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Ahh the last act of privacy.

It resembles a more relaxed version of the 'Tranquilizer Chair'

Leigh, admitting to being a Mottsahol is the first step!!! ;-)

Lynne,
Your last comment didn't have anything to do with my last posting, did it? If so please let me know what i may have said wrong, i don't want it to seem sa if i am putting down anyone in your profession.

I could have sworn that said 'Extermination Lights'

Well it is in the A.M. That might be the problem.

Reminds me of Jacobs Ladder with a bit of Alien thrown in for good measure.

You're welcome, Bri!

I wish there was a Latin translator like Lycos's Babel Fish but I haven't found one yet.

This IS a very grand fireplace (something I'm sure few patients got to see)....I hope it's preserved whenever they renovate or restore this place.

Hey, Motts....any plans to return to "Gravesend" or The Pines?

It seems as though I should be expecting one of the Cthulhu to be crawling out of that maw.

Whoa.. You guys really did it this time.

You know, there are people on this site who work in the medical field, not just mental health care.

Those that do work in mental health care (or would that mental HELLth care?)

Those that do deal with patients on a daily basis do know a thing or two about what we are talking about.

EVERYONE OF US.. agrees with you all in the fact that ABUSE HAPPENS. We can't help it unless we know about it. However, what everyone forgets is the fact that not every patient that came into a hospital or school was abused, degraded and treated like garbage.

Not every worker who has ever been in this field treats the people in their care with such little regard.

But let me ask those of you who think you know more than we do?
Have you ever jumped out of an ambulance to physically wrestle down and restrain some body builder on a Steroid rage who thought it would be cool to do his Horse 'roid cocktail mixed with Methamphetamines?

I didn't think so.

Have you ever had to take a patient in who is beyond their mental, emotional and physical limits that has them kicking and screaming and howling in the most inhumane sound you have ever heard and have to make a choice to do what is best for them, even if it might look bad to anyone on the outside of the situation?

I didn't think so.

Yet, without having to put yourself at risk, so that someone who needs help badly doesn't get hurt.. You are the voices of authority..

Give me a break.

When was the last time any of you looked at a person in a wheelchair on the street and thought about what you could do to help them?
OR
What do you do when you see someone of diminished capacity TRYING to live in normal society at the store and doesn't understand the concept of counting money, so they are frustrated and screaming.. Do you look around with that obvious uncomfortable look on your face and wait for someone else to come and solve the problem?

Oh wait... What about the homeless guy on the street; yeah, the one who smells like urine and vomit and is talking to himself and swinging at the air screaming about something you can't quite understand.

What exactly do you do? Do you call your congresspeople and other officals to lobby and push bills for mental health care funding, or do you and your friends point your fingers and laugh?

Those of you who like to point out the horrid treatment of these patients need to stop and look at your own behaviors before you point fingers at us.

WE are doing something about it.
We put our own mental health on the line going to work.
Some of us women have had to cut our hair, take out our earrings and forgo all privileges of being a woman to go to work so that we don't get hurt.

We know that abuse happens, and those of us who are responsible and caring blow the whistle on the abusers to get them out of the system and reported to the authorities so they can't do it again.

We aren't proud of it.. But we can't stop caring about the people at our jobs.

We don't romaticise the morbid and cruel things. We don't imagine blood on the walls of a building that has been closed for 10 or more years.
We don't picture some lonely heartbroken soul behind these bars and windows..
No.. we leave that for those people who have never done what we do.

When we see the peeling paint of a building that was closed due to abuse and other violations we breathe a small sign of relief that maybe they were placed in a better facility.
We cringe at the homeless person on the street who obviously needs his medication, and we get angry.
We get angry because the place he/she (doesn't matter) was living got closed because the Taxpayers (that's you) wouldn't pass a bill or a city approval for a group home in your precious neighborhoods.

And yet... we get criticised; for going to school, learning how to take proper care of these people, about the laws and rights they have because they are people too...
You hear one case of abuse and the world blows it up into something awful, making all of us instantly bad.

*jumps down from the borrowed soapbox*

Night all... I'm ticked off and going to bed.

Talk about having to hug the wall to keep your privacy.

WTH.... Wal-mart is evil and corrupt and I hope they get Pinhead and Co. walking in on their grand opening.

Something from House on Haunted Hill perhapes. It adds a REALLY nice touch to the entire place.

Well I'm female so ...no.

But the place I'm going might need to strike the fear into some people. Thanks for the idea Motts.

This looks like it's right out of the game 'The Suffering'. Nicely Done Motts.

dignity dividers huh ?