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'Togetherness' Seen Vital Ingredient In Modern Approach To Mental Health Problem Second of Three bitpatrhel By HELENA FROST Newspaper Enterprise Aisn. NEW YORK i.NEAi-Living is rough for most of us in this orld of tensions. It is very rough for the mentally ill. And it is not good enough to salvage them and then throw them back to sink or swim. They need help to swim again or for the first time; because peo ple who need psychiatric care do not really have the confidence to FOR GRADS WITH A FUTURE . .'. WITH A FUTURE! Jones' Office Supply Is Headquarters For PortaMe Typewriters plunge into living. This is . the general reasoning of those who are' working to safe guard the recovering mental pa tient against rehospitalization. Dr. Donald M. Carmichael, di rector of Aftercare Clinics in New York City for the New York State Department of .Mental Hy giene, summarizes thinking about aftercare and rehabilitation this way: "It is necessary for many pa tients to be hospitalized, but af tercare is just as necessary. You need a convalescent program to help the patient stay out of the hospital.' Medical aftercare, psy chotherapy, vocational and social rehabilitation any or all may be necessary to help him take a use ful place in the community. President Kennedy's program for mental health, proposed to Congress, 'is founded on the com munity. Dr. Carmichael believes that state and local mental health as sociations are in a unique position to bring a concerned community into the "comprehensive commu nity mental health centers" de scribed by the President. Social and legal stigma arc deeply rooted in the long and tra gichistory of mental illness. Men tal health associations have beer, helping to change the harsh and antiquated laws governing admis sion to mental hospitals, while the parent organization, the Na1 tional Association for Mental Health, has sustained a steady educational barrage against pub lic rejection and lethargy. As result, community concern growing in certain stales; and the seeds the President has sown be- Jonei if Headquarters for all famous, re liabla brondi In cluding the lupcrb Olympia and Olivet ti. Each carries a full 2-year guaran tee and you can name your own terms! Priced From Just OLYMPIA 79 95 3 OLIVETTI I Commurnhf. Qahndak REMEMBER we feature a complete service deportment, too. We service ell makes and models of typewriters and all office machines! Many Other Gifts With A Future . . . Leather Goods Artist Supplies Pen & Pencil Sets Desk Sets Drafting Supplies Notebooks FREE IMPRINTING!! Yts! Your Grod't name imprinted in Gold Letters on any graduation gift! No extra charge! "Your Typewriter Headquarters" QonM ' Office Supply 629 Main Ph. TU 2-4408 FRIDAY RUMMAGE SALE, Manzanita! Social Club, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Clyde's Towing. SHASTA VIEW GRANGE. 8 p.m., meeting. !) p.m. cake walk and dance. Public invited.. GREAT DECISION'S, United Nations Group, 7:45 p.m., joint meeting. First Presbyterian fire side room. Speaker, Elmer Harn don. SATURDAY KLAMATH LANK LODGE 4C0, VOA, 8 p.m., memorial program. IOOF Hall. KLAMATH COUNTY RETIRED TEACHERS, 1:30 p.m.. YMCA. Exchange student speaker. AAL'W, 12: 30 p.m., luncheon. Winema Hotel. Claude Hall, speaker. Reservations, Mrs. Stan Neitling, TU 2-53.12. RUMMAGE SALE, Manzanita Social Club. 9 a.m. to S p.m., Clyde's Towing. . MIDLAND GRANGE HOME EC 8 p.m., card party, grange hall. M E R It Y MIXERS, 8 p.m. mortgage burning square dance, 10:30 p.m.. potluck. Pelican City Hall. Caller, Stan Boak. N.C.O. WIVES CLUB, Kingslcv Field. 6:30 p.m.. 'dinner dance, N.C.O. Club. Reservations, TU 2-5iM17. gin to germinate. Satisfaction is too mild a word to describe Dr. Carmichael's feel ing about the law just passed bv the New York legislature. He said: "At long last a -patient can enter a menial hospital informal ly, w ithout signing any document. And he can also leave whenever he wants to. -This means that a man suffering from a mental or emotional disorder can ask for help exactly as he wuuid for uail- stones or an ulcer." This has been a fact of life in Britain since the 1959 Mental Health Bill. More than 80 per cent of mental patients in British hos pitals are there by choice and as Dr. Carmichael points out: "Stigma has been eliminated, and that's very important. Wlien a patient enters a hospital volun tarily, he and his family enter into partnership with the hospital personnel. The doctor can draw upon tlie patient's innate capa city for self-help, and nothing is more important as we have dis covered here." "Here" is the Brooklyn Day Hospital, a subsidiary service for the Aftercare Clinics. A clinic mav deckle that a patient needs addi tional intensive treatment at the Day Center. The patients prefer to call it a "Center," just as they think of themselves as "members," and their activities as "classes" or "meetings." "It's not a question of seman tics," said Dr. Floyd W. Carneal, psychiatrisl-in-charge of the Day Center. "The terminology. . the popping .out to the corner drug-) store for lunch, running their own meetings, conducting social func tions and outings it's all good tlierapy. They learn to live with others, to take responsibility In their community . . , A sheltered community, a thera peutic community, yes but still a community and one that runs with remarkably little disorder. It is fascinating and heartwarming1 to spend a day at tlie Center. At a Therapeutic Community Meeting, attended by all patients and staff members, a young worn ;an said, "! think wc ought to have membership cards." Another ex pressed civic concern about the I fire hazard of paper discarded in I ashtrays. Someone' suggested a system of fines and someone re plied, "We don't punish people here." And w hen a member com plained she was always "left out of things," there was swift con cern and understanding, a flood of suggestions to. make the girl feel less rejected. The Brooklyn Day Center has a full 9:30 to 4:30 day of activities which arc planned to meet each patient's individual needs. "Our occupational tlierapy program stresses practical skills," Dr. Cor neal said. "Some learn electronics, others dress-making and milli nery, typing and stenography anything that will help them find a job." (Next: A Victorian House H Red Bank. Grass Fire Extinguished City firemen extinguished a grass fire on the bank of the government canal, along the 1100 block of High Street, about 10:02 p.m., in one of two calls answered by tile Klamath Falls Fire Department Wednesday. Tne fire was reported by a per son who observed youngsters set the canal bank atiro ami then flee, firemen said. At 9: 10 a.m.. firemen were sum moned tu a fire alarm box that had been accidentally set off when a utility company employe scaled a telephone pole to which the box w as attached. The alarm may have been set off by the swaying motion of the pole as the worker was scaling it. firemen reported. HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. SI"i iSSl iPltt rbncsimm!, - Catch a bite to eat here, going or coming! BREAKFASTS - LUNCHES DINNERS Delicious Fried Chicken, Sizzling Steaks, Ham 'n Eggs as you like 'em! HOME MADE PIE ODESSA COFFEE SHOP Rocky Point Rood Closed Mondays Ph. EL 6-2250 Pocky Point Open 6 to 9 P.M. For Reservations Friday, May 17, 1963 PAGE 3 A M'.WJ'KF'"!' ,' fati(lTf4r.t.liittr' 133 COU SUNDAY 'LE'S CLUSTER, 7 p.m.. meeting, potluck. First Methodist Church. Bring salad or dessert and ground round. MONDAY AAL'W, 12 noon. Monday lunch eon. Winema Hotel. 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