good. i put mi’s stuff out front and said you’re not coming thru that front dr.
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/send mh pac to and rating sheet-lst time I’d ever heard it. ever. and makes me feel good cause …./ – all quiet on the western ward./you’re treated according to your level of behavior. if you act like a child, you get treated like a child. dora odum./after mi’s and all have dumped on ea other, do you want to come along as a vol? /chestnut lodge was l6th in nation. us news 95
/3 more to gutentag. only rel left
/cahuna burger? tuna burrito.
/d wood said get em a job(Why is it they never talk to friends of patients?)
the how
Others were supposed to prop him up. pills
Perhaps his folks spoiled him, because in subtle and ingenious ways he never grew up.
defeat from the jaws of victory. hospital
I felt bad and thought I’d miss him a lot if he actually did something./email would be perfect for those mental hospitals, prisons, etc./in famous chestnut lodge mental hospital, we had to ‘pac’ patients. wrap em in sheets soaked in ice water. the patients would lie there slowly warming up the sheets. then they were unwrapped. they woul be very relaxed. i figured it was like a sauna. with hotwater bottle at their feet and an ice pack on their forehead?/one chased a siren, one wouldn’t step on cracks, one didn’t bathe, murray didn’t like blankets moved. guy put his chair on corner, one was like kid re wk in kitch. he proped a girl. li lb screens. cig lighters. robin’d tuck her chin in her neck. not made of wood. some seemed totally normal. one taunted another at a baseball game. attempted suicide i caught. escorting em to their hrs. meals. ‘criminal’ boredom. someone had jumped out of window? one night when i drove by. ea cottage was diff. too much tv. 2.54/hr in ’73. barafee./trouble is mi’s have stigma and aren’t so diff./2 mh workers: one intense, other relaxed
/after so much pussyfooting around in sw for years, it was great to run my own b & c and really confront the guys. you get to know em, give em all sort of ways to shape up. they continue the abuse. then you just go after em in the meetings. without overdoing it. need examples. /cold? nervous before dance at chestnut.
/too easy to talk past mi’s. easier to talk when they’re not there as they might misinterpret something./call that donut place in cm where joe worked and tell em they were saints.
/send mh to 3 w 29th, also job.
/they’re sick; well i’ve lived with em, i knew if they were sick or not. where is that?
/why didn’t mi’s have alarm clocks.
After a while I concluded the patients were l0% “crazy” and 90% spoiled, immature, and irresponsible.
/gov paid vacation/shouldn’t be in bed over 9 hrs
/maslow – psych – the study of abnormal.
/having joe walk his dog all that distance. /so depressing for dumb shrink to completely miss the point. leave it to them – lot of em are so dizzy. i don’t need another experience like this. (*&^%@$%^&**(&^%$#@ idiot! who can you believe in?/take em shopping and you can see the diff/i was cold before dance at chestnut lodge/trying to get mi’s to play baseball at chestnut/glad to hear you commend me on resp.-dj/mi bk: bklet, norwalk, sw, critique, chestnut, b&c, glens, critique, delucas, setting up, critique/at norwalk they brot mi’s onto stage; one got up and walked off. not made of wood.
/mh – phil – like learning to walk again/art buchwald, william styon, mike wallace were depressed. mike got off meds, was ok, then boom. rod stiger said it diff between soc? and clinical. latter is chemical/some italian guy, fat, in my b & c, didn’t take his meds, lost, his poor pa.
/one flew over cuckoo’s nest/will styron, art buchwald, mike wallace went into depression. mike 3 times. made mistake of getting off meds too early.
wanda old world charm & graciousness, sincere, articulate, depth, sweet, cute, iq, polite. 3 yrs younger. problems started at l3. folks were LL in scotland, eng. went to mater dei. occ for sec and art. hollywood for 7 yrs. lot of proposals, but chose independ. brkdwn, dora odom’s 2 hms,
past: way she had of walking. teewinkle park. virg. nerves. self-cent. built in problems, dial a ride = access?, talks lot bout 3 nieces, dieting did harm. felt this talk went much better than past. her ma’s taxes pay for her. [hopes i might call again.] cutting bac on meds means: no sleep, fears, suspicious. watches tons of flics [to escape], anti cable. reads lot. must be bored. one roomer, trailer = vacation at hm. same 73 duster. her ma must be nuts. rough couch. presidio. ice skate, jeffs, linda’s. would be uncomfortable at reunions. bro doesn’t go either. i remember her appreciating my calling bout polish deal before. l80 lbs. thus no desire to see her. answered this time without surprise. asked soon if i married. bid me goodnight. i can’t see all for free and 0 back.
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– good that we talked as i could see what i liked a lot. but know enuff to stay away now – the magic wanda/ some class , so b & c must have been hard on her- can see how lot of guys probably went for her-a formality/at chestnut lodge some staff said res spected you to wait on em hand and foot. remember good looking gal. someone said a res could get most out of gardner or someone unexpected on the staff/smoke until air is blue/support groups can become crutches./phil did it without talk. that liz too?
/i couldn’t believe what mi’s knew bout ea other
/sat in liv rm reading with lights on on halloween, ignoring kids that rang the doorbell./just amazing how phil sounds better than EVER. never seen such a comeback. [but he talks like nothing ever changed, so i think he doesn’t like to talk one way or another about it.] i’ve never seen anyone improve so much or withOUT ever talking about it. – meaning talking …………/3 that had clinical depression; mike wallace, william styron, rod steiger/mh vs rel – see marble churchAfter a while I concluded the patients were l0% “crazy” and 90% spoiled, immature, and irresponsible.
all: levels didn’t want to hear this
/naive of me to think guy at balfour hm only needed his tools. just an excuse. part of his delusions mental illness is the ultimate head trip/tv: guy killed gal, found to be mentally deficient, got off, went to college later and got a’s.
