BarbaraHudson's Journal: Today is Lets Talk day here in Kanuckistan

Why not go here to see Howie Mandel, Clara Hughes, Michael Landsberg, and Mary Walsh talk about their experiences coping with their mental illnesses, as well as 3 of the TV commercials and an explanation as to why sharing is an important part of removing the stigma.

You know what would be awesome?

[Red4man]

Instead of a "Let's Talk" day, a "Let's All Shut The Hell Up And Leave Each Other Alone" day.

Or maybe I'm just in a bad mood... I keep thinking about relocating to Wyoming, because there's less than 600K in the entire state. There's roughly 300K here in Madison alone... Carbon County only has 15K people IN THE ENTIRE COUNTY.

Seems like a little slice of Heaven to me.

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[BarbaraHudson]

So just go to Nunavut - 9x the area of Wyoming, 1/18th the population. Makes Wyoming look like downtown New York. Something like 1/50 the population density. Or The Yukon or the North-West TerritoriesI - something like 1/13th the population density of Wyoming. If that's a bit too lonely for you, there's PEI - 1/3 the population density without the cold.

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[Red4man]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the cold -- which is part of why I'm starting to seriously consider relocating -- because this Wisconsin weather, in general, sucks. Wyoming would at least be a little warmer on average.

It would mean I would be dumping both girlfriends as neither one wants to relocate, but I'm ready to do that anyway.

Threesomes are neat and all, but everything has a price. Synchronization is that price.

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[Red4man]

And yet you twerps deify mcgrew who admits to having trysts with hookers and drug addicts in Chicagoland...

Besides, not every girl up here is a "Midwestern Heifer".

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[Red4man]

I'll tell you what my nose looks like as soon as your mother is done sitting on my face.

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[Red4man]

Very nice, you got the non-breakable space to work in slashcode. Congratulations, you pass slashcode HTML Kindergarten.

However, the problem still exists that you

can't do it in the code tag

which is the specific problem I was complaining about -- the fact that a tech site has a code tag that can't you can't properly format code in.

So, as a result, you were almost clever in your response. I'll give you a C+ for effort at least, along with an 'atta boy'.

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[FiftyShadesOfDR]

You would know, since you're damn_registrars. And I know this, because I'm the honest aspect of damn_registrar's personality. In fact, I'm the only one of damn_registrars many, many sock puppets that is brutally and completely honest.

Maybe in another few decades...

[damn_registrars]

... we might reach a similar level in the states with regards to taking mental health seriously. Hopefully we don't face too many more massacres before then.

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[BarbaraHudson]

In the meantime there's no reason you can't share the various links while reminding them that 4% of all Americans are dealing with mental illness in any year, and 25% will have to deal with it at some point in their lives.

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[damn_registrars]

I can't say I've ever shared those particular links, but that is only because I had never seen them before now. I do advocate for mental health assistance and screening, and I have advocated for it previously here on slashdot as well [slashdot.org].

Allow me to be direct; I believe that mental health needs vastly more attention and resources committed to it than what it currently gets in this country. Furthermore I believe that the stigma associated with it needs to go away.

Unfortunately I think the stigma is the

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[BarbaraHudson]

I remember seeing that suicide on the news.

The stats are scary. 2/3 of all people with a mental illness never seek help. Of those who do, quite often they get it because they're in a crisis situation and a danger to themselves (yes, it's a euphemism for suicide because nobody wants to say "that" word).

The pressure to just "get over it" or "man up" or "its all in your head" or "don't be such a weakling" is internalized even by those who need help; combining that with the stigma and just not knowing where

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[damn_registrars]

That suicide was just one that happened to get more news exposure for whatever reason. Yet it made no difference on the national level, unfortunately.

The Newtown massacre was also a giant demonstration of our national failings in mental health. It could have been prevented were it not for all the barriers we build as a nation towards access to mental health treatment. Even worse, when the gun lobby had an opportunity to help turn this in to a discussion on mental health they instead upped the paranoia

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[Red4man]

I do advocate for mental health assistance and screening, and I have advocated for it previously here on slashdot as well.

Because no one here needs mental health care the way our dear creepy obsessed gay masochist stalker troll with eleventy billion sockpuppets damn_registrars does.

(the term 'Creepy Obsessed Stalker Troll' copyright RG, and I mention it here to remind our dear friend damn_registrars that the object of his desires still seems to be ignoring him).

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[FiftyShadesOfDR]

Oh.. OH!! OH!!!! REGINALD!!!!!!
No one abuses me quite like you do.
Please, sir, may I have another?

What's a metaphor?

[fustakrakich]

It's all in your head [jamanetwork.com], so to speak... There's a reason for everything. And personally I'm scared of the drugs they toss out like candy and waiting a few months to see what happens. They give out anti-psychotics when you might need antibiotics. A true shot in the dark this business, and the doctor's name is Clouseau.