NOVEMBER 20, 2015, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5
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Former OSH doc talks mental
health with McNary students
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Micah McVay peruses new outfi ts for an American Girl
doll at McNary High School’s annual Holiday Bazaar
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By ERIC A. HOWALD
Of the Keizertimes
In September, a Gresh-
am woman fatally shot her
17-year-old son. Reports
suggested that the woman
was undregoing fi nancial and
emotional strain after losing
her home to foreclosure.
When Dr. Prasanna Pati
reads about such incidents,
the psychiatrist laments the
best aspects of the now de-
funct Oregon State Hospital
(OSH). Between 1883 and
1995, the hospital operated as
the primary state-run psychi-
atric hospital.
“People with mental health
problems are not bad guys or
good guys. They are people
with problems, and most
people suffer from some sort
of mental health issue,” said
Pati, who took time Monday,
Nov. 16, to talk with McNary
High School students.
Pati was invited to talk
with students as part of
teacher Gary Bulen’s psy-
chology unit on the brain and
body. Pati served as a doctor
at OSH for nearly 28 years
and even landed a small role
in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest, the Academy Award-
winning fi lm that shot on lo-
cation at OSH.
During his visit, Pati pro-
vided anecotal evidence of
the need for the services
OSH provided. It included
accounts of overbearing, and
sometimes racist patients, as
well as one man who had a
plan to kill his family before
checking in at the hospital.
“He had a loaded gun in
his car when he checked in
and I made him leave the
keys to the car as he signed
KEIZERTIMES/Eric A. Howald
Dr. Prasanna Pati speaks with students during a visit to McNary High School. Pati worked at Oregon
State Hospital for nearly 28 years and had a small role in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
in,” Pati said. The man even-
tually checked out of OSH
and returned to his life with-
out incident.
The key to achieving such
dramatic turnarounds was
destigmatizing issues of men-
tal health, he said.
“We offered group therapy,
family therapy, family group
therapy and activity therapy
that allowed patients to work
on the hospital campus. It was
all part of a team treatment
plan,” Pati said.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
Nest’s emphasis on some of
the more horrorifi c aspects of
mental health treatments was
one of the reasons Pati op-
posed fi lming on the hospital
campus. He felt the produc-
ers offering him a role in the
movie was something of “a
bribe,” but he took them up
on the opportunity.
Lobotomies and electro-
convulsive therapy (ECT), he
said, were performed in the
absence of psychotherapeutic
drugs, which are now readily
available.
“I still believe there are
probably 15 percent or so of
individuals who are depressed
and suicidal that could ben-
efi t from ECT and we’ve de-
prived them of it,” Pati said.
In the midst of provid-
ing students with actual ac-
counts of the things they’d
been reading and discussing
in class, Pati also encouraged
them to take responsibility for
their own physical and mental
health.
“If you are feeling de-
pressed or lonely – if you
have any sort of mental health
problem – tell someone you
trust,” Pati said. “Share it with
them and then do something
about it.”
He also encouraged stu-
dents to follow in his own
footsteps. At age 90, he still
walks two miles a day, down
from four miles just a few
years ago.
“I truly think we can walk
and dance our mental health
issues away. Start each morn-
ing with yoga, or meditation
or dance. Study hard, play
hard and make lots of social
interation,” he said.
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