/part of any therapy should be having patient write lot bout self?
/combat fatique. shell shock, post traumatic stress disorder
/guy drove into cm presch. killing 2 kids. on purpose. nuts. so why did he have a drivers lic./words as ma, pa, etc. mean diff things to us all/no one ever asked operators or hse mngs much, if anything, about mi’s./got that chas a new leg and he later quit my hse. /it’s a job; it pays the bills. agnes margerum
/mi’s – anyone who can cause that much trouble can work
and what their positions are on encounter groups and cults
– “Psychiatric technicians” should be called what they are – aides.
/if mh and spoiled, then latter sure adds to it. phil?
/bi-polars can flip and go violent said cops. Phil is said roberta – bi – polar. Besides manic. Contradiction?
/I say on or off pills, phil is incredibly spoiled – food +
/Anyone who can cause that much trouble, can work. sig
/once you’re crazy like phil, then anything goes. An easy out.
http://indigo.ie/~irti/irti.htm – glasser’s site. Lists my article.
/did I mention tradvals in mh?
/advocacy org http://www.psychlaws.org
/get involved for mental health. A grp that eds the pub bout mh.
/d lindsey has seen enuff people mess up their lives to know you can’t help some
/phil at royale. Has a used look. Security lites all over, speed bumps, enclosed area outdoors. Can’t talk thru fence. No cam nor recorder. Strung out types – cuckoo’s nest. Thorazine? Trapesing around. Boring, depressing, 4 mos of that. Shaking – so his coffee spilled. They smoke like it’s a fix in that mh way. Deshelved patients. Wonder how often they bathe. Mishapen ones, fat. If I ran it: bm for all that, res. Council, hse meetings, ibms – like outside world.
/jolana’s ex? step son – super con
/I was both naïve and right all along. As now I have far more rules for roomers than for mi’s. so mi’s needed more not less !!! still naïve with phil whereas lindsey
/if the retarded can work, mi’s can. If mi’s can drive and take the bus, they can work; if they can cause LOTS of trouble, they can work. Call it work therapy.
/think of phil staying in that place – probably awful table manners of patients, poor hygene, grooming, living for cigarettes, incredible boredom, pacing up and down halls, possible abuse from other patients, the list goes on
/also all the staff building a relationship with him to find out what is already common knowledge among friends and relatives. What a joke. They are never asked.
/phil’s normal till he gets off on his dellusions. But they have caused some trouble to me and great trouble to others. Why won’t he face that?!!!!!! That is what is so curious. It has to be that doing would be taking taking responsibilty and he’d rather be the class clown
/you wonder how many escapes at royal
/mi’s USE their condition when it suits them. chic & egg
/I ate the same food, used the same bathrooms.
/they’ll do the easiest – just like we spoke eng in ny. water flows in easiest dir…
/ http://namioc.org looks to me like round and round, missing the pt. Feel sorry for em, but did my part.
http://nami.org – no such org.
/shrinks should rec net hump and porn as ….
/I’ve been in the biz and still am amazed by phil
/john hinkley has been at st. eliz for yrs – probably without doing a stich of work ! same with mark chapman? Arthur bremmer? Same with prisoners? Like in kuckoo’s nest. Jd’s?
/that trouble on kiner and turned out another mi in the blk and later mrs. Galvano herself. Wow.
/don’t forget aj was spoiled.
PEOPLE WHO BLEW IT: phil, hutch, mccoy, lindley, aj, blake,
Mi’s: phil, aj, marge, smit, mrs. Galvano,
/I think mi’s didn’t like to be touched ?????????? was it them?
/guy with bible in olive oil. Said no way he’s coming thru that front dr. he drove. So did dave. So did surf guy.
/talked to patient at royal on unit 2 [phil gone from 3]: she said she’s dr. – lawyer. Place is chaotic, lazy, but don’t need work, sex abuse, gays, patients push ea other around, l staff to 8 res, dispose of razors after use, there is a res gov: pres, sec, fire and safety person as cigs.
front is a conv hm.
/remember that guy who was in a terrible wreck, full of anger. I made him walk to drug store to get his cigs or something daily? He didn’t belong in such a hse? That sheets didn’t belong in the sys. He stole from me. His buddy stayed in bed, I turned the mattress, he said come on, hit me. Tied up larry sweet once. But mower went past him. Wrestled with chas – iron landed out on lawn. Some tall guy jumped thru 2 plate glass windows when his ma was late. Big john kicked an ashtray, then walked downtown and much later called. Nelson was there. Later came harry? He was fat and fell for gal from want ad. You couldn’t have bot such exp.
/wherever one lives one gets to know who’s who, but in one’s hometown one know who’s who and why. Reunions add to this. Fascinates me – why people turn out the way they do.
This challenges all my thinking from social work, etc. Some don’t mature, some hide behind this and that, don’t face things, will never talk seriously, avoid nostalgia, sentiment, —– are dependent. Neglect their physical health as well. And pay the price. Thus what Lincoln said. Thus good psych. And
/psychics means what I think? – mental makeup? Guess there is no such word as psychique
WANDA called 2/l6/02 545 3863. so 838 7488 in Tustin could be bro. engineer who’s won honors. I called after 4? Yrs. blah as has cold and getting recovering from something. Past heart attach and stroke. You could expect it. Lost weight, walking. Some makeover was sig to her. Her ma in bed with arth till pills. W defensive? Bout not knowing some answers. Still well-spoken, polite, bit gracious. Don, a renter since ’75. w seen modjeka hm. On lot of pills. Still has dodge. She’s 58 and ma is 84. coughed into tel. dora’s assist was dottie. Pa in army. They in eng and Scotland l3 yrs, then a yr in la and a yr at mater dei. Bro has ibm, but not w. self-cent – switched conv to her. The whole talk reminded of how I hate that they don’t wk. she said I was sweet. [thotful]. Simple unpretentious way of talking. Might have taped that polish am program.
