What are you reading?

[Fire$torm]

I read these forums every day....

[finalfugue]

I'm almost ashamed to admit it considering it's like a geek Gospel of Matthew, but I'm just now getting around to reading Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"

For years I skated on, "Well, I saw Blade Runner..." Not the same, not the same at all, and pleasantly so. Although I think I'm able to bring a lot more perspective, context, and learning to it now than if I had read it at say, 14.

[Godric]

The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Book by Iris Chang

Worth reading

[Duke of Buckingham]

I read these forums every day....

That should be a curse that some of us have, reading and posting in these forum.

O Coração da Memória (na festa da amizade) de Cristóvão de Aguiar.
The Heart of Memory (on the feast of friendship) Cristóvão de Aguiar.

A book dedicated to my uncle, made more of ancient memories and the emotions attached to each of them.

[aux9o]

A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE - A GAME OF THRONES

I watch the shows so figured id read the books.

[pinhodecarlos]

A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE - A GAME OF THRONES

I watch the shows so figured id read the books.

You are going to be disappointed not by the books but by the TV show.

[Mike029]

You are going to be disappointed not by the books but by the TV show.

Waiting on the last book(s) and you are right.
He pushed back the next book to 2015.

[Duke of Buckingham]

The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse a very nice book from one Nobel Prize.

A tale from a 10 years old boy with a prize, a real nice proof that talent is born with the name of Herman Hesse.

[pinhodecarlos]

Arrived in Portugal on the 28th of July and already read the "Eye of the Needle" from Ken Follett and the "English Girl" from Daniel Silva. Reading "The Blind Man of Seville" from Robert Wilson.

[Duke of Buckingham]

I will try to translate a true history, that I think is very interesting about how Portugal functions on Human and Civil Rights.

Carlos spent three months in a mental hospital where only he was not mad.

Carlos opened his eyes Monday and he was the only one who was not crazy. Walked the hallways of the psychiatric wing of the Hospital Egas Moniz (Lisbon) and tried to explain to doctors that it was all a mistake. He never ceased to be an informatic programmer that made games for large European companies. That day, as in the following months, invariably heard what he did not want: "One of the characteristics of their psychopathology is not be aware of your problem You need to stay here for treatment.".

For almost three months, Carlos would always listened to these conversations and try to reconstruct the past few years. He remembered the discussions he had with his father about his health but none of the arguments that the family had presented to him justified that policemen had gone to get him on a Sunday with a warrant and drive him to the hospital.

Had lunch and went to sit at the computer to advance the work that had a tighter deadline. The difficulty of doing projects for various companies was to spend the day around the monitor and keyboard. Increasingly had less time for friends. Almost never thought of that, but now that he had time he could make a balance of what didnt went well and what will not repeat. What did he do to be here, treated with injectable antipsychotics and sedatives? The cold walls and iron beds did not help him find an answer. And it was not just him saying he had no psychopathology. The doctor who received at S. Jose Hospital in Lisbon, also found no relevant signal: "During the interview it was not possible to demonstrate any psychopathology compatible with the exception of a certain secrecy, slight inconsistency that tried to remedy aspect reiterating the veracity of facts showing that he experienced some tension. "However, the psychiatrist Anabela A. Barbosa wrote in the emergency record which conducted its admission based on an interview with the parents and what the patient wrote on Facebook.

The decision left the father more calm because he didnt agree with the life his son followed. Since Carlos decided a year ago to separate from his wife, spent even more time at the computer than with friends, leading many to speculate about the possibility of 41 years to be developing paranoid schizophrenia of his paternal grandfather. Never listened to what people said becausehe did not see any sense in these concerns since lived independently and was social integrated. His sister in law doctor in National Health Service, have been an important element in the whole process of compulsory detention. The doctor who made the first clinical data on which was base their admission is clear: The patient was not seen, but reports of the family are "worthy of credibility (sister in law is colleague)."

Formally all started on 11th October 2013 without seeing the patient, the Doctor Maria Madalena Serra writes black in white a clinical information that it is a "delusional disorder in large time evolution without any kind of treatment." and finish referring she considers to be important to your internment. Two hours later, the Commissioner of Health has already urgent issue a warrant to drive him to the hospital because there is a "sharp deterioration in his health." In this document, again without being seen or heard, Carlos becomes "bearer of mental disorder" . Away from what was happening in the Hospital of S. Francis Xavier and the warnings from health authorities, held the day to do the same as always. Distract for hours at the computer, working, and trying to overcome some problems that had arisen with the end of the wife relationship and from whom he has a daughter.

In the internal register of the Hospital Egas Moniz would included that days before "he have called his parents to his home to tell them he wanted to go to court to prove that he was not crazy and that everyone else was wrong." This attitude and an alleged "incompatibility" with some familiar was what led them to "start the process of the Psychiatric Emergency Service '.

