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I mean I learned it too late.

You know the other day you said I haven't found my passion. I think I made my passion my kids. I have to find a new one.

As much as I love my kids I can't live their life for them. I learned so late in life that I can't FIX things for everybody. I didn't even realize it, but I was ALWAYS the fixer (since childhood), and now I TIRED. I guess that's being a control freak, or so I was told.

I hope they all grow up to be good people. That was always my prayer. At least I tried.

life = lives

Ruby, you brought up Hans the other day. He grew up or lived for a time in South Tampa. I wonder if he heard the story about that college student who drove through the Bayshore Blvd. ballister. Of course he died. They're doing an autopsy on him.

Now there is a kid they were just reporting about on the news. He was walking down the Bayshore, and some other kids threw an egg at him. They have almost put his eye out. Doctors still don't know if he'll get his vision back in that eye. They've just caught the kids who did it.

rubygoober wrote:

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We moved up here over twenty years ago,
I have no desire to live anywhere else.
I know exactly what you're talking about comparing Plant City to
Tampa. Just like Atlanta, hardly a day goes by when there isn't
a murder in Tampa.
Sometimes Curlie teases me about not locking the doors~~the way I
see it, after the thieves finally make it up our steep driveway
they would need to rest and catch their breath before the actual break-in.
Then, if they made it past Dolly, they would need to make it past
the Goobergun.
lol~red necky~~I like that...

It sounds beautiful where you live, but the squirrels sound ferocious.
;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

If I Could (Ray Charles)

Tribe~~
here's a beautiful song that Ray Charles wrote for his daughter.

My own little video on bad squirrels.

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Spooky Mulder wrote:

My own little video on bad squirrels.
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

lol~~
Granny needs to stay out of the 'shine...

Doggies are off at the groomer's, ah...peace and quite. They are worse than 2 year olds, sometimes. It's like "Ma, Lilly bit me on the butt, again". "Cuz, Maddie stole my ball!!!"

Good morning everyone~~
Guess by now everyone has heard about the shooting
in Washington at the coffee house.
Something pushed him over the edge~~even if it was
just in his own mind.
It just confirms for me, not to taunt someone that
has obvious escalating paranoia.

rubygoober wrote:

Good morning everyone~~
Guess by now everyone has heard about the shooting
in Washington at the coffee house.
Something pushed him over the edge~~even if it was
just in his own mind.
It just confirms for me, not to taunt someone that
has obvious escalating paranoia.

Hadn't even turned on the TV. This is what I picture Ron doing someday. But, with paranoia, they seem to look for trouble under every rock, i.e. Jews conspired to get Ron arrested because he wanted to wear a cross with his Goofy outfit.

Spooky Mulder wrote:

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Hadn't even turned on the TV. This is what I picture Ron doing someday. But, with paranoia, they seem to look for trouble under every rock, i.e. Jews conspired to get Ron arrested because he wanted to wear a cross with his Goofy outfit.

True paranoia comes from within. Perceptions are skewed and reality is distorted. In the case under discussion I read an article that said that the family "wasn't surprised". He had a long history of mental illness, apparently.

I have an in-law that I wouldn't be surprised if he did something like that.

What are family supposed to do?
If they don't have insurance you can't get decent help for them.
If they get meds that help and then refuse to take them you cannot force them as they are adults.

LE will not step in unless they do something violent, sometimes it is too late.

We haven't seen this family member since Turkey Day 1998. If he showed up at my door right now I would be calling 911.

WAS sanka wrote:

I have an in-law that I wouldn't be surprised if he did something like that.
What are family supposed to do?
If they don't have insurance you can't get decent help for them.
If they get meds that help and then refuse to take them you cannot force them as they are adults.
LE will not step in unless they do something violent, sometimes it is too late.
We haven't seen this family member since Turkey Day 1998. If he showed up at my door right now I would be calling 911.

Sad but true~~
From what I've read, this family knew something was terribly wrong
right before he went on his rampage.
But like you said, what could they do~~where could they turn for
help?
I feel very bad for the families of the mentally ill that have to
deal with it 24/7.
I can only imagine the anguish they must feel when a relative does
something so horrific.

rubygoober wrote:

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Sad but true~~
From what I've read, this family knew something was terribly wrong
right before he went on his rampage.
But like you said, what could they do~~where could they turn for
help?
I feel very bad for the families of the mentally ill that have to
deal with it 24/7.
I can only imagine the anguish they must feel when a relative does
something so horrific.