/being nuts is one thing – hurting people is another – phil.
For Mentally Ill, Death and Misery
A Times investigation shows that many of the private homes
for the mentally ill in New York City have devolved into
places that resemble the state institutions they replaced. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/28/nyregion/28HOME.html?todaysheadlines
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Here, Life Is Squalor and Chaos
A Times investigation shows that Seaport Manor, an adult
home for the mentally ill in Brooklyn, is gripped by drug abuse, loan-sharking, prostitution and violence. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/29/nyregion/29HOME.html?todaysheadlines
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/ john nash – http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/nash.htm
/remember when at chestnut lodge, someone who worked there said that when Jan Foudraine of not made of wood guy was there, she saw people come alive.
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| Was born on the 25th February 1929 studied medicine at Leiden University, specialized in psychiatry and psychotherapy in Leiden and Amsterdam. From 1961 to 1966 staff psychiatrist at the psychoanalytical sanatorium ‘Chestnut Lodge’ (Rockville, Maryland, USA). From 1966 to 1968 clinical director of psychotherapeutic centre ‘Veluweland’ in the Netherlands. The book ‘Not made of wood a psychiatrist discovers his own profession’ was published in 1971. 200.000 copies sold, with 7 translations. It was recently (1999) reprinted, together with a new book ‘Bunkerbouwers’. Since meeting Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh in 1978, nine more books were published. Among them ‘Original Face’, ‘Bhagwan, Krishnamurti, Jung’, and recently ‘The man who dropped out of his mind, pointers of a rebellious mystic’. Conducted private psychotherapeutic practice in Amsterdam since 1978 until now. | ||
Dear director of Chesnut Lodge: 2/00
I worked as an aide there around ’74. Since then I’ve had more exposure to the field and have written these 3 articles.
/mh and related articles: mi’s, rel, mh, su. Oc, care. Down.
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/looks like part? Of chestnut lodge prop was sold to Wharton sch
The school is now the proud owner of the beautiful Chestnut Lodge property on West Montgomery Avenue in Rockville, Maryland. We are grateful for many fruitful years in Bethesda, Maryland, and for the formative years on the National Cathedral Grounds in Washington, DC. Now we are shaping our own home, and look forward to the school’s life at Chestnut Lodge for many years to come.
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden was a fictionalized depiction of Joanne Greenberg’s treatment experience at Chestnut Lodge Hospital in Rockville, Maryland, during which she was in psychoanalytic treatment with Frieda Fromm-Reichmann. http://www.fortda.org/fall_98/intro_intrapsychic.html
Chestnut Lodge Hospital 500 West Montgomery Avenue Rockville,MD 20850 (301) 424-8300,
Dr. Foudraine’s his publisher.
Ambo Anthos publishers
Keizersgracht 630
1017 ER Amsterdam. info@amboanthos.nl [did I write them?]
/phil was clever. An understatement. Crazy like a fox. Supports my ‘I’m moving cause I’m out of games’. Susie’s lib probably made her an enabler.
/nudging vs confrontation ther…
/by the time it’s mental, they don’t WANT to mature. Phil
/wasn’t I shivering out of discomfort before the dance at chestnut lodge?
/no one asks the operators of hms and when they get together, they go nuts. It ALL comes out …………… catharsis.
/good when bill cosgrove chewed out greg blackstone?
/you think of what phil’s family went thru from phil and from all the stupid ideas over the mental health field and all the well meaning friends and relatives.
/winona ryder had not remorse bout shoplifting nor did she take resp. vs it’s seen as some sort of mental health problem for which many are treated. Norstrom’s catches the most.
/jan foutraine, Amsterdam. Looks like it’s foudraine? At chestnut from 6l-66 sent mh to http://www.keepwell-uk.com/strangefish/contacts.asp , asking them to send it to him. 3/03
/mi’s didn’t want to listen to anyone else’s pain as, like scot, they couldn’t deal with their own pain.
/an easy way out.
/someone’s thinking of building pasadas in brazil or Thailand. You wonder what the state’s resp in this is as he’ll suck in some im or someone from the b group. Might be what he’s trying with bert. He’s trying to reach her, but no replies.
/mh is so vague that you don’t know if you are off or not.
/you are not alone [vs. my book: oh, but you are]
/too easy to talk past them.
/ you are not alone
/what was love is not enuff? Bettleheim?
/it got so everything was therapy – surf therapy, shopping therapy, tv therapy,
/no ‘closure’ with fixing a car either. Need maintenance.
/’closure’ is superficial.
/8/03 sounds like phil’s living in a shit neighborhood in l.b. And not working. Great how we support mental cases and don’t require them to do a spec of work. he drives a car and talks about traveling thru south am. etc.
/before mental case phil blew $750k and got into tons of trouble. They state locked him up. never asked him to work. maybe they pay for his apt etc. no work. now he got his inheritance. Doesn’t owe state anything, won’t work, will blow it probably and we’ll pick up the tab again.
/on kiner was it an mi that put one kid on his shoulders and trotted around.
