Where Are You From?

Bill Thompson is a good, good friend that I am supposed to have, and he and I did chat about “the industry” or working in the movies and for television programs or productions and the like! I do know that that is what it is that I am supposed to be doing as a job or what it is that I am supposed to be doing for work or doing for a living, but there is something that is keeping me right where it is that I am right now, and while it is so that I am here, I will talk about being on the autism spectrum and being an instructor and a creative or a maker and artist!I will have a such a great, great time doing so y’know! I will! I will! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!)

Hey hey and hello once again listeners! Breanna Kompelien and I did dive deep into the journey that I have been on or into the diagnostic and the wellness and the therapeutic or mental health or neurdivergent health treatment experiences that I have had, and wow now and howdy did we wind up coving a whole, whole lot! Wow! Wow! Hahaha! Wow! I did end up telling her a great deal about this life that I have lived up to this point and time, and I do dare say that she did share quite a bit or rather a good, good deal with me too! She did! She did! Oh! Oh! Do have a listen huh! (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!)

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!)

Hey! Tara Lenertz did let me know that she did have some time that she could make during her very, very busy, busy schedule to sit and to converse and have an extended chitchat about feature films or about motion pictures that she and that I have seen or do know about that are set or that have been been set in mental health or mental healthcare or certain or specific treatment facilities or clinics, or sanitariums! Here we do talk about so, so, so many films or movies that it is almost difficult to list all of them within one breath, or during one go of listing them! Hahaha! Do check out this extended chitchat and really, really illuminating and rich, rich and detailed discussion today! https://english.okstate.edu/ (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!)

Hey! 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!)

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/EoWPKs2uyGo

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!)

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!)

Hey hey! John Hallberg did permit me to have a chat with him about what he had found in the NDSU Archives in Fargo concerning the history of mental healthcare in the FM area! Oh my gosh John had found out so, so much about what sanitariums or what hospitals they were that had been here in town, such as the Stone Sanitarium and Hospital and the Fargo Sanitarium, and the Keeley Institute! I do mean, he did find ads and he did find brochures, and he did find articles and testimonials and photographs and so, so, so much more! Goodness! My goodness! What a mother lode it was that he did strike or uncover there at the archives! Really, Really! He did! He did! https://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/ (Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio!)

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!)