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Best Selling Writer and Psychologist, Jordan Peterson is slowly recovering from a near death experience
American Thinker ^ | 02/12/2020 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 02/12/2020 7:06:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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As a result of the medications, the withdrawal, and the time in the ICU, Peterson has neurological damage, and can neither type nor walk well. His muscle strength was so depleted he had to get therapy to sit up by himself.

It’s a horrific story of well-intentioned medical care run amok. It’s also appalling to think how close the world came to losing a man who has helped inject meaning back into ordinary people’s lives.

1 posted on 02/12/2020 7:06:48 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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That it was founded in his wife’s near cancer death is heart wrenching.


2 posted on 02/12/2020 7:09:41 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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It is a perfect example of why you should just deal with it as opposed to medicating


3 posted on 02/12/2020 7:09:45 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Doctors will kill you. If you need to cope a strong double of Jameson will suffice.


4 posted on 02/12/2020 7:10:54 AM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: yldstrk

We are definitely overly medicated


5 posted on 02/12/2020 7:12:14 AM PST by rb22982
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To: SeekAndFind

Best wishes to Peterson for a full and speedy recovery, both from the damage he’s taken and from the addiction which caused it. The world definitely needs Peterson healthy and contributing. Drug addiction is horrifying - so easy to fall into for people of all ages and backgrounds, and very difficult to recover fully.


6 posted on 02/12/2020 7:14:30 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: SeekAndFind

God bless Jordan Peterson!


7 posted on 02/12/2020 7:16:45 AM PST by Nevadan
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Such a great speaker of common sense ... pray he’s back soon


8 posted on 02/12/2020 7:21:17 AM PST by jcon40 (The other post before yours really nails it for me. IOr keep people from / PC ing in ver and alway)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jordan Peterson is a giant. May God bless his recovery and his family.


9 posted on 02/12/2020 7:22:25 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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It is a perfect example of why you should just deal with it as opposed to medicating

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People are going to accuse you of being insensitive to how hard it is for people to deal with such difficult life circumstances, but I personally agree with you. Reaching for the crutch will almost always make things worse for you. You cannot defer pain and grief, as hard as that is.


10 posted on 02/12/2020 7:26:05 AM PST by z3n
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Whatever happened to valium? Jeez!


11 posted on 02/12/2020 7:29:27 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Well, it was hard being a cave dweller. It was hard being a pioneer in the prairie. Hard is relative and we have come to expect easy. People should grow up. His wife was the one with cancer and he needs drugs to cope? Ridiculous.


12 posted on 02/12/2020 7:30:17 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: jcon40

I am thankful for what he has given us so far.


13 posted on 02/12/2020 7:34:27 AM PST by xp38
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Taking meds was his solution to anxiety due to his wife’s illness.
Faith in God might have saved him a lot of unnecessary distress, but he’s an agnostic who claims that behaving “as if” God exists is the best way to live, and he didn’t even do that in this case.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfvVu7__vy0
(”Does God Exist?) Warning, 10 minutes long, more than you need to reach a conclusion.

Short answer: “I don’t like that question, it’s an attempt to box me in...I don’t know.” < 10 seconds.

I respect his many and sincere admirers but when I listen to what he says I can’t be among them.


14 posted on 02/12/2020 7:34:36 AM PST by Buttons12
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Agree with you totally on how soft we are. It’s the fact that people these days don’t know real hardship which is exactly why they start to crumble when things go wrong for them.


15 posted on 02/12/2020 7:35:27 AM PST by z3n
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Prayer and meditation. Always hand off stuff beyond you to the big guy.


16 posted on 02/12/2020 7:38:42 AM PST by xp38
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Millions of people are addicted to benzos. It's a gnarly addiction that removes inhibitions and causes permanent brain damage. It's users get into all kinds of trouble.

Jordan Peterson recovering from tranquilizer addiction in Russia
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3814867/posts

Jordan Peterson enters rehab after wife’s cancer diagnosis
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3780213/posts

17 posted on 02/12/2020 7:42:25 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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“Because Canadian doctors couldn’t cope with Roberts’ illness, she ended up hospitalized in America. The American doctors saved her.”

Another indictment of Canadian healthcare. And the Dems want us to be more like them. Riiiiight.

My best wishes to Mr. Peterson’s recovery.


18 posted on 02/12/2020 7:43:48 AM PST by twoputt
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You cannot defer pain and grief, as hard as that is.

Yes, and probably shouldn't. I'm referring to emotional, not needless physical pain. Some people's first response to anything, even an intellectual challenge, is to elude or dodge it, and if their pain is within, they turn to medication.

Intellectuals seem especially prone to construct forests about themselves, there's always a tree to duck behind, but it's easy to become lost in a forest.

19 posted on 02/12/2020 7:44:17 AM PST by Buttons12
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Over the past few decades, I’ve known of quite a few women addicted to benzodiazepines in the neighborhood and at work. All of them smoked pot before getting their benzo prescriptions and moving on to getting them from illegal pill mills. Every one of them drove around like burning bats, scrogging every man in town. We watched, as the gardens of tattoos grew across their bodies. At least some of them moved on to meth. All of them went stark raving nuts and ended up in the jails and on the streets.


20 posted on 02/12/2020 7:49:11 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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