On this day in history...

[Tater]

On this day in 1962, Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points in game against the Philadelphia Warriors.

 

[winos5]

On this day in 1962, Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points in game against the Philadelphia Warriors.

And after the game he scored 20 more times.....

 

[LordKOTL]

Smart psychiatrist. The one that signed the papers for me to be thrown in the bin wanted the money I think. He "diagnosed" me with depression(really? Everyone is clinically depressed, I swear) and homicidal tendencies. What a fuckstick.

Pretty much. Pissed her the **** off.



I know people who have real clinical depression but like ADHD I think it's overly diagnosed. I find it a sad state of the psychology/psychiatry field that there's a market for a bunch of "yes-men" doctors in that regard who don't actually want people to get better, but rather pander to irresponsible parents' whims.



Conversely, though, it sure as hell beats a trans-orbital leukotomy (Lobotomy) for behavioral control

 

[winos5]

If you go to the psychiatrist/psychologist you are leaving with a diagnosis.

 

[jakobeast]

Pretty much. Pissed her the **** off.



I know people who have real clinical depression but like ADHD I think it's overly diagnosed. I find it a sad state of the psychology/psychiatry field that there's a market for a bunch of "yes-men" doctors in that regard who don't actually want people to get better, but rather pander to irresponsible parents' whims.



Conversely, though, it sure as hell beats a trans-orbital leukotomy (Lobotomy) for behavioral control

Some of the questions they asked when determining if I should be placed were just stupid. Do you shower everyday? Do you ever want to be left alone? Have you ever woken up and not want to get up out of bed? I guess if you want to be alone you are depressed and need therapy immediately. The homicidal tendencies though, might have been cause my sister and I got into a knife fight. I didn't kill her, or stab her. Meh, whatever.

If you go to the psychiatrist/psychologist you are leaving with a diagnosis.

They gotta make their money i spose.

 

[bri]

Some of the questions they asked when determining if I should be placed were just stupid. Do you shower everyday? Do you ever want to be left alone? Have you ever woken up and not want to get up out of bed? I guess if you want to be alone you are depressed and need therapy immediately. The homicidal tendencies though, might have been cause my sister and I got into a knife fight. I didn't kill her, or stab her. Meh, whatever.







They gotta make their money i spose.

Did she have to go too?

 

[jakobeast]

Did she have to go too?

She was put in like, a week or 2 before I was.



It was total shit. The insurance covered I believe up to 30 days. I found that out about 8 days into my stay, so I just waited. The doctor was an idiot, and could psycho analyze his was out of a paper bag. They put me on medicine, but I never took it. I would put the pill in my mouth and spit it out when they weren't looking. I am soooooo fucking glad I did that. Who knows what that pill woulda done to me.

 

[bri]

She was put in like, a week or 2 before I was.



It was total shit. The insurance covered I believe up to 30 days. I found that out about 8 days into my stay, so I just waited. The doctor was an idiot, and could psycho analyze his was out of a paper bag. They put me on medicine, but I never took it. I would put the pill in my mouth and spit it out when they weren't looking. I am soooooo fucking glad I did that. Who knows what that pill woulda done to me.

Jako, you are a true character, a rare one of a kind gem and I intend that as an extreme compliment. I love characters, people who are unique and different. I think how I could have really cheated myself out of knowing some really fabulous, interesting people, if I had limited myself to only interacting with "normal" people like many others do. It has been a true pleasure for me to converse with you over the years on here. Don't change, cause you are perfect the way you are.



Now with that said, do you have to worry about getting shanked by your sister at family gatherings?

 

[jakobeast]

Nah it's cool. I could take her real easy.

 

[winos5]

Some of the questions they asked when determining if I should be placed were just stupid. Do you shower everyday? Do you ever want to be left alone? Have you ever woken up and not want to get up out of bed? I guess if you want to be alone you are depressed and need therapy immediately. The homicidal tendencies though, might have been cause my sister and I got into a knife fight. I didn't kill her, or stab her. Meh, whatever.







They gotta make their money i spose.

That and the assumption is if you walk into their office something must be wrong and they are going to find out what gosh darn it.

 

[LordKOTL]

Yeah, my diagnosis was basically closure issues that were caused by my Dad/Step-mom's refusal to let me keep contact with my dead mom's relatives.



Of course, they would have none of that. After all, no parent has ever fucked up their kids' psyche's before, right?

 

[mikita's helmet]

On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered his famous "Iron Curtain" speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.

 

[TSD]

Yeah, my diagnosis was basically closure issues that were caused by my Dad/Step-mom's refusal to let me keep contact with my dead mom's relatives.



Of course, they would have none of that. After all, no parent has ever fucked up their kids' psyche's before, right?

