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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on July 11, 2009, 08:42:56 AM
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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-11-09 12:54 PM
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Californians with mental health issues are so very screwed.
Edited on Sat Jul-11-09 12:56 PM by Ladyhawk
Recently our county laid off most of its mental health care workers due to budget cuts. I lost my psychologist. A psychologist friend of mine who was working to get me seen at Stanford was laid off with no notice.
My depression is intractable. I need care that cannot be provided by my county: Vagus nerve stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep-brain implants: SOMETHING that can help me deal with this ongoing nightmare. I've had ECT (shock treatments) once and I'd really rather not repeat the experience. Still, I doubt even that option is available to me.
Also, Medi-Cal rules dictate I cannot seek help outside the county, yet the county doesn't offer much to someone as sick as I am. Soon, there will be no mental health care available as budget cuts gut every single resource.
After the county lay-offs, I got a letter from Medi-Cal stating that it would no longer cover (among other things) psychological care, but that I was free to seek county help.
Um, excuse me? The county help just got fired. What the **** am I supposed to do?
This is a time bomb. I don't know how long I can hold on without help of some kind. And my depression picked an inconvenient time to get much, much worse.
For now, I'm trying to ignore it. I don't want to think about it. I'm afraid to call my primary care physician because I'm terrified that he, too, has lost his job due to budget cuts.
My psychiatrist really doesn't want to be here (he's a liberal and this county is a wasteland of right-wing nutjobs). If he leaves, I will be at the mercy of a fundamentalist psychiatrist who pushes her beliefs on patients. I won't seek help from her. I've been there before and there's no ****ing way.
One blessing: Budget cuts have also closed the county's nightmarish in-patient mental health care facility, where patients had to see Dr. Fundy. Great. A crazy person in charge of the loony bin. I have no idea what happens to patients needing in-patient care. Are they shipped off to a better facility? a worse one? Or are they simply turned away?
Those of us at the receiving end of this cut do not have the energy to fight it. Perhaps it was designed that way. And I rather doubt anyone is fighting for us.
I predict a large increase in suicides in California. No one cares about us.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6040002
But this has nothing to do with people like Ladyhawk voting for ever higher taxes. :whatever:
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This is just too easy. From the leftist Obama's play book on everything else.
1. Tax mental illness.
2. ??????????
3. Mental illness is gone.
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So, in other words, the voting majority in Kalifornistan is screwed, eh? Well, she's right, I don't care. They did it to themselves.
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Well, ladyhawk should rest easy knowing that Nancy Pelosi's marshmallow mouse habitat is receiving $16 million to thrive. Wonder how their mental health is?
This is what happens when people grow up believing the government is here to take care of their every need. Yet, a "Dr. Fundy" is not even good enough for her.
Stupid, stupid liberals. They are the problem in this country.
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transcranial magnetic stimulation
They pay for THAT??
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Another self-professed Little Goon with mental illness. It knows it is mentally ill. It shares with the world the fact it is mentally ill. Yet its choice of politics is not to be questioned. Somehow choosing to be a liberal is sane.
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As soon as I saw the title I knew what DUmmie it was that posted the original screed. :-) Unfortunately for me this DUmmie live right here in my County, but as to her words here.
Um, excuse me? The county help just got fired. What the **** am I supposed to do?
I do have a solution for her. :evillaugh:
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n104/tuolumnejim/Die-Razor_Method.jpg)
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As soon as I saw the title I knew what DUmmie it was that posted the original screed. :-) Unfortunately for me this DUmmie live right here in my County, but as to her words here.I do have a solution for her. :evillaugh:
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n104/tuolumnejim/Die-Razor_Method.jpg)
Aren't you glad to know your tax $$ are going for valid, proven treatments like "transcranial magnetic stimulation"?
Why don't you ask her for her address and send her a bunch of refrigerator magnets?
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Aren't you glad to know your tax $$ are going for valid, proven treatments like "transcranial magnetic stimulation"?
Why don't you ask her for her address and send her a bunch of refrigerator magnets?
To hell with the refrigerator magnets, I've got Military grade electro-magnets. :bwah:
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Bullets are cheap she should try using a hot lead injection right to the brain :lmao:
So sorry you are depressed but why do I have to pay for it?
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Mental illness??? Kalifornia ???
