Mentally Ill and Pregnant was my favorite Bikini Kill record, hard to believe they had to call it quits just as they were starting to live up to the hype
I'm involved in mental health self advocacy, after spending the first half of my life bouncing around the undiagnosed-undertreated track. The "community" definitely supports families that seek commitment, and would probably support easing restrictions on the process. Doesn't mean it would be any easier.
It burns me up that people who read Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four as simplistic anti-Communism don't read Homage to Catalonia. Orwell went to fight alongside anarchists and democratic socialists against fascism, but they were betrayed by Stalinism.
As many Wonketteers know, I'm a Harm Reductionist. Last month, we bused to Albany (yes, I really got up pre-dawn) because Medicaid is throwing up barriers to MAT (medication assisted treatment; usually buprenorphine or methadone), which just means more people OD. MAT is safe and effective, and way too goddamned hard to get in jail and prison.
I never leave my home without Narcan (Naloxone), so that wherever I go, I have the tools I need to reverse an opiate OD. Three times thus far, I thought I might need it. The first man, on the mezzanine between floors of the Broadway-Lafayette train station, was just sleeping. I let him be. The second was nodding heavily on the 1-2-3 platform at 96th Street. He was stumbling around dangerously, and I convinced him to sit down till he wasn't quite so high anymore. The third was back at Broadway-Lafayette, this time on the downtown F platform. The paramedics got to him before I could. I've never had to do an actual reversal. At least, not yet.
I love harm reduction. I realize that it's not particularly popular, and got slapped in the face with that when Younger Sister met my train so I could attend Elder Sister's birthday party. I mentioned how important Narcan is, and she answered with "Why don't you just let the fucking junkies die?" I did not answer her; I don't think I spoke to her for the rest of the ride. She isn't stupid. She's not even lacking in compassion on many issues; she's a doctor of chiropractic, and good at it. I could have read her for filth, but decided to keep things civil while en route to a festive occasion.
The de-institutionalization of mental patients begun under Raygun is, of course, one of the reasons for the outsized prison population in the US. It's also a major contributor to homelessness. Getting off the street and into housing is damned hard, even when one is in perfect health, mentally, physically, and emotionally.
Btw, when I was in jail (no conviction, of course) in NYC way back in 1970, a young woman in the throes of labor was taken to Bellevue on the prison bus (no shocks, no possibility of comfort anywhere), in shackles.
I wrote about it in an article about conditions at the Women's House of Detention, which at the time was at 10 Greenwich Avenue in the Village. Among many other issues, as if the food wasn't awful enough, they'd shut down the kitchen frequently, citing the "imminent" move to Rikers, which didn't happen for another year. Yes, if you're familiar with 1970 NYC jail history, I was there at the same time as Angela Davis and Judith Clarke. I managed to smuggle the article out, and had copies waiting for me when I got out.
Prisoners are people. People who use drugs are people. People who do sex work for a living are people. People with mental illness are people. Please, let's treat them as such.
Images found on Google search show she appears black. Medical professionals have been shown to discount pain more when expressed by black people. I would guess lay people are even worse.
It doesn't help that the asylum is still Hollywood's image of mental health care. I don't mind it in dark fantasy (Nightmare On Elm Street 3 still among the best), but it wears thin fast for me on movies trying to be modern and relevant, "Unsane" being an egregious example.
I was being sarcastic about their blatant hypocrisy because if they were truly concerned they'd be front and center condemning this. But the mother is Black and incarcerated and they can't use this to rally evangelicals because unlike their "post birth abortions", it actually happened.
And is jailing mentally ill people helping anyone?
Mentally Ill and Pregnant was my favorite Bikini Kill record, hard to believe they had to call it quits just as they were starting to live up to the hype
I guess she had trouble keeping her knees together as all women are taught to do.
Why do people think that all aberrations in behavior warrant their personal judgement, laced with a serving of their personal morality?
