Zyprexa An American psychosis. (Psych Ward SFGH)
Imagine that a virus suddenly appears in our society that makes people sleep 12--14 hours a day. Those infected with it move about somewhat slowly and seem emotionally disengaged.
Many gain huge amounts of weight -- 20, 40, 60, and even 100 pounds. Often their blood sugar levels soar, and so do their cholesterol levels. A number of those struck by the mysterious illness -- including young children and teenagers -- become diabetic in very short order. Reports of patients occasionally dying from pancreatitis appear in the medical literature. Newspapers and magazines fill their pages with accounts of this new scourge, which is dubbed metabolic dysfunction illness, and parents are in a panic over the thought that their children might contract this horrible disease. The federal government gives hundreds of millions of dollars to scientists at the best universities to decipher the inner workings of this virus, and they report that the reason it causes such global dysfunction is that it blocks a multitude of neurotransmitter receptors in the brain -- dopaminergic, serotoninergic, muscarinic, adrenergic, and histaminergic. All of those neuronal pathways in the brain are compromised. Meanwhile, MRI studies find that over a period of several years the virus shrinks the cerebral cortex, and this shrinkage is tied to cognitive decline. A terrified public clamors for a cure. Now, such an illness has in fact hit millions of American children and adults. We have just described the effects of Eli Lilly's best-selling antipsychotic, Zyprexa.
Robert Whitaker in Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America..
Re: Robert Whitaker and Zyprexa (trigger)
Posted by ralphrost on February 26, 2007, at 6:52:56
In reply to Robert Whitaker and Zyprexa (trigger), posted by Squiggles on February 23, 2007, at 7:06:09
Freaking true and sad...
> Some posts ago, someone said i should take a look at what Robert Whitaker has to say about the antipsychotic drug, Zyprexa. Well, i looked and found a couple of articles under:
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> http://www.thestreetspirit.org/August2005/interview.htm
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> http://zmagsite.zmag.org/May2004/levine0504.html
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> I'd like to add that Robert Whitaker is a member of Mindfreedom and takes a radical perspective on the mistreatment of patients by pharmaceutical companies. He is a prize-winning journalist (author of "Mad in America"). Personally, I don't have enough evidence or knowledge to believe that drug companies are more likely to mistreat the mentally ill through drugs, than hospitals or physicians or psychiatrists. In all cases, the rule of law is the best watchdog. Somebody said "if they won't do the right thing, make them".
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> Squiggles
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Saturday, February 1, 2014
@ Excerpts from "The Troubled Mind" &
Since the beginnings of recorded history, man has been fascinated with
the insane, with their deranged feeling, thinking, and behaviour. Insane
people with fanciful delusions have at times attracted large numbers of
adherents, who looked upon their psychotic leaders as prophets or as
saviours of some sort. The alluring properties of the "prophet's"
message may be more than just a beckoning of a way to escape from the
boredom of everyday life. I suspect that many followers are riveted by a
peculiarly intoxicating quality of psychotic ecstasy conveyed by the
"mad" leader. ........
The psychiatric disease that converts man into an other-worldly creature
- at once wiser than the wisest of the sane and yet so deeply troubled
that he suffers more than a terminal cancer patient - is surely
schizophrenia. Because of his bizarre loss of contact with everyday
reality, the schizophrenic can appeal to us as a messiah bearing the
message of the infinite. For our conception of the universe is bounded
by the straitjacket of conventional thinking processes. A
schizophrenic's self-perception is so fragmented that he seems to
function at a different plane of consciousness from the rest of
humanity. Some psychiatrists who have dealt extensively with
schizophrenics even wonder whether the schizophrenic's "psychotic"
perception of the world might not conform more to ultimate reality than
does our sane vision.
Because of such doubts, Ronald Laing, a Scottish psychiatrist, questions
whether schizophrenia should be viewed as a disease at all in the
ordinary sense. He feels that the schizophrenic experience may be quite a
natural one. In schizophrenia, individuals, for unclear reasons, have
entered into an "inner world" that part of their psyche which is
unconscious most of the time and which contains many of the primitive
instinctual elements "discovered" by Freud. 厖 He views the schizophrenic
episode as a potentially enriching experience, perhaps reminiscent of a
psychedelic trip on LSD. "This journey is experienced as going further
in, as going back through one's personal life and back and through and
beyond into the experience of all mankind, of the primal man, of Adam
and pehaps even further into the beings of animals, vegetables and
minerals" If society would only allow them to embark on this journey
unimpeded by social pressures, psychiatrists or tranquilizing drugs,
they would emerge from it as better people.
March 2001 Update -
Here are a couple of collages of photocopies from this book which I just
found in an old notebook. Enjoy.
More may follow ...
Just in case those scans aren't legible to you ... here is the gist of
what they say ...
' ... which we clasp rather tenuously. To learn how delicate are your
claims on reality, all you need do is ingest a moderate dose of LSD. The
most frightening and yet most uplifting experience that psychedelic
drugs elicit is the merging of the self with the universe. After first
being fascinated with the perceptual changes produced by the drug, you
may begin to wonder about the boundaries of your own body and soul. You
feel yourself shrink to a pinpoint or expand to fill the room. Soon you
begin to wonder where you leave off and the rest of the world begins.
The ultimate consequence of this sensation - which is almost impossible
to describe in words - is a fusion of the self with the infinite, man
with God, your body with the rest of the universe. This is the ultimate
beatific experience of Eastern and Christian mystics, something they
strive for during years of meditation, but ...'
'Only when Laing's utopian age of nonpsychiatry comes to pass will
everyone presumably realise that schizophrenia need not be a disease but
instead a uniquely enriching life experience, like sexual intercourse.
He argues, "The laugh's on us. They [the ex-schizophrenics] will see
that what we call 'schizophrenia' was one of the forms in which, often
through quite ordinary people, the light began to break through the
cracks in our all-too-closed minds ... perhaps we will learn to accord
to the so-called schizophrenics who have come back to us, perhaps after
years, no less respect than the often no less lost explorers of the
renaissance.'
'If you think about it for a while, it should be evident that your sense
of identity as a distinct individual is extremely important in enabling
you to function in the everyday world. Being certain that ...'
Unfortunately (or maybe not), our library seems to have misplaced this
book. Either that or somebody has eaten it or just didn't feel like
returning it to the library. Have'nt found all that much about it on the
world-wide-web so you'll just have to be satisfied with those glimpses
...
I believe the author's name was Solomon Snyder.
For more about R.D. Laing, click here
@ A few more quotes &
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in
one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." George Orwell
(1903�), British author. Nineteen Eighty-Four, pt. 2, ch. 9 (1949),
extract from Goldstein's book. See Fitzgerald on Intelligence.
"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their
motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle,
like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such
a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither
resist nor understand." George Orwell (1903�), British author. "Why I
Write" (1947; repr. in Collected Essays, 1961).
"We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to
one another, and to the spiritual and material world� mad, even, from an
ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt." R. D. Laing (1927�),
British psychiatrist. The Politics of Experience, Introduction (1967).
"If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have
schizophrenia." Thomas Szasz (b. 1920), U.S. psychiatrist. The Second
Sin, "Schizophrenia" (1973).
"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself.
But the self is not something one finds; it is something one creates."
Thomas Szasz (b. 1920), U.S. psychiatrist. The Second Sin, "Personal
Conduct" (1973).
"There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in
his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution
to the strangulation that life had prepared for him." Antonin Artaud
(1896�48), French theater producer, actor, theorist. Van Gogh, the Man
Suicided by Society (1947; repr. in Selected Writings, pt. 33, ed. by
Susan Sontag, 1976).
"And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become
mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a
certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its
asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from,
because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great
nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to
hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable
truths." Antonin Artaud (1896�48), French theater producer, actor,
theorist. Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society, (1947; repr. in
Selected Writings, pt. 33, ed. by Susan Sontag, 1976).
From Politics of Experience by R.D.Laing -
Is there anywhere such a thing as a normal man?
Modern society clamps a straitjacket of conformity on every child that's
born. In the process, man's potentialities are devastated and the terms
'sanity' and 'madness' become ambiguous. The schizophrenic may simply
be someone who has been unable to suppress his normal instincts and
conform to an abnormal society
{May type more of this book later - excellent case history &
analysis}
Here's an excerpt from the script of the movie "Network" with Peter
Finch. I'd like to get the book I'm not sure who wroted it. .. "I'm
imbued with some special spirit. It's not a religious feeling at all.
It's a shocking eruption of great electrical energy. I feel vivid and
flashing as if suddenly I've been plugged into some great
electromagnetic field. I feel connected to all living things to
flowers, birds all the animals of the world. I'm linked to some great
unseen living force what I think the Hindus call Prana. But it's not a
breakdown. I've never felt more orderly in my life. It is a shattering
and beautiful sensation. It is the exulted flow of the space-time
continuum, save that it is spaceless and timeless and of such
loveliness I feel on the verge of some great ultimate truth."
Schizophrenia
Literally, the fractal mind. A logos that affirms multiplicity and the
occupation of all possible points. The schizophrenic is like the
electron : if we predict the position, we cannot predict the velocity ;
if we predict the velocity, we cannot predict the position. Like a nomad
travelling through smooth space, the schizophrenic, like the electron
in an electron cloud, may appear anywhere within the field, occupying
all positions while singularly fluctuating between positions aleatorily.
Schizophrenia is a Cageian simultaneity of happenings: the nose runs,
the mouth babbles, the hands fiddle, the eyes roll, the feet shuffle,
the diaphragm laughs or hiccups, the Eucalyptus adds its scent to the
moment, the moon at that angle in the sky ... Schizophrenia is a process
of compiling lists and letting go of syntax. Social schizophrenia is a
simultaneity of spontaneities, a flux of ad-hoc organizings of activity,
a surrealist engagement of "collective self-management" as the
transtruction [ construction - deconstruction process] of dissipative
structures. All of this is distinguished from clinical schizophrenia,
which is alienated, repressed schizophrenia isolated from
desiring-production and collective creativity. Liberated schizophrenia
is schizophrenia that has come into its own as an Escherian, topological
celebration of fractal generativity!
Singularity
A singularity is a virtual potentiality existing at the zero point which
begins to actualize, upsetting the habit patterns of momentum which
struggle to keep time as a linear progression, a stable identity where
moment begets moment. Yet time is a discontinuity. Each moment dies and
is reborn at the zero point, the Schrodinger space. All possibilities
compress at this dense intensity. A singularity is a possibility that
escapes compression into actualization. It is a sign of
difference-in-itself. Since A is never equal to A, since a thing both is
and is not what it is, identity never captures being and self-sameness
is impossible b self-similarity generates nano-variations that become
amplified in time. Molar identity attempts to scan and surgically remove
such nano-variations b becoming involves creatively amplifying them.
Because singularities demonstrate that identity is only and always
approximate, the State has an ill will towards them.
|
I just thought of one book I (surprisingly) left off my list. It's a book few people have ever heard of, even within the mental health field. It's called "The Three Christs of Ypsilanti" and tells the story from the 1950's (long before the modern catch-phrase of de-institutionalisation) where they brought together three long-term schizophrenic patients onto the same ward in a hospital in (you guessed it) Ypsilanti Hospital.
Anyway, each of these three patients was suffering from the delusion that they were Jesus Christ. The book is the chronicle of their interaction with each other and the staff as they each tried to maintain and defend their 'identity'. I have never read anything quite like it as a 'case study'. And given the latest trends in the field, it is probably an unrepeatable undertaking.
It's a fascinating read - or at least I found it so. I actually carried it around for several years as a kind of "Bible". Not for the so-called psychiatric insights but for the dialogue & interplay between 3 human beings all claiming to have the same identity. Actually, I found very little on the web about this book except one classic comment:
Maybe "Leon" of Ypsilanti really WAS Jesus... and everybody tried to "CURE" Him!!
I did identify with Leon in many ways.
I may one day get the time & energy & inclination to type up the best bits of this book. In the meantime, enjoy a few scans of some old photcopies I have. I found it's tough to scan a thick book but not so tough to scan photocopies of that thick book. You learn something every day. Well, read these excerpts and you'll learn a thing or two. Call Leon 'deluded' if you must, but I think he has one of the most creative minds you would ever wish to encounter. Reading these words again, I am reminded of that song about Van Gogh, 'this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you'. But enough of my ramblings, here's some of Mr. Rokeach's ...
