Mental Illness--how the hell do they expect to make it? (Anxiety, Rage, Bi-polar, Ect), page 1


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Topic started on 27-8-2012 @ 03:52 AM by XxNightAngelusxX
So, I have a question.

People who understand the basics of how flimsy the world actually is, and understand that survival skills and the political know-how may be meaningful and needed one day, like to prepare for it. Right?

But I have a friend who has extreme bi-polar issues, who knows many conspiracies, but doesn't care much for them. He has serious problems with self mutilation, and attacking others on occasion... and he's also a pretty sheltered person.

Another friend of mine has extreme anxiety issues. Getting a job at a local grocery store was enough to send her into three panic attacks.

And also, my brother has severe ausburgers syndrome He lives in his own world, and he can NOT live on his own, ever.

Then, there's the medical side of the entire thing. My bi-polar friend needs medication, and even now, living a normal life, he won't take it consistently, and he has dramatic mental chemical imbalances and mood swings. My anxiety friend needs meds too, but she isn't taking them right now. My brother doesn't take medication, but his problem is beyond repair.

I can't talk to any of them about these serious issues that I care about, because they can't afford to care about such huge issues. Doomsday prepping, storing food and water, learning how to scavenge, ect. Just thinking about any kind of conspiracy sends them into a breakdown.

I'm afraid I already know the answer, but... when TSHTF, are they going to make it?

And if so, how...?
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reply posted on 27-8-2012 @ 04:03 AM by TDawgRex
reply to post by XxNightAngelusxX


They'll make it if you are there for them. But in the event of power outages, those meds will disappear quickly possibly causing them to be a threat to you over time.

In a true SHTF/TEOTWAWKI event, pretty much any one who depends upon meds or constant medical attention will die off pretty quickly.

I'm not being cold, just honest...and I don't like it either.



reply posted on 27-8-2012 @ 04:12 AM by Apollo7
reply to post by XxNightAngelusxX


Maybe its not Mental Issues! Have you attempted to just ask them- What is bothering them? The Label Mental anything is big time money making business in healthcare!! The hospitals that these poor people are being thrown into also get by with killing patients. Read some of the side effects on whatever medication youre friends are taking. Basically the general public is just not informed on what is really going on in Mental Hospitals!! A good website to check out is Citizens Commision on Human Rights in California.


reply posted on 27-8-2012 @ 04:40 AM by Nostalgic
reply to post by ManFromEurope


You, also, should write a book. It seems your angle might be fairly extreme as well.

I'd read it.


reply posted on 27-8-2012 @ 04:41 AM by XxNightAngelusxX
reply to post by Apollo7


I understand what you mean, and personally, I am one of the people who has been called "mentally ill" when I used to be in school. I do not actually have a mental illness, I was a misfire on their part. The zoloft and the hallucinations and homicidal thoughts it gave me were just a formality to them. I despise those people, don't get me wrong.

But my friends are different. I've had extensive conversations with them, and unlike my other friends, I can't seem to help them feel better no matter how much I want to. One of them is eaten alive with self hate and rage, the other one eaten alive with self hate and depressive anxiety, and they simply can NOT stop freaking out. I really do think that they both have a chemical problem.

Thanks for all your imput guys


reply posted on 27-8-2012 @ 04:48 AM by Perhaps
reply to post by XxNightAngelusxX


The people you describe, being able bodied, just may be extraordinarily resourceful in times of absolute crisis - people have managed prior to the introduction of psychopharmaceuticals, it may be their becomming... who's to know??

I'd be more concerned about the welfare of the elderly and infirm, the young children and those with physical restrictions - they are people, friends of, relatives of as well.... their situations will insist that they need additional support and will place a higher degree of responsibility on those that choose to support them.

They're the ones that would probably perish first.... just a thought.


reply posted on 27-8-2012 @ 05:30 AM by WhoKnows100
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The power behind the effectiveness of the "placebo effect" is faith that the drug will work. How much more will faith in God Himself to heal be manifested? Our western nations, as they draw away from putting all of their faith in Him, are suffering the highest rates of mental illness that we have ever seen. The vast majority of even Christians run to Babylon's "pharmakeia" to be healed despite God's repeated assurances in His power to heal. During Jesus' ministry, he healed many mental illness conditions through the power of God. See, He found so very little real Faith in God and therefore a population that was swarming with the results of choosing evil. Did He not say that the world would once again be in the same condition? That He questioned if there would be any faith at all?

I admire you for your concerns regarding your friends in these upcoming trials and tribulations. Most of us probably have the same concerns and worries about our friends and family. God is so very patient, not wanting any to perish and all to be saved, that he applies these many pressures in order to lead us to repentance. These hardships are to humble us and weaken us because a proud heart will never turn and seek Him for forgiveness. Your fiends do have healing available when those medicines are removed as Babylon falls - through faith in the power of God Almighty. These words may be ignored now, but perhaps you will remember them later on as the tribulations become more pressing. Please remember that it is God placing this weight upon your shoulders in hopes that you will sink to your knees in repentance, which is true sorrow. Your worries for your friends and family are such a weight, and your general feelings of upcoming events are as well. God asks you to repent in these last days and then ask you to place these burdens on Him. If you could only understand that so many are not taking this seriously, and that they do not even have a sense of what is coming... I pray that you remember these words...in the days of the flood, all who perished had no clue that it was coming. It will be the same again. That ark was salvation just as God is salvation today through the one and only name under Heaven by which we must be saved.
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