I'm involved in mental health self advocacy, after spending the first half of my life bouncing around the undiagnosed-undertreated track. The "community" definitely supports families that seek commitment, and would probably support easing restrictions on the process. Doesn't mean it would be any easier.
It burns me up that people who read Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four as simplistic anti-Communism don't read Homage to Catalonia. Orwell went to fight alongside anarchists and democratic socialists against fascism, but they were betrayed by Stalinism.
No. Just no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
As many Wonketteers know, I'm a Harm Reductionist. Last month, we bused to Albany (yes, I really got up pre-dawn) because Medicaid is throwing up barriers to MAT (medication assisted treatment; usually buprenorphine or methadone), which just means more people OD. MAT is safe and effective, and way too goddamned hard to get in jail and prison.
I never leave my home without Narcan (Naloxone), so that wherever I go, I have the tools I need to reverse an opiate OD. Three times thus far, I thought I might need it. The first man, on the mezzanine between floors of the Broadway-Lafayette train station, was just sleeping. I let him be. The second was nodding heavily on the 1-2-3 platform at 96th Street. He was stumbling around dangerously, and I convinced him to sit down till he wasn't quite so high anymore. The third was back at Broadway-Lafayette, this time on the downtown F platform. The paramedics got to him before I could. I've never had to do an actual reversal. At least, not yet.
I love harm reduction. I realize that it's not particularly popular, and got slapped in the face with that when Younger Sister met my train so I could attend Elder Sister's birthday party. I mentioned how important Narcan is, and she answered with "Why don't you just let the fucking junkies die?" I did not answer her; I don't think I spoke to her for the rest of the ride. She isn't stupid. She's not even lacking in compassion on many issues; she's a doctor of chiropractic, and good at it. I could have read her for filth, but decided to keep things civil while en route to a festive occasion.
The de-institutionalization of mental patients begun under Raygun is, of course, one of the reasons for the outsized prison population in the US. It's also a major contributor to homelessness. Getting off the street and into housing is damned hard, even when one is in perfect health, mentally, physically, and emotionally.
Btw, when I was in jail (no conviction, of course) in NYC way back in 1970, a young woman in the throes of labor was taken to Bellevue on the prison bus (no shocks, no possibility of comfort anywhere), in shackles.
I wrote about it in an article about conditions at the Women's House of Detention, which at the time was at 10 Greenwich Avenue in the Village. Among many other issues, as if the food wasn't awful enough, they'd shut down the kitchen frequently, citing the "imminent" move to Rikers, which didn't happen for another year. Yes, if you're familiar with 1970 NYC jail history, I was there at the same time as Angela Davis and Judith Clarke. I managed to smuggle the article out, and had copies waiting for me when I got out.
Prisoners are people. People who use drugs are people. People who do sex work for a living are people. People with mental illness are people. Please, let's treat them as such.
Yes. There are still high-end private facilities to cater to celebrities and other rich people. They are totally out of reach for most.
It's one of the reasons the prison population and homeless populations have boomed.
Harm reduction saves lives. People lives. It lets people with addictions work, heal and deal with their pain.
The mom is black, so what doo you think?
Images found on Google search show she appears black. Medical professionals have been shown to discount pain more when expressed by black people. I would guess lay people are even worse.
This is America not some 3rd world country
You say that as though they were incompatible states. If Hair Gropenführer gets reelected, we'll soon be both.
Just like we guys, who easily avoid being mugged by firmly holding our hand on top of our wallet.
It doesn't help that the asylum is still Hollywood's image of mental health care. I don't mind it in dark fantasy (Nightmare On Elm Street 3 still among the best), but it wears thin fast for me on movies trying to be modern and relevant, "Unsane" being an egregious example.
Exactly
I was being sarcastic about their blatant hypocrisy because if they were truly concerned they'd be front and center condemning this. But the mother is Black and incarcerated and they can't use this to rally evangelicals because unlike their "post birth abortions", it actually happened.