I'm with noboxes here - perhaps you could learn something from these guys?
[by the way -WB Wolf :D ]

When a family member comes in to file commitment papers, we make them fill out a demographic information sheet.

I have one in my hands that lists the patient's race as "Afro-Italiano."

interesting-o

Franco Harris finally blew that gasket eh?

Bastard ken of chef boyardee? :)

There's a demographic for ya!

Tonight I was interviewing a young man who came in for an evaluation. He was one of those scary-intense kind of people that make you want to sit with your back to the wall. Instead of leafing through the pile of not terribly stale magazines in our lobby he was reading a book he had brought along.

Catcher in the Rye.

I could not make this stuff up.

and that concerns you...how?

Crazy people, especially young men, have a tendency to think that book is the most amazing piece of insightful literature ever.

And it has more of a draw for its notoriety than its actual literature.

weird

I thought it sucked, but maybe that was because it was required reading.

I was okay with the character as a flawed character, especially since this point was driven home in the final chapter where he finally starts to show signs of growing up. What I couldn't stand were the people who thought the character was supposed to be a complete protagonist who had all the right ideas. The kid was a tool.

THANK GOD! I thought I was the only one on earth who didn't find that crappy book "delightful."

Maybe the mental health field should create a new standard for evaluating the mentally ill. Do like they do for chimps and present two literature pieces down on a table and if the person picks up the 'Catcher in the Rye' then we'll know just how disturbed they really are for choosing such a crappy book.

I enjoyed it when I read it in freshman high school English class, but I found its charm diminished quickly as I got older.