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I am so disappointed in OPB.  Once again they have had a program on mental health and not a single person with a mental health diagnosis was heard from.  Shame on you OPB for allowing this to happen.

There are many well educated, articulate, mindful people with mental illness diagnosis' that have a story to tell but you continue to keep them silent.  I am asking to know why.  I think people who listen to your program today should also be asking why.  I'm a tax payer and I want to hear from the people this system is suppose to be serving, not the bureocrats and administrators who tell people something smooth.  I think a formal complaint needs to go out to your donors PBS.

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As a former patient I can speak volumes on the disgrace of Oregon's state hospital.  Patients at OSH are simply over medicated and warehoused so the public can forget about them.   Not only are people warehoused and forgotten but Mitche's comment about the PSRB is right on.  Did you know that the PSRB is the single largest drain on Oregon's mental health budget?  Not only does the PSRB prevent people from leaving the hospital when they are ready but once a person does leave the hospital the financial drain on the system continues because of the PSRB.  The PSRB does nothing but perpetuate the stigma people with mental health disorders live with every day.  People leaving prison for murder don't even have to live under the type of conditions a person under the supervision of the PSRB has to live under.  I agree with Mitche, the PSRB has way to much power.  The money the PSRB uses up should be spent on care for people with mental health disorders, not punishment.  The PSRB is not theraputic in any way but is all about being punitive and should be stopped.  People with mental health disorders need therapy and help, they do not need to learn to accept responsibility for crimes as the PSRB is fond of saying.

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I have lived with PTSD all my life and know first hand that PTSD cancause flashbacks that can cause phycosis that cause a person to do things they would ordinarily never do. 

I didn't even know what PTSD was until it was to late and I had spent ten months in jail and was sent to OSH.  My sentence was twenty years under the PSRB and believe me, the PSRB makes prison seem almost preferrable.

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