sharing my fb post from this am- it is time to move past the idea of "mental illness"

it is time to move past the idea of "mental illness", a very slippery thing, imho, and start looking more closely at neurology. cte isnt a mental illness, it is a brain disorder. the texas bell tower shooter had a brain tumor. that isnt a mental illness, either. till we move past check boxes to actual biomarkers, it is just meaningless, stigmatizing, and the 21st century equivalent of blood letting and leeches. often w tragic consequences. it's a crap shoot at best to find meds that help.
i hope cruz gets a good mri of his brain at some point. i hope anyone who acts so inexplicably gets a good mri.
it has long been a pet peeve of mine that there is so much stove piping between shrinks and neurologists. they are finally starting to talk to each other. from my experience, the neurologists are for it, but the shrinks are still blaming mommy.
my own kid spent years w therapists before a brain injury was FINALLY found. 15 years of being seen as "crazy" instead of being treated for epilepsy. growing up being seen that way.
this could answer the civil liberties issues. instead of 30 days of probably useless detention, spend 30 minutes in an mri and possibly finding the real issue.
throw in a sleep study, too. the most treatable cause of "mental health" issues is sleep disorders.
there is a ton still to be learned, and testing to be improved, but that is the direction we should be moving. to the future.
lets drop the whole concept of "mental illness" and start talking about brain health.

about those food boxes-

if this were voluntary, it would be one thing. to just shove it down people's throats, literally, is quite another.

i can see where it would be helpful to a lot of people to have food delivered to their homes. even shitty govt cheese is better than a lot of people can manage, even w snap.

but in my hood, packages get stolen every.freakin.day.
it's not as big a problem for people in single family homes, tho they get hit, too. but for folks in big buildings, where housing is more affordable, it's a regular nightmare.

and for those who are couch hopping, i just cant. these situations often end badly. i can easily see people's boxes being grabbed w a sense of entitlement, cuz so and so did xyz before they left.

i dont believe it will save a damn dime, tho. the costs of shipping this stuff just cant be cheap enough to make it worthwhile. unless they are gonna force the postal service to deliver them for "free".

i dont believe it will happen. just another half baked idea tossed out there to make it look like they are thinking.
but it really needs to be knocked down hard.
small minded and outright cruel.

i think one thing that was harvested from social media accounts

was people who were saying they would sit it out.
they scanned the voter rolls, found these people. those votes were sitting there waiting to be harvested.
they had a phony id mill going. they could just send people in to vote in their stead.

my sister is running- are you in dupage? would you like a yard sign?

if you live in dupage 6th district, and live on a busy street, our yard signs will be coming in on monday.
we will be prioritizing good locations, as we only have 100 signs.
we plan to get a lot more if we make it through the primary, so let us know if you would like one after mar 20.

pm me.

sigh. the parent blamers are out.

it makes me sick in my heart to read people here spewing this nonsense.
yes, some parents fuck their kids up.
and some kids get fucked up by life.
and some kids are born w a kink in their heads.
and it can be damn hard to tell the difference from the outside.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210230253

making obama.

a little uplift on a dark day.
i havent listened to this yet, but i am about to turn off the teevee machine and listen.
wbez is great, and a lot of this story is stuff that i kinda knew about, and talked about during 2008.

https://www.wbez.org/collections/making-obama/b5b78e4e-2ee3-4d8d-baf2-1171bb18ae9d

enjoy.

Question submitted by mopinko

hey neighbors, can i get a little help here?

my sister is running. help us buy some yard signs.
please rec this up.

if you are in dupage 6, and would like one for your yard, pm me w your address.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210210478#post24

my sister is running. help us buy some yard signs.

i am counting on your help here, du.
my sister, sheila rutledge, is running for a county board seat in formerly solid red dupage county in illinois. the county is part of il 6, which is on everybody's list of flippable districts. the dupage dems are intent on flipping the county board as well as sending peter ro-scum home to spend more time w his family.

now, if you want to flip a big seat, the most bang for your buck is to support the downticket races. every voter that sheila brings out is a vote to flip the whole district.

sheila has 38k dem voters in her district. she is out there knocking doors, attending candidate forums, wearing out her shoes. but this is a shoestring campaign. every dollar works hard.

we need some yard signs. we need name recognition.
i think we should get a brazillion. sheila think we should get what we have the money for, which, right now, is about 500.
that's gonna help in the primary, but, i mean, 38k voters.

so please, du, step up to the plate.
obviously i am going to dig as deep as i can for her, but she hates to ask me for money, or let me pay for my ideas.

so here is the deal.
for every donation we get here at du, i will match it dollar for dollar. she cant say no to that.

every dollar counts. yard signs are about $4/ea at that quantity we can afford now. so you can see exactly what even a $4 donation can do.
i want to get at least 1000. that gets the price down another buck.

please show that legendary du love, and chip in what you can afford.

http://sheila4dupage6.org

a little more about here at her fb page. see how hard she is working!
https://www.facebook.com/winfieldts2/

oh, yeah, knr. i'll give ya a heart.


update. much thanks to those of you who chipped in. i love you guys.
but can we rec this up please? please?

we are at $85. we really need $200 to get a good price on these signs.
if you can't chip in, i understand. but please knr for some visibility here.

please? yes, i am begging. (it's my job)

Question submitted by mopinko