That guy who went on that rampage in Oslo last year, his dad said it woukd have been better if he'd just killed himself. These weirdos tend to be estranged from their families. Hard to help them when they don't want your help.

Spooky Mulder wrote:

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That guy who went on that rampage in Oslo last year, his dad said it woukd have been better if he'd just killed himself. These weirdos tend to be estranged from their families. Hard to help them when they don't want your help.

Back in the 60's when the doors to the mental hospitals were thrown open and everyone was released in the name of "patient rights", the laws were changed to make it pretty much impossible for anyone, no matter how crazy, to be kept confined for life. A shame, because there is a whole group of people who simply cannot make their brains function well enough to live in the world. Many of them are homeless, many are incarcerated in prisons because their behaviors are illegal, and many of them victimize other people in their delusional state. We did a grave disservice to the mentally ill and to society as a whole when we made it so that people must be released into said society no matter how ill they may be.

Tired of Silly wrote:

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Back in the 60's when the doors to the mental hospitals were thrown open and everyone was released in the name of "patient rights", the laws were changed to make it pretty much impossible for anyone, no matter how crazy, to be kept confined for life. A shame, because there is a whole group of people who simply cannot make their brains function well enough to live in the world. Many of them are homeless, many are incarcerated in prisons because their behaviors are illegal, and many of them victimize other people in their delusional state. We did a grave disservice to the mentally ill and to society as a whole when we made it so that people must be released into said society no matter how ill they may be.

Those who had become institutionalized were victims, themselves. How does someone with a mental illness whose never been taught the basic skills we all have such as shopping, cooking, finding a job, a residence or just handling their money survive? It was a very sad commentary for both sides of the coin.

Tired of Silly wrote:

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Back in the 60's when the doors to the mental hospitals were thrown open and everyone was released in the name of "patient rights", the laws were changed to make it pretty much impossible for anyone, no matter how crazy, to be kept confined for life. A shame, because there is a whole group of people who simply cannot make their brains function well enough to live in the world. Many of them are homeless, many are incarcerated in prisons because their behaviors are illegal, and many of them victimize other people in their delusional state. We did a grave disservice to the mentally ill and to society as a whole when we made it so that people must be released into said society no matter how ill they may be.

Excellent post.

On the flip side, I have a disabled, emotionally-disturbed brother who has a brain injury who was raped repeatedly in a mental institution. He was a minor child (12 years old) and removed from our home and sent to Macleny Florida's Mental Institution against my mother's will simply because he would leave school after being stuck in a regular education class all day, having to sit in the corner and draw all day. He would get bored, ask to go to the bathroom and leave. There was no place for him in school back then. He wasn't "retarded" enough to be in the special class, and he couldn't keep up with the kids in the regular classes.

They "chastised" my mother about not being able to keep him in the classroom. She told them she could get him to school, but she couldn't sit in the class all day and keep him there. This was back in the 60's. It's s shame the nursing homes and mental facilities didn't/couldn't do a better job keeping sexual abusers and pedophiles away from these patients. Actually they haven't made much progress now, in the year 2012. There are CNA's, nurses, medical workers in nursing homes, mental facilities and daycare centers who are abusing our oldest, youngest and most vulnerable citizens.

May they get caught while on earth and rot in hell forever.

If any of you haven't seen the movie "Larry Crowne" starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, I hope you will rent the DVD and watch it. It is a comedy, and I believe a really cute movie. It's one of those "feel good" movies.

It makes me want to get a scooter. If you knew me, that is a hoot, but I WOULD ride one if my husband would ride one with me. Then maybe I'd get the nerve to ride one by myself.

Whew~whoo!!!

;-)

Macleny = Maccleny

*It was the guards who raped my brother and not his fellow inmates. It was the men who were SUPPOSED to know better, you know, the ones in their "right" mind.

I keep correcting myself. I'm tired. The folks in the Maccleny State Mental Hospital weren't "inmates," though I'm sure they felt like inmates and were treated worse. They were patients.