There was a bit on the Jeremy Vine programme on BBC Radio 2 yesterday (Jan17th) about "Men who just crack up".
They go on to describe a typical beta-guy who is running round trying to be all things to all people. Trying to save the world, work a full-time job, be a great dad and loving husband. Then one day they just can't get out of bed. Or they kill themselves. Or they kill their whole family then themselves. Evidently women attempt suicide more than men, but men are better at it. Ugh.
The psychiatrist on the show was all about "Yeah men just bottle it up and eventually it explodes. They need to talk more and be more open about their feelings. They need to stop People Pleasing."
With my newfound MMSL awareness I could not help wonder how many of those guys who crack up are having great sex with their wives. Not many I would wager. if your wife/SO is fucking your brains out every night then the last thing on your mind is blowing them out yourself with a bullet.This topic never made it to the airwaves curiously enough.
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Fights were usually dealt with by a quick chat from a teacher, maybe a detention (I left school 9 years a go). Bullying was dealt with harsher but fights were usually just broken up, saying that everyone seemed to ensure it was always a fair fight and hands were generally shook afterwards.
If you know a resentful, or depressed, "nice guy" who;s been put on Prozac or some other SSRI (in particular the fluorinated ones) or the fluorinated antimalarial drug Mefliquone: keep an eye on them.
Some anecdotes: I've read some articles and seen a lecture by David Healey, one of the very few academic psychiatrists who is willing to speak out about violence and self-harm among people on SSRIs (he got fired shortly thereafter by Toronto's mental health institute that is funded by Eli Lily)
He mentioned that he recommends that ERs check for SSRI use as part of triage.
So I popped in to the ER at my local hospital and asked one of the physicians there if they check for patient SSRI use during triage or at some other point, and he said yes, the triage nurse actually had it as a question on their list, and whenever EMS or the police bring in someone involved in violence or a suicide attempt the first thing they try to find out once they're stabilized is whether they are on SSRIs.
He said everybody in his department knows by experience that the proportion of people on SSRIs who go postal, or start fights with ER staff, or attempt suicide is way above the average.
LOL- his department also marks the date of the full moon on their big calendar at the nursing station. I asked the nurse at the desk if there was more business on full moon nights and she just said "yes, definitely." What can you say? I'm not going to go there, but those people just make sure they're on top of what they find by experience is important.
Also, since Healey's talk, I've seen an interview with Michael Moore, who's obviously heard something as a layman about the psychiatric drugs/violence connection, and since then as soon as the news comes out about another student or young person involved in a mass shooting I try to find out whether they were on psychiatric drugs, and so far, for every case where I've been able to find the information, they have been.
Also the kid in Florida who flew a small plane into a building was on psych meds.
The incidence of people on SSRIs committing violence is small, but it's significant. Anyone on these drugs should be observed closely, by family members ifpossible, and should see a physician if they talk about suicide ideation, or if they become aggressive.
On cloudy nights with a full moon, there isn't an increase in violence, childbirth, etc. because people can't SEE the full moon.
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Oh hell yes. The full moon is true. I saw it every month. Weird shit happens when the moon is full.
And all hell breaks loose if anyone says the Q word.
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I'll give the mainstream media / feminism this much credit: they've got half the equation right. No one will be quicker to tell you that "a woman doesn't owe you sex because you're nice to her" than a feminist, and that's absolutely true.
What they DON'T go on to tell you is the corollary: you don't owe niceness (in the "Nice Guy" sense of being a doormat) to anyone. Not the woman you're fucking, and CERTAINLY not a woman you're not fucking.
And you know what? Why SHOULD they tell you that? It's not a woman's job to teach a man how to set boundaries and stick up for himself. It's a man's job. It's why boys need their fathers or, failing that, some strong male role model to teach them how to be men.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.