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Quiet few days
I know, I know, I’ve been pretty quiet around here lately. Those of you who read my other sites know I haven’t been quiet on the tech side of things, but between the many projects I’ve been working on over there, the various events leading up to my birthday Weds., and just having a busy…
Pin Rock Bottom Revisited – A Personal Story
Earl K. Long Hospital, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Jan. 1997. Many people who’ve been through mental health issues, addiction, and so on, refer to “rock bottom”, that one place in time when things got so bad, they couldn’t get any worse. For me, that was Jan 1997. My marriage had just ended, and I quit therapy…
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Well, I took my own advice today. All that talk about knowing your limits and knowing when a relationship is demanding too much, made a lot of sense when it came to my volunteer commitments with the Friends of the Library. I realized that while I enjoyed the work I had done there, and was…
All better now
You might have noticed some funkiness going on here since last weekend. The site actually was taken offline as a precaution with the host having their netblock hit by a DDoS attack. Then when it came back there was a problem with CPanel that wouldn’t let me login or FTP or anything. Then everything was…
Pin Repeating the Same Mistakes in a Broken Mental Healthcare System
Once upon a time, there were mental health asylums across the US. But, they weren’t great, and some of them were even mistreating patients. So, we closed them. The thought was that community-based services would be better, and now that we were closing the asylums, surely the resources necessary to pay for and staff these…
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RT @SurvivorNetwork: Happy Holidays!: No matter how, or whether, you mark the holiday, I hope you take some time to enjoy yourself and … …
RT @SurvivorNetwork: Happy Holidays!: No matter how, or whether, you mark the holiday, I hope you take some time to enjoy yourself and … …
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