Since Deborah's passing on August 18, 2014, two more people took their lives on Patullo Bridge according to the Coroner. I also heard that Translink opted out of upgrading the bridge.
Wednesday, September 30, 2015
The Patullo Bridge
Since Deborah's passing on August 18, 2014, two more people took their lives on Patullo Bridge according to the Coroner. I also heard that Translink opted out of upgrading the bridge.
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Ismaili Walk in Stanley Park raises $230,000 for Mental Health
Ismaili Walk in Stanley Park raises over $230,000 for mental health
Participants warm up prior to the annual Ismaili Walk in Vancouver’s Stanley Park on Sunday. This year’s walk raised over $230,000, said organizers.
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The rain didn’t dissuade participates of the 24th annual Ismaili Walk Sunday at Lumberman’s Arch in Stanley Park, with participants from all over B.C. attending the popular family event.
Organizer said this year’s walk was held in partnership with VGH and UBC Foundation and the B.C. division of the Canadian Mental Health Association to raise awareness and funds to support the Rosalie Segal Mental Health Centre and Living Life to the Full for Youth program.
This year’s walk raised over $230,000, said organizers.
Organizer said this year’s walk was held in partnership with VGH and UBC Foundation and the B.C. division of the Canadian Mental Health Association to raise awareness and funds to support the Rosalie Segal Mental Health Centre and Living Life to the Full for Youth program.
This year’s walk raised over $230,000, said organizers.
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Monday, September 28, 2015
What is September 23 on the Julian Calendar?
I think you will find the 9 minute video fascinating in light of all the 9/23 symbolism reflected in many movies, as the date of the rapture. It had to do with the observation on a Julian vs the Gregorian Calendar.
Aging Parents Dealing with Mental Health
Aging parents fear for schizophrenic sons caught in Fraser Valley mental health facility cuts
The Chilliwack couple is in the unenviable position of having to be advocates for their two sons, Barry Jr. and Bo, who both have schizophrenia. Schizophrenia, according to the Canadian Mental Health Association, is a “complex biochemical brain disorder” that impacts a person’s ability to determine reality. Symptoms of schizophrenia can include delusions, hallucinations, social withdrawal and disturbed thinking.
Although the couple’s sons are a year apart in age, 48 and 47 respectively, their mental health journeys and their lives could not be more divergent.
The eldest son, Barry Jr., was 15 when he started showing symptoms of schizophrenia. While the mental illness presented in Barry Jr. earlier than usual, his status as a minor allowed his parents to oversee and manage his care.
“I didn’t really need a diagnosis,” Olsen says. “I kind of knew when he said he saw blood running off the walls, and spiders coming down to get him in the hospital, I knew. I recognized he was having a very serious psychosis.”The family was living in Nova Scotia at the time and Barry Jr. entered what would prove to be the first of many psychiatric facilities and hospitals across Canada. Olsen and Johnson knew he would never be able to live on his own and would need constant supervision.
Then, at the age of 21, their younger son Bo was diagnosed with schizophrenia. But unlike Barry Jr., their younger son was over 18 years of age and his parents were unable to take control of his care. Since Bo has no awareness he’s mentally ill, he has refused medical and psychiatric treatment.
As a result of his choices, Bo cannot work, has no friends, is socially withdrawn and presents several negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Olsen’s biggest fear is he’ll harm himself.
“There were times I didn’t want to go down to the basement in Nova Scotia, when we lived there, because I was afraid my son had hanged himself in the rafters.”It’s an isolating illness that takes its toll both on the inflicted and their caregivers.
“We never get a break from it,” Olsen says. “It’s with us every day, 24 hours a day. We watch it. We hear it.”
On a waiting list for an assisted living facility or group home for a decade, Bo has been living in his parents basement for 14 years. If it wasn’t for their care and concern, the couple feels Bo would be “another one of those countless homeless people under the bridge.
“We can’t do anything about it. He was over 19 when he got ill and we’re stuck. We can’t get him help.”
