I always have a massive sinus infection in conjunction with my li'l friend. When it "yells" my it almost feels like it vibrates all the snot up there. The last...
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minimum_wage623
Aug 1, 2003 3:19 pm
... It's funny your saying the voice in your head was connected and appeared during taking a certain med. as: I once bought (I think) Kinko Biloba or something...
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Aug 1, 2003 7:53 pm
My hometown has been conquered by the mental health system. In 20 short years they have chased out nearly every competitor and they have a drug 'em, forget 'em...
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wolfdeck2003
Aug 1, 2003 8:44 pm
Hi Petie! I tell myself I don't need anymore counseling since I am able to work and all that. You are correct! The definition of mental illness is lack of...
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minimum_wage623
Aug 1, 2003 9:10 pm
Really not anything especially troubling me right now other than "normal" stuff like trying to establish new friendships and possibly *gulp* romance. The...
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wolfdeck2003
Aug 1, 2003 9:23 pm
Seems like absolutely every aspect of your life was controlled and directed while in this ?therapy? It sounds horrific at any age. Truly untenable as a teen! ...
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minimum_wage623
Aug 1, 2003 9:38 pm
I was put in a "emotionally handicapped" class, kept away from the rest of the school,too. ... Seems like absolutely every aspect of your life was controlled...
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Michael Dewolf
michael3dewolf
Aug 1, 2003 9:53 pm
DID is a trauma disorder. The 'primary' treatment isn't drugs, it's trauma therapy. I don't think you can ever go wrong getting trauma therapy. I also...
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minimum_wage623
Aug 2, 2003 12:24 am
Like I said, I did have a horrific time living in my evil, no jobs, no hope town and I think trauma could've made me "splinter in two". But the place I was...
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minimum_wage623
Aug 2, 2003 10:24 pm
I saw a funny old skit with Bob Newhart as a psychologist, his answers to everything the patient said was "Stop doing that!" If only it were so easy....
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minimum_wage623
Aug 4, 2003 5:00 pm
The places I've seen, in the towns I've been in, specialize in overdrugged people and turning them into morbidly obese heart patients. How does it help a...
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minimum_wage623
Aug 4, 2003 6:07 pm
Dr. "Sienna" there said I needed to exercise like a olympic athlete to achieve any kind of results a person whose metabolism wasn't slowed to a crawl by...
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wolfdeck2003
Aug 4, 2003 9:22 pm
Hi Petie! I can't see how it does help! Now that you are off the meds -- how is your physical health doing? Have you been off long enough to get some control...
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minimum_wage623
Aug 5, 2003 3:57 am
I have lost close to 81 pounds. My health is doing good, I have found the proper setting for my C.ontinous P.ositive A.irway P.ressure machine (CPAP) (13cm...
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Aug 5, 2003 5:18 am
My whole hometown is like a episode of the Twilight Zone or maybe a Stephen King novel. People are quite nasty and it drives you to think you need...
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wolfdeck2003
Aug 5, 2003 7:20 am
This sounds good in the present and hopeful of the future! It won't make up for the pain that you have already suffered and the lost years you can't ever get...
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wolfdeck2003
Aug 5, 2003 7:23 am
From experience, I can sympathize with this. i.e. I'm not mentally ill -- everyone else is! A quote of mine! Katie Minimum_Wage...
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Peter
minimum_wage623
Aug 6, 2003 12:38 am
I wouldn't say mentally ill but everyone has a bad attitude and a chip on their shoulder. ... From experience, I can sympathize with this. i.e. I'm not...
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Peter
minimum_wage623
Aug 6, 2003 12:52 am
In my hometown, they have a very special system set up where they put patients from the "Center" in a class known as "emotionally handicapped" (Re;Thugs). I...
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Peter
minimum_wage623
Aug 6, 2003 1:02 am
The "Center" has become the "Center" of downtown. Going from a relatively unknown place, known only to those needing a little talk therapy, they have become...
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Michael Dewolf
michael3dewolf
Aug 6, 2003 7:31 pm
Peter, Have you contacted a lawyer?! Seriously, why haven't some of you sued? Michael ... From: "Peter" <Morticia_Pippenpooper@...> To:...
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minimum_wage623
Aug 6, 2003 8:27 pm
I've been told they are like the Mafia in my town and they would drag out the case for years and years, and even if I won I might not see any money for years....
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minimum_wage623
Aug 6, 2003 8:27 pm
You ever see those big class action lawsuits and the award keeps getting reduced, and reduced, until it doesn't matter anymore? I think that's what will...
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Aug 6, 2003 10:48 pm
Also, in the evil town I talk about so much,(I'm telling this story again) Charter disappeared one month after the Sixty Minutes II story appeared. Shut down....
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Aug 6, 2003 10:56 pm
The local hospital that had a small psych ward, well they talked them into closing that up, so now the Nazi Center is the only game in town. Glad I'm gone... ...
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wolfdeck2003
Aug 6, 2003 11:57 pm
Hi Michael! Only those who can afford a lawyer out-of-pocket can afford to sue in civil court. Those of us who require Legal Aid cannot sue in civil court. IT...
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wolfdeck2003
Aug 7, 2003 12:27 am
I forgot to add to my speel about Advocacy -- It is confidential! I can appreciate Petie's concerns over his privacy. Court would force him to relive his youth...
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minimum_wage623
Aug 7, 2003 12:44 am
I had to move 900 miles away from that town due to being broke and 3/4 dead from all the crap they did to me! Even my own brother believes I should still go...
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Aug 7, 2003 1:14 am
My brother delivered a ultimatum thru my sister that I had to work for at least $7.00/hour for a year and prove I was on medication if I could know my...
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Michael Dewolf
michael3dewolf
Aug 7, 2003 2:06 am
Katie, I don't know what your current battle with Social Services is, but... I got a letter from my therapist that I couldn't work because of ilness, and I...
