mental cases

[Lucas]

@ 11:50  faceplant 11 year old girl  , all these cases were drugged with sodium pentathol  and assessed prior to shock therapy  

[Mister Obvious]

The medical/psychological industrial complex is now, and has always been, absolute pure and total fucking garbage.

Clearly the nazis never stopped experimenting on people.

[user328]

While Scientology is also rubbish, they're correct in saying that psychiatry has never cured any disease.

It's safe to say that the experiments conducted by psychologists in the US and the USSR were just as horrendous as anything Nazi scientists ever did.

[user328]

Not just experiments, but actual treatments.

[user328]

My friend in Texas has taken a sudden steep decline into depression. She's usually pretty upbeat, but she was really down on herself when I talked to her yesterday. Despondent and uncommunicative. She has an appointment with a therapist today. I hope she doesn't end up on a shitload of meds again. When I met her years ago, she was on some pretty heavy meds, and was abusing them. She only saw the doctor for fifteen minutes once a month, and the doctor failed to see what was happening.

[user328]

I'm sending her a brand new Casio piano today, just like the one I'll be getting for myself when I move into my apartment. She's a pretty good pianist. The default setting is a piano sound, so all she'll have to do is plug it in and turn it on to start using it right away. She can fool with the other features later.

[user328]

I really hope the creative outlet afforded by the piano will help her. There were signs, in hindsight, that she was getting into a mood. That was the main reason I invited her to come visit once I get set up in my new place.

The process has been painstakingly slow. I messed up my credit and finances pretty bad after I got laid off from the newspaper. I have a Section 8 voucher, but I still have to pass a credit check before most property management companies will rent to me. I've been declined by one complex, even though I paid off the past debt that supposedly caused me to get denied.

I was approved by one complex a couple of months ago. My Social Security benefits finally came through at about the same time. My social worker decided that since I now had an income, he'd try to get someone with no income into that apartment and find me another one. That was pretty dumb in hindsight. Throwing away a bird in hand for one in the bush. That really shouldn't have been his call to make. If I hadn't been down due to chemo and radiation at the time, I might've pushed back.

[user328]

I actually have two social workers. One who keeps tabs on my well-being, and one who specifically deals with helping veterans find housing.

The former social worker is retiring. I know his replacement, and I'm wary of her. From talking to other veterans she works with, I get the sense that she has faulty reasoning skills that manifest in a blame-the-victim mentality and some kind of power trip. I have the feeling she might pull some subtle maneuver to derail anyone she doesn't like. I want to get into an apartment very soon so I can cut these people out of my business and out of my life.

[user328]

I know these people are well meaning, but...

The government has an unlimited capacity to bungle anything it puts its hand to. The episode with the one social worker pulling that apartment from under my feet is a perfect example. I don't see that it'll get any better when the new chick takes over my case from the other social worker.

I'm generally just tired of being plugged into the system. I told both of my social workers, only half jokingly, that I've come down with Medical Care Fatigue Syndrome after months of being treated by every practitioner under the sun.

And it's mainly because of all the goddamned blood draws. Every doctor wants to run a different set of tests. My veins are so worn out, they can barely find one to siphon off a quart or two from anymore.

[Mister Obvious]

Is your friend of fairly above average intelligence??

Sounds like she's got the major depressive situation that a lot of genius people get.

[user328]

I'd say a little above average, but not a genius.

[Mister Obvious]

Hmm. Yeah, it just sounded like some familiar depressive stuff I've seen out of smart people.

[Mister Obvious]

Dumb people can be super depressed too though, don't get me wrong?!

[user328]

After I took the piano to the post office and mailed it off yesterday, I texted my friend and told her it was on its way. She hasn't responded.

[Mister Obvious]

[Mister Obvious]

*grabs Dev by the shoulders and shakes vigorously*

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, DEV!?##!?#?#!?#!$!?%

[user328]

It means she's throwing herself a pity party.

She's been through a lot worse than she's going through now, and she hasn't offed herself.