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So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
The Profile Zanzibar Age. 39 Gender. Female Ethnicity. that of my father and his father before him Location Altadena, CA School. Other » More info. The Weather The World The Link To Zanzibar's Past
This is my page in the beloved art community that my sister got me into: Samarinda Extra points for people who know what Samarinda is. The Phases of the Moon Module CURRENT MOON Writings
Poetry The Tree and the Telephone Pole The Spider I Do Not Know Their Names The Mouse Blindness La Plante The Moon Today I am Young A Night Poem Celestial Wandering Siren of the Sea If I Were a Dragon To the Dreamers Leave the Sky The Honor of the Oyster Return From San Diego War My Study Defeat A Late Summer's Night Of Dragons and Men Erebus The Edge of the World The Race Dragon's Spirit The Snake's Terror Spirit Island Metaphysics Metaphysica Transponderae Metaphysics and the Middaymoon Of Adventures in Foreign Lands The Rogue Wave: The Unedited Version Adventures in the PRC Voyage of Discovery Drinking the Blood of Goats Ticket for a Phantom Bus Os peixes nadam o mar Three Villages Far Away The River Weser Children I Should Have Kidnapped, Part I Let's Get You Out of Those Clothes Radishes Three-Piece-Lawsuit If Underwear Could Speak Croc Hunter/Combat Wombat
My hero(s) Only My Favorite Baseball Player EVER Aw, Larry Walker, how I loved thee. The Schedule
M: Science and Exploration T: Cook a nice dinner W: PARKOUR! Th: Parties, movies, dinners F: Picnics, the Louvre S: Read books, go for walks, PARKOUR Su: Philosophy, Religion The Reading List
This list starts Summer 2006 A Crocodile on the Sandbank Looking Backwards Wild Swans Exodus 1984 Tales of the Alhambra (in progress) Dark Lord of Derkholm Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The Lost Years of Merlin Harry Potter a l'ecole des sorciers (in progress) Atlas Shrugged (in progress) Uglies Pretties Specials A Long Way Gone (story of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone- met the author! w00t!) The Eye of the World: Book One of the Wheel of Time From Magma to Tephra (in progress) Lady Chatterley's Lover Harry Potter 7 The No. 1 Lady's Detective Agency Introduction to Planetary Volcanism A Child Called "It" Pompeii Is Multi-Culturalism Bad for Women? Americans in Southeast Asia: Roots of Commitment (in progress) What's So Great About Christianity? Aeolian Geomorphology Aeolian Dust and Dust Deposits The City of Ember The People of Sparks Cube Route When I was in Cuba, I was a German Shepard Bound The Golden Compass Clan of the Cave Bear The 9/11 Commission Report (2nd time through, graphic novel format this time, ip) The Incredible Shrinking Man Twilight Eclipse New Moon Breaking Dawn Armageddon's Children The Elves of Cintra The Gypsy Morph Animorphs #23: The Pretender Animorphs #25: The Extreme Animorphs #26: The Attack Crucial Conversations A Journey to the Center of the Earth A Great and Terrible Beauty The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Dandelion Wine To Sir, With Love London Calling Watership Down The Invisible Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea The Host The Hunger Games Catching Fire Shadows and Strongholds The Jungle Book Beatrice and Virgil Infidel Neuromancer The Help Flip Zion Andrews The Unit Princess Quantum Brain The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks No One Ever Told Us We Were Defeated Delirium Memento Nora Robopocalypse The Name of the Wind The Terror Sister Tao Te Ching What Paul Meant Lao Tzu and Taoism Libyan Sands Sand and Sandstones Lost Christianites: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew The Science of God Calculating God Great Contemporaries, by Winston Churchill City of Bones Around the World in 80 Days, by Jules Verne Divergent Stranger in a Strange Land The Old Man and the Sea Flowers for Algernon Au Bonheur des Ogres The Martian The Road to Serfdom De La Terre � la Lune (ip) In the Light of What We Know Devil in the White City 2312 The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August Red Mars How to Be a Good Wife A Mote in God's Eye A Gentleman in Russia The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism Seneca: Letters from a Stoic | Bleed just to know you're alive Wednesday. 1.10.07 8:50 pm I just recently got the new Evanesence CD (as evidenced by the YouTube link below). I really liked the song "Lithium" because it has a lot of really tough stuff in it, a real struggle. It makes you think, you know? A lot of people who are diagnosed with problems and told that they should take drugs to fix them are given a lot of crap if they choose not to (and thus choose to remain depressed/bipolar/mentally disturbed, whatever). It seems selfish, especially if you have a family, to not take the medicine that could cure you and make you a productive and healthy member of the family again. But it isn't that simple, really. Nobody likes feeling depressed, but I think for a lot of people feeling depressed is preferable to feeling *nothing*. Yes, everyone always wants to feel happy, but I don't think anybody wants to feel happy *always*. It calls to mind Brave New World, or even my favorite movie of all time, Equilibrium. People are afraid of depression, afraid of the darkness... but worse still is the feeling of equilibrium, particularly artificial equilibrium. So in this song lithium, she talks about how she wants to remember how it feels to be without lithium. It's scary to take drugs for something, especially drugs that claim to drastically alter your personality and emotions. Emotions, even bad ones, are part of what goes into making us who we are. She says "Here in the darkness, I know myself." There are a lot of people in the darkness. I empathize with the death metal rockers and the people who listen