Strange, there are still SEVERAL mental institutions open here in Michigan that are fully operating today. Some closed down because lack of staff or funding, (after 9/11 I think a lot of places were hurting for money and buisness). However, myself being hospitalized 5 times for suicide attempts I can tell you one thing, last time I was there 2 years ago you can't smoke a cigarette in the building! I was fiending for days, and a lot of people just went even more insane because of it. I was there for a week and the first thing I did (after not smoking for a week) was smoke.. lol.. I wasn't ready to quit and I couldn't handle it.
I tell you one thing, the worst thing you can do to someone who is depressed and suicidal is take away thier cigarettes, agression rages and sometimes it's uncontrollable.
On 2002-10-05 13:36:00, Tampa survivor wrote:
Keep in mind my friend that the lawsuits and congressional acts which closed the state mental hospitals in the 70s and 80s were instigated by do- gooder liberal "advocates" of the mental patients. Unfortunately, the same thing just happened here in Fl with the closure of G Pierce Woods in Arcadia last year....once again at the behest of well intentioned but uninformed people who don't understand that the sickest people NEED to be institionalized.
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