I was interviewed by the Reader House Round Table pod caste featuring authors who published a new book. It was aired last month. With my busy schedule, I almost forgot about it. The interview starts are the 22:36 minute mark. I have posted the transcript if you prefer to read rather than listen Keep in mind that the transcript is raw and not edited perhaps I’ll modify this post and edited in the future depending on my schedule:

true George says he does a lot of paperwork for the City of New York to figure out eligibility for public

22:25 assistance he’s written five books but Psych Ward Chronicles 2 the support house

22:31 Shenanigans is his first for page publishing and I’m assuming you work in a psych ward

22:36 well I did mental health counseling for my Master’s Degree because I was

22:42 going to leave this job to do mental health counseling but you know they start you off with peanuts, I

22:49 mean I got responsibilities and they’re going to give you money that’s like entry level for a college person

22:56 coming out of college I can’t live off that money so I wasn’t able to

23:01 leave the job to do that full time so I did I I’m doing it part time on the

23:07 weekends. So I did do my internship in a psychiatric hospital at the Satan Island South

23:14 Beach Psychiatric Center

23:20 I signed on to this company they do a support house for the mentally ill so

23:27 what we do is we make sure that those who’s in the residence they

23:34 have to sign something saying that they agree to have the medication managed

23:40 by the company and we just make sure that they are medication

23:45 compliant and um if if they have any issues navigating life or whatnot

23:5 we help them out administratively okay right other than

23:57 that they free to do they want but they can’t have overnight guests, everybody wasn’t well behaved I’m assuming from

24:04 reading your synopsis, we’re dealing with the mentally ill people they’re

24:10 never well behaved, well what are some of the things that you talk about in your book, some of

24:17 the stories is a combination of of of two or three events that happen

24:22 independently one of the biggest things that happened in the first chapter called barricade

24:29 um person comes in intoxicated whether he was taking drugs

24:35 or or drinking wasn’t too sure what he did but

24:40 he comes in he’s cursing out everybody um to the point that the

24:46 police was called and when the police showed up he ran to his room the

24:52 police was knocking on the door telling him to come out and he verbalizes he’s going

24:57 to kill him self tell him to leave so they call the sergeant the sergeant

25:04 comes in and he’s then throwing things around in his room

25:10 and barricading the door they want him out he refused to come out so they decided

25:16 police decided they want to break the door down so so they got the battering RAM and start trying to break the door

25:24 down but the door is very sturdy it’s a metal door and they

25:31 couldn’t the only thing all they did was Dent it so the sergeant calls police

25:36 special unit so they decided they’re going to punch a hole in the wall and

25:41 to put their hand in open the door from the inside but it was taking some time because it was pure

25:50 concrete and so a a police Lieutenant showed up and he decided to condone off

25:58 the whole block oh yeah he locked up the whole block stationed people downstairs by

26:04 the guys unit window just in case he decides to jump out the

26:10 window oh yeah so was like you know they had a flashbang grenade ready for

26:17 when they punch the hole in the they’re going to throw it in to stun him so that they can open the door and he and he doesn’t

26:25 do anything to hurt them but we say that if that can’t happen he go get he going get messed up so we have we to

26:32 communication with him on the airphone and we literally we have to curse him out to tell him to stop playing games

because the police is not going to be playing games and when they when they finally

26:47 breach into the apartment right he’s going to be messed up you know what I’m saying so and you

26:54 know what he decides to listen to us he open the door oh

27:00 geez why didn’t he listen to you in the first place he was pissed off at the

27:06 um service coordinator he was pissed off at at the uh medication

27:12 manager you know get with the mentally ill they they don’t make the

27:18 rational decisions you know say you see four or five cops you know don’t

27:24 run because you’re not going to get away you know what I’m saying yeah yeah and of all the places to run he

27:33 ran in his room so there’s no way out

27:38 here here’s the funny part with the mentally ill they don’t take them straight to Police precent and book them they

27:45 don’t do that they send them to the psychiatric emergency room so what

27:50 happened was the police after all that they did they declined to arrest him it

27:57 was probably waste of time to put him through the system because of his psychiatric problem and the psych Ward

28:03 emergency room right they decided not to put him in impatient for a

28:08 while so two hours later he came back to the house everybody thought he was going to be

28:14 gone for a couple of weeks he came back in two hours oh jeez

28:21 yeah he made a statement he shouted at top of his lungs to everybody you know I

28:26 don’t use the profanity that he used like yeah calling the Teflon don

28:34 man oh jeez yeah I guess you have a bunch of stories like this oh yeah there all then

28:41 we got the other one here some of it deals with the abuse you know got some

28:47 young guys that that was into the program and you had an older guy he

28:52 was there for a while and he turned them out sexually you know there was

28:58 the older guy was gay these younger guys I don’t know what he said to

29:04 them they came in heterosexual and now they’re engaging in

29:10 in in homosexual stuff oh boy and um yeah so you got that kind of stuff going

