A Tame Deer

Undiagnosed Mental Illness

In the late 1970s, President Jimmie Carter promoted community mental health centers, and Americas prison population dropped for the only time in our history. His vision was undone by the next administration. Human behavior is motivated from within by emotion, the bad as well as the good. Matt Granger struggled for four decades with perplexing, disgusting misbehavior, indecent exposure, and sexual agressiveness, not knowing why he lived with general dissatisfaction and the unholy urge to do something. He even tried eight years in prison, idealistically believing that the American Department of Corrections did as advertised and the nation had corrections professionals. Realizing that the justice sysytem and Corrections are shams, he managed himself as best he could, acting-out anonymously, since courts and prisons did not do any good. Nobody knew what he did at random, except for innocent victims.