June 15, 2011
--Another stalker, courtesy of the big harassers' campaign to destroy women's lives
I'm at a place called "Another Way," which is a resource center for people who are either impoverished or who have psychiatric histories; those two life circumstances often go together.
Since the second I got here yesterday and he noticed I was here, one client of the place has done nothing AT ALL while I'm here except look for ways to harass me. Yesterday, he harassed me and then called for one of the staff and said "We have a problem" when I objected to his behavior. Today, in addition to all of the comments he made when I was here earlier today, as soon as I got here this afternoon, he went into the kitchen, brought out a large container of yogurt, and served it out to other men who are sitting in the room.
He's in his fifties; as I started writing this sentence, he just offered another guy some yogurt. Now he's doing more of that. So gross; I'm so tired of it.
@ 1:51 p.m.
--"Counterpoint" and Christine Oliver
There's a free newspaper called "Counterpoint" in Vermont. What it says above its name is "News, Commentary and Arts by Psychiatric Survivors, Mental Health Consumers and Their Families."
The issue of "Counterpoint" for Summer, 2011, has an article about Christine Oliver, who, according to the article, became Commissioner of Mental Health in January of 2011.
In another article in the same issue, there's a story about plans for a new, psychiatric hospital to be built.. I don't have a problem with it being built; what I noticed in the article was the sentence that says "The department's new commissioner, Christine M. Oliver, said that the new governor, Peter Shumlin, directed her to look with "fresh eyes" at the entire project."
I'm not using any code on this blog page. However, I still have a letter that Ms. Oliver wrote to me in response to my appeals to denials made by Terry Rowe, the director of the Vermont State Hospital, about how I had been treated while I was at VSH. Ms. Oliver also denied everything that had happened, saying that she was sure that all staff at VSH do their best to respect patients and to give them high quality care.
The fact that I wrote grievances about staff behavior that I wrote to Quality Control while I was at VSH was treated as a symptom of mental illness; the doctors and nurses said that I was imagining all of the comments and coughing and bad treatment, that I was psychotic and that everything that I reported was a delusion, and that I needed to take increasing doses of antipsychotics as a result.
In my opinion, the article in the summer 2011 issue of "Counterpoint" that quotes Ms. Oliver as saying that Governor Shumlin had directed her to look with "fresh eyes" at least means that Ms. Oliver was or became aware that none of my grievances were lies or the result of delusional thinking.
Whether her thoughts about me are malicious or not, it seems to me that she has a responsibility to improve the quality of care at every facility for which the ultimate responsibility rests with her. I certainly wasn't the only patient to be emotionally abused at VSH; that place has an entrenched tradition of abusing patients. It goes without saying that the mental health care system is bad, has always been bad, and in some ways is getting much worse as a result of the pathologizing of the world driven by the pharmaceutical industry's greed. Because I had been getting bullied (more harassment by men sitting in back of me; their conversation with each other is being used that way. "Cheese" and how to avoid contaminated food. It's still gross.) by the government and others, the usual emotional abuse of patients by staff was amplified toward me. It really did go on around the clock, for 4 months.
It seems to me that maybe the campaign of harassment against me wasn't really the start of an unofficial campaign to degrade women and turn us into permanent second class citizens for a long time. Where the campaign as it is now originated isn't something I know; what I'm thinking of is the way that the pharmaceutical industry has geared much of its advertising about psychiatric drugs for women. Much of that advertising seems based on sexist ideas about women, with the underlying idea being "Are you difficult to deal with? Are you never happy no matter what? Do your friends and family say this and that about you? Don't you just want to be feeling no pain while everyone in your life takes advantage of you all the time?"
(The conversation in back of me has turned to "The Love Canal" and "Niagara Falls.")
@2:15 p.m.
--More stories about flooding on the morning news
--Possible as a result of my being abused by the libaray, threatened by the state, and possibly also stalked in person by Homeland Security
This morning, the same guy who had been seeming to be stalking me at the shelter had his "WARNING: FISHING POX" shirt on again.
--Tire Warehouse
As I was walking into Montpelier today, I saw a "Help Wanted" sign in the window of a place called "Tire Warehouse." I went up to the window, and saw that there was also a large poster there that says:
"CONTINENTAL TIRE (with a horse emblem next to it)
Dream Giveaway
A Dream Giveaway Sweepstakes
2011 Hurley Hayward Edition Porsche GT3
2011 Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid
WIN BOTH CARS
See details inside
Enter today and help deserving kids at Camp Boggy Creek.
Also made possible through generous support from Grand Am Road Racing."
(More harassment from the men behind me; now they're talking about "electro-fishing." They've been saying other things while I was typing; one of them said to another "I thought you were Flava Flave" while I was writing about the poster in the window of the tire place. They're still talking about fishing and New York Harbor, the Coast Guard; I'm writing about it as they talk about it.)
--Simon's Store
Across the street from the Tire Warehouse (more harassment; "The guy started a fire with all the damp stuff? Wow." Now it's the coast, rain, hairs....I don't know how I'm going to get through the other things I wanted to write about here if I keep documenting what they're saying.), Simon's Store has a sign saying "Save 5 cents off gas today." That's in addition to the "Redstone" reality sign, supposedly just for its deli, that it's had out front for several weeks.
