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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (11603)	2/19/2000 8:16:00 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Evening Haqi, Aren't the newsboys falling all over themselves looking for a way for McClain to pull out of this . Now everyone will be saying that SC makes no difference, and SC this and SC that and religious this and that. Not that I cared who won, but I am having fun listening to the newsboys slobber on themselves. McCain insinuating Bush took the low road to this victory, sort of ironic huh? dan

To: haqihana who wrote (11603)	2/19/2000 8:23:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

That news was not for you, haqi. You can't even read. I said I had had mental problems for most of my life. Then was then. Now is now. In my experience the one irrefutable sign of mental disturbance is the certainty that one is completely sane. Every nut I have ever known, whom I have had to get admitted to mental hospitals, was convinced that he was completely sane. They just won't go for treatment. One of the signs in the DSM of mental illness is "refusal of treatment." Do you recall the Stanford university experiment in which a group of medical students was admitted for observation to the Stanford Hospital and their assignment was to get discharged. These were functioning medical students. Some were kept for as long as three months. If the men in white suits do come and cart you away, let me recommend this strategy. 1. Admit to the admitting doctor (thus become an admitting patient) that you have been under stress and are not feeling yourself. This has been a short-term problem. And you think you need rest. Relax. Watch television. Read some trashy novels. Eat well. Take your pills. Become an organ donor and promise to leave your body to science. The next time you see the doctor or nurse, be friendly, interested in others, oriented in time and place. Do not be hostile. Claim that you are feeling much better, your bowels are moving normally, that you are a moderate Republican and a Methodist. My problem was that I always said I was an atheist, a radical, that physicians were badly overpaid and hospital charges were way high -- in short I always told the truth. Big mistake. If they give you a psychological test (and they are likely to) make the most moderate and conformist statements that you can imagine. "Q. Are people plotting against you? A. No." Remember that every day you are getting better. Express no hate or fear. Act as "normally" as you can, in other words act like other people instead of your real nutty self. You'll be out in three of four days (they need those beds to store fruitcakes in). The fact that people have had you put away is accepted by staff as evidence that you are a nut. Congratulations on your progress in Latin. Good of you to share.

To: haqihana who wrote (11603)	2/19/2000 11:39:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I beat myself over the head for being a drunk for part of my life, but, contrary to what that may make you think, there was no underlying mental, or psychological,reason involved in the drinking. Since you posted this, I presume you won't mind a question. If there was no "underlying mental or pychological reason", why do you think you were once a drunk? After all, most people aren't . . . even most people with mental or psychological problems. Of course, I'm a little skeptical of the idea that one can be a drunk without having something mental or psychological behind it. Though I admit ignorance of alcoholism.