I didn't know all dummies lived in the golden state
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Bullets are cheap she should try using a hot lead injection right to the brain :lmao:
So sorry you are depressed but why do I have to pay for it?
Now that is funny
made me spit up my diet snapple
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As soon as I saw the title I knew what DUmmie it was that posted the original screed. :-) Unfortunately for me this DUmmie live right here in my County, but as to her words here.I do have a solution for her. :evillaugh:
(http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n104/tuolumnejim/Die-Razor_Method.jpg)
this really isn't funny, but it should not be discounted how many people are using 'mental health' as an excuse to hit the disability 'jackpot'. The abuse, I'm sure is keeping really sick people from seeking and getting treatment and bloating the system to where it is not sustainable. Most of these idiots have situational depression issues that likely a good day of hard work and a good slap on the backside when they were kids would have cured. mental illness does exist, but I do think it is probably getting abused to epic proportions in the day and age of give me, give me, give me.
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this really isn't funny, but it should not be discounted how many people are using 'mental health' as an excuse to hit the disability 'jackpot'. The abuse, I'm sure is keeping really sick people from seeking and getting treatment and bloating the system to where it is not sustainable. Most of these idiots have situational depression issues that likely a good day of hard work and a good slap on the backside when they were kids would have cured. mental illness does exist, but I do think it is probably getting abused to epic proportions in the day and age of give me, give me, give me.
Wanna hear something sick? My 38 year old cousin is on disability and has only 17% heart function. He has a defibrillator.
Dr. said he could do a side job to make extra cash. What does he do? He sits around all day and watches tv and a few times a month does cocaine. His brother died from damaging his heart from drugs in 1995. He was only 27.
Cousin is going down the same path. Sickening.
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What if Dr. Fundy led her to Christ and her depression went away? I can understand why that kind of experimental therapy would scare her...... oh wait...... ::)
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It's interesting that DUmmy Ladyhawk, a certified long-term crazy, although made miserable by her affliction, will accept help only from professionals and organizations that 1) are free, and 2) pass her political and religious tests. Of course, she doesn't recognize that her politics and her hatred of religion are side effects of mental illness, an exceedingly common problem among DUmmies.
It would be good to repeat a warning from over thirty years ago. It came from Archie Bunker. He warned that God is waiting patiently for the last crazy to move to California, and He will then dump the whole mess into the ocean. The few decent and civilized people who live in that state, and certainly the tiny handful who live west of the fault lines, should take heed and make plans for an immediate move eastward.
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Bullshit. Medi-Cal does help pay for mental health, you just have to deal with what the state gives you. I have Medi-Cal, I know what they provide and what they don't. I am intersted in what "right wing fundy county" she lives in, if it in fact exists.
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A few million suicides and Californicators might stand a chance at getting a conservative government
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My suggestion is that they stay out of Nevada.
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Follow the leftwing extremist viewpoint on healthcare.
Old people should learn to live without healthcare in the later years because they don't produce to society.
Now just what do the DUmbasses think that their liberal uberlords think about keeping permanent drains on society like...welll. DUmmys?
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I need care that cannot be provided by my county: Vagus nerve stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep-brain implants...
Doesn't one actually have to possess a brain before it can be stimulated or implanted?
Just a thought....
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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-11-09 12:54 PM
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Californians with mental health issues are so very screwed.
Edited on Sat Jul-11-09 12:56 PM by Ladyhawk
...My depression is intractable. I need care that cannot be provided by my county: Vagus nerve stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep-brain implants: SOMETHING that can help me deal with this ongoing nightmare. I've had ECT (shock treatments) once and I'd really rather not repeat the experience. Still, I doubt even that option is available to me...
I've got a treatment for you that can be provided for ya; you can either self administer it, have one of your moonbat friends administer it for you, or if you're persistent enough, a city or county worker can even administer for you, if you prefer.
(http://www.dlsports.com/ammunition_45acp_special_ball/ammo_747_small.jpg)
Take 2 of these and call your doctor in the morning if that annoying depression persists.
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My depression is intractable. I need care that cannot be provided by my county: Vagus nerve stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep-brain implants: SOMETHING that can help me deal with this ongoing nightmare. I've had ECT (shock treatments) once and I'd really rather not repeat the experience. Still, I doubt even that option is available to me.
Call the waaaaaaaaaaaambulance, a DUmmie can't milk us for free health care! There's always the option of lead poisoning DUmmie!