Mind you, even this smattering gives just a taste of the book's contents. You'll have to hunt down a copy to get the total experience. The ISBN is ... well, on second thoughts, click here for the book info.
Pages 144 & 5
Pages 146 & 7
Pages 136 & 7
Pages 138 & 9
Pages 74 & 5
Pages 72 & 3
Pages 80& 1
Pages 82 & 3
Pages 130 & 1
Pages 128 & 9
Pages 104 & 5
Pages ?? - where Leon says 'I have to see the relationship to infinity. If I can see that, I'm satisfied.', which may be as profound a statement you'll ever hear from someone who is supposedly 'deluded' and 'out-of-touch' with 'reality' ... unfrotunately I sliced the scanned image up a little bit so I haven't found what page it comes from ... so be patient ... all will be revealed in the fullness of time ...
Pages 160 & 1
Pages 144 & 145 - scanned from the actual book rather than from the photocopies ...
Pages 150 & 1
Pages 152 & 3
Pages 154 & 5
Pages 156 & 7
Pages 158 & 9
Pages 214 & 5
Pages 164 & 5
Pages 168 & 9
Pages 224 & 5
Pages 230 & 1
Pages 234 & 5 - need re-doing but almost legible
Pages 250 & 1
Pages 252 & 3
Pages 254 & 5
Pages 256 & 7
Pages 310 & 1 - mentions Laing
Pages 336 & 7 - reflections 'twenty years later' ...
Page 338
Page 238 - has 'the relationship to infinity' but I need to re-scan it ...
More scans soon ... unless I happen to be abducted by advanced intergalactic travelers who have zeroed in on my brainwaves from the vastness of interstellar space. But that's probably not going to happen in the next five
Most of the following come from a search using the Google search engine -
Quote from Milton Rokeach
Article about the identity of Christ mentions the book
Interesting discussion of the book {added May 17, 2002}
{Or click here}
Rapunzel - a poem which mentions the book
Myths about psychiatric drugs
The message I mentioned previously suggesting maybe Leon actually WAS Christ
Article at Successful Schizophrenia site
The Politics of Experience by R.D. Laing
Swami Beyondananda Karma Talk
Another discussion
Interesting message at a dicussion board
An article called Rogue Messiahs
How to evaluate our beliefs
Another site which mentions the book
More info on Dr Rokeach
The actual Google search which I used. Many of which i have yet to fully peruse. You may like to do so in your spare time.
Back issues of Abraxas - one of which discusses 3 Christs ... could send 'em an email ...
ALLTHEWEB search
... use other search engines ... you never know ...
Messiah complex
Another article which discusses the book
More discussion of the 'messiah complex'
Don't just sit there!
{Oddly enough, this reminds me of a quote attributed to Buddha: 'Don't just do something, sit there!'
}
Temporary Insanity
Excerpts from The Troubled Mind
October 2002 Update:
Page 107 - Leon defines the word parable. "Parables go from higher level ideas to lower level expression so that a person with less education can understand."
PLus "I love truth even though it hurts ..."
Page 126 - "Truth is the Boss."
Page 204 - Leon speaks about an infringement on his emotional life ...
Page 126 - Leon speaks of his 'light brother' and the spirit of 'truthful energetic happiness' ....
I really ought 2 scan pages 196 to 199 - about the ethics of conducting such an exercise ... "I was about to explore an obscure area of the human psyche by means of a method never before tried ..."
Back to my book reviews
MARK MAYNARD DOT COM
video of the ypsilanti state (mental) hospital
By Mark | February 8, 2007
I was just poking around on YouTube and happened across some relatively
interesting footage of kids exploring the old Ypsilanti State Hospital.
“State Hospital,” in case you didn’t know, was something of a euphemism.
It was an asylum. It’s probably best known as the setting for “The
Three Christs of Ypsilanti,” a book which I’m sure I must have written
about here at some point. Long story short, it’s a step-by-step tutorial
on how not to deal with the severely mentally ill. Guess what – when
you lock three men up together, all of whom think they’re Jesus Christ,
none of them get better. I would have just thought that that was common
sense, but I suppose it was worth a shot. Anyway, the book still exists
as a cautionary tale on how not to treat the mentally ill. I don’t want
to go on and on about the hospital, as I really don’t really know that
much about it, but here’s a clip from a somewhat recent “Michigan Daily”
article for those of you who are interested.
…The state Legislature authorized construction of “a hospital for
the human, curative, scientific and economic treatment of insane persons
to be known as the Ypsilanti State Hospital” in 1931. The buildings
were designed by Albert Kahn, the architect of dozens of buildings on
campus, including Angell Hall and Hill Auditorium. The first six
patients were admitted on June 15, 1931, and by 1932, the hospital was
spending 80 cents a day on each of its more than 900 patients.
The diary of Dr. O.R. Yoder, the hospital’s longtime medical
superintendent, shows the effects of the Great Depression that gripped
the nation back then. On July 2, 1931, he wrote, “Were constantly
stopped by hundreds of people seeking work. Several thousand
applications on file.” Later that month, the Ypsilanti Savings Bank
closed its doors, and the doctor was left with $1.75 in his pocket.
In the hospital’s early days, there were no anti-depressants or
anti-psychotics. Psychiatrists generally relied on Freudian talk
therapy. The type of patient who wound up in Ypsilanti State Hospital,
however, was often too ill to benefit from talking. For these patients,
there were a variety of bodily treatments, ranging from the benign to
the bizarre.
Patients on “hydrotherapy” were given warm baths or wrapped in cold,
wet sheets. “Physiotherapy” consisted of exposure to ultraviolet and
infrared light. Those patients suffering from psychosis due to the end
stages of syphilis were given heavy metals to ingest or deliberately
infected with malaria. Before antibiotics, poisoning or life-threatening
fever were the only options to kill the microorganism that causes
syphilis….
The post-World War II era saw the construction of two new wards,
bringing the hospital’s capacity beyond 4,000 patients. It also saw an
explosion of new research activities, ranging from mundane
epidemiological studies, to “finger-painting as a diagnostic and
therapeutic aid,” to work involving a substance referred to as “L.S.D.
CID #527.” Dr. Jonas Salk honed the skills that would later lead him to
develop the polio vaccine by testing flu vaccines in Ypsilanti State
Hospital on what even a U.S. military medical history website describes
as “volunteers,” in quotes…
The facility has since been sold to Toyota and I believe that most, if
not all, of the buildings have been torn down to make way for their
research facilities. I sometimes regret not having gone to check the
place out when I had a chance, but then I remind myself that, at least
so far, staying away from places were the mentally ill were tortured and
given crude lobotomies has served me well. (And, plus, who knows what
kind of nut I might have run into down there.)
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mark
Posted February 8, 2007 at 9:39 pm | Permalink
Good images of the hospital can be found here.
mark
Posted February 8, 2007 at 9:41 pm | Permalink
And here.
robr
Posted February 8, 2007 at 10:10 pm | Permalink
It’s true the state hospital system has many ghosts and demons
associated with their pasts– really whacked-out “treatments” that ran
the gamut from comical to absolute torture. But towards the end, saner,
more respectful care could actually be found here, or at Pontiac, or
even Eloise… At least, until we, as a society, just decided to shut
these hospitals and dump the patients in the streets with the idea that
they could take care of themselves and their medical needs through scant
and poorly funded out-patient programs– Of course, just to save a few
bucks. You could probably make a chart showing the “spike” in the number
of homeless around here with the closing of these facilities… Yeah, we
sure take care of our own…
mark
Posted February 8, 2007 at 10:39 pm | Permalink
Things are still evolving. In another five years they’ll all have
their own reality television shows. We’ll be asking them for their
autographs.
Speaking of the race to the bottom that American culture has become,
did you hear about the most recent casualty? Anna Nicole Smith, dead at
39. American society to blame. News at 11:00.
kvltrede
Posted February 9, 2007 at 12:07 pm | Permalink
Seems to me that if you put three Jesus Christs in a room your odds
are pretty good that one of them really is the Son of God. The true
Jesus is then quite likely to cure the other two. A pretty efficient
system if you ask me.
Now, if three Jesus Christs walk into a bar, well, you’ve got the
makings of a pretty good joke.
It's Skinner Again
Posted February 9, 2007 at 12:49 pm | Permalink
I always thought it would have worked better if they’d used four
Jesi, one for each gospel. I hope they consult me next time.
lusia mitchell
Posted October 20, 2007 at 4:03 am | Permalink
I have written you at length at your email address. I will only say
this: I have spent my life with outsiders being “clever” and wonderfully
insightfull about the daily lives of people who lived, or perhaps,
should live, at YSH. However, if you are really concerned, you should
stop stepping around the people who annoy you because they are rooting
in dumpsters, shadow-boxing on the street, yelling at you…
They were the people I grew up with for 17 years. They are MY PEOPLE
and you are simply pompous middle-class ignorants who would rather fall
back on high school reading and bad movies and feel smug and avoid
those people in your daily lives and applaud yourselves.
You people DON’T HAVE A CLUE. NOT. ONE.
NOT
ONE
You have no idea what it is like to not be able to take care of
yourself or to have family who absolutely cannot, even if they want to
so do.
So
It is far easier for you to assume that someone who was in YSH was
subjected to horrible treatement, instead of really researching what
went on there.
And
I’ll bet the farm that YOUR babysitter wasn’t a what? patient?
inmate? whatever? at YSH. Mine were. Nor your neighbors.
I’m just panting to hear from you self-righteous people re: how you
are going to take in all of those (then) 4,000 people into your homes or
convert a house or apartment on your street so that they can transition
into “your life” or at least, make certain that they get basic
nutrition (where is that money coming from?) and antipsychotic drugs so
that they don’t scare the hell out of you on the street as you go about
your business…
Or maybe, you think we should just shoot theem all and save the
bother and monies?
lusia mitchell
Posted October 20, 2007 at 4:08 am | Permalink
Oh
P.S.
I knew all “3 Christs” at YSH…
The question here for me is…
Who do you all think YOU are?
It seems to me that our current president thinks that God speaks to
him.
At least the men I knew who thought they were Christ never ever sent
other people to die in a war that has absolutely no meaning.
mark
Posted October 20, 2007 at 1:32 pm | Permalink
Luisa, I checked my email archive, and I’ve never received a note
from you, at least not from the email address you entered with your
comment. Is it possible that you sent your emails to the author of the
“Michigan Daily” piece I quoted? (That indented section, which suggests
that patients were mistreated, was not written by me.) If you’d like to
share more about what it was actually like in the Hospital with the 3
Christs, we’d love to hear your perspective.
baileycamper
Posted October 21, 2007 at 5:12 pm | Permalink
I would be really curious as to how you know the three christs. I
have a personal interest in knowing and hope you will respond.
egpenet
Posted February 14, 2008 at 9:26 pm | Permalink
It’s a very long time ago, but when I first moved to Ann Arbor, I worked
at the I.C.L.E. (Institute for Continuing Legal Eductaion) at UofM
editing law books, and lived on North Campus. My neighbor was Jim
Duderstadt and family. Next door to Jim was a afriend, who had a huge
mason jar full of mescaline tabs.
I had other friends in town that did LOTS of drugs.
That neighbor of Jim’s and mine ended up at Ypsi, as did several other
people I knew. I’d go on Sundays with a cartyon of cigarettes and head
for Ward B and walk the lounges.
What I saw were abandoned people … tyhose abandoned by their families …
those abandoned by us. It was very distrubing.
I understand that the most severely deformed, handicapped or otherwise
most critical of the mentally ill were kept at Pontiac State Hospital.
The “ethos” of this country is that if you cannot produce, you’re OUT.
That ethos is antithetical to any religious teaching of which I am
aware. It is facistic. Nationalistic. Even Republican … as if to say …
that tortured soul is being punished by God for being the way he/she is …
let them suffer.
Being a “good” social democrat … that attitude makes me puke.
