tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post4326525837965251756..comments2023-08-20T04:55:39.436-07:00Comments on Ars Psychiatrica: Straight ShooterNovalishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10501890494890617030noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-50891031304302757282009-06-13T10:55:38.413-07:002009-06-13T10:55:38.413-07:00I would like a dollar for every patient that said ...I would like a dollar for every patient that said No they would not<br />want medicine,"i'd be rich as <br />Rockefeller".<br />This is sort of naive?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-13118340571250806632009-06-12T20:32:13.555-07:002009-06-12T20:32:13.555-07:00And yes you are Human.
I know Psychiatrist's t...And yes you are Human.<br />I know Psychiatrist's that would love<br />to "treat" this patient.<br />I imagine he was sent to you to evaluate his continued mental health<br />status for continued disability?.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-61221276708592644532009-06-12T20:26:40.143-07:002009-06-12T20:26:40.143-07:00should read "than" at my close.
Yes my w...should read "than" at my close.<br />Yes my wifes family from NC also<br />makes fun of people like you do usually at the country club's 19th<br />hole. Not on a forum that has a Physician loving the arts,and literature and being poetic and a<br />pretense to gentleness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-63146775473041428702009-06-12T20:21:22.231-07:002009-06-12T20:21:22.231-07:00I don't like the part from you stating his bei...I don't like the part from you stating his being on SSD is our" Tax dollars at work",surely you don't think as a middle class Physician<br />that welfare is easy to maintain in<br />this sarcastic world?<br />An immoral Iraq invasion costs a lot more than this dudes care from our Government.So far as I know this patient that did not meet your expectations as worthy of his keep<br />has not killed anybody by faceless saturation bombing as I witnessed<br />in Viet-Nam in that useless excursion for whatwazdat reason for? me and history seems to have forgotten.<br />I can add I don't think we gained anything by"saving Iraq" either just bigger debt. More that SSI and<br />SSD monies used for mental patients.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-73382671379925098852009-06-10T11:03:52.542-07:002009-06-10T11:03:52.542-07:00In response to Anonymous above, I would hardly say...In response to Anonymous above, I would hardly say that someone's life is blissfully ignorant if he is using whatever mind-numbing substances he can get ahold of whenever he can. To me that screams that his life is not good at all and the only way he is able to deal with it is to keep himself in a drug-induced-fugue. And as to the "deadpan honesty", his statements indicate that he is very concrete, the manner of thinking which is prevelent before puberty and which becomes much more abstract during and after puberty. This kind of concrete thinking can be a sign of schizophrenia when present after puberty. What that means is he does not process anything beyond the surface level. Hence the response to "What brings you back from Texas?" His answer-"the bus". He doesn't get that the doctor doesn't care what physical modality brought him from Texas, the doctor wants to know the reasons and motivations behind him coming back from Texas, but this guy doesn't register that at all.Nicknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-47498052513226550022009-06-05T06:53:19.345-07:002009-06-05T06:53:19.345-07:00Wow. So many people smoke marijuana that you'v...Wow. So many people smoke marijuana that you've moved to a direct "how much"? I'm feeling gosh-darned puritan now... never tried any in my life. (Never smoked anything, in fact, not even cigarettes.)<br /><br />At his age I don't find it too hard to believe that he claim he'd never heard the drugs were bad for him. I grew up in Oregon and the only time I heard how bad marijuana and crack were was from school drug assemblies and TV. If he doesn't pay attention to TV ads and is in a similarly drug-permissive culture, his reactions to the questions sound par for the course.<br /><br />(And I don't have strong feelings for or against marijuana. Just that people should think twice before going out just after or while smoking it, because getting stoned, going into a store and asking why the stuffed toys are smiling and how to get the toys to sing, and would pot help? is a wee bit odd. For instance.)fraisehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08312672430004079169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-53729786034150944522009-06-04T20:01:08.479-07:002009-06-04T20:01:08.479-07:00He comes across as blissfully ignorant. If he'...He comes across as blissfully ignorant. If he's as uncalculatingly shamelessly deadpan honest as the episode suggests, then I think he may very well have mastered the art of living to the point of contentment, without the messy need for striving. To be utterly happy in the stasis of wanting/needing nothing more but whatever the current moment's selfish comfort brings, all with minimal net energy expenditure.<br /><br />...Sage or fool? or just one of life's little scenic extras?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4425732352511468694.post-191547400764105232009-06-04T12:16:45.295-07:002009-06-04T12:16:45.295-07:00It sounds like he was treating you much like I tre...It sounds like he was treating you much like I treat telemarketers who call me unsolicited. "Yes." "No." <br />Do you think it was all lip-service with more going on underneath his answers, or had he shut down enough that he simply was that... simple? Regardless, at least he was honest about not wanting your help instead of complaining that other people hadn't fixed him....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com