-Caveat Lector- [Note this newspaper article is from *1986* ! More evidence that these mind control atrocities have been happening in this country for a *long* time.] ---------- http://www.dallasnews.com/specials/homeless/mentallyill.htm By Melinda Henneberger / The Dallas Morning News Nov. 27, 1986 Throughout the night, darkened forms move soundlessly through the cavernous shelter, standing over sleeping bodies or pacing up and down the rows of narrow beds in the dim red glow of an exit sign. Among them tonight is 27-year-old Maxwell Maxey, a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic, released only today from Terrell State Hospital with a plastic garbage bag full of wrinkled clothes and a paper sack full of medicine. Fully clothed and still wearing his dirty gray sneakers, Maxey writhes painfully on the bed and, head twisted back, finally curls into a contorted fetal position. Burt Gasaway watches him from the next bed. "What's wrong with him?" "Nothing right now," Maxey answers for himself. "My neck twitches to the right and left." Before Maxey finally succumbs to the sleep he says is his only reprieve from the "faded mirage voices" that whisper unspeakable thoughts, the newly released mental patient wonders what life on the streets holds for him. "I hate to see what tomorrow will bring if this is my first day out of Terrell State Hospital." Maxey is but one of thousands of psychiatric patients throughout the state and nation who are stuck in a revolving door: treated in a state institution, released to fend for themselves on the streets, referred to overburdened and inadequately funded community mental health centers and, eventually, readmitted to the state hospital. Maxey already has gone through the turnstile four times. When caseworker Terry Paul first found him 18 months ago, Maxey was living in an empty railroad tanker on an abandoned track south of downtown. Maxey had lined the car with cardboard and carpet scraps. He had begun a rapid downward spiral that landed him on the streets after symptoms of schizophrenia -- voices, paranoia and delusions -- cost him his job as a furnace operator at a tank manufacturing company. Paul, working with City of Dallas psychiatric nurse Kay Pederson and two volunteer psychiatrists, brings mental health services to an estimated 2,000 mentally ill homeless on the streets of downtown Dallas. Experts say that as many as 50 percent of the homeless in Dallas -- variously estimated by the City of Dallas at between 4,000 and 14,000 -- may suffer from some form of mental illness. Paul works for the the Community Outreach Coalition, a group of frustrated mental health professionals who began on a shoestring three years ago to provide care for those most in need -- and least likely to get help. For 151 days in 1982, 96 days in 1983 and 119 days in 1984, Maxey was hospitalized and treated for schizophrenia. "I've been in and out of Terrell four times and I'm not that sick," he said. "I've got to get something done about this merry-go-round in and out of Terrell State Hospital." This time, after threatening the traffic cop with a 3-inch pocketknife and begging him to shoot him, Maxey was committed Sept. 18, 1986 to the East Texas hospital for another 90 days. The incident was triggered, Maxey says, by the relentless voices "telling me how sorry I am and things like that." Moving from chair to chair in the activity room to escape the tag-alongs who would infringe on time with his guests, Maxey explains why he is different from the others, why the voices have subverted his life into "a lifelong torture." "It's just my theory and I can't prove it," he begins, his neck twisting and his tongue hanging uncontrollably. "But I'm being brainwashed, I'm having mental telepathy or mind control put on me." According to the "gossip" repeated by his voices, a bus with tinted glass is following him. "It's a bus with a bunch of old men on it putting mental telepathy on me," he says, laughing at himself. "I know that sounds crazy, but it's the only logical explanation I can come up with. "It's like, 'I'll feed you just enough to live, then I'll choke you. I don't suffocate you to death, I let it go just enough for you to live, to breathe air.'" The symptoms have plagued Maxey sporadically since a nervous breakdown at age 12. Four years ago, the symptoms worsened. They sent him on a futile mission to police, lawyers, judges, secret service agents and religious leaders to get to the bottom of his mysterious affliction. MARtin F. ABErnathy <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! 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