Vicki Lansen
Posted March 27, 2008 at 3:03 pm | Permalink
Hi Mark. My Great Uncle Max Kemmerling lived almost his entire adult
life from the age of 20, at/in Ypsilanti State MH. Prior to his
incarceration, he was a All State athlete, an National Honor Society
Member, and frankly, just a real sweet, handsome guy. I plan to track
down “The Three Christs of Ypsalanti” but I am curious if there are any
searcable archives for the hospital. I now live in Chile, so it’s not
like I can just skip down the road and look at documents.
I’d like to find out what my Uncle was there because of, schitzophrenia?
what? I’d like to know what his life was like. I never knew him, he was
a “family secret”, but I did for a long time have a bedside table he
made – a quite beautiful piece of work. I think he was a talented,
gifted man, who just didn’t fit in. Hope you know of some resources to
find out more about him. Thanks, Vicki Lansen (Kemmerling – Max
Kemmerling was my Uncle).
mark
Posted March 27, 2008 at 10:35 pm | Permalink
I’ll move this up to the front page tonight, Vicki. Hopefully someone
can help you.
Ronald J Withey
Posted October 27, 2013 at 12:48 pm | Permalink
I lived in YSH for about a year, and some months in 1983, 84. I was
about 15, 16 when I went there. They called it yorkwoods center, bldg 7.
My first day, I was so scared I stabbed a staff member in the leg, and
they put me into the quiet room for 8 hours, and had me on suicide watch
for the rest of the night. The place to this day haunts me, but because
of it I have changed my life for the better.
Brian Ronewicz
Posted December 8, 2013 at 7:31 pm | Permalink
I was there in 1990 – till they shut down in 1991. I was haunted every
night I went to sleep, with apparitions of dead and tortured. When they
removed me from here they put me in a worse place than this . They sent
me to Fairlawne . Dungeons with tunnels and cages where they physically
try to get the crazy out. Mental illness was treated in the most
inhumane way ,that often than most killed patients. Now the souls wander
around in purgatory just trying to find a way to let their souls rest. I
was 14 when these places started treating me.All I remember are the
ghosts and different entities that cloud these old death camps for
mentally Ill may all rest in peace.
Mark
Found at Last
Before the trio buried the bodies, they took a trip to Dallas. Fry was
ambushed, shot in the back of the headf, mutilated and left by the
Trinity River. Then Waters and Karr took the barrels to a ranch about
120 miles outside San Antonio. The rest of the remains were buried in a
shallow grave there.
"The first bone that we located was a bottom portion of a femur," said
Dr. David Glassman, a forensic anthropologist. "And I could see very
easily that this bone had been severed about midway."
Jon's skull appeared to be fractured, and a plastic bag had been placed
over his head. The metal from Madalyn's hip replacement was evident. All
three victims were unearthed, along with a plastic bag that contained
the head and hands of Danny Fry. The skull had a bullet wound that
traveled from the back to the front, Glassman told The Dallas Morning News in 2001. It was a somber ending for four people who hadn't fit in to mainstream society.
The remains were collected, and Bill, Madalyn's other son, was notified. Authorities identified the O'Hair family through dental records and were unable to determine causes of death. Although the unfolding saga of MacCormack's investigation and Karr's trial commanded bold headlines and frequent television coverage, the discovery of the remains of the O'Hair family was met with something like nonchalance. Madalyn seemed to belong to another time, an outdated relic of a more rebellious era in American history.
"There was a sense of now there can be a conclusion to Madalyn Murray O'Hair," Bill said. "She can be taken somewhere, and her remains can be put somewhere, and that can be the end of it."
But as in life, Madalyn Murray O'Hair wouldn't go quietly in death.
Ranch where O'Hair remains were found.
Dr. David Glassman
The remains were collected, and Bill, Madalyn's other son, was notified. Authorities identified the O'Hair family through dental records and were unable to determine causes of death. Although the unfolding saga of MacCormack's investigation and Karr's trial commanded bold headlines and frequent television coverage, the discovery of the remains of the O'Hair family was met with something like nonchalance. Madalyn seemed to belong to another time, an outdated relic of a more rebellious era in American history.
"There was a sense of now there can be a conclusion to Madalyn Murray O'Hair," Bill said. "She can be taken somewhere, and her remains can be put somewhere, and that can be the end of it."
But as in life, Madalyn Murray O'Hair wouldn't go quietly in death.
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MEANEY The Shame of the States 362.2 D48S HC
BOY YOU ARE A PUERILE LITTLE PIMP! THEM CAPS MEANS I WROTE THEM WORDS
& THEY ARE EDITORIAL INSERTIONS TO SHOW THAT YOUR "small fonts" ARE A
SMALL MIND TELLING LIES!
I AM "EYE WITNESS!" YOU ARE "LIAR!"
WHAT HORRORS DID "YOU SEE. AS EYE WITNESS?"
IF YOU WERE """NOT THERE"""" THEN YOU BEING "Sooooo MAD at "EYE WITNESS"
who WAS THERE who "TESTIFIES TO YOU FALSE FICTIONAL MISAPPROPRIATIONS"
to "YOU ARE FULL OF BOVINE SCAT!"
THE LIES YOU PEOPLE TELL TO "EASE YOUR GUILT" FOR "ACCOMPLISHES TO
MURDERS OF MILLIONS OF INSANE MENTALLY CRAZY PEOPLE THEY TURNED OUT TO
MURDEROUS BY PREDATORS, COPPERS, FROZEN TO DEATH, SLEEP IN CARDBOARD
BOXES." NO, THE STATE HOSPITALS WERE SAFE HAVENS OF IDYLLIC BLISS TO WE
SCHIZOPHRENICS!!! THEN THEY CAST US OUT, TO DIE IN A WORLD WE HAD BEEN
PROTECTED FROM!!!"
FOUL MURDER, CRUEL AND FOR PROFIT! BY STATES!"
THE SHAME OF THE STATES" WAS "THEY CHOSE TO MURDER THE POOR CRAZIES
RATHER THAN MAINTAIN A asylem to KEEP THEM SAFE!!!"
SHAME ON YOU/////abandoned america! I AM THE ARCHETYPAL ABANDONED
AMERICAN!
AND I AM ALIVE TELLING TO "BEAR SNIFFIN' TRUTH!" about 35 miles from
WOODY GUTHRIE BIRTH PLACE!!"
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MEANEY The Shame of the States 362.2 D48S HC
The Rise and Fall of the Humane State Hospital System
Text and Images by Matthew Murray (any relation to Madelyn Murry-Ohare?)
[With Commentary By a REAL MENTAL HOSPITAL PATIENT, a SURVIVOR, to
REFUTE THE SELF-SERVING LIES of YOUNG COLLEGE CREEPS that WRITE WITH ANY
KNOWLEDGE, on a SUBJECT they KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT!]
Perched atop a hill overlooking a small college town in Ohio (United
States), Athens State Hospital-now known as The Ridges-has an imposing
presence that the banners for the art gallery in the central building do
little to diminish. While a fraction of the building is currently in
use by Ohio State University, the majority of the aging Kirkbride
hospital has been left to the peaceful solitude of its own decay. The
hallways and rooms, still peppered with fragments of the past, are rife
with uncharted mold and bacteria; the walls have become intricate murals
of the eroding lead paint that dusts the floor and poisons the air.
[Here the Fictionized Creep Show Atmosphere is being
established...already Matthew the Big Fat Poop Head tried to make a
PROSIQUILLOY of QUASI POETIC fancy words..CREATE the FALE IDEA that
MENTAL HOSPITALS are and WAS "POISON. DEATH, BAD places!]
The unique architecture of this campus has been spared due to the use of
several of its buildings by local businesses, which maintain the
properties of the abandoned ones.
In many senses, Athens State Hospital is an anomaly. It has been
incredibly well preserved and protected from thieves and vandals, and
reminders of its history are still intact. Most state hospitals, such as
Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia, have been completely left to
the elements and are easily accessible to anyone who cares to research
them and risk getting caught by the meagre security forces that guard
them. Such sites are frequently seen as a problem to the communities
they are part of, due in part to the fact that an entire subculture of
self-titled urban explorers has developed, populated by people ranging
from those with a deep and abiding respect for the sites to those who
look at them as opportune sites for graffiti and vandalism. While these
sites are extremely toxic, the dangers are often invisible to those who
enter. Asbestos and lead particles in the air do not affect one's health
immediately and rotting floors often give no signal of their structural
weakness until it is too late. Furthermore, these sites are on prime
locations for development, yet their historical significance is
undeniable, and often the cleanup of hazardous materials makes costs
prohibitive.
Asylums were intended to be self-sufficient and the majority of the food
would be grown by patients in fields and greenhouses like this one.
While now famous for the ALLEGED, MADE-UP, SELF-SERVING LIES of abuses
and horrors that NEVER-EVER took place inside, most state hospitals were
initially beautiful, idyllic campuses founded in the late 1800s,
largely in response to the tremendous need for mental health care for
MENTALLY CRAZY PEOPLE WHO WERE STILL BEING SET AFIRE AND LOCKED AWAY IN
DUNGEONS OR JAILS IN HORRABLE CONDITIONS TO DIE OF VERMIN BITES OR BED
SORES FROM BEING CHAINED IN PLACE FOR YEARS. Public awareness of the
need for adequate and full-time care for the mentally ill was higher
than ever,
and reformers like Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) and Thomas Kirkbride
(1809-1883) helped promote what would become an unparalleled movement to
create asylums funded by state and local governments to tend to the
needs of the mentally ill.
Such facilities were founded on the curative principles of healing
through humane treatment, labour and the natural beauty of the sprawling
campuses on which the hospitals were built, and were intended to be
self-sustaining. As such, the food was grown and the grounds maintained
by patients, and by all accounts the treatment provided was a vast
improvement on the universally FOUL MURDEROUS TORTURES AND CHAINS OF
DUNGEONED care afforded to the mentally ill prior to this era.
But such times were not destined to last. After the turn of the century,
state hospitals became warehouses for an increasing number of people
who society deemed undesirable, including criminals, the poor,
homosexuals, those with unorthodox religious views, unwanted children,
the elderly, syphilitics, alcoholics and anyone else who was
inconvenient{READ HERE=DANGEROUS! MATTHEW-GO VISIT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES,
AROUND 5TH. STREET and MAIN, TAKE A SLEEPING BAG AND SLEEP OUT ON SOUTH
FIGUEROIA SYTREET, WHERE THE CAST-AWAY MENTAL CRAZIES LIE DOWN AT
NIGHT! THEY WILL KILL YOU AND EAT YOU! THE PREVERTS, THE MONSTERS, THE
CANNIBALS- THEY ARE STILL PREYING ON PEOPLE= BECAUSE THE CRIMINAL INSANE
HOSPITALS ARE EMPTIED OUT! REMEMBER MILWAUKEE? THE CANNIBAL QUEER THAT
EAT BOYS BRAINS WHILE THEYT WERE ALIVE? IF WINNEBAGO AND MENDOTA AND
ELGIN WERE STILL OPEN THEWM CHILDRENS WOULDN'T BEEN HAD THEIR BRAINS
EATEN! to those around them. During this period, it was frighteningly
easy to commit a wife who was no longer wanted, children who misbehaved
or aging parents whose care was too cumbersome.
{YOU SAY, BUT THERE WAS NOT THAT CASE! THE PEOPLE WERN'T COMMITED TO
"FREE STATE HOSPITALS" UNLESS IT WAS "SEVERE HARDSHIP" TO A FAMILY TO
KEEP THEM AT HOME. EVEN THEN, SOCIAL WORKERS INVESTAGATED to find out if
THEY WERE "MALINGERERS" who were USING THE SYSTEM...THERE WERE, IN THEM
DAYS, ACTUALLY 20 PRIVATE MENTAL HOSPITALS FOR EVERY ONE STATE FREE
ASYLEM! PEOPLE WHO WERE (1) CRAZYER THAN COULD POSSABLY BE HELPED-went
to the Snake Pit! REMEMBER-THERE WAS NOT NO IKINDS OF THIORIDIZAN,
BENZOPHIEANIZEBS, TRANQUILLERS, in them days..THORAZINE WEREn't
INTRODUCED nTO MENTAL CRAZY HOSPITALS UNTIL 1954!!!! 1954!!!!)
