Full Moon Theory

Recently on Facebook, my daughter Lisa took a survey.In her survey she asked her friends if they thought a full moon really got lunatics active. At least a dozen responded and all but one agreed. That yes it was true. The one conflicting pollee
to that consensus was of course yours truly. Now this either makes me contentious or a freethinker. As we all know, according to the news media, all poll results are one hundred percent correct. Give or take five or so percent. So this of course makes me contentious.
However in my defense, this is a subject that I have done a little homework on. My mother was confined to Danvers state mental hospital, when I was not quite six years of age. As I have stated in previous blogs, mothers are the most important part of the family. I feel certain that if my mother had got the right mental health care,things would have turned out differently for my father and the rest of the family.
We all have at times, a little mental unbalance, be it anxiety,depression or some kind of phobia. I have a few idiosyncrasy's, that I will probably relate at a later date.
I once visited my mother at the state hospital.Her response to my greeting was "your not my Herman, my Herman is dead". So trying to cope, as a teenager. I thought I had the weight of the world on my shoulders. You know, the stigma of mental illness, peer pressure, insecurity and ignorance. So my solution was to turtle.
I could go on and bore you with my conclusions of how my mother ended up as she did.
But I'm just going to say, that looking back, I now have a different prospective. I'm
sure the patients were drugged to make them docile. Which would account for all the inmates acting like zombies.
It is no wonder she could not accept me. In the state she was in, she probably would not have recognized her husband either.
After researching the history of the hospital. I have decided that the name of this institution is a misnomer. With deplorable conditions and orderlies acting like wardens. The name should have been Danvers state Attic.
I can only wonder? What did this poor little woman do to deserve a fate like that.
I realize that conditions improved in the sixty's. But the fact is she was committed in the late forty's. However in the later years, Priscilla Herrick and her mother,
went to visit my mother. They found conditions to be much improved, over what I had
experienced. And seemed to have bonded with her. They tried to get me to go and visit her with them. But I just could not do it. But I am very appreciative, that they brought a little sunshine and companionship into her life.
So in closing, I put the full moon theory right up there with the tall tales of the Bible and Paul Bunyan. I also do not believe in UFOS and I'm a little skeptical about our walk on the moon.