Quote from: Solar on April 05, 2017, 02:42:34 PM
Oh, I was referring to the two quotes you had with yourself.

Oh, that. Yeah, I have to quote myself sometimes when I'm feeling left out.  My shrink says it's probably caused by my drinking and schizophrenia. Sure had to pay to get that diagnosis.

This is off topic ... let's indulge for a second though.

Your comment reminds me. I watched some of the Ted Talks on a few topics. Kidding aside, there was a psychologist who began hearing voices. She couldn't shake it. She went through treatment but it wasn't working. So instead of medicating, she just started talking to them - from what I took away, rationalizing with them. She turned this idea into a treatment technique. I give her credit for trying to deal with her ailment. But I'm not so I'd want to be her patient.

Just so you know I'm not making this up, here's the intro on it:

QuoteTo all appearances, Eleanor Longden was just like every other student, heading to college full of promise and without a care in the world. That was until the voices in her head started talking. Initially innocuous, these internal narrators became increasingly antagonistic and dictatorial, turning her life into a living nightmare. Diagnosed with schizophrenia, hospitalized, drugged, Longden was discarded by a system that didn't know how to help her. Longden tells the moving tale of her years-long journey back to mental health, and makes the case that it was through learning to listen to her voices that she was able to survive.

and the talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/eleanor_longden_the_voices_in_my_head

BTW - She's a brit I think. Isn't Boo? So that tells you a lot! Now we're back on topic.

Quote from: topside on April 05, 2017, 03:22:08 PM
Oh, that. Yeah, I have to quote myself sometimes when I'm feeling left out.  My shrink says it's probably caused by my drinking and schizophrenia. Sure had to pay to get that diagnosis.

This is off topic ... let's indulge for a second though.

Your comment reminds me. I watched some of the Ted Talks on a few topics. Kidding aside, there was a psychologist who began hearing voices. She couldn't shake it. She went through treatment but it wasn't working. So instead of medicating, she just started talking to them - from what I took away, rationalizing with them. She turned this idea into a treatment technique. I give her credit for trying to deal with her ailment. But I'm not so I'd want to be her patient.

Just so you know I'm not making this up, here's the intro on it:

and the talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/eleanor_longden_the_voices_in_my_head

BTW - She's a brit I think. Isn't Boo? So that tells you a lot! Now we're back on topic.

Boo has Dual Citizenship.

Quote from: topside on April 05, 2017, 03:22:08 PM
Oh, that. Yeah, I have to quote myself sometimes when I'm feeling left out.  My shrink says it's probably caused by my drinking and schizophrenia. Sure had to pay to get that diagnosis.

The two seem to go hand in hand,

QuoteThis is off topic ... let's indulge for a second though.

Your comment reminds me. I watched some of the Ted Talks on a few topics. Kidding aside, there was a psychologist who began hearing voices. She couldn't shake it. She went through treatment but it wasn't working. So instead of medicating, she just started talking to them - from what I took away, rationalizing with them. She turned this idea into a treatment technique. I give her credit for trying to deal with her ailment. But I'm not so I'd want to be her patient.

Just so you know I'm not making this up, here's the intro on it:

and the talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/eleanor_longden_the_voices_in_my_head

BTW - She's a brit I think. Isn't Boo? So that tells you a lot! Now we're back on topic.

Probably Boo's alter ego, she's quite a hoot.

Here's a message to all out there that say, "Trump isn't my president!" Stop cashing your unemployment checks. That'll show him.
(Off of Beck - he stole it from somewhere else).

Quote from: topside on April 05, 2017, 03:22:08 PM
Oh, that. Yeah, I have to quote myself sometimes when I'm feeling left out.  My shrink says it's probably caused by my drinking and schizophrenia. Sure had to pay to get that diagnosis.

This is off topic ... let's indulge for a second though.

Your comment reminds me. I watched some of the Ted Talks on a few topics. Kidding aside, there was a psychologist who began hearing voices. She couldn't shake it. She went through treatment but it wasn't working. So instead of medicating, she just started talking to them - from what I took away, rationalizing with them. She turned this idea into a treatment technique. I give her credit for trying to deal with her ailment. But I'm not so I'd want to be her patient.

Just so you know I'm not making this up, here's the intro on it:

and the talk:

https://www.ted.com/talks/eleanor_longden_the_voices_in_my_head

BTW - She's a brit I think. Isn't Boo? So that tells you a lot! Now we're back on topic.

(OT) I worked a cattle ranch and one of the cowboys I worked with was a big old black guy, a real gentle giant who had schizophrenia.
One day working in the tack room, he was over in the corner chuckling to beat Hell, I said what's so funny Levi, he looked at me with a big shit eating grin, and said "thayse uh arguin", I said who, he pointed at his head.
We all knew he was schiz so it was no secret, but for him it was a bit of a relief because they (the voices) were always putting him down.
We both got a big laugh out of it, because it wasn't often he could find peace, this was one of those rare occasions.
Sure miss the guy.

Quote from: Solar on April 05, 2017, 04:58:41 PM
(OT) I worked a cattle ranch and one of the cowboys I worked with was a big old black guy, a real gentle giant who had schizophrenia.
One day working in the tack room, he was over in the corner chuckling to beat Hell, I said what's so funny Levi, he looked at me with a big shit eating grin, and said "thayse uh arguin", I said who, he pointed at his head.
We all knew he was schiz so it was no secret, but for him it was a bit of a relief because they (the voices) were always putting him down.
We both got a big laugh out of it, because it wasn't often he could find peace, this was one of those rare occasions.
Sure miss the guy.

Good story.

Quote from: topside on April 05, 2017, 05:39:56 PM
Good story.

He really was a genuinely nice guy, the kind of guy that would give you his last dollar.
I felt sorry for him having to suffer through that, but for him, it was never a dull moment. He too found a way of dealing with them, said he was always trying to start arguments between them so they'd leave him alone.
A world I could never imagine.