The couple can say assuredly that help is key to wellness because of the impact good care has had on their elder son. With the help of Barry Jr.’s social worker, he was placed in Mountain View Home in Yarrow, B.C., a small community 12 kilometres southwest of Chilliwack, where he could thrive and feel like a productive person. He’s been at that home for 21 years.
“[Barry Jr.] has a wonderful lifestyle,” Johnson says. “He’s a very outgoing, inclusive kind of person, who is very friendly. My other son is totally withdrawn because of how he’s had to live. He could be a lot better if he was in a group home or got a medicine adjustment.”
Operating since 1986, Mountain View houses 25 residents with severe and persistent mental illness. Besides providing 24-hour care, the directors and 32 staff create a home for the residents with homemade meals, birthday celebrations, outings to local events and they’re a big part of the community of Yarrow.
“That’s why we call it a home,” says Mountain View Home co-founder and director of care Patrick Newby.A good fit for the residents, their families, and the community that is now being closed.
“The residents are a fabric of the community of Yarrow. Our address is Abbotsford, but we live in the little community of Yarrow… and we’re a part of it. We support their local businesses and they’re so kind to the [residents]. They’re patient and so kind. It’s a really good fit.”
WATCH: Two mental health facilities in Abbotsford are closing. John Hua explains where patients will go, and why families say not enough is being done.
On Aug. 12, Mountain View Home was notified their funding from
Fraser Health Authority (FHA) will be terminated and, by Aug. 8, 2016,
all residents will have to be relocated. The money used to fund Mountain
View will instead be funneled into a new 50-bed mental health facility
being built on Marshall Road in Abbotsford.The closing of Mountain View will be the second mental health facility closed in the Fraser Valley. In June 2012, Sunrise, a 30-bed residential facility was closed and residents were relocated to existing mental health beds in the Fraser Valley, Newby says.
By moving 30 residents from a functioning facility to existing mental health beds, Newby says it “decreases the number of residential beds for individuals suffering with severe and persistent mental illness in Abbotsford.”
On paper, the shift sounds easy, even manageable except for the residents, families and caregivers doing the actual moving.
READ MORE: New allegations of improper mental health care at Abbotsford hospital
But, Barry Jr. thrives in the intimate environment and the news has rattled him as well as overwhelmed his parents.
Newby says since FHA made their announcement there’s been a significant spike in stress and anxiety in the residents; which are the last thing people suffering from schizophrenia need.
“Residents have concerns, which may be minor to us but are huge to them, like where can we ride our bikes? Who is going to do our income taxes?,” Newby says.
“The families are aging parents. They thought their son or daughter would be safe and be in a comfortable situation and familiar faces and caring staff. It’s not going to be the same.”
Olsen and Johnson are a snapshot of the aging parents Newby is referring to and they are well aware of the impact the change to Barry Jr.’s environment will cause for him and them.
“We could have maybe dealt with the one situation with Bo, but now they’re really screwing us up by moving Barry, who is doing so well at a place so wonderful,” a tearful Olsen says.When asked what their biggest concern is with the status of both their sons, Olsen pauses and says: “That we’re going to die before them… and there’s nobody to fill in our shoes, to do anything for them.”
“Now with the closure and figuring out where it’s best to move him, it’s another thing that’s adding to our concerns.”
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The Chilliwack couple is in the unenviable position of having to be advocates for their two sons, Barry Jr. and Bo, who both have schizophrenia. Schizophrenia, according to the Canadian Mental Health Association, is a “complex biochemical brain disorder” that impacts a person’s ability to determine reality. Symptoms of schizophrenia can include delusions, hallucinations, social withdrawal and disturbed thinking.
Although the couple’s sons are a year apart in age, 48 and 47 respectively, their mental health journeys and their lives could not be more divergent.
The eldest son, Barry Jr., was 15 when he started showing symptoms of schizophrenia. While the mental illness presented in Barry Jr. earlier than usual, his status as a minor allowed his parents to oversee and manage his care.
“I didn’t really need a diagnosis,” Olsen says. “I kind of knew when he said he saw blood running off the walls, and spiders coming down to get him in the hospital, I knew. I recognized he was having a very serious psychosis.”The family was living in Nova Scotia at the time and Barry Jr. entered what would prove to be the first of many psychiatric facilities and hospitals across Canada. Olsen and Johnson knew he would never be able to live on his own and would need constant supervision.
