An attention grabbing headline from World Of Psychology: Liz Spikol is a Threat to Your Library!
Liz Spikol has a great entry today about the Treatment Advocacy Center’s (TAC) press release about how mental illness affects our nation’s public libraries. The Treatment Advocacy Center is the organization that prefers that anyone who has mental illness get treatment, even if it’s against their will. Think of it as a stodgy old grandfather from the 1800s that might say, “Hitting a child is necessary and good for the child; the more often the better! Teaches them some manners…”
crazy white lady
“is [the black man in dirty clothing using the Internet] going to be seen as the same as a white woman in clean clothes (like me)? Who’s more likely to be called ‘crazy'”?
obviously the white lady who comes into my library in clean clothes. holy crap! did you see what’s on those seats? is that blood or pooh? I don’t know because I’m not getting one step closer. and what’s with that smell? is that cheese? urine? a corpse?
I don’t know if the person talking to himself has a mental illness or a bluetooth headset that I don’t see.. and I don’t care: take the conversation outside. and I don’t care if the guy threatening me with a knife is on medication or if he couldn’t afford his pills this month or if he’s a criminal: he’s about to get cracked across the head.
librarians don’t care who has what disorder or disease; we only care about behavior in the library. if you are so nuts that you disrupt my ability to serve others, then you need to get the hell out of the library and get some treatment.
I completely agree.
I completely agree. Obviously the writer should take in some of these individuals to her own home and see how she likes it after a while. The library should not serve as a daytime wherehouse for the mentally ill.