Life Is a Minefield by James Pate Williams, Jr., BA, BS, MSwE. PhD

Life is an ethical, legal, and moral minefield. Avoidance of many of these emotional traps is an arduous task. You need a lot of information about the individuals in your milieu to make sure you are not violating one or more of life’s rules.

I have been in primarily outpatient treatment with the Pathways Center Troup County Mental Health Outpatient Clinic since around 1989. After my last trip to Maryland in early January 2019, I was out of medicine, so I tried to setup an appointment with Pathways and failed to get help in a timely manner. I just immediately sought out an alternative mental health care provider. I found one local psychiatrist who is a medicate and forget sort of therapist. I went to him until I found myself in jail on May 8, 2019. Eventually, I was reconnected with Pathways Center.

I really love a lot of the staff of Pathways Center past and present. I will never forget that John Luken rescued from Georgia state mental asylums in Rome (two times) and Columbus (one time). Several of my many  psychiatrists at Pathways Center encouraged me to get my Master of Software Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. My current mental health provider at Pathways locally is Lauren Hornsby, Nurse Practitioner, is a particularly good listener and has been a good guiding light for me in my pursuit of mental stability. My counselor is Michele (last name redacted) is also exceedingly kind and helpful to aid in chartering my course towards the end of my mental health tunnel.

However, I will admit I was angry at Pathways Center Outpatient Services for not helping to get out of the Troup County Jail and Second Season, but their hands were probably bound by law. I am happy with my current level of care and medication. If anything, I am loyal to the people who have earned my loyalty and the local Pathways Center Outpatient Clinic certainly deserves my respect and loyalty.

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Author: jamespatewilliamsjr

My whole legal name is James Pate Williams, Jr. I was born in LaGrange, Georgia approximately 70 years ago. I barely graduated from LaGrange High School with low marks in June 1971. Later in June 1979, I graduated from LaGrange College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a little over a 3 out 4 Grade Point Average (GPA). In the Spring Quarter of 1978, I taught myself how to program a Texas Instruments desktop programmable calculator and in the Summer Quarter of 1978 I taught myself Dayton BASIC (Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) on LaGrange College's Data General Eclipse minicomputer. I took courses in BASIC in the Fall Quarter of 1978 and FORTRAN IV (Formula Translator IV) in the Winter Quarter of 1979. Professor Kenneth Cooper, a genius poly-scientist taught me a course in the Intel 8085 microprocessor architecture and assembly and machine language. We would hand assemble our programs and insert the resulting machine code into our crude wooden box computer which was designed and built by Professor Cooper. From 1990 to 1994 I earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from LaGrange College. I had a 4 out of 4 GPA in the period 1990 to 1994. I took courses in C, COBOL, and Pascal during my BS work. After graduating from LaGrange College a second time in May 1994, I taught myself C++. In December 1995, I started using the Internet and taught myself client-server programming. I created a website in 1997 which had C and C# implementations of algorithms from the "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" by Alfred J. Menezes, et. al., and some other cryptography and number theory textbooks and treatises.

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