/elec shock therapy like cold wet sheet pac?
/[lw] bipolar depressive support grp: rada [raida] 58l l07l rmylpt@aol.com linda’s no 58l l07l didn’t work. the right grp to start a site. she is for meds and care. Sent mi’s. her reply: didn’t apply to her group. [Not clear what it’s about] lpt = licensed psych tech. oh boy. reminds me of Sheila?
/people play with mh like they do with rel… for their own agenda: control, self-right…, to save others, etc. take selves too seriously. Some WANT to keep it a mystery. I’m in, analyze, boil down to basics, come up with list, and I’m out.
/from aide to psych tech to lic… psych tech.
/patients have more time than anyone to beat the system. Whereas if they worked, they wouldn’t.
——- – – – saving below only because * meant footnote: Let’s Shrink Mental Health The doctors have the power. They set what is “normal,” and they can confine people; but one wonders how competent they are. They used to consider homosexuality a mental problem; now they don’t. * They used to believe smoking and gambling were not mental problems; now they do. * They have not been able to detect fake patients planted on wards, nor been more than 50% successful in predicting violence. * They have been routinely conned by criminals. * Many of their studies are irrelevant, obvious, or innocuous (such as whether long commutes on the freeway lead to irritation. *) (And 5% end up in bed with their patients. *)
/licensed psych tech. oh boy. rada youngblood here is one. [takes self too seriously]
/dr phillip c mcgraw www.doctorphil.com is under construction
wow, read this – http://www.rateitall.com/showitemria.aspx?itemid=4387A067-FCC0-4EDE-9290-469CC98D852E
/hinkley – not guilty by reason of insanity
/don’t forget b & c for Dianne glenn when I lived on baker st with that compulsive nan with all her make up, that cute lisa who was trying to be like the reader gal, spatula, who was spoiled and resented my rules. Lisa went round? Dancing. Guy across st who thot he was royalty and slept in till ll daily. Other young guy who had the horns. See em on st and never guess.
/scot jill, keith, smith re my fam
/grp is for finding scratchy elements, metal odor
/you always wonder what mental hospitals are about: chestnut lodge, Norwalk where I got paul e., one I visited along the freeway where guy was who jumped thru windows. Va one where how was.
/soto’s sister wanted to throw her psych bks in the trash
Phil and system
/should have been conservatorship when need obvious via rel & all as some gov would end up paying for him. Other steps: no passport, no drivers lic? What else. Work, pay back, grp, etc. inheritance!
/my fam stuff and fact few cared could be useful to mi’s.
/the one who has the mh problems is the symptom of the family – me, Gordon, dennis,
/some crap yrs ago bout woody allen had some condition that prevented him from being happy.
/can imagine them doing anything to get out of work, resp…
/didn’t the son of sam say he made up a lot of it.
/their id is often wrapped up in their will power. Will not flex.
/one operator said mr’s go off to work, while mi’s walk up and down the cement all day.
/didn’t realize b&c was pulling me down and how good it was to get a break from kiner
/valeried gish, keeney? For some reason I want to tell you bout that charles guy. Remember? Well, before came to my board and care home, they said he would make noises in private. They didn’t tell me enuff. He would rant and rave when in the house by himself.
Something more positive: he was due a new leg. Overdue. I made the calls and he got it, put it right on, cute, and it worked better. One of the few good moments in my whole board and care experience.
Later he and I had some problem and one of us threw an iron on to the lawn. He kept everything inside. He was in someplace and when asked about coming back to my place, said no way.
/wanda had a heart attack [and stroke?] and we paid.
/I bet winona ryder is cured of the ‘mental condition’ that caused her to shoplift. What a queen she was going thru lines in the courthouse and standing up deeply offended.
How the Justice System Criminalizes Mental Illness
By BRENT STAPLES
For the mentally ill, life behind bars usually exacerbates the conditions that landed them in prison in the first place.
/young good looking guy to kiner, his pa said ‘yeah, he’ll run a game on you’ con artist, had some fat gal hot for him, got larry to enter my rm. likable.
/john nash said his meds took away his soul or something. Like vern. Heard voices – 2 at once. Willed them? Away.
/that con artist who got larry to go thru window. Wonder why he left early. Maybe I was on to his game. Will never know
/criminon is anti psych and meds. It is a part of scientology used to rehab prisoners. In prisons l5 yrs. Scie… is anti mh, anti meds ………
/irresp… become institutionalized
/if mature you’re no longer continue to spoil yourself is immature. If mature you are resp.
/finally hear mike Tyson say it. His troubles due to not being resp.
Defining Down Mental Illness
(The Washington Post)
/once you spoil a kids, it’s curtains: hutch, phil, jay?
/snake pit day rooms as staff is driven to it? like I was driven to allow tv.
/what is good psych and what is bad
/remember that social guy on baker st. seemed normal. Got up late. Thot he was royalty.
A new movement advocating employment for the mentally ill is gaining momentum.
[oh no, common sense] l0/3l/05 la
Mental Health Net
Offering resources in self-help, psychology, and mental health.
mentalhelp.net/ – 53k – Cached – Similar pages
/mi’s hate all tradvals as they require resp. ag
/phil was in the sys, never had to work or repay rels or sys.