--Mobil station
The Mobil station next to the Tire Warehouse is also advertising a sale on gas today.
--The Price Chopper declares its support for pedophilia
Here's what's just to the right when you walk into the local Price Chopper:
1. A large display that says "NEW Nuval Scores are here!" above a picture of a mother and a very young child
2. Next to that, there's a sign that says:
"Great Gift Ideas For Dad
Father's Day is Sunday, June 19
1. Make a SURF N' TURF DINNER For Dad!
See our Meat & Seafood Depts. for great values on steak and lobster
2. (logos for:)
Best Buy
Regal Entertainment Group
iTunes $25
VISA gift card (with the picture of the card saying "$5," and the number on the card "4000 1234 5678 9040"
Sears gift card
3. Decorate a Cake
Just for Dad!
Just $5.99"
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All of that writing on the sign is alongside a large picture of what are supposed to be a boy and his father celebrating Father's Day.
-------------
Along the bottom edge of the sign, it says:
"Get Dad the perfect gift, PLUS SAVE BIG ON GAS"
Then there's the logo for the Price Chopper Fuel Advantage Card.
I didn't buy anything at the Price Chopper today. However, I can't not buy food at the supermarkets.
I don't think that there can be any doubt by now that there is a government, media, and corporate push to make pedophilia socially accepted. Whether or not the celebrities who are contributing to that problem still see their own behavior as a harmless joke, that's what's going on.
Today, there wasn't a housekeeper's cart blocking the door to the restroom at the Price Chopper when I got to it. While I was in the bathroom, the music over the loudspeaker was interrupted by Price Chopper advertising. Here's some of what was said:
1. An ad for "Blackstone wine from California." The ad ended by saying "Give your new friend a ride home."
2. An exhortation to shoppers to buy ingredients to make s'mores. The ad started off asking shoppers if they remember making s'mores as children, "when your fingers got all sticky from the marshmallows and you got melted chocolate all around your mouth?" The ad then described what shoppers need to buy in order to make s'mores, and how to make them.
As I was leaving the store, and had walked by two large "Pepsi" displays, I had to walk by another display of a large, wire box full of the ingredients for 'smores; chocolate, marshmallows and graham crackers. The sign on the display said "Price Chopper Graham Crackers 2 / $4 w/ Advantage Card."
Copyright L. Kochman June 15, 2011 @ 2:49 p.m.
I haven't edited all of the above for grammar and spelling. If I can, I'll get to it.
--Another stalker, courtesy of the big harassers' campaign to destroy women's lives
I'm at a place called "Another Way," which is a resource center for people who are either impoverished or who have psychiatric histories; those two life circumstances often go together.
Since the second I got here yesterday and he noticed I was here, one client of the place has done nothing AT ALL while I'm here except look for ways to harass me. Yesterday, he harassed me and then called for one of the staff and said "We have a problem" when I objected to his behavior. Today, in addition to all of the comments he made when I was here earlier today, as soon as I got here this afternoon, he went into the kitchen, brought out a large container of yogurt, and served it out to other men who are sitting in the room.
He's in his fifties; as I started writing this sentence, he just offered another guy some yogurt. Now he's doing more of that. So gross; I'm so tired of it.
@ 1:51 p.m.
--"Counterpoint" and Christine Oliver
There's a free newspaper called "Counterpoint" in Vermont. What it says above its name is "News, Commentary and Arts by Psychiatric Survivors, Mental Health Consumers and Their Families."
The issue of "Counterpoint" for Summer, 2011, has an article about Christine Oliver, who, according to the article, became Commissioner of Mental Health in January of 2011.
In another article in the same issue, there's a story about plans for a new, psychiatric hospital to be built.. I don't have a problem with it being built; what I noticed in the article was the sentence that says "The department's new commissioner, Christine M. Oliver, said that the new governor, Peter Shumlin, directed her to look with "fresh eyes" at the entire project."
I'm not using any code on this blog page. However, I still have a letter that Ms. Oliver wrote to me in response to my appeals to denials made by Terry Rowe, the director of the Vermont State Hospital, about how I had been treated while I was at VSH. Ms. Oliver also denied everything that had happened, saying that she was sure that all staff at VSH do their best to respect patients and to give them high quality care.
The fact that I wrote grievances about staff behavior that I wrote to Quality Control while I was at VSH was treated as a symptom of mental illness; the doctors and nurses said that I was imagining all of the comments and coughing and bad treatment, that I was psychotic and that everything that I reported was a delusion, and that I needed to take increasing doses of antipsychotics as a result.
In my opinion, the article in the summer 2011 issue of "Counterpoint" that quotes Ms. Oliver as saying that Governor Shumlin had directed her to look with "fresh eyes" at least means that Ms. Oliver was or became aware that none of my grievances were lies or the result of delusional thinking.
