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Near Death Delusional Chimera: "A Pattern Arises from
Past and Present Events." PART I..
The Present: Four years ago,
I stepped out of my required science classes, geology, misnomered as "Rocks for
Jocks" and walked into Harvard Square. It was a warm, late afternoon with dusk
just starting to chase away the sun. Today, like then, the fall day was
comfortable. I, however, was not. I was angry and highly irritable. Today was a
bit different. I left the locked psychiatric ward where I was being treated for
depression and anxiety. I was unaccompanied with permission from the staff due
to an increase in my privileges for being a good mental patient. I had worked
hard to regain my "privileges." Anywhere else in the United States, my civil
rights would not be taken from me and referred to as privileges. Today though,
I was a mental patient who despite public appearances had no rights. Four years
ago, as I began to stroll, each step grew quicker and longer. There were others
present in the Square, yet no one knew what was about to be unleashed. I
couldn't contain my fury any longer. I felt driven by the force of my political
belief, which bordered on profound and the human condition. Four years ago, I
started a large riot. Today though I was incarcerated in a mental hospital.
After making a very quick detour, I rode towards a gathering of other patients
from the hospital in my electric wheelchair. As I approached them I lit up and
joined both their nasty smoking habit as well as their conversation. For
fifteen minutes or so, we took long drags of our cigarettes, blowing the smoke
into the mild current of the breeze. At least you could smoke at this hospital,
I thought to myself. Other hospitals wouldn't allow you to smoke, which is
mostly what mental patients do to pass the time in liu of other activities.
Most of these non-smoking hospitals didn't 'even give you the option of donning
a nicotine patch for the sake of sanity. After awhile the group ran out of
mundane topics to discuss causing the topic of discussion to turn towards
childhood sexual abuse, the reason that most of us were in this shithole to
begin with. Of course we all had different diagnoses, like bi-polar disorder,
borderline personality disorder, or my personal favorite, psychotic. I found
other patient's "psychotic" episodes to be very entertaining as cruel as that
might sound. Suddenly one of the patient's psychotic episodes began to focus on
childhood sexual abuse. For me, a survivor of horrific childhood sexual abuse
this topic was politically charged. Discussing this topic threatened the core
of my beings known to me as the crew. I couldn't bury my gargantuan emotions. I
began to talk about my personal history as a "survivor" of this type of abuse.
Little by little as the discussion went deeper and deeper; more people joined
our group, which eventually became quite large. True to my form, I began a
diatribe about people in our society who lived just outside the inner circle of
acceptance. In this case, I stated that children because they were treated as
property never had a chance of existing inside the inner circle. The discussion
became very heated. People began to argue. Members of a growing crowd who were
not deemed outcasts and did not belong to a peripheral group, became fearful
when confronted by my river of fury. Just about everyone became fearful of my
fury. After just a few minutes of the diatribe I had begun, some very
frightened people began to leave, while those who stayed became very cautious
for their own protection. Their fear emanated from my reputation as an
outspoken rebel. They wanted to protect themselves just in case the "crazy
disabled woman" and her rueful followers commenced an insurgence in the
hospital courtyard. An insurgence just like the one that occurred four years
ago. Curious bypassers joined the crowd, which grew quickly and steadily. I
felt driven by something if not my strong political beliefs. I was filled with
pain, anger and hatred--- a cocktail for disaster. The oncoming tirade rose
like reflux, first from my gut, up into my esophagus and flooded my mouth. The
taste was sour. My words, like history, were about to be repeated. I started to
put on quite a show for onlookers. A few members of the growing crowd were also
at the tirade four years ago, but most of the onlookers were new. For instance,
my mother and my 3 year-old son Matthew had accompanied my father and brother
Martin on their routine nightly visits to the hospital for the first time.
Shockingly, however, my parents arrived significantly earlier than normal. I'll
never know why they arrived early that day. I did wonder if someone saw where
my anger was headed and had called them and urged them to come. Regardless of
how or why their visit happened earlier than usual, they were there.Click here for
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Religion Ala Carte
Religion Ala
Carte When you start talking about religion you should preface the conversation
or discourse with a caveat. So here it goes, I am not a theologian, or even a
good student of the Bible. My mother read the bible to me when I was small. She
pointed things for me to remember so I would grow up a good Christian. I doubt
very much that the Bible has undergone massive revisions, as if a screen play,
since I was small. I am Catholic, or I should say, I was born into a Catholic
household. I don't practice Catholicism. If you have to practice something,
then you obviously don't know it well enough.. I don't flaunt my religion
either. That is not right. In fact, that to me is "unbecoming a good
Christian." You see I believe, and was taught, to not discuss what you do in
the bathroom, what you do in the bedroom and with whom, and how you follow your
religion. We Catholics feel a sense of superiority to other so-called
'Christian religions.' We truly belief we are the true followers of Jesus
Chris. Unlike those other Johnny come lately Christians. We know Jesus was not
Catholic. He was a Jewish Rabbi, if true need be told. And that's great! The
protestant revolution, as you know-the rebellion that Martin Luther (and
others) lead against the Catholic establishment, was not exactly God blessed.
It was an economic upheaval more than a religious one. Hence forth, there were
"protestants." Why the mere appellations defines what they are, "protesters."
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