3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

Antonio, my little love, your great auntie Lynne loves you little face!

I left it in the room with the weight reduction/torture device. :-(

I've changed my mind. After reading all that hooey now I'm going to JUMP out that window myownself. I just never knew we were all so evil and now I'm just depressed enough to hurl myself bodily from the very room. Of course, given that Motts says this room is only on the first floor, about the best I'll prolly do is twist my ankle or give myself a slightly bloody nose, mebbe skin up my knees a little. You know how incompetent we in the mental health field are. We can torture and starve others and by God, we can even force them to use a weight machine (blackhearted asshats that we are for that foul deed alone), but we aren't too good at doing bad things to ourselves.

Motts, I'll personally pay you $80.00 for this month's bandwidth just for the pleasure I have had replying to this silliness. E-mail me your address and I'll drop a check in the mail in the morning. My tax return will be in my bank account in under two weeks and my check will even be good. :-)

You just made a broad statement about staff not caring about the people who lived in these places and now you are calling someone a "schizo" and making a joke that perhaps they are so incapacitated they don't know where the bathroom is? Jebus, don't that just take the cake?

[Thump thump thump]

I have a vision of pushing someone out that window right now, too . . . . .

I must admit that I am fighting back the tears as well . . . . . .

"it would hurt my mind to much to even try to make sence of this stuff "

Damn - I was just going to say that! Is this deja vu? Or did I already ask that?

Yes, you are onto something. This is the hideous "Torture Room of Weight Reduction" that we try not to tell outsiders about. Motts busted us by finding this and getting a picture of it. Our dark secret is that we would put overweight people on this machine and hope that by the action of the belt jiggling their fat, they would lose weight. Pretty darned disgusting evil plot, huh? We were on a 60 Minutes expose for this once - someone sneaked in with a hidden camera and caught us asking the folks who were here whether they wanted to use this machine. And you're right - normally we try to starve children, but how could you torture them on a weight machine if they were skinny? So we fed them too much so they would get fat and then we could use this machine. A sick group of asshats, aren't we? :-(

Your imagination worries me. Aren't you afraid to go outside unescorted with all the bogeymen you've created? You are looking for abuse and you seem to be excited about finding it. That scares me.

=8-o

[Thump thump double thump]

Henry,

It's great that the staff took that much care to make your TV viewing easier. You're right - it would be tough to try to watch everything "backwards". I have done that several times when I have been watching the TV while I am waiting for someone and I caught the TV out of the mirror, and it's somewhat disconcerting to see everything backwards. You don't realize how you expect everything to be shown the "right way" instead of mirror-reversed. :-)

jane,

It is refreshing to see someone put some thought into this instead of just assuming that there were only negatives to living in places like this. I agree that living on the street or living in a prison or jail isn't much in the way of improvement for the folks who don't fit the current outpatient mental health scheme.

That Werner Erhard was everywhere, wasn't he? ;-)