Joe Rogan - Roseanne on Being Institutionalized as a Teen

what what was it that when you first got brought into a mental hospital what was it about well I had got hit by a car and the the hood ornament went in my head in my brains and scrambled them and I I used to be an a-plus math student I was just great in geometry oh my god I loved geometry I got straight A's and then you know I sort of fell apart after that took a long time to heal from it and you know how much did your personality change oh it changed drastically but you know you read all that stuff about traumatic head injuries now because I do read a lot and talk to a lot of football players who have the same thing and we do discuss it yeah you change right away yeah it's still you but it's like a it's kind of like an art 'el artificial intelligence you do you find that did you find that you became much more impulsive oh yeah yeah you know what I well yeah here's what happened I was crossing the street on my way to school how old were you hmm I was 16 no it's 15 going to first week of high school and I was a big nerd and anyway I was crossing the street and it was the top of the hill and this woman girl she was on her way the University and the Sun blinded her and she ran me over and the rest is history how long we in the hospital for mmm so first you sleep in you must have been in a medical hospital first and then you were admitted to a mental hospital well there was about three months in between right but I was in the hospital for a while you know and I had a head concussion and a brain concussion and I hamburger meat four legs so they did all these what do they call them skin grafts on my legs and yeah I was in there for a while then I came out of there and I had forgotten everything about math when I returned to school where's a matter of weeks after that maybe two months I I'm really bad on time now but uh and I had forgotten all my math and it was just terrible that was a big depressive depression I went into because I couldn't remember I couldn't remember things you know and also became way more impulsive then I was like I don't know what I did then I started going really out there into the ethers I went way out there like how so way out you know how you go way out do you ever go way out no I'm really I mean I've had a lot of head injuries oh yeah I've been that but not terrible mostly just punches and kicks nothing like car accident yes sir never played football yeah but my head injuries have you know they were just more of cumulative when I was young till I was about 21 22 I stop stop fighting stop sparring mm-hmm but nothing but I definitely I'm subject to impulsive behavior still yeah keep it under wraps I keep it under control because I'm aware of it but when I was younger I didn't understand who's going on I would just be subject to whims very addictive behavior but I've tried to keep it positive but I would be addicted to things addicted to doing things addicted to games addicted like ridiculously addictive like spend 10 12 14 hours a day playing video games that sounds like my kid yeah just normal because video games are awesome but yeah it would be for me be everything martial arts pool and whatever do is I'll just be completely obsessed with it and to be thinking about it all day in port where it wasn't necessarily healthy yeah just on a whim I would just want to go do something I just say almost had no control over compulsions you know and I think some of that is whatever brain injuries that I've had a very mild in comparison to a lot of people that I know certainly very mild in comparison to yours but there was a lot of trauma in the State Hospital that you know I'm like you know being there and seeing and experiencing and how long you're nine months so what was it that they brought you in there for what was how are you behaving that they decided that you needed to be admitted I was out there you say that like what does that mean I don't think there's any words the English you just can't understand didn't have a control of reality you didn't have control of your behavior your thinking was screwed up I was you know not thinking like the normal thing that they say you should be thinking about and but people around you had realized it that it was it was so bad that they had to admit you to a hospital wasn't just that Oh Rosie and she's eccentric it was she needs actual medical help yeah I asked to be admitted do you knew something was really wrong yeah I finally admitted it was did you know at the time were you completely aware that it was connected to your car accident no you just knew something was wrong yeah and back then they didn't really kind of understand that the way they understand it now no they didn't understand too much about bipolar disorder or they knew nothing about multiple personality disorder trauma related traumas related yeah PTSD now they call everything pts yeah they don't even say D anymore they say pts mmm post-traumatic stress so when they admitted you what was the treatment like what did they do to you when you were inside the mental hospital well they right away put me on an anti-psychotic what was it do you remember Mellaril and what did that do I don't know I wasn't there there you were gone I was gone I was just watching these people I was in the mental institution with and I wanted to tell that story yeah cuz there was this one lady I think I told this to Paul Reubens - I think it might be where he got Large Marge there's this one lady and she's in this cage you know if she's in a cage with keys on her ward there and Christ I can't remember her name either Marge her man was Marge yeah and she's about 600 700 pounds whoa and she's funnier