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I need you guys’ help!!  :(   Another of my newsgroups has been tortured by this troll for a very long time and it’s getting rather scary and personal… for more than a year now he’s ranted that "all women deserve to be raped and murdered", and has verbally abused the lot of women that post there…  he professes to have murdered at least one woman, and now he’s threatening me as well as several other women in the group, and I don’t know what else to do :(   I think that if several people will contact the following sites – http://www.c-s-i.org/index2.html <– Find both your local Crimestoppers agent, and the one in Australia, which is where Darkfalz is posting from. and https://www.ifccfbi.gov/complaint/terrorist.asp <– Yes, I know it says ‘terrorist’ but at the top of the page it says "this form may also be used to report any suspected criminal activity to the FBI". One form to fill out in here, and the information (headers, whatever) are below: Usenet postings – Path: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwp ad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.nnrp.telstra.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.support.shyness Lines: 11 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.35.102 Organization: Comindico Australia Pty Ltd NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.27.1 X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 1012030896 203.194.27.1 (Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:41:36 EST) Xref: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu alt.support.shyness:162609

*smiles around the newsgroup* This has been a good day.  Hope everybody else had one too :) *hugs everyone, regardless*

If you tried to touch me I’d kill you, and your child. several days ago the same person posted: Path: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwp ad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.nnrp.telstra.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.love,alt.support.loneliness,alt.support.short,alt.support.shyness Lines: 38 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.35.237 Organization: Comindico Australia Pty Ltd NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.27.1 X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 1011783397 203.194.27.1 (Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:56:37 EST) Xref: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu alt.love:118514 alt.support.loneliness:148635 alt.support.short:19817 alt.support.shyness:162104 I think this sums it up more succinctly than that blathering diatribe I posted before. I really cared about these girls, do you understand? I would have done anything for them, and they knew it. So they used me for what I was worth while they could, treating me like garbage to be eventually dumped when I was no longer useful (or they were bored with their mind games). Anyone could argue that I "allowed" them to do it, but when you like someone (I don’t know if I’d call it "love" as I’m not sure what that means anymore) and you desperately want them to like you back, or at least consider you as friend – that’s the position you are in and it’s hardly something you can help; to take advantage of a person in that state is pernicious and unforgivably cruel, but it’s something that women are frequently known to do to infatuated men. What I can’t get over is being treated like that, being used, being completely short ended in terms of our friendship when they knew how I felt. How can I NOT be angry at someone whom I cared deeply for, did whatever I could for and held in the highest regard, and who then made a *conscious* decision to hurt, reject and abandon me? How can I allow myself to be used and disposed of like that by a person that I treated with the utmost benevolence? How can I allow them to get away with it, to go on and do it to other guys down the line, remorseless and without a worry in the world? That’s why I must have revenge, don’t you see? To show them that I’m a fucking person and that they simply CAN’T do that to someone and go on living their lives without answering for it, without paying for their crimes. This is why one bitch lies in her grave before her 21st birthday, and this is why others will join her. Falz. This person is VERY well known for his hatred of women and his constant verbal abuses towards them… he constantly rants that he believes all women should be "taught a lesson" and says that they all deserve to be "raped and murdered", and now it’s appearing that he is doing more.  These are only two of his many, many posts… the first one aimed at myself and my child, but there have been many, many indications that he wishes to harm more women in the group.  Most of the women who used to post there are afraid to do so anymore because he just won’t stop being abusive and speaking of his violent intentions towards us. Would you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do something to help?? – kitz –   "I hope you don’t mind that I put down in words how wonderful life is; now you’re in the world." – e.john http://whatarmy.tripod.com

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[posted and mailed] This person is VERY well known for his hatred of women and his constant verbal abuses towards them… he constantly rants that he believes all women should be "taught a lesson" and says that they all deserve to be "raped and murdered", and now it’s appearing that he is doing more.  These are only two of his many, many posts… the first one aimed at myself and my child, but there have been many, many indications that he wishes to harm more women in the group.  Most of the women who used to post there are afraid to do so anymore because he just won’t stop being abusive and speaking of his violent intentions towards us. Would you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do something to help??

Kitz, he’s been there for quite a while now, maybe even a year. Have you done a google search on him with the words "rape", "kill" and "murder"? You’ll probably find he likes to appear "dangerous" I think he’s physically harmless, just an unpleasant guy. One thing you should watch is that he crossposts to alt.support.short and the guys there aren’t always "female friendly". I would avoid responding and encouraging him, and always remove crossposts at least… He gets his kicks from the reactions to his posts, and crossposts to cause arguments between people who aren’t aware of the other group’s "culture". He’s just a big mouthed troll with an inferiority complex, and most likely couldn’t afford a train ticket to the next town. I wouldn’t worry about him, but by all means do report him and leave him be: his behaviour has disrupted a newsgroup, and he’s not about to change. Vashti  

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -I need you guys’ help!!  :(   Another of my newsgroups has been tortured by this troll for a very long time and it’s getting rather scary and personal… for more than a year now he’s ranted that "all women deserve to be raped and murdered", and has verbally abused the lot of women that post there…  he professes to have murdered at least one woman, and now he’s threatening me as well as several other women in the group, and I don’t know what else to do :(   <snipped Path: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwp ad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.nnrp.telstra.net!not-for-mail <snipped Organization: Comindico Australia Pty Ltd NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.27.1 X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 1012030896 203.194.27.1 (Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:41:36 EST) <snipped Path: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwp ad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.nnrp.telstra.net!not-for-mail <snipped X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.35.237 Organization: Comindico Australia Pty Ltd NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.27.1 X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 1011783397 203.194.27.1 (Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:56:37 EST)

entire message each time he posts from his accts with them. Kitten

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I need you guys’ help!!  :( Another of my newsgroups has been tortured by this troll for a very long time and it’s getting rather scary and personal… for more than a year now he’s ranted that "all women deserve to be raped and murdered", and has verbally abused the lot of women that post there…  he professes to have murdered at least one woman, and now he’s threatening me as well as several other women in the group, and I don’t know what else to do :( <snipped Path: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwp ad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.nnrp.telstra.net!not-for-mail <snipped Organization: Comindico Australia Pty Ltd NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.27.1 X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 1012030896 203.194.27.1 (Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:41:36 EST) <snipped Path: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwp ad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.nnrp.telstra.net!not-for-mail <snipped X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.35.237 Organization: Comindico Australia Pty Ltd NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.27.1 X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 1011783397 203.194.27.1 (Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:56:37 EST) entire message each time he posts from his accts with them. Kitten

I’m no expert on ISP’s and computers, but I can give you some background on telstra- Telstra is the largest telephone/communications company in Australia. Up until recently, they were a government owned monopoly. They own just about all the telecom infrastructure in the country (and sell bandwidth to all the other providers). They are still partially government owned. So go ahead and report him – I wouldn’t think a company like Telstra could afford to ignore complaints as a smaller ISP could. LJ

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it might do some good but I have a better way I think if he doesn’t wish to be in deep trouble which I plan on introducing him to in a couple of days then he will cut it out because he will realize that if he keeps this up then the Feds won’t think it very funny and I don’t that shit’s no joke.  I have PTSD because of some of the shit I been through. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I need you guys’ help!!  :( Another of my newsgroups has been tortured by this troll for a very long time and it’s getting rather scary and personal… for more than a year now he’s ranted that "all women deserve to be raped and murdered", and has verbally abused the lot of women that post there…  he professes to have murdered at least one woman, and now he’s threatening me as well as several other women in the group, and I don’t know what else to do :( <snipped Path: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwp ad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.nnrp.telstra.net!not-for-mail <snipped Organization: Comindico Australia Pty Ltd NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.27.1 X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 1012030896 203.194.27.1 (Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:41:36 EST) <snipped Path: geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!newsfeed.cs.utexas.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!intgwp ad.nntp.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!nsw.nnrp.telstra.net!not-for-mail <snipped X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.35.237 Organization: Comindico Australia Pty Ltd NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.194.27.1 X-Trace: nsw.nnrp.telstra.net 1011783397 203.194.27.1 (Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:56:37 EST) entire message each time he posts from his accts with them. Kitten I’m no expert on ISP’s and computers, but I can give you some background on telstra- Telstra is the largest telephone/communications company in Australia. Up until recently, they were a government owned monopoly. They own just about all the telecom infrastructure in the country (and sell bandwidth to all the other providers). They are still partially government owned. So go ahead and report him – I wouldn’t think a company like Telstra could afford to ignore complaints as a smaller ISP could. LJ

–  -Justyn Waters  I never went to kindergarden so all I needed to know I learned from  Shakespeare. You won’t survive long if you live in a Shakespearian tragedy. There are few human problems which can not be solved with the jucicious  application of high explosives.  (And if that doesn’t work, try duct tape) Reach out and byte someone:) -Compass Media

