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Darkside and I started talking politics.
He hates politics.
He thinks that this Bush is an idiot and a joke.
He hates politics.
He thinks that this Bush is an idiot and a joke.
2002-09-12
Why California?
Issues that we're going to run into:
Cost of living.
Depending on the neighborhood, crime rate.
Overlegislation?
Depending, school system.
Good things:
Depending, school system.
My relatives.
Our friends.
Unknowable things:
Whatever the hell reason it is that we seem to be in the process of being Called.
Cost of living.
Depending on the neighborhood, crime rate.
Overlegislation?
Depending, school system.
Good things:
Depending, school system.
My relatives.
Our friends.
Unknowable things:
Whatever the hell reason it is that we seem to be in the process of being Called.
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If there was a way to remove someone from your friends list without them ever having been there in the first place, I'd use that right now.
Bleaugh.
Not everyone has absolute faith in the gods of modern medicine, especially not those who have been continually and abusively subjected to the darker side of it.
Sometimes, you've just got to vent, and LJ is an excellent forum for that. Anybody who doesn't realize that someone quite happy normally can have a few off days and need to vent is an idiot, and taking that venting-space away, for those who rely on LJ as a coping mechanism as much as some people rely on a therapist, or other people rely on prescription (or other) drugs, is counterproductive and manipulative and the work of an ass-bastard.
Bleaugh.
Not everyone has absolute faith in the gods of modern medicine, especially not those who have been continually and abusively subjected to the darker side of it.
Sometimes, you've just got to vent, and LJ is an excellent forum for that. Anybody who doesn't realize that someone quite happy normally can have a few off days and need to vent is an idiot, and taking that venting-space away, for those who rely on LJ as a coping mechanism as much as some people rely on a therapist, or other people rely on prescription (or other) drugs, is counterproductive and manipulative and the work of an ass-bastard.
Treat it, then when it's fixed, quit the treatment.
The thing I had the most problem with, ever, with a doctor of mine, was when I was given a nightguard by my dentist to correct the misalignment of my jaw.
When I went back a year later, and told him I wasn't wearing the nightguard because its time was over, my jaw was fixed, and the thing was an implement of torture, he told me that it had been given to me originally to protect my teeth from my grinding them at night, and since I hadn't been wearing it, a new one that fit my mouth would have to be made.
I told him absolutely not. He was not happy with me.
It is my opinion that when a medication or treatment is given to solve a specific problem, after the problem has been fixed, the treatment should be discontinued. In the case of antibiotics, often the infection subsides before all the antibiotics have been taken; in this case, continuing the treatment is vital, to make sure that not just most, but as near to all of the wee beasties have been eliminated, so it won't flare up again. There is a difference, however, between continuing to take the medicine until day 14 as prescribed, and continuing to take those antibiotics every day for the rest of your life because of one bout with pnemonia that was cured four years ago.
I wonder how many people have had bad situations crop up in their lives, have gotten on antidepressants for a depression caused by a specific incident or set of incidents, and then never gotten off the medication?![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
n3m3sis42 has mentioned that she has seen too much of this.
Antidepressants are powerful drugs that can pull someone's mind out of a deep dark pit of despair and make them functional again, and they are very good for that purpose. However, once the person has recovered enough to have sanity and coherency, there should be a pursuit of the root cause of the problem. Is it some deep monster memory from the past? Is it a chemical imbalance inherent in the brain from birth?
All permanent prescriptions, especially of drugs with a profound impact on the mind, should be periodically reviewed. Have there been medical advances that make putting up with any side effects of a current prescription unnecessary? Is the situation that made the prescription necessary still in place? Is it likely to have changed? What are the long-term effects of staying on this drug? What are the effects of getting off it? It may not be necessary or wise to change, but it is vital to take a look at what's happening inside and outside of the body, every now and then.
When I went back a year later, and told him I wasn't wearing the nightguard because its time was over, my jaw was fixed, and the thing was an implement of torture, he told me that it had been given to me originally to protect my teeth from my grinding them at night, and since I hadn't been wearing it, a new one that fit my mouth would have to be made.
