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Title: Something I've noticed A LOT lately
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Published: Dec 22, 2005
Author: Tommy
Post Date: 2005-12-22 04:21:43 by TommyTheMadArtist
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Lately, I've seen a LOT of commercials on television with celebrities, and other people talking about mental health, mental health screening, mental hospitalization, and what not. Anyone else noticing it? Anyone else kind of creeped out by the fact that they're pumping the airwaves with this sort of thing? I think it's a little weird that celebrities are doing these bits encouraging people to seek counseling, and or medication. Must be part of that Bush and Co. Mandatory Mental Health Screening.
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#1. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#0)
EVERY time I went to the VA for my semi-annual thing, they would, as part of their screening ask "Do you find yourself depressed lately? Do you find that you are less interested in things that you once enjoyed?" Well hell yes, I don't enjoy now what I once did. I used to enjoy running five miles a day, and I sure as hell can't now. I used to enjoy TV, but all that's on now is shit. I used to enjoy going to the movies, when they had a good double feature, but the tiny fucking theatters and the crappy flicks just depress the hell outta me now. I used to enjoy a good dime cup of coffee, ...hell I could go on for hours with them. And if I told them any of this, I'd be Prozac-ed up to the hilt before I cleared the doors, I am quite sure. We are an over medicated nation.
I thank God every day I'm not depressed about much of anything. I have to subscribe to that whole Scientology thing where I think that the Mental Health industry is out to milk you like a cow, instead of curing the fucking problems. People who have depression and depression issues are just screwed up little units. It's far more interesting being screwed up, than it is to be mundane and boring.
#2. To: Soda Pop (#1)
 | What's that Mr. Nipples? You want me to ask the nice lady about her rack?. |
#3. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#0)
There are some crazy stats like supposedly claim that 25% of Americans have some type of mental illness, the most by far in the world, and we consume the most pyschotropics than the rest of the world combined. Its repeated marketing on tv, radio, and ads in papers. The corps just keep pounding the sheep with propaganda. We, as a being, are going to have good and bad days, its normal, but American consumers are taught you should feel great, be thin, and don`t worry about anything. Just take a pill. Mark
#4. To: Kamala, TommyTheMadArtist (#3)
Yeah, I think the depression thingEy is waaay over diagnosed. If a person is depressed because they have a sour relationship...fix it or get the hell out of it...lots of folks are depressed because they are so far in debt from living waaay beyond their means...that can be fixed also...not as easily as pre-bush though. Much of this depression shit can be fixed by taking care of business.
#5. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#2)
Oh I wish I were really put togetherSung to the tune of Dixie
Smooth and fine as patent leather
Oh how great
To be rate-
ed innately sedate!
But I'm afraid that I was fated
To be rather aberrated
Oh how sad
To be mad
As my mom and my dad.
Oh I wish I were not crazy!
Hooray! Hooray!
I wish my mind were less inclined
To be the kind that's hazy.
I could agree to really be less crazy!
But I, alas, am just too goddamned lazy!
Q: Whatever happened to live-and-let-live?
A: Business will be business.
#6. To: Tauzero (#5)
pretty good song lyrics for off the cuff. You know that song dixie was written by a northerner in New York City. and I'm not absolutely sure, but I think 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' was written by a southerner.
#7. To: Red Jones (#6)
Off the cuff they were not. They hail from CBT/RET school of psychiatry.
pretty good song lyrics for off the cuff.
Q: Whatever happened to live-and-let-live?
A: Business will be business.
#8. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#2)
I have to subscribe to that whole Scientology thing where I think that the Mental Health industry is out to milk you like a cow, instead of curing the fucking problems. People who have depression and depression issues are just screwed up little units. It's far more interesting being screwed up, than it is to be mundane and boring. Ya think? When I worked for Social Services, once a month (sometimes twice) my friends from X Mental Health would call me up to come over for free pizza and free food provided by the Drug Rep. Yes- a multi-billion dollar industry has no interest in pushing their product. [ /sarcasm] We jack our kids up on sugar from early ages and wonder why they can't stay attentive and focused. Parents let the TV educate their kids so they can go about their busy lives and we wonder why kids do "things" to get attention. Our answer for this is a pill, or lots of pills. And when we have a classroom entirely composed of a three ring circus where little Johnny has the lone responsible parents (when it comes to diet and paying the kid attention) and is not acting out, he must be depressed. It is obvious, right? We have a pill for that too.