/was looking into grp. College hosp was int [for the $] invited me in to meet all the staff, how embarrassing, talked to one in recap rm with secs bout 25 ft away, who couldn’t hear? I was not on meds, nor had been ‘hospitalized’ and their groups were of older people, mostly on meds,
so we both concluded I was too high functioning. Jargon – ‘acuity’, kid gloves,….. something morbid – spec when I went ‘next door’ to hm depot, the real world. Felt the ‘patients’ should be there. they were after $ as medicare would pay. Min of 4 grps once a week. All kinds of consent forms, ref to my dr. etc. would have been nec. So marni luther was way off. I knew it but thot I’d learn something. Dreary. Morbid. Intimidating. A come down. From the middle ages there to hm depot next door. This ‘hosp’ is a part of college hosp in Cerritos. I’d heard of it and driven by?
/seems some groups just want company and to commiserate, but not face reality.
/I thot that we all occasionally have weird weekends of boredom, flubs, being out of sorts, eat, sleep, bungle errands and contacts,
/doug wood said about mi’s – get em a job
/recovery with its j, code, feel-good, dodging, ingrown. They avoid pol, rel, sex.
/ diagnose yourself – http://www.mentalhealth.com/p71.html
/mh is tricky and moreso with hi iq people
/haldol, prolixen, cogentin
/at bellvue on tv, they sure won’t work mi’s or teach em resp
/st should have been able to appoint a cons… so he wouldn’t end up a burden on them. The lst time around and the 2nd time.
/dj’s stepson faked bi-polar to get on ssi. For l5 yrs. Shit
/”Psychiatry has made great strides in helping kids manage mental illness, particularly moderate conditions, but the system of diagnosis is still 200 to 300 years behind other branches of medicine.”
DR. E. JANE COSTELLO, a professor of psychiatry at Duke University.
Off to College on Their Own, Shadowed by Mental Illness
By LYNETTE CLEMETSON
For young people diagnosed with serious mental disorders, the transition from high school to college can be particularly fraught.
/insanity to let em have so much caffine, no exercise. More in diets? Sugar?
/one flew over the cuckoos nest, never promised you a rose garden
/Laws Limit Options When a Student Is Mentally Ill By TAMAR LEWIN
For the most part, universities cannot tell parents about their children’s problems without the student’s consent.
/when running b & c I stayed out of their driving, but wondered if they should – dave, guy who thot others were drying to run him off the rd., phil
/ Mabel Applegate lived at 6601 Drexel Ave. L.A. not on show my st
/charles applegate ran Norwalk. – http://www.dmh.ca.gov/Statehospitals/Metro/default.asp
metropolitan state hospital – Norwalk on bloomfield . that coincidence, another of jan foutraine, another of the neighbors – gal….
/on staff person at chestnut said can go way out of way for patients and get not a shred of thanks
/fun to read sum of one flew over the cuckoo’s nest and pt out the need for c.s.
/took mi’s to beach. They seemed clouded, dark. Linda laughing; they weren’t. suicide I stopped was clouded
/wanda had a heart attack and a stroke. What does that tell you
/that brent had a smirk in the car that was taking him away. so did that guy who wrecked himself in a car. had a leisure suit. Was furious with life. Was said to need pattering.
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/how curious: my exposure to the m.h. field: my great aunt’s uncle ran Norwalk the mental hospital at Norwalk, which I toured. Years later I rented a room in a house where a shrink lived while working at chestnut lodge, where I worked as an aide for a while. He wrote a well known book. Years later I ran a care home for mental patients, wrote 4 articles on it, 3 were published, one by dr. William glasser who wrote REALITY THERAPY.
/cold wet sheet pack – http://www.google.com/search?um=1&hl=en&rls=SNYI,SNYI:2005-17,SNYI:en&q=cold%20wet%20sheet%20pack%20%20&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=iw
The doctors have the power. They set what is ‘normal,’ and they can confine people; but one wonders how competent they are. They used to consider homosexuality a mental problem; now they don’t. * They used to believe smoking and gambling were not mental problems; now they do. * They have not been able to detect fake patients planted on wards, nor been more than 50% successful in predicting violence. * They have been routinely conned by criminals. * Many of their studies are irrelevant, obvious, or innocuous (such as whether long commutes on the freeway lead to irritation. *) (And 5% end up in bed with their patients. *)
/realize how much I enjoyed writing mi’s. wow. a treat to have such an op…
I Normal pleasant, aware, non‑criminal.
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II Immature | V Irresponsible
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Self‑centered ……………|……….. selfish
Past dependence on folks ….|………… cling to folks.
Low self‑esteem ………….|………… refuse to take pride.
Unmotivated ……………..|………… lazy
Rigid …………… |
Unassertive ……… |
Overly sensitive |
Resentful |
| unhygienic
III Mental |
Identity problems, buried |
emotions, isolated, private | } little effort to logic (the ‘crazy’ part) | resolve these.
| IV Spoiled
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(view of professionals) | (view of non‑professionals)
[couldn’t some of those mental ones be immature?
/immaturity run rampant
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/got to kidding: food therapy, sleep therapy, shower therapy
/folks befriended a german guy, helmut, – some long story. Later I think he went bonkers or something.
/that carmencita I met and dated – at the lancers. Was fine with hosts, later things went awry.
/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvin_D._Yalom
/why did the mi’s resent everything
/up to $l400 a day in one mh hosp in the paper. 09
/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Scott_Peck
/resentment fits em perfectly as they aren’t about to take control
/not made of wood. The author said: http://www.critpsynet.freeuk.com/Foudraine.htm
Jan Foudraine
/a mental ‘hospital’ is not what you’d expect a ‘hospital’ to be
/their resentment fits their irresp. Fix
/reality therapy – glasser http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=reality+therapy+glasser&rlz=1W1GGIE_en&aq=0&oq=Reality+therapy&aqi=g10
he was trained in psychoanalysis but rejected it
/what jeff’s shrink said about my 12 pages – incredibly destructive
/the mentally disabled
/nothing succeeds like success
/called wanda bout things over the yrs. 20? 30? Yrs later so much we could NOT talk about re mh
/phil, scot, don barber, mingo, dj, june?, how?, larry spencer, pa’s sis, gxr’s rels. Did any get better?
