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Look, when Kate Spade died, I was sad for her family, how could someone with so much (loving family, success in the Fashion industry) do such a thing. Oh mental illness. Damn, sucks. I mean seriously. It was Bourdain's suicide this morning that really made me mad.
Dude was a rock star of chef's as it were, a great host, wonderful travel shows... and he just, killed himself.
We've long suspected that there is a link between these shooting rampages in schools and other places, many many of them are on brain drugs (catch all for the myriad of drugs for depression, bi-polar and what not) and now another suicide in the news.
It's like every bad feeling has a drug ready to fix it! People don't deal with their problems they pill them away, and those pills break your brain.
This, is the epidemic that we need to focus on, not gun control, not diagnosing and codifying everything as a "You suffer from..."
No you suffer from "Not dealing with life". ARE there people with real mental disorders? Absolutely, and they need treatment and help. Giving people a pill and saying "Go be drugged and happy" is killing us.
Full disclosure, I’ve taken a low dose anti-depressant for years. It helps keeps anxiety and my OCD in check. How is that any different than making the changes to yourself and your body to feel more comfortable in your own skin?
Were both of the recent deaths linked to pharmaceuticals?
Yeah, you're right. Suicides at all time highs, shootings at schools, it's the same thing as hormone replacement therapy, it's all good.
My bad disregard the thread, X takes some low dose stuff so it means there is no problem, I'm way off track, carry on.
/smh
Full disclosure, I’ve taken a low dose anti-depressant for years. It helps keeps anxiety and my OCD in check. People here have seen me literally off my meds and it ain’t pretty. Sincere question, Renae, how is that any different than making the changes to yourself and your body to feel more comfortable in your own skin?
No you suffer from "Not dealing with life". ARE there people with real mental disorders? Absolutely, and they need treatment and help. Giving people a pill and saying "Go be drugged and happy" is killing us.
Renae, I'm sure you mean well with this, but you are wrong. Antidepressants save more lives than they take, by a long shot. Not everyone can take them, I'm one of those people, they make me worse, not better. But for many many many people they do a wonderful job of dealing with an awful condition.
If you want to see less people on meds, make society less of a mental illness manufacturer. Don't shame people for trying to deal with the hand they were given however they can...that is the definition of "dealing with life".
Yeah, you're right. Suicides at all time highs, shootings at schools, it's the same thing as hormone replacement therapy, it's all good.
My bad disregard the thread, X takes some low dose stuff so it means there is no problem, I'm way off track, carry on.
/smh
Yea, some people need their meds. A few of my friends cannot function properly without their medication. And I need my ADHD meds to concentrate in school.
Look, when Kate Spade died, I was sad for her family, how could someone with so much (loving family, success in the Fashion industry) do such a thing. Oh mental illness. Damn, sucks. I mean seriously. It was Bourdain's suicide this morning that really made me mad.
Dude was a rock star of chef's as it were, a great host, wonderful travel shows... and he just, killed himself.
We've long suspected that there is a link between these shooting rampages in schools and other places, many many of them are on brain drugs (catch all for the myriad of drugs for depression, bi-polar and what not) and now another suicide in the news.
It's like every bad feeling has a drug ready to fix it! People don't deal with their problems they pill them away, and those pills break your brain.
This, is the epidemic that we need to focus on, not gun control, not diagnosing and codifying everything as a "You suffer from..."
No you suffer from "Not dealing with life". ARE there people with real mental disorders? Absolutely, and they need treatment and help. Giving people a pill and saying "Go be drugged and happy" is killing us.
Ok, tried to be nice about it but my real question is who are you to judge anyone else for taking any meds?
Yeah, you're right. Suicides at all time highs, shootings at schools, it's the same thing as hormone replacement therapy, it's all good.
My bad disregard the thread, X takes some low dose stuff so it means there is no problem, I'm way off track, carry on.
/smh
Honestly, I wish I’d started them sooner. There was a period of about 3 years where I felt constantly under pure stress and it’s taken a toll. If I’d started the meds back then, I would be better off today.
Different kind of meds X. Whole different class and spectrum. I'm sorry I hurt you by pointing out that there is a real problem we need to address. But that might mean you would be faced with confronting your own situation, much better to lash out.
Look, when Kate Spade died, I was sad for her family, how could someone with so much (loving family, success in the Fashion industry) do such a thing. Oh mental illness. Damn, sucks. I mean seriously. It was Bourdain's suicide this morning that really made me mad.
Dude was a rock star of chef's as it were, a great host, wonderful travel shows... and he just, killed himself.
We've long suspected that there is a link between these shooting rampages in schools and other places, many many of them are on brain drugs (catch all for the myriad of drugs for depression, bi-polar and what not) and now another suicide in the news.
It's like every bad feeling has a drug ready to fix it! People don't deal with their problems they pill them away, and those pills break your brain.
This, is the epidemic that we need to focus on, not gun control, not diagnosing and codifying everything as a "You suffer from..."
No you suffer from "Not dealing with life". ARE there people with real mental disorders? Absolutely, and they need treatment and help. Giving people a pill and saying "Go be drugged and happy" is killing us.
Renae, I'm sure you mean well with this, but you are wrong. Antidepressants save more lives than they take, by a long shot. Not everyone can take them, I'm one of those people, they make me worse, not better. But for many many many people they do a wonderful job of dealing with an awful condition.
If you want to see less people on meds, make society less of a mental illness manufacturer. Don't shame people for trying to deal with the hand they were given however they can...that is the definition of "dealing with life".
Renae, I'm sure you mean well with this, but you are wrong. Antidepressants save more lives than they take, by a long shot. Not everyone can take them, I'm one of those people, they make me worse, not better. But for many many many people they do a wonderful job of dealing with an awful condition.
If you want to see less people on meds, make society less of a mental illness manufacturer. Don't shame people for trying to deal with the hand they were given however they can...that is the definition of "dealing with life".
Go peddle your anti-scientific twaddle elsewhere.
Same with my ADHD meds. They seriously help me out with concentrating/focusing on one thing at a time. And it especially helps with school.
Bourdain had been known for being an unrepentant drinker and smoker. In a nod to Bourdain's (at the time) two-pack-a-day cigarette habit, renowned chef Thomas Keller once served him a 20-course tasting menu which included a mid-meal "coffee and cigarette": a coffee custard infused with tobacco, together with a foie gras mousse.[84] Bourdain stopped cigarette smoking in the summer of 2007 because of the birth of his daughter.[85] He is also a former user of cocaine, heroin, and LSD. In Kitchen Confidential he wrote of his experience in a trendy SoHo restaurant in 1981: "We were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in refrigerator at every opportunity to 'conceptualize.' Hardly a decision was made without drugs. Cannabis, methaqualone, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, secobarbital, tuinal, amphetamine, codeine and, increasingly, heroin, which we'd send a Spanish-speaking busboy over to Alphabet City to get."[86] In the same book, Bourdain frankly described his former addiction, including how he once resorted to selling his record collection on the street in order to raise enough money to purchase drugs.
Different kind of meds X. Whole different class and spectrum. I'm sorry I hurt you by pointing out that there is a real problem we need to address. But that might mean you would be faced with confronting your own situation, much better to lash out.
Nothing antiscientific about it, dude, how many suicides are linked to these drugs?
https://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2435
FFS I'm not asking this in a vacuum.
Yeah, how many suicides and shooting rampages?
I guess I should have realized this would be the reaction, so many people on these drugs now, no one wants to ask these questions.
My bad.
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