Posted on 12/01/2016 3:27:20 PM PST by PROCON
I found out Donald Trump had won the Electoral College while midstream in providing a urine sample for the emergency psychiatric staff of a New York City public hospital. The unlockable bathroom door in this unescapable wing was ajar, and I could hear the victorious Mike Pence’s sinister Sunday-school baritone taunting me with the truth from the hallway television.
For the preceding witching hours of election night, I had lain in a fetal position amidst a cast of anonymous men nursing their own crises, my hands clasped tightly over my ears. It wasn’t that I minded the howls of the guy nearby who was shackled to his cot and monitored by an unimpressed brood of policemen. Instead, I wanted to spare myself any word of the far greater insanity unfolding beyond the hospital walls.
Drained of tears, too tired to sleep, I stared at the fluorescent ceiling lights —which, indifferent to our suffering, remained on throughout the night — and endured the passing time by willing my thoughts to vanish into the dull glow. For a second, I imagined someone would burst in and proclaim, “It’s all right, Hillary won!” and I would bound out of bed, awoken from this nightmare.
This was all just a dream, right?
A while before, during the final hour of November 8, I had committed myself to institutional psychiatric care. A generation or two ago they would have said I was suffering a nervous breakdown: catatonic, plagued by involuntary jerking motions (my head furiously shaking “No! ”), speech patterns disjointed, weeping uncontrollably.
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Meet a fellow addict. I can't get enough of that stuff!
My question is, did they just keep him to prevent self harm, or to actually help him work out his conflicts?
Conducted by Anita Bryant.
I was in Bloggers & Personal, does that count?
I would guess that, after evaluating him for three days, they determined that this guy was nothing more than a sniveling little self-centered snowflake who was no danger to anyone including himself. They had plenty of "real" patients piling up on their case load, and sent him on his way.
Based on his "look at me!" post, I'd say three days of "treatment" wouldn't have put a dent in his neuroses anyway.
Gaydar alert...
If you are Shadentumescent for over 4 hours, you just may be ....WINNING!
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