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Comment on Suicidal? It May Be Your Medication . . . by wendy

wendy — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:30:09 +0000

Thanks phylor -

Comment on Suicidal? It May Be Your Medication . . . by phylor

phylor — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:15:17 +0000

Thank you to you and your friend for posting this.
Finding out the potential side effects to any medication is, as you suggest, a good idea — especially if it has a black box warning, or indicates that changes to mood and behaviour, such as increased depression and sucidial thoughts.
A drug that works for one person, may be, for another, life destroying or threatening.

Comment on Suicidal? It May Be Your Medication . . . by cinderkeys

cinderkeys — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:37:54 +0000

Scary. You’d think doctors and pharmacists would specifically tell you what to look out for before you start taking these meds.

Comment on Judge Judy and (the Lack of) Disability Awareness by DMH

DMH — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:06:43 +0000

She does make assumptions about disabled people especially with invisible disabilities like mental illness. However, there was one time she had a couple on who were both on SSI for learning disabilities. The man was working in construction under the table and rationalized it by saying that SSA wouldn’t care if they didn’t know about it. There are those people that are allowed for some reason to scam the system but they are few and far between, and when they are on Judge judy they make for good ratings.

Comment on How to Avoid Burning Out Your Support Network by Jamie@glitzeeglee.com

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Comment on Accepting Chronic Illness – It’s NOT “Giving Up” by cara

cara — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:57:59 +0000

As a fellow fm sufferer Wendy, I can relate to what you’ve written. Although I’ve now reached acceptance, and my life isn’t the same, it appears that many people in my life cannot accept.. I can understand their reluctance and even was guilty of that ’sin’ myself when a friend was diagnosed with a chronic condition many years ago. She had been advised to accept that her life was never going to be the same and to learn to accept her condition. I can remember telling her to fight back and not give in. I can see now that, that was a caring but misguided thing to do. Of course we try to fight back, it’s human nature…fight or flight. I think almost everyone who suffers with a long term chronic illness fights back in their own way, but acceptance is so, so important to being able to come to terms and move on. Just today, someone very important in my life said that joining a support group might not be beneficial and would perhaps mean that my illnesss came to ‘define’ me. Right now, i feel a little wounded by that because I fight hard to be the person that I am and to not let my symptoms rule my life but to some degree, surely long term illness, whatever form it takes, defines us. Thank you for what your article, it has given me a little bit of a lift on a bad day. Onwards and upwards. Best wishes and better days to you.

Comment on Accepting Chronic Illness – It’s NOT “Giving Up” by cara

cara — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 12:53:58 +0000

As a fellow fm sufferer Wendy, I can relate to what you’ve written. Although I’ve now reached acceptance, it appears that many people in my life cannot accept.. I can understance their reluctance and even was guilty of that ’sin’ myself when a friend was diagnosed with a chronic condition many years ago. She had been advised to accept that her life was never going to be the same and to learn to accept her condition. I can remember telling her to fight back and not give. I can see now that that was a caring but misguided thing to do. Of course we try to fight back… I think almost everyone who suffers with a long term chronic illness fights back in their own way, but acceptance is so so important to being able to come to terms and move on. Just today, someone very important in my life said that joining a support group might not be beneficial and would perhaps mean that my illnesss came to ‘define me. Right now, i feel a little wounded by that because I fight hard to be the person that I am and to never let my symptoms rule my life but to some degree, surely long term illness, whatever form it takes, defines us. Thank you for what your article, it has given me a little bit of a lift on a bad day. Onwards and upwards. Best wishes and better days to you.

Comment on Silent Storm by Ryby akwariowe gatunki

Ryby akwariowe gatunki — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 04:06:37 +0000

Thats a very good post.

Comment on Judge Judy and (the Lack of) Disability Awareness by wendy

wendy — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 03:06:25 +0000

Michael – Yeah, the woman is SERIOUSLY prejudiced against anyone who is sick or unable to get a good job for any reason. . . She gets away with unfair decisions because everyone who goes on the show is required to sign a “contract” agreeing to accept her decision as final, and because it’s not actually a court of law, they have no right to appeal.

Comment on Judge Judy and (the Lack of) Disability Awareness by Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:53:54 +0000

So very true. I see this show while other family members are watching Whenever there is a litigant that receives disability I know she will try to disprove their disability and if all possible rule against them. In addition, she always yells at the person “You didn’t pay with your money, you paid with my money and Byrd’s money. I’ve seen cases where it’s proven the money was a loan to the defendant yet she rules against the plaintiff on the basis that the income was from SSDI and therefore not their money to begin with. I understand that she is simply acting as an arbitrator on the show and not an actual judge. What I can’t understand is how she can be allowed to make a judgement based on the fact that she feels if the person’s income is from disability it is not their money and isn’t eligible to be repaid.