'A 1st Law of Psychiatry'?

[austintorn@aol.com]

Here’s a fun but chilling story of the hazards of living out one’s TOE in the regular world (I’m using the TOE ‘that all is a dream’):

The Nightmare

She, still in her pajamas, grabbed her purified water bottle and hopped on the bus. Glad to see her, I waved her over to my seat, for she was my guru. I was also in my pajamas, for this made the yoga of our meditation therapy easier.

“This is not a real bus, nor is is really moving,” I offered.

“True, we are dream characters in the dream of the Perfect Awareness.”

“It just all plays out in our consciousness, kind of like a movie.”

“Yes, nothing comes through the senses or from the brain or any thing like that; it’s life’s soap opera channel and there is no remote control.”

“It goes as it has to go; all is illusion, but we are not fooled one bit.”

“No, we are foolproof.”

“Why are you wiggling all around?”

“I have to pee—a dream pee, but it is still a dream hurt.”

“Well, you could get off at the next stop and go into a building. I’ll see you at the class.”

“OK.”

“I’ll tell you a short joke before the next stop comes. If you are Russian before you get to the bathroom [water closet] and you are English after you come out, then what are you when you are in the bathroom?”

“I give up; the dream didn’t tell me the answer.”

“European!”

“Ha, ha. I can’t wait for the next stop!”

“Just ask the driver to stop near a building or a gas station and let you off.”

“OK, I’ll see you in a while.”

She had to pee so bad that she ran straight for a building and rushed in right to the bathroom without anyone even noticing. Nor did she notice what the place was.

When she came out of the bathroom she was English again. An orderly stopped her, restraining her.

“I’m sorry. I had to go.”

“You need permission for that. Now let’s get you back to your room.”

“What? I don’t have a room. Where am I?”

“Why, of course, you are a resident of Chesterfield Mental Institution.”

“No I’m not. I just got off a bus.”

“We hear those kinds of stories all the time. Where’s you room?”

“I am sane,” she said with a dry mouth.

“Would you like a drink?”

“No, I only drink a special kind of water.”

“Oh, a special kind? Then maybe it is in your room.”

“I left it on the bus.”

“Well, there’s no bus stop here. Let’s get you out of the lobby.”

“I don’t belong in this place.”

“Then why are you wearing pajamas?”

“For meditation therapy.”

“Therapy? Well, I can get you to that.”

“You don’t understand. I am normal. My God, what a turn this dream is taking!”

“A dream?”

“Yes, nothing is real; all is a dream.”


(Any resemblence to actual people is purely unintentional)

[labelwench]

As mentioned earlier and elsewhere, rules, as pastry, are made with the expectation that they shall be broken.

Perhaps the first symptom that one is headed for a jacket with arms that tie snuggly behind, is when one starts recognizing stories that one has seen posted on other threads.

Austin, with your creative mind and energies, the lady expects nothing less than unique at every posting. LOL.

A demanding creature, is She, of inquisitive mind, easily entertained and as easily bored. Male egos-Dime a Dozen.

(This is a thread on Psychiatry. Feel free to analyze my tortured pysche as it races along on a free running rhythme from graveyards to days and flips back to graveyards.)

More often in the right hemisphere of my brain than in my logical left hemisphere, there is no point in discussing metaphysics and spatial geometry with me. In other venues, I live what I record.

[Mikal]

Montreal psychiatric hospital settles suit, to pay $1M to mistreated patients
Last Updated: Thursday, March 19, 2009 | 12:55 PM ET
CBC News


Montreal's Philippe Pinel Institute has agreed to pay $1 million in damages to be shared among more than 200 patients who said they were treated like criminals during their stay at the mental hospital between 1999 and 2002.

A former patient launched a class-action lawsuit after he was admitted to Pinel in 2001. Hospital employees labelled him as violent, and they allegedly mistreated him during his transfer to another hospital.

The former patient claimed he was shackled and strip-searched like a criminal, even though he hadn't been charged with any offence. He was never identified.

As many as 600 other former patients claimed to have been subjected to similar treatment, but, in accepting the lawsuit in 2003, the Quebec Superior Court ruled it would apply to about 230 patients.

The lawsuit was led by a mental health advocacy group, L'En-Droit de Laval. It was confirmed by both sides in February that the $1-million out of court agreement had been reached, and it was ratified by Judge Marc de Wever on Wednesday.

"It's a double victory for us because Institute Pinel recognizes their mistake about the treatment. They treated the people like criminals — even people who may be sick or strange or marginal get rights," said Michel Labelle, a spokesman for the group.


All the old systems are falling apart right now....its time for justice and to live in a just society....


Mikal