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| English: Former school gates on Garscadden Road This was the Drumchapel School for the Mentally Handicapped. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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| Human brain illustrated with millions of small nerves (Photo credit: Ars Electronica) |
This is a growing trend in this "civilized country".We are slowly letting more and more folks become threatened by the pressures placed on them by our High pressured life styles.The everyday pressures that hammer us everyday have knocked more and more people out of the social picture.More folks that end up out of work,out of a lifestyle,or out of opportunities for change.The many reasons for being in a position of health decline is very easy to strike the best of folks.
Imagine that you are getting up in the morning as you usually do.You get up,shower and dress to face the day.Maybe grab a quick breakfast at the local fast food stand.the morning is a quick stressful drive thru angry traffic with cars cutting in and out of line while texting or reading or trying to eat breakfast behind the wheel.You reach your work only to find that you have been replaced by a machine that does not need to be paid.Or you are replaced by a person who can be paid less.The machine wont take lunch,breaks or sleep time.You then spend weeks under the threat of repo on your life from credit card debt.The family has placed even more pressures on you to find a job.You begin to lose sleep and the doctors prescribe meds for stress and sleep.Your friends now seem to avoid you Those once smiling bankers simply sneer saying," good luck and when can we expect our money you owe"?
The weeks drag on and you lose your house from non payment.Your family is forced to move into a car that is filled with a minimum of your belongings.The stress by this time is bringing cluster headaches.The doctor says your medical insurance wont cover anymore help from his/her office.You pay with your last few bucks for your own expensive drugs to kill the stress and pain. The choices become eats for the family or calm for your tormented brain and overly wired system.
The Family contacts a relative and one morning while you are away trying to find a job or borrow money....You return to find a note the family has left you to live with your in laws.You are now completely alone without any support group.Despair now joins you already overwhelming health and mental demons plaguing your overwhelmed faculties.YOU ARE ALONE BROKE AND SOON TO BE BROKEN.Your health is now failing from feeding family first.Your beginning to look the part of the homeless and hungry.you look in the mirror one morning.The once well dressed and respected person has been replaced by a pale,haggard looking hardened face.
The life style you now live is a legal problem.You are homeless and vagrant by law.You have no ability to hide the obvious lack of hygiene upkeep.You will at sometime or other be a noticeable police rousting item.This man in the picture has his own story.
There is More and more folks that are fitting this scenario.The push to live is driving the decline in peoples abilities to simply live a life that is healthy and simplified.
Mentally handicapped people are being shot dead if that label in on their record.
The folks who have become homeless in addition to their other problems are being beaten to death by everyone from street punk gang to Hawaiian politicians armed with sledgehammers.(Google either of these).
The shooting example I speak of happened a short time ago to a man that was just sitting in the desert with his backpack.The police converged on his location in Arizona in many cars.There was many officers standing there.The video showed that he had a tiny knife that he had been using while he sat there by himself.
They ordered him to show his hands.when he raised his hands the took turns shooting him with pistols and shotguns.When this man had fallen,They all continued to shoot his already dead body.One of them remarked that he might be alive yet.They then shot him again with what was probably a 12gauge shotgun.
This shooting was only perhaps 20feet from the victim being shot.to death.The man being murdered by those protected by laws .The usual procedure would have been to use the training they supposedly go thru to disarm an armed suspect. Question here is suspected of what,to require such an armed encounter on a single solitary human being in the vastness of the desert???
If you are labeled as mentally ill then you are denied the right to protect yourself,property or family.Those returning from the Overseas Hell of Warfare are automatically listed as mentally disabled.They are disarmed on returned home.Personal and military weapons of any kind.This is the reward our valiant veterans are rewarded with.Many of them were force by law or duty to goto a war.
The stigma of the mentally handicapped is one that can be applied to most anyone.
An elderly person is easily denied all they ever had worked for by various new labels placed on them.Senility or Alzheimer s,is enough to remove the ability to take care of themselves.They are disregarded after that as being unable to think rationally.Who listens to the mentally "insane". They are not any longer focused in reality.Isn't that right????
The start of simply turning those out into the street when they need meds and treatment is the failing of our society.No one can except the thought that anyone can become a mentally handicapped person.A fall in the bathtub,an automobile accident,
A stroke,is a possible reason for a brain injury to bring the mentally handicapped label into anyones life.It happens when you are not even thinking it will.It happens fast and unavoidable.
We need to find ways to help prevent the problems that are taking so many people down as mentally ill.Killing or putting the ill in cages is not the answer.Everyone knows someone that is either beginning to show stress or mental failings.It is not a problem of those"nut cases"It is a problem of our worlds social progress to find ways to
Hoping you have a better day than others are,Maybe you will share that better day with someone who needs it too.
RJP
