As bad as it may be for a night’s sleep, I really am coming around to the idea that a society full of men that have sworn off alcohol is a society that has already failed.
It’s like when a dog wanders off to be alone to die.
Perhaps we needed a decade of JBP-clean-your-room to get things in order for the next Great American Era.
A sober America does not get us to Mars.
10 drugs in 2 months. 13 in 4.
They took her bad reaction to Zoloft as evidence she was bipolar (despite her having no history of mania and previously screening negative). They gave her more drugs.
She was concerned she was getting addicted to the benzos yet people say she doctor-shopped. Who worries about something like that when they’re just scoring pills?
And why would she keep trying the other pills too? The ones that don’t get you high (which was most of them)?
Lindsay believed Seroquel was making her really depressed. Numb. Unlike herself. Her prescribers (again) attributed her symptoms to an underlying illness and continued raising the dose, eventually from 25 mg to as much as 400 mg before McLean tapered her off.
Then came amitriptyline. After reacting badly to every previous SSRI, she was started on an older tricyclic antidepressant just eight days before the killings. The day before the killings, her instructions called for doubling the dose.
Almost every step of the way, the prescribers did the wrong thing.
Psychiatry chewed her up and spit her out.
Movies are a superpower. Seeing the right movie at the right time will change your life.
You see Jurassic Park, you become a paleontologist, you see Hotshot, you go fight fire, you see There’s Something About Mary…
Important metric in African development studies - does the country have anime conventions? African countries with anime conventions tend to have more development potential. Requires a class of middle-income nerds - a valuable human capital asset conducive to development elsewhere
Hundreds of Mormons are converting to Catholicism in Utah, where the Latter-day Saint faith remains the dominant religious tradition, according to reporting by The Salt Lake Tribune.