As populations swelled past the capacity for which the asylums had been
designed, the level of care plummeted, and with such diverse populations
being cared for in the same wards, consistent treatment was impossible.
Cuts in funding during wartime and the depression forced many patients
to sleep on floors or in hallways.
[BUT NOW THEY SLEEP ON SKID ROW CONCRETE SIDEWALKS and HAVE GASOLINE
THROWN ON THEM and BURNED FOR "THRILLS!" LOOK AT THE ARTICLES ABOUT THE
TEEN AGERS "THRILL KILLING HOMELESS" LEARNED IN "VIDEO ROLE PLAY VIOLENT
GAMES!"
MY YOUNG 21 YEAR OLD NEPHEW LIVES IN CYBER FANSITY LAND...HE ONLY COMES
OUT TO TAKE HIS LONG "PAKISTAN" SWORD TO ATTACK BALES OF HAY or
TREES...HE'S AS PSYCHOTIUC AS I AM, BUT I STILL RAISE AND CARE FOR
CHICJENS and HELLER DOGS, & FISH, CLEAN BRUSH, USE CHAIN SAW, OTHER
FARM WORK, BUT HE IS TOTALLY UNEQUIPTED TO LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD, AND
HIS SSI ENDS the day he TURNS 22. AND THERE IS NO MENTAL HOSPITAL FOR
HIM!]
Treatment reached critical proportions during the Second World War, when
funding and supplies were unavailable and the majority of able-bodied
staff were involved in the war effort. The care for patients also became
unimaginably nightmarish: there were wards full of malnourished,
unclothed and filthy patients, who were forced to eat rotten food and
sleep in quarters that were falling apart, often fatally exposing them
to the elements.
[I CHALLENGE YOU TO PROVE THIS, YOU CAN NOT! THE "NON VIOLENT,
CONSCIENCIOUS OBSTAINORS, LIKE JEHOVA'S WITNESSES, the COLLEGE
PROFESSERS, the 4-F and etc. WERE PRESSED INTO PUBLIC WORKS to STAFF THE
MENTAL HOSPITALS!!! IF THESE CONDITIONS AS YOU SECSCRIBES ACTUALLY WAS
HAPPENED IT WAS +PEOPLE LIKE YOU===IT WAS +CONCOIUS OBJECTORS, PEACE
NICKS, PACIFISTS, AMISH. MENNONITES, the BRETHERN, QUACKERS, the FOLK
SINGERS, (PETE SEEGAR WORKED AT A MENTAL HOSPITAL TO STAY OUT OG PRISON)
SO THE FALSE IMAGE YOU PAINT IS SUSPECT...]
With staffing ratios at unthinkable levels (at times 1 staff member to
200 patients) and facilities crammed to nearly double their intended
capacities, abuse by staff also became incredibly problematic. Patients
were severely beaten, raped, prostituted, denied medical care and
otherwise mistreated to levels that are beyond comprehension.
[AGAIN, AS A "EYE WITNESS' and "A MENTAL PATIENT WHO WAS ACTUALLY
THERE-NOT A GAZER AT PICTURES" I CHALLENGE YOU TO PRODUCE "PROOF" THAT
THESE "ATROCITIES AS YOU SAY WERE "THE NORM" rather than a ABBERATION."
AS FOR "ONE ATTENDANT TO 200 PATIENTS, Sir, THIS WAS A REASONABLE RATIO,
during the GRAVEYARD SHIFT!" And DURING MY INTERNMENT in the 1960's
through 1980's In SOUTHERN HOSPITALS it was NORMAL to only have ONE
NIGHT AIDE in attendance per ward ..and often 300 Patients to a Ward.]
One cannot help but think when looking at pictures from this period that
the patients are nearly indistinguishable from Holocaust survivors.
[I FEAR THE PHOTOS YOU SPEAK OF ARE ACTUALLY DELIBERATELY SELECTED TO
FURTHER BTHE AGENDA THAT THE MOST VILE MONSTERS RAN THE MENTAL
HOSPITALS, if you Think This, you are a DANGERIOUS IDIOT, but if you CAN
NOT SEE that AMERICA TODAY TREATS SANE AND INSANE ALIKE FAR WORSE than
the People You Describe TODAY, EVERY DAY, in the WORLD'S LARGEST PRISON
INDUSTRY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX since THE ROMAN EMPIRE! WE CURRENTLY HAVE A
PRISON POPULATION OVER TWICE THE NUMBER OF FARMERS ENGAGED IN PRODUCING
THE FOOD WE EAT! Think about that!]
As the peeling paint etches intricate patterns in the walls and doors of
this asylum, its toxic dust coats the floor and floats in the air. [and
your asinine liues float like noxious ordors and flies above a pile of
Bull Manure...]
In his book, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring
Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, Robert Whitaker makes a compelling
argument for how the Holocaust and the treatment of the mentally ill in
this period both were founded on the same principles of eugenics and the
cleansing of "undesirables" from society: the stated goal of the
concentration camps was the extermination of Germany's upper-echelon
groups deemed detrimental to society, while the same, if unstated, goal
in the United States mental health system was attained through forced
sterilization and lethal neglect.
The halls of the Athens State Hospital are remarkably well preserved and
unmarred by vandalism and theft.
As the war ended, several major fictional and grossly emotional exposés
brought thefalse idea that abysmal treatment of the mentally ill to
light. A photo essay, entitled "Bedlam 1946", in Life Magazine and
Albert Deutsch's 1948 publication, The Shame of the States (Mental
Illness and Social Policy: the American Experience), helped raise public
awareness of the plight of the inmates in a couple of psychiatric
hospitals. While this served to ameliorate the situation somewhat, most
of the measures taken to remedy the problems were short-lived.
Overcrowding and insufficient care continued to be problematic, although
less so than during the years of the Second World War, and abuse of
patients was never found to be true.
There is simply no way to encompass all the cruelties heaped on the
patients;[ but you will make up a load of lies to create your fictional
pulp trash propaganda any way, it's the way of the liars] most are
familiar with Electric Shock Treatments, which gained popularity as they
produced manageable patients, albeit those whose cognitive functioning
had been permanently impaired.[Darn Right! I HAD 134 ECT Treatments in
1969-1971. It didn't kill me, & I AM HERE "EYE WITNESS" to TELL
TRUTH!]
A particularly barbaric variation of this treatment was performed at
Athens State Hospital by Dr. Walter Freeman (1895-1972), who made use of
neither anesthetics nor an operating room, and whose careless technique
shocked even other doctors and nurses familiar with the procedure.
Another common form of treatment was hydrotherapy in which a patient was
placed in a tub, which would be filled with either scalding or freezing
water, and a sheet was zipped around the neck so only the head was
sticking out. Depending on the temperament of the staff, the patient
might be left in such a state for days without even a pause to use the
bathroom.[THAT IS A GORWD DARN LIE! YOU CAN NOT LEAVE A PERSON FOR DAYS
IN A WATER CABNET, IT CAUSES SEPTISS they DIE! SEE, YOU ARE SO STUPID,
YOU ARE BENEATH CONTEMPT!!! MATTHEW MURREY- A BIG FAT FOOL! YOU AND
RONALD MAC DONALD and BOZO THE CLOWN...]
As the hospitals' intent was less to cure than to warehouse patients,
the purpose of the treatments was less to produce any measurable
improvement in their condition than to subdue them, making them
convenient for the staff.
Left to its own, nature often playfully mimics architectural details,
using dazzling complimentary patterns.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, the advent of the "chemical straight
jacket" Thorazine changed the face of mental health care. Neuroleptics
like Thorazine produce a myriad of intensely uncomfortable, frightening
side effects and were in fact later identified by Soviet political
dissidents as one of the worst tortures they were subjected to in the
"psychiatric centres" where they were confined.
[AT LEAST YOU'RE RIGHT A LITTLE BIT HERE, BUT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE STUPIDS!
THERE WERE TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF THORADAZINES. BUT THE "CHEMICAL
STRAITJACKET" DRUGS WAS NOT EVER "THORAZINE!!!" HALDOL WAS "THE
STRAITJACKET" DRUG!!! YOU JUST HAVE NO FACTS OF Any sort- god what a
fool you are!!!!]
They produced docile and compliant patients however, and their use was
far-reaching and indiscriminate in the American mental health system. As
their use became more widespread and the push for -DIS-institutionalism
was spearheaded by President rICHARD m. nIXON and newly formed
patients' rights associations, the focus of hospitalization shifted from
containing patients for the remainder of their natural lives to
bringing their behaviours to manageable levels that would allow
community integration. While this policy was in many ways beneficial,
the treatment at oUT pATIENT hOMES AND TO pATIENTS wAUNDERING THE sKID
rOWS to be an inhumane and dehumanizing process. [
=======================================================
[In his book, entitled
The Shoe Leather Treatment,
referring to the common "treatment" of kicking patients until they were
compliant or too injured to resist, former patient Bill Thomas relates
that after years in state hospitals, a brief stay in prison after an
escape attempt seemed an immeasurable improvement in his quality of
life.]
=======================================================
dID YOU actually read THIS BOOK? hEY, What Was The Reason that the
Guards in This Book let the Little Nego Man who was Kept in a Strip Cell
with Snow Blowing in through the WIndow, in Leather CUffs & Belt,
for 6 Years, WHAT CAUSED them to LET HIM OUT?" What was the CRIME
William Thomas Was SENT TO THE INDIANA CRIMINAL INSAINE HOSPITAL FOR?
Perhaps he has a GOOD STORY TO TELL, as HE WAS CONVICTED BY "EYE
WITNESSES' Testomy & PHOTOGRAPHS of HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH
HIS MOTHER'S CORPSE in a CENETRAY CRYPT, NUMBERIOUS TIMES!" I don't say
that BELITTLES HIS BOOK, I READ IT MANY TIMES, but IF ANYBODY DESERVED
TO BE LOCKED AWAY, BILL TOMAS, a Necro Matricidal Maniac, ASSUREDLY
NEEDED to be KEPT WAY WAY AWAY from People..."REMEMBER the CANNIBAL
QUEER BRAIN EATER in MILWAUKEE----Jeffery Dharmer...!!!"]
Vandalism has severely damaged the buildings of the hospital in
Maryland. Doors are broken, windows smashed and graffiti covers nearly
every wall.
Coupled with the push to reintegrate patients into society, this
flagrant abuse and neglect finally led to the closure of many asylums.
Even this process was messy, however. Under President Ronald Reagan's
policies, which often led to dumping clients out of hospitals with
inadequate aftercare, the homeless populations soared. When the closure
of Byberry State Hospital was initiated in 1986, three hundread patients
drowned in the Schuylkill River before the Pennsylvania Governor
decided to slow down the process to a manageable level. This process
continues to this day and the problematic nature of providing care for
the mentally ill continues to haunt us. Harrisburg State Hospital in
Pennsylvania recently shut down, forcing communities and mental health
providers to scramble to find alternatives for patients with higher
treatment needs. Many patients now in communities may require assistance
for the rest of their lives in dealing with mundane chores most take
for granted, such as buying groceries and paying bills, because they
were never exposed to these problems during their hospitalization.
[AND NOW, IN THE 21 ST CENTURY, THE PATIENTS ARE BEING FORCLOSED OUT OF
THEIR BOARD AND CARE FACILITIES...the STREETS in OKLAHOMA was FILLED
WITH WANDERING FREEZING HOMELESS CRAZY MENTAL PATIENTS this month DURING
THE BLIZZARDS of 2011! THE "JESUS HOUSE' the ONLY PROVIDER of CARE for
the OBNOXIOUS MENTALLY ILL INSANE HOMELESS, MULTIPILIED DUE TO BANKRUPT
and FORECLOUSERS upon MENTAL HEALTH HALF WAY HOUSES, the TELEVISION
MEDIA in conjunction with the OTHER TWO BIG "CHARITYS" in OKLAHOMA CITY
launched a SMEAR & ATTACK MEDIA "EXPOSEE' NEWS ATTACK" on the Jesus
House, IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE THE DONATIONS away from the MENTALLY ILL at
the Jesus House" to the BIG CORPORATE "RESCUE-MISSION, INC" and
"SALVATION ARMY. INC" who CAPITALIZES by ONLY HOUSING HEALTHY WORK AGE
AND EMPLOYABLE PEOPLE, who go through FULL TIME WORK either ON CAMPASS
or in LABOR-READY OUT SOURCE JOBS and PAY THE "MISSIONS" 90% of the
INCOME for the "SALVATION & LOVE of the "CORPORATE "JESUSS" and are
KICKED OUT QUICKLY with NO REFUND OF MONIES for ANY INFRACTION!!!]
