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Mental Hospitals
By Marlene Kaiser of Kaiser's Distributing
One type of hospital is the mental hospital. These specialized facilities take care of our psychological health. We picture mental hospital patients as being violent, and never getting well. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Many people going to a mental hospital are gentle souls unable to handle the stress of daily living. Normal stress combined with their DNA causes them to require assistance handling tough situations. The number helped by these hospitals is probably much higher now than when I participated in a study contacting released mental patients and following them for ten years. Some of the patients were released ten or more years prior to our contact, and some were released two years prior to the contact. This study concluded that seventy three percent of the people that had entered a mental hospital in the previous twenty years returned to society having learned to control their mental problems. Some of these patients required a second stay in the hospital, but that was a small percentage. There are only three ways to become a patient at a mental hospital. 1. Sign yourself into the hospital. This is the easiest and most prevalent way that a person becomes a patient of these hospitals. You can sign yourself in for six weeks. If you need more you will be committed for however long you need. Most people rarely stay more than a year now. 2. Be placed there by law enforcement. 3. Be ordered to the hospital by a judge. None of these are easily accomplished. The people who sign themselves in have to recognize that something is wrong and that they need help. This is a biggy, as most people don't recognize their own problems. Those who sign themselves in generally have good family ties, or receive psychological counseling. Sometimes they are given the choice of a mental hospital or jail because of some crime they have committed. This is where family support is important because it is usually the family that recognizes a problem and convinces them to go and then takes them to the hospital. Those who come in contact with the law are so obviously mentally unstable that a police officer recognizes a problem. Those recognized this way are usually in a manic condition that doesn’t require a trained eye to notice. For instance: the person is running naked down the street giving everyone they meet the opportunity to kiss Jesus, or something as strange as this. Anyone in this condition has so much adrenalin in their system that they are super human with tremendous strength. Believe it or not, this used to really happen. This very serious condition, can cause brain and other physical damage unless the person receives a counteracting shot. Hence. the cause of the pictures of four or five large men holding down a single individual entering a mental hospital is a real occurances even today. Fortunately, these manic episodes are less common now because medicine developed better methods of detecting bi-polar individuals. There are now medications that effectively control this disease. Many bi-polar people don’t take their medications during a manic state. They enjoy the energy, but this is soon followed by severe depression. The depression causes them to go back to taking their medication or to seek help. This modifies the major affects of the manic state. Police officers often mistake this disease for drug addition, and don’t immediately take the individual for the care they need. Then the person is put into a padded cell for detox. When the detox doesn’t happen, they are taken to a mental hospital. The third option of being committed by the court takes years. Then when the ill individual does come before a judge, they often act perfectly normal, causing the family to give up until something frightening happens. A family faced with mental problems can spend years and years trying to get mental help. Finding a mental health professional that isn’t booked up months in advance is hard. So during the six month wait, the person seems to be normal, so the family forgets about the psychologist to save the money. When a psychologist is found, they aren’t always compatible with the individual, or they are unable to properly diagnose the specific problem. Another factor for not seeking treatment is called adaptive conditioning. We adapt and condition ourselves to be what the ill person will tolerate so we are comfortable with the family members who live with us. Then their illness is bearable. This is how we are controlled by another individual. Soon, we no longer think something is wrong with them, but is wrong with us. Therefore, we don’t seek help for them until the ill person makes a personality change, which they may do, requiring us to readjust. This conditioning requires outside intervention to stop. This itel was prompted by the tragedy in Tucson. The family of Jared Lee Loughner in Tucson, is being criticized and possibly ostracized because of what happened. So many people outside the family are asking, “why didn’t they get help”? We don’t know if they tried or not. Mentally ill people act normal most of the time, especially at home. The family doesn’t see the strange activities that other people see. The ill person knows what their family will tolerate, and what they won’t. Unless the ill person becomes violent, frequent enough,for the family to be afraid, they consider that individual normal for them. They may have noticed strange actions some time in the past, but became conditioned to the action and no long are aware of it. Mental hospitals have changed in recent years, with an explosion of private rehabilitation facilities, that treat a specific mental illness. These specialized facilities do a great job treating their patients and in helping in the early stages of mental illness, and also work on preventing the more severe aspects of mental illness. Many of these facilities are for juveniles which can ward off many mental health problems in adults. It is a shame that often these programs are beyond the financial resources of the average family. The state mental hospitals are underfunded, but many do a good job with the small amount of money they receive, but people are more reluctant to seek help from a state facility than a private facility with a great sounding name that advertises their programs. We have become more tolerant of differences, but mentally ill people still carry a big stigma. Even mental hospitals are avoided when they could benefit from volunteer help.
Marlene Kaiser is a retired Social Worker, who spent her working life helping many others to get and have health care. I also found myself advising them on how to become more healthy, and find inexpensive ways to maintain good health through good eating and taking supplements. That is why my interest in Watkins Products.
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I wrote this to debunk some of the myths about mental hospitals. This intel has nothing to do with our Watkins business, but I hope the readers will remember that we do have a store, where they can get what they need to make their food taste better organically, to clean their house naturally, control pain and get great supplements for better health.
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