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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: franksolich on October 07, 2016, 12:51:20 AM
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/11516513
Oh my.
hunter (25,001 posts) Thu Oct 6, 2016, 04:06 PM
I'm going to put my 25,000th post here. I've had a rough year and it helps me to know I'm not alone.
I'm not sure what happened to me, but it's like I got too old and weary of keeping up the facade; I revisited the stuff that got me in so much trouble in college, the stuff that turned a four year science degree into a nine year adventure: the profound depression, the hallucinations, the obsessions, the psychotic self-destructive feelings and behaviors, that maybe I'd go swimming naked in the deep ocean with the great white sharks just to feel something real. I think I now understand people who cut; my own methods are merely Rube Goldberg versions of the same intent.
Fortunately I tend to be an affable and amusing sort, even at my very worst, a danger to myself, not others. In college the campus police and local cops always treated me as a welcome diversion from their usual graveyard shift routines of domestic violence and drunk-and-disorderlies. Hah, ha, we picked up Hunter running barefoot with bloody feet. But my illness does put huge burden of worry on my family and friends. They'd be very sad if I was eaten by the sharks. I think of my mom: Her mom did become a danger to herself and others and was forcibly removed from her house by police and paramedics in an hours long siege. Tied to an ambulance gurney my grandma was still cussing bloody murder and trying to bite anyone who got too close to her face.
For much lesser non-violent reasons I ended up locked up in the psych ward with a crash course of new meds, including a powerful anti-psychotic.
These new meds seem to be working well, I can ignore the voices in my head, especially late at night, but I am reminded once again that I'm not a good judge of my own mental state and that here in the U.S.A. there are few social safety nets but those you build for yourself. Locked up in the psych ward with me there were people who had no advocates but extremely overworked social workers. That's not right.
CaliforniaPeggy (120,471 posts) Thu Oct 6, 2016, 04:14 PM
1. Congratulations to you on your 25,000 posts, my dear hunter!
You are most distinctly not alone here! I've had my own challenges which are very different from yours, but having been a nurse helps me have empathy for you and your situation. I even worked in a psych unit long ago.
I am glad your new meds seem to be working well. I'm glad too that you can see where you are. And I so agree about the need for many more advocates for mental health and not hoist the whole thing on the shoulders of over-worked social workers.
Keep on keepin' on!
retrowire (8,491 posts) Thu Oct 6, 2016, 04:27 PM
2. What an adventure our mentally broken lives are.
Congrats on the 25,000!
mopinko (46,260 posts) Thu Oct 6, 2016, 06:49 PM
3. nope, you are not alone.
glad that you are on the mend.
and yes, we have to build our own safety nets any more. trying to rebuild mine now, and it gets scary. cant imagine having no one to lean on. so sad.
hang in there friend. we are always here.
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Useless pieces of shit,doubt there is one damn thing wrong with them other then being stoned out,lazy,sub human filth.
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Dear God... and these mutants roam among us.
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They'd be very sad if I was eaten by the sharks.
No. No they wouldn't.
No one would be.
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They just keep proving over and over again LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER.
They are all mentally ill.
The dems should run on a platform of re-opening the hospitals for the mentally ill.
They would be full on the 1st day of their opening.
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etrowire (8,491 posts) Thu Oct 6, 2016, 04:27 PM
2. What an adventure our mentally broken lives are.
Are they like competing in the Mentally Ill Olympics?
It's almost like they are proud of mental illnesses :o
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Are they like competing in the Mentally Ill Olympics?
It's almost like they are proud of mental illnesses :o
They seem to wear them on their chests as if they were military medals . . . ::) :whatever:
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They seem to wear them on their chests as if they were military medals . . . ::) :whatever:
Mental illness is the DUmmies meal ticket to SSDI without being questioned too much.
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Nuttier than a pile of squirrel turds, the whole lot of them.
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Mental illness is the DUmmies meal ticket to SSDI without being questioned too much.
They think that their behavior is normal and everyone suffers from the same afflictions. They live in a bubble.
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I'd go swimming naked in the deep ocean with the great white sharks just to feel something real.
:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:
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Dear God... and these mutants roam among us.
and find other mutants to breed with :argh:
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:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:
That's exactly the reaction any great white shark should have to the thought of eating any DUmmie.
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That's exactly the reaction any great white shark should have to the thought of eating any DUmmie.
Hmmmm ... if her youth was during the Vietnam War time period the shark might've said, "Tastes just like chicken!" :rimshot: :bolt:
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Are they like competing in the Mentally Ill Olympics?
It's almost like they are proud of mental illnesses :o
Yes. It's a little game they like to play called 'Loser one-upmanship.'
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I'd go swimming naked in the deep ocean with the great white sharks just to feel something real.
Jumping off an overpass into traffic would feel real, for how long would depend on the height of the jump and the mass of the vehicles.
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hunter
I revisited the stuff that got me in so much trouble in college, ... the hallucinations...
You need to focus on your hallucination that tells you liberalism is superior to conservatism, because it isn't. In fact, it's not even close to be in the same neighborhood of superiority as conservatism. Get past that hallucination and it'll take care of 100% of your other issues.
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I'd go swimming naked in the deep ocean with the great white sharks just to feel something real.
Natural shark repellent.