Mental Health in Berkeley: Yours, Mine, and Theirs
Posted in Med Heads & Cafe Culture, The Berkeley Scene on January 29th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to commentby Steed Dropout
January 29, 2012
This is dedicated to Kim Nemirow, just another dedicated Berkeley activist, who was recently kicked off the Berkeley Homeless Commission, which was her spiritual home. Don’t quote me on this, but Kim’s own disability may have led to her ousting, a possible violation of the American With Disabilities Act.
Kim is still (four years service) a commissioner on Berkeley’s Mental Health Commission.
I won’t say Kim is stalking me, but I run into her all over town, where she hounds me to do a piece on “Mental Health in Berkeley.”
So here goes — Kim.
Dear reader, how is your Berkeley mental health? Let me poll you on this.
1) Do you go off on people?
2) Have you stalked anyone lately?
3) Talked on a nonexistent cell phone?
4) Subscribe to the intra-net. Don’t subscribe, but receive it anyway.
5) Sense strange smells. Worry that it is you?
6) Have a pile of documents proving that you are under investigation by multi-agencies?
7) Are you investigating the investigators?
8) Enjoying yourself too much? Too little?
9) Ever been called crazy? Do you agree? Disagree?
We won’t give the answers, because the questions answer themselves. One tip, though, on number 9. Any way you answer this, you’re crazy.
Such are the exigencies of mental health in Berzerkeley, known world-wide for its wacky ways.
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