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[iphy]

I probably should not bother, but I am going to warn you anyway. I've got some rambling thoughts I am about to put down about our culture of victims and happy drugs. Some of you are going to take things I say here very personally, and I'd rather not piss you off. So, if my making comments about the sheer numbers of people all "suffering from

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[anda]

Sing it, Sistah!

(Really. I've said various similar things myself in the past, though I didn't know about all the cool ceremonial stuff you mentioned. Aldous Huxley was right about many things, I fear.)

[moof]

Is it just that people with depression, ADD, OCD, Asperger's Syndrome, Anxiety, usw tend to hang out with each other; so, the fact that I know a few means that I know a lot?

Hey, I don't have OCD! That's an unfair characterization!

I, too, have heard all the stories about the false positives, kids getting drugged up and so forth. The problem is that I know an awful lot of people who were false negatives - who definitely had some sort of problem, and couldn't get proper treatment for the life of them. I count myself among those; I'd tried for ten years or so to get treatment for ADD and wasn't successful. From the (admittedly anecdotal) evidence I've heard, I ain't atypical in that respect.
On the other hand, the false positives do seem to get drugged up quickly and easily; that is kinda worrisome. The overall problem seems to be "it's too easy to get shitty treatment, and too difficult to get good treatment".

My personal experience has been that I've had far more immediate and permanent effects from the 'traditional' psychoactives

[ilcylic]

Interestingly, your position is essentially a conservative one, though it contravenes most of the things that traditional conservatives would agree with (i.e., that drug use is common, expected, normal and appropriats).

Ultimately, I agree with everything you've said.

-Ogre

Indeed.

[iphy]

I discovered sometime in college that I am, basically conservative, although I disagree rather stridently on almost everything with so-called political conservatives in this country. They would probably lable me a moderate if they weren't too busy screaming that I am a radical liberal because I disagreed with them.