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Sorry I over reacted things have been crazy here.  I have post traumatic so that means I over react a bit but hell we are all scared because of all the shit that has been happening. I told her to take a vacation and disapear for a while in case this guy was actually someone to worry about before I did anything that endangered any body who should stay the hell out of messes like this like people with young children. As soon as someone ID’s the scum bag we can easily say we think he’s in with bin laden I think I just made him piss his pants if he is what you say he is.  I can be really terrifying if I think someone is way out of line.  I think I took care of it but I’m not sure.  Most times the bastard does something stupid and gets caught or quits.  I’m not sure I’m up for this but ok I stuck my foot in it I’d better finish up and follow through so I can begin my recovery. —  -Justyn Waters  I never went to kindergarden so all I needed to know I learned from  Shakespeare. You won’t survive long if you live in a Shakespearian tragedy. There are few human problems which can not be solved with the jucicious  application of high explosives.  (And if that doesn’t work, try duct tape) Reach out and byte someone:) -Compass Media

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – that’s much too grandiose. nothing in my life has ever amounted to anything even near that grand, but i can’t really think of any other way to describe it. "i am experiencing anxiety like you do during those moments between the point when you fear you’ve misplaced your keys and the point where you reach to touch your pocket and go, ‘oh, i’ve got them.’"                          i think that’s pretty much my life.                          nothing at all too important, just embarrassing confusions and ill-at-eases, and it doesn’t really seem to matter whether i’ve lost those keys or not, because they don’t unlock much of anything of value anyway. — m e

Would this be anything like my ‘unfocused dread’? — —  Whiskers

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that’s much too grandiose. nothing in my life has ever amounted to anything even near that grand, but i can’t really think of any other way to describe it. "i am experiencing anxiety like you do during those moments between the point when you fear you’ve misplaced your keys and the point where you reach to touch your pocket and go, ‘oh, i’ve got them.’"                          i think that’s pretty much my life. nothing at all too important, just embarrassing confusions and ill-at-eases, and it doesn’t really seem to matter whether i’ve lost those keys or not, because they don’t unlock much of anything of value anyway. — m e

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You are addicted to keeping up with the joneses’ you compare your gear to your neighbors and think what a bunch of junk I own.  The fact that most of what we buy is garbage anyway is not the point but we want to have better garbage than our neighbors.  I think most of what got those people killed is over the same junk we buy and plan our ridiculous little lives on.

i would appreciate it if you wouldn’t treat my post as your own personal rorschach test. — m e

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i can relate.  the pins and pricks of anxiety make my daily life very unpleasant. diana – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – that’s much too grandiose. nothing in my life has ever amounted to anything even near that grand, but i can’t really think of any other way to describe it. "i am experiencing anxiety like you do during those moments between the point when you fear you’ve misplaced your keys and the point where you reach to touch your pocket and go, ‘oh, i’ve got them.’"                          i think that’s pretty much my life. nothing at all too important, just embarrassing confusions and ill-at-eases, and it doesn’t really seem to matter whether i’ve lost those keys or not, because they don’t unlock much of anything of value anyway.

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that sounds like post traumatic.  I had 5 major panic attacks and went nuts because I wasn’t sleeping. This was this year before the terrorist attacks. that’s much too grandiose. nothing in my life has ever amounted to anything even near that grand, but i can’t really think of any other way to describe it. "i am experiencing anxiety like you do during those moments between the point when you fear you’ve misplaced your keys and the point where you reach to touch your pocket and go, ‘oh, i’ve got them.’"                          i think that’s pretty much my life. nothing at all too important, just embarrassing confusions and ill-at-eases, and it doesn’t really seem to matter whether i’ve lost those keys or not, because they don’t unlock much of anything of value anyway.

You are addicted to keeping up with the joneses’ you compare your gear to your neighbors and think what a bunch of junk I own.  The fact that most of what we buy is garbage anyway is not the point but we want to have better garbage than our neighbors.  I think most of what got those people killed is over the same junk we buy and plan our ridiculous little lives on. You can chose to use your talents in a way that is life giving and makes you feel good or you can sit around thinking of yourself as a loser and your life a waste of time.  You can wait to die or choose to embrace life and wring every ounce of beauty out of it you can. Go feed the birds in the park that always makes me happy when life is too much for me. — m e

–  -Katz Heitmann  I never went to kindergarden so all I needed to know I learned from  Shakespeare. You won’t survive long if you live in a Shakespearian tragedy. There are few human problems which can not be solved with the jucicious  application of high explosives.  (And if that doesn’t work, try duct tape) Reach out and byte someone:) -Compass Media

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My ship is SN: 28-4807 I looked in my parts manual and found: Plate Assembly, bottom cowl PN 69791-00 It’s a flat plate with the bushing installed. I was hoping to find the bushing as a seperate item.  I guess I’m feeling optomistic after my close call! Mike – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I took a look at my PA28 parts catalog (revised 9-78) and it doesn’t list a separate bushing.  Rather it lists the top cowl fastener as a complete assembly.  For ser #28-1761 to 3643, it’s part # 65202-00. For ser # 28-3644 and up, it’s part #65202-05.  Piper has changed some part numbers from those looking like the ones that I gave you to some that look like 456-789 (example only), so you may find the number has been superceded.  Good luck and congrats on a nice job of keeping yourself off the 11pm news.

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Throttle back and try to land on what’s left of the runway.  Too late, I’m already too high and there isn’t enough pavement left.  I’ll have to take it around the pattern.  add a touch of power and climb to about 500′AGL for a little breathing room, keep the

Not an engine emergency but still a mild ELM situation. Well handled.  That and doors popping out are  the reasons why I teach the T500 over MLP   (turnaround the airport from 500′ agl at over Minimum Level Power (MLP). I teach that while practicing touch and goes before solo. I think the T500 and the T43 should be included in all pilots Syllabus.  Of course there are shaky people that can’t do and don’t want other people to learn them, but that is expected from some. Just ignore the chickens and fly like an eagle. Now see what this Bonanza pilot did on an even milder, door pop ELM. It happened just last week. Another ELMinept bites the dust. http:///www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20010821×01747&key=1

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Sorry.  I misunderstood. I thought your wanted part was in the TOP cowl latch assembly.   – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – My ship is SN: 28-4807 I looked in my parts manual and found: Plate Assembly, bottom cowl PN 69791-00 It’s a flat plate with the bushing installed. I was hoping to find the bushing as a seperate item.  I guess I’m feeling optomistic after my close call! Mike I took a look at my PA28 parts catalog (revised 9-78) and it doesn’t list a separate bushing.  Rather it lists the top cowl fastener as a complete assembly.  For ser #28-1761 to 3643, it’s part # 65202-00. For ser # 28-3644 and up, it’s part #65202-05.  Piper has changed some part numbers from those looking like the ones that I gave you to some that look like 456-789 (example only), so you may find the number has been superceded.  Good luck and congrats on a nice job of keeping yourself off the 11pm news.

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 That and doors popping out are  the reasons why I teach the T500 over MLP

Oooh!  DOORS popping open!  Now THAT’S a "real" emergency requiring ELM training! — Jim Fisher North Alabama Cherokee 180

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Probably true, with low wing planes. ; -)

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –  That and doors popping out are  the reasons why I teach the T500 over MLP Oooh!  DOORS popping open!  Now THAT’S a "real" emergency requiring ELM training! — Jim Fisher North Alabama Cherokee 180

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ELM??? T500??? T43???

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Throttle back and try to land on what’s left of the runway.  Too late, I’m already too high and there isn’t enough pavement left.  I’ll have to take it around the pattern.  add a touch of power and climb to about 500′AGL for a little breathing room, keep the Not an engine emergency but still a mild ELM situation. Well handled.  That and doors popping out are  the reasons why I teach the T500 over MLP (turnaround the airport from 500′ agl at over Minimum Level Power (MLP). I teach that while practicing touch and goes before solo. I think the T500 and the T43 should be included in all pilots Syllabus.  Of course there are shaky people that can’t do and don’t want other people to learn them, but that is expected from some. Just ignore the chickens and fly like an eagle. Now see what this Bonanza pilot did on an even milder, door pop ELM. It happened just last week. Another ELMinept bites the dust. http:///www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20010821×01747&key=1

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Probably true, with low wing planes. ; -)

<smack! — Jim Fisher North Alabama Cherokee 180

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Hah! My low wing plane has a placard and flight manual supplement describing how to operate the aircraft with the door *completely removed* !!!! ;-) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Probably true, with low wing planes. ; -) <smack! — Jim Fisher North Alabama Cherokee 180

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Well it happened today…I’ve logged about 200 hours since getting my

ticket Well done – and well written :-)

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Once the nylon bushing is gone there is a pretty big hole for the front pin to fill.  It allows sufficient movement for the latch to work loose. I also think that a steep climb pushes back and up rather than just back and the airspeed is relatively slow (just my post-traumatic guess).  A conspiracy of physics working to ruin my day! Mike