I told him absolutely not. He was not happy with me.
It is my opinion that when a medication or treatment is given to solve a specific problem, after the problem has been fixed, the treatment should be discontinued. In the case of antibiotics, often the infection subsides before all the antibiotics have been taken; in this case, continuing the treatment is vital, to make sure that not just most, but as near to all of the wee beasties have been eliminated, so it won't flare up again. There is a difference, however, between continuing to take the medicine until day 14 as prescribed, and continuing to take those antibiotics every day for the rest of your life because of one bout with pnemonia that was cured four years ago.
I wonder how many people have had bad situations crop up in their lives, have gotten on antidepressants for a depression caused by a specific incident or set of incidents, and then never gotten off the medication?
n3m3sis42 has mentioned that she has seen too much of this. Antidepressants are powerful drugs that can pull someone's mind out of a deep dark pit of despair and make them functional again, and they are very good for that purpose. However, once the person has recovered enough to have sanity and coherency, there should be a pursuit of the root cause of the problem. Is it some deep monster memory from the past? Is it a chemical imbalance inherent in the brain from birth?
All permanent prescriptions, especially of drugs with a profound impact on the mind, should be periodically reviewed. Have there been medical advances that make putting up with any side effects of a current prescription unnecessary? Is the situation that made the prescription necessary still in place? Is it likely to have changed? What are the long-term effects of staying on this drug? What are the effects of getting off it? It may not be necessary or wise to change, but it is vital to take a look at what's happening inside and outside of the body, every now and then.
Oh, and Darkside?
It makes this Lunatic very, very happy when you tell her things. Take this morning, when you were working on that stuff for that campaign of yours. It thrilled me no end when you told me about what you were doing. Even though I have very little interest in the topic... well, I can't say that, but I wouldn't be as interested without you to make it interesting...
You don't talk about anything important to many people. Today you told me about Lady Bright and Lady Dark, and your campaign setting, and about President Bush, and about the math test and the research paper... I told my mother many of these things every day when I came home from school, but they have to be dragged out of you some days.
("If you're very quiet," my father's old friend said, of the rooster standing quietly under the table, "maybe he'll speak up." And Xiao Ji did, those quiet crooning noises that roosters make when they're talking in a normal tone of voice to friends or family, not making a fuss about anything. That was the visit where Brittany shared her twinkies. )
I remember that day for Xiao Ji's talking to strangers. He was a very shy rooster.
Darkside is a very shy man. He'll talk to you endlessly if you're a gamer, or interested in his gaming, but it takes a lot of quiet, and a lot of patience, and a lot of gentle prying at the right time to get him to release any more of himself to you. All he did was sigh, but that was enough to tell me that there was something on his mind. I pried it out, and it felt so much better for him to have talked about it that he dropped in to the computer lab to tell me more about the test after his class was over.
He's not known for seeking me out. He did, this time, to tell me about the test.
Maybe one of these days he'll register that I really do care about what's up with him.
You don't talk about anything important to many people. Today you told me about Lady Bright and Lady Dark, and your campaign setting, and about President Bush, and about the math test and the research paper... I told my mother many of these things every day when I came home from school, but they have to be dragged out of you some days.
("If you're very quiet," my father's old friend said, of the rooster standing quietly under the table, "maybe he'll speak up." And Xiao Ji did, those quiet crooning noises that roosters make when they're talking in a normal tone of voice to friends or family, not making a fuss about anything. That was the visit where Brittany shared her twinkies. )
I remember that day for Xiao Ji's talking to strangers. He was a very shy rooster.
Darkside is a very shy man. He'll talk to you endlessly if you're a gamer, or interested in his gaming, but it takes a lot of quiet, and a lot of patience, and a lot of gentle prying at the right time to get him to release any more of himself to you. All he did was sigh, but that was enough to tell me that there was something on his mind. I pried it out, and it felt so much better for him to have talked about it that he dropped in to the computer lab to tell me more about the test after his class was over.
He's not known for seeking me out. He did, this time, to tell me about the test.
Maybe one of these days he'll register that I really do care about what's up with him.