Antisocial Media

[Mad Matt]

Dirty linen aired
In a public place
These are the joys
Of the Book of face

Pictures of their kids
And right wing views
Millions of photos
While out on the booze

Instergram photos
Of a shadowed tree
Constant updates
About what's for tea

I'm sure it's okay
When there's time to fritter
At least, thank fuck,
I'm not on twitter.

[rowens]

Right wing views are a real punching bag. But I find left wing views to be more annoying, because on social media, they're a more useless herd.

[Bunx]

book of face and shizo-effective disorder has fuck all of my relationships to date. love your second stanza

[rowens]

Schizo-affective is something they tell you that you have when you seem to be on the verge of having every disorder or no disorder. You don't have schizophrenia, but you might as well: that's the diagnosis there.

[serge gurkski]

I find it a bit one-sided. What about the Arabic Spring (no matter how you judge upon its outcome) without twitter? Rather not. Or: some new political parties in so-called Western so-called democracies (the Pirates in Scandinavia and Germany)?
The internet, the social media and even life in general: all potentially harmful if you don't know what you are doing.
It is also not the media (instruments) that are antisocial but: some people using them behave in an antisocial way.

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But it IS funny. (the poem)

cheers
serge

[Bunx]

rowens, what i have is clear. you could be fake. it is a matter of why. usually it is because of the lack of prescription medication. my reality is subjective

[rowens]

You might have something. Doesn't mean it's always what the doctor says it is. If your reality is subjective, that's even more reason for you to question what they say. Unless the drugs work, and you're fine with how they work.

[serge gurkski]

You might have something. Doesn't mean it's always what the doctor says it is. If your reality is subjective, that's even more reason for you to question what they say. Unless the drugs work, and you're fine with how they work.

the problem with this ( unclear diagnosis) is that it can be potentially dangerous. Here (in Germany) at least you might be friendly invited to enjoy your stay at a looney bin. Which is why I would not quote stuff like hat in public. Just saying. (Uhhh the paranoia again! ;-) )

[rowens]

Social media sites can bring hell down on someone's mind that already has problems. It's just swarming with invitations to paranoia and delusion.

And a very unclear diagnosis is schizoaffective disorder. It's somewhat of a blanket term. If someone's been told they have it, they most likely do have something. They most likely have lots of things. But they can know that without going to the doctor. The doctor has more clear things to say. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. It's tricky business, because I've had several doctors themselves tell me that it's a lazy diagnosis for anyone.

But that's all just stuff people can think about for themselves if they ever run into a problem with that disorder.

[serge gurkski]

of course it is a lazy diagnosis,

"It's just swarming with invitations to paranoia and delusion."

yes! But life is not?

,-)
come on rowen. Madness is restricted to the internet?

[rowens]

No. But if you're already mad, the Internet is like a drug that makes you more mad. People fill your minds with all kinds of things. I do that myself. But it's flashy, and bright. And the shifts through links and webpages give a burst of pleasure in your brain. An instant fix at the push of a button, hundreds and hundreds of times a day. And all the crazy things we spout to each other become merged with those push button fixes.

[Brownlie]

Schizo-affective is something they tell you that you have when you seem to be on the verge of having every disorder or no disorder. You don't have schizophrenia, but you might as well: that's the diagnosis there.

Sometimes they say schizoid personality trait... The mental health system is just like the law its all structured and then they use words that can be dissected or interpretted differently. Its all a system sometimes people fall through the cracks.

[serge gurkski]

you seem to be a victim. ;-))))

stand up for ya rights

[Bunx]

i am a victim. umm
i having starting writing songs based around my experiences. needless to say. i never sing those songs to anyone. umm
my medication goes as such

ART MUSIC
1. Support system-family-medication
2. exercise-challenging activities-tea
3. optimistic humanism

in the world of the git-fiddle (stringed instrumentals) people who play with pedals (additives to noise waves) have a kill swich.
i have developed one for my brain. one thing at a time. life carpe deim.
im riding by my boot straps boys.

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i also have tried countless times to leave the country. the most recent was proposing to a boy to get married in new zealand

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my brother was in peace corp mali as well. most thing that involve me and LONG distance traveling usually fall through

[rayheinrich]

Mental illness is overrated (IMHO). And yes, schizophrenia is indeed used
as a catch-all diagnosis. But I am thankful it exists because it's comforting
to all us other mental defectives* out here that we're (we delusionally assure
ourselves) not THAT crazy.

Right wing views are a real punching bag. But I find left wing views to be more annoying, because on social media, they're a more useless herd.

Being a left-winger myself, I couldn't agree more. I find the right-wing views
wonderfully entertaining; while the left-wing views, usually, are down-right
embarrassing (hence irritating). And as for the intelligent right-wingers out
there with converse feelings, I harbor both comradely sorrow and animostic glee.

P.S. And I most enjoyed the poem.

*I, being a member of this club, have full rights to the use of this pejorative
term as long as I use it in a pseudo-ironic context.

[rowens]

I don't hate doctors, like I don't hate intellectuals or cops or drug dealers. I just have problems with them sometimes. And I figure if you're going to fight fire with fire, you got to know how and where to burn.