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shadowkat1. What is it with the medical community and everyone always suggesting anti-depressants as a cure for depression? It doesn't always work. The only person who should ever suggest it is a licensed psychiatrist. If you aren't a psychiatrist -- don't suggest anti-depressants.
This comes from me asking a harmless question to my aunt, former school nurse, if depression can be associated with perimenupause.
Aunt: It has many causes. Consult a physician.
No wonder we're over-medicated in the US.
If you experience sever depression, please consult a licensed psychiatrist or better yet, licensed counselor, (because too many psychiatrists just do a 15 minute checkup and assign meds) and a good one. Get a recommendation, check them out on the net, and hopefully they don't cost you a mint. No one outside of a licensed psychiatrist is remotely qualified to make the determination regarding anti-depressants. Everyone's biochemistry is different. And depression has various levels...some require medication, some do not. Unless you are a licensed psychiatrist, you are not qualified to make that determination for yourself or anyone else. Also, Paxil is evil and should be taken off the market.
I think my difficulty with Aunt K at times is we have similar personalities. LOL.
2. I cannot get away from the frigging sexual assault issue. Also, is it just me, or does it appear that basically every man in a position of power has done this?
Today, the minister at our church felt the need to do a sermon on Sarah and Hagar, the inspiration for Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale". Yes, sexual violence, harassment, etc goes back more than a million years. To give her credit she was trying to be positive about it - in that Sarah finally got a child, unfortunately it was a boy and by Abraham who had given her to the Pharaoh to be raped. She blamed God. I would have blamed Abraham. God had nothing to do with it. And took it out on Hagar, her Eqyptian servant, sending her to Abraham for him to impregnate.
And you though the bible was a good book. Ha.
Anyhow, I get comfort from the fact that finally after more than a millenia of this, people are screaming STOP, ENOUGH, WE REFUSE TO TOLERATE THIS ANYMORE! And it's mind-blowing. I give a lot of credit to the investigative journalists with various print publications who have broken these stories, brought them to global attention and managed to break the web of silence.
That's what has changed things. And it has been a gradual thing, building over time.
1. Spotlight and it's revelations -- the Boston Globe story regarding how the Catholic Church covered up and protected various priests who were sexually molesting children broke wide open a problem that been going on for decades. Sinead O'Connor spoke out about it in the 1980s and was silenced, her career ruined. But, twenty years later, the Globe burst it open. A Pope resigned, various Bishops and Cardinals have as well, in disgrace. And a movie was released -- showing how institutions protect sexual abusers.
2. Baylor Rape Scandal is just the tip of the iceberg - The Campus Rape Scandals reported by various magazines, publications, etc in 2014-2016 brought attention to an on-going crisis that many of us knew had existed as far back as the early 1950s.
Lady Gaga came out with a song - Til it Happens to You, which you should listen to, if you haven't already. It's brilliant.
Ian Krakau, award winning non-fiction journalist wrote a book on Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a Small Town
Before all of this...in 2012 - it was discovered that Penn State's Assistant Football Coach had been raping and molesting male football players under his charge for years, with the knowledge and enabling of the organization along with head coach Joe Paterno - the reveal shut down Penn State's football program and had them on probation for two years, it also resulted in the resignation of the heads of the football program at Penn State and retirement of Paterno, who shortly thereafter died of Cancer.
3. The following Celebrities were outed as abusers:
* Ten Facts about Woody Allen's Sexual Abuse of a Minor
* Everything We Know and Don't Know about Bill Cosby's Rape Allegations (Reported by Time Magazine)
* Roman Polanski Sexual Assault Case
* Bill O'Reilly Sued for Sexual Harrassment
* Casey Affleck and Mel Gibson haunted by sexual harassment and domestic violence charges - 2016 Oscars.
* Julian Assange founder of Wikileaks and Wikipedia is accused of sexual assault (molestation and rape) in Sweden in 2010
* Brian Singer faces sexual assault charges - 2014.
