Letters to the Editor
geeegee
Published Letters: 27
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re: psych meds
[Read the article: Psych meds drove my son crazy]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ohmygod. it's 1 a.m. in san diego and i am crying as i am reading your story. right now my 20 y.o. son is wandering around in the night. his story eerily echoes yours and your son's. and your family's.
My son Brett has had 17 different diagnoses. He is simply autistic/HFA.
Now he is on six meds and the meds were changed last week, and my current nightmare began.
your words were incredibly powerful to me. they describe exactly how it is to love someone who is bat shit crazy and still functioning, as a friend of mine would say.
Geodone caused immediate and horrible side effects. i went straight to the ER.
He is going downhill. I feel so helpless at the mo.
I also watched a friend have the same symptoms. He is 56, IQ 150, and last year he was placed on those meds and gained 40 lbs. He is HFA, and it was terrible and weird. One day I visited and he insisted I listen to the selection of music he mixed for his funeral. It started with Jim Morrison's, "The End."
ohmygod.
He finally went into some sort of diabetic state and crashed his car. Then the meds were looked into.
I am a nurse and I think it is beyond criminal that drug companies seduce us with drugs that are so dangerous. the field is so corrupt everyone starts trying to use one drug for any number of other things, just in case.
I just know this one thing...neurolyptics are horrible for HFA.
period. We all need to revisit the drugs we take and the ones we give to our loved ones.
seriously.
I currently feel like I am losing my son. I put in a call to the doc but it is sat night. right.
geeegee
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SoCal Sex fusion... I think it could be quasi-enviromental....physiological, but...er....quite fun....
[Read the article: It's hard to be a dude these days]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I have a bet with my son's friend Kyle. He is going to San Francisco State in the Fall. He a a long black haired, langourously draped lounger. I bet him if he turns gay I win $50., and if he does not, I lose 50 bucks.
He is tall and has long jet black hair, and is pale skinned, and wears eye makeup under the eyes. He wears tight tailored clothes. He does not act world weary; he is world weary.
Perhaps if one is a designer type, this sort of exploration of the feminine side is thrilling? Like your first joint or your first sex....a whiff of the forbidden.....
I can appreciate that stance. I remember my masculine days. I thought I was macho.
I would jump on a wild horse and ride.....I would study to become a bullfighter....every new love conquest was another notch on my belt....drinking, carousing in TJ by myself...singing in Spanish in bars.....dressed in leather or jeans....waking up in strange turquoise colored rooms as an antonio bandaras lookalike smiled and asked about breakfast....wow...those days of drunkingly singing on the top of cars,(in Spanish), with five federales aiming long guns at my head....because I was embracing my masculine side, hahaha.....see there can be a downside.....silver scorpins on my black cowboy hat....badass bodaciousness....with world class boobies involved, of course.....BUT DUDES!!!!
everyone is confused yes, in socal, yes, BUT....erotocism is an art.....not a attitude, or a pose....where was I going with this....ah yes....no harder to be a dude than a woman....the tension of romance and the highest eroticism needs the constraints of structure to flourish in the dance....I indulge my masculine side as a different instrument in the orchestra.....we just need the lightness and playfulness. The seriousness out, out I say!
My favorite moment was when I got a certain PGA top golfer full sails and spinnakers out, sheets to the wind, and we completely exchanged masculine for feminine. It was a walk on the wild side....and he fully embraced it. It was more than an adventure....morphing can be an exhilarating adventure my worthy dudes,,,,just hang on!
"I am you and you are he and he is we and we are all together, I am the Walrus." The Beatles.
blondbeeyatchusa
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The Why of these mutilations?
[Read the article: Female genital mutilation a growing problem in Britain]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]From my experience this practice originates from cultures where men view women as things or property. These cultures are also earmarked by male psuedo bravado coupled with deep core feelings of inferiority in the males of their country.
Men in these cultures fear strong women, they fear their minds, their strength, their sexuality, their independence. So the culturally bring tthem down a notch to remind them daily that they are lesser people. It is an act off vilification toward women.
Some cultures revered women's sexuality and power and paid homage to it in the form of goddesses. The monthly miracle of the womb synchronized to the moon...
This desecration of the beautiful female form is a ritual act of self hatred. No woman should be allowed to feel pleasure like a man.
If there is a reason to mutiliate...for me it just is one more note from the canaries in the coal mine.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's. I am not ashamed of my body. It is what it is. It is a worthy vessel to move about the world to learn sacred lessons...to be cast off until donning the next body. We are but garments and fabulously complex and strong and fragile. I live in San Diego....I have been to NAKED massage oil parties with twenty couples-strangers-it was great. Healing. Not sexual but sensual. Playful and joyous. I wish these poor hurting souls to
reaffirm every part of their bodiees and to hold them sacred and not harm them anymore. geeegee