Lynne: >Having worked in schools, hospitals, group homes, nursing homes, foster homes, private homes, and institutions, I promise you that what happens "in there" also happens "out here."<
No argument there. NY has involuntary outpatient commitment and I've seen / known of atrocities in a wide variety of settings. Inpatient psychiatry doesn't have a monopoly by any means.
Be that as it may...
rich_edwards: > It seems that people assume that the ECT, chemical coshing' and neglect of their worst institutional nightmares still goes on<
They do. Involuntary electroconvulsive treatment still takes place in NY's psych centers. (Not each and every one of them, but yes, they have procedures and those procedures set forth exactly how one imposes electroshock on folks against their will when they wish to do so). And yes, neuroleptic drugs and shock are both used as punishment for unwanted behavior.
Well said about grafitti. The good stuff belongs on the walls of youth centres and other specified places... MAYBE even brightening up dull concrete bridges and culverts... in other words where it's appreciated rather than being an eyesore on something beautiful. Tags on the other hand are just dumb. Why the desire to leave a mark anyway?
Either way, this dish would still be an amazing place to wath the stars with a loved one.
I'm almost positive this shot was taken at dusk. It was also taken a while ago, considering it the graffiti has almost tripled in the last few months. I life in waldorf, and this satellite has become quite popular. If you want to check it out, you best do it soon, the dish looks as if it will be coming down sometime in the near future.
If anyone would like, I could get addition pictures of the dish, and surroundings.
I've got a computer that had once been in a medical lab and was used as a database server for the labs records... I know this because the database file was still on the HDD, newest files were from 1998-1999. I have since whiped the HDD clean. but the knowlage it was a lab computer certanly explained why the computer was so clean, even the inside was dust free, looked brand new :)
No argument there. NY has involuntary outpatient commitment and I've seen / known of atrocities in a wide variety of settings. Inpatient psychiatry doesn't have a monopoly by any means.
Be that as it may...
rich_edwards: > It seems that people assume that the ECT, chemical coshing' and neglect of their worst institutional nightmares still goes on<
They do. Involuntary electroconvulsive treatment still takes place in NY's psych centers. (Not each and every one of them, but yes, they have procedures and those procedures set forth exactly how one imposes electroshock on folks against their will when they wish to do so). And yes, neuroleptic drugs and shock are both used as punishment for unwanted behavior.