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Living in Fear This is An Informational Website
My name is Pat Rowden. Welcome to my website called: Living In Fear. net
This site is designed to be read like a book. I would recommend that you start at the home page and read to the bottom of the page to get an overview of what I have included on the site. I would then recommend that you reread the home page, and as come to information that you are interested in, or concerned about, click on the text link to bring you the page on the site that has additional information about that subject. Then bring up the list of pages on my site by clicking on the four horizontal bars at the top left hand corner of the page. Then click on the page you wish to visit.
It is my hope and belief that you will find the information contained on my site useful, particularly in these most stressful times.
I believe it is a shame that the wealth of knowledge that senior citizens accumulate over a lifetime goes to the grave with them. Therefore, I have decided to pass on my knowledge through this website rather than take it to my grave unknown.
This website is dedicated to my late wife of 57 years, Shirley, and my late wife Mary-Lynne. "May they rest in peace."
I cover three main topics on the website drawn from my first-hand experience as a vocational teacher, a business owner, a senior, and a husband. These topics include the education system, the mental health system, and senior care.
Areas of Interest
As a Canadian, I am thankful we have universal health care, otherwise I would have been bankrupt years ago. Our physical health system was and still is good, but our mental health system has always been a disaster.
My first experience with our broken mental health system was in 1958 when our first child Nancy was born. Shirley had her first of four nervous breakdowns (major manic episodes) at the time. She had many health issues for the years following, both mental and physical, and she had seen psychiatrists for 56 years. Although she suffered from bipolar disorder (manic depression), which is a mental illness that requires medication to control the symptoms, but she also suffered severely from fear, which is a learned behaviour that has to be unlearned, and can never be cured with medication. Yet, not once was there a mention of directed meditation which can cure her learned behaviour of fear.
This site contains a free meditation tape by John Moyer. I listen to this tape every night. Before I began using this tape I had to use sleeping pills to get to sleep, and stay asleep. I learned to be fearful from my wife, Shirley, however by listening to this meditation tape I am no longer fearful. If you have a learned behavior, such as fear as I did, psychiatrists will simply place their patients on a host of pills that, may or may not work, on the symptoms of fear, but will never stop the patient from being fearful. Why do psychiatrists not teach people how to overcome this learned behavior? The answer is simple. There is no money to be made in teaching a patient to overcome their fear, but there are millions of dollars to be made by the mental health system, from bottom to top, by feeding pills to individuals who suffer from fear, sometimes for a lifetime, as my wife Shirley did.
In my opinion, my career as a vocational education teacher ended when the Alberta government, in their wisdom or lack thereof, decided to shut down the vocational education program in senior high schools and the junior vocational education program in secondary vocational schools in Alberta. This left me with a worthless four-year Bachelor of Education Degree in Vocational Education from the University of Alberta, after just 11 years of teaching.
SENIOR HOUSING
My late wife Shirley and I lived in a senior lodge for six months.
To start with they took almost all of our income.
Living in the lodge turned out to be a nightmare for Shirley. To learn what is available as senior care facilities in Alberta go to the senior accomodations page of the website.
I hope to establish a foundation, in memory of my wife Shirley, which would provide funds to build a Sherbrooke style senior care facilities.
Because I had a worthless university degree, and I needed an income, I decided to restore a 1937 Fargo half-ton from the ground up. Below is a picture of the 1937 Fargo half ton.
This vehicle was bought in Didsbury, at what is now the Hi-Ho Service Station. It was a Chrysler dealership in 1937. Mr. Bob Eckel (now deceased) wanted me to rebuild it in memory of his dad, who bought it new in 1937.
Below is a picture of a milling machine for reproducing running board mats that I designed and built.
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Above: 1940 Studebaker running board mat. This running board mat was one of the most complex and difficult to reproduce, but also the most elegant. Below: Buddy our quality control inspector inspecting a 1940 Studebaker running board mat for flaws.