/ and how things tie in: I worked, as an aide, at the mental hospital from which came the bk and movie ‘I never promised you a rose garden’. I stayed at hse where a shrink much earlier stayed. He wrote a well known book.
The hosp… was well known – chestnut lodge. Somehow I think you know the name. it’s gone now. $ troubles. Too bad
/my great aunt’s hub ran Norwalk
/used to smoke inside chestnut lodge
/called mh on bch. Talked to od. Foreign, accent, bur. Feel like getting put off. you have to went your way thru it all. Can’t lead or bug a bur. Ty for gov.
They know of self-help but you have to go thru them. some sort of directory – of theirs only..
They aren’t going to knock themselves out. kept telling me to have d call. Blank on recovery.
/adult mh serv
14140 bch bld #200 [in the civic center]
7l4 896 7574. probably better to go, rather than call. They will probably send you to the o.d. [officer of the day]
Straight talk clinic in cypress 828 2000 walker and linc. $20
Some clinic in hb 7l4 960 2624
/2ll might know of self-help groups
/the net might have some for anxiety
/guen’s folks told her to give up on al, don’t go over to his place. Good, glad they did. last nite she said she was going to see someone else …. And came here.
/one of the staff at chestnut said patients get clues from gardner, hsekeeper, etc
/Lincoln used work as a way of dealing with depression
/couldn’t say ‘you’re nuts’
/why couldn’t gov and rels step into phil’s life at various pts and mng his $, spec after he cost the gov $ at royal. [so glad to be out of that] even with inheritance. Gambled. 4 trips to thai.
/dj, dunno how much you want to reply: from what you’ve said, I assume you had a ‘breakdown’ years ago. Due to anxiety. Over what or is that private? What helped you get better? how much did you improve? Asking this as I’m trying to think of who got better of the people I know. Couldn’t think of any. When I ran that home for mentals, I supposed I saw some positive changes, but probably didn’t know em long enuff. Mingo asked if any ever got better.
/dj said re anxiety ‘you can get better through finding your work … that’s what got me better. Mainly, relating to a group of others in a constructive way … isolation is the worst fate.
/s…. never told me I thot too much of others, and ….
/2 shrinks tried to discourage me from jerking
/Good Grief By ALLEN FRANCES A proposed change to psychiatry’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders would confuse normal bereavement with major depression.
/guy who soaked bible in olive oil had stuff in front rm. Wouldn’t move it in. must have been same guy whose stuff I put out front and said to myself, no way he’s coming in. he was smart: sat in his car and thot about it.
/how many times did cops come?
/I wonder if shrinks use anything like s98 to test one’s humanity
/I thot something major was wrong with me. it wasn’t. they should tell you that.
/I said snake pits probably exist as no disc
/kids have good mh
/shrinks missed a lot – job clinic.
/did eric from write some famous book
/Just got back from Hawaii — change of environment, lots of sun, etc. Thought it would turn him around quickly. Rats. Keep praying.
/hutch – linda bright said he folks used to shell out the bucks to him all the time.
/Legal Strategy Could Hinge on Mental Assessment By BENJAMIN WEISER
Because of changes made after John Hinckley was acquitted for trying to kill President Reagan, the lawyers for Jared L. Loughner will find it difficult to argue the insanity defense.
/mi’s is l830 words till the rating form
/ Leading psychologists and clergymen should clarify their positions on encounter groups and cults.
/patient council, elected members. Done at Atascadero only. Ty and no mention of resp
/did I long ago say mi’s could open doors but not close em.
/ scot’s mh, they’ll never get it. I wonder if they should have seen it coming. Or if tom or anyone did. None did with phil, but mary socha said he was a little off.
/bipolar: violent without meds
/how many diagnosis could they give problems dogs ………….before ceasar arrives.
/A High-Profile Executive Job as Defense Against Mental Ills By BENEDICT CAREY
After years of mental turmoil, Keris Myrick learned that she needed a high-profile position, not a low-key one, to manage her symptoms – among the discoveries that have challenged researchers’ assumptions.
/ joe wagensellar – jwagensell@aol.com sent vic again? 9/2l
Dear Joe, l0?/ll
I was one of your clients in 68? Some reflections:
/a job clinic thru the NY advertising club was great therapy. It no longer exists. What I learned there is on one of my blogs www.generaladvice.org
/I ran a board and care home for mental patients and had some articles published – www.timelessissues.com .
/I was in group for 9 months. Loved it. I should have stayed in your group.
/dr. peale was such a motivator. I still have his sermons, but in glancing at them I don’t know how he did it.
/at his singles group I found several good roommates and one great Japanese girlfriend.
/from what I read on the net, you’ve done well. Good for you.
These pix will help you remember me. I had cosmetic surgery in thailand – www.generaladvice.org added ba pix
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Finding Purpose After Living With Delusion
By BENEDICT CAREY
Milt Greek, an Ohio computer programmer, helps other people who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia to share their stories and gain insight into their condition.
“Schizophrenia is the best thing that ever happened to me. I know a lot of people with the diagnosis don’t feel that way, but the experience changed me, for the better. I was so arrogant, so narcissistic, so self-involved, and it humbled me.”
MILT GREEK, of Athens, Ohio.
/d said if he’d been in royale a wk, he would have been nuts as the staff treats the patients like animals. Wow. Chestnut?
