Richard Hawley

indeed. good listeners are hard to come by, but worth their weight in gold.

fuckin hell that is an awful thing to tell a child

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now,then!

That's terrible!! I hope your brother is a bit more full of the milk of human kindness now he's grown up a bit?

i know!! and i remember it clearly. i was about 7 at the time

we're dead close now. i must remind him of it actually

I agree that talking is one of the most important things. I saw a counsellor for a while & it helped me to recognise what it was that was troubling me at the time, and I knew what to do to fix it. Like a light going on to something that was there, but that I didn't realise how it was affecting me. However, having seen what a drastic & positive change anti depressants made to me, I know that they were, for me, the right way to go.

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The heartbeat doesn't change, only the faces surrounding it.

not for me,not ever,my dad was on them in the late 70's and they turned him into a brain dead shell..........no way will i ever take pills again to change my state of mind,legal or otherwise...but horses for courses.......

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Yeah...I remember my aunt taking every tranquillizer under the sun....in the 70s............she was always in a dressing gown and slippers....shuffling.....taking about an hour to make a cup of tea...cos she just couldn't get her act together.
In some instances though,medication can be beneficial....I work with a guy who is now able to live a decent life...just because of a little pill that just takes the 'edge' off..........
It's scary all that stuff........

i think the pills in the seventies could have felled an elephant, they were so strong and it's put a lot of people off taking them. i was very reluctant to try but they've worked wonders for me. they're much more subtle now.

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don't strive for happiness, it'll make you miserable. just be content.

Well, you are totally right...........they were sort of 'sinister'...............

the doc first put me on some called mon or mong something or other. mong is the word too cos i couldn't even move. i was totally wrecked, couldn't think at all. in fact, i was like jack nicholson in cuckoo's nest after nurse ratchett had finished with him.

a case of trial and error.

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don't strive for happiness, it'll make you miserable. just be content.

I don't know much about this, but is pills just a temporary answer? i mean is it like putting a sticky plaster over a cut?

True, I've just come off prozac after a year on it. I'm up and down, but feel a bit more ....alive. A lot of the pills put you on a level where you're niether really low, but on the other hand not overly high. Sort of in limbo.

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I had something like that that from the teachers!!! Purgotary wasn't so bad, at least you had a chance of getting out as long as you flagellated yourself a bit but I never fancied limbo much.

i once took two clopromazene"for a laugh".....didn't laugh for long.........i was a cabbage for 6 hours......NEVER again that is what they give violent mental cases in hospital,it imobalises you physically but speeds up your brian waves.........it was fucking awful.It is a drug for the benefit of others not the patient..........i mean if it speeded my brain waves up then imagine what it did to a psycho???????????

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i was going thru a bad patch (still am) an the doc prescribed anitdepressants - thyre still sitting in my kitchen cabinet - never touched em - never wanted to get into that cycle - just self medicating with fags n booze - oh well might go n grab some now - this life we got is some hard shit to swallow innit?

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