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I've got a treatment for you that can be provided for ya; you can either self administer it, have one of your moonbat friends administer it for you, or if you're persistent enough, a city or county worker can even administer for you, if you prefer.
(http://www.dlsports.com/ammunition_45acp_special_ball/ammo_747_small.jpg)
Take 2 of these and call your doctor in the morning if that annoying depression persists.
Properly administered, one will do.
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Properly administered, one will do.
If administered by a city or county employee, it may come in doses of 17
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You know, the squawking primitive has this thing about being "entitled" to Beverly Hills or Park Avenue psychiatric services, even though other people have to pay for it.
I really wish the squawking primitive would explain what she's given to humanity and society, what gifts she has bestowed upon the rest of us, what marvelous things she has graced us with, that makes her "entitled" to be supported by the rest of us?
I'd really like to know what makes her so "special."
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Properly administered, one will do.
True; but when have you known of any DUmbass that could do something right the first time?
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True; but when have you known of any DUmbass that could do something right the first time?
DUMMY FOUND DEAD - APPARENT SUICIDE
DU poster Ladysquawk was found dead in her San Jose hovel of an apparent suicide. Ms. Ladysquawk was found with seven bullet holes in head, clutching a six shot revolver. According to San Jose police, she had to reload the pistol to finish herself off.
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DUMMY FOUND DEAD - APPARENT SUICIDE
DU poster Ladysquawk was found dead in her San Jose hovel of an apparent suicide. Ms. Ladysquawk was found with seven bullet holes in head, clutching a six shot revolver. According to San Jose police, she had to reload the pistol to finish herself off.
Given the sheer bulk of the squawking primitive, she'd probably have to.
The squaking primitive is no Twiggy.
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DUMMY FOUND DEAD - APPARENT SUICIDE
DU poster Ladysquawk was found dead in her San Jose hovel of an apparent suicide. Ms. Ladysquawk was found with seven bullet holes in head, clutching a six shot revolver. According to San Jose police, she had to reload the pistol to finish herself off.
Does she actually live in San Jose? If so, then I laugh at her claims of living in a "conservative county".
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True; but when have you known of any DUmbass that could do something right the first time?
Use a shotgun, then . . .
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Does she actually live in San Jose? If so, then I laugh at her claims of living in a "conservative county".
No she doesn't, if you search her posts you'll see that she's in Tuolumne County, yes bad for me look at my screenname. :censored:
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No she doesn't, if you search her posts you'll see that she's in Tuolumne County, yes bad for me look at my screenname. :censored:
Eek.
How big is Tuolumne county?
Did you ever by any chance see a grossly obese mentally-ill woman who thinks she has "potential" for singing in the opera, wandering around there? Black or dark brown hair, I think. Dresses like a pig. She's about the same age as the subway cat, mid-40s. Maybe by chance you're run into her at a store or something?
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Ooops, I meant "pig" in the sense of slovenly and disorderly, not in the sense that the squawking primitive dresses up like a pig.
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No she doesn't, if you search her posts you'll see that she's in Tuolumne County, yes bad for me look at my screenname. :censored:
My grandparents live in Calaveras County, so right by you. Sorry that you have DUmmies in your beautiful area. I do have to say that she does live in more conservative area, but I wonder if she has ever considered that if she moved to a less rural area, she would have more psychiatrist options :thatsright:
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Well Frank the County itself is pretty large and its getting right crowded were at almost 60,000 people for the County (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuolumne_County,_California), but the only real populated area is the County seat Sonora (http://www.sonoraca.com/)
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My grandparents live in Calaveras County, so right by you. Sorry that you have DUmmies in your beautiful area. I do have to say that she does live in more conservative area, but I wonder if she has ever considered that if she moved to a less rural area, she would have more psychiatrist options :thatsright:
But then she couldn't sponge off of her "Fundy" Mother. :fuelfire:
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My grandparents live in Calaveras County, so right by you.
Do they still have that jumping frog contest?
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Do they still have that jumping frog contest?
Yup, it is in Angels Camp, CA, which is in Calaveras County, every year :-)
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Well Frank the County itself is pretty large and its getting right crowded were at almost 60,000 people for the County (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuolumne_County,_California), but the only real populated area is the County seat Sonora (http://www.sonoraca.com/)
Thanks, sir.
