{"id":2100,"date":"2007-11-04T00:41:23","date_gmt":"2007-11-04T07:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/11\/04\/art-everyday-month-day-4-3\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:39:02","slug":"art-everyday-month-day-4-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/11\/04\/art-everyday-month-day-4-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Every Day Month &#8211; Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I passed by a large concrete planter in downtown Santa Clara I happened to notice this. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Risperidone\">Risperdal<\/a> is the brand name for Risperidone, a medication used to treat schizophrenia and for short-term use with bipolar disorder. I was well-acquainted with this drug for several years when I worked at a non-profit mental health center in Austin. I worked on the Assertive Community Treatment team, which assisted people who had multiple hospitalizations. Each of us had a caseload of ten people, and each client received intensive care: medication management; being taken to doctor&#8217;s appointments, the grocery store; in some cases I managed the income they received from Social Security Disability (paltry though it was) and helped them budget for rent, utilities, and so on. It was an intense job, and I burned out on it. I learned a great deal about myself in the process. It was humbling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/1806953608\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2352\/1806953608_b5c10c967d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"art everyday month 07 - day 4 - public mental health\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><center><strong>Public Mental Health<\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I passed by a large concrete planter in downtown Santa Clara I happened to notice this. Risperdal is the brand name for Risperidone, a medication used to treat schizophrenia and for short-term use with bipolar disorder. I was well-acquainted with this drug for several years when I worked at a non-profit mental health center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,3,31],"tags":[223,50,49,46,47],"class_list":["post-2100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-science","category-social-science","tag-community","tag-drugs","tag-medication","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-illness"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2100"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11574,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2100\/revisions\/11574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}