[NU Sports] my new book

[Roy Lamberton]

There was a time when people in "mental distress" would contact a religious
advisor, or older member of their family for what has now become psychiatric
emergencies. 

Is it an issue with people now living far from their families? Or a distrust of
religion? Or are our self perceived mental issues that much more difficult? Or
maybe we just now know more about the issues with the mind?

The failure to control one's temper and the related incidences are a major
problem that I see with kids playing sports, and their parents but we now see
much more evidence of serious psychiatric problems out in society.

At one time we drove such people out of our society, or locked them up in
institutions that essentially warehoused problems. By putting these people on
the street, we moved the problem from a controlled environment to the open. It
may be better for those who are no longer warehoused, but it sure puts a strain
on the general population who has to deal with the "crazy guy down the street."

I applaud the fact that you've written a book for other emergency room folks to
help them deal with today's problems, but it is a shame that a book about what
used to be a problem dealt with by the family circle had to be written. FWIW It
is not my intention to verbally shoot the messenger, but condemn the system that
can't seem to deal with these issues.

[and no, the only headline I want to be part of is one of my teams winning a
championship]

rsl

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Roy S. Lamberton - Senior Associate
& sometime Unix Guru....
Computer Applications & Support Associates
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Retired Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician [R]
Commissioner Delaware American Legion Baseball
Alumnus of Northwestern University - Sp 1974
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of szeller at comcast.net
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 5:12 PM
> To: Mike Nolan; nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] my new book
> 
> You are correct about "emergency" and "psychiatry" being paired together in
> the media too often. Our ER has a reminder warning sign in the physician
> charting room: "Today's patient may be tomorrow's headline."
> 
> I'd think you'd be surprised by how often the patients come in. Our
> psychiatric emergency room in Oakland, CA, has over 10,000 emergency
> psychiatric patients brought in by ambulance each year. Nationwide, over
> 10% of emergency room patients are there for emergency psychiatry reasons.
> 
> People just tend not to publicize their visits to the psych ER, go figure
> ;)
>