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – And to think my mechanic said one day that even if the fasteners come loose the thing doesn’t want to come off naturally because it has to slide forward. Yet I was still concerned.  I guess the airflow doesn’t hold it from coming forward and inch or two.  I’ll have to pass this info on to him. Well done on handling the emergency.  If that happened to me I think it would definitely be a scare. Sorry not much help on the parts. -Ryan Well it happened today…I’ve logged about 200 hours since getting my ticket and was wondering when I was going to have a problem.  I guess today was my turn… Started my takeoff run in my Cherokee 180D.  Airspeed alive, gauges in the green, rotate normally. After several seconds, the picture out the front window doesn’t look normal. What’s that movement I see.  There it is again, either my seat is bouncing down or…no, this isn’t happening,…the front of the cowl is coming loose!!! Throttle back and try to land on what’s left of the runway.  Too late, I’m already too high and there isn’t enough pavement left.  I’ll have to take it around the pattern.  add a touch of power and climb to about 500′AGL for a little breathing room, keep the speed down and start to turn around nice and easy. Maybe the whole thing won’t break loose. Murphy lives in my hanger, the right side fasteners decide to release and the barn door is open.  The left side is holding so now the cowl is standing more or less straight up, held on by the left side fasteners.  The thing is angled perfectly to block my forward view.  Oh well, just fly the plane… OK, I’m downwind far enough that I can make a landing.  Ease it around, pull the power and glide it in.  Set it down easy while trying to look around the flapping piece of fiberglass wagging inches from the prop.  The mains touch. Pull the mix to stop the spinning cowl grinder.  The prop stops without nary a touch on the offending cowl.  Coast off the active onto the taxiway. Refasten the cowl and taxi back to the ramp. The postflight critique from the peanut gallery was positive.  An inspection revealed that the nylon bushing that retains the upper cowl pin was missing on the side that let go and was broken on the side that held on.  The rear fastener (the only thing that kept the whole thing from departing the airplane) was a little bent. The plane will fly with the cowl flapping in the breeze, it just wants to turn (I guess it’s like having a rudder on the wrong end). Now I just need to find replacement nylon bushings…and a fresh set of skivvies.  I can find the Fruit-of-the-Looms on my own.  Does anybody know where I can get the bushings?  The part number indicates that the bushing is part of the cowl plate assembly and have already sent off a quote request to Preferredairparts.  I does look like I should be able to get the nylon bushings separate.  Any ideas??? Mike PP-ASEL (temporary test pilot)

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I took a look at my PA28 parts catalog (revised 9-78) and it doesn’t list a separate bushing.  Rather it lists the top cowl fastener as a complete assembly.  For ser #28-1761 to 3643, it’s part # 65202-00. For ser # 28-3644 and up, it’s part #65202-05.  Piper has changed some part numbers from those looking like the ones that I gave you to some that look like 456-789 (example only), so you may find the number has been superceded.  Good luck and congrats on a nice job of keeping yourself off the 11pm news.

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And to think my mechanic said one day that even if the fasteners come loose the thing doesn’t want to come off naturally because it has to slide forward. Yet I was still concerned.  I guess the airflow doesn’t hold it from coming forward and inch or two.  I’ll have to pass this info on to him. Well done on handling the emergency.  If that happened to me I think it would definitely be a scare. Sorry not much help on the parts. -Ryan

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Well it happened today…I’ve logged about 200 hours since getting my ticket and was wondering when I was going to have a problem.  I guess today was my turn… Started my takeoff run in my Cherokee 180D.  Airspeed alive, gauges in the green, rotate normally. After several seconds, the picture out the front window doesn’t look normal. What’s that movement I see.  There it is again, either my seat is bouncing down or…no, this isn’t happening,…the front of the cowl is coming loose!!! Throttle back and try to land on what’s left of the runway.  Too late, I’m already too high and there isn’t enough pavement left.  I’ll have to take it around the pattern.  add a touch of power and climb to about 500′AGL for a little breathing room, keep the speed down and start to turn around nice and easy. Maybe the whole thing won’t break loose. Murphy lives in my hanger, the right side fasteners decide to release and the barn door is open.  The left side is holding so now the cowl is standing more or less straight up, held on by the left side fasteners.  The thing is angled perfectly to block my forward view.  Oh well, just fly the plane… OK, I’m downwind far enough that I can make a landing.  Ease it around, pull the power and glide it in.  Set it down easy while trying to look around the flapping piece of fiberglass wagging inches from the prop.  The mains touch. Pull the mix to stop the spinning cowl grinder.  The prop stops without nary a touch on the offending cowl.  Coast off the active onto the taxiway. Refasten the cowl and taxi back to the ramp. The postflight critique from the peanut gallery was positive.  An inspection revealed that the nylon bushing that retains the upper cowl pin was missing on the side that let go and was broken on the side that held on.  The rear fastener (the only thing that kept the whole thing from departing the airplane) was a little bent. The plane will fly with the cowl flapping in the breeze, it just wants to turn (I guess it’s like having a rudder on the wrong end). Now I just need to find replacement nylon bushings…and a fresh set of skivvies.  I can find the Fruit-of-the-Looms on my own.  Does anybody know where I can get the bushings?  The part number indicates that the bushing is part of the cowl plate assembly and have already sent off a quote request to Preferredairparts.  I does look like I should be able to get the nylon bushings separate.  Any ideas??? Mike PP-ASEL (temporary test pilot)

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The thing is angled perfectly to block my forward view.

Naturally! Oh well, just fly the plane…

Nice going, man!  :-)  (Sorry, I’m no help with the parts.)

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Well it happened today…I’ve logged about 200 hours since getting my ticket and was wondering when I was going to have a problem.  I guess today was my turn… Started my takeoff run in my Cherokee 180D.  Airspeed alive, gauges in the green, rotate normally. After several seconds, the picture out the front window doesn’t look normal. What’s that movement I see.  There it is again, either my seat is bouncing down or…no, this isn’t happening,…the front of the cowl is coming loose!!! Throttle back and try to land on what’s left of the runway.  Too late, I’m already too high and there isn’t enough pavement left.  I’ll have to take it around the pattern.  add a touch of power and climb to about 500′AGL for a little breathing room, keep the speed down and start to turn around nice and easy. Maybe the whole thing won’t break loose. Murphy lives in my hanger, the right side fasteners decide to release and the barn door is open.  The left side is holding so now the cowl is standing more or less straight up, held on by the left side fasteners.  The thing is angled perfectly to block my forward view.  Oh well, just fly the plane… OK, I’m downwind far enough that I can make a landing.  Ease it around, pull the power and glide it in.  Set it down easy while trying to look around the flapping piece of fiberglass wagging inches from the prop.  The mains touch. Pull the mix to stop the spinning cowl grinder.  The prop stops without nary a touch on the offending cowl.  Coast off the active onto the taxiway. Refasten the cowl and taxi back to the ramp. The postflight critique from the peanut gallery was positive.  An inspection revealed that the nylon bushing that retains the upper cowl pin was missing on the side that let go and was broken on the side that held on.  The rear fastener (the only thing that kept the whole thing from departing the airplane) was a little bent. The plane will fly with the cowl flapping in the breeze, it just wants to turn (I guess it’s like having a rudder on the wrong end). Now I just need to find replacement nylon bushings…and a fresh set of skivvies.  I can find the Fruit-of-the-Looms on my own.  Does anybody know where I can get the bushings?  The part number indicates that the bushing is part of the cowl plate assembly and have already sent off a quote request to Preferredairparts.  I does look like I should be able to get the nylon bushings separate.  Any ideas??? Mike PP-ASEL (temporary test pilot)

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Picture this Larry. 20 years ago at Christmas I am driving along on a beautiful summers day, in shorts, with my wife and kids headed to MILs place

We have those summery Christmas days out here in California, too. That’s a great story to keep kids from smoking. "See what happens to you when you do?" Congrats on not getting stung by something that large. I’d have settled for the burns, too, Smoky. Next time it happens, you might have SWMBO take the wheel while you take care of the bug, wot? P.S: Have you quit smoking yet? * Michelangelo would have made **  Website and Graphic Design   *  better time with a roller.  **    http://www.diversify.com

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He saw me with the rifle and looked puzzled.  I quickly yelled that I was going to kill some wasps.  He hollered back that I must be one hell of a shot.

Wonderful story – thanks. — Owen Lowe and his Fly-by-Night Copper Company Offering a shim for the Porter-Cable 557 type 2 fence design. <http://www.flybynightcoppercompany.com <http://www.easystreet.com/~onlnlowe/index.html

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I look down and my blood turns to ice – I see a 2.5" hornet between my (naked) thighs, thrusting its stinger around trying to sting whatever hit it. My wife tells me I tried to flick it away with my left hand, which unfortunately was holding a lit cigarette. I knocked part of the red-hot ember off the cigarette and onto my shorts, another part somehow managed to get lodged between two of my fingers in the webbing, causing excruciating pain.

