An Anamnesis by James Pate Williams, Jr.

My Pathways counselor seems to believe I would be a good person to enter the Positive Options rehabilitation program at the Troup County Mental Health Clinic. The reason I am not attending the adult daycare and supportive living training  program Pathways, Positive Options, is that I do not see that I would derive any benefit from the program. The program seems to be geared towards the recently or current homeless population with mental aberrations. When I unilaterally stop taking my anti-psychotic medication, I might be a good candidate for the Pathways program. I am pretty much asymptomatic when I take my medication on my own schedule or more likely as prescribed.

I have been under the care of the Troup County Pathways Mental Health Clinic since around 1988 or 1989. I have been under psychiatric care since late 1972 or early 1973. I have sojourned in a good number of hospitals both private and state of Georgia operated:

1. Peachtree-Parkwood Hospital in Atlanta, private a few months of care in the period 1973 to 1975 1999 Cliff Valley Way
2. Central State Regional Hospital in Milledgeville, state, a couple of weeks in 1975
3. West Central Georgia Regional Hospital in Columbus, state, about a month in 1975
4. Renewal House in Atlanta, state, drug rehab, a few months in 1975 until sometime in early 1976
5. Bradley Center Hospital in Columbus, private, a few months in late 1986 until early in 1987
6. Troup County Pathways Mental Health Clinic beginning in probably 1988 or early 1989
7. New Ventures, state, vocational rehabilitation late 1988 until almost Fall Quarter 1990
8. Pathways Second Season in LaGrange, two weeks in March 2010
9. Northwest Regional Hospital in Rome, state, a couple of months in the spring of 2010
10. Northwest Regional Hospital in Rome, state, two or three weeks in June – July 2010
11. Troup County Jail from May 8, 2019 until June 12, 2019 and from October 17, 2019 until November 26, 2019
12. I was shuttled from Troup Count Jail to Pathways Second Season on June 12, 2019. I stayed at that locale from June 12, 2019 until October 17, 2019, a record setting 127 days

Now for my academic records:

I barely graduated from LaGrange High School. I was caught with a marijuana cigarette (joint) in my pocket by the assistant principal Mr. Sturdivant, one day in late Winter 1971. I had to perform a mea culpa before the Board of Education to return to school in time to graduate. I think that my dad and the Chairman of the Board, Charles Hudson, were influential in my graduation. I was a teenage abuser of alcohol and drugs.

I entered LaGrange College in Fall Quarter 1971 and I performed increasingly abysmal in my studies. At the end of Spring Quarter my GPA was a terrible 0.75 out of 4.00. I did not return to the college until Fall Quarter 1976. My drug abuse helped make me a poor student.

I graduated from LaGrange College on June 2, 1979. I earned A Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry with a low 3.00+ GPA. I applied and was accepted to be a teaching assistant in Chemistry at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Fall Quarter 1980. I left Georgia Tech after the Summer Quarter of 1983 sans a degree and with a poor GPA of 2.79 out of 4.00.

I returned to LaGrange College in the Spring Quarter of 1990. I graduated on June 2, 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. I had a 4.00 out of 4.00 in all my computer classes from 1990 until 1994.

I matriculated at Auburn University as a Computer Science graduate student in Fall Quarter 1998. I believe the Professor Alfred J. Menezes was instrumental in getting me accepted at Auburn University. Professor Menezes left Auburn University in the 1990s and went to his old University, the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. I graduated with a Master of Software Engineering in Summer Quarter 2000. I had a GPA of 3.880 out of 4.000. I went onto attain a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science in the Fall Semester 2005 with a 3.871 GPA.

My work for dollars record is very spotty and chock full of gaps. However, in my defense, I have done a lot of pro bono work and open-source public domain software development. I designed, implemented, and maintained a cryptography, constraint satisfaction problem, and number theory website that was widely viewed in the period 1997 until 2010 or 2011. I did a lot of sophisticated and some mundane volunteer work for the First Methodist Church of LaGrange, Georgia from 2008 to about 2011. Also, at the advanced age of 65 and 66, I had three live interviews for civilian jobs with the United States Department of Defense in 2018 and early 2019. During the period 2011 until 2018 I had two or three phone interviews and did tests for the Department of Defense.

Another bad idea suggested by my Pathways counselor was for me to volunteer to help at the local food pantry handing out grocery items to the disenfranchised in the community. If I am to volunteer again, I want my unique cognitive skills engaged. I could tutor GED or college students in chemistry, computer science, mathematics, or general science. I could help individuals learn computer programming as a hobby or vocational skill and/or teach Digital Audio Workstation operation and arranging and recording music.  Last but not least I could demonstrate the use of a MIDI keyboard and accompanying synthesizer.