|
|
Post by Deeky on Feb 6, 2020 19:01:28 GMT -5
Fuck Breggin. I'm only alive today because of my meds.
|
|
|
|
Post by Deeky on Feb 6, 2020 19:02:49 GMT -5
The German and French posters for Poppers are even crazier:   |
|
|
|
Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 9, 2020 19:39:06 GMT -5
Fuck Breggin. I'm only alive today because of my meds. "Fuck Breggin"? Have you read any of his books? I tend to agree with him that giving massive clouts of Xanax to a guy with a bladder infection is a shitty idea. And I say that as someone who was once saved by psych meds too. Not that it's such a boon to the planet that I'm alive. |
|
|
|
Post by Lemmy Caution on Feb 10, 2020 9:57:15 GMT -5
Meds should serve the patient instead of the pharmaceutical industry.
In that context, I think "Better living through chemistry" can be a fabulous idea.
|
|
|
|
Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 10, 2020 18:21:10 GMT -5
Meds should serve the patient instead of the pharmaceutical industry. In that context, I think "Better living through chemistry" can be a fabulous idea. "Better living" would be a lot better than it is now if doctors would use the brains they were born with instead of blindly believing Big Pharma ad copy. Because of that kind of flat-out lying, and doctors' and patients' willingness to believe it rather than simply observing effects and making simple connections, there were 60,000 deaths due to taking Vioxx before anyone figured it the fuck out. People die of taking psych meds, too.
I really want to punch the next doctor who tries to tell me that SSRIs can "reveal" bipolar tendencies in a patient.
|
|
|
|
Post by Lemmy Caution on Feb 10, 2020 18:44:18 GMT -5
Meds should serve the patient instead of the pharmaceutical industry. In that context, I think "Better living through chemistry" can be a fabulous idea. "Better living" would be a lot better than it is now if doctors would use the brains they were born with instead of blindly believing Big Pharma ad copy. Because of that kind of flat-out lying, and doctors' and patients' willingness to believe it rather than simply observing effects and making simple connections, there were 60,000 deaths due to taking Vioxx before anyone figured it the fuck out. People die of taking psych meds, too.
I really want to punch the next doctor who tries to tell me that SSRIs can "reveal" bipolar tendencies in a patient.
I don't think we disagree --big pharma does a lot of fucked up stuff. |
|
|
|
Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 20, 2020 23:05:45 GMT -5
I was in the breakroom the other afternoon and a discussion started among coworkers about their ADHD kids, and how they had them on Adderall. Then, with a show of hands, it turned out that every single adult in the room was on or had been prescribed Adderall at one time or other.
|
|
|
|
Post by Deeky on Feb 21, 2020 8:46:18 GMT -5
I want some adderall.
|
|
|
|
Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 22, 2020 11:14:56 GMT -5
Go to work at the same place Kobbers does. I'm sure someone can hook you up. Currently loving  |
|
|
|
Post by Lemmy Caution on Feb 22, 2020 15:26:53 GMT -5
Go to work at the same place Kobbers does. I'm sure someone can hook you up. Currently loving That looks like it might be some heavy stuff. |
|
|
|
Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 23, 2020 19:01:30 GMT -5
Go to work at the same place Kobbers does. I'm sure someone can hook you up. Currently loving That looks like it might be some heavy stuff. It definitely is. I regret that it is an all-British compilation, but the material that's in there is pretty intense. It never crossed my mind before what it might be like to have to cross a battlefield while the shooting is going on -- without a gun -- so you can scrape the mud off a wounded man and try to bind him up before he bleeds to death, then haul him on your back hundreds of yards towards safety while he screams in agony. Jeebus. |
|
|
|
Post by Killer Goldfish on Feb 23, 2020 19:02:23 GMT -5
It definitely is. I regret that it is an all-British compilation, so I hear no stories from the Central Powers, but the material that's in there is pretty intense. It never crossed my mind before what it might be like to have to cross a battlefield while the shooting is going on -- without a gun -- so you can scrape the mud off a wounded man and try to bind him up before he bleeds to death, then haul him on your back hundreds of yards towards safety while he screams in agony. Jeebus.
|
|
|
|
Post by Lemmy Caution on Mar 15, 2020 1:04:23 GMT -5
Not mine, but acquired today by Ally Caution, my youngest sibling, at a local used bookstore. First printing, too. Lucky little squirt that she is   |
|
|
|
Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 4, 2020 10:55:19 GMT -5
Finally plunked down the money for a Fortean Times subscription. Been meaning to do this for a few years. Between that, Harper's, and The Week (along with numerous fanzines) I should be set for reading material.
|
|
|
|
Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 5, 2020 14:12:24 GMT -5
I finished rereading John Lennon's IN HIS OWN WRITE AND A SPANIARD IN THE WORKS; finished first readings of THE BIRDS AND OTHER STORIES and LOCUST by Jeffrey Lockwood and now perusing my stacks for more...
|
|
|
|
Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 7, 2020 9:59:17 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by Dr. Kobb on Apr 9, 2020 22:51:50 GMT -5
Somehow, I made it into my mid-50's completely oblivious to this guy's work.
|
|
|
|
Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 11, 2020 17:26:12 GMT -5
Just finished THE FLY AND OTHER HORROR STORIES edited by John Escott. I had to have this when I saw that it had the never-dreamed-of literary source of the Fly movies. It was so fearfully close to the original with just one extra twist in its tail that they left out of the movie.
|
|
|
|
Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 27, 2020 7:46:06 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by Killer Goldfish on Apr 27, 2020 7:49:50 GMT -5
|
|