Beautiful, just beautiful. Thanks for the morning chuckle. — Owen Lowe and his Fly-by-Night Copper Company Offering a shim for the Porter-Cable 557 type 2 fence design. <http://www.flybynightcoppercompany.com <http://www.easystreet.com/~onlnlowe/index.html

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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Joey Lowe writes: (snip) "What?"  As she ran out the room shrieking at the top of her voice, she = turned and shouted to me "Post Traumatic Syndrome".  No respect I tell = you.  lol Another piece of unasked for advice: when, eventually, something similar happens to your wife, right up through PTS, do NOT laugh.  It is appropriate for women to laugh at men in such situations, but if the reverse occurs, you are going to lose sleep wondering how she’s going to get even.  Note I said ‘how,’ not ‘if.’ Charlie Self http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/resume.html

Charlie,     Is this a case of DAMHIKT? Nahmie

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In article LOL – I hereby disavow any actual or implied kinship with posting waspfighter…

You’re the -smarter- cousin, eh? I got a pair of yellowjackets to do their thing to me when I was about 10. I found a china teapot in the trashcan and put it in my shirt pocket. A couple minutes later, it bit me. 3 times on the arm and 4 on the ribs. Since we didn’t know what would happen to me with all my allergies, the doctors had me strip down to my skivvies and jump into an entire bathtub full of ice after shooting me up with enough adrenalin to keep them from shooting horsed. Fortunately, I was not allergic and the ice bath didn’t quite kill me. Since then, those high-powered squirt cans specifically made for the wasp and YJs have been my friend. They shoot 20′ and you’re out of harm’s way before they start flying. Tell that to the cousin you’re in denial of, Owen. <gd&r * Michelangelo would have made **  Website and Graphic Design   *  better time with a roller.  **    http://www.diversify.com

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Joey Lowe writes:  My wife was = sitting nearby and fell over laughing when she saw my antics and heard = my explanation.  Of course, when she realized that I was not in the mood = for laughter, she looked me plainly in the eye and said to me, "Do you = know what they call what you just experienced?"  Of course, I said, = "What?"  As she ran out the room shrieking at the top of her voice, she = turned and shouted to me "Post Traumatic Syndrome".  No respect I tell = you.  lol

Another piece of unasked for advice: when, eventually, something similar happens to your wife, right up through PTS, do NOT laugh.  It is appropriate for women to laugh at men in such situations, but if the reverse occurs, you are going to lose sleep wondering how she’s going to get even.  Note I said ‘how,’ not ‘if.’ Charlie Self http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/resume.html

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Picture this Larry. 20 years ago at Christmas I am driving along on a beautiful summers day, in shorts, with my wife and kids headed to MILs place in Melbourne. I am cruising at 60 mph in a car built to do 140 (1974 Ford XB 351 V8 for the Oz guys) and really enjoying the ride. I crack the window maybe 1 or two inches to let some air in and smoke out (yes it will kill you – read on) and then I light up. Anyway, about a minute later there is a bang on the drivers side of the car and a pain in my chest; I think a bit and realise that something has hit the mirror and deflected into the car, hitting me in the chest. I look down and my blood turns to ice – I see a 2.5" hornet between my (naked) thighs, thrusting its stinger around trying to sting whatever hit it. My wife tells me I tried to flick it away with my left hand, which unfortunately was holding a lit cigarette. I knocked part of the red-hot ember off the cigarette and onto my shorts, another part somehow managed to get lodged between two of my fingers in the webbing, causing excruciating pain. As you have probably guessed, all h*ll broke loose.  I ripped off the seat belt and leaped up on the seat, trying to stomp on the hornet, which was beginning to come back alive in a big way. It started doing little loops in the seat, about 10-15" high. Every time I tried to stomp it, it jumped up. So here I was out of the seat with my a*se on the headrest headed down the freeway with the car on cruise control doing sixty, kids screaming, Karen hollering and other cars honking and swerving. I quickly decided that the hornet was less of a threat and should be sat-on until I could pull the car off the freeway. The hornet didn’t sting me and seemed to settle down for a minute. I think it knew that I had sat on the burning cigarette end that had fallen off my shorts when I jumped up. Anyway, as I am pulling off the freeway I am looking at the placid hornet but feeling a helluva pain in the a*se. So much so that I have to raise up in the seat and rub my butt along the seat back to try and dislodge whatever it was. Soon as I got off the freeway I slammed on the brakes and bailed.  We tried to find that hornet but we never could, believe me, I looked everywhere for that little b*st*rd. I turn up at the MILs place with a hole burnt in the front of my shorts, a burn in my sheepskin seat cover, burnt fingers and a burned a*se. Anyhow, I’m glad that I got to tell you this first because when SWMBO tells the story she makes it sound a lot worse than it was, she’d have you believe I was the one who did all the yelling while they were laughing – as if! cheers, Greg

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Picture this Larry. 20 years ago at Christmas I am driving along on a beautiful summers day, in shorts, with my wife and kids headed to MILs place in Melbourne.(Snippage of hilarious story)

Greg, coffee.     LOML is scared to death of Bumblebees, and we were riding on the expressway in my pickup on a nice summer day with windows down when a big fat bumble got in and lit on the lens of her sunglasses. The next thing I knew she was almost standing up doing this "war dance" on the floor of the truck, totally destroying her sunglasses which she had thrown on the floor to get the bee away from her. Got the truck stopped, she bailed out, and later had a good laugh. You know, we never did find that bumblebee, not even a smear where she might have stomped it to death. Nahmie

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About twenty years back, while I was still in Tennessee (a transplanted Yankee from NYC), I had to cut down an old tree because it was starting to rot out.  Unbeknownst to me there was a wasp nest in the tree.  Since I was cutting it down, I decided I could use it for firewood, too.  As I was cutting a piece with a chainsaw, the tree had already fallen, I noticed an itching on my arm.  I looked and it was covered in wasps.  Scared the bejezus out of me.  I threw the saw, ran like hell (I never knew I could clear the creek in a single leap before) with the buggers stinging me the whole way.  By the time I got to the house some were under my shirt, so I was stripping as I was running.  Old Mr. Carson, about 80, was across the road watching, somewhat amused by the scene.  A few minutes later I emerged, stung all to hell and I asked Mr. C what I should do, being a dumb NYer.  He told me of an old remedy, and after helping me with the stingers handed me a big plug of tobacco.  We started chewing and spitting into an old flowerpot full of dirt, making tobacco spit mud.  After we had enough he helped me apply it, and believe it or not it helped almost instantly. I wanted revenge, and prepared a Molotov cocktail.  I went around back, lit it, threw it, and it landed softly intact next to the tree, wick still burning.  I was pissed.  I went back to the house got my rifle intending to shoot the bottle.  (I lacked the guts or stupidity to go pick up the still burning bottle to re-throw it.)  By this point Mr. C was back in his front yard watching.  He saw me with the rifle and looked puzzled.  I quickly yelled that I was going to kill some wasps.  He hollered back that I must be one hell of a shot.  I got up on a rise where I could see the still burning Molotov cocktail, but from where Mr. C was, he could not see it..  I took careful aim, hit the bottle, and it blew into a giant fireball.  Proud that I had exacted my revenge I was returning to the house, when old Mr. Carson stood with a look of amazement on his face by the side of the road.  He smiled and simply said, "I gotta get me some o’ those high power Yankee bullets you use."  I never did tell him about the Molotov cocktail. Glen – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I had a similar experience a few years back, only black wasps <Major snip

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in Melbourne. I am cruising at 60 mph in a car built to do 140 (1974 Ford XB 351 V8 for the Oz guys)

Urh-urh-URRH!!!! ;-) I look down and my blood turns to ice – I see a 2.5" hornet between my (naked) thighs, thrusting its stinger around trying to sting whatever hit it.

Know exactly how you felt. Those things DO get agro and they are *incredibly* strong! Once I saw one kill a huntsman spider on the greenhouse.  It grabbed the dead spider and dragged it across the backyard, up the fence, over it and into the neighbour’s, across it and finally down the hole near the far fence! I followed it all along, out of sheer curiosity.  That’s about the same as any of us dragging a small car in our mouths for 2 miles, up and down a skyscraper! hornet was less of a threat and should be sat-on until I could pull the car off the freeway.

That is courage.  Tip my hat to you, sir!  I’d have blown out the window and bugger the consequences.  Many years ago a huntsman found its way into the dash of my Golf (Rabbit for the Yanks) and jumped on me. I jumped off the car in the middle of the highway.  The car crashed with the spider inside.  I was alone, thank God! I turn up at the MILs place with a hole burnt in the front of my shorts, a burn in my sheepskin seat cover, burnt fingers and a burned a*se.

I’ll bet you drew a few flying comments!   ;-D Anyhow, I’m glad that I got to tell you this first because when SWMBO tells the story she makes it sound a lot worse than it was, she’d have you believe I was the one who did all the yelling while they were laughing – as if!

Thaks for a great story.  You owe me another screen wipe, you know that don’t you?  ROFL! Cheers Nuno Souto

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Now what good is family (implied or actual) if they are going to disavow you in your time of need! (grin, wince) — Joey Lowe "Working towards perfection has to be a part of anything one does.  You’ve got to put yourself into it." … Sam Maloof rec.woodworking FAQs: http://www.robson.org/woodfaq – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – In article LOL – I hereby disavow any actual or implied kinship with posting waspfighter… — Owen Lowe and his Fly-by-Night Copper Company Offering a shim for the Porter-Cable 557 type 2 fence design. <http://www.flybynightcoppercompany.com <http://www.easystreet.com/~onlnlowe/index.html

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I had a similar experience a few years back, only black wasps and they were in a shed I needed to get in to! After getting stung twice, I put on a full face cycle helmet, heavy jacket, gloves, and a scarf wrapped around my neck to seal the bottom of the helmet! The nest was in the shed just over the door, so when you walked in they would get you.Dressed as I was they would swarm around me and were unable to do any damage. I bombed the nest with two cans of bug spray, from just a couple of feet away! Needles to say I won that battle! Greg

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Poor little critter.  All they were doing was eating the aphids from your garden and you go an kill em… My favorite way it to drag out my old pellet gun, sit back a respectable distance and pick them off the nest.  Lot’s of fun and improves your marksmanship.

