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| 2007-07-15
| Vidura Panditaratne
Posted on 07/16/2007 10:23:27 AM PDT by atomic_dog
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To: atomic_dog
My fears have gotten progressively worse since childhood, but I am also afraid of new drugs now because of what some have done to me. I'm nearly housebound at this point but can go to restaurants without doing carryout again, if I force myself I can do some hard things, then it exhausts me afterwards.
None of the drugs I have taken so far affected my moral choices, and a large number have been tried on me.
I made my worst moral choices when I was not on any prescription drugs, in part, as an escape. In some people, yes, it can be a catastrophe. I have seen lives transformed when they match the right drug to the person. Wish it could happen for me. Wait. I decided I don't want to get my hopes up again that I will ever get better and just learned to live with it.
But if they get this one right, it might help a lot of people. Right now they treat PSTD mostly with SSRI's, and my system cannot handle them, they were finally convinced I was not faking that. They rev me up so that I get into an agitated state and feel like climbing the walls. It is actually physically painful as well as the emotional pain.
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posted on
07/16/2007 10:45:35 AM PDT
by
Aliska
To: atomic_dog
“Conversely, the learned fear persisted when the kinase’s activity was increased in the hippocampus,....” I have a learned fear of hippos on my campus.
To: atomic_dog
Now what do we do with.....
“We have nothing to fear;but fear itself.”
I’m afraid this is way tooo confusing!!!!!
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posted on
07/16/2007 10:51:02 AM PDT
by
Jeffrey_D.
(The only thing I love more than my FreeperFriends is my God, Family and Country !!!!)
To: DarkSavant
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posted on
07/16/2007 10:55:11 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: Aliska
None of the drugs I have taken so far affected my moral choices, and a large number have been tried on me. Most people just don't get it. Sorry for the responses here.
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posted on
07/16/2007 10:56:45 AM PDT
by
Dianna
To: Aliska
Do you suffer from anxiety?
I've had family members who did, and I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:05:14 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: atomic_dog
Fear is not necessarily a bad thing.
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:06:58 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: SIDENET
To: polymuser
“Are samples ready for Republican politicians?”
Excellent question.
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:08:51 AM PDT
by
alarm rider
(Why should I not vote my conscience?)
To: atomic_dog
I found the cure for fear a LONG time ago.
To: atomic_dog; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:11:14 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
("You can't strengthen a zero, it will always equal zero." --Avigdor Lieberman)
To: atomic_dog
It’s articles like this that scare me.
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:11:48 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(Support Duncan Hunter for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. He will build the fence!!)
To: Aliska
Good luck to you, and I hope you find something that really works without side effects.
To: atomic_dog
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:16:47 AM PDT
by
Kevmo
(We need to get away from the Kennedy Wing of the Republican Party ~Duncan Hunter)
To: atomic_dog
Courage is not the absence of fear. Rather, it is the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:24:33 AM PDT
by
Dr.Deth
To: atomic_dog
Courage is the complement of fear.
A man who is fearless cannot be courageous.
(He is also a fool.)
LAZARUS LONG
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:25:06 AM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
(Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto)
To: DarkSavant
I will not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain... Heh. Excellent.
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:31:55 AM PDT
by
Egon
("If all your friends were named Cliff, would you jump off them??" - Hugh Neutron)
To: SteveMcKing; atomic_dog; Slings and Arrows
I'll keep mine, too.
Nothing in life is to be feared,
it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more,
so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:37:45 AM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(I dreamed I surfed all day in my monthly donor wonder bra - https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
To: samtheman
Heinlein wrote about the same thing in “Starship Troopers.”
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posted on
07/16/2007 11:40:45 AM PDT
by
CholeraJoe
(Ratzaz! There. I do give one about something.)
To: Dr.Deth; HuntsvilleTxVeteran
Courage is not the absence of fear. Rather, it is the judgment that something else is more important than fear.Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. (He is also a fool.)
The absence of fear is not courage,it is stupidity.Courage is being afraid and doing the right thing anyway.-Author unknown(to me).
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