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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on May 31, 2011, 03:34:34 PM
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Tue May-31-11 04:31 PM
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Are the mentally ill given a voice on DU or are they told to sit in the corner?
One of my posts got locked. My purpose, while not to be a lightning rod, was to rant against the lack of substantive progress in health care and other areas in the US. I was also ranting against those who either actively of passively support the death of americans.
During this discussion I admitted to having feelings for suicide. This is normal for the amount of pain I am in. In no way did I intimate that I was actually suicidal... I explained the changes in brain chemistry that the chronically ill suffer.
I wonder - does the fact that my post was locked mean that the mentally ill, even the temporarily or situationally mentally ill have no voice on DU. Are we just another "locked" voice? Have any other chronically ill people met the same fate? Or is it just me?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1203980
New thread that won't end well. I'm sure this was a rhetorical question since we know most of the members at DU are mentally ill in some way or another.
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Tue May-31-11 04:31 PM
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Are the mentally ill given a voice on DU or are they told to sit in the corner?
Or is it just me?
It's just you, DUmbass.
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Are the mentally ill given a voice on DU or are they told to sit in the corner?
Yeah, I'm not going to touch that one.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1202259 (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1202259)
MedicalAdmin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-31-11 10:25 AM
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**** the USA and every mother****er in it.
We don't have single payer or universal health insurance, we are letting medicare be destroyed, supply side economics are the rule of the day, torturers are given medals, we run multiple wars of aggression, public education is under attack, unions are being broken, the middle class/working class is being destroyed, the media is a joke, corruption is rampant, scandals abound.
And we sit back and do nothing. This is a nation of quizlings at best. At worst we actively help the corporations torture, maim, kill and cheer while it happens. The USA has no heart and no soul and deserves to die. And I honestly hope that every person who aided and abetted or stood back and watched it happen get whats coming to them too. Just like the quizlings.
Every last one of the mother****ers.
dmr DU Moderator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue May-31-11 02:42 PM
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133. Locking -
You have written some things that has our members very concerned about you. We are are not qualified to give you the help that you may need.
If you feel you are having a crisis, please call this toll-free number 1-800-784-2433 and they may be able to help you.
Please, take care of yourself, we do care.
dmr
DU Moderator
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**** the USA and every mother****er in it.
You are more than welcome to leave this "mother****ing" country at any time.
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Whining little turds like this, who obviously have access to a computer and the internet - and have the education to know how to use them just piss me off.
They live in a free country full of opportunity and can do nothing but bitch that their hand isn't being held while their ass gets wiped.
Screw 'em.
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As I'm sure that you guys know that toll-free number is the suicide hotline. I have no problem with the suicide hotline. I think it is a good thing. I think it's good that the mods on DU have it handy which is the point of my post.
All of us here have probably gone through bad times, sad times, tough times, etc. I know that since the dems began their destruction of the economy I've went from pissed off and stress out to what would probably be considered clinically depressed and back again. Yet the mods here have never had to whip out the toll-free number for me. I don't remember it being whipped out for anyone else. Maybe it's just me but I find it a little strange that a political message board has to have that particular toll-free number at hand. Am I wrong?
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As I'm sure that you guys know that toll-free number is the suicide hotline. I have no problem with the suicide hotline. I think it is a good thing. I think it's good that the mods on DU have it handy which is the point of my post.
All of us here have probably gone through bad times, sad times, tough times, etc. I know that since the dems began their destruction of the economy I've went from pissed off and stress out to what would probably be considered clinically depressed and back again. Yet the mods here have never had to whip out the toll-free number for me. I don't remember it being whipped out for anyone else. Maybe it's just me but I find it a little strange that a political message board has to have that particular toll-free number at hand. Am I wrong?
I didn't know what the number was. Too bad that Sarah Palin or Karl Rove doesn't have an 800 number that the DUmmies could be given. :whistling:
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I didn't know what the number was. Too bad that Sarah Palin or Karl Rove doesn't have an 800 number that the DUmmies could be given. :whistling:
I suspected so I looked it up.
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I suspected so I looked it up.
Knowing what we do about the DUmmies, that number should be placed in a banner ad at the top of every page.
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I got three words for that ****up........"Just Do it" :cheersmate:
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Knowing what we do about the DUmmies, that number should be placed in a banner ad at the top of every page.
Especially at election time. Even when they win they seem to lose.
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Yeah, I'm not going to touch that one.
But it's warm and jiggly.
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This must be the post that DUmmie MedicalAdmin is referring to in the OP.
Taverner (1000+ posts) Tue May-31-11 03:46 PM
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6. I said that once and nearly got kicked off the board for saying it
Take care - and I think you're right: This is a nation of quizlings at best.
MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Tue May-31-11 03:59 PM
Response to Reply #6
23. If I get kicked off then so be it.
I have bigger worries... like how best to end my life.
May I be the first to suggest jumping off of a bridge.
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MedicalAdmin (1000+ posts) Tue May-31-11 03:54 PM
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14. I'm as guilty as everyone else.
Very much so and I knew posting this that I would be stepping on many toes of the american exceptionalists. Knee jerking abounds.
FYI - I have fought everyday for everyone I could so that they get the care they need. And I am finally going broke doing it. Our medical clinic, which does great work at very low prices is on the edge financially. I haven't even taken a salary for 3 years because to do so would mean that others would go without.
And I am so tired. No one seems to get it and when they do for those brief seconds before they start talking about American Idol again, they don't do a damn thing. Call me a complainer or whatever, but I know the shit I've been wading in for year, that shit we call health care in this country. It snared me a few years ago and I just can't go on. People are ****ing dying and no one, based on actions, gives a flying ****.
It's a joke or a reason to marginalize the person saying it. Even here, on supposedly liberal and compassionate DU. It's all a ****ing joke.
A true DUmmy.
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Are the mentally ill given a voice on DU or are they told to sit in the corner?
If the mentally ill were not allowed to post freely, the DUmp would be as dead and desolate as nutcase Andrea's OET board.
But keep in mind that at least half of the craziest DUmp posts are made by freepers, mocking the morons.
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MedicalAdmin
I wonder - does the fact that my post was locked mean that the mentally ill, even the temporarily or situationally mentally ill have no voice on DU.
Au contraire! Those posting at DU who are not mentally ill are the exception to the rule.
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Au contraire! Those posting at DU who are not mentally ill are the exception to the rule.
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...or moles.
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Whining little turds like this, who obviously have access to a computer and the internet - and have the education to know how to use them just piss me off.
They live in a free country full of opportunity and can do nothing but bitch that their hand isn't being held while their ass gets wiped.
Screw 'em.
This.