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Hi Astrid,
I am Ben from Romania and know perfectly how you feel. Despite my leg impairment I am a smart guy. Some years ago I earned a distinction from “Intelligence Measurement Program”, a Certificate of Intellectual Achievement (an IQ score of 136). Moreover, I have a University degree in Law, a degree in Advanced English and a degree in Psychology.
My disability has always been an obstacle against my career but I finally got used to it. The most difficult ‘hurdle’ to pass over is still the society’s attitude towards the gifted disabled. They cannot accept the idea that a disabled person can be gifted too. So, I decided to “mind my own business” and become a self employed. It’s far away from my true abilities and mental resources, but it’s a solution. Anyway a better one than the present society is willing to offer us
Well, if society is not prepared for people like us, we can support one another’s ideas and viewpoints, at least.
Regards,
Ben
Hello my name is Greg I have had a mental disorder that started in 1985 when I was run over in a work truck that left me with SEVERE head trauma , the truck was crushed from the drivers door all the way back my head went thru the windshield and I suffered massive physical trauma as well , later diagnoseed { thru brain mapping – MRI’s – ct scans – and months now years of psychiatrits } with right frontal brain damage . I went long periods of time with no sleep and severe violent outbreaks , my father read in NEW YORK TIMES about brain symplex ? where a study done in prisons where inmates who had fights with blows to the head would just turn phsycotic after a while IHAVE SEVERE PAIN IN MY BODY AND NEVER HAVE HAD HELP CONTROLING THAT . I feel that this should be factored in in my mental health treatment but nothing has been done so far , Dr H Hooshmand met me in 1990 after I was baker acted in florida and with a symple test told them to get me out of there becayse I have brain damage causing epilepsy ! After treating me till his retirement and making a study of me he treated me with spinal injections and trigger point injections for the massive pain and muscle spasms that have been debilitating for years ! Before he retiiredhe used me in his book I guess as a test subject for COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME ( CRPS) (RSDS) ,but now I am seeing a doctor who does not help or even understand JUST HOW BAD I AM both mentally and physically . I have always felt and known that if they fix my body then my brain will follow but it seeems they just do not care and now it seems the Mental health system will be shut down in this country !!!! IF I GET NO HELP BEFORE THAT I WIIL RALLY AS MANY “CRAZY PEOPLE AS I CAN AND WE WILL START TO SHOW THE WORLD JUST HOW CRAZY IT CAN GET !!!!!! i AM JUST TRYING TO KEEP THE MONSTER INSIDE BUT WITH NO HELP WE MIGHT AS WELL DO SOME GOOD WITH ALL THE BAD THAT IS IN US STARTING WITH THE BAD ” UNCRAZIES WHO HAVE MADE THE WORLD THIS WAY ” All the people in governments , business’s and wealthy who have done good for themselves while throwing us under the wheels of there climb to the good life !!!!! I just want the help I SHOULD NAVE BEEN GETING ALL ALONG REGARDLESS OF WHICH POLITICAL PARTY IS IN POWER ! think of it organized phsycobaths with an agenda written up by obsesive compulsives who have thought it threw to the end !!!! ….. HOW WOULD THAT BE ? BETTER I THINK but then I am a obsesive compulsive phsychotic who no one cares about oh yeah not to talk bad but bullet proof vests do not protect you against head shots : ) yours CRAZY IN FLORIDA I am a man trying to live a peaceful life in a non peaceful world and have no want to hurt anybody but I keep remembering what Gen. Westmoreland said ” THE ONLY THING THEY PAY ATTENTION TO IS A LARGE BODY COUNT ” he said it not me . Please help me find some good help np baker act needed just the right help both physical and mental thank you