Date: 8/11/2002 8:35:00 PM
From Authorid: 51635
Sounds simular to taking teens to jail houses so they clean up thier acts, only more intense ... IMZP  |
Date: 8/11/2002 8:42:00 PM
From Authorid: 58923
sounds like it could be effective.  |
Date: 8/11/2002 8:43:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 177
Yeah, kind of like "Scared Straight".  |
|
Date: 8/11/2002 8:46:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 177
This whole episode, being in this institution remindes me of some of the scenes from "One flew over the Cukoos Nest". Besides Wet Brains there were alot of just regular mental patients. |
|
Date: 8/11/2002 8:48:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 177
I shouldn't tell on myself....but here goes...me and another guy got kicked out of the program for sneaking off the grounds to a tavern, and later for smoking weed. |
Date: 8/11/2002 10:44:00 PM
From Authorid: 54987
I think it's good therapy for everyone. It would do us all good to even volunteer some time in our life to help those who need it. Coolade  |
Date: 8/11/2002 10:59:00 PM
From Authorid: 15033
NO, they were just shirking their own responsibilities. Alcoholism isn't cured by changing diapers and feeding messy faces. People will still look at them and think, "I'll never be like that," as they take another drink or pop another pill.  |
|
Date: 8/11/2002 11:00:00 PM
From Authorid: 15033
Druggy Boot camp is the answer to all addiction. Believe it. |
Date: 8/11/2002 11:42:00 PM
From Authorid: 3321
Possibly...but then again morbid...  |
Date: 8/12/2002 12:30:00 AM
From Authorid: 22080
ah stories like this make me love my country more and more  |
Date: 8/12/2002 12:32:00 AM
From Authorid: 23610
I have to agree with Thunderhead on this one. My first reaction, when reading this was that the Hospital staff was not doing their job and that the administration was trying to save money and time. Maybe I've worked in and around hospitals too long...LOL...but I smell a sugar coated scam here. *sigh* "Where doing this for your benefit...*fake smile*....because we care about your rehabilitation....not about hospital costs and staffing shortages." I suppose if it were voluntary and if people truly expressed a desire to help out, it would be a good thing...but not under the guise of "therapy".  |
|
Date: 8/12/2002 9:26:00 AM
From Authorid: 54987
Lady Nyx I never thought about it like that... a revelation! Yeah a drug boot camp would work, with the occasional visit to those poor folks in the wards. But you gotta have some sergeant major bellowing in their faces, "This is YOU!! This is YOU if you don't stop!" Coolade |
|
Date: 8/12/2002 2:13:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 177
I don't even know if the program is run like this anymore. This was during the late '70s. It was unpleasant, educational, but I had to have another 25 years of self-abuse, and the poor health that I enjoy...I mean suffer from now to get me to get serious. I've had borderline (maybe over the line) liver issues for the past ten years....and today...yes today...my doctor has informed me that I may be diabetic. |
Date: 8/12/2002 6:29:00 PM
From Authorid: 16671
Ya know that is really awful and I can see their reason, thinking IF YOU see it you will stop drinking or smoking pot. Sadly we dont, So I really dont think its going to do any good. Hey, we THINK we are immortal!! I'll bet those guys did too.  |
Date: 8/12/2002 8:37:00 PM
From Authorid: 52419
That's very sad, I'm glad you didn't become a wet brain too. That would probably mess with my head seeing people like that. Mickle  |
|
Date: 8/13/2002 12:39:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 177
Hi, Firstborn & Mickle. Nope I have managed to escape becoming a wet brain and housed in an awful 1930s style mental ward like that. I didn't get any smarter either....since I apparently have been an extremely slow learner when it comes to putting stuff in my body that haven't (apparently) been good for it. It's taken the past several years and especially the past few months that at the ripe old of 52 I'd better mend my little (big) backslides. I've been feeling like a sick puppy recently. Wurf, wurf, wurf! |
|
Date: 8/13/2002 8:29:00 AM
From Authorid: 16671
I'm sorry that your health is not good. Ya know I've known people that have drank like a fish, smoked like a chimney are 80 years old and in better health than you and I. My granny that NEVER drank died in her late forties of cirrossis of the liver. Her husband, my grandpa always DRUNK, lived to be a ripe old age and in much health. My point is I think that IF our bodies are going to go down hill, of course our abuse isnt helping, but they are going to go down hill anyway. I'll be 49 in a few days, yet my body feels like it needs an over haul. Shoot not enough room in this comment to tell you all that is wrong. LOL YET my husband, who is five years older than I'm, drinks a twelve pack a day, propells off cliffs, white water rafting and you name is is healthy. Go figure HUH. I use to have boarderline diabetes. Then it went into hypoglacmia, YUCK hated that for two years, got down to 117 pounds tho, LOL, that was the only good part. Then I was prayed for, no more hyperglaccmia, However now my weight is up, but been free of that paticular thing for 12 years now. It bad when one has to *schuduel* * misspelled* their daily activities on rather they feel good or not. OR if anyone is like me, its wow I feel great and half hour later, you wonder where the GREAT went. Oh POOP, its just easier to take one day at a time. I dont mean to offend you, but I will keep you in my prayers. |
Date: 8/14/2002 11:03:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 177
Hi, Firstborn. Yeah, it's strange the way things go sometimes: People who take good care of themselves keel over dead, or get cancer....and those folks who practice all these so called vices live long. I talked to my Dr. yesterday (we had talked about my many poor health-practices and I have been feeling unwell lately...and I told her I have seen the light and am changing my ways. Time will tell, of course. I am hoping that I can pull myself back from the edge with the liver problem and possible or potential diabetes.
I'm going to cut way back on fast-food, candy, pop, give up my couch potatoe ways and get back to the walking trail. I also need to give up my totally erratic bedtimes and getting-up times. Alcohol,pain pills, tranquilizers and absolutely alcohol have gotta go. Sounds like a lot. Well, heck, at least I haven't used tobacco in years. Thanks for dropping bye. |