A pile of discarded shoe coverings lies at the foot of the basement
staircase in Athens State Hospital.
The ever-present issue of what to do with state hospital facilities is
also difficult. In many cases, the land and buildings will be almost
immediately reclaimed, sold to developers or used as state agency
offices. Several facilities, such as Danvers State Hospital in New York,
are being converted into high-priced apartment buildings, although some
ex-patients and mental health workers view this as a move only slightly
more tasteful than making apartments out of Auschwitz. Other facilities
like Dixmont have been completely demolished by large companies, which
see the sites as development gold mines and have no problems bulldozing
unmarked gravestones in patient cemeteries to make way for their
projects. Some, such as Pilgrim State Hospital in New York, were
partially used, abandoned and demolished. Countless more sites have been
completely abandoned, standing until the roofs collapse under the
weight of years of water damage or until they are burned by arsonists.
Almost none are protected historic sites that visitors can enter to
learn about their checkered past.
The wings of a Kirkbride hospital are designed to house progressively
psychotic patients, so that the further one gets from the centre (and
exit), the more difficult it is to escape.
Two examples stand out, however, as thoughtful ideas for reintegration
of the properties into the communities. The state hospital in Fairview,
Connecticut, has been turned into a public park-the buildings are well
secured and the grounds well kept-where during the day one finds
community members jogging, picnicking or walking their dogs. Ironically,
by being open to the public, theft and vandalism have taken
significantly less of a toll on the buildings compared to other state
hospitals whose grounds are off-limits.
The theatre of this asylum is in poor condition, yet large, old
projectors in the booth still rest relatively unscathed.
Athens State Hospital is a fantastic example of proper maintenance of an
historic site. The university uses portions of many of the buildings
and as such the grounds are well-maintained, beautiful and secure. It
has an excellent section on its website dedicated to the history of the
facility; the wings of the old Kirkbride hospital are in better
condition than nearly any other state hospital in the country. Also
unlike many other asylums, Athens State Hospital sits securely on a hill
overlooking the small college town. While entering it requires a
respirator and permission from the faculty, its rich and multilayered
past remains intact for now, serving as a poignant reminder and an
epitaph to the many shattered lives that passed through its doors.
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Poster: MorpheusOne Date: Jan 22, 2011 4:03pm
Forum: texts Subject: Re: Albert Deutsch, CRAZYIER then NOT, NOW more
MEANEY The Shame of the States 362.2 D48S HC
"While now famous for the ALLEGED, MADE-UP, SELF-SERVING LIES of abuses
and horrors that NEVER-EVER took place inside, ..."
I'm having some trouble discerning what planet you may come from where
hypocrisy is something to be heralded... Seriously, you do, in this
posting, provide some measure of truth to what specific forms of
neglect, abuse, and mistreatment many patients and inmates did, truly
experience! But, you lie like a wanton whore about the very abuse that
was reported to have taken place; it REALLY did take place!!
"After the turn of the century, state hospitals became warehouses for an
increasing number of people who society deemed undesirable, including
criminals, the poor, homosexuals, those with unorthodox religious views,
unwanted children, the elderly, syphilitics, alcoholics and anyone else
who was inconvenient to those around them. During this period, it was
frighteningly easy to commit a wife who was no longer wanted, children
who misbehaved or aging parents whose care was too cumbersome."
"The care for patients also became unimaginably nightmarish: there were
wards full of malnourished, unclothed and filthy patients, who were
forced to eat rotten food and sleep in quarters that were falling apart,
often fatally exposing them to the elements. With staffing ratios at
unthinkable levels (at times 1 staff member to 200 patients) and
facilities crammed to nearly double their intended capacities, abuse by
staff also became incredibly problematic. Patients were severely beaten,
raped, prostituted, denied medical care and otherwise mistreated to
levels that are beyond comprehension. One cannot help but think when
looking at pictures from this period that the patients are nearly
indistinguishable from Holocaust survivors."
"There is simply no way to encompass all the cruelties heaped on the
patients; most are familiar with lobotomies, which gained popularity as
they produced manageable patients, albeit those whose cognitive
functioning had been permanently impaired. A particularly barbaric
variation of this treatment was performed at Athens State Hospital by
Dr. Walter Freeman (1895-1972), who made use of neither anesthetics nor
an operating room, and whose careless technique shocked even other
doctors and nurses familiar with the procedure. Another common form of
treatment was hydrotherapy in which a patient was placed in a tub, which
would be filled with either scalding or freezing water, and a sheet was
zipped around the neck so only the head was sticking out. Depending on
the temperament of the staff, the patient might be left in such a state
for days without even a pause to use the bathroom. As the hospitals'
intent was less to cure than to warehouse patients, the purpose of the
treatments was less to produce any measurable improvement in their
condition than to subdue them, making them convenient for the staff."
Hmm, I think I smell a hypocrite!
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Poster: boxcaro Date: Feb 1, 2014 12:48pm
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"SOURCE!"
The rise and fall of state hospital
State school was dumping ground
Robert Mielke, shown here during a stroll around the grounds of the
Northampton State Hospital, said he struggled when patients occasionally
asked why they were hospitalized. "Today, I'd probably have an answer,"
he says. Mielke worked in many different jobs at the now-closed
hospital.
CAROL LOLLIS Photo
By THEO EMERY
Staff Writer
NORTHAMPTON - Reaching the end of a pitted, weed-choked driveway of the
Northampton State Hospital, Robert Mielke said that when patients
sometimes asked why they were hospitalized, he had no answer to give
them.
He turned a deaf ear to the question, he said, because in many cases
there was no good reason for their confinement. During the many years he
worked at the now-closed hospital - first as a groundskeeper, then on
the wards, and eventually as hospital treasurer - he didn't have the
answer he has now: that thousands of patients filled the wards, grew old
and, in some cases, died at the hospital simply because society was not
able or willing to care for them in any other way.
In its heyday, the hospital was a town within a town, he said, as he
stood near the edge of the sun-dappled campus on a September morning. It
took more than an hour for Mielke to amble around the silent buildings
overlooking Northampton.
He pointed out the overgrown peach and apple orchards, the site of the
greenhouses, the dormitories for married couples, and the doors to the
honeycomb of tunnels under the property.
The significance of the decaying structure, now silent but for the
occasional wind-slammed door and the shriek of rusty air vents, is as
sprawling as the hospital itself. Its legacy, Mielke said, is imprinted
upon every patient who passed through the hospital doors and, sometimes,
asked why they were there.
"How do you answer people who ask 'why am I are here?' What do you say?"
said Mielke, now 53. "Today, I'd probably have an answer."
The boom, the bust
More than a century ago, Northampton State Hospital was in the forefront
of reform efforts to improve conditions for people with mental illness.
The hospital and its nearby sister institution, the Belchertown State
School, boomed together, becoming integral parts of the area economy by
mid-century.
Eventually, they also became emblems of the way society segregated the
ill, the disabled and the outcast. As medicine and technology advanced,
and attitudes about mental illness and retardation slowly shifted, both
area institutions were caught in a tide of social change that swept the
nation in the 1960s and 1970s.
This interior photograph was taken in 1985, after this building at the
Northampton State Hospital was emptied.
Gazette File Photo
Those changes focused on emptying such places rather than filling them,
and discharging people with mental illness and retardation into
community settings. The state shifted care to a new generation of
reformers in the private sector, and boarded up the buildings at both
institutions for eventual sale and development.
The evidence of those changes are visible everyday in Northampton,
Belchertown, and the surrounding towns. Most care for people with mental
illness and mental retardation has shifted from hospitals and
institutions to private organizations founded upon a vision of treating
these people in the community, as equals.
These agencies and advocacy organizations, with unlocked doors that open
onto neighborhood streets and downtown hubs, strive to integrate people
with mental illness and retardation into the fabric of society - rather
than banish them to society's margins.
Good intentions
Though Northampton State Hospital and Belchertown State School
eventually came to represent much of what could go wrong with care for
mentally ill and retarded people, they initially were viewed as humane
alternatives to inhumane conditions.
In 1841, a young Boston school teacher named Dorothy Dix began teaching
religion to jail inmates at Middlesex County Jail. To her shock, she
discovered a "mad woman" chained to the wall in a basement cell.
Dix gave up teaching and began investigating the plight of people with
mental illness and mental retardation across the commonwealth. In 1843,
she reported the findings of her town-by-town investigation to the
Legislature. People with mental illness and retardation were confined in
cells and cages in nearly every community in the state, "chained,
naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience," she told lawmakers.
Responding to Dix's stinging report, the state began funding
institutions to care for the people Dix found, differentiating for the
first time between mental illness and mental retardation. The state's
only hospital for the mentally ill in Worcestor, built in the 1830s, had
became overcrowded, and so the state funded new hospitals for the
mentally ill in Northampton and Taunton.
The Northampton Lunatic Hospital opened in 1858 around the notion that
"moral treatment" of fresh air, hard work and regimented schedules for
people with mental illness would cure them, according to "The Life and
Death of Northampton State Hospital," a book published by Historic
Northampton.
A publication of the time summed up that optimism. The Ballou's
Pictorial Drawing Room Companion proclaimed in 1956 that the hospital
was "an exponent of the humane feeling that is entering the state
government, replacing the cold and unChristian-like spirit which has
formerly regarded these poor, unfortunate beings."
Those attitudes, in turn, evolved. Pliny Earle, hospital superintendent
from 1864 to 1885, was once an advocate of such "moral treatment," but
by the time he arrived in Northampton, he had come to doubt whether it
could cure mental illness, and he began to emphasize work rehabilitation
for the patients.
By the close of the 18th century, Northampton State Hospital - as it was
renamed - had became a place not to cure, but to warehouse poor people
who could not afford psychiatric care, as well as the senile, the
elderly and others who, by today's medical standards, were not mentally
ill at all. There were about 600 patients at the hospital at the turn of
the century; by the 1950s, that number would increase four-fold, to
almost 2,500.
The hospital's heydey
When the hospital reached its peak census in 1955, it was a booming
enterprise that provided some of the region's best-paying, most stable
jobs.
It had also become a nearly self-sufficient entity, boasting its own
gardens, slaughter houses and canneries. Entire families of employees
lived on or near the campus. There were baseball teams and social
events, and constant traffic down the hill from the hospital to the
town.
Shirley Gallup came to Northampton from South Carolina in 1958, when
there were more than 2,200 patients. She expected that her new job as a
psychiatrist for newly admitted women would last one or two years, she
said. She stayed for 28.
When Gallup arrived, the hospital was bulging at the seams, a small city
on a hill above Northampton - and already ripe for reform.
By that time, the hospital was overcrowded, underfunded and physically
declining. It would be years later before any legal protections would
exist to prevent people from being involuntarily committed.
The living evidence of that legal void was in the hospital's back wards
and infirmaries. The hospital had many patients with genuine mental
illness. But it also housed many people with temporary conditions, such
as mothers with post-partum depression, and other who were simply old,
unable to speak English, physically disabled, deaf, rebellious, or
sexually promiscuous.
"I felt, as I saw the patients, that some didn't need to be in the
hospital. Some needed to be in nursing homes. Six hundred of those 2,300
were geriatric," said Gallup. "The older ones - they didn't have the
family to take care of them. They aged there, and they didn't know
anything but institutional life."
It was around this time that two key factors emerged: anti-psychotic
medications that could control depression and psychosis, and a movement
to legally redefine how patients could be committed to hospitals and
what rights to treatment they had.
It was in the early 1960s that "deinstitutionalization" efforts began in
earnest, pushed by mandates from President Kennedy on the federal
level. During those years, most of the patients left the hospital, and
the town began to see more of its neighbors from the hill, according to
Robert Fleischner, staff attorney at the Center for Popular
Representation, the Northampton legal group that advocated on behalf of
patients.