Thats like a total reversal for my brother. My brother and mom had been going to counselors and shrinks since he was 13. They said the exact opposite and blamed everything on my mom(based on whatever the hell my brother was feeding them in private). EXPLAIN ME THEN YOU DUMBASS HEADSHRINKERS. The problem is, my brothers refusal to believe his father abandoned him and his projection of that anger on my mother, as she is the only one present to put blame on. To this day my brother acts like his father can do no wrong and he probably hasnt seen him in 5 years and the guy has never done a goddamn thing to help him out(and hes fucking rich! He owns 15 McDonalds franchises in Minnesota). Yet my mom is the bad guy when she lets my brother come over her house to eat and shit like that before he goes back to his homeless shelter, then threatens to kill her and blames his life on her the moment she wont give him 20 bucks so he can go tie one on.



Ultimately none of that matters anymore, hes 32 years old its about time he starts figuring out the only one impeding his life is himself. That mother ****** is in for a rude awakening when my mom is gone, because hes never going to see me or any of the rest of my family again and he will be totally alone, nobody to feed him a nice sunday meal, or give him rides to whatever job hes gonna get fired from in a month, or actually care whether he has a place to sleep at on a given night, because the very person he blames for his entire life is the only reason anyone else in this family will tolerate him around.

 

[LordKOTL]

See, that's fucked up. My issues were more like refusal to integrate into the so-called "family" that my dad tried to create after my mom died. In retrospect, it wasn't that I ever thought she abandoned me, but that I was never allowed to really say goodbye. since my bro and I were all but shut out to that part of my family. My step mom was obviously threatened by her, and my dad caved to her wishes.



In your bro's case, yeah, he needs to man up. As far as I'm concerened, by the time you are legally an adult you can not blame anyone else. You have the power of choice. In fact, for both my bro and I, we couldn't wait to be 18 and have the chance to make our own mistakes rather than someone else making them for us.

 

[bri]

Thats like a total reversal for my brother. My brother and mom had been going to counselors and shrinks since he was 13. They said the exact opposite and blamed everything on my mom(based on whatever the hell my brother was feeding them in private). EXPLAIN ME THEN YOU DUMBASS HEADSHRINKERS. The problem is, my brothers refusal to believe his father abandoned him and his projection of that anger on my mother, as she is the only one present to put blame on. To this day my brother acts like his father can do no wrong and he probably hasnt seen him in 5 years and the guy has never done a goddamn thing to help him out(and hes fucking rich! He owns 15 McDonalds franchises in Minnesota). Yet my mom is the bad guy when she lets my brother come over her house to eat and shit like that before he goes back to his homeless shelter, then threatens to kill her and blames his life on her the moment she wont give him 20 bucks so he can go tie one on.



Ultimately none of that matters anymore, hes 32 years old its about time he starts figuring out the only one impeding his life is himself. That mother ****** is in for a rude awakening when my mom is gone, because hes never going to see me or any of the rest of my family again and he will be totally alone, nobody to feed him a nice sunday meal, or give him rides to whatever job hes gonna get fired from in a month, or actually care whether he has a place to sleep at on a given night, because the very person he blames for his entire life is the only reason anyone else in this family will tolerate him around.

You should buy him a bus ticket and ship him off to Minnesota so he can become your dad's problem. Your mom deserves a break. I don't think she used the vacuum hose on him enough.

 

[LordKOTL]

Bri: Vacuum hose? I've heard of the wooden spoon but a Vacuum hose?



And back on topic: March 5, 1770: the Boston Massacre happens.

 

[TSD]

You should buy him a bus ticket and ship him off to Minnesota so he can become your dad's problem. Your mom deserves a break. I don't think she used the vacuum hose on him enough.

Yeah....basically pops over there wont have him. He doesnt "want to deal with it". My brother knows this, that his father is fucking sitting on money and wont help him. But somehow my brother is wired to never think an unkind thought of him.

 

[bri]

Bri: Vacuum hose? I've heard of the wooden spoon but a Vacuum hose?



And back on topic: March 5, 1770: the Boston Massacre happens.

No she really did use it on TSD. Haven't you heard his story?

 

[LordKOTL]

Nope...must of missed it. Sucks to hear that happened TSD. I never got it physically from the stepmonster, only pychologically--at least anything that would constitute abuse. At least I was able to give it back. Hell the best "beating" I ever got, I deserved, and even now would have still gone through the pain to taste the delicious victory of telling my stepmom that spandex is a privelege, not a right.

 

[jakobeast]

I don't any harm to your mother, but when she is gone, your brother is gonna get a rude awakening, and I hope it hits him soon. You're mom doesnt realize the best thing she could do for him is to cut him out now.