Don't believe in mental illness? Read this.

The clinical features of depression are well described by one of the pioneers of its study, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin, writing in 1921: "He feels solitary, indescribably unhappy, as a "creature disinherited of fate"; he is skeptical about God, and with a certain dull submission, which shuts out every comfort and every gleam of light, he drags himself with difficulty from one day to another. Everything has become disagreeable to him; everything wearies him, company, music, travel, his professional work. Everywhere he sees only the dark side and difficulties; the people around him are not so good and unselfish as he thought; one disappointment and disillusionment follows another. Life appears to him to be aimless, he thinks that he is superfluous to the world, he cannot constrain himself any longer, the thought occurs to him to take his life without knowing why. He has a feeling as if something has cracked in him." I could not put more eloquently the words to describe clinical depression. I am no 'academic' expert on the subject. I am however a 'human' expert. I believe I am still in a state of depression and it's beginning to get on my last nerve, seriously. I know it's not going to go away on it's own but I am so against medication. I have tried a few and yes they work, but...side effects...yuck. The only one I truly liked was Wellbutrin, the ORIGINAL, not the crappy generic that does not work, but WELLBUTRIN the actual drug, not Buproprion. That shit made my hair fall out, and I'm not saying a bit, I literally had bald spots! Insurance won't let me get the brand name, even if my doctor recommends it, too bad they say. Take generic or pay $$$ for it and it's expensive! What's the point of going on, really? In three generations will anyone even know my name, or anyone even care? No.

Am I a conspiracy nut?

So, it seems when I tell people I love conspiracies,they look at me like I'm some kind of escaped lunatic. Why are people still so skeptical of other people who believe in conspiracies? Am I an nut case? I don't think so. So many conspiracies have proven to be true. At the very moment only a few come to mind. The Manhattan Project is one and asbestos and the Tuskegee syphilis study come to mind. But the more I read, the more I seem to have to acknowledge to myself that something ELSE is going on in the world. Something bigger, weirder, stranger that is changing the way things are happening. For example: The Mandela Effect. For those of you who have never heard of the Mandela Effect let me try to sum it up quickly for you in two words: Berenstein Bears. Remember them? The goofy hillbilly bear family that lived in the woods, mama always had a shower cap on her head? Of course you do. You would have had to live under a log in those woods to not remember the BearenSTEIN Bears! Google it. Go ahead. What did you get? BerenSTAIN? Of course you did! Why? Because TPTB (The Powers That Be) have changed it or we slipped into some other time dimension or we live in a parallel universe now. Who knows. There is much information on the net about the Mandela Effect from websites to Reddit boards. I remember the bears name ending in 'ein' specifically because I would remark to my (then) young niece if she would like me to buy her or read the book about the nice Jewish bears, and I would tell her the mother always wears a 'babushka' on her head in the shape of a granny cap. I don't think questioning things makes one a nut.

Tears for Prince, the man, the myth, the legend

I just read some comments on a YouTube video about Prince. One of the commenters responded with, " how can you respect someone who was a Jehovah Witness, seriously, man!". This made me ponder my own idealology about some of the celebrities I 'dislike' because I don't care for the way they conduct their personal lives. Is this wrong? I'm beginning to think it is. For example, for many, many years I have not cared for ANY new movies that have starred Tom Cruise. Why? I don't like that he is a crazy couch jumping won't talk to my kid because she is no longer a scientologist and i'd rather be a wacked crazy asshole father than a real dad way he conducts his personal life. I will admit, I did begrudgingly see Minority Report and I really liked it. This, however, I think is the exception to the rule? For a long time any celebrity

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