Let us go to the doctor?

"Good afternoon, we have a warrant and you have to follow us." The surprise to see four policemen at his door, he that never had problems with the law "Good afternoon, sorry, but why?" he said.

On the way to the Hospital of S. Jose his nerves do not took him the hope that his truth would be confirmed by a clinical evaluation. What ended up happening. The doctor found nothing that showed any psychopathology, but what Carlos said or the Doctor analysis serve him of nothingl. Was transferred to 19h20 Sunday to Hospital Egas Moniz.

"From the interview with the parents enhances by the same behaviors consistent with persistent persecutory ideation targeting parents, associated with posts on Facebook," the psychiatrist justified its decision to transfer the patient to hospital.

After entering the Egas Moniz, the problems have increased. He was left without access to a computer, tablet or mobile phone. The doctor who accompanied initially was, without him knowing it, the same that had done days before the clinical information based on the description of sister in law. Between sleep and consciousness of medicines he was stucked in this film, Carlos begin to try in court to reverse what happened to him. The public defender asked for a habeas corpus, ie, the immediate release, but was not granted. "It is difficult in these situations the courts go against what is the diagnosis of a doctor, not normally taken risk," explained the court source.

Since he had to stay, Carlos tried to take some refuge in books - but ran into a prohibition of reading any work that was not in the hospital library. Wanted to move forward with several projects still underway during the visits of friends and colleagues, but every day that passed he was more broken by the medication.

At the beginning even tried to fight against the medication, not taking it, but was quickly caught. In internal documents that had accessi, doctors say the patient "started treatment with oral antipsychotics, which proved ineffective due to the evasive maneuvers of the patient (hidding medication, elimination of pills down the toilet or in the trash, etc.) ". So they decided to "began treatment with intramuscular antipsychotic in Depot".

NEW LAWYER

This process began with information from family members, but Carlos had always the support of friends to find a lawyer who could handle his case with more attention than the Portuguese State. "Not that there was any inconsistency between them," said a source close to the process. But even that turned against him. In the documents consulted, doctors justify the change of attorney with "disease" and reported that Carlos did consider that the State Attorney was done with his family.

"Appointed an attorney by the patient refuses was include in the "delusional sphere," can be read, for example, at discharge from December 19th - the day of the first victory of Carlos. In the internal memo, continues to be labeled as a patient with "delusional disorder", but now can do the treatment at home, having to attend from 15 to 15 days.

He could get out of the Egas Moniz when we begin to doubt that he wrong in this whole story, that maybe he was sick and did not realize it. Under massive doses of Carbamazepine, Olanzapine, Risperdal and Lorazepam all was a doubt, but with the gates of the hospital left behind served as the impetus to fight for his verdade. With the medication being diminished and already in April, five months after being hospitalized, a report of psychiatric evaluation revealed that, despite lowering the dose, was not recorded any change in his behavior.

This report was requested from The judgment of Criminal Procedure of the Judicial District of the Great Northwest Lisbon - Sintra in December, when Carlos had gone outpatient, arrived a few months later but left no room for doubt: he was not sick.

Although he had no signs of psychopathology, the months he was on medication, the fact that it was said he was wrong everytime he was victim of an error left sequelae. The computer programer of 41 years underwent in a clinical state of depression and he had to be followed in the hospital from his home area to minimize sequelae.

Court Decision

It was however the evaluation of independent doctors who brought some respite, but the recognition from justice that he was not crazy after all. In June, with an almost normal and increasingly life and disconnected from his family - who insisted on his alleged illness - Carlos saw the Comarca de Lisboa Northwest acknowledge his mental health. "There is, on one hand, to this date there is no trace of psychotic break in admitting [that according to the attending physician will have been redeemed], given that [...] does not identify [...] one concrete situation of danger to himself or others' legal rights.

The judge also ensures they are not "meeting the requirements for the maintenance of compulsory treatment in the outpatient admitting or compulsory detention of the same regime." He concludes: "I determine its termination without prejudice to voluntary treatment."

From the start that the defense maintained that "there were several rights Carlos denied in this process." Now that the case is over, explained Pedro Silva Lopes, the "constitutional right to liberty, the right to personal integrity or the right of personality" were not taken into account. At a meeting in Cascais, the attorney further explained that the whole process left marks on his client that will not be cured only with the ascertaining of the truth. Carlos has managed to redo part of his old life, he was already present at several events in the United States of America to disclose some IT projects, but there is still much to recover. He did not want to stay here, want to know who was in conversation with parents and achieved what only in extreme situations is done in Portugal: one compulsory detention without even seeing the patient....