4. The following politicians were also outed and/or accused with mixed results:
* Donald Trump
* Bill Clinton
* Former Congressman Anthony Weiner
* George H W Bush
5. In 2017....
* Joss Whedon, Hadrian Belgrove, and Louis CK faced with with sexual misconduct charges -- In Whedon's case, after his wife came forward with claims of sexual misconduct in a blog post -- Whedonesque's monitor and founder chose to remove the website and disband it. Hadrian Belgrove quietly resigned from CinemaFile and Louis CK's new film tanked at the box office.
* All the Celebrity Men Accused of Sexual Assault After Harvey Weinstein - there's 18. It includes both Ben and Casey Affleck, Dustin Hoffman, Andy Dick, George H W Bush, Mark Halprin, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Spacey, James Toback, and others.
* NY Times Article That Reveals Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades
* Post Weinstein, A List of Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct - NY Times.
Includes:
* Andrew Kriesberg - executive producer of Supergirl, Arrow, and The Flash
* Louis CK - comedian
* Jeff Hoover - Kentucky Speaker of the House
* Brett Ratner - producer and director
* Andy Dick - comedian and actor
* Michael Oreskes - head of news at NPR and former NY Times Editor (he was fired from NPR after the allegations came to light.)
* Hamilton Fish - president and publisher of the New Republic
* Kevin Spacey - actor
* Mark Halprin - MSNBC and NBC commentator and author of Game Change
* Rick Najera - Director of CBS Diversity Showcase
This is a boulder going down a hill grabbing more as it goes, with no end in sight. And I never thought I'd see this happen. Not after we elected a sexual predator for President. But that may well have been the last straw for a lot of people. And all of this is coming out as a result, making many folks rethink their world-view and moral outlook.
I think this is just the tip of the iceberg.
This comes from me asking a harmless question to my aunt, former school nurse, if depression can be associated with perimenupause.
Aunt: It has many causes. Consult a physician.
No wonder we're over-medicated in the US.
If you experience sever depression, please consult a licensed psychiatrist or better yet, licensed counselor, (because too many psychiatrists just do a 15 minute checkup and assign meds) and a good one. Get a recommendation, check them out on the net, and hopefully they don't cost you a mint. No one outside of a licensed psychiatrist is remotely qualified to make the determination regarding anti-depressants. Everyone's biochemistry is different. And depression has various levels...some require medication, some do not. Unless you are a licensed psychiatrist, you are not qualified to make that determination for yourself or anyone else. Also, Paxil is evil and should be taken off the market.
I think my difficulty with Aunt K at times is we have similar personalities. LOL.
2. I cannot get away from the frigging sexual assault issue. Also, is it just me, or does it appear that basically every man in a position of power has done this?
Today, the minister at our church felt the need to do a sermon on Sarah and Hagar, the inspiration for Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale". Yes, sexual violence, harassment, etc goes back more than a million years. To give her credit she was trying to be positive about it - in that Sarah finally got a child, unfortunately it was a boy and by Abraham who had given her to the Pharaoh to be raped. She blamed God. I would have blamed Abraham. God had nothing to do with it. And took it out on Hagar, her Eqyptian servant, sending her to Abraham for him to impregnate.
And you though the bible was a good book. Ha.
Anyhow, I get comfort from the fact that finally after more than a millenia of this, people are screaming STOP, ENOUGH, WE REFUSE TO TOLERATE THIS ANYMORE! And it's mind-blowing. I give a lot of credit to the investigative journalists with various print publications who have broken these stories, brought them to global attention and managed to break the web of silence.
That's what has changed things. And it has been a gradual thing, building over time.
1. Spotlight and it's revelations -- the Boston Globe story regarding how the Catholic Church covered up and protected various priests who were sexually molesting children broke wide open a problem that been going on for decades. Sinead O'Connor spoke out about it in the 1980s and was silenced, her career ruined. But, twenty years later, the Globe burst it open. A Pope resigned, various Bishops and Cardinals have as well, in disgrace. And a movie was released -- showing how institutions protect sexual abusers.
2. Baylor Rape Scandal is just the tip of the iceberg - The Campus Rape Scandals reported by various magazines, publications, etc in 2014-2016 brought attention to an on-going crisis that many of us knew had existed as far back as the early 1950s.