"By the time of deinstitutionalization, Northampton had a high level of
tolerance and was used to seeing people downtown," said Fleischner.
"That's not to say that it was perfect - it wasn't. But there was a
willingness to have people around who look different and act
differently."
Making the case for change
By the 1970s, the anti-institution movement among parents of children
with mental illness and retardation was swiftly gaining ground. It was
fueled by media reports such as the 1970 "Tragedy of Belchertown" series
in the Union-News of Springfield and the expose of Willowbrook Hospital
in New York State.
Two short years later, the Belchertown School Friends Association,
spearheaded by Amherst parent Benjamin Ricci, filed a lawsuit against
the state, seeking to improve conditions at Belchertown State School.
By 1976, the patient census at the Northampton State Hospital had fallen
sharply, to 536. But the pace of change was not fast enough for legal
advocates of the mentally ill. Documenting patients' behavior on the
wards, they came to believe that patients who could easily live healthy,
productive lives had assumed "institutional behaviors" that made them
appear sicker than they were.
In other words, the hospital was not curing patients, but making their
conditions worse, according to Fleischner.
Taking a page from the Belchertown School Friends Association suit and
other groups like it, the lawyers who later formed the Center for Public
Representation filed a class-action suit in 1976 on behalf of a state
hospital patient named David Brewster and others there.
Two years later, that lawsuit against the commonwealth of Massachusetts
would be settled in what became known as the Brewster Consent Decree.
That agreement, overseen by U.S. District Court officials, promised to
reduce the hospital census to about 50 patients and to discharge the
rest into the community, according to Fleischner.
"It was revolutionary to think of putting people into group homes of
eight or nine people," said Fleischner.
Raymond P. Brien,regional director of the Department of Mental Health
from 1976 to 1979, said those years were "very emotional" for everyone
involved. Because he has a sister with mental retardation, he entered
the social work field in the 1960s - just ahead of the regional and
nationwide sea change in attitudes.
"On both the mental retardation and mental health side, I got to know
people who were pioneers who had profound beliefs that most of the
people in those institutions didn't need to be there," said Brien. "It
was the first region in the country that closed both its state hospital
and the state school without dumping the patients."
Dr. Jeffrey Geller served as medical director of the state hospital from
1979 until 1984. He helped draft the the lawsuit, and then joined the
hospital staff the year after the consent decree to help implement it.
Even today, some people involved with the hospital believe that the need
remains for inpatient hospitals to treat mental illness, and Mielke and
Geller are among them. Though Geller's view has shifted since that
time, he felt a "tremendous excitement" in the aftermath of the decree,
he said.
The original timeline for the decree's implementation was set for 2 ½
years. Instead, it took 15, and ended in a conclusion that even
Brewster's lawyers had not originally foreseen: The state opted to close
the hospital completely.
On Aug. 26, 1993, Northampton State Hospital discharged its last 11
patients, and, with the van door slammed behind the ex-patients,
Northampton's hospital for the mentally ill became a piece of history.
Early questions
Not everyone shared the enthusiasm for deinstitutionalization. In the
early 1980s, as new community programs opened and spread in Northampton,
some residents - including then-Mayor David Musante - feared that
Northampton was becoming a "mental health ghetto," as one prominent
piece of graffiti in downtown Northampton proclaimed at the time.
Several incidents involving former patients, including fires set at
halfway houses, reinforced that impression and led to efforts to rein in
the spread of group homes.
Rebecca Macauley was one of those who sought to confront fear about
deinstitutionalization.
Even today, she has constant reminders of her past: Out the kitchen
window of Macauley's Old South Street house, through a dip in the tree
line, she can see a copper-domed spire atop Building G, a hospital ward
where she was once a patient.
Macauley said that for years, people associated with the hospital
carried "anti-resumes" they only shared among themselves - lists of all
the places they were hospitalized, all the treatments they received, the
experiences they endured. The anti-resume she accumulated after the
death of her husband included five hospitalizations at Northampton and
five at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Leeds.
Macauley said that during the early 1980s, there was a "terrible stigma"
associated with being a hospital patient. She eventually "came out" in a
letter to the Gazette, saying there was a "witch hunt" afoot in
Northampton that sought to blame the mentally ill for all of the city's
problems.
She got into a public exchange with Musante in the newspaper's pages,
and eventually arrived in his office unannounced for an angry showdown.
Instead, the two became fast friends - an example, she said, of the
healing that can, and must, take place in the long shadow the hospital
casts over Northampton.
"It was great, we had a great conversation. We became good friends after
that. I knew what he was saying, I knew what those fears were," said
Macauley. "Northampton State Hospital is an example of failed social
policy. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but no one looked far
enough down the road to see what it would become. And now, we're living
with that legacy."
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MEANEY The Shame of the States 362.2 D48S HC
The Rise and Fall of the Humane State Hospital System
Text and Images by Matthew Murray (Plagiarist, Matthew Murray
PLAGIARISED the TEXT, I found the Article MURRAY Plagiarised.)
[With Commentary By a REAL MENTAL HOSPITAL PATIENT, a SURVIVOR, to
REFUTE THE SELF-SERVING LIES of YOUNG COLLEGE CREEPS that WRITE WITH ANY
KNOWLEDGE, on a SUBJECT they KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT!]
Perched atop a hill overlooking a small college town in Ohio (United
States), Athens State Hospital-now known as The Ridges-has an imposing
presence that the banners for the art gallery in the central building do
little to diminish. While a fraction of the building is currently in
use by Ohio State University, the majority of the aging Kirkbride
hospital has been left to the peaceful solitude of its own decay. The
hallways and rooms, still peppered with fragments of the past, are rife
with uncharted mold and bacteria; the walls have become intricate murals
of the eroding lead paint that dusts the floor and poisons the air.
[Here the Fictionized Creep Show Atmosphere is being
established...already Matthew the Big Fat Poop Head tried to make a
PROSIQUILLOY of QUASI POETIC fancy words..CREATE the FALE IDEA that
MENTAL HOSPITALS are and WAS "POISON. DEATH, BAD places!]
The unique architecture of this campus has been spared due to the use of
several of its buildings by local businesses, which maintain the
properties of the abandoned ones.
In many senses, Athens State Hospital is an anomaly. It has been
incredibly well preserved and protected from thieves and vandals, and
reminders of its history are still intact. Most state hospitals, such as
Byberry State Hospital in Philadelphia, have been completely left to
the elements and are easily accessible to anyone who cares to research
them and risk getting caught by the meagre security forces that guard
them. Such sites are frequently seen as a problem to the communities
they are part of, due in part to the fact that an entire subculture of
self-titled urban explorers has developed, populated by people ranging
from those with a deep and abiding respect for the sites to those who
look at them as opportune sites for graffiti and vandalism. While these
sites are extremely toxic, the dangers are often invisible to those who
enter. Asbestos and lead particles in the air do not affect one's health
immediately and rotting floors often give no signal of their structural
weakness until it is too late. Furthermore, these sites are on prime
locations for development, yet their historical significance is
undeniable, and often the cleanup of hazardous materials makes costs
prohibitive.
Asylums were intended to be self-sufficient and the majority of the food
would be grown by patients in fields and greenhouses like this one.
While now famous for the ALLEGED, MADE-UP, SELF-SERVING LIES of abuses
and horrors that NEVER-EVER took place inside, most state hospitals were
initially beautiful, idyllic campuses founded in the late 1800s,
largely in response to the tremendous need for mental health care for
MENTALLY CRAZY PEOPLE WHO WERE STILL BEING SET AFIRE AND LOCKED AWAY IN
DUNGEONS OR JAILS IN HORRABLE CONDITIONS TO DIE OF VERMIN BITES OR BED
SORES FROM BEING CHAINED IN PLACE FOR YEARS. Public awareness of the
need for adequate and full-time care for the mentally ill was higher
than ever,
and reformers like Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) and Thomas Kirkbride
(1809-1883) helped promote what would become an unparalleled movement to
create asylums funded by state and local governments to tend to the
needs of the mentally ill.
Such facilities were founded on the curative principles of healing
through humane treatment, labour and the natural beauty of the sprawling
campuses on which the hospitals were built, and were intended to be
self-sustaining. As such, the food was grown and the grounds maintained
by patients, and by all accounts the treatment provided was a vast
improvement on the universally FOUL MURDEROUS TORTURES AND CHAINS OF
DUNGEONED care afforded to the mentally ill prior to this era.
But such times were not destined to last. After the turn of the century,
state hospitals became warehouses for an increasing number of people
who society deemed undesirable, including criminals, the poor,
homosexuals, those with unorthodox religious views, unwanted children,
the elderly, syphilitics, alcoholics and anyone else who was
inconvenient{READ HERE=DANGEROUS! MATTHEW-GO VISIT DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES,
AROUND 5TH. STREET and MAIN, TAKE A SLEEPING BAG AND SLEEP OUT ON SOUTH
FIGUEROIA SYTREET, WHERE THE CAST-AWAY MENTAL CRAZIES LIE DOWN AT
NIGHT! THEY WILL KILL YOU AND EAT YOU! THE PREVERTS, THE MONSTERS, THE
CANNIBALS- THEY ARE STILL PREYING ON PEOPLE= BECAUSE THE CRIMINAL INSANE
HOSPITALS ARE EMPTIED OUT! REMEMBER MILWAUKEE? THE CANNIBAL QUEER THAT
EAT BOYS BRAINS WHILE THEYT WERE ALIVE? IF WINNEBAGO AND MENDOTA AND
ELGIN WERE STILL OPEN THEWM CHILDRENS WOULDN'T BEEN HAD THEIR BRAINS
EATEN! to those around them. During this period, it was frighteningly
easy to commit a wife who was no longer wanted, children who misbehaved
or aging parents whose care was too cumbersome.
{YOU SAY, BUT THERE WAS NOT THAT CASE! THE PEOPLE WERN'T COMMITED TO
"FREE STATE HOSPITALS" UNLESS IT WAS "SEVERE HARDSHIP" TO A FAMILY TO
KEEP THEM AT HOME. EVEN THEN, SOCIAL WORKERS INVESTAGATED to find out if
THEY WERE "MALINGERERS" who were USING THE SYSTEM...THERE WERE, IN THEM
DAYS, ACTUALLY 20 PRIVATE MENTAL HOSPITALS FOR EVERY ONE STATE FREE
ASYLEM! PEOPLE WHO WERE (1) CRAZYER THAN COULD POSSABLY BE HELPED-went
to the Snake Pit! REMEMBER-THERE WAS NOT NO IKINDS OF THIORIDIZAN,
BENZOPHIEANIZEBS, TRANQUILLERS, in them days..THORAZINE WEREn't
INTRODUCED nTO MENTAL CRAZY HOSPITALS UNTIL 1954!!!! 1954!!!!)
As populations swelled past the capacity for which the asylums had been
designed, the level of care plummeted, and with such diverse populations
being cared for in the same wards, consistent treatment was impossible.
Cuts in funding during wartime and the depression forced many patients
to sleep on floors or in hallways.
[BUT NOW THEY SLEEP ON SKID ROW CONCRETE SIDEWALKS and HAVE GASOLINE
THROWN ON THEM and BURNED FOR "THRILLS!" LOOK AT THE ARTICLES ABOUT THE
TEEN AGERS "THRILL KILLING HOMELESS" LEARNED IN "VIDEO ROLE PLAY VIOLENT
GAMES!"
MY YOUNG 21 YEAR OLD NEPHEW LIVES IN CYBER FANSITY LAND...HE ONLY COMES
OUT TO TAKE HIS LONG "PAKISTAN" SWORD TO ATTACK BALES OF HAY or
TREES...HE'S AS PSYCHOTIUC AS I AM, BUT I STILL RAISE AND CARE FOR
CHICJENS and HELLER DOGS, & FISH, CLEAN BRUSH, USE CHAIN SAW, OTHER
FARM WORK, BUT HE IS TOTALLY UNEQUIPTED TO LIVE IN THE REAL WORLD, AND
HIS SSI ENDS the day he TURNS 22. AND THERE IS NO MENTAL HOSPITAL FOR
HIM!]
