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Tag Archives: Mental illness
Jimmy, part 2
Thursday 2014-07-03. Jimmy came up to me at McDonald’s yesterday and sat down and talked about the incident. He doesn’t say he’d been drinking. He says people thought he’d been drinking.
Recall his psychiatric diagnoses.
Pastor sent me this clipping about the homeless squatters’ camp underneath the Jones Falls Expressway, which the City was about to raze — again. He thought the housing vouchers it mentions might be available to me. They’re not. A different detail caught my eye: the remark that many people in the camp “struggle with mental illness and addiction.” Note the “and.”
Jyahshua Hill
Family defends man arrested for setting Tommie on fire: ‘Y’all don’t know what’s up. Chill out.’
This is community psychopathy.
Related: What’s in a name?
Follow-up, 06/15/19:
Man arrested for killing Tommie the dog: ‘I snapped’
A man with diagnoses of schizophrenia and BPD has no business owning a pit bull. Note that his wife reversed her testimony.
Angry Mike
Angry Mike has been coming to the mission for at least five years. He supports himself by panhandling. He’s OK, rational, but he’s got some kind of mental illness and knows it. He’s doing better at the moment, but in the past he was angry
all
the
time.
Many problems, one solution
What does “acting strangely” mean?
Maybe pot isn’t so safe after all.
The Concept of Schizophrenia Is Coming to an End—Here’s Why
“Compared with noncannabis users, the daily use of high-potency, skunk-like cannabis is associated with a fivefold increase in the odds of someone developing psychosis.”
That’s the form of pot I smell most often, in the places where I go.
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