[Magdalen] Washington Post article on involuntary hospitalization of the mentally ill

[Lynn Ronkainen]

regarding reading the NYer...

I too have stacks  unread. My *plan* used to be when it arrived (always at a 
different day) to sit down and begin... and return. Since moving (7 years 
ago, can it be?) I have been  unable to sustain this modus operandi so I try 
to take it upstairs and read at night after I get in bed.  I will say that 
it is getting shorter/smaller so that might make it more easily consumed in 
an intentional 2 hours of gift-to-self time.  I do take unread copies (some 
a year old) on biz trips and read in airport/plane/during down time while 
displaying.

I also subbed to Wired several years ago and it has languished with some 
unread. I love that magazine though. It is not just for geeks and it always 
has at least one long interesting and relevant feature article, many one 
page articles that are highly informative and interesting info-bytes, many 
links to their online mag for more info (never follow up on that... and that 
style is becoming the way of the future, hastening hard paper copies, I 
fear...)

So Ann.... I'm with you on the too much to read, too little time thing.

Lynn

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single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave me." 
attributed to Erma Bombeck

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From: "Ann Markle" <ann.markle at aya.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 7:34 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Washington Post article on involuntary 
hospitalization of the mentally ill

> I read this series, too -- and loved it.  I hate that the New Yorker has
> such fine, deep writing on a regular basis, and comes out once a week (or
> two, on occasion).  Once a month would be plenty for so much fine writing.
> I find myself reading lots of articles about things I'm not even 
> interested
> in (or didn't think I was), because the writing is so fine.  I have a big
> stack from the last year that I haven't had time to read yet.  Does anyone
> have any ideas for getting through them more quickly?
>
> As far as the article goes, I certainly didn't understand that there was
> any emphasis on "rounding these people up," but rather the difficult
> decisions that are made regarding standards of self-care.  But even as I
> write this, I can see Jay's point.  Someone like this woman, who is
> articulate and at least minimally compliant with treatment, is easier to
> monitor than those who "go off," don't take their meds, don't keep their
> appointments, and just get crazier and crazier, dangerouser and 
> dangerouser.
>
> Ann
>
> The Rev. Ann Markle
> Buffalo, NY
> ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
> blog:  www.onewildandpreciouslife.typepad.com
>
> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:10 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> In 1981 the New Yorker ran a four-part article: Is there no place on
>> earth for me? Later published as a book. Won the Pulitzer Prize.
>>
>> Those articles changed me in profound ways. One of the things
>> that stuck with me: the protagonist telling a psychiatrist in an ER
>> that she'd had lunch with Clark Gable earlier in the day. The 
>> psychiatrist
>> thought she was talking about one of her friends and pronounced her
>> fit to leave.
>>
>> That and the fact that her parents continued to cash her SSI Disability
>> checks while she lived on the streets.
>>