Treatment reached critical proportions during the Second World War, when
funding and supplies were unavailable and the majority of able-bodied
staff were involved in the war effort. The care for patients also became
unimaginably nightmarish: there were wards full of malnourished,
unclothed and filthy patients, who were forced to eat rotten food and
sleep in quarters that were falling apart, often fatally exposing them
to the elements.
[I CHALLENGE YOU TO PROVE THIS, YOU CAN NOT! THE "NON VIOLENT,
CONSCIENCIOUS OBSTAINORS, LIKE JEHOVA'S WITNESSES, the COLLEGE
PROFESSERS, the 4-F and etc. WERE PRESSED INTO PUBLIC WORKS to STAFF THE
MENTAL HOSPITALS!!! IF THESE CONDITIONS AS YOU SECSCRIBES ACTUALLY WAS
HAPPENED IT WAS +PEOPLE LIKE YOU===IT WAS +CONCOIUS OBJECTORS, PEACE
NICKS, PACIFISTS, AMISH. MENNONITES, the BRETHERN, QUACKERS, the FOLK
SINGERS, (PETE SEEGAR WORKED AT A MENTAL HOSPITAL TO STAY OUT OG PRISON)
SO THE FALSE IMAGE YOU PAINT IS SUSPECT...]
With staffing ratios at unthinkable levels (at times 1 staff member to
200 patients) and facilities crammed to nearly double their intended
capacities, abuse by staff also became incredibly problematic. Patients
were severely beaten, raped, prostituted, denied medical care and
otherwise mistreated to levels that are beyond comprehension.
[AGAIN, AS A "EYE WITNESS' and "A MENTAL PATIENT WHO WAS ACTUALLY
THERE-NOT A GAZER AT PICTURES" I CHALLENGE YOU TO PRODUCE "PROOF" THAT
THESE "ATROCITIES AS YOU SAY WERE "THE NORM" rather than a ABBERATION."
AS FOR "ONE ATTENDANT TO 200 PATIENTS, Sir, THIS WAS A REASONABLE RATIO,
during the GRAVEYARD SHIFT!" And DURING MY INTERNMENT in the 1960's
through 1980's In SOUTHERN HOSPITALS it was NORMAL to only have ONE
NIGHT AIDE in attendance per ward ..and often 300 Patients to a Ward.]
One cannot help but think when looking at pictures from this period that
the patients are nearly indistinguishable from Holocaust survivors.
[I FEAR THE PHOTOS YOU SPEAK OF ARE ACTUALLY DELIBERATELY SELECTED TO
FURTHER BTHE AGENDA THAT THE MOST VILE MONSTERS RAN THE MENTAL
HOSPITALS, if you Think This, you are a DANGERIOUS IDIOT, but if you CAN
NOT SEE that AMERICA TODAY TREATS SANE AND INSANE ALIKE FAR WORSE than
the People You Describe TODAY, EVERY DAY, in the WORLD'S LARGEST PRISON
INDUSTRY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX since THE ROMAN EMPIRE! WE CURRENTLY HAVE A
PRISON POPULATION OVER TWICE THE NUMBER OF FARMERS ENGAGED IN PRODUCING
THE FOOD WE EAT! Think about that!]
As the peeling paint etches intricate patterns in the walls and doors of
this asylum, its toxic dust coats the floor and floats in the air. [and
your asinine liues float like noxious ordors and flies above a pile of
Bull Manure...]
In his book, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and The Enduring
Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, Robert Whitaker makes a compelling
argument for how the Holocaust and the treatment of the mentally ill in
this period both were founded on the same principles of eugenics and the
cleansing of "undesirables" from society: the stated goal of the
concentration camps was the extermination of Germany's upper-echelon
groups deemed detrimental to society, while the same, if unstated, goal
in the United States mental health system was attained through forced
sterilization and lethal neglect.
The halls of the Athens State Hospital are remarkably well preserved and
unmarred by vandalism and theft.
As the war ended, several major fictional and grossly emotional exposés
brought thefalse idea that abysmal treatment of the mentally ill to
light. A photo essay, entitled "Bedlam 1946", in Life Magazine and
Albert Deutsch's 1948 publication, The Shame of the States (Mental
Illness and Social Policy: the American Experience), helped raise public
awareness of the plight of the inmates in a couple of psychiatric
hospitals. While this served to ameliorate the situation somewhat, most
of the measures taken to remedy the problems were short-lived.
Overcrowding and insufficient care continued to be problematic, although
less so than during the years of the Second World War, and abuse of
patients was never found to be true.
There is simply no way to encompass all the cruelties heaped on the
patients;[ but you will make up a load of lies to create your fictional
pulp trash propaganda any way, it's the way of the liars] most are
familiar with Electric Shock Treatments, which gained popularity as they
produced manageable patients, albeit those whose cognitive functioning
had been permanently impaired.[Darn Right! I HAD 134 ECT Treatments in
1969-1971. It didn't kill me, & I AM HERE "EYE WITNESS" to TELL
TRUTH!]
A particularly barbaric variation of this treatment was performed at
Athens State Hospital by Dr. Walter Freeman (1895-1972), who made use of
neither anesthetics nor an operating room, and whose careless technique
shocked even other doctors and nurses familiar with the procedure.
Another common form of treatment was hydrotherapy in which a patient was
placed in a tub, which would be filled with either scalding or freezing
water, and a sheet was zipped around the neck so only the head was
sticking out. Depending on the temperament of the staff, the patient
might be left in such a state for days without even a pause to use the
bathroom.[THAT IS A GORWD DARN LIE! YOU CAN NOT LEAVE A PERSON FOR DAYS
IN A WATER CABNET, IT CAUSES SEPTISS they DIE! SEE, YOU ARE SO STUPID,
YOU ARE BENEATH CONTEMPT!!! MATTHEW MURREY- A BIG FAT FOOL! YOU AND
RONALD MAC DONALD and BOZO THE CLOWN...]
As the hospitals' intent was less to cure than to warehouse patients,
the purpose of the treatments was less to produce any measurable
improvement in their condition than to subdue them, making them
convenient for the staff.
Left to its own, nature often playfully mimics architectural details,
using dazzling complimentary patterns.
During the late 1960s and 1970s, the advent of the "chemical straight
jacket" Thorazine changed the face of mental health care. Neuroleptics
like Thorazine produce a myriad of intensely uncomfortable, frightening
side effects and were in fact later identified by Soviet political
dissidents as one of the worst tortures they were subjected to in the
"psychiatric centres" where they were confined.
[AT LEAST YOU'RE RIGHT A LITTLE BIT HERE, BUT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE STUPIDS!
THERE WERE TERRIBLE EFFECTS OF THORADAZINES. BUT THE "CHEMICAL
STRAITJACKET" DRUGS WAS NOT EVER "THORAZINE!!!" HALDOL WAS "THE
STRAITJACKET" DRUG!!! YOU JUST HAVE NO FACTS OF Any sort- god what a
fool you are!!!!]
They produced docile and compliant patients however, and their use was
far-reaching and indiscriminate in the American mental health system. As
their use became more widespread and the push for -DIS-institutionalism
was spearheaded by President rICHARD m. nIXON and newly formed
patients' rights associations, the focus of hospitalization shifted from
containing patients for the remainder of their natural lives to
bringing their behaviours to manageable levels that would allow
community integration. While this policy was in many ways beneficial,
the treatment at oUT
pATIENT hOMES AND TO pATIENTS wAUNDERING THE sKID
rOWS to be an inhumane and dehumanizing process. [
====================
[In
his book, entitled
The Shoe Leather Treatment,
referring to the common "treatment" of kicking patients until they were
compliant or too injured to resist, former patient Bill Thomas relates
that after years in state hospitals, a brief stay in prison after an
escape attempt seemed an immeasurable improvement in his quality of
life.]
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dID YOU actually read THIS BOOK? hEY, What Was The Reason that the
Guards in This Book let the Little Nego Man who was Kept in a Strip Cell
with Snow Blowing in through the WIndow, in Leather CUffs & Belt,
for 6 Years, WHAT CAUSED them to LET HIM OUT?" What was the CRIME
William Thomas Was SENT TO THE INDIANA CRIMINAL INSAINE HOSPITAL FOR?
Perhaps he has a GOOD STORY TO TELL, as HE WAS CONVICTED BY "EYE
WITNESSES' Testomy & PHOTOGRAPHS of HAVING SEXUAL INTERCOURSE WITH
HIS MOTHER'S CORPSE in a CENETRAY CRYPT, NUMBERIOUS TIMES!" I don't say
that BELITTLES HIS BOOK, I READ IT MANY TIMES, but IF ANYBODY DESERVED
TO BE LOCKED AWAY, BILL TOMAS, a Necro Matricidal Maniac, ASSUREDLY
NEEDED to be KEPT WAY WAY AWAY from People..."REMEMBER the CANNIBAL
QUEER BRAIN EATER in MILWAUKEE----Jeffery Dharmer...!!!"]
Vandalism has severely damaged the buildings of the hospital in
Maryland. Doors are broken, windows smashed and graffiti covers nearly
every wall.
Coupled with the push to reintegrate patients into society, this
flagrant abuse and neglect finally led to the closure of many asylums.
Even this process was messy, however. Under President Ronald Reagan's
policies, which often led to dumping clients out of hospitals with
inadequate aftercare, the homeless populations soared. When the closure
of Byberry State Hospital was initiated in 1986, three hundread patients
drowned in the Schuylkill River before the Pennsylvania Governor
decided to slow down the process to a manageable level. This process
continues to this day and the problematic nature of providing care for
the mentally ill continues to haunt us. Harrisburg State Hospital in
Pennsylvania recently shut down, forcing communities and mental health
providers to scramble to find alternatives for patients with higher
treatment needs. Many patients now in communities may require assistance
for the rest of their lives in dealing with mundane chores most take
for granted, such as buying groceries and paying bills, because they
were never exposed to these problems during their hospitalization.
[AND NOW, IN THE 21 ST CENTURY, THE PATIENTS ARE BEING FORCLOSED OUT OF
THEIR BOARD AND CARE FACILITIES...the STREETS in OKLAHOMA was FILLED
WITH WANDERING FREEZING HOMELESS CRAZY MENTAL PATIENTS this month DURING
THE BLIZZARDS of 2011! THE "JESUS HOUSE' the ONLY PROVIDER of CARE for
the OBNOXIOUS MENTALLY ILL INSANE HOMELESS, MULTIPILIED DUE TO BANKRUPT
and FORECLOUSERS upon MENTAL HEALTH HALF WAY HOUSES, the TELEVISION
MEDIA in conjunction with the OTHER TWO BIG "CHARITYS" in OKLAHOMA CITY
launched a SMEAR & ATTACK MEDIA "EXPOSEE' NEWS ATTACK" on the Jesus
House, IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE THE DONATIONS away from the MENTALLY ILL at
the Jesus House" to the BIG CORPORATE "RESCUE-MISSION, INC" and
"SALVATION ARMY. INC" who CAPITALIZES by ONLY HOUSING HEALTHY WORK AGE
AND EMPLOYABLE PEOPLE, who go through FULL TIME WORK either ON CAMPASS
or in LABOR-READY OUT SOURCE JOBS and PAY THE "MISSIONS" 90% of the
INCOME for the "SALVATION & LOVE of the "CORPORATE "JESUSS" and are
KICKED OUT QUICKLY with NO REFUND OF MONIES for ANY INFRACTION!!!]
A pile of discarded shoe coverings lies at the foot of the basement
staircase in Athens State Hospital.
The ever-present issue of what to do with state hospital facilities is
also difficult. In many cases, the land and buildings will be almost
immediately reclaimed, sold to developers or used as state agency
offices. Several facilities, such as Danvers State Hospital in New York,
are being converted into high-priced apartment buildings, although some
ex-patients and mental health workers view this as a move only slightly
more tasteful than making apartments out of Auschwitz. Other facilities
like Dixmont have been completely demolished by large companies, which
see the sites as development gold mines and have no problems bulldozing
unmarked gravestones in patient cemeteries to make way for their
projects. Some, such as Pilgrim State Hospital in New York, were
partially used, abandoned and demolished. Countless more sites have been
completely abandoned, standing until the roofs collapse under the
weight of years of water damage or until they are burned by arsonists.
Almost none are protected historic sites that visitors can enter to
learn about their checkered past.
