DAVID BROCK WAS COMMITTED TO MENTAL WARD

Drudge Report ^ | May 21 2002 | Drudge

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Controversial author David Brock suffered a breakdown last summer and was committed to the psychiatric ward of Sibley Hospital in Northwest Washington, sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

The breakdown came just months before Brock finalized production of his bestselling book BLINDED BY THE RIGHT -- a book that has been widely challenged on points of accuracy!

"He had delusions, he thought people were trying to kill him," reveals a source who befriended Brock last July at the hospital.

Brock told fellow patients that he did not feel safe -- even inside of the hospital's secure medical setting!

"He spent time in the ''The Quiet Room', there was just a mattress on the floor, and he had some books. He was so tired and stressed."

Reached by phone in Washington late Tuesday Brock strongly denied the hospitalization and breakdown in any way affected his ability to recall events depicted in BLINDED BY THE RIGHT. Brock strongly denied that any portion of the book was written at the hospital while he was under medical treatments, as is claimed by one source.

Publisher CROWN could not be reached late Tuesday.

Brock's book of personal observations and first-hand accounts involving various Clinton scandals and scandal players generated divided opinion.

Former President Clinton chatted up Brock's effort in Los Angeles last weekend.

"Clinton, who seems to have practically committed passages to memory, told his former aides that whenever they feel down, they should read Brock's book to illuminate anew what they were all fighting against for eight years, and as a reminder of what 'unhappy' people their counterparts on the right truly are," the LOS ANGELES TIMES reported.

But one source familiar with Brock's breakdown questioned: "With all of this, how can he be considered credible?"

Brock said by phone, "I am not going to comment on private medical matters."

[Judith Anne]

Well, being combative poses a threat to others. And thanks to hepatitis, so does spitting and throwing poop. So does yelling, which can incite others to act out, or preceed acting out.

I've seen two quiet rooms in training. The first quiet room had a window (absolutely unbreakable, even if a chair was thrown at it), a mattress (no sheet)on the floor, and a door with a small window in it, because according to the rules, a patient placed in the room has to be visible to staff at all times, charting has to be done every 15 minutes IIRC.

The second one had five-point restraints attached to a metal bed frame with a bare mattress on it. Restraints must be loosened every half-hour, and charting requirements are equally stringent.

We were trained to take a patient down by standing one on either side, taking the arms, putting one foot each in front of the patient's feet so the patient goes down face first, but the staff told us that there are some patients that require five staff to take down.

It's not a nursing specialty that appeals to me, and my training is about 10 years old, so I may not remember exactly correctly, but that's the jist of it.

[TLBSHOW]

Brock is mental and his book is crap!

[TLBSHOW]

who would want to read a book with a cover like this?

[Judith Anne]

What was the name of the book about Anita Hill?

[linn37]

We have a mental ward at the Hospital where I work. The nurses alert me as to who will give me trouble and who will behave. The majority are quiet and well behaved but the screamers go into a quiet well padded room by themselves and they are restrained if necessary.Its not pleasant to work with patients that try to hit ,spit throw poop ect, I have more respect for the nurses on that floor then the whole hospital combined.

[Protagoras]

Rommel2 member since May 8th, 2002

And your point?

[linn37]

thats the point ,how do you know which story is the lie and which is the truth,hell maybe Brock does'nt even realise which is which. I do find it amusing and I'm sorry its at Brocks expense that the left was relying on his book for vindication and now we find the man wrote it when he was mentally ill.

[Protagoras]

Then why do newspapers have book reviews in them?

To give opinions of the books by people who have read them so they can be used by the readers of the review to decide if they want to read the books themselves?

[Skooz]

Do you think his book about Anita Hill is full of lies?

Yep. He has admitted it. I still don't think you have read Hitchins' article in post 25.

[1L]

Suspected this all along

Yep. I think I said in early 2000 that I suspected Brock was mentally ill. I had limited doubts then and no doubts now.

[Eva]

Apparently you have no recollection of the history of David Brock. He is a pathological liar, or at least he became one after being outed as a homo-sexual. My guess is that his mental instability began at that time. He turned on everything that he believed in, wrote insane stories to discredit his previous writings, he even sited a tea leaf reader as one of his witnesses in his attempt to defend the Clintons in the Whitewater story. He was the author (with someone else) of the crazy story that Republicans were plotting to addict the Black population in LA to cocaine, and numerous other anti-conservative hog-wash.

[1L]

We were trained to take a patient down by standing one on either side, taking the arms, putting one foot each in front of the patient's feet so the patient goes down face first, but the staff told us that there are some patients that require five staff to take down.

May I suggest Akido? It won't replace your training, but it will give you skills in using leverage. Some grappling may not hurt either. Good luck!

[Judith Anne]

Well, I did a search and can't come up with the book anywhere...are you sure it's a book? All I came up with was Blinded by the Right and The Seduction of Hillary Rodham. And they have TONS of copies left.

[Judith Anne]

Nah, I don't do that kind of nursing...doesn't appeal to me. I have a theory that people who end up in mental wards are really really really mentally out there, or else they're so obnoxious nobody wants them around anymore. I don't have much talent for that kind of work. I prefer to take care of people whose illnesses make sense to me. All physical illnes has a psychological component, imho, but most of the time that's not a safety issue.

One exception for me is working with Alzheimer's patients. I do really like them...I can't help seeing them as they must have been, before they became ill...

[Red Jones]

Regarding this rumor that Brock & Drudge were 'lovers'. There was an effort to smear Matt Drudge as a homosexual. Drudge didn't say he was homosexual. So, I don't believe that he ever was in such a state.

[AppyPappy]

DING!