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[Gandalf_The_Grey]

btw check this out, you'll blow a casket!

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[birdgirl73]

Gandalf, you have a PM waiting for you, and if you want to push this issue, you go for it and I'll be happy to increase your point count and put you outta here for a while. I'm not in a mood to argue with you tonight, and the way I'll save myself that grief is by sending you to Club Gitmo for a brief stay.

I considered handling this privately, but I'm going to do it publicly to serve as a warning to others. While under ordinary circumstances, some of what Gandalf says might be taken with some degree of credibility or assumed to be part of a normal word-of-mouth conversation as he so desperately wants to make a case for here, in his case, it cannot. Gandalf has had some ongoing chronic problems with health-related and medication-related advice here on these forums and has some ongoing personal and potential mental health issues that may not always allow him to see medical situations through a clear perception filter. We caution people very seriously about relying on his posts for reliable medical or pharmaceutical advice and will continue to review his contributions closely after his colorful history here.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

So now it's on-going? I got myself together a while ago, stopped complaining about the pain, stopped having nervous breakdowns for a good two months now at least. But I guess I still deserve scorn even when I do change my ways.

I suppose a ban is in order now. You won't even logically answer my assertions, merely deny them as fallacious without explanation. Questioning does after all deserve punishment.


All my other fellow members, it was good talking with you. I'll miss our discussions in politics, spirituality, and the lounge. Actually I even enjoyed my conversations with you Birdgirl. Too bad things between us aren't working out, submissiveness just isn't my forte.

Goodnight and good toking everybody. Don't let the place fall apart without me

[FakeBoobsRule]

Gandalf, I couldn't help noticing this. What I am confused on is several times you complain that your doctor doesn't give you enough meds to handle your pain but then you blast the doctor of the OP's mother as wanting to give more and more pills. Which is it, complain about not giving enough pills or wanting more and more pills? I'm very confused. I understand that the cases are different, depression versus chronic pain but what gives?

What I would like to know is if the OP's mother receives psychotherapy or not.

Defense mechanisms are a true barrier to recovery.

[Dave Byrd]

Birdgirl's in the other room, Gandalf. Perhaps FBR can serve as referee now.

You're not deserving of scorn and you didn't receive scorn above except through your own perception. She was fairly factual, from what I've seen. Frankly, with your history here and your own medical/personal/emotional history, you DO merit close monitoring. I don't trust you to hand out basic medical, chemical or scientific information because I've seen you get it wrong too frequently. I can easily understand why they follow you more closely than most. Even consider just sticking to politics and the Lounge?

I will laugh for the next five days about the idea of your getting yourself together in a period of two months. You still strongly need evaluation by a mental health professional. You may have been quiet about your somatic complaints for a period of weeks, but that's not the same thing as a cure and I can tell from your reaction above that you've still got a lot of "getting it together" to do. If you had it together, you wouldn't be playing the persecuted martyr role here for everything it's worth.

[TryptamineScape]

-blink- -facepalms-

and no, she doesn't receive psychotherapy, her general physician gives her the anti-depressants. He advertises for a few of the anti-depressant companies. As far as I know he's never even tried to lower doses or see if she could go without them by now. For 14 years he's just been giving her more and more mg of more and more different kinds of anti-depressants. Only one at a time, but it keeps changing when she's on the top mg of a certain one, then they just start over. It feels more like she's an experiement. Thank you all for the replies. I will pretty much take everything into consideration even Gandalf. I appreciate them all. Not sure what happened here, but it was pretty stupid. IMO

[blaze_it]

my grandmother passed away when i was 14 and i started smokin buddah but she had to take like 30 pills a day and doctors only idea to cure problems from other pills are more pills. basically try to get her to ween off some of the pills that shes on. there are also natural herbs that can be smoked to make people calm. i dont think i would give her weed cause its psychoactive and could make things worse. my opinion weed isnt for everybody.

~blaze upon this flamin blunt~:jointsmile:

[TryptamineScape]

-sigh- I just wanna fix everything...I'm too into saving the world and whatnot I guess...