03-20-2013, 02:19 AM
I've always liked Patsy Cline. I like her best on tape or record, but I have nothing to play them on right now.
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And with this topic of feeling crazy. Lots of people go to doctors and are told they have mental problems. Everyone has mental problems, but sanity is only relevant to functioning as a person in society. The homicidal axe-murderer might be sane in that sense, while the man that runs into a burning building to save other people might be delusional about his own abilities. I can't say that people aren't crazy, or that doctors have nothing to worry about.
I write on many topics, but whenever I write on this topic people usually assume that I'm ranting, and pounce on me rather than consider that I'm only presenting what I've seen. Not only in my personal experiences, but with others.
And the people with the typical everyday problems that are told by doctors that they're sick and need medication often aren't sick and don't need medication; and those people later feel that these so-called mental problems aren't as bad as others make them out to be. But there are people that really do have mental problems, problems with the way their brains function that might not interfere too much with their reasoning, but affects their nervous systems and the way they're able to move their limbs or the way they're able to perceive external things and react to them. And rather than go through life playing both sides of the handicap stigma, many people go to a doctor for some advice, and the doctor pounces right on to the shame and frustration and other mental symptoms of such conditions, telling a person they need drugs because that shame and frustration is a mental illness in itself. And these drugs screw around with the brain even more. And you're often worse off than when you started. Not to mention having had your shame justified and made concrete by an expert.
Doctors assume that if you have a mental problem it can obviously be fixed. But if the drugs don't work, and that's all they have to offer, why can't they just admit that you're screwed up, and it's a crude fact of reality? And suggest that it's all right to try to find other ways to deal with these issues? I know from experience that telling a doctor that you might feel better if you were able to travel to distant places and be among things that make you happy and feel motivated to keep living and do better work and have better relationships with others, many will tell you that's delusional thinking if you can't afford such a trip. Though having you take expensive medications that you can't afford makes all the sense in the world.
But all this is useless to talk about. I want the crazy people to run wild in the streets. Or at least admit that they already are.
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And with this topic of feeling crazy. Lots of people go to doctors and are told they have mental problems. Everyone has mental problems, but sanity is only relevant to functioning as a person in society. The homicidal axe-murderer might be sane in that sense, while the man that runs into a burning building to save other people might be delusional about his own abilities. I can't say that people aren't crazy, or that doctors have nothing to worry about.
I write on many topics, but whenever I write on this topic people usually assume that I'm ranting, and pounce on me rather than consider that I'm only presenting what I've seen. Not only in my personal experiences, but with others.
And the people with the typical everyday problems that are told by doctors that they're sick and need medication often aren't sick and don't need medication; and those people later feel that these so-called mental problems aren't as bad as others make them out to be. But there are people that really do have mental problems, problems with the way their brains function that might not interfere too much with their reasoning, but affects their nervous systems and the way they're able to move their limbs or the way they're able to perceive external things and react to them. And rather than go through life playing both sides of the handicap stigma, many people go to a doctor for some advice, and the doctor pounces right on to the shame and frustration and other mental symptoms of such conditions, telling a person they need drugs because that shame and frustration is a mental illness in itself. And these drugs screw around with the brain even more. And you're often worse off than when you started. Not to mention having had your shame justified and made concrete by an expert.
Doctors assume that if you have a mental problem it can obviously be fixed. But if the drugs don't work, and that's all they have to offer, why can't they just admit that you're screwed up, and it's a crude fact of reality? And suggest that it's all right to try to find other ways to deal with these issues? I know from experience that telling a doctor that you might feel better if you were able to travel to distant places and be among things that make you happy and feel motivated to keep living and do better work and have better relationships with others, many will tell you that's delusional thinking if you can't afford such a trip. Though having you take expensive medications that you can't afford makes all the sense in the world.
But all this is useless to talk about. I want the crazy people to run wild in the streets. Or at least admit that they already are.