I thank God every day I'm not depressed about much of anything.
#9. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#0)
You're not the far off base...this is just more 'NWO' stuff. The eventual goal here is for the state to be able to 'diagnose' certain behaviors as 'mental illness'...offbeat stuff like a belief in Jesus Christ, supporters of the 2nd Amendment, people that embrace the Constitution and the writings of the Founding Fathers, and so forth. You know...troublemakers. 'They' need those people out of the way...a nice mental hospital should do the trick. Worked in the Soviet Union; why not here? I find it interesting that once again television is being used as the predominate tool for spreading this propaganda. They'll have my in-laws inside of a week. :-)
Must be part of that Bush and Co. Mandatory Mental Health Screening.
#10. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#0)
I often watch the nightly national news to see what they're feeding the sheeple that day. I notice that the pharmaceutical (sp) companies are about the only ones able to afford the advert slots.
#11. To: TommyTheMadArtist (#0)
I concur Tommy. They use this mental health stuff to get us on drugs like prozac. It is very bad news. The company I work for built a charity project. For a non-profit group that provides mental health services to children. They get children of poor mexican people in south phoenix and put them on drugs. And this is the charity we contributed our efforts to.
#12. To: Fred Mertz (#10)
I'm amused by some of the commercials. I wasn't aware the "restless leg syndrome" was destroying so many lives, or that possible side effects of headache, vomiting, abdominal pain, bloody diahrrea, coma, and respiratory failure were an improvement.
And I'm optimistic. See, I think you can be realistic and optimistic at the same time. I'm optimistic we'll achieve -- I know we won't achieve if we send mixed signals. I know we're not going to achieve our objective if we send mixed signals - gwbush
#13. To: Soda Pop (#1)
that is for sure. You know I read recently that some scientist figured out what quantity per gallon the Mississippi river has in it of prozac. You see prozac and other pharmaceutical drugs don't break down. They are put into the groundwater after they pass through people. So, the Mississippi river has prozac in it now. The scientist put that same quantity of prozac into some water and tried to raise fish in this water. The fish ended up being deformed with birth defects, they had both male & female organs. And just think the prozac in the Mississippi River today is from prozac prescribed by doctors many years ago. The quantities of prozac that people take have increased dramatically. It is just a matter of time before the water supply is poisoned by this. and the people who rule over us just keep pumping the prozac (and ritalin and others) into us. But because there is no criticism of this practice in the mainstream media, in the minds of many americans, criticism of this is illegitimate. When you look in the bible and see the characteristics of the beast that is to rule over us in the end times there are two characteristics that relate here. It says they will have the whole world under their spell of sorcery. But in the original greek language this 'sorcery' seems to mean pharmacists. and the other characterization of the people that rule in the end times is that they destroy the earth. These things are happening.
We are an over medicated nation.
#14. To: who knows what evil (#9)
I think you're 100% correct in #9.
#15. To: Dakmar (#12)
Now, I really need to see a doctor. Thanks...
I wasn't aware the "restless leg syndrome" was destroying so many lives,
#16. To: who knows what evil (#9)
That's a no shitter. I saw something on El Pee where one poster told the bots that Israel attacked the Arabs first in the 1967 war. The bots' response was that the poster who said that "has to be mentally ill." What a bunch of ignoramuses. ;0)
The eventual goal here is for the state to be able to 'diagnose' certain behaviors as 'mental illness'...
"The consolidation of the States into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it." General Robert E. Lee
#17. To: Soda Pop (#1)
Yeah...for some odd reason I've been feeling like that since Election Day, November 2000.
EVERY time I went to the VA for my semi-annual thing, they would, as part of their screening ask "Do you find yourself depressed lately? Do you find that you are less interested in things that you once enjoyed?"
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