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olorin
New Member
USA
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 Posted - 06/23/2009 : 20:43:48
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Hi, to introduce my influences:
Gore Vidal
Bill Maher
Jon Stewart
Roger Waters
Emily Saliers
Amy Ray
William F. Buckley, Jr.
The Amazing Randi
Keith Olbermann
Thomas Mann
Oscar Wilde
Victor Hugo
Neil Peart
Samuel Clemens
Others....
So knowing what I know, why do I have trouble stopping self destructive behaviors such as drinking, overdoses, cutting... Psychiatrists say PTSD and Bipolar type 2.
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Posted - 06/23/2009 : 20:53:28 [Permalink]
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Welcome to the Skeptic Friends Network, olorin.
Unfortunately, nobody here can give you medical advice. Stick with the health-care professionals who have actually taken your history, examined you and diagnosed your troubles.
Lack of those things, in this forum, would qualify any answer to your question as pure speculation. |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/24/2009 : 05:00:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by olorin
So knowing what I know, why do I have trouble stopping self destructive behaviors such as drinking, overdoses, cutting... Psychiatrists say PTSD and Bipolar type 2.
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I have a saying, "Caution: Reality may cause depression" |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 06/24/2009 : 06:31:39 [Permalink]
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| So knowing what I know, why do I have trouble stopping self destructive behaviors such as drinking, overdoses, cutting... Psychiatrists say PTSD and Bipolar type 2. |
Don't know about bipolar, but I do know that PSTD can be a bitch. Many never recover from it. With me, it is chronic depression and I'm getting off lightly. And it's not as bad as it once was.
I can only echo the advice of Dave and BigPapa and that is to follow your physician's recommendations. And to wish at least the luck I've had with it.
Edit: That's quite a list on influences you have, there. Well done!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 06/24/2009 : 07:33:39 [Permalink]
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The internets are a terrible place to look for medical advice!
Go to your doctors, and if you don't like what they have to say... ask for a second opinion. Most doctors will not be offended by the request (if they are, you needed a new doctor anyway) and will gladly refer you to another or help you get in to see one that you have already chosen.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Science Pricktion
New Member
USA
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Posted - 06/26/2009 : 10:35:58 [Permalink]
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| Life it tough. Get a helmet. |
Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 06/26/2009 : 11:21:16 [Permalink]
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<quote>So knowing what I know, why do I have trouble stopping self destructive behaviors such as drinking, overdoses, cutting... Psychiatrists say PTSD and Bipolar type 2.</quote>
I suppose that this could be a good starting point for discussing the concept of free will. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 06/26/2009 : 13:24:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Science Pricktion
Life it tough. Get a helmet.
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Sonny, I doubt if you know just how tough it can get. If you did, you wouldn't make such imbecilic remarks.
This is the second post of yours I've seen, and the other wasn't much better. I gave you the benefit of the doubt on that one, but not here. What's your fucking problem, anyway? Do you get your jollies ragging at people you don't know, from the safety of your keyboard? If so, rag away; we like trolls. They give us the opportunity to exercise our vocabularies.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
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Posted - 06/26/2009 : 19:55:43 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Science Pricktion
Life it tough. Get a helmet.
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Grammar, it tough. Get a grammar text. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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New here, advice wanted