than hell you know I thought good man this this chicks got some good lines you know a nice traded lines with her and she'd laugh you know you know I was like jokes you can always find a joke wherever you are you know that's the key to life I think but um so she oh everybody called me chunky that was my name chunky and there was another girl in there named shorty so it was chunky and Shorty we were like a duo but anyway um so she's like hey Roseanne get what's-her-name's keys when they go to dinner and open this up here you know come in here I'm like okay you know cuz you know after all I was crazy - and like trust I don't know I just always I never questioned that there was danger anywhere I always got in trouble you know caught beat up something you know but uh so I did it you know and I can't oh okay that was her name the head nurse I hated her cuz she told me I needed to bathe I'll tell that story later it was horrifying it changed my life but anyway so they all go to dinner so I go in there steal the kids out of the thing where they are you know the attendants and not go in there with margin I leave the keys in the door and close the door yeah so I'm like hey Marge you know how's it going Marge ha ha and she's like chunky you know why they put me in this cage don't you take some joggers over I go what why no I don't know why well chunky it's because they consider me to be dangerous I'm like how come I am I'm like Gomer Pyle seriously I'm total gold and you're like 16 at the time 15 about 8 minutes into it I realized oh oh something's going on here that's how long it always took me like to zero in on what's happening guys I'm not even there you know I'm always ignoring when other people talk I don't listen funny you know yeah so I'm always in my own head I never get out really except for when I work but uh so then it got then it took a turn you know she's like um so it got to uh why do they consider you dangerous you know I had to ask it cuz she kept on getting me there to that point well she wanted me to ask it I was trying to delay it you know cuz I knew they'd be back in 40 minutes and it was like going on 20 now she goes I'm in here because that's my voice I got to do what Marjorie I'm in here because I broke a couple attendance bags didn't they tell you that like no my how'd you do that and in my head I'm thinking don't change don't miss a beat don't miss a breath don't look nowhere just to keep on act no you know Utah Utah girl she was dangerous well that's when it hit my head that it was ha oh she's talking about you know I'm I'm feeling like prey right you know and I go how to do that cuz I figure oh it's an accident you know it's good ol Marge she sells good jokes she goes well it's easy you just know I'm doing me again I gotta do her it's easy you just put one hand here and one hand here and then you know where'd you learn that I'm changing the subject 100 how was your mom what was a school like you went to put your favorite book what's your favorite color what kind of ice cream you like you ever seen that there's worms in the oatmeal you ever noticed that she started that one got her she's like I did I did notice there's crawling I go yeah I expect us to eat that this this one you know I I like suddenly I'm transported to a confederacy of dunces when he's on the thing against Levi pants remember that rant I mean that book so I'm just tap dancing really and then I hear it click I grab I got up fumbled the keys out of the door put him back in the attendants room went my room when you said you hear click yeah I knew the first door got open there was two doors that I heard the first door open and they're coming back from from dinner so you got away supposed to be sick you know in my room what why didn't go to dinner yeah so I'm his lay in there and that was like daily I mean there were so many weird people in there we had this one girl Rosie her name was where she'd always grabbed she always end up with a pair of real sharp scissors and lunch for someone's throat we're like where'd you get them springing her them scissors you know but anyway I went on my antipsychotic medicine and that was good that I was on there for the shade I saw nobody say my friends hanging and stuff like that sorry friends hanging yeah in the mental institution so I saw worse than that would you say I I saw you know victims of abuse terrible by the guards know of kids coming you know oh victims of abuse that came in that were mentally scarred like that yeah yeah now when they put you on antipsychotics was because you were exhibiting psychotic behavior what kind of psychotic behavior while they thought it was psychotic I was just scared that they I think I was throwing him off cuz I wanted to think I was I caught it I didn't want to thank them to think I was schizophrenic I knew enough not to let him near me they if cuz what you got the once you got the diagnosis of schizophrenic they would or no shocks and they'd experiment on you basically you're a new guinea pig and I didn't want that so maybe I get you know and then you know so yeah I I was doing weird things like walking down the middle of streets after hit by the car I walk down the middle of streets I don't know I thought oh you gotta get over your fear of crossing the streets that's what was in my head and then I'd walk down a highway you know I was in a whole other realm it was like a real surrealistic and metaphysical realm and I I grew comfortable there but you know I think most artists writers and performers are in that world I mean we got a toe in it at least

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Length: 14min 49sec (889 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 12 2018