29:17 on uh and then one other woman old woman and she she was given drugs and

29:25 when she’s given drugs she just does all of Kinds of things she opens up

29:32 her doors they go in there they they sexually abuse her they take her food

29:37 they take her money then she claims she doesn’t know who did it she knows exactly who

29:45 she lets in the room this is this is happening in the room in the in the

29:50 place where they’ve gone for shelter exactly just one of many yeah so so it’s

29:58 kind of hard because it’s a process to get rid of them because the staff is it’s like

30:07 um they have to do things within the confound of the law right and a lot of

30:14 times um this is what I found strange when I when I was doing the internship

30:19 in the psychiatric hospital that the patient has to agree to the

30:25 treatment if they don’t if they don’t agree to their treatment then the psychiatric hospital

30:32 has to get a court order to give their medication inv tell so you you wrote a

30:38 Blog about what was going on yeah in this Psychiatric Hospital yeah and

30:44 people started following you which I can understand that because New York City has a big problem with homeless people

30:51 and most of them are mentally ill and they wonder why aren’t they taking off

30:57 this streets why isn’t there a place for them to go their families have given up on them but do you have any suggestions

31:05 I mean what do we do like well yeah well they’re doing what what they can um but

31:11 they got the programs like the like the support house I wrote about that’s one

31:16 of many you know what what I wrote about could could be happening at any support

31:22 house do do people know you’ve written this book oh yeah yeah and yeah but are

31:29 you able to go out and talk about it cuz couldn’t you get in a lot of trouble oh okay well that’s where we we have the um

31:37 counseling Court of conduct okay some of those people that I’m talking about

31:43 they’ve since left the support house so they’re no longer in a support house so you can talk about them I can talk

31:50 about them I’m not using their names I’m using okay you know aliases that I made up

31:57 the situation that took place is exactly how it happened do you give us any suggestions

32:03 what can we do what can the city do or is there nothing we can do well there’s

32:09 not much that city can do because like I said a lot of a lot of the um treatment has to be

32:17 done voluntarily um like I was saying before somebody comes in a psychiatric

32:23 hospital and they got they give meds to stabilize them they have to take it they don’t take it they say I

32:3 1don’t want it it’s not like the old days they will throw them in a straight jacket put them in the room and just

32:38 shove the medication down their throats they can’t do that anymore so

32:44 now they have to go to they have to go and get a court order it’s called treatment over

32:50 objection now the support house is different if somebody refuses to take

32:55 the meds and you have an act team that’s supposed to in intervene and if that

33:02 doesn’t work then the the next time an that happens they’re taken into the

33:09 psychiatric um emergency room and is held there and until until they

33:16 stabilize wow and and it takes a while to happen right are are you GNA keep

33:22 writing yeah yeah oh yeah I’m gonna keep writing uh I try to write on different

33:28 things too I I did a romance book a toxic romance oh geez I I tried

33:37 my hand at horror it’s like a I would say soft

33:44 horror you know okay soft horror yeah I could say that um and I even did a

33:51 political thing I think your psych word Chronicles could be considered horror

33:56 stories what some yeah all right true George thank

34:03 you so much all right no problem

Psych Ward Chronicles II: The Support House Shenanigans

Ten short stories of the soap-opera environment in a state-sanctioned congregate care level II facility for the mentally ill, aka support house for independent living. The support house is privately owned and operated. Stories follow the challenges as experienced by residents and staff

$15.00

Night Watch

10 short stories of suspense and dark tales

$10.00

Wasn’t Meant to Be: 4 Sagas of Toxic Romance

1.Cesspool of Corruption: Sam a corrupted civil servant has fallen for one of his clients and he engages in unethical behavior in hopes of being with her. 2. Love in the Garden: Adam and his wife Lilith have marital woes; God decides to intervene and hatched a plan to separate them, but things did not go as planned 3. The Sultry Affair: Jack meets Carmen; it was lust at first sight, they spend some time together in the most unlikely place, where their true feelings came out. 4. Infection: Jose gets reacquainted with Jessica and invites her to spend to time with him while Jessica is waiting for her new place to be ready. Jose unwittingly got more than he bargained for

$15.00

M.A.G.A

E-Book only The first story “Degenerates” is about a group of racist mischief-makers who wants to create mayhem and terrorize a neighborhood, but they recognized that they are not organized to pull it off. They found a group that specializes in organizing and provides training to other groups of racists and nationalists who need to learn how to take their activities to the next level. What they learned was something totally unexpected. The second story “Me Too,” is about a family of immigrants outraged because a family member was allegedly raped. They located the perpetrator’s home and they went there looking for justice

$3.00

Psych Ward Chronicles

Details the experience of life taking place in a psychiatric ward. Who sponsors the Psychiatric institution; details the experience of the side effects of medication, inappropriate relationships, release, and readmittance; abandonment, frustration, race relations; rule violations; personality expressions; mother issues; delusionary expectations; suicide attempt and escape

$10.00