More Of My Experiences.

Another thing about mental illness and the subject them being a danger to themselves or others. I suspect that might have something to do with my case, or rather people misjudged me that way. My former therapist seems to think that in his reaction of disdain and that he thought everything surrounding me with that was stupid, especially with the police. He seemed to say that on more than one subject for that last one. But I may never know because no one can tell me, it's still a secret they say. But on that subject, as I have been telling people for years now, since I got online in fact, fighting the stigma around mental illness probably would do more to prevent violence and harm to them than just locking them away. I know my Uncle Al hated the mentally ill. One Sunday on the way to the restaurant we were going to he let it slip that there were mentally ill people eating there for some reason. I don't know what he meant, but he was deliberately letting a private conversation with his wife spill over in front of us. But he said he didn't like eating with "the dirty, stinking mentally ill" or some words like that. Because he hated them, he told me. And he saw me as a case of a mentally ill person who had too many rights and was allowed too much happiness in this world. He wanted me put away. First in a mental institution, he started saying in 1996. For using the word explicitly and asking to go to 7-11 once like I said. But then prison would be better, he started saying around 2004. It just made sense to him he said. And put the rest of the mentally ill people there too, was his philosophy as I've said. He himself was actually a very sick man. He was institutionalized at age 4 and then released at age 18. That would around 1941, when people were being put away in record numbers for some of his issues. I don't know what they were, he never received treatment after being released. I just know he used to tell people he had his mastoid bones removed as an infant when it looked like he was about to go blind and deaf from a severe ear infection, and the surgeon botched the procedure, and he was never the same since. I saw that area behind his ear once, he had huge crater visible there still. In my family we used to say he had mental problems and was borderline intellectually impaired. He also really had no business having a child. The adoption agency in the US refused to give him a child, so they went to Canada to get their son. Who he abused horribly even before he could talk. Even on the plane ride home from Canada he complained he was crying too much. And he used to lament he wanted to put a stamp on the baby's buttocks and send him back to Canada. Then around 1996 he started telling people he was a wonderful father, even though if he wasn't abusing his adopted son he was avoiding him. Finally telling him when he found out by chance he was adopted at age 13 that he never wanted him around to begin with. Frankly I still wonder if he should have been released in 1941. I suspect he just fooled people with his charm and didn't let them see what kind of person he really was. His reputation was everything to him and he prided himself on being a pillar of the community.

I think what I always took away from his case, and mine, was that what we need is mental health reform in this country, but commonsense mental health reform. And ask a psychiatrist what should be done, don't ask the voters. And don't ask a MAGA, don't consult the book of Leviticus, like Christian conservative who worked for the Christian Broadcasting Network once told me in the late 80s in a pamphlet he mailed me. Sensible restrictions, sensible freedoms, and equal rights. Only the restrictions you need, because you would never go to a dentist who strapped you down to the chair and put you in a straitjacket to clean your teeth. At that point even if you had an abscess you would obviously avoid dental care. And equal rights in housing too, equal rights in all areas. So these people don't have their lives spiral down out control like drug addicts sometimes do, because we know both of those conditions are very treatable, especially now.

Also there were a lot of issues brought up with my Uncle Al, because he did make me think of the hypocrisy that he was not being monitored or treated as ill while I was. And he did those horrible things to his son, some too horrible to mention here. And there was a case in the news around this time about someone with mental issues having children. Not adoption, but it was still complex. Marie Noe. She was diagnosed with several mental health conditions, though she was not legally classified as unfit for trial. She was suspected of killing eight of her children in Philadelphia between 1949 and 1968. Finally in 1999 she pleaded guilty to eight counts of second-degree murder and under a plea deal received 20 years of probation with the first five years served under house arrest. I remember at the time they were talking about her narcissistic personality, her possible Schizophrenia, and her IQ too. Which was 78 according to the experts, or borderline intellectual functioning. Evaluators also noted she was subjected to severe physical and psychological childhood abuse herself which they believed contributed to her problems. Like I've said, all mentally ill and all handicapped people are assumed to have the same rights as everyone else until the opposite is proven. But like I have also been telling people for a while, we need to err more on the side of caution where children are involved. Maybe something worked into the system of how these people are helped to manage the affairs and life as I've told people in the past. Monitoring their lives if nothing else.