I recently received this message from a nurse: I understand your goal of wanting everyone to have access to psychiatric evaluation/care, and to a large extent, I agree with you! But there are laws by which police and hospitals MUST abide, in order to protect every citizen. In order to be admitted to a psychiatric […]
Archives for January 2015
The Homeless Experience: “Hardcore” Homeless
I hear so often that about 40% of the mentally ill are “homeless” (1). But I think this statistic does not consider the full picture. First, there are homeless people who have had struggles or bad luck, and their resulting homelessness is a temporary situation. They want to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” overcome […]
Experiencing Schizophrenia: Simulation
I get questions all the time about what hearing voices is like. The experience of hearing voices is extremely difficult to describe. I often tell people it is like experiencing a dream, in some ways. People do not actually see or hear things in a dream, but may remember what they saw, heard and experienced, […]
The Mentally Ill Are Not Dangerous.
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The Homeless Experience: Finding Shelter in Bitter Cold Weather
It was especially cold today in Cincinnati, in the teens. While I lived outside in the churchyard in southern California, it never reached far below fifty degrees. The moderate weather made it possible for me to spend almost every night outside, from February of 2006 until March of 2007. This afternoon, I was in a […]
