I went to Dallas for a browns/ cowboys game years ago. My friend was living down there. a lot of us made the trip. I won the biggest game of dice ever $500 and at a bar I bought every girl in the bar a rose from the rose guy. I picked up a woman that went on to become a stripper. I was voted MVP of the trip. I was wearing a cowboy hat my friend had given us all for Christmas. This was in 1995. In January 1996 I was in the mental hospital for 3months. I continued to wear the cowboy hat even though I was in Cleveland, Ohio. I liked it it was a conversation starter. Women would often ask me why I was wearing a cowboy hat. I wore it to my psychiatrist apointment. He said I was Insane for wearing a Cowboy hat. The receptionist at the psychiatrists office was a black man wearing a chinese hat which I thought was more out of place than me wearing a cowboy hat. I told the Psychiatrist theres a few thousand listeners of wgar (country radio station) that would disagree with you. He said your delusional. So I haven't worn my Cowboy hat since that day for fear of being probated and put in the mental hospital. I had a counselor at that psychiatrist which was rare but I didn't talk to her about to many things considering the psychiatrist was so close minded. I have a counselor now that thinks I should be allowed to wear a cowboy hat if I want to. Im waiting to see what my new Psychiatrist thinks. Having a counselor is a new thing for me. This one I talk to Important things with like the causes for my hospitalizations which at first in 1986 was a psychosomatic disorder. Its difficult to talk to people about psychosomatic disorders because few people know what they are but my counselor is familiar with them. In 1996 I was hospitalized because people messed with me acting like they were with the government and plotting against me. They were very convincing. for years I thought the government was plotting against me because of this incident. I never heard from them again. I now know they weren't who they pretended to be and now nobody is plotting against me. I now do a joke about the incident. Ive tried to explain what psychosomatic disorders are on here before and nobody had ever heard of them. The example the internet gives is its like when there is a field where there is known to be snakes and somebody walks through grass touches his leg he thinks he was bit by a snake his body reacts as if it was bit by a snake. I told this to someone trying to explain to someone what a psychosomatic disorder was but all they could see was I was crazy and talking about snakes that weren't snakes and thought i was nuts. My psychosomatic disorder was much different near fatal I lost over 50 pounds in 2 1/2 months my blood pressure was dangerously high and low. Finally I thought I was gonna die and I was happy because I thought I was gonna go to heaven and I stopped focusing on what I believed caused me to be sick and I got better.
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I’ve never worn a hat of any kind. I’d be afraid that it would just draw attention to myself.
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