/The Epidemic of Mental Illness: Why?” from The New York Review of Books. Many of us have been taught that depression arises, in part, from chemical imbalances in the brain. Apparently, there is no evidence to support that. Many of us thought that antidepressants work. Apparently, there is meager evidence to support that, too. They may work slightly better than placebos, Angell argues, but only under certain circumstances. They may also be permanently altering people’s brains and unintentionally fueling the plague of mental illness by causing episodes of mania,
/the field never tells you what’s wrong or how to fix it. also no job clinic.
/dj, I don’t see how you and how could go to so many shrinks with you and the shrinks missing the obvious
/Grief Could Join List of Disorders By BENEDICT CAREY A proposed change to depression’s definition could greatly expand the number of people treated, a new study says.
/shrink in shirl’s hse leaves trash barrels out for days
/b & c : chores became a mystery. So I did them – nothing to em.
/no shrink told me to be myself, start with what you have
/in NY and dc to some extent people weree far more int in psych and counseling
/ ptsd part san diego post traumatic stress syndrome
/no shrink said by myself, start with what you have, follow your loves
/psych that gave g tests – mike Elliot on cresenta dr in mv. Via greg
/one b&c op said the mr’s go off to work and the mi’s pace the cement all day
/the shrinks help keep it a mystery
/rod steiger, brook shields
/dr. Stanton samenow. His name is familiar. Anyhow on tv said some people are evil
/no mention that hinkley might have been spoiled.
/ Smoking, Once Used to Reward, Faces a Ban in Mental Hospitals By PAM BELLUCK
After decades in which smoking by people with mental illness was supported and even encouraged, a move in Louisiana reflects a broader effort to reverse course. 2/l3
/patients ‘demonstrated?’ at Norwalk. One walked off. Like not made of wood.
/what shows how mental people can get watch: hoarders, intervention, springer?,
/guy who was in terrible wreck. His fault? Walked with difficulty. Maybe super bitter at himself or something. I had him walk to the store to ‘earn’ his $. Had a leisure suit.
/little spoiled brent
/confrontation therapy
/so far 0 on hinkley being spoiled, says ag. Just looked it up: 2 mentions of lst p of net and one of his being a mama’s boy. Ah ha. I say spoiled to have flown all over. Probably didn’t wrk much. Long ago on tv his folks said he was taking classes
/ Once a ‘Cuckoo’s Nest,’ Now a Museum
By KIRK JOHNSON
Oregon State Hospital features a museum that pays tribute to the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and explores mental health treatments of the past.
/maslanik said I was right on bout mi’s?
/I can’t explain mingo’s mh. Wow. & phil’s
/harry? Told guys in hse he’d seen viet kids happy with 2 sticks, when all these guys did was complain
/my 2 pages as an empathy test – without calling it that
/they missed on the meds l2% of the time I thot, vs right meds in long run for d, who else?
/ plot summary of catcher in the rye: total immaturity. Dj liked it
/one mi said he came to realize it was up to him
/ http://www.wglasserinternational.org , http://www.wglasser.com/international-journal
/many normal think they are mental when they’re not being themselves. Fix ag
/0 on paper from mi’s, rel, ops, swers? 0 for guidelines, hse rules,
/remember the german guy the folks met on a cruise? Did he turn out to be mental later
/Norwalk hosp: they had patients come out on stage one at a time. How awful. One left the stage. Also in going around, one said what do they think we are
/needs an empathy test and many others
/shrinks never told me to accept myself, be myself
/remember the good looking con-man. Got that girl to fall for him and larry to go into my rm. He might have figured I’d get on to his game
/actually some bit on net saying john hinkley was spoiled. But you never heard this. Not guilty on grounds of insanity – public outcry led to some …………
/reaction of hinkley verdict is good on net.
/snow stress depression from some dept of psych
/good looking mh patient came to my hse. Could con anyone. some gal. his dad said, oh yes, he’ll run a game on you. moved out soon
/good fams are units
/mingo was not spoiled, so how did he develop problems
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Memory: dr. kiet loc, neurologist 837 1130 for test, but dr. p says short term mem loss is normal. Can do nothing but be active physically and mentally.
/applegate ran norwalk. Toured it. I worked at chestnut lodge in 73? Jan foutrain? had worked there. And the flic – I never promised you…..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_Lodge
/where was rainman filmed
/you put in so many yrs on your views, you are sure of them, but could be off mentally
/glad m and gills didn’t have kids.
/ layman’s guide to psychiatry and psychoanalysis
/ in b & c , harry got on the complaining mi’s who said kids in nam were happy with 2 sticks
/drs in japan let mi go and he killed l0? Disabled. 7/l6
/ G.L. Harrington who says, “join the club” of those who do not believe in mental illness. Said to glasser
/search snake pit = day rm
/don’t forget working at Dianne glen’s hm. on baker
/one op said if their son didn’t have problems, they’d divorce
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French’s cupcake bakery – http://www.frenchscupcakebakery.com/contact-us/
/ was it the mid 70s that you had joe kile working there as a dishwawsher?. he rarely talked. He stayed in my board and care home. his job there was a lifesaver, due to your understanding. he passed away later, according to his sister alice.
thanks so much for your compassion. Al
/anyone who can cause as much trouble as phil can work. Did he get disability?
Mingo too but much less
/ linda Martinez said she’d go home from work with a headache
/vern said the hse meetings were like l0 teams
/cold wet sheet packs
/doug wood said, as if fed up mi’s, ‘get em a job’. That was it in a nutshell.