Then, at the age of 21, their younger son Bo was diagnosed with schizophrenia. But unlike Barry Jr., their younger son was over 18 years of age and his parents were unable to take control of his care. Since Bo has no awareness he’s mentally ill, he has refused medical and psychiatric treatment.
As a result of his choices, Bo cannot work, has no friends, is socially withdrawn and presents several negative symptoms of schizophrenia. Olsen’s biggest fear is he’ll harm himself.
“There were times I didn’t want to go down to the basement in Nova Scotia, when we lived there, because I was afraid my son had hanged himself in the rafters.”It’s an isolating illness that takes its toll both on the inflicted and their caregivers.
“We never get a break from it,” Olsen says. “It’s with us every day, 24 hours a day. We watch it. We hear it.”
On a waiting list for an assisted living facility or group home for a decade, Bo has been living in his parents basement for 14 years. If it wasn’t for their care and concern, the couple feels Bo would be “another one of those countless homeless people under the bridge.
“We can’t do anything about it. He was over 19 when he got ill and we’re stuck. We can’t get him help.”
The couple can say assuredly that help is key to wellness because of the impact good care has had on their elder son. With the help of Barry Jr.’s social worker, he was placed in Mountain View Home in Yarrow, B.C., a small community 12 kilometres southwest of Chilliwack, where he could thrive and feel like a productive person. He’s been at that home for 21 years.
“[Barry Jr.] has a wonderful lifestyle,” Johnson says. “He’s a very outgoing, inclusive kind of person, who is very friendly. My other son is totally withdrawn because of how he’s had to live. He could be a lot better if he was in a group home or got a medicine adjustment.”
Operating since 1986, Mountain View houses 25 residents with severe and persistent mental illness. Besides providing 24-hour care, the directors and 32 staff create a home for the residents with homemade meals, birthday celebrations, outings to local events and they’re a big part of the community of Yarrow.
“That’s why we call it a home,” says Mountain View Home co-founder and director of care Patrick Newby.A good fit for the residents, their families, and the community that is now being closed.
“The residents are a fabric of the community of Yarrow. Our address is Abbotsford, but we live in the little community of Yarrow… and we’re a part of it. We support their local businesses and they’re so kind to the [residents]. They’re patient and so kind. It’s a really good fit.”
WATCH: Two mental health facilities in Abbotsford are closing. John Hua explains where patients will go, and why families say not enough is being done.
On Aug. 12, Mountain View Home was notified their funding from
Fraser Health Authority (FHA) will be terminated and, by Aug. 8, 2016,
all residents will have to be relocated. The money used to fund Mountain
View will instead be funneled into a new 50-bed mental health facility
being built on Marshall Road in Abbotsford.The closing of Mountain View will be the second mental health facility closed in the Fraser Valley. In June 2012, Sunrise, a 30-bed residential facility was closed and residents were relocated to existing mental health beds in the Fraser Valley, Newby says.
By moving 30 residents from a functioning facility to existing mental health beds, Newby says it “decreases the number of residential beds for individuals suffering with severe and persistent mental illness in Abbotsford.”
On paper, the shift sounds easy, even manageable except for the residents, families and caregivers doing the actual moving.
READ MORE: New allegations of improper mental health care at Abbotsford hospital
But, Barry Jr. thrives in the intimate environment and the news has rattled him as well as overwhelmed his parents.
Newby says since FHA made their announcement there’s been a significant spike in stress and anxiety in the residents; which are the last thing people suffering from schizophrenia need.
“Residents have concerns, which may be minor to us but are huge to them, like where can we ride our bikes? Who is going to do our income taxes?,” Newby says.
“The families are aging parents. They thought their son or daughter would be safe and be in a comfortable situation and familiar faces and caring staff. It’s not going to be the same.”
Olsen and Johnson are a snapshot of the aging parents Newby is referring to and they are well aware of the impact the change to Barry Jr.’s environment will cause for him and them.
