Law and Psychiatry Program; CMHC

You aren't making any of this easy.n Thoughts on my experiences at CMHC, and the "Wellness center". And their apparent inability to effectively treat their patients.n -I'm sorry that you are scared by my high-blood pressure.n -Perhaps, instead of confusion, fear, and disbelief; maybe a solution of some sort.n -Don't look at me as if I did this on purpose.n _ If you can't deal. Get out.n There is a reason that we are all here at CMHC. We are all poor and insane. If we were rich we'd have real doctors. We are also of the mind that we are not always welcome. We hate ourselves for the most part and don't particularly like each other either. There is no "Brotherhood of the Mad'.n We are weak, easily gulled and bullied. We are scared. Almost all of the time.n We are in a state of utter humiliation. Everything that we thought were our strengths have turned on us.n We are not suited to this world. Most of us already feel useless, small and impotent.n Humiliation and frustration are our bread and butter.n Please stop trying to make it worse.nn p.s. My social worker and my doctor don't talk to each other. Neither of them talk to the health center.nIt's like being a child in the middle of a divorce where the parents won't talk to each other but instead of two parents there are three.nn Eric Dickerson

Great help received from compassionate and highly skilled staff. I don't not use the wellness center however.