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Click above [already here] for brief mentions of

The Soloist movie,

PBS's The Released

and "a cry for help" shows

plus a start on

Johns Hopkins Mood Symposium

with nursing staff and security guard as a

[un]welcoming committee...

 

More possibly to follow, if 'I get a round to it'...

 

20090430 4.59 Jerry

 

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For those not watching tv or movies recently,

TheSoloist is out in theatres, including a schizophrenic

(doesn't like being called that) homeless former Julliard

musician named Nathaniel Ayers? starring Jamie Foxx,

and some other famous guy I'm blocking on his name,

[Robert Downey Jr] but has been in the tabloids... 

 

Anyway it is also a book and features the press/ media

portrayal of homelessness and MH, so might be worth a look. 

I'll probably review it later...

 

PBS has also been active with "TheReleased"

about mental health and the criminal justice system,

and mostly non existent services following discharge.

Probably not a surpise to many of us, but thought

they presented the facts, minus the fact that lots

of people who have MH issues and labels

are not involved in the legal system so might

want to reiterate that... 

 

PBS also did "acryforhelp" about teen suicide

and mental health in high schools bordering to college.

NAMI-NJ is highlighted as well as some programs

like online STEP, Got Character? days, and

Hamilton High School (where Bush the second

signed No Child Left Behind) plus some other schools.

Might write about this, as ties into Cho (called the 9/11 of

school incidnets) and my continued worries

of our younger people...

 

Also, Johns Hopkins had their 23rd Annual Mood Disorder

Symposium 23rdMoodSymposium where I was introduced to their unpublished

'no cameras' policy, two+ nurses trying to enforce house rules

claiming HIPAA and a security guard also reiterating/ explaining

policy.  Not the welcome I would have hoped on something

that took me years to get to actually participate in,

and was looking forward to but that spoiled it for me,

but not that different than other hospital/ provider

environments [it was training not on a ward, so not expected],

and people wonder why consumers/

survivors/ ex-patients don't want to go to hospitals...

Must be some 'good guy' (MDs in White Coat uniforms)

and 'bad women' (nurses, security, etc) arrangement...

 

More on this likely too (there were good things like

InterPersonalTherapy, KayJamisonsLowell, FamilyTalks

and ArtistTalks, but I'm a little overwhelmed

at the moment and not even a high school nor college

student facing exams, prom, little to no future for jobs, etc,

but some dyslexic deprived of his assistive recording devices

and publishing outlet (WWFFWG) on a half day 5 hour

$85 continuing medical education

public grand rounds like thingie series

when consumer conferences like VOCAL

are $70 with scholarship for ~3 days residental...

 

Alternatives, a federal conference is coming up

and most SAMHSA consumer conferences

list local support groups like DBSAlliance.org

instead of the defunct classic DRADA.

 

20090430 5.17 Jerry

 

P.S. people are calling for my removal as

co-chair in private communication for what

I write here, but seem to have lost the meaning

of "FREE SPEECH".  We never discussed boundaries

on the RRWG info and it's probably not even documented

in the minutes that I brought it up as well as so many other

contributions over the last 3 - 7 years since starting

organizing drop in center development in Fairfaix County

following up on work by LMEC's proposal disputes

with county government. and other advocates efforts.

 

This spun off onto the RRWG state proposal and

leaving CWC.to help distribute the drop in center

knowledge base and philosophy regionally...

 

Conclusion

 

 

No good deed goes unpunished...

 

Some people are just haters, internal

and external, and maybe I'm glad we don't

have money to fight bitterly over and more people

possibly die over the conflicts anymore..

 

Not that I got any money over 3 years work briefly

described here on NoVAPeers.pbworks.com...

 

And for the record, consumers don't get 'vacations',

it's a 24/7 'job' with few benefits and respite...

 

 

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