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Jack Wood

๐Ÿ‘ค Person
204 total appearances

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And Dr. Freestadt, who was the chief psychologist at OSU, actually was the number one psychologist in the country by the American Academy of Psychiatry. for her work in child and adolescent mood disorders. Never got the thing solved.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

Fast forward, among a lot of hospitalizations and some involuntary hospitalizations in high school, when he turned 18, he came downstairs one morning and said, dad, I want all of my money today. And I said, well, what money are you talking about? And he said, my $10 billion. I have $10 billion.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

Fast forward, among a lot of hospitalizations and some involuntary hospitalizations in high school, when he turned 18, he came downstairs one morning and said, dad, I want all of my money today. And I said, well, what money are you talking about? And he said, my $10 billion. I have $10 billion.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

Fast forward, among a lot of hospitalizations and some involuntary hospitalizations in high school, when he turned 18, he came downstairs one morning and said, dad, I want all of my money today. And I said, well, what money are you talking about? And he said, my $10 billion. I have $10 billion.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

They took blood from me when I was three years old and four years old and found out that my blood plasma would cure AIDS in the whole world. You couldn't get the money then, Dad, because you had to cut a deal. So you... Bill, the attorney, Mike Pugia, chemist from Notre Dame, and two professors in MIT and two doctors in the Boston Hospital got together and took my money. And you have it.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

They took blood from me when I was three years old and four years old and found out that my blood plasma would cure AIDS in the whole world. You couldn't get the money then, Dad, because you had to cut a deal. So you... Bill, the attorney, Mike Pugia, chemist from Notre Dame, and two professors in MIT and two doctors in the Boston Hospital got together and took my money. And you have it.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

They took blood from me when I was three years old and four years old and found out that my blood plasma would cure AIDS in the whole world. You couldn't get the money then, Dad, because you had to cut a deal. So you... Bill, the attorney, Mike Pugia, chemist from Notre Dame, and two professors in MIT and two doctors in the Boston Hospital got together and took my money. And you have it.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And I want it. And I want it today. I'm now 18. That was the onset of schizophrenia. We have never seen anything like it. Tony, he gave me that storyline last night. It's been in place for 18 years. It's a very fixed hallucination and delusion. He has incredible episodes with voices and delusions and all of the things that come with the schizophrenic family.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And I want it. And I want it today. I'm now 18. That was the onset of schizophrenia. We have never seen anything like it. Tony, he gave me that storyline last night. It's been in place for 18 years. It's a very fixed hallucination and delusion. He has incredible episodes with voices and delusions and all of the things that come with the schizophrenic family.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And I want it. And I want it today. I'm now 18. That was the onset of schizophrenia. We have never seen anything like it. Tony, he gave me that storyline last night. It's been in place for 18 years. It's a very fixed hallucination and delusion. He has incredible episodes with voices and delusions and all of the things that come with the schizophrenic family.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

He has had multiple hospitalizations. He spent at least seven years of the last 18 in hospitals. Two years ago, on March 17th, he had an episode on St. Patrick's Day. He had a Harry Potter wand waving it in my face, and he was saying, Dad actually didn't call me Dad. He said, Jack Wellswood, which is my full name, I can disappear you with this wand. It's a magic wand and it has incredible power.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

He has had multiple hospitalizations. He spent at least seven years of the last 18 in hospitals. Two years ago, on March 17th, he had an episode on St. Patrick's Day. He had a Harry Potter wand waving it in my face, and he was saying, Dad actually didn't call me Dad. He said, Jack Wellswood, which is my full name, I can disappear you with this wand. It's a magic wand and it has incredible power.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

He has had multiple hospitalizations. He spent at least seven years of the last 18 in hospitals. Two years ago, on March 17th, he had an episode on St. Patrick's Day. He had a Harry Potter wand waving it in my face, and he was saying, Dad actually didn't call me Dad. He said, Jack Wellswood, which is my full name, I can disappear you with this wand. It's a magic wand and it has incredible power.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And just whoosh, whoosh, and you'll be gone from the universe. You will absolutely, nobody will ever even know, including your family, will ever even know you were here. you will vanish, not out of earth, but out of the universe. And he kept going, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Well, then he took the wand and pushed it deep into my throat. He weighed 330 at the time.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And just whoosh, whoosh, and you'll be gone from the universe. You will absolutely, nobody will ever even know, including your family, will ever even know you were here. you will vanish, not out of earth, but out of the universe. And he kept going, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Well, then he took the wand and pushed it deep into my throat. He weighed 330 at the time.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And just whoosh, whoosh, and you'll be gone from the universe. You will absolutely, nobody will ever even know, including your family, will ever even know you were here. you will vanish, not out of earth, but out of the universe. And he kept going, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. Well, then he took the wand and pushed it deep into my throat. He weighed 330 at the time.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And he said, one big shove and you're dead. You're gone.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And he said, one big shove and you're dead. You're gone.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

And he said, one big shove and you're dead. You're gone.

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ?
Jack Wood:: A Father's Fight for Mental Health Reform

i was able to get a hold of the wand and tear it out of his hand and throw it onto the couch little did i know that was a sacred tool to him so number one i got it away from him but two it was a sacred instrument grabbed a bottle and started hitting me on the leg and then we got that away from him and he went to the counter and got a small kitchen knife and stuck it in my left arm