beckybecky, the thread is still in the sidebar of the front page, as far as I can see.
Originally posted by SpeakerofTruth
I haven't had a girlfriend in quite some time, but when my sister or a friend asks me, "Well, who are you seeing now?" I will tell them that I am
seeing so and so, just to live up to their expectation of what they would deem natural. I wouldn't want them to think I was any "weirder" than they
already do.

- Sometimes the conflict that arises from diversions from social norms is a greater threat than what the norms are dictating to others has been
forfeited. They called Leonardo DaVinci names too.
As a matter of fact, withdrawal from anti-depressants does in fact cause hallucination - in addition to individual physiologies metabolizing each drug
in a unique fashion - leaving some people open to side effects that may not be part of the information package given to physicians.
It's fairly obvious that the fellow did not receive adequate treatment - even in Canuckistan, where there is universal health care - it doesn't
transfer to the field of psychoanalysis or therapeutic psychological treatment.
The pharmacology industry has privatized health care, while there needs to be more integration of holistic and preventative measures, the impetus is a
growing divide between psychoanalysis in the humanistic/phenomenalogical sense introduced by such luminaries as Bruno Bettlehiem and Carl Rogers and
simply the imposition of social norms.
Unfortunately the scientologists have a good point. Mass murderers are not unique to America, but with the knowledge and resource at the cultures
disposal, it's a shame that people go untreated to the point where it results in this kind of tragedy.
Bush appears to be trying to remedy that with psychological testing in the schools, unfortunately it appears it will be more or less in the capacity
of pharmacological imposition of social norms that may or may not result in increasing the underlying conflicts, that can be resolved in other ways.