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- And So That’s Just a Little Bit of the Journey I’ve Had
Hey there!
Here nurse and advocate and friend Breanna Kompelien does sit down with me in the apartment that I do rent to talk about our own journeys in mental health and mental wellness and salubrity!I do talk about the life that it was that I was living before I did have the correct neurobiological or neurodivergent, or atypical diagnosis that I was supposed to have, and Breanna does cover some of her professional observations and distinctions, or some of her own career highlights or insights in the mental healthcare system or profession!Golly!
It was so, so great to have her over!Hahaha!It was! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/3_V5ubQlTYw7 min - Where Are You From? Season Five Trailer
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Hey!
This is the fifth season of the web series Where Are You From? here!
This is!
This is!
Movies and mental health, and movies and art, and art therapy and tests and eduction and self-expression are all topics that do come up during this final season of 2021!
They are! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/moAMAMwcOVs
2 min - Yeah, Like, There Might Be Some Shred of the Truth
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Tara Lenertz and I do join forces once again to discuss just how it is that mental healthcare facilities and institutions and do keep popping up as locations or as settings in horror films and thrillers, and serious dramas or serious dramatic and even comedic cinematic projects or features!We do talk about Changeling and about Halloween, and about The Frighteners and Silence of the Lambs, and we do mention Return to Oz very, very briefly!There are also some movie recommendations that we do offer, you had better check this episode out soon so that you can find out just what it is that you ought to be watching right! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/tQZo_Cyd_Fw11 min - A Halloween Love Letter to Howard the Duck
Hello there!
And a frightful and delightful and an eerily significant and weird, weird Halloween holiday to you!
There is film that I had watched way back when, when the internet was a dream and when cinema was all what it was that we did have to entertain us and to inform us of the world and of all of the worlds beyond our own bedrooms and outside of our own neighborhoods!
That film was Howard the Duck!
It was!
Do join me, and do join Scotch Anderson and Tara Lenertz and Bill Thompson, and many more individuals as we do discuss the legacy of the feature film and of the character Howard the Duck this 2021 Halloween weekend!
Of course if you are terrified of ducks you may just need to skip this episode of Where Are You From? and do something else!
Hmm.
Hmm.
But what is there that you can be doing yourself on Halloween?
Huh.
Huh.
Just what is it indeed! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/jPpGg78Zjps
17 min - We’re Almost There
Hey and hey and here we are!
Here we are!
Haha!
Here we are again!
Hahaha!
Here Heather Zinger and I are following the trail of the history of mental healthcare in Fargo at our final site, or at our final former location of a turn of the century sanitarium in the FM area!
Whew!
Whew!
Heather and I are visiting the former location of the Keeley Institute near what is now the location of Prairie St. John’s psychiatric hospital across from Island Park, and next to the Red River itself!
The Keeley Institute was most likely a suspicious or a suspect, or an unprofessional or unqualified and undignified operation that did treat some patients for addiction or addictions to a variety of different substances or chemicals!
Golly!
Golly!
It sure is a good thing that I did not have to be treated there myself y’know!
Golly!
It sure, sure is! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/HjuIyaUDBP8
8 min - There Just Was a Lot of Experimentation
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Hey!
Heather Zinger and I do continue to journey into the hazy and into the somewhat eerie history of mental healthcare in Fargo-Moorhead with a stop at where it had been that the Fargo Sanitarium used to be!
Ahh!
Ahh!
We could not help but get together and discuss our own discoveries and or our own ideas that we did have about early mental health treatments and cures, and just how necessary or just how unnecessary it may be that we do ought to talk to patients and to relatives of patients, or to survivors of certain experiments or certain experimentations, or of certain experimental and perhaps even unwarranted procedures or policies and regimens!
Huh.
Huh.
Is the past better left undisturbed or left undisclosed, or do some stories demand to be told or to be heard somehow?
Hmm.
Hmm.
I simply do not know for sure here!
I simply, simply do not know! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/EtiDNQ0su_E
7 min - If You’re in the Market for a Building That Used to Be a Sanitarium
Well hey hey and hi, and good, good morning to you today!
Haha!
Hello!
Hello!
Are you ready to join Heather Zinger and me and take yourself a trip into the past and find out a bit about the history and about the historic and very, very different, different practices in mental healthcare in Fargo at the turn of the century?
Hahaha!
I do hope that you are!
I do!
In this episode of Where Are You From? Heather and I do visit one of the former Stone Sanitarium and Hospital locations near downtown Fargo, North Dakota, and we do discuss how it was that treatments in sanitariums did appear to be pleasant and luxurious and restful, restful protocols and techniques even though sometimes they could be a travesty and a tragedy and a big, big problem for others!
Do check it out! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) #WhereAreYouFrom #WebSeries #Instagram #Fargo #Moorhead #FargoMoorhead #Autism #AutismAwareness #MentalHealth #MentalWellness #Community #Inclusion #Acceptance
There Just Was a Lot of Experimentation
Hey!
Hey!
Heather Zinger and I do continue to journey into the hazy and into the somewhat eerie history of mental healthcare in Fargo-Moorhead with a stop at where it had been that the Fargo Sanitarium used to be!
Ahh!
Ahh!
We could not help but get together and discuss our own discoveries and or our own ideas that we did have about early mental health treatments and cures, and just how necessary or just how unnecessary it may be that we do ought to talk to patients and to relatives of patients, or to survivors of certain experiments or certain experimentations, or of certain experimental and perhaps even unwarranted procedures or policies and regimens!
Huh.
Huh.
Is the past better left undisturbed or left undisclosed, or do some stories demand to be told or to be heard somehow?
Hmm.
Hmm.
I simply do not know for sure here!
I simply, simply do not know! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/TK8lR7cSGPQ
8 min - I'm Sure Some of Them Did Some Good
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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!)
http://www.fargolibrary.org/ (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/Te9JQtJPBWE
6 min - That's What Creator Would Want for Me
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Christy Goulet did invite me over to her home to discuss the impact that she does attempt to make on our current society or population, and to chat about how neurodiversity is recognized and celebrated by her own nation by sharing the stories and the traditions and the rituals and practices of her Indigenous ancestors and tribe!
Gosh!
I sure, sure must tell you that there was something sacred and that there was something very, very powerful and real that was blessing us and conducting us while Christy and I did visit with one another, and while I did enter the sweat lodge in Dilworth, Minnesota and did acknowledge and did listen to the song and to the still, small voice of our Creator!
There was!
There was!
https://www.facebook.com/christy.m.goulet (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/qp0YqEybtdo
6 min - Where Are You From? Season Four Trailer
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Here in this fourth, can you believe it fourth season of Where Are You From? Heather Zinger and I, and countless others in Fargo-Moorhead and beyond begin to attempt to answer that question, “Where are you from?” while taking a closer look at the history of mental healthcare in our area!
Just how was it that individuals with what we do now consider or deem mental health or neurodivergent issues were treated with certain sanitariums or asylums or state run or operated hospitals and facilities, and what is the legacy of that treatment in our community and in our culture!
Ooh!
Join us all as we do find out huh! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!) https://youtu.be/xBi6DNr2sO8
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About Where Are You From?
From the publisher's feed
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This is the companion podcast series to the ongoing web series Where Are You From? that is all about the John David that I am supposed to be, and about the artists and the activists that I know, and about the differences that we are supposed to be making, and about how it is that we can all make our own world around us a much, much more inclusive and caring, and totally understanding place, together!
Do, do check it out today!