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Odin2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 06:42 PM
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Fucking Ritalin woo-woos!!!
Too many idiots who have no clue what ADD and (Autistic) Executive System Dysfunction is like.
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EvolveOrConvolve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-23-10 09:13 PM
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1. It's not surprising
These are the same people that are against vaccines, conventional medicine and science. Most of 'em don't know their asses from a hole in the ground, but still claim to be "expert" in almost everything.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 02:18 PM
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3. Likely the same ones who think
medications for mental illness makes mentally ill people violent...:banghead:
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 12:17 PM
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2. I slammed one early yesterday
I never even looked back to see if there was a response. I said what needed to be said.
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-24-10 03:34 PM
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4. I do think that ADD is overdiagnosed
but that's beside the point
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 09:05 AM
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5. ADD medicine is awesome.
My daughter has benefited greatly from ADD medicine.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 01:44 PM
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6. They're also the same people who tell depressives to snap out of it
and schizophrenics to stop pretending they see and hear things because the rest of us don't.

They're idiots. Ignore them.

Let me bark at them when I find them.
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 02:05 PM
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7. seriously?
people think that schizophrenic hallucinations are "pretending?"
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 03:04 PM
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8. Or they say something really helpful like, "Just ignore it."
Most of the time it's along the lines of "it's not really there, so stop telling me it is."

People still by and large feel that mental illness is a moral failure.
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 03:07 PM
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9. wow
granted, I have a psych degree, but still.

Why can't people understand that schizophrenia, for example, is as much a medical problem as arthritis or diabetes
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 03:09 PM
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10. Dunno
I worked my first psych job when I was 18. I got it within 5 minutes.
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lazarus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-26-10 03:15 PM
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11. moral failure
that's it in a nutshell. My dad finally accepted the idea that my daughter and I might need meds, but he thinks it's like penicillin: Just take some for a while and you'll be all better and can stop taking it. :eyes:
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SDuderstadt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 03:51 AM
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12. Ruff! n/t
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 10:41 AM
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13. Let's not forget the idiots
Who think mental illness is caused by the meds! I get sick after everytime a mass shooting happens and the woos insist the meds made them do it! Aaaaagh!
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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-27-10 11:32 PM
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14. Sure they do.
Just look at all the great information provided by the Anti-science/Alternative Med Quack industry on teh internets...:banghead:
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