Whether her thoughts about me are malicious or not, it seems to me that she has a responsibility to improve the quality of care at every facility for which the ultimate responsibility rests with her. I certainly wasn't the only patient to be emotionally abused at VSH; that place has an entrenched tradition of abusing patients. It goes without saying that the mental health care system is bad, has always been bad, and in some ways is getting much worse as a result of the pathologizing of the world driven by the pharmaceutical industry's greed. Because I had been getting bullied (more harassment by men sitting in back of me; their conversation with each other is being used that way. "Cheese" and how to avoid contaminated food. It's still gross.) by the government and others, the usual emotional abuse of patients by staff was amplified toward me. It really did go on around the clock, for 4 months.
It seems to me that maybe the campaign of harassment against me wasn't really the start of an unofficial campaign to degrade women and turn us into permanent second class citizens for a long time. Where the campaign as it is now originated isn't something I know; what I'm thinking of is the way that the pharmaceutical industry has geared much of its advertising about psychiatric drugs for women. Much of that advertising seems based on sexist ideas about women, with the underlying idea being "Are you difficult to deal with? Are you never happy no matter what? Do your friends and family say this and that about you? Don't you just want to be feeling no pain while everyone in your life takes advantage of you all the time?"
(The conversation in back of me has turned to "The Love Canal" and "Niagara Falls.")
@2:15 p.m.
--More stories about flooding on the morning news
--Possible as a result of my being abused by the libaray, threatened by the state, and possibly also stalked in person by Homeland Security
This morning, the same guy who had been seeming to be stalking me at the shelter had his "WARNING: FISHING POX" shirt on again.
--Tire Warehouse
As I was walking into Montpelier today, I saw a "Help Wanted" sign in the window of a place called "Tire Warehouse." I went up to the window, and saw that there was also a large poster there that says:
"CONTINENTAL TIRE (with a horse emblem next to it)
Dream Giveaway
A Dream Giveaway Sweepstakes
2011 Hurley Hayward Edition Porsche GT3
2011 Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid
WIN BOTH CARS
See details inside
Enter today and help deserving kids at Camp Boggy Creek.
Also made possible through generous support from Grand Am Road Racing."
(More harassment from the men behind me; now they're talking about "electro-fishing." They've been saying other things while I was typing; one of them said to another "I thought you were Flava Flave" while I was writing about the poster in the window of the tire place. They're still talking about fishing and New York Harbor, the Coast Guard; I'm writing about it as they talk about it.)
--Simon's Store
Across the street from the Tire Warehouse (more harassment; "The guy started a fire with all the damp stuff? Wow." Now it's the coast, rain, hairs....I don't know how I'm going to get through the other things I wanted to write about here if I keep documenting what they're saying.), Simon's Store has a sign saying "Save 5 cents off gas today." That's in addition to the "Redstone" reality sign, supposedly just for its deli, that it's had out front for several weeks.
--Mobil station
The Mobil station next to the Tire Warehouse is also advertising a sale on gas today.
--The Price Chopper declares its support for pedophilia
Here's what's just to the right when you walk into the local Price Chopper:
1. A large display that says "NEW Nuval Scores are here!" above a picture of a mother and a very young child
2. Next to that, there's a sign that says:
"Great Gift Ideas For Dad
Father's Day is Sunday, June 19
1. Make a SURF N' TURF DINNER For Dad!
See our Meat & Seafood Depts. for great values on steak and lobster
2. (logos for:)
Best Buy
Regal Entertainment Group
iTunes $25
VISA gift card (with the picture of the card saying "$5," and the number on the card "4000 1234 5678 9040"
Sears gift card
3. Decorate a Cake
Just for Dad!
Just $5.99"
--------------
All of that writing on the sign is alongside a large picture of what are supposed to be a boy and his father celebrating Father's Day.
-------------
Along the bottom edge of the sign, it says:
"Get Dad the perfect gift, PLUS SAVE BIG ON GAS"
Then there's the logo for the Price Chopper Fuel Advantage Card.
I didn't buy anything at the Price Chopper today. However, I can't not buy food at the supermarkets.
I don't think that there can be any doubt by now that there is a government, media, and corporate push to make pedophilia socially accepted. Whether or not the celebrities who are contributing to that problem still see their own behavior as a harmless joke, that's what's going on.
Today, there wasn't a housekeeper's cart blocking the door to the restroom at the Price Chopper when I got to it. While I was in the bathroom, the music over the loudspeaker was interrupted by Price Chopper advertising. Here's some of what was said:
1. An ad for "Blackstone wine from California." The ad ended by saying "Give your new friend a ride home."
2. An exhortation to shoppers to buy ingredients to make s'mores. The ad started off asking shoppers if they remember making s'mores as children, "when your fingers got all sticky from the marshmallows and you got melted chocolate all around your mouth?" The ad then described what shoppers need to buy in order to make s'mores, and how to make them.
As I was leaving the store, and had walked by two large "Pepsi" displays, I had to walk by another display of a large, wire box full of the ingredients for 'smores; chocolate, marshmallows and graham crackers. The sign on the display said "Price Chopper Graham Crackers 2 / $4 w/ Advantage Card."
Copyright L. Kochman June 15, 2011 @ 2:49 p.m.
I haven't edited all of the above for grammar and spelling. If I can, I'll get to it.