Lady Gaga came out with a song - Til it Happens to You, which you should listen to, if you haven't already. It's brilliant.
Ian Krakau, award winning non-fiction journalist wrote a book on Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a Small Town
Before all of this...in 2012 - it was discovered that Penn State's Assistant Football Coach had been raping and molesting male football players under his charge for years, with the knowledge and enabling of the organization along with head coach Joe Paterno - the reveal shut down Penn State's football program and had them on probation for two years, it also resulted in the resignation of the heads of the football program at Penn State and retirement of Paterno, who shortly thereafter died of Cancer.
3. The following Celebrities were outed as abusers:
* Ten Facts about Woody Allen's Sexual Abuse of a Minor
* Everything We Know and Don't Know about Bill Cosby's Rape Allegations (Reported by Time Magazine)
* Roman Polanski Sexual Assault Case
* Bill O'Reilly Sued for Sexual Harrassment
* Casey Affleck and Mel Gibson haunted by sexual harassment and domestic violence charges - 2016 Oscars.
* Julian Assange founder of Wikileaks and Wikipedia is accused of sexual assault (molestation and rape) in Sweden in 2010
* Brian Singer faces sexual assault charges - 2014.
4. The following politicians were also outed and/or accused with mixed results:
* Donald Trump
* Bill Clinton
* Former Congressman Anthony Weiner
* George H W Bush
5. In 2017....
* Joss Whedon, Hadrian Belgrove, and Louis CK faced with with sexual misconduct charges -- In Whedon's case, after his wife came forward with claims of sexual misconduct in a blog post -- Whedonesque's monitor and founder chose to remove the website and disband it. Hadrian Belgrove quietly resigned from CinemaFile and Louis CK's new film tanked at the box office.
* All the Celebrity Men Accused of Sexual Assault After Harvey Weinstein - there's 18. It includes both Ben and Casey Affleck, Dustin Hoffman, Andy Dick, George H W Bush, Mark Halprin, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Spacey, James Toback, and others.
* NY Times Article That Reveals Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades
* Post Weinstein, A List of Men Accused of Sexual Misconduct - NY Times.
Includes:
* Andrew Kriesberg - executive producer of Supergirl, Arrow, and The Flash
* Louis CK - comedian
* Jeff Hoover - Kentucky Speaker of the House
* Brett Ratner - producer and director
* Andy Dick - comedian and actor
* Michael Oreskes - head of news at NPR and former NY Times Editor (he was fired from NPR after the allegations came to light.)
* Hamilton Fish - president and publisher of the New Republic
* Kevin Spacey - actor
* Mark Halprin - MSNBC and NBC commentator and author of Game Change
* Rick Najera - Director of CBS Diversity Showcase
This is a boulder going down a hill grabbing more as it goes, with no end in sight. And I never thought I'd see this happen. Not after we elected a sexual predator for President. But that may well have been the last straw for a lot of people. And all of this is coming out as a result, making many folks rethink their world-view and moral outlook.
I think this is just the tip of the iceberg.
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Date: 2017-11-14 05:16 am (UTC)I've never read A Clockwork Orange, only seen the film, but I do remember the protagonist (Alex, I think it was? The head of his gang of droogs?) noting that he enjoyed reading the bible because of all the "lovely" sex and violence in it.
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Date: 2017-11-15 03:12 am (UTC)College Athletics are beset by programs where all manner of conduct is tolerated as long as teams win and schools make money. (Baylor - a very conservative baptist school - in particular, is notable for tolerating a shocking amount of corruption from it's programs and looking the other way when sexual violence occured...)
Penn State was notable because Paterno was viewed as a Sainted legend, who had total control of his program, yet basically looked the other way when accusations arose about is his former assistant. And while Penn State got a punishment - the program is basically back to where it was in the rankings before the Scandal... and their new coach presided over a Vanderbilt team that had a player gang-rape scandal of its own.
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Date: 2017-11-15 03:21 pm (UTC)Ugh. It makes one not want to watch College Football. I thought NFL was bad, College is worse.