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Post by pipaduck on Oct 24, 2013 7:54:53 GMT -5
Vice President Abidin' said Wednesday that the country is on the cusp of what he called "remarkable changes" in the treatment of mental illness Recent deadly mass shootings, including at the Washington Navy Yard and a Colorado movie theater, have been perpetrated by men who were apparently not being adequately treated for serious mental illnesses. Maybe this should have happened before the Gun Battle and Obamacare?xfinity.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20131023/US-Abidin'-Mental-Health/
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Post by OldHippieDude on Oct 24, 2013 19:29:16 GMT -5
When I was a kid, in 3rd grade, about a 'hunert' years ago, they had institutions called "Insane Asylums." My maternal grandfather tried to commit suicide by opening the veins in both his wrists with a straight razor. He barely survived, but then was legally committed, without recourse to the Insane Asylum at Ft. Supply, OK.
He had made the attempt in 1957. Approximately 2 years later, in the summer of 1959, I remember going to pick him up and bringing him home from northwestern OK, near Woodward. We never talked about the past because he had been virtually "made whole" again. He was mentally healthy, articulate, hygienic, and very cheerful again, without being on any kind of psych medication!
To this day, no one in the family has known what caused him to do it. All I know for sure is that whatever they did for my beloved "Grampa" at Fort Supply seemed nigh miraculous to me.
The very name, "Insane Asylum" would not fly in today's world. Obviously we sorely need hospitals for "insane" people, call it what you will.
Peace,
OHD
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2013 20:17:16 GMT -5
Enid had what they called a 'State School' north of town. It had 10 foot fences all around with barbed wire at the top. It was away from the road some but you could see them standing at the fence looking out. Not sure when they closed that place down. I know they closed a lot of them during Reagan's tenure.
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Post by OldHippieDude on Oct 25, 2013 2:21:37 GMT -5
Enid had what they called a 'State School' north of town. It had 10 foot fences all around with barbed wire at the top. It was away from the road some but you could see them standing at the fence looking out. Not sure when they closed that place down. I know they closed a lot of them during Reagan's tenure. As in "Slingblade," one of them "nervous hospitals," I reckon, uhmm . .hmm. . . Reagan wasn't entirely sympathetic of the mentally ill. In the 70s, my youngest brother was in a "reformatory" in Helena, north of there, but that's not what they called it. Lil bro called it "kiddie prison." Haha! Peace, OHD
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2013 11:09:16 GMT -5
Reformatory were prisons for youth, they still have them just under a different name. Big difference between them and asylums.
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Post by OldHippieDude on Oct 25, 2013 18:37:07 GMT -5
Reformatory were prisons for youth, they still have them just under a different name. Big difference between them and asylums. Yeah, I think they're called "juvenile detention centers," and the kids just call them "Juvie's." I'm not sure what the institution was in Enid. Probably an asylum, by another name. I'll bet the quality of care in "state hospitals" is nowhere nearly as good as it was when we were kids. Before I found a second career in OK Dept. of Human Services, I had trained and was certified to be a Patient Care Technician in a psych ward at St. Francis Hospital in Tulsa. I worked there only a few weeks. They basically just 'chemically restrained' a lot of the patients with large doses of Zyprexa, an "anti-psychotic." They did nothing that was of any real therapeutic value for their patients. It wasn't all their fault though. Some patients were given to violent behavioral outbursts and there were just not enough staff (funding) to deal with them. Peace, OHD
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