ignignokt

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by ignignokt 14y ago
I take atypical antipsychotics (quetiapine to be exact), the first couple of weeks is horrible, after that it's not _that_ bad, but you definitely don't want to take them if you can possibly avoid it.
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by ignignokt 14y ago
But the person who wrote this article was presumably playing the part of an American Muslim, so what do other countries have to do with this at all? It's OK to be prejudice against Muslims from your own country because some Muslims in other
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by ignignokt 14y ago
So the fact that there's discrimination in other countries makes it OK?
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by ignignokt 14y ago
I'd be astounded to actually see a case of an honour killing which was caused by fleeting eye contact, none of the ones in that article are, why not just treat them the same as you would anyone else?
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by ignignokt 14y ago
Don't you think that your thinking that she might be killed for you looking at her is prejudicial against Muslim men? Seems offensive to me if you won't look at someone because you assume a man will kill her for it... Do you not look at all
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by ignignokt 14y ago
Maybe it's useful because you might hire staff or have co-workers who happen to have a mental illness and being informed about it is a good thing?
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by ignignokt 14y ago
It can be treated if you're in the lucky few who happen to have medication work for them and are able to tolerate the side effects (glad I fall into this category). Treatment's by no means guaranteed to work.
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by ignignokt 14y ago
Isn't that sort of information confidential between the counsellor and the patient? Even if it's not legally protected I don't think many counsellors would be happy telling you that sort of thing
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by ignignokt 14y ago
They don't need to know the original password, they first check if your supplied password (which can be greater than 16 characters) when hashed matches the hash they have in the database currently, then if it does and it's greater than 16 c
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by ignignokt 14y ago
It's not like the DSM is the be all and end all of psychiatric diagnosing, they spend years (just like any other doctor) at university and in residency etc. None of this has happened in the last 20 years really, before then people with seri
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by ignignokt 14y ago
I can't really tell if your position is "there's no such thing as mental illness" or that you just think that the current system gives anyone who wants one a label they can use (though to be honest I haven't met a psychiatrist yet who used
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by ignignokt 14y ago
My worst hallucination was when I thought people were breaking into the house I was living in at the time. For me at least there was absolutely no difference between the people I was seeing who weren't there and the police I called because
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by ignignokt 14y ago
As a schizophrenic myself (fine now with medication) it makes me sad when I see comments like this. The stigma is immense, I've yet to tell someone I know without being treated completely differently by them. Edit (just thought I'd expand a