Sunday, June 5, 2005
Kelly's Adventures in Realty
Kelly will soon enter the real world. No longer will she live in her room, surrounded by mutilated dolls. She will borrow a friends spare room for the month of June, and then sleep in a bed in the laundry room, while his mother spends her yearly visit. John's brothers take turns caring for their...
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Wednesday, June 1, 2005
Progress Means
That the mentally ill no longer live on backwards, but on the street. Progress means that instead of being locked up for years in the hospital, they are locked up for years in prison. Progress means that instead of being considered demon possessed, we consider them to be serial killers and...
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Thursday, May 19, 2005
Superior Court at Harborview Hall
Kelly is now on a fourteen day commitment. How a fourteen day commitment will help her, I don't know. She's been on medication almost continuously for eight months and is gradually getting worse. She probably isn't taking medication in the hospital. In order for Kelly to get well, she must be...
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Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Commitment Court
Opposite Harborview Hospital is Harborview Hall. There the city determines whether my daughter and all the others who are on involuntary holds in King County, should be committed for a longer period of time or released. For whatever reason, my daughter arrives on a gurney. She sat in one for two...
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Friday, May 13, 2005
Mommy welfare and Daddy state
It is interesting that the people who think this way, have no problem taxing us to pay for baseball, and football stadiums that we can't afford to use. They willingly tax us so that the corporations can have tax free use of land, highways and all the other benes of working in our state. But now the...
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Emotional Relief
Yesterday, i felt giddy with relief. I was happy. My daughter was in the hospital. My daughter was taken away against her will. My daughter might end up on the street. But I was happy. Mother guilt crept in. I was happy that instead of my daughter having to walk on the interstate, she could get...
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Thursday, May 12, 2005
A new chapter
My daughter Brenda is now living away from home, learning to take care of herself and to get help from people other than her parents. She is a lot more unsure of herself than a normal woman her age, but she is gaining some ground. When other people in her age group start experiencing losses and are...
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Sunday, May 1, 2005
Trauma and Drama
Kelly is going through the stage of recovery. it is different from other times since she didn't come out of the hospital relatively clear. This time hospitalization didn't do anything positive for her. It did help her in one respect. She stopped running away since she was afraid that the police...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2005
A Better System
I have thought a lot about what i would like instead of the present system. I would like to have a community of people with mental illness, retired people, recovering drug addicts, and people who like to help. In this community, everyone would have their own place. For some that would be a studio...
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Thursday, April 7, 2005
Inadequate consequences
Our society does not know how or want to deal with the mentally ill. Our society's solution is to hand the mentally ill person to the family or leave them on the street. For example, last night my daughter took her sister's credit card and finally ended up at Fred Meyer. There she spent four hours...
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