Your county is about 300 square miles smaller than the one where I spent my adolesence, in the center of Nebraska, Custer County, population about 12,000. So I suppose it's a large county, when all is considered.
Cherry County in Nebraska is much larger, at 6,000 square miles, bigger than Connecticut, and very neatly has 1 person per square mile, 6,000 people.
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Thanks, sir.
Your county is about 300 square miles smaller than the one where I spent my adolesence, in the center of Nebraska, Custer County, population about 12,000. So I suppose it's a large county, when all is considered.
Cherry County in Nebraska is much larger, at 6,000 square miles, bigger than Connecticut, and very neatly has 1 person per square mile, 6,000 people.
On my Moms side in or around 1931 my Grandpa got a call back to my Grandma in Nebraska and told her to load up all 13 kids (my Mom is #10) and whatever else they could fit and drive out to California, and here they've been. :-)
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On my Moms side in or around 1931 my Grandpa got a call back to my Grandma in Nebraska and told her to load up all 13 kids (my Mom is #10) and whatever else they could fit and drive out to California, and here they've been. :-)
Yeah, that happened a lot during the Dust Bowl.
California or Oregon was the usual destination.
Custer County in Nebraska in 1920 had the fourth-largest population out of 93 counties; today it probably doesn't even rank in the top 60, although there are Rhode Island-sized counties with 600, 800 people.
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Yeah, that happened a lot during the Dust Bowl.
California or Oregon was the usual destination.
It is hard to understand how all those thousands of hard-working, decent, civilized people were forced to migrate out there, and just a couple of generations later their descendents are, in such large part, socialist, un-American, moonbats. Some impurity in West Coast water, maybe?
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It is hard to understand how all those thousands of hard-working, decent, civilized people were forced to migrate out there, and just a couple of generations later their descendents are, in such large part, socialist, un-American, moonbats. Some impurity in West Coast water, maybe?
I dunno.
There's another mystery here too.
Small underpopulated counties in Nebraska have a disproportionate number of children (born within wedlock, it must be added).
Generally these counties, including the one where I'm at right now, are about 33% children under the age of 18 years.
That's a high percentage, and it kind of makes for a different sort of culture. I get irritated when going to garage sales and somesuch, because usually most of the offerings are children's things. Even the book stores and libraries are more than half, maybe as much as two-thirds, children's books. Movies for children and recreational activities for children strongly predominate.
Which is, all things considered, okay, because we need children, and the more the merrier.
However, in these same counties--and I am describing all counties of the Sandhills of Nebraska--those aged 18-30 and 30-45 are rare, usually 3, 4, 5% of the population.
These of course being people in the prime income-earning group.
Those few aged 18-30 and 30-45 produce all these children, these large families.
And then these kids, upon growing up, leave. Not because they necessarily want to, but because a farm or ranch doesn't require 40-50 hired hands, like they used to.
Contrary to erroneous public perception, nobody leaves Nebraska because "it's boring" or because "there's nothing to do there." One goes where the jobs are.
All these emigrating Nebraska kids take their salubrious political wisdom into the big blue cities, but thus far haven't had much of an effect of turning these corrupt old places around.
It's very sad, but our numbers are just too small to have much of an impact.
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Ladyhawk (1000+ posts) Sat Jul-11-09 12:54 PM
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Californians with mental health issues are so very screwed.
My depression is intractable. I need care that cannot be provided by my county: Vagus nerve stimulation, transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep-brain implants: SOMETHING that can help me deal with this ongoing nightmare. I've had ECT (shock treatments) once and I'd really rather not repeat the experience. Still, I doubt even that option is available to me.
Want nightmares...image LadyHawk, UGP, and Bobolink all together in the same room
talking about their medical "problems"... :tinfoil2: :badmood: :chill: :angryvillagers: :jerkit:
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It is hard to understand how all those thousands of hard-working, decent, civilized people were forced to migrate out there, and just a couple of generations later their descendents are, in such large part, socialist, un-American, moonbats. Some impurity in West Coast water, maybe?
If you look at a political map of California, most of the more rural, farmland areas are still conservative. It is the Los Angeles area, and the San Francisco area that tilt us to the left. I suspect that the migration of hippies to Berkeley and San Francisco during the 60's and 70's has had a lingering effect.
