Well, hey look at that! The Calgary Tower's lit! I can come out of the closet about my paranoid delusional schizophrenic manic-depressive dementia now!
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Originally Posted by HotHotHeat
If you're serious, that's the most ######ed thing I've ever heard.
It's what they said but they weren't being serious. They never are.
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Originally Posted by Boblobla
I completely agree.
Well, it appears the responders and anyone who's read ths thread are now aware of the cause because of this thread, if even in the broadest sense. I am sure lots of others will have been asking the same thing.
They may not like the answer, but as an awareness tool, having people having to inquire, and then able to get the message/cause out there to those people, its a pretty inventive idea.
Rutherford said that as far as disabilities go, Mental Illnes is 2nd only to Heart Disease.
I wonder if it's always been that prevalent?
or is it the garbage that we as humans have been Eating, Drinking & Breathing over the years?
I think it's a combination of in the past, people with mental illness were dismissed as crazy because there was really no way to treat a busted brain. That, combined with some overzealous doctors today that are bit prescription happy.
I think it's a combination of in the past, people with mental illness were dismissed as crazy because there was really no way to treat a busted brain. That, combined with some overzealous doctors today that are bit prescription happy.
Well, hey look at that! The Calgary Tower's lit! I can come out of the closet about my paranoid delusional schizophrenic manic-depressive dementia now!
I knew it! They were doing it because of me. But how did they know I was paranoid?
I think it's a combination of in the past, people with mental illness were dismissed as crazy because there was really no way to treat a busted brain. That, combined with some overzealous doctors today that are bit prescription happy.
You may be right. I know that there were a lot more "sanitoriums" in decades and even centuries past, where they just tucked those people away never to be seen again. Creepy.
Matthew suffers from mental illness (he is bipolar, and almost 'accidentally' killed himself by overdosing on medication). He is very involved with raising awareness, and trying to get people to realise people who suffer from these conditions are not just the crazy people you see locked away in mental health institutions.
That asylum he talks about in his blog was a Canadian institution that had only closed its doors in 1996. Many horrible things were done to the patients, including genetic and other medical experiments, torture and sexual abuse.
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Another boy he knew was repeatedly confined inside a canvas sack and held underwater. “This was the way they controlled your behaviour,” he explained matter-of-factly.”
WOODLANDS!
I moved to the Lower Mainland (Vancouver) in 1991, I moved back home (Calgary) in 2002.
I remember "Woodlands" very well. There were many occasians where an "Inmate" (I say inmate, because that place was a frickin prison!) would get free of the grounds, and because of the lack of attention, the inmates would usually take a jaunt across the street and proceed to scale the Patella Bridge. The media would always call these "police incidents". Most of these "incidents" would result in the death of the "inmate", obvious suicide.
The reason I know this place was like a prison is because my (now) Father inlaw used to do maintanence work there, He'd often take his then teenage son to help. The stories I've heard from them about working in that place would curl your hair. They (my father & brother inlaw) told me that every single time they entered, they were told to NEVER make eye contact with the "residents".
I read a lot of what MG had to say Starseed, and I'm not shocked at all as I have heard worse from my inlaws.
This is why awareness of these issues is so important. I cannot imagine what it must have been like... and this was in freaking Canada.
That's the Shocking part. I know, we as Canadians don't like to admit to our checkered past, but this is another black mark for sure.
Although, Just because these haneous acts took place on Canadian soil, It doesn't reflect on us as a Nation, as much as it does on us as a global society, because we were not the only ones treating Ill people like this and we were probably not the worst.
Whats bothers me most, is the fact this was going on in the 80's and into the 90's. We think we are so friggin sofisticated!
....I read that entire statement by Mathew Goode and some of it is chilling!!....Taking head stones of dead children to make a patio for a place to smoke. Dark. Very Dark.
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Matthew suffers from mental illness (he is bipolar, and almost 'accidentally' killed himself by overdosing on medication). He is very involved with raising awareness, and trying to get people to realise people who suffer from these conditions are not just the crazy people you see locked away in mental health institutions.
That asylum he talks about in his blog was a Canadian institution that had only closed its doors in 1996. Many horrible things were done to the patients, including genetic and other medical experiments, torture and sexual abuse.
My mom worked there in the '70's. I should ask her about it, though it was probably just stories by then.
Edit: maybe not, after reading the article. Scary stuff.
