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Toxic people speak badly about others, are negative, lack compassion, take up way too much of your time, constantly have drama going on, lie to you, criticize you, talk more than they listen, play the victim, lose their temper, have to be right, treat others poorly, are self-obsessed, try to control you, have addiction issues. (Sue Fitzmaurice).

Seems to me that there are a lot of toxic or borderline toxic people about, I'm not sure if it's insanity or drugs or just people who moan and complain about everything and always have to have something medically wrong.

(This is not aimed at anyone here on CS but we all know someone toxic)

Just this weekend, my son gave me a pack of choco banane as it is written on the package. With just that glimpse I asked him if he wants me to make a warm drink out of it. And he said no because it's a bath salt. I do pamper myself with a high alkaline bath salt but I have never encountered a bath salt as enticing to drink as that! See what young people are using and what some companies keep on discovering for the young palate! As I have still 2 bottles of my fave salt and the left over of last year, I'd get to dip in it maybe around March..... Happy choco bath day!!

I wish they would find a cure for depression

On the 29 of January two people tried to rob me at my house I push the gun away and closed the door took two times and they run off. What is going on any more you need to make sure you look first I did not it happen around 11 pm. Be safe

I was watching something about why people live for so long .it was over 2 days .and 3 hours long .total 6 hours .I did not need to watch 5h and 5m .gust the last 10 .min because its your jeans.if you have good jeans .and look after you self then you should live a long live apart from getting killed in a car of plane etc .but if you have bad jeans you are kind of fff .so make the best of it .Terence .I would love to know what you think .thank you

Would you ask a deaf person to listen harder? Would you ask a blind person to look harder?

Then why is it ok to tell someone with depression that they got to try harder?

I heard that a lot over the years and let me tell you what that does to a depressed person. It makes them feel like they are not trying and feel inadequate. It makes the hill they have to climb seem like a mountain. It makes them feel like they are not good enough. It makes the person feel even worst and retards the chances of them coming out of the depressed state. It will rarely encourage them to "snap out of it", quite the opposite. It sends a person even deeper into a depressed state.

Next time you want to tell someone depressed to try harder, don't. Just don't, its the worst thing you can do.

In Maine we have a problem with addiction to opiates, both street and prescribed. Hundreds of overdose deaths occur each year, to which of course some might say good riddance. MME's are a way of settting the dosages of opiates to make equivalent their various strengths. A significant proportion of people regularly consuming 200 MME daily of such drugs will die in any given year. The legislature is proposing that no person be prescribed more than 100 MME daily. Is this good policy? Does it interfer with with the nurse/doctor-patient relationship? Aa.

one of those years !

17 year old black boy, with a widely metastasized lymphoma, progressing over almost a year. Lesions almost from head to toe, including liver, spleen and a large colon mass (couldn't approach surgically till metastases debunked via chemotherpy). Carribean Seventh Day Adventist family, extremly conservative and orthodox. Children must absolutely obey parents, and noone takes any medicine into God's temple (our body) except natural products. Back in Jamaica, a family member died on cancer chemo therapy. Painful death. Family allowed the boy naturopathic treatment, as things got worse, ending with arrival in ED close to death. Here's the kicker, folks, biopsy of lesions show over 85 % chance of 5 year survival (standard for "cure") with modern chemo therapy (kids tend to be much more treatable). Family refusing definitive treatment. Counselors, ethicists, clinicians, clergy, many others tried their best. Family resolute. What to do, all you sensitive clever bloggers? Take case to a judge to force treatment? Respect their wishes? ????? Aa.

Lots of folks fear them. Is it just misplaced fear? Conspiracy thinking? Ignorance? Not taking your psych meds? Aa.