Headed out to the shop this morning to finish some cabinets I started two days ago.  There I stood in front of the double doors preparing to unlock the same, when I glanced into the glass of another door that was leaned against the side of the shop and saw a reflection of a wasp nest about the size of my head hanging about 6 inches over my head and two feet to the rear.  The nest was alive with the sound of wasps and as I turned to lay my eyes on it, the wasps gave me their undivided attention.  Four stings and a twisted ankle later, I found myself sitting at my desk planning my revenge. I told the wife and kids to stay inside while I dealt with the menace.  So I grabbed the can of bug spray and headed back out to the nest.  I got to within three feet, reached up and sprayed.  The spray completely doused the nest, but none of the wasps succumbed.  Instead they decided to swarm me. So off I go running back into the house, this time with three additional stingers lodged in the back of my head.  I looked at the can and the spray I used was for spiders, not wasps.  I grabbed the right can and headed back out there because it was personal now.  My eleven year old son described the scene as follows.  He said I looked like a warrior, standing there as all the wasps buzzed around me and I shot them from the sky with my Raid.  He said at one point, I was actually spraying them with one hand and swatting others to the ground with my other hand and stomping them into oblivion. Anyway, my mission was accomplished.  All wasps were either killed or missing in action.  I claimed the hive as a souvenir.  Unfortunately, the wasp stings have caused my head and hands to swell somewhat, so the cabinets will have to wait until another day. — Joey Lowe "Working towards perfection has to be a part of anything one does.  You’ve got to put yourself into it." … Sam Maloof rec.woodworking FAQs: http://www.robson.org/woodfaq

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If you have kids coming up on a science project, you can wait till dark, put a plastic bag over the nest, cut it loose, and put it in the freezer. The kids can do cross-sections, showing the wasps in situ… djb —

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The art of negotation as practiced around the world is usually won by those with the biggist hammer. When it comes to wasps, yellow jackets, etc, me thinks the two fisted approach is best, say a bug bomb in each hand. On second thought, that equipment in some one elses hands while I watch from a safe distance with a cold beer, sounds even better <B/G. — Lew S/A: Challenge (Under Construction in the Southland) Visit: <http://home.earthlink.net/~lewhodgett for pictures There are no problems, only varying degrees of challenging opportunity

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You have fought the fight of the yellow banded foe and you have emerged triumphant. The beer in the fridge is yours, as is the soft end of the couch, and the TV remote. Use them all in good health, and live to fight another day….. Joey 1 Wasp 0 Rob — visit my web site: http://www.robswoodworking.com

Headed out to the shop this morning to finish some cabinets I started two days ago.  There I stood in front of the double doors preparing to unlock the same, when I glanced into the glass of another door that was leaned against the side of the shop and saw a reflection of a wasp nest about the size of my head hanging about 6 inches over my head and two feet to the rear.  The nest was alive with the sound of wasps and as I turned to lay my eyes on it, the wasps gave me their undivided attention.  Four stings and a twisted ankle later, I found myself sitting at my desk planning my revenge. I told the wife and kids to stay inside while I dealt with the menace.  So I grabbed the can of bug spray and headed back out to the nest.  I got to within three feet, reached up and sprayed.  The spray completely doused the nest, but none of the wasps succumbed.  Instead they decided to swarm me. So off I go running back into the house, this time with three additional stingers lodged in the back of my head.  I looked at the can and the spray I used was for spiders, not wasps.  I grabbed the right can and headed back out there because it was personal now.  My eleven year old son described the scene as follows.  He said I looked like a warrior, standing there as all the wasps buzzed around me and I shot them from the sky with my Raid.  He said at one point, I was actually spraying them with one hand and swatting others to the ground with my other hand and stomping them into oblivion. Anyway, my mission was accomplished.  All wasps were either killed or missing in action.  I claimed the hive as a souvenir.  Unfortunately, the wasp stings have caused my head and hands to swell somewhat, so the cabinets will have to wait until another day. — Joey Lowe "Working towards perfection has to be a part of anything one does.  You’ve got to put yourself into it." … Sam Maloof rec.woodworking FAQs: http://www.robson.org/woodfaq

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LOL – I hereby disavow any actual or implied kinship with posting waspfighter… — Owen Lowe and his Fly-by-Night Copper Company Offering a shim for the Porter-Cable 557 type 2 fence design. <http://www.flybynightcoppercompany.com <http://www.easystreet.com/~onlnlowe/index.html

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A valiant struggle… But next time, wait till dark. They’ll all be in the next asleep. ;-)

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Rob Stokes responds: You have fought the fight of the yellow banded foe and you have emerged triumphant. The beer in the fridge is yours, as is the soft end of the couch, and the TV remote. Use them all in good health, and live to fight another day….. Joey 1 Wasp 0

Uh, Rob, didn’t he say he collected at least 7 stingers first? Back when I painted houses for a couple summers to get through college, I learned, damned quickly, to do 2 things:  hit the little bastards at dusk; hit them with a spray can that gave a minimum 20′ twixt me and the little bastards.  A third thing I learned later:  always have 2 spray cans in case one is a semi-dud.  Those little notes haven’t kept me from getting stung over the years, but considering my years in yellowjacket heaven–also known as the South–I’ve come out pretty well. Charlie Self http://hometown.aol.com/charliediy/myhomepage/resume.html

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My eight year old grandson and I are in awe.     mahalo,     jo4hn and bryan (heal well) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Headed out to the shop this morning to finish some cabinets I started two days ago.  There I stood in front of the double doors preparing to unlock the same, when I glanced into the glass of another door that was leaned against the side of the shop and saw a reflection of a wasp nest about the size of my head hanging about 6 inches over my head and two feet to the rear.  The nest was alive with the sound of wasps and as I turned to lay my eyes on it, the wasps gave me their undivided attention.  Four stings and a twisted ankle later, I found myself sitting at my desk planning my revenge. I told the wife and kids to stay inside while I dealt with the menace.  So I grabbed the can of bug spray and headed back out to the nest.  I got to within three feet, reached up and sprayed.  The spray completely doused the nest, but none of the wasps succumbed.  Instead they decided to swarm me.  So off I go running back into the house, this time with three additional stingers lodged in the back of my head.  I looked at the can and the spray I used was for spiders, not wasps.  I grabbed the right can and headed back out there because it was personal now.  My eleven year old son described the scene as follows.  He said I looked like a warrior, standing there as all the wasps buzzed around me and I shot them from the sky with my Raid.  He said at one point, I was actually spraying them with one hand and swatting others to the ground with my other hand and stomping them into oblivion. Anyway, my mission was accomplished.  All wasps were either killed or missing in action.  I claimed the hive as a souvenir.  Unfortunately, the wasp stings have caused my head and hands to swell somewhat, so the cabinets will have to wait until another day. — Joey Lowe "Working towards perfection has to be a part of anything one does.  You’ve got to put yourself into it." … Sam Maloof rec.woodworking FAQs: http://www.robson.org/woodfaq

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Back when I painted houses for a couple summers to get through college, I learned, damned quickly, to do 2 things:  hit the little bastards at dusk; hit them with a spray can that gave a minimum 20′ twixt me and the little

bastards. I concur. Night time is the "right time" to zap them. Also, the specialized wasp sprays are great. What I find so funny is the fact that all of the cans prominently display how far away you can be and still get the job done ("Sprays up to 25 feet!!!!").Although not overtly mentioned, the clear implication is that you’re going to "spray-n-sprint". – Joe

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Like I’ve said before, the right "tool" for the job. I’ve had problems with yellow jacket nests in my yard but I have a great bee guy that dispatches them for a reasonable cost and no risk to my own self. Tom in Oregon – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Headed out to the shop this morning to finish some cabinets I started two days ago.  There I stood in front of the double doors preparing to unlock the same, when I glanced into the glass of another door that was leaned against the side of the shop and saw a reflection of a wasp nest about the size of my head hanging about 6 inches over my head and two feet to the rear.  The nest was alive with the sound of wasps and as I turned to lay my eyes on it, the wasps gave me their undivided attention.  Four stings and a twisted ankle later, I found myself sitting at my desk planning my revenge. I told the wife and kids to stay inside while I dealt with the menace.  So I grabbed the can of bug spray and headed back out to the nest.  I got to within three feet, reached up and sprayed.  The spray completely doused the nest, but none of the wasps succumbed.  Instead they decided to swarm me.  So off I go running back into the house, this time with three additional stingers lodged in the back of my head.  I looked at the can and the spray I used was for spiders, not wasps.  I grabbed the right can and headed back out there because it was personal now.  My eleven year old son described the scene as follows.  He said I looked like a warrior, standing there as all the wasps buzzed around me and I shot them from the sky with my Raid.  He said at one point, I was actually spraying them with one hand and swatting others to the ground with my other hand and stomping them into oblivion. Anyway, my mission was accomplished.  All wasps were either killed or missing in action.  I claimed the hive as a souvenir.  Unfortunately, the wasp stings have caused my head and hands to swell somewhat, so the cabinets will have to wait until another day. — Joey Lowe "Working towards perfection has to be a part of anything one does.  You’ve got to put yourself into it." … Sam Maloof rec.woodworking FAQs: http://www.robson.org/woodfaq