The wings of a Kirkbride hospital are designed to house progressively
psychotic patients, so that the further one gets from the centre (and
exit), the more difficult it is to escape.
Two examples stand out, however, as thoughtful ideas for reintegration
of the properties into the communities. The state hospital in Fairview,
Connecticut, has been turned into a public park-the buildings are well
secured and the grounds well kept-where during the day one finds
community members jogging, picnicking or walking their dogs. Ironically,
by being open to the public, theft and vandalism have taken
significantly less of a toll on the buildings compared to other state
hospitals whose grounds are off-limits.
The theatre of this asylum is in poor condition, yet large, old
projectors in the booth still rest relatively unscathed.
Athens State Hospital is a fantastic example of proper maintenance of an
historic site. The university uses portions of many of the buildings
and as such the grounds are well-maintained, beautiful and secure. It
has an excellent section on its website dedicated to the history of the
facility; the wings of the old Kirkbride hospital are in better
condition than nearly any other state hospital in the country. Also
unlike many other asylums, Athens State Hospital sits securely on a hill
overlooking the small college town. While entering it requires a
respirator and permission from the faculty, its rich and multilayered
past remains intact for now, serving as a poignant reminder and an
epitaph to the many shattered lives that passed through its doors.
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Poster: abandonedamerica.us Date: Jan 31, 2011 2:37pm
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MorpheusOne,
Please read the notes I wrote at the bottom. Boxcaro added their own
opinions (hint: they're in all caps) into my text.
Matthew Murray
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NOTICE: Matthew Murry actually TOOK ANOTHER'S ARTICLE and PUT HIS NAME
ON IT! This is THE REASON He Cannot OBTAIN the Text from AMAYZONE! HE
WAS NOT THE WRITER! HE STOLE IT!
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Poster: elijahradioprophet Date: Mar 26, 2011 2:22pm
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The rise and fall of state hospital
State school was dumping ground
Robert Mielke, shown here during a stroll around the grounds of the
Northampton State Hospital, said he struggled when patients occasionally
asked why they were hospitalized. "Today, I'd probably have an answer,"
he says. Mielke worked in many different jobs at the now-closed
hospital.
CAROL LOLLIS Photo
By THEO EMERY
Staff Writer
NORTHAMPTON - Re
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* Articles by Lynn, D. J.
Psychiatr Serv 53:1189, September 2002
© 2002 American Psychiatric Association
Book Reviews
Gracefully Insane: The Rise and Fall of America's Premier Mental
Hospital
by Alex Beam; New York, PublicAffairs, 2001, 273, $26
David J. Lynn, M.D. Albert Deutsch
"Madness in the Streets"
How Psychiatry and the Law Abandoned the Mentally Ill
Rael Jean Isaac
Virginia C. Armat
ISBN : 0-02-915381-6
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NOTICE: Matthew Murry actually TOOK ANOTHER'S ARTICLE and PUT HIS NAME
ON IT! This is THE REASON He Cannot OBTAIN the Text from AMAYZONE! HE
WAS NOT THE WIRITER! HE STOLE IT!
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Poster: micah6vs8 Date: Jan 22, 2011 5:33pm
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So the solution to de-institutionalization is to put the mentally ill on
the streets or in prison where 90%+ of them are currently? No doubt
crimes, abuses and indignities stained the prior system mightily, but
what has replaced it is far worse. We need to reconsider how we as a
society treat the mentally ill (I'm talking clinical diagnosis, not
having a bad week). Societies are judged by how they help and care for
the weakest among them. We are failing. It reminds me of this ending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0Z0bu-swko
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Poster: elijahradioprophet Date: Jan 23, 2011 6:58am
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I fail to see how people who have NOT spent YEARS inside State Mental
Wards, (As I Have.) can delude themselves to 'imagine' the authority to
Tell Me 'how it was.'
Furthermore, my Grandmother was a Mental Health Professional, from 1953
until 1962 at Waco, TX VA Hosp. a Psych Hosp, then until her death, the
Director of Rec. at Benton State Hospital Colony, Ark. (1962-1976) She
Raised me, a Orphaned Child. by 1968 I was a Psychiatric Patient, at 62
Years of age, I am a Retired Rail Riding HOBO, JAZZ GUITARIST. I spent
YEARS in STATE HOSPITALS, ARK. LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, WISCONSIN, NEBRASKA,
& ATASCADERO FORENSIC STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL in CA. I was RELEASED
there in JAN. 1990. I have SEEN with MY OWN EYES- "EYE-WITNESSES" the
HORDES of PATHETIC MENTAL PATIENTS being BEATEN, ROBBED and TORTURED on
the streets of EVERY MAJOR AMERICAN CITY but Homeless Shelters &
Salvation Army, etc. REFUSE TO FEED or SHELTER them, the exhibit CRAZY
BEHAVIOUR!
The AMERICAN "GREED" FACTOR teached YOU. yes, YOU that CERTAIN CLASSES
of HUMANS are USELESS EATERS, and MARGRET SANGER teaches YOU, yes: YOU-
to follow the "FINAL SOLUTION.'
STATE MENTAL HOSPITALS SAVED LIVES. If they were NOT nice , THEY WERE
BETTER THAN DEATH by EXPOSURE. on the VICIOUS STREETS of AMERICA!
Europeans are AGHAST at the TEEMING TRILLIONS OF DEMENTED FILTHY
HOMELESS in AMERICA!
The CANADIANS provide SERVICES and COMPASSION to its Homeless...I HAVE
LIVED HOMELESS IN TORONTO! I KNOW! I WAS NOT EVEN A LEGAL CANADIAN!!! I
RODE IN FROM DETROIT on a CP FREIGHT TRAIN.
AMERICAN SHAme IS not THE CARE OF poor and crazies, IT IS THE
ABANDONMENT of the POOR to STARVE in the STREETS, crazies.
If you do not believe me. HUCK FINN YOU! I can PROVE I WAS EYE WITNESS.
My dog in this fight is "GOD."
"
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Poster: boxcaro Date: Jun 29, 2013 9:30pm
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Thank You Who SUpport a Old Man in Telling Truth.
http://medically-brain-damaged.blogspot.com/
History of Ypsalinti State Hospital, Michigan, where Milton Wrote the
Three Christs of Ypslanti in 1953 [or there abouts] was TOTALLY SHUT
DOWN in 1980, over 5,000 SEVERELY BACK WARD Schizophreniacs were DUMPED
into DETROIT SKID ROW, in a Few Weeks---5,000 Helpless Deeply
Psychotics---IN DETROITS SKID ROW!
I Pass through Detroit often HOPPING FREIGHTS, I do NOT get off!
This is compared to NAZI GENOCIDE but a INVERTED FORM!
MAKE THEM INSTITUTIONALIZED, then THROW THEM OUT! TO SKID ROW!
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Poster: MorpheusOne Date: Jan 24, 2011 7:49am
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Well, to be specific and clear, I was hoping that this response was from
"boxcaro", the original poster/uploader of this document.
To a point, I agree with you. De-institutionalization was so morally and
ethically inexplicable that I would question the sanity, as well as the
apathy, of someone who supported it and I do honestly question the
legal justification for having done it; to the extent that I think that
such actions, that ultimately resulted in it, may very well have been
criminal! I honestly do not know what the numbers are, meaning what
percentage is what, where, how many, etc., but 90+% currently being on
the streets & in prison today I think is rather high. The population
of the United States has grown exceptionally, at an astounding rate,
since the 1970s/1980s. And I suspect that many, perhaps most, of the
mentally ill in this country, while many, & perhaps most, of them
may actually be functionally mentally ill, holding down jobs, going to
school, raising children, etc., all of them are in some need, in various
amounts, of (mental) healthcare that I suspect none of them can get
from self medicating and a very minuscule few can get from their
local/family doctor.
I think that most of these ppl, perhaps literally...90+% of them, may
certainly be out, somewhere, in society largely bc of the current
political climate that we are now seeing today in America.
What about a specific individual, such as Jared Lee Loughner? -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK5HuvWXZc8
Have you been to a "Tea Party" rally recently? -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q7XH8lfGMc
How about a WBC protest of a Veteran's Day Parade or a fallen US
soldiers funeral?! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neuGrymsUaA
I'm not saying that all fundamentalistically inclined fools (As they can
be perhaps put into different categories, political, religious,
political and religious, etc.) are mentally ill but, I do think that we
need to recognize the reality that many of them are! I have rarely heard
the idea that the abuse, neglect, and mistreatment that so many men,
women, AND children received in so many psychiatric facilities was
"alleged", "made-up", and "self-serving lies of abuses and horrors that
'never-ever' took place inside, ..."
To deny that these horrible things took place, to me, seems to be the
kind of thought process that would lead a person to exclaim and believe
that the WWII Holocaust never took place! And that is really what I was
getting at with my original post. I hope that "boxcaro" responds bc, I
would like to know how he has somehow managed to come to such a
conclusion.
Much obliged,
Morpheus
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Poster: boxcaro Date: Jun 29, 2013 9:30pm
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Thank You Who SUpport a Old Man in Telling Truth.
http://medically-brain-damaged.blogspot.com/
History of Ypsalinti State Hospital, Michigan, where Milton Wrote the
Three Christs of Ypslanti in 1953 [or there abouts] was TOTALLY SHUT
DOWN in 1980, over 5,000 SEVERELY BACK WARD Schizophreniacs were DUMPED
into DETROIT SKID ROW, in a Few Weeks---5,000 Helpless Deeply
Psychotics---IN DETROITS SKID ROW!
I Pass through Detroit often HOPPING FREIGHTS, I do NOT get off!
This is compared to NAZI GENOCIDE but a INVERTED FORM!
MAKE THEM INSTITUTIONALIZED, then THROW THEM OUT! TO SKID ROW!
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Poster: elijahradioprophet Date: Jan 23, 2011 8:09am
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I fail to see how people who have NOT spent YEARS inside State Mental
Wards, (As I Have.) can delude themselves to 'imagine' the authority to
Tell Me 'how it was.'
Furthermore, my Grandmother was a Mental Health Professional, from 1953
until 1962 at Waco, TX VA Hosp. a Psych Hosp, then until her death, the
Director of Rec. at Benton State Hospital Colony, Ark. (1962-1976) She
Raised me, a Orphaned Child. by 1968 I was a Psychiatric Patient, at 62
Years of age, I am a Retired Rail Riding HOBO, JAZZ GUITARIST. I spent
YEARS in STATE HOSPITALS, ARK. LOUISIANA, OKLAHOMA, WISCONSIN, NEBRASKA,
& ATASCADERO FORENSIC STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL in CA. I was RELEASED
there in JAN. 1990. I have SEEN with MY OWN EYES- "EYE-WITNESSES" the
HORDES of PATHETIC MENTAL PATIENTS being BEATEN, ROBBED and TORTURED on
the streets of EVERY MAJOR AMERICAN CITY but Homeless Shelters &
Salvation Army, etc. REFUSE TO FEED or SHELTER them, the exhibit CRAZY
BEHAVIOUR!
The AMERICAN "GREED" FACTOR teached YOU. yes, YOU that CERTAIN CLASSES
of HUMANS are USELESS EATERS, and MARGRET SANGER teaches YOU, yes: YOU-
to follow the "FINAL SOLUTION.'
STATE MENTAL HOSPITALS SAVED LIVES. If they were NOT nice , THEY WERE
BETTER THAN DEATH by EXPOSURE. on the VICIOUS STREETS of AMERICA!
Europeans are AGHAST at the TEEMING TRILLIONS OF DEMENTED FILTHY
HOMELESS in AMERICA!
The CANADIANS provide SERVICES and COMPASSION to its Homeless...I HAVE
LIVED HOMELESS IN TORONTO! I KNOW! I WAS NOT EVEN A LEGAL CANADIAN!!! I
RODE IN FROM DETROIT on a CP FREIGHT TRAIN.
AMERICAN SHAme IS not THE CARE OF poor and crazies, IT IS THE
ABANDONMENT of the POOR to STARVE in the STREETS, crazies.
If you do not believe me. HUCK FINN YOU! I can PROVE I WAS EYE WITNESS.
My dog in this fight is "GOD."
"
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