Hey!

Hey it was during a conversation with Christy Goulet that I did wonder aloud or posit aloud to her that there could have been a time when it was I could have been hospitalized or institutionalized for just being myself, and for just exhibiting certain symptoms or certain attributes or features of what is now a certain mental health or neurodivergent or psychological diagnosis that I do have!

I could have!

I could!

Ahh!

Ahh!

And so following that conversation or that positing or exchange I did reach out to businesses and to clinics and helplines, and to departments and places of information or community hubs and archives and I did ask the question, “What is the history of mental healthcare in Fargo-Moorhead?”

And now, now, now here it is!

Here!

Here is the first step or here is the first stage of the answer to that question or to that inquiry that I did make!

(Thank you so, so much Steve Hubbard at the Fargo Public Library for providing me with so much information, and for explaining so much and for speculating so much, and for referring elsewhere for sure!

You have been invaluable and you are invaluable, and you have done me and you have done so many, many others a humongous, humongous humanitarian and histrionic service!

You have!

You have!)

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