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In the future forget the bug spray!  Use your shop vac instead ! I have done this numerous times and I have had no stings. One time I duct taped the hose to my grapefruit puller to get near the roof. What is nice about the vac is that you can get them before they land on you. When it is all over, you will have all these wasp bodies laying in your vac! Jack

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I’m so glad that I was able to amuse everyone with my mishap. (grin)  To add insult to my injury, a little while ago I was sitting inside and all of a sudden I swore I heard a buzz and felt something fly by my ear (which by the way received a fair share of the stingers).  My wife was sitting nearby and fell over laughing when she saw my antics and heard my explanation.  Of course, when she realized that I was not in the mood for laughter, she looked me plainly in the eye and said to me, "Do you know what they call what you just experienced?"  Of course, I said, "What?"  As she ran out the room shrieking at the top of her voice, she turned and shouted to me "Post Traumatic Syndrome".  No respect I tell you.  lol — Joey Lowe "Working towards perfection has to be a part of anything one does.  You’ve got to put yourself into it." … Sam Maloof rec.woodworking FAQs: http://www.robson.org/woodfaq

Headed out to the shop this morning to finish some cabinets I started two days ago.  There I stood in front of the double doors preparing to unlock the same, when I glanced into the glass of another door that was leaned against the side of the shop and saw a reflection of a wasp nest about the size of my head hanging about 6 inches over my head and two feet to the rear.  The nest was alive with the sound of wasps and as I turned to lay my eyes on it, the wasps gave me their undivided attention.  Four stings and a twisted ankle later, I found myself sitting at my desk planning my revenge. I told the wife and kids to stay inside while I dealt with the menace.  So I grabbed the can of bug spray and headed back out to the nest.  I got to within three feet, reached up and sprayed.  The spray completely doused the nest, but none of the wasps succumbed.  Instead they decided to swarm me.  So off I go running back into the house, this time with three additional stingers lodged in the back of my head.  I looked at the can and the spray I used was for spiders, not wasps.  I grabbed the right can and headed back out there because it was personal now.  My eleven year old son described the scene as follows.  He said I looked like a warrior, standing there as all the wasps buzzed around me and I shot them from the sky with my Raid.  He said at one point, I was actually spraying them with one hand and swatting others to the ground with my other hand and stomping them into oblivion. Anyway, my mission was accomplished.  All wasps were either killed or missing in action.  I claimed the hive as a souvenir.  Unfortunately, the wasp stings have caused my head and hands to swell somewhat, so the cabinets will have to wait until another day. — Joey Lowe "Working towards perfection has to be a part of anything one does.  You’ve got to put yourself into it." … Sam Maloof rec.woodworking FAQs: http://www.robson.org/woodfaq

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Headed out to the shop this morning to finish some cabinets I started two days ago.  There I stood in front of the double doors preparing to unlock the same, when I glanced into the glass of another door that was leaned against the side of the shop and saw a reflection of a wasp nest about the size of my head hanging about 6 inches over my head and two feet to the rear.  The nest was alive with the sound of wasps and as I turned to lay my eyes on it, the wasps gave me their undivided attention.  Four stings and a twisted ankle later, I found myself sitting at my desk planning my revenge. I told the wife and kids to stay inside while I dealt with the menace.  So I grabbed the can of bug spray and headed back out to the nest.  I got to within three feet, reached up and sprayed.  The spray completely doused the nest, but none of the wasps succumbed.  Instead they decided to swarm me.  So off I go running back into the house, this time with three additional stingers lodged in the back of my head.  I looked at the can and the spray I used was for spiders, not wasps.  I grabbed the right can and headed back out there because it was personal now.  My eleven year old son described the scene as follows.  He said I looked like a warrior, standing there as all the wasps buzzed around me and I shot them from the sky with my Raid.  He said at one point, I was actually spraying them with one hand and swatting others to the ground with my other hand and stomping them into oblivion. Anyway, my mission was accomplished.  All wasps were either killed or missing in action.  I claimed the hive as a souvenir.  Unfortunately, the wasp stings have caused my head and hands to swell somewhat, so the cabinets will have to wait until another day. — Joey Lowe "Working towards perfection has to be a part of anything one does.  You’ve got to put yourself into it." … Sam Maloof rec.woodworking FAQs: http://www.robson.org/woodfaq

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Ok, I have been selling on ebay for over 1 year, there are certain things, I don’t understand, about buying and selling. I know there not hard, I’m not going to take a class, because 25 people have tried to explain it to me, some who own businesses.. I think im at the point, where I will not let myself understand, and what I dont get is easy. Anyway, I worry about this 4-6 hrs daily, I get horrible headaches, from always thinking about this. what can I do so I understand and stop fucking tortuing myself Justin

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Hi I actualy think about it 14-16 hrs a day, only time I dont is when Im thinking, and when I wake up the middle of the night and it bothers me

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Group: alt.support.ocd Date: Wed, Jun 27, 2001, 3:10pm (EDT+4) From: woodmer…@aol.com (Woodmere79) Ok, I have been selling on ebay for over 1 year, there are certain things, I don’t understand, about buying and selling. I know there not hard, I’m not going to take a class, because 25 people have tried to explain it to me, some who own businesses.. I think im at the point, where I will not let myself understand, and what I dont get is easy. Anyway, I worry about this 4-6 hrs daily, I get horrible headaches, from always thinking about this. what can I do so I understand and stop fucking tortuing myself Justin ==============—–=============== I’m an eBay seller too. I can help answer your questions if you’d like. Don’t drive yourself crazy worrying about something very simple dude. KrAzY k

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Has anyone suffered from vivid nightmares, and thoughts of violence while on serzone?? Im on seroquel, depakote, and serzone(2 weeks on serzone).Any comments appreciated.

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Not on Serzone, but that is one of the possible side effects of many medications.  I had disturbing nightmares when getting OFF of Paxil. Knowing what they are helps some, but maybe you should talk to your doctor about changing to something else, or adjusting the dosages of what you are taking.  Sometimes a very slight change is all it takes to get rid of unpleasant side effects. (and I would call that one UNpleasant) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Has anyone suffered from vivid nightmares, and thoughts of violence while on serzone?? Im on seroquel, depakote, and serzone(2 weeks on serzone).Any comments appreciated.

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Has anyone suffered from vivid nightmares, and thoughts of violence while on serzone?? Im on seroquel, depakote, and serzone(2 weeks on serzone).Any comments appreciated.

Get to your doctor RIGHT AWAY. This is not good….and you shouldn’t be feeling that way. I understand what you are saying….almost like "night terrors". From the PDR for depakote and seroquel, "nightmares" are BOTH listed, so it may be a ‘double-whammy’…making your nightmares even worse. Just make sure you *emphasize* this to your doctor or pdoc, as it is not only unhealthy, but leaves you feeling very uncomfortable and unrested during the day. There are a couple of different meds available out there to combat nightmares, and you may benefit by either a combo of them and your above meds, or a reduction in your above meds and a few of the other meds. Here is a list of conversation from "psychobabble", a board in which pdocs post:

I have found clonidine 0.1 mg nightly particularly useful for disturbing dreams. I am not aware of the mechanism involved. I have had excellent results with surprisingly low doses of imipramine in similar situations, and for the patient who does not abuse medications, sometimes a benzodiazepine like alprazolam or even diazepam in low doses is useful. Oxazepam combined with imipramine can also be a useful combination in many patients, particularly if oversedation is a problem. Venlafaxine will often lead to vivid dreaming. The period of time during which the increased dreaming happens is often limited to 60-90 days. After the dreams normalize, more than a few patients report that they miss having their "super dreams." While I have never prescribed it to control the vividness of dreaming, a number of patients who close to bedtime had taken cyproheptadine to overcome the sexual side-effects of venlafaxine or one of the SSRIs report that the cyproheptadine in addition to improving sex also reduced the vividness of dreams. I’ve often had good luck with trazodone for various sleep complaints with SSRIs, usually 25-200 mg HS. It probably augments, too, so I can’t be sure if it’s a separate effect or not. I frequently prescribe Tenex (guanfacine) 2 mg HS to my PTSD patients with nightmares with excellent results most of the time. I was told by a sleep researcher that it is a powerful suppressor of REM sleep. Others should be able to contribute what helps. I have read of people using a couple of older triciyclics, such as imipramine. Also, a longer acting benzodiazepine MAY help…but that is up to your doctor to decide. Best wishes…I feel your pain in the horror of living each day with haunting memories from nightmares. They often ruin the whole following day for me, just because they seem so "real". YMMV, IMHO, etc… James

