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Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions?
Jagercola asks: "My sister was recently diagnosed with Schizophrenia. It's a chronic, severe, and disabling brain disease that we don't know a lot about. The movie, A Beautiful Mind, paints an accurate picture of how the disease affects someone in a best case scenario. I would like the vast audience here to help me understand the disease through experiences and that it might help me aid my sister. If you know someone how has the disease, how has it affected your and their life? How have you been able to cope with it? What are the long term implications for quality of life?"
FP yo!!
do slashdot web cookies know either of us have Schizophrenia?
I'm not schizophraenic. Yes I am.
Life in Orange County
1.) You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal
funding.
2.) You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th-graders
how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex.
3.) You have to believe that guns in the hands of law-bidding Americans
are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of
Chinese and North Korean communists.
4.) You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding.
5.) You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by
cyclical documented changes in the earth's climate and more affected by
soccer moms driving SUV's.
6.) You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being
homosexual is natural.
7.) You have to be against capital punishment, but support abortion on
demand.
8.) You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments
create prosperity.
9.) You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony
activists who have never been outside of San Francisco do.
10.) You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually
doing something to earn it.
11.) You have to believe that the military, not corrupt politicians, start
wars.
12.) You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts
of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain
parts of the Constitution.
13.) You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
14.) You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more
important to American history than Mary Washington, Betsy Ross, the American
Pioneer Women, Eleanor Roosevelt, "Rosey the Riveter," and Rosa Parks.
15.) You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial
quotas and set-asides are not.
16.) You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal and is a very nice
person.
17.) You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked
anywhere it's been tried is because the right people haven't been in charge.
18.) You have to believe conservatives telling the truth belong in jail,
but a liar and a sex offender belonged in the White House.
19.) You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag,
transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and
manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
20.) You have to believe that illegal Democratic Party funding by the
Chinese government is somehow in the best interest to the United States.
21.) You have to believe that this message is a part of a vast, right wing
conspiracy.
quoth the parent: I've been secretly fucking your sister in the ass for quite some time. I think it finally broke her
Slashdot really needs a "+1 - I know I'm going straight to hell for this but I'm modding you Funny anyway"
Have you been reading "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by any chance?
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One recently discovered variation of schizophrenia causes the sufferer to experience bizarre delusions of property-ownership, as well as the paranoid belief that an international conglomerate of shadow agents - and their masses of followers - are trying to steal aforementioned property and subvert the sufferer's day-to-day life.
Doctors are starting to refer to it as "McBride Disorder."
Of the old going propaganda and Collect any spiiled
Once I figure out how to hack Hiawatha, I will crapflood the Boston Globe itself! No one will notice -- they'll just think they bought the Herald instead!
Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
It's subsidized by the Federal Government, paid for by John Q. Taxpayer, don't pretend its anything different.
And if he keeps taking speed, I say lock him up.
I want to delete my account but Slashdot doesn't allow it.
I like to eat butter!
Does anyone have any idea why this was modded Troll?
This is likely the most intelligent-sounding* post I've seen on Slashdot recently. I kept waiting to read about hot grits, a beowulf cluster, something about Jar Jar being the root of all evil or something like that. For a second there, I thought I was on the wrong site.
*I have to say "intelligent-sounding" because I know little about schizophrenia.
Insert simplistic political, ideological, or personal proselytization here.
(Many) Atheists don't claim to know the answer for sure. Semantic quibbling aside, most atheists don't believe in/disbelieve in god the same way you don't believe in/disbelieve in bigfoot. Sure, it could exist, but there's either no definite way to know and it's rather unlikely given the nature of the claim. Agnosticism isn't necessarily a middle ground between atheism and theism-- one could be agnostic and be the other.
And why does praying hurt? It wastes time. It does absolutely nothing but waste time. If you want to feel good about doing something for an ill person, work for them, not being lazy and pretending you're doing something when you're really not.
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Never criticize religion on Slashdot. You will be modded down for "Troll" no matter how factual it is.
And interestingly enough, the popularly accepted schizophrenia of Christianity is just as dangerous to the health of bystanders as a maniac is to those around him. Think the Crusades, the Inquisition, the puritanical Witch Burnings, etc.