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11/15/09
Where are the mental health services for all the crazy everywhere, and how can we make it safe for children? #appic
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You can't force people to stay in services unless there is justifiable cause to believe that immediate harm will come to either the person or people around, and there's not enough money for the beds and the services needed. So you try your best to get someone who is committed as stable as possible as quickly as possible (often with just meds, little to no therapy), and off they go until they are committed again.
Such a double edged sword...you don't want to take away someone's rights as a citizen because they are mentally ill, but it leaves the door open for those who aren't specifically obvious in their intent to do harm. It was horrendous to watch children that were in a facility I worked in be released to the parents that were causing most of the mental harm because we couldn't prove the parents were as bad as we knew they were.
It's like the article this week about rapists, horrible parents will easily admit to their actions, as long as you don't call them bad parents. And the system requires you to call them bad parents.
Which is why I now teach rather than work mental health. It broke my heart.
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The mental health system is broken in so many ways. #appic
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I came out of it thinking schools should be open from 6 am to 8 pm and serve 3 meals and offer medical care and counseling for troubled kids and their parents
We can spend money on schools or we can spend money on prisons
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So if we don't help children and families, we end up paying for it in the end. I'm just finishing my master's degree in children's mental health. #appic
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Where did she come from? What is her story? What did she confront as a young child, that she would do such things to her own child? I ask these questions not in order to excuse her actions, but because I firmly believe that abuse engenders abuse, and incidents like this one can only be prevented by breaking the cycle of violence much further back in a family's history--that is, when the abuse is less extreme, and more "normal." Smacking, hitting, and verbally abusing small children should shock the conscience, but our culture has gotten us used to the idea that somehow you can use violence as a teaching tool, and not reap any negative consequences from that.
I pray (even though I'm an atheist) that the little girl is found soon, and that she finds someone to protect and care for her, just as all children should be. Hopefully her father, as Ides said. #appic
11/15/09
She sounds like a vile monster, but...
"That woman's face is haunting. So cold, so angry, so contemptuous."
Try as I might, I'm not seeing any of that in the picture above. She looks... like just about anyone else taking a mugshot (I know it from my learnings on TSG). #appic
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04/28/09
Yeah I got to start the morning off with stories of 6 months old pimped for crack, so this dude and many many others are beyond deserving of fellatio performed by manual lawn mowers. In fact, can Sebulius get on this already?
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Her marriage shows that not all black women are baby mamas and black guys run away from their responsibilities. Also her marriage is an example of all people of color...hell all people.. that marriage can a joining of equals who love and respect each other and are willing make sacrifices for relationship and family. Like both Michelle and Obama have said in many interviews, their marriage wasn't always easy and they had to make many sacrifices along the way. She's also an example that you can be smart and successfully and you don't have to dumb yourself them for any man.
The moral of the story for Jezzies who would like to share their lives with someone either now or in the future, you do not have to settle.
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She's also an example that you can be smart and successful and you don't have to dumb yourself down for any man.
04/28/09
Also the pressure for women to have a male child in many Africa/Asian countries is so overwhelming that in some places it is just cause to end a marriage or marry a second wife, if a woman 'cannot' produce a male child. YES seriously, be thankful you live in America because stuff like this happens....and is deemed okay by society.
Like that Diary show on MTV says "You think you know but you have no idea"
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Happy Independence Day!
-drunk
04/28/09
Barbara Perry, meet:
- Indira Ghandi from India
- Corazon Aquino from the Phillipines
- Benazir Bhutto from Pakistan
- Khaleda Zia and Sheikh Hasina from Bangladesh
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf from Liberia
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I also hope she makes it. She is a love.
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