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hi melissa, and trill, too :) just wanted to say we loved your post. and we love the kids and everybody else in this bunch, even those we find hard to like. it seems natural to do so to the usses. like everybody in a multiple bunch was needed to survive. so everybody deserves at least respect. and as people usually don’t turn out as multiples because they were loved too much, we try to make up for this ourselves. and the kids can be so cute and their look at the world can be so refreshingly new and different. yeah, how could we not love them? *shaking the head at your strange T* okay, gotta go & get some groceries Mischa’s Chaos – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hi Trill, I’m glad you’re back. Sara sounds neat. Tell her I said "hi" :)   I like all of my kids. The last tpst I had seemed suprised by this (?????) St*pid lady! I was shocked by her rxn. I felt almost like the mother of real life kids, with someone saying "You talk about them like you actually *like* them!" It was like I wanted to say "excuse me? is there some reason why you think I shouldn’t like my kids? I mean… is there some kind of fault you find with them that, by your standards, means I should not like them or that they’re not worthy of my respecting them and liking them and sharing and enjoying their lives???" Grrrrrrrrr! Things are complicated but I don’t dislike them! I mean, I know not everybody likes or feels comfortable with their inner kids, and that’s ok. But I *like* all of mine. I think they’re totally cool! They make me laugh with some of the stuff they say and do and think. Why the heck would someone else think it was "suprising" that I *liked* my kids???? Grrrrrrrrr! Still is making me angry! (not you! :) the old and very very very very FIRED tpst!) Anyway… what was I saying before my mini-rant? <g Oh yeah! I like my kids :) I think working with your kids can be fun. Communication can be tricky and weird when things are misunderstood, but once communication is better it’s like a lightbulb goes off and you think "aha! I get it!   -why didn’t ya just SAY so!? -oh… you were saying so? Well I didn’t get it before. How the heck was *I* supposed to know that that’s what that thing meant or that’s what you wanted???" ;) I’m glad you had some time to work with Sara and had a chance to work with her more closely. Sounds like you two had a really neat time :) -Melissa Melissa,     I like your story, too.     When I was at the hsptl, developing the longest lasting and most thorough coconsciousness I’ve had to date with Sara, a little girl part of me, she wanted to come out during "expressive thrpy."  We were told not to allow our kid parts out, though.  In an uncomfortable way, I think that rule facilitated the coconsciousness.  (I also think it could have been facilitated in a more generous way, ie: saying if kid parts want out, please keep an adult part present at the same time, which is what I ended up doing.)  Anyway, Sara just colored.  What she colored ended up looking exactly, Beauty, like a puddle of color.  However, the colors that Sara chose, just as I would have chosen, were all variations of blues and mixtures of blues and reds.  There were no reds, no oranges, no yellows, no greens.  No use of the primary yellow at all and no use of the primary red on its own at any time.     After Sara colored her puddle, I cut it up and used it to construct a mosaic of skin for a contour drawing self-portrait I had done.     The whole project made both Sara and me happy, not only with our artwork, but with our team work.  Sara like me to do stuff with her.   And, though I almost hate to admit it, I like Sara, and I like to do stuff with her, too. trill — "X-No-Archive: yes" is (hopefully) automatically included in the headers of all of my posts. Please write X-No-Archive: yes as the first line of any post replying to one of my posts. Thank you. :)

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Hi melissa :) )) – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – just wanted to say we loved your post. and we love the kids and everybody else in this bunch, even those we find hard to like. it seems natural to  do so to the usses. like everybody in a multiple bunch was needed to  survive. so everybody deserves at least respect. and as people usually don’t turn out  as multiples because they were loved too much, we try to make up for this ourselves. and the kids can be so cute and their look at the world can be so refreshingly new and different. yeah, how could we not love them? *shaking the head at your strange T* I agree with everything you said up above. The tpst liked my kids (I think!) We think it’s more like she saw the whole DID-ness thing as a hinderance, and why would we talk about a hinderance like we "liked" a part of it? She really didn’t understand a lot of what needed to be understood with us. Limited in her mind and her thinking. Well, that’s how it seemed to us anyway.

Seems so. Hehe, maybe that’s why they sometimes get called "simples"? *grin* Sometimes we really find it amazing how unimaginative t’psts can be … why should we regard something that kept us alive and which to the usses is basically the way we are a hinderance? *ts* ;-) ) I had a very difficult time with therapy and I once said I wished I were *more* dissociative so I could go to tpy, forget it and get on with my week ok, then come back to tpy and remember the last session but nothing in between so it would be as if I’d never left. (This was an ideal fantasy of course. In real life, this type of situation might cause lots of complications as well)

Still it doesn’t seem such an uncommon fantasy … plus, I (Mashora) usually insist I like t’py best if it’s not me who’ll show up for the sessions. *grin* But anyway, she thought it was odd that I was having a problem and that my fantasy was to be *more* dissociative  instead of less.

Hm, sounds like she doesn’t really understand dissociation. Like, I’ve never ever missed any important deadline in my entire professional life. I might not know which day of the week it is or have no clue where a new pair of shoes just came from while I was just realizing we need new shoes, and I’m sure an absolute mess when it comes to names – but I never ever forget things like the stories and the details of the stories students in my classes are working on. Sometimes it’s just a matter of priorieties, I guess. Btw, if you want to, you may try to ask your t’pist that if she thinks dissociation is "bad", does she also think it’s vital for a fulfilled life to be aware of every dish in your kitchen, of using it, cleaning it afterwards and putting it back into the drawer? ‘cuz I’ve nver understood why people think "I" should be aware of everything which happens in the outside world around me. I actually like the ability to focus on my writing so much I don’t have to realize how somebody else does the dishes, buys groceries, plays on the computer, listens to wild music or whatever while I’M inside working on whatever I’m working on. *grin* Well Duh! :P If she’d taught me how to handle things  better in a non-dissociative way I probably *would* prefer that, but since she wasn’t doing that and things were only causing more and more  problems, of COURSE I wanted to dissociate more!

Maybe. But as indicated above, I don’t think dissociation is always a problem. Though, of course, we all like to learn about new ways to handle things. It’s always nicer to have more options when it comes to dealing with things, especially the not-so-nice-variant of things. But she couldn’t figure out at all why I would *want* to be more dissociative under any circumstances. That was odd to her. Couldn’t grasp that at all.

Hm … maybe she should work some more on her imagination? *grin* Like I said… very very very very FIRED! ;)

Yup! :) ))) It’s a pity there’s no way you can give t’pists some first-hand exoeriences with dissociation and multiplicity from the inside. Oh well, okay, as artists, we’re working on that … but prolly that won’t do. ;-) Mashora & others of Mischa’s Chaos – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text –Melissa — "X-No-Archive: yes" is (hopefully) automatically included in the headers of all of my posts. Please write X-No-Archive: yes as the first line of any post replying to one of my posts. Thank you. :)

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I removed the posts trill was responding to, so I could remove spoiler. My comments are below. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – x-no-archive: yes Mashora, Other’s of Mischa’s Chaos, and Melissa,     When I was doing my discharge interview at the hsptl I told the social worker that I think that "clinicians" should listen more to what people who dissociate and split tell them about what we need in thrpy and how we want to progress.  She acted as if she were surprised by the suggestion. She said, "Well, you guys are usually very articulate.  But, do you think that I should also listen to what schizophrenics tell me they want and/or need when they articulately tell me that their appliances give them instructions to hurt someone?"     I was afraid to start in on all the mis-politics of that question, so I just stuck to the thing about dissoids.  I actually started talking to her about metasociation as a choice over *ntgrtion.     At first she argued that I was constructing a rationale to maintain dissociative barriers that I should be working on tearing down.  But as our debate proceeded and I explained that it seems to me that each alter in my system has hir own set of associations and that what I want to do is to be able to associate some of the association between different alters, at will, without necessarily having total association take place at all times; that I want to be in control, like using a library index, computer menu, or like conducting an orchestra or chairing/facilitating a community meeting that operates on a consensus model; that I want to maintain, probably (absolute verdict still out) the different alters in a cooperative system rather than blending them because each one, that I currently know of, can concentrate on different things than the others and it seems that the concentration is facilitated, at least in part, by the dissociation…                 Finally, the social worker said, "Well, you’ve convinced me. What you describe sounds like a viable process toward a good outcome. I think you should write it up and get it published.  And, it would be interesting to run into you in ten years or so and see how this all works out for you." Okay!  I really appreciated all of that.    A whole big bunch. trill

trill – I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this post and your "a story" post, describing an incident with someone you met in the hospital, and highlighting the different qualities of your respective difficulties with the world. But what I wanted to comment on was a thought I had in the shower this morning, about the social worker you refer to above.  What a plum job she has!  It sounds like she has left herself somewhat open to learning, and what a good place to do it.  In the hospital ping went to, the staff were required to participate in a delusional reality where DID did not exist.  They weren’t supposed to talk to "alters".  They certainly didn’t want to hear that if they wanted to talk to anyone, it had to be an alter, because there was no "crowned head" in sight.  The difficulties in deciding how to deal with that were left entirely to the patient to sort out.  (If you became impatient, there were drugs available.)  One or two of the younger staff appeared interested and might have liked to ask questions, but they were explicitly discouraged — only depression was to be treated. But the social worker who talked to you is allowed to ask questions and honestly consider what she hears.  It would be interesting to run into her in ten years or so and see how this all works out for her.  I hope she’s not just easily and superficially influenced by words. It sounds like you are in a very comprehensive period of learning.  I look forward to your stories. pong [I asked ping to review this for accuracy, and she said I should add that the nurses and paraprofessionals were discouraged from interacting with the patients, so it was cold and impersonal.  And this is supposed to help you.]

