"Where covered wagons and the wings of missing planes float between black fish underneath..."

[greygirlbeast]

Today it will be hot for Providence, 87˚F (heat index 95˚F+), and tomorrow it will be cooler and very stormy. We may have to leave the House today, because it will probably get extremely uncomfortable in here

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[sovay]

I dreamed, briefly, of spending time in the company of William Burroughs.

There must be worse people to hang out with for an hour, but I'm sorry it wasn't a Victorian museum.

But the connotation is still, undeniably, right there, and I also know that I've watched people use it in such a way that the anal rape-gay sex connotation is clearly intentional.

derspatchel and I were talking about this a few days ago. That connotation is precisely the reason he doesn't like seeing it used. Neither of us thought of spanking.

When I say I'm crazy, and people chide me more calling myself mentally ill, they need to know, I am genuinely mentally ill, to the point I cannot lead the sort of life most do.

I am processing the fact that if you describe yourself as mentally ill, people assume you are employing hyperbole?

[greygirlbeast]

I am processing the fact that if you describe yourself as mentally ill, people assume you are employing hyperbole?

That, and also the perhaps well meaning but intensely wrongheaded attitude that the word "ill" stigmatizes mentally-ill people.

[greygirlbeast]

derspatchel and I were talking about this a few days ago. That connotation is precisely the reason he doesn't like seeing it used. Neither of us thought of spanking.

Also, this is heartening to here you say.

[nerthus]

My son has mental illness (he's 30) and has been unable to hold an outside job for several years now; he has lived with me for over five years now, and he has been taken to the hospital on several occasions, most of them 'voluntary' but a couple not (the last time cops were called,sigh, by an online friend he'd messaged that he was killing himself, and then my son punched holes in my wall and broke my back living room window). Out of all those trips to the local hospital,on only one occasion was there a 'bed' available for him at a psychiatric facility two hours away from here. All the other times both the hospital's 'psych' ward and any rehabs/psychiatric facilities in the area were full, and he was turned out with nothing more than a prescrip for blood pressure and some lorazipam and told to 'get help' on his own. But he has no insurance (even Obama Care wouldn't insure him) and was turned down twice for SSI because the facility that 'diagnosed' him won't say he's schizophrenic (I truly believe he is) but only that he has 'panic

[greygirlbeast]

Yes, there *are* recourses. They can just be a nightmare to find, and the system doesn't make it easy. Even after my diagnoses, which included schizophrenia, I could still have been denied disability. I got lucky.

[setsuled]

I couldn't sleep either. The heat and some guys randomly yelling outside from 2am to 4am.

I am entirely aware that "butthurt: may actually have originated as a reference to someone behaving like a child who's just been spanked.

Oh, that hadn't even occurred to me. It's one of those terms that remind me of the guys I see at the mall wearing white t-shirts and shorts with really bright red sneakers. I feel like everyone nowadays wants to grow up to be Bart Simpson.

[greygirlbeast]

I feel like everyone nowadays wants to grow up to be Bart Simpson.

Yes!

sleeping

[sfmarty]

When I lived in Manhatten a friend told me of a trick he used. Stretch toweling across your bed. It dried your sweat and keeps you cooler. It worked for me. I live in San Francisco now and sleep in, and wear, down.