mentally ill prank caller sentenced to 18 months in prison

Prank caller gets 18 months in prison
Mentally ill man made thousands of phone calls

DALLAS (AP) - A mentally ill suburban Dallas man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for making thousands of prank phone calls to the National Runaway Switchboard in Illinois.

Jermmie Marquis Davis, 24, told a federal judge Thursday that he had not been taking medication for his schizophrenia when he made up to 1,000 calls a month from 2005 through 2008.

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Davis apologized in court, and he said he is now taking his medicine and that he has changed.

http://www.wwlp.com/dpps/news/strange/prank-caller-gets-18-months-in-prison-_3717313

There is no justice.

They are on the air yes, but if anything that should propel you to help people by waking them up.

Just try to show them they are not thinking, but finding people that will tell them what to think.

Dethrone the 'dictaphone'. If you find someone repeating something, without trying to think and feel what it might mean, and if it is accurate, try to wake them up. They will get angry and scared when they start to wake up, so be kind to them, but once they wake up, they will learn that much of the people talking to them are trying to use them.


I doubt that is what the singers thought that was about, they were probably making a stand against the grammies, but that stand expands to other concepts. Could have been some concept about their beer and travel money point to stand on, only they would know, not sure, but there are many ways to think on things, and that concept expands to many other ideas also.

But anyways.


Alan Parson's Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n-_4o03x7g

There is at least a few good lyrics in that song, and as far as reading minds, that is something seen past the George Orwell story

He makes rules for himself is how I see that. Like every one else. Most of that song is an intimidating song, they can only do that if you think they can. And they have limitations, they can't read minds when you think in images, that was a really fascinating discovery. But anyway, they only read your mind if you think they do, because you have to believe they can for them to be able to.

Blinded by the Light by Manfred Mann's Earth Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8cDmi7-U8

getting another cell phone.

refusing treatment?

I'm finding it very hard to shed a tear here.

It's not as cut and dried as you may believe.

... is a fairly common symptom of mental illness (severe). Additionally, the meds that are often prescribed have fairly severe/disturbing and sometimes permanent side effects.

My heart goes out to those with these types of illness and their families ... these are devastating illnesses that strike (often) in early adulthood.

Sad

Whether or not they are choosing to try to help themselves.

Let's say they take their meds as prescribed and it helps their mental illness but it has terrible side effects. They feel ok so they stop taking their meds and the side effects diminish making their quality of life better, for awhile. For awhile there may be no psychosis and no side effects, and then by the time the mental illness begins to take hold of their lives they cannot simply make a decision to take their meds again.

Do we really expect the mentally ill to just say yes to retaking their meds when they are in the midst of a psychotic breakdown?

Good luck with that one.

Sonoman