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Aavoxx said:
I've never been to New Orleans. If I answer this question based on just what I've heard about New Orleans...Atlanta.
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Most everything you've heard is probably true. Nice to visit every now and again. They hose the streets down in the French Quarter daily due to drunks pissing in the streets.
 
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Toujours Pret said:
Lots of coloreds. That's what Hobock said.
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Oops! My rasis is showing again. FTR, I've only been to the ATL for UT bowl games. My only frame of reference is Peach Tree on, or around New Year's Day. For a 100K, Boxx should move. There is a widely nouveau homosexual scene in Hotlanta.
 
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Hobock said:
I did a month-long clinical rotation at Western Mental Health Institute in Bolivar, TN. Mental illness is not a state of mind, brah. It is very very very real. I've had multiple hour-long conversations with many solidly diagnosed delusional schizophrenics. Murderers, rapists, social and sexual deviants. I loves me some Reagan, but he is the reason there are so many crazy mofos walking the streets. There isn't enough funding or the desire the keep these people institutionalized. In fact, it's the opposite. Plan of care is only about getting, and keeping, these people IN society.
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You're confusing me. Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me. My exprience is that of someone who's had BPD for longer than I can remember. I went undiagnosed for most of my teen years. Even when they decided something was wrong, it took them time to decide what it was. Like most mental issues, I have crossover symptoms. I have some OCD tendencies and bouts of paranoia. My head is a very chaotic place. If most knew the ideas that flew around brain, I have no doubt they would call me insane. But I do what I can to maintain control.

I've been back on the med rollercoaster for the past few years. Sometimes it seems like it's helping, sometimes it doesn't. At least with these current meds I don't feel deadhead. Sometimes meds just leave you feeling numb, and unalive, and that's part of the reason you stop taking them. It's like phantom-limb. There's a piece you know should be there, and you can still feel the tingle. It's hard to exist when you can feel you're not whole.

And when it wasn't the deadhead feel, it was the stigma. Let's face it, we grew up in an era where mental illness carried a huge stigma. Taking meds to be "normal" was embarassing to me at one point. I had to learn to get past that, which I have. But there's still many who are embarassed to admit they have a mental problem and need meds to help with it. It's one of the reasons I learned to just blurt it out, because I was tired of hiding from it.

I can't speak to everything the govt has or hasn't done, but I can tell you symptoms are often overlooked because people don't want to see what's right in front of them. From someone who's been there, the symptoms themselves are a cry for help. The fact that you actually let people see something's off is a cry for help. If you wanted it to stay hidden, you'd spend your time alone. That's what I used to do.
 
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Weezer said:
You're confusing me. Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me. My exprience is that of someone who's had BPD for longer than I can remember. I went undiagnosed for most of my teen years. Even when they decided something was wrong, it took them time to decide what it was. Like most mental issues, I have crossover symptoms. I have some OCD tendencies and bouts of paranoia. My head is a very chaotic place. If most knew the ideas that flew around brain, I have no doubt they would call me insane. But I do what I can to maintain control.

I've been back on the med rollercoaster for the past few years. Sometimes it seems like it's helping, sometimes it doesn't. At least with these current meds I don't feel deadhead. Sometimes meds just leave you feeling numb, and unalive, and that's part of the reason you stop taking them. It's like phantom-limb. There's a piece you know should be there, and you can still feel the tingle. It's hard to exist when you can feel you're not whole.

And when it wasn't the deadhead feel, it was the stigma. Let's face it, we grew up in an era where mental illness carried a huge stigma. Taking meds to be "normal" was embarassing to me at one point. I had to learn to get past that, which I have. But there's still many who are embarassed to admit they have a mental problem and need meds to help with it. It's one of the reasons I learned to just blurt it out, because I was tired of hiding from it.

I can't speak to everything the govt has or hasn't done, but I can tell you symptoms are often overlooked because people don't want to see what's right in front of them. From someone who's been there, the symptoms themselves are a cry for help. The fact that you actually let people see something's off is a cry for help. If you wanted it to stay hidden, you'd spend your time alone. That's what I used to do.
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tl;dr
 
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Weezer said:
You're confusing me. Are you agreeing or disagreeing with me. My exprience is that of someone who's had BPD for longer than I can remember. I went undiagnosed for most of my teen years. Even when they decided something was wrong, it took them time to decide what it was. Like most mental issues, I have crossover symptoms. I have some OCD tendencies and bouts of paranoia. My head is a very chaotic place. If most knew the ideas that flew around brain, I have no doubt they would call me insane. But I do what I can to maintain control.

I've been back on the med rollercoaster for the past few years. Sometimes it seems like it's helping, sometimes it doesn't. At least with these current meds I don't feel deadhead. Sometimes meds just leave you feeling numb, and unalive, and that's part of the reason you stop taking them. It's like phantom-limb. There's a piece you know should be there, and you can still feel the tingle. It's hard to exist when you can feel you're not whole.

And when it wasn't the deadhead feel, it was the stigma. Let's face it, we grew up in an era where mental illness carried a huge stigma. Taking meds to be "normal" was embarassing to me at one point. I had to learn to get past that, which I have. But there's still many who are embarassed to admit they have a mental problem and need meds to help with it. It's one of the reasons I learned to just blurt it out, because I was tired of hiding from it.

I can't speak to everything the govt has or hasn't done, but I can tell you symptoms are often overlooked because people don't want to see what's right in front of them. From someone who's been there, the symptoms themselves are a cry for help. The fact that you actually let people see something's off is a cry for help. If you wanted it to stay hidden, you'd spend your time alone. That's what I used to do.
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I'm not arguing with you at all. I sincerely wish you the best in what I understand is a devastating illness and daily battle that most of America is both, ignorant of, and unsympathetic of. I diagnosed your posts long ago, brah. Keep on keepin on, brah.
 
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