/search electro shock and bi polar
/ted huge’s ma had electro-shock and was never the same
/all this vs phil, mingo, scot
/mi’s didn’t know chores and didn’t take pride in them. Fix
Stupid add on to ga:
Unlike physical ailments, mental disorders get neglected very easily. It is only when one sees drastic changes in one’s behavioral pattern, that these issues come into notice.
There can be multiple reasons affecting your health such as genes (family history of mental health problems), brain chemistry, trauma, abuse etc.
It is important to get acquainted with early signs of such mental disturbances like – eating/sleeping too much or too little, remaining isolated, having low or no energy, feeling numb, feeling despair, having mood swings, indulging excessively into smoking, drinking, drugs, hearing voices or believing things that are not true, feelings of self harm, feeling incapable of performing day to day activities etc.
Such people need to be treated by a certified professional therapist which would help them in realizing their full potential. A therapist would guide the concerned person as to how he can cope up with stress and negative feelings, work productively and make a difference to other people’s lives. He would be guided towards an optimistic life approach where there is more of social engagement and less of seclusion.
Any person can become a victim of a mental disorder. It is essential to test your mental health which would put light on your life and your perspective towards the various facets of life. Follow these links to assess your mental abilities. #
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chestnut_Lodge cold wet sheet packs – https://www.bing.com/search?q=cold%20wet%20sheet%20packs&qs=n&form=QBRE&sp=-1&ghc=1&pq=cold%20wet%20sheet%20packs&sc=0-20&sk=&cvid=D39A24D25EDD47B490422B1C87A41016
/vic to wagen …. 2/l9
/journal of reality ther….. died in ’97? goes on and on – https://www.bing.com/search?q=journal+of+reality+therapy&form=EDGSPH&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&plvar=0&refig=20b80aa068084b118a55ea8b8e60effc&sp=1&qs=AS&pq=journal+of+reality&sc=2-18&cvid=20b80aa068084b118a55ea8b8e60effc&cc=US&setlang=en-US
/my ideas vs d, phil, scot
/ https://www.bing.com/search?q=LOVE+IS+NOT+ENOUGH&form=EDNTHT&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&plvar=0&refig=7e14bc03917646c3fd4a9a09af0c6875&sp=-1&pq=love+is+not+enough&sc=8-18&qs=n&sk=&cvid=7e14bc03917646c3fd4a9a09af0c6875 this really didn’t track it down. I think I remember it was some book
/wagen: vic, mh section, hyper
/confrontation therapy
/ info@frenchscupcakebakery.com
/k said the shrinks near his office are odd
/great the way mingo keeps going to 2 wellness center in gg and Tustin for group. Been 2? Yrs? says it all might not have happened without my ref him to mh place. Wow
/catholic mental health, fatalism
/ https://www.bing.com/search?q=journal+of+reality+therapy&form=ANSPH1&refig=8fc3508f67bd480e80d8e40eff29b472&pc=U531&sp=1&ghc=1&qs=SC&pq=journal+or+reality&sk=PRES1&sc=1-18&cvid=8fc3508f67bd480e80d8e40eff29b472 part confirmed my views
/I can’t find his journal or his org. wow. BAD
/I disagree with some of – https://www.wglasserinternational.org/courses/professional-development/reality-therapy/ amazing how they go round and round.
/my exposure to mh applegate, dr. oliver, tolefson, kaufman at adler, wagenseller, job clinic, how – dj – marge, chestnut lodge -, grp in d.c., b & c, 3 articles [revenge re chestnut], wanda, phil and mingo, shock for 2, victim
/d likes grp: mh place says avoid neg people, ex, meds, shower, walk, food,
/ cause of nervous breakdown – Bing – seemed regular
/ institute of reality therapy – Bing thus?
sent vic to parishts@gmail.com and later , 9/2l, to William Glasser International | Connecting the World with Choice Theory psychology (wglasserinternational.org) =
/nyt: 9/2l: but don’t click on it? No driving, working or dating: This program controls people leaving psych hospitals also l.a. times
/ ty ty ty – John Hinckley Jr. – Wikipedia sickening
/ plot summary of catcher in the rye: total immaturity. Dj liked it as did mark d chapman and maybe Hinckley. Didn’t j.d. salinger coauthor something with the young gal who wrote an l8 yr old looks back on life
/ A Close Look at Mental Patients JOURNAL OF REALITY THERAPY Spg ’83
How to Kill a Care Home ORG. COUNTY REGISTER 12/9/86
Parents of Mental Patients AM. MEDICAL NEWS 4/11/86
/ The darkness is upon us. How to maintain your mental health when daylight-saving time ends
/ Psycho-Cybernetics – Wikipedia
/ marine waiting 27 years – Search (bing.com) /maybe one res had a vacuum problem, another a window problem, all had and auth… problem
cold wet sheet pack treatment – Search (bing.com)
/ ‘Bed Rotting’ and ‘Hurkle Durkle’: Can You Stay In Bed Too Long? – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
/dj said rr stopped the wk programs in the mh sys. did reagan cut the work programs in mental health – Search (bing.com)
/ag: peter principle in soc life. Similar or same? As your pro life and soc life
/dj said his cg said he was better when off one med. Wow
/Not made of wood by Jan Foudraine | Open Library
/how safe are tents
/ William Glasser International | Connecting | Leading | Celebrating (wglasserinternational.org) thus
Request Information | William Glasser International (wglasserinternational.org) wrote em 8/9/24
/if the son got well, they’d divorce
/ New York City commits to involuntary commitment of mi’s
/the problems on one……..discredit his idiotic view, completely
/ twisting slowly in the wind – Search Images
