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angelikaJ -> RE: A rapist moving in next door (5/30/2014 11:35:55 PM)
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ORIGINAL: smileforme50
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ORIGINAL: VeryMercurial
My first thought is, MANY of us have no idea what the "backgrounds" are of our neighbors/or those who happen to frequent/wander around/walk thru/and or "hang out" in our communities.
There is a homeless shelter about a mile from where I live, and I am sure those that use it, "walk around" my neighborhood, or might even sleep sometimes in a wooded area.
I think many of us would be surprised to learn the backgrounds of many people that live or happen to be in fairly close proximity to us.
To answer the OP, I am not sure WHAT I would do.
I already have an alarm system, I might consider getting a gun/and or moving.
Can't really say what I "would do".
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ORIGINAL: Zonie63
Reading this story and some of the posts in this thread where people have said there are sex offenders scattered about their areas, it occurred to me that they could put all of these released offenders in the same area or neighborhood. To borrow a line from The Great Escape, they could "put all the rotten eggs in one basket, and watch that basket very closely."
I remember when I worked in a pharmacy about 15 years ago....After filling scripts for about 3 dozen people, it occured to me that I kept seeing the same street name address over and over....and a LOT of the scripts I was filling were for antipsychotic drugs. Out of curiosity I went back and looked at the scripts I had filled. I couldn't believe it when I realized that on this one particular neighborhood street, there were TWELVE homes where at least one of the residents was on an antipsychotic. I don't know if this was a location for some special housing "halfway houses" or is this was just someplace where they all gathered....or maybe it was the only part of town they could afford to live. But it did get me to start wondering who was living behind the doors of the houses closer to where I lived.
I worked in a residential group home and the majority of the people there were on "antipsychotics" Very few of them were actually psychotic. So called antipsychotics are prescribed for a wide variety of uses including severe PTSD symptoms.
Many of them are also used as adjunctive treatment for severe depression. You have probably seen the ad for Abilify being used in that capacity. Abilify is classified as an antipsychotic.
Some of them are helpful for bipolar disorder.
And some of them are prescribed for severe insomnia.
I have been prescribed Seroquel in low doses for precisely that.
It works quite well.
Sometimes too little information can be a terrible thing.
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