to all the really heavy stuff, like Pantera and Deaf Tones and Mudvayne and the like. You feel all of these wild, desperate emotions, and the music is that way too... frustrated, trapped, angry, constantly on the edge of some vast void, wind whipping around your body. You are terrified that the wind might cause you to fall almost as much as you are overwhelmed by the desire to jump. "...swan dive into the asphalt...." And the drugs, the "cure"... yes, it makes you fit in better. It pulls you away from the edge and into safety, but it is a grey, stagnant safety, like limbo. How much does the drug "cure" you, and how much does it take away the person you have always been? The creature of darkness you have come to understand as yourself? I think it's possible that the drug returns you to how you should have always been if you had been well... it just doesn't feel like that because for as long as you can remember you've been sick. I'm definitely not saying to not take the drugs if you need them. They are a gift; they make normal life possible for a lot of people they might've shut away in the old days, they give you a new lease on life and freedom from the dark emotions that can choke a life and prevent it from blossoming. But we must improve the drugs. Because without emotion- that's not a way to live.... So I guess what this song said to me is that you have to be patient with people who need medication and seem obstinate in not taking as often as they should...... maybe they just need to remember how it feels to be without it.... both so that they remember why they're taking it as well as so they remember what it's like to feel- to really feel... to feel in every atom of your being... even if that feeling is pain. To bleed just to know that you're alive. 4 Comments. I think we need to go beyond improving the drugs. We need to improve the medical establishment's feelings towards mental illness overall. Sometimes, MDs get so wrapped up in placing trust in the bioscientific cure that they overlook the factors in peoples' lives that may contribute to whatever illness they are diagnosed with. To steal an analogy from Dr. Denis Burkitt (and apply it in a different sense than he did): doling out drugs is like setting up an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff when the wiser solution is to block off the cliff in the first place. While we may not be able to set up a wall far enough from the cliff to make the fall impossible--as practically no one's going to seek help from falling off of the cliff if they're a full mile away in Happyville--doctors need to get the ambulances up on the cliff to rush people to safety before they splat on the landscape below. » ranor on 2007-01-10 11:23:16 it depends on the whys and the hows. if theres a real chemical/biological problem, yeah take the drugs. if its a cognitive problem, drugs wont really help. i was at an elizabeth wurtzel (prozac nation) lecture once and some smartass went "you've been on a lot of medication...do you feel that anti-depressents stifle your creativity". she looked him straight in the eyes and said "no...REAL depression, the physical kind that takes away your life...THAT stifles creativity..it stifles everything" ive been on both sides of the fence. at some pints i needed it because what i was feeling was purely physical, but most of the time its been an emotional problem thats needed cognitive therapy too. t hats where doctors miss the mark. medication, in my opinion, should be used as a temporary relief when there are no other options, but by no means is it a cure. im just lucky my health plan covers my therapy. otherwise id be in trouble. » invisibleinkling on 2007-01-10 11:38:37 yeah, that's true. I think medication is really important in that sometimes you get stuck in a rut and you can't get out. The medication lifts the cloud, the heavy weight (especially in the case of depression...the completely debilitating physical symptoms) so that you can think clearly and have the energy to jumpstart the healing process. Otherwise it's really difficult to even start thinking about healing. But the drugs seem to address the symptoms, and not the disease, so like you say, there has to be some therapy involved to really get to the root of the issue. » Zanzibar on 2007-01-10 11:58:57 My mom has been teaching Emotionally Disturbed children in the public school system for years. The stories she can tell you about kids that are under the age of 10 could make your skin crawl. These kids of course come from all walks of life and each situation is different - parents, foster care, sexual molestation, or just a 'chemical imbalance' can all be the root of problems. Most of the time these kids while on medication are able to concentrate, finish their work, and hold conversations. It seems that the medication is a blessing to these kids. However, I've also met kids whom later on in life have become slightly adicted or have found that the drug 'slows them down' preventing them from doing things they otherwise would have been able to do (join sports mostly). So I see your point. I think improving the medications would be incredibly helpful - and they are so far as I know. However, I'd have to agree with the perseptive people above me. These kids by deffinition are emotionally disturbed, and have usually (not 100% of the time) had something tramatic happen to them. These things need to be addressed, for teh children's sake. My mom has always fought the distrcit to keep the phsychologist on staff for them. She usually meets with 'em once or twice a week on a one-to-one basis. It helps the kids quite a bit. Only now she's had a small change in career. She's now teaching autistic children under the age of 6. It's been a horse of a diffrent color to say the least. » Helena on 2007-01-11 09:59:36
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