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“Why Are We Here?” was the opening remark of Dr. R. W. Garnett jr. of Charlottesville, guest speaker at the first annual meeting of the Rappahannock Mental Health Association held Thursday night. The obvious reason he said, was the concern of increasing mental disorders and interest in and support of a local chapter to lend aid in this field.
Dr. Garnett, director of the Blue Ridge Community Mental Health Clinic in Charlottesville, continued, “Is there anything we can do really?” He said it may, at first glance, seem hopeless when you consider the nearest hospital with a psychiatric unit is some 50 miles distant; there is no qualified clinical personnel as trained psychiatric social workers, counselors, nurses, etc. and the nearest state mental facility is 70 or 80 miles away.
Mental institutions are able to care for and treat only those with full blown mental illnesses. They are over crowded and cannot cope with the much more common neuroses, the relatively minor, but never the less painful, disrupting and dangerous emotional disturbance, crises, conflict or personality disorders. They cannot give aftercare or follow up a patient discharged which is necessary to prevent a relapse. These hospitals can do nothing about prevention, about problems commonly seen in schools, learning disability, about broken homes or marital conflict, child-parent conflict, adolescent turmoil, etc.
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