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Jan 25, 2007 07:46


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blackdragon420 January 25 2007, 17:42:34 UTC
Nice, but ya know, if there were a pill that would make one of my friends see she is being a dumbass I'd slip her a mickey. LOL

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coraljune January 25 2007, 19:45:41 UTC
Never seems to go that easily, does it?

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blackdragon420 January 25 2007, 20:31:18 UTC
No it doesn't, atleast they haven't tried to sell us a pill to fix self esteem... yet...

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anonymous January 25 2007, 18:35:31 UTC
What if the demons and the pills are one and the same?

Or, moving backwards..

Pills exorcise demons only to usurp them?

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coraljune January 25 2007, 20:00:03 UTC
Oh, now that's a good question...
This brings to mind the merits/liabilities of "self-medication" ala non-prescription "pharmaceutical" means. Maybe you had something different in mind?

I'm tempted to questions to compensate for my lack of answers.

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anonymous January 25 2007, 20:38:44 UTC
It's just the masking of problems with drugs. Works with the latest SNRIs just as it does with vodka.

Merits and liabilities ought to be evaluated on a per-compound basis; Big Pharma support seems to relate more to the patentability of various compounds as opposed to their efficacy or danger.

In my opinion, establishment-approved or not, drugs are only a short-term fix. It's a hell of a lot easier, though, to keep on popping pills as opposed to facing those demons.

I wonder what happens to those problems if you use the 'prozac pause' button for a few years? Do they remain static, or will they emerge with a vengeance when the health benefits get cut?

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coraljune January 25 2007, 20:44:35 UTC
I wonder what happens to those problems if you use the 'prozac pause' button for a few years? Do they remain static, or will they emerge with a vengeance when the health benefits get cut?

I think that issues, demons, whatever they are tend to make themselves known. Seal off one outlet, and another emerges. Which is to say that I don't think anything pressing will allow itself to stay paused for too long - it'll just find a creative new way to make itself heard.

...Which is why denial is so damn handy (for the individual that is, not for those around them).

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tyrael013 January 26 2007, 01:58:12 UTC
LiveJournal decided to have an error when I went to post my comment, so fuck it. It was [almost] witty and had to do with shooting demons with guns that shoot pills and I just don't care enough to type it all over again.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm-a gonna cry in the corner over the loss of my comment.

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coraljune January 26 2007, 02:17:22 UTC
No! Please? Try? For me?

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tyrael013 January 26 2007, 03:36:03 UTC
Maybe after I get some work done...which I should've done earlier...but didn't because I was trying to get in on the CAD BF2142 Gameday server...because it's Wintereenmas.

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tyrael013 February 1 2007, 13:45:51 UTC
Wow, I just remembered this and it's been nearly a week, so I can't really remember all too well, so I'm just going to half-ass it and try to be funny.

Why not just face one's demons with a pill-shooting gun?
Bystander 1: "Oh my God, he's got a gun!"
Bystander 2: "And a demon, too!"
Man w/ gun: "Eat hot Prozac, demon!"
*shoots demon with full-auto spray of Prozac*
Demon: "Grarrr! I'm overdosing!"
*demon asplodes*

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garbo77 January 26 2007, 21:32:24 UTC
Which one is right?!?

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coraljune January 27 2007, 01:48:17 UTC
Totally the 'demons' guy. I'm all for better living through pharmacology sometimes, but the guy on the left has the better long-term gameplan, IMO.

But heh, I can see where sometimes it would be a toss-up.   ;)

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