“We could have maybe dealt with the one situation with Bo, but now they’re really screwing us up by moving Barry, who is doing so well at a place so wonderful,” a tearful Olsen says.When asked what their biggest concern is with the status of both their sons, Olsen pauses and says: “That we’re going to die before them… and there’s nobody to fill in our shoes, to do anything for them.”
“Now with the closure and figuring out where it’s best to move him, it’s another thing that’s adding to our concerns.”
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Mental Health Facilities in Abbotsford
http://globalnews.ca/video/2238112/is-the-system-failing-mental-health-patients
The video is from Global News, regarding a family desperately looking for a placement for their son who is living with schizophrenia.
The video is from Global News, regarding a family desperately looking for a placement for their son who is living with schizophrenia.
Bullying Tragedy: Amanda Todd
Sunday, September 27, 2015
Runaway Train from the Park
Look behind the blue truck!!
I am feeling frustrated again. I had news that my mother is unwell, and has been in an out of the hospital. Her mobility is compromised, and her recovery will take many months. I feel sad of her predicament, her loneliness. Even her Turkish tenant is out of the country. I know that she has melted a little, and seems to be interested in the things of God, now that she is realizing things, slowly...I was able to share with her.I'm told her hair is peppery, white and black. I think I'm more grey than her. Her greatest preoccupation is that she is no longer able to cry, nor has she cried for several years. Life has hardened her, and for this reason our lives have taken different forks in the road. The best I can do is pray, pray she has heard the gospel in time.
I also feel that on this particular beautiful fall day with the sun shining and the moon about to turn into blood, in a few hours, I have not made time to visit Deborah's grave. My sadness is also, that nobody else has either, from my family. I realize everyone deals differently with grief, but surely, their preoccupation with their own lives cannot be so dense, that they are only consumed with themselves. For a week now, I have been fairly laid up with a sore back, and have not been able to do much. My liver too hurt, and the doctor said that I should eliminate fat from my diet, even when it doesn't appear to be fatty food. Since I have no gallbladder, this complicates things more. I believe it is fair to say that no Hungarian past age forty has a gallbladder.
I also felt stupid coloring my hair, when I was so hoping to be finished with the cares of this life, and enjoy the presence of the Lord, via the gathering together of the Saints. The message today at church was about unfair accusations, and believe me, I live with that daily. The pastor was right in saying, that once we die to ourselves in Christ, it is no longer I who lives, but Christ who lives in me. So, no amount of negative speech should bother me at all. The concern for my families eternal destiny is also something that I cannot loose sleep over. Everyone has a free will and makes the choices they do. In fact, these accusations are all part of the purposes of our Creator. When the apostle Paul was imprisoned, his ability to minister to the household of Cesar became a possibility, and a reality. So in essence , all things work together for the good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose. This verse in the bible is profound, and only those who walk the talk can experience it. A true believer should not care about his or her reputation. In fact the more they speak evil of you, the more loved you probably are in the heavenlies.
The other huge downer, was the circus surrounding the visitation of this Last Pope. Imagine the good all that money he wasted, money that the USA doesn't have! He totally made me want to puke. They can't serve God and Mammon. However, he thinks he is god. I can just imagine what God thought of this abomination that occurred in Philadelphia and New York.
Oh, I almost forgot, my neighbours keep yelling like drunks in a tavern. I am truly afraid that someone will kill each other. Another frustration is seeing this little 2 car train on wheels with a caboose, rolling down my street. It is a new undertaking from across the park. The Halloween train ride, from the park has moved locations to my sidewalk and street.It obtained wheels, and comes complete with a whistle. Please don't think I don't want children to have fun, but we had no notification from our city or the park, that these trains were going to run loose on Ursus Crescent. (Ursus means Bear) I waved at the children! The fresh air and sunshine is so much better than going through a spooky tunnel, that I'm sure will be a key attraction as the celebrated evil night draws near.
Supermoon Lunar Eclipse Sept 27, 2015
My guess is that Christ's life on this planet consisted of 33 years. What do you think??
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Eye Witnesses to Pope Francis Satanic Rituals
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