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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Cash, I'm SO sorry to hear that.
Ok, Erin's talk of Suzi and Kelly make me feel like I'm in the wrong place. I should be with her sipping wine.
Get in your car right NOW, missy, and you can be here in, um, 7 hours?
I'll save some wine for you!
Must go clean and make brownie now. Have been cleaning on and off for last 4 days, but the pet hair, it is eternal. I JUST MOPPED! Stop SHEDDING, GODDAMMIT.
How often do schizophrenics stop needing medication? I mean, should that even be a common consideration?
They don't really stop needing meds, no. Not entirely.
The problem is that they have the right to refuse medication--until they start acting crazy or hurt someone or themselves. Unless you can get a court order to force medication or hospitalization.
My brother refused his meds in prison. They allowed it. And then he went psychotic, put him in solitary confinement for three days and transferred him to a maximum security prison with a psysh ward. Even then I had to go there, wave medical power of attorney forms in the face of the psychiatrist and demand that they forcibly medicate my brother.
Then the stories should be about patients who decided to go off meds, not patients whose doctors decided to let them be unmedicated. That seems so unlikely, so risky.
Okay, this migraine is overwhelming me. I'm dizzy and nauseous and I'm going to my car. Fuck what I need to get accomplished this morning.
Good god, Cashmere, I'm so sorry. What a nightmare. Keeping all my fingers crossed that he can get treatment soon.
Get in your car right NOW, missy, and you can be here in, um, 7 hours?
Heeee. That would be fun. But I have my belt test tonight. As nervous as I am, I just want to get it over with. It is going to be 3-5 hours of "fun". Typically the evening tests are shorter but more intense. Right now I don't even care, just want to get started so it can be over sooner.
Cash, I'm gobsmacked. Utterly gobsmacked.
I am so sorry, Cash. I can feel your rage and heartbreak in your words and wish there was some way to help.
Cash,
that's really terrible.
Thanks for the support, guys. It helps to rant here rather than cry by myself. I can't do anything from here so I have to pull on my big girl panties and go get some stuff done.
I just hope the next call I get is someone telling me Joe's back in the hospital and safe.