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The Sex Allegations - Links
Nov. 12th, 2017 05:42 pm1. 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.
( links galore on the sexual assault allegations from 2010 to now )
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.
( links galore on the sexual assault allegations from 2010 to now )