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If you look at a political map of California, most of the more rural, farmland areas are still conservative. It is the Los Angeles area, and the San Francisco area that tilt us to the left. I suspect that the migration of hippies to Berkeley and San Francisco during the 60's and 70's has had a malingering effect.
Fixed. :)
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Fixed. :)
And very well ;-)
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Good thing I am not insane and mentally ill, despite the fact that I have been branded as one for hating rabbits. Damn FILTHY SODOMITES!!!!!!!!!!
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I could talk about "vagus nerve stimulation," because I know a couple of the ways to actually do this, but there's a lot of people here that would be offended.
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I could talk about "vagus nerve stimulation," because I know a couple of the ways to actually do this, but there's a lot of people here that would be offended.
Ptarmy, among others...
Damn FILTHY SODOMITES!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously, one way to stimulate the vagus is to take a dump, or bear down like you are. Maybe the DUmmie is so full of shit, they've gone insane?
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Ptarmy, among others...
Seriously, one way to stimulate the vagus is to take a dump, or bear down like you are. Maybe the DUmmie is so full of shit, they've gone insane?
This has got to be the most strange topic I have seen in months.
I'm one of those people that get creeped out when people around me go beside themselves. I make a comment and the other suddenly begins to yell at me and question my sanity. It is the unexpected attack on me for asking if a family member has checked their sugar lately if they have permission from their doctor to join a health club. etc. and the family member gets red in the face and rant and rave that I am sick in the head and need help. Scary and most freeky.
I have seen my share of bar fights when everyone is drunk out of their mind, no problem for me hiding behind the bar, I know the reason.
I can understand how people a long time ago thought people were posessed. Something as simple as an absesed tooth can cause violent changes or Menengitis cause familys to sign comitment papers for a loved one.
Now we face the Old Timers disease that has people in nursing homes at the age of 40 or younger. Too often a physical problem is blamed on mental disease, instead of blood work and investigation of symptions people are sent to a theropist that wants to know if that person likes to eat carrots and hates their parents.
BS a person with a very bad allergy to something they have lived around all their lives can develope any kind of problems.
I am reminded of the CEO of a large company that manufactured tomato paste, he began to act odd, talked to himself and became very antagonist toward his family.
Doctor after doctor said he was becoming senile until one doc found that over night he had developed an unexplained allergy to tomatoes.
6 months off tomatoes and all food in that group and he was back to normal.
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This has got to be the most strange topic I have seen in months.
I'm one of those people that get creeped out when people around me go beside themselves. I make a comment and the other suddenly begins to yell at me and question my sanity. It is the unexpected attack on me for asking if a family member has checked their sugar lately if they have permission from their doctor to join a health club. etc. and the family member gets red in the face and rant and rave that I am sick in the head and need help. Scary and most freeky.
I have seen my share of bar fights when everyone is drunk out of their mind, no problem for me hiding behind the bar, I know the reason.
I can understand how people a long time ago thought people were posessed. Something as simple as an absesed tooth can cause violent changes or Menengitis cause familys to sign comitment papers for a loved one.
Now we face the Old Timers disease that has people in nursing homes at the age of 40 or younger. Too often a physical problem is blamed on mental disease, instead of blood work and investigation of symptions people are sent to a theropist that wants to know if that person likes to eat carrots and hates their parents.
BS a person with a very bad allergy to something they have lived around all their lives can develope any kind of problems.
I am reminded of the CEO of a large company that manufactured tomato paste, he began to act odd, talked to himself and became very antagonist toward his family.
Doctor after doctor said he was becoming senile until one doc found that over night he had developed an unexplained allergy to tomatoes.
6 months off tomatoes and all food in that group and he was back to normal.
So if we kick some of the more reasonable primitives off the island they may go normal?
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So if we kick some of the more reasonable primitives off the island they may go normal?
teh magic 8-ball says doubtful
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teh magic 8-ball says doubtful
I can dream can't I? LOL
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Want nightmares...image LadyHawk, UGP, and Bobolink all together in the same room
talking about their medical "problems"... :tinfoil2: :badmood: :chill: :angryvillagers: :jerkit:
That reminds me of a song lyric by Mac Davis, I think:
"Why don't we take Idi Imin and Kohmeni and Kadaffi and all of the rest,
Put them all in a room, and make them stare at Yassir Arafat
'Til the ugly the whole bunch to death!"