3,181 Comments Posted by Lynne

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StareGirl,

Interesting stuff! I wish people could see this through your eyes as well.
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My absolute favorite movie, I am ashamed to admit. While I never dressed up for a showing, I took along all the necessary accoutrements. :-)
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Yeah, but they aren't such easy targets. Plus I'm starting to get used to it by now. Never realized how many people there are out there who've had minimal or no exposure to the field and yet who have totally formed opinions which they are quite vocal about and are rather proud to voice.

Well, they say opinions are like - well, YOU know. ;-)
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priscilla, you prolly meant anna. :-)
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Sorry to rain on this gloomy parade, but I have worked with folks with handicaps who grew up in institutions and folks with handicaps who grew up in their own homes and I think you would be hard pressed to find a difference. It's the environment and the people who are in it. There are wonderful places that are overcrowded & poorly staffed and there are terrible places that have the correct "numbers" but horrid staff.

Sorry - that's enough. Short soap box tonight. :-)
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And you better plan on adding a BIG electrified fence 'cos we are all planning on coming to visit you. :-)
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Em . . . . . . Well . . . . .

Ah, fergit it. :-)
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Em, need a place to store them beers? ;-)
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Well, bless you, StareGirl! It's a field like no other. No one outside understands it, but I wouldn't do anything else if they paid me. Which they would, but I would still rather do this. ;-)
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The short answer is that there are fewer and fewer people in non-geriatric long-term residential care facilities.

How's THAT for the shortest answer I have ever given here to a potentially political question? :-) :-) :-) :-)
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Em, sorry about that. Someone who shall remain anonymous apparently consumed a couple of bottles of rum and was doing the pirate dance here, leaving the tell-tale zig-zag marks behind. :-(
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Wowza! I just found some stories on Muscatatuck - it closed after I left, so I never saw these:

http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15817
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15942
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15837
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15832
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15845
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15818
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15886
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15861
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15929
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15943
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Most large scale residential mental health facilities of the last 50 to 100 years were actually built with government funds.
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Hey, Amanda - my thoughts exactly! I've spent the morning at that website and a few others about Waverly Hills. Most interesting, huh? I lived about an hour and a half from Louisville in 1999 and 2000, and I never knew that was there or I would have visited. I was working in yet another facility in Indiana at the time that has since shut down and is now a Homeland Security training site.

[insert wry, bemused grin hereabouts]
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More than "not supposed to." As well as leading to one's immediate termination from employment it can also be prosecuted as a criminal offense. If someone goes to a seclusion room or a time out room these days there is a concomitant host of paperwork, documentation, and observation that must occur. All you need is to find one instance of the abuse of seclusion or time out and the feds can eat your lunch - permanently. Honestly, and as odd as it sounds for an ex-hippie such as myself to be saying this, in most cases your rights are better protected in a state-run facility than in a private care facility.

Someone shoot me - I actually said that and it's true. What a world, what a world! =8-o