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The suitcase exhibit...mental hospital suitcases
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<blockquote data-quote="tiredmommy" data-source="post: 86318" data-attributes="member: 1722"><p>I read this last night but didn't respond because it was pretty emotionally overwhelming. My mother had her first temporary commitment in Oct 1973... she was out by Thanksgiving. She averaged a psychiatric stay about every 18-20 months until 1982. Only one of those hospitalizations occurred after she moved to Canada... it was also the only stay where she received any follow up treatment. </p><p>I shudder to think what would have become of my mother had she been born in 1922 rather than 1942. I'm sure she would have been institutionalized.</p><p>I'll be teaching my Sunday School class about Jesus and the ten lepers, where only one thanks Him for being cured. It's meant to be a lesson about offering thanks, but I'm also planning on talking about the similarities between yesterday's lepers and today's invisible population: those afflicted by mental illness. We no longer throw our mentally ill into isolated institutions to never be seen again. The mentally ill are now in plain sight, but many still don't see them. </p><p>I pray for the time when treatment will be readily available with no stigma attached and delivered with dignity and compassion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tiredmommy, post: 86318, member: 1722"] I read this last night but didn't respond because it was pretty emotionally overwhelming. My mother had her first temporary commitment in Oct 1973... she was out by Thanksgiving. She averaged a psychiatric stay about every 18-20 months until 1982. Only one of those hospitalizations occurred after she moved to Canada... it was also the only stay where she received any follow up treatment. I shudder to think what would have become of my mother had she been born in 1922 rather than 1942. I'm sure she would have been institutionalized. I'll be teaching my Sunday School class about Jesus and the ten lepers, where only one thanks Him for being cured. It's meant to be a lesson about offering thanks, but I'm also planning on talking about the similarities between yesterday's lepers and today's invisible population: those afflicted by mental illness. We no longer throw our mentally ill into isolated institutions to never be seen again. The mentally ill are now in plain sight, but many still don't see them. I pray for the time when treatment will be readily available with no stigma attached and delivered with dignity and compassion. [/QUOTE]
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