Posted on 01/12/2013 7:10:39 AM PST by yoe
[snip] (Standard Gravure shooting) First known shooting with ties to Prozac. Joseph Wesbecker kills 12, injures 9.
Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public.
Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.
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I was 21 and being given 3x the usual dose because the lower doses ‘didn’t work’.
How about maybe it just wasn’t working because I didn’t need it?
God, what a waste of my life.
Ironically, my miserable ex was *thrilled* because the OCD the junk gave me made me clean house 24/7.
My hands looked like raw meat from all the scrubbing and washing...and I couldn’t stop.
The doc and my family only sat up and took notice when I started having absence seizures from the pills.
I *still* have problems with flickering lights and moving objects crossing my field of vision.
They tell me that’s probably permanent.
:(
I’ve only been knocked for minor surgeries twice in the last 20 years. [dental work]
The symptoms predated those incidences but still, that’s a handy thing to know for future reference.
Much obliged.
The flickering light thing comes with the widespread use of fluorescent lights. You have a lot of company in that. Don’t worry about it. Just a different refresh rate.
Versed is the most widely used surgical sedative on the planet.
I always tell the docs DON'T USE IT ON ME. They get something else or they just operate without sedatives. The stuff they use for eye surgery freezes your lids, your eye muscles, etc. If you have the patience for it you can just lie there and let 'em cut!
It’s not just artificial lights.
It can be something as simple as sunlight flickering through trees or guardrail posts on the highway.
That infernally omnipresent ‘ticker’ at the bottom of all the TV news is murder.
I have to keep messing with the screen size on my TV to try and get rid of them and *still*, shows like FoxNews has a million twirling, flickering things moving on their studio backgrounds that I can’t stand.
I can’t tolerate the sight of cars moving through the intersection while I’m at a stoplight.
[and unfortunately I have the peripheral vision of a horse, apparently..it’s almost impossible to just ‘look away’]
It’s a neurological thing they don’t know how to “fix”.
Some flourescents, however, can just about make me jump out of my skin.
I can stand being in Lowes about 10 minutes before I have to bug out of there.
The ones hubby has in the machine shop are intolerable for any amount of time.
They don’t bother him at all.
Most guys get through 8 ~ women do far better than I do.
Each frequency that you can detect in your vision has a different refresh rate ~ which is one of the reasons we can tell these blends are different colors. Not everybody has the same number of red, green or blue receptors, and not everybody has rods arrayed in the same manner ~ some people actually have rods all across the retina. Most people have them mostly outside the central portion of the retina.
You could easily have a surplus of red cones ~ and that'll give you a trip ~ I can see a redhead 10 miles across the ice and anybody else better be much closer.
So, just use Google.com to search for COLOR BLINDNESS TEST ~ see what it tells you. Those sparkles and twinkles could simply be your visual cortex telling your extra red cones and possible centrally positioned rods are talking to it!
Well, I'm back. I guess the voices sorta blew it, cause I made it home in one piece. And that would have been the perfect job to do a splat on the pavement! LOL
That is so calling my name. Dang, I miss my hog...sigh..
LOL!
I can tell you're having a fun day :-)
Just getting in touch with my inner sponge.
I will and will get back to you on it.
It was in the 60s and people were out on bikes.
My soul felt like it was being ripped apart.
I almost turned around and came back for the bike but then I thought better of it.
He’s sick and waiting for his palliative cures and I’m out goofing on back roads?
*sigh*
The call of duty, indeed.
:-\
Bubba Love Sponge?
And a fine sponge it be, matey....arghhh
ColorblindSelftest.com Results:
Your Score: 6/6 100%
Score Recap:
1. Correct
2. Correct
3. Correct
4. Correct
5. Correct
6. Correct
Hypothesis: With these results, it appears you see colors like most people
I’m not able to find any tests just for rods or cones.
Like you, I’m hypersensitive to red.
[and yellow]
Not sure if this has anything to do with anything, but my current “kick” is infrared photography.
It’s like I’m driven to show people the things I’m ‘seeing’ that aren’t actually visible, if that makes any sense.
Could just be another of my strange esoteric quests, though.
Aw, the old man will recover soon enough, and then you can get out and reward yourself with a nice long ride. That is, if the nice temps hold. Temps down Dallas way have been falling all day, and we may even get some snow next week.
Buck up. You know you're doing the right thing :-)
” Buck up. You know you’re doing the right thing :-)”
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Semper fi and all that.
/humph....mutter mutter mutter..wind in my hair...loud pipes
;D
I’m in a color-intensive business, and an individual with poor color acuity or worse yet some variety of color blindness is a recipe for disaster in many capacities. So, we screen for color acuity. This is something of an industry standard for the initial online screen:
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77
The lower your score, the better.
Individuals who do not perform well, who are in color sensitive positions, are then tested in person under 5000 degree Kelvin “daylight” lighting to remove any casts or color shifts, if they request it. If they still perform poorly, they’re moved to a different position assuming there is a position available.
You’d be surprised how often we encounter people with color acuity problems, and it’s not just men.
I think that schizophrenics, once diagnosed should have some kind of legal oversight, like a probation officer that they must report to or will be in violation of the law. The patient overseer would do a brief evaluation and give the patient their shot (it’s only a once a month shot, not daily pills anymore.
I think that every time a psychologist or psychiatrist makes a diagnosis of serious mental instability, the analyst should become automatically responsible to refer the patient for oversight.
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