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Hello there! Seems so. Hehe, maybe that’s why they sometimes get called "simples"? *grin* Sometimes we really find it amazing how unimaginative t’psts can be … Hey!  I can be imaginative! why should we regard something that kept us alive and which to the usses is basically the way we are a hinderance? *ts* ;-) ) Bc it might be sometimes? Of course, I don’t consider it anymore a hindrance living with other TN members as I do living with other separate-bodied ppls. For me, it’s all basically the same.

Therefore, it doesn’t make sense to see it as a hinderance. I mean, anything can turn out to be a hinderance for a moment,right? Mischa’s Chais – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Sierra of TN

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Hello there! Seems so. Hehe, maybe that’s why they sometimes get called "simples"? *grin* Sometimes we really find it amazing how unimaginative t’psts can be …

Hey!  I can be imaginative! why should we regard something that kept us alive and which to the usses is basically the way we are a hinderance? *ts* ;-) )

Bc it might be sometimes? Of course, I don’t consider it anymore a hindrance living with other TN members as I do living with other separate-bodied ppls. For me, it’s all basically the same. Sierra of TN

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pong,     Thanks for you supportive response.  Since I’ve been hyperanxious today and switching like a squirrel’s tail, this attention to my progress and what was positive in my recent hsptl experience is perfect-timing encouragement.     The social worker to whom I refer in the "discharge interview" story is actually pretty great.  I had a good and helpful-to-me relationship with her throughout my stay.  She is insightful and engaging and respectful.  She did talk with my alters.  She conducted comprehensive interviews with me when I arrived, spending 2 1/2 hours in private discussion with me.  Also, she is the same one who presented the effective "hope" polemic to which I referred in a dialogue with e.  As far as her remark about listening to schizophrenics goes, well, I chalk that up to nobody being perfect.  In fact, she did listen to me.  I also witnessed her listening and actually hearing others in group sessions.     I want to reiterate that I found most of the staff at The Center to be excellent.  They were compassionate, respectful, well-educated about trauma and post traumatic emotional and cognitive consequences.  They understood DID.  Most of them interacted with us in age and education and professionally appropriate ways even though I’ve written here about the romper-roomy "expressive t" and the private t whom I fired.  I think it is significant that I was permitted to fire her, or terminate our relationship. The nurses and psych techs circulated in friendly, non-threatening, non-authoritative ways among the patients.  All of us were kept at all times on 15 min. checks, but those checks were conducted with such respect and tact that they never seemed intrusive.  In fact, at all times it felt so much as if we were all, the entire team of clinicians, the nursing and tech staff, the interns and externs, the housekeeping and dietary staff, and the patients, equal members of a cooperative community that I used to tease the nurses and psych techs about how lucky they were to get paid to be patients.  And, they laughed about it.  In fact, one of them said to me, "You know it’s true, and I think that I should get paid per day the seem thing that you pay per day to stay here."  Everyone laughed.  Another silly moment that was fun for us was when a nurse named Peg wore a beautiful, deep purple dress, while being on medication duty.  I joked that "Purple Peg is pushing pills.  That’s alliterative."  One of the psych techs said, "Yes it is, but it certainly isn’t poetic."  Again, everyone laughed.  Also, nobody ever pulled rank.  Like, the nurses would never refuse to help a patient check out sharps or get some of her food — stuff kept at the nurses station because it was in "sharps" containers.  Meds weren’t handed out on strict but arbitrary schedules.  The med nurses worked with the patients, for example, on sleeping meds according to when each individual patient chose to go to bed.  If a med nurse was on a break when someone needed a p.r.n. or a sleeping med, another nurse would get the stuff.  All of that was totally different from Sheppard Pratt where nurses and psych techs refused to get sharps for us unless their name was on the board as our contact.  Likewise they refused to talk to us unless they were our assigned contact for that shift.  And, if the med nurse was on a break, a patient was forced to wait for a p.r.n. no matter what the problem was.  Most of the nurses and psych techs, whom I referred to as young fascists, at Sheppard Pratt, spent most of their shifts hanging out in a back room of the nurses station reading stuff like National Enquirer and gossiping with each other.     The weekend crew at The Center was less than the praising description of above, but most of them were "rented," so to speak, from the floating staff of the hsptl at large.  And really, since not much happened on weekends besides on group per day, which was conducted by the regular "clinicians" anyway, and visiting hours, we patients could just sorta put up with the lower quality of care.  And it wasn’t as if the weekend nurses and techs were mean.  They just didn’t have the time to get to know us, so they were distant.  Also, they weren’t particularly trained in dealing with trauma stuff.  Usually, however, somebody from the regular crew was on board during the weekend and that made a difference, even if it were only one of the psych techs.     Like I said earlier, people were there from all over the country.  I recommend that ping research the possibility of using this place should she ever feel a need to do some intensive work in the future.  The place was designed for people who dissociate.  Check out the web site and all of the articles it links to.  I think you will be more impressed. see ya, trill p.s.  Your time seems to make sense to me.  That is pretty good, since most of the day time didn’t make sense at all, proven by the fact that it is currently 3:32 a.m. the next day and this is the first time I’ve been able to concentrate enough to write anything.  (I enountered a few triggers between yesterday and today that I had trouble gaining control over.)

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I removed the posts trill was responding to, so I could remove spoiler. My comments are below. x-no-archive: yes Mashora, Other’s of Mischa’s Chaos, and Melissa,     When I was doing my discharge interview at the hsptl I told the social worker that I think that "clinicians" should listen more to what people who dissociate and split tell them about what we need in thrpy and how we want to progress.  She acted as if she were surprised by the suggestion. She said, "Well, you guys are usually very articulate.  But, do you think that I should also listen to what schizophrenics tell me they want and/or need when they articulately tell me that their appliances give them instructions to hurt someone?"     I was afraid to start in on all the mis-politics of that question, so I just stuck to the thing about dissoids.  I actually started talking to her about metasociation as a choice over *ntgrtion.     At first she argued that I was constructing a rationale to maintain dissociative barriers that I should be working on tearing down.  But as our debate proceeded and I explained that it seems to me that each alter in my system has hir own set of associations and that what I want to do is to be able to associate some of the association between different alters, at will, without necessarily having total association take place at all times; that I want to be in control, like using a library index, computer menu, or like conducting an orchestra or chairing/facilitating a community meeting that operates on a consensus model; that I want to maintain, probably (absolute verdict still out) the different alters in a cooperative system rather than blending them because each one, that I currently know of, can concentrate on different things than the others and it seems that the concentration is facilitated, at least in part, by the dissociation…                 Finally, the social worker said, "Well, you’ve convinced me. What you describe sounds like a viable process toward a good outcome. I think you should write it up and get it published.  And, it would be interesting to run into you in ten years or so and see how this all works out for you." Okay!  I really appreciated all of that.    A whole big bunch. trill trill – I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this post and your "a story" post, describing an incident with someone you met in the hospital, and highlighting the different qualities of your respective difficulties with the world. But what I wanted to comment on was a thought I had in the shower this morning, about the social worker you refer to above.  What a plum job she has!  It sounds like she has left herself somewhat open to learning, and what a good place to do it.  In the hospital ping went to, the staff were required to participate in a delusional reality where DID did not exist.  They weren’t supposed to talk to "alters".  They certainly didn’t want to hear that if they wanted to talk to anyone, it had to be an alter, because there was no "crowned head" in sight.  The difficulties in deciding how to deal with that were left entirely to the patient to sort out.  (If you became impatient, there were drugs available.)  One or two of the younger staff appeared interested and might have liked to ask questions, but they were explicitly discouraged — only depression was to be treated. But the social worker who talked to you is allowed to ask questions and honestly consider what she hears.  It would be interesting to run into her in ten years or so and see how this all works out for her.  I hope she’s not just easily and superficially influenced by words. It sounds like you are in a very comprehensive period of learning.  I look forward to your stories. pong [I asked ping to review this for accuracy, and she said I should add that the nurses and paraprofessionals were discouraged from interacting with the patients, so it was cold and impersonal.  And this is supposed to help you.]

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I meant, so I could remove the x-no-archive, not a spoiler. I hope I’ve finally got my clock right. pong

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Hi Gary thanks for all your comments below. I have re-read them many times, to get in touch with your message. As i mentioned previously, I have seen similar things happen in other ng’s where people set up false handles etc. Some ng’s people present prevocative statements and scenarios to glean how others might react. The reason I thank you for your comments is this, you have delivered  indications of the way regular and genuine people would or might react or respond to such events, also you have given good indication of the extent of your outrage about it, thus reminding me how outraged we all should be when presented with such activity….indeed how outraged i myself should be. But as someone said here, the path to something or other is paved with forgiveness. Mostly, my advice to any who might experience such outrage, why put yourself thru that? Although it wasn’t my intention to deliver you such outrage, and you have ascribed to it more energy than was necessary for the actual event, especially in the light of some of the more major crap and baloney that I have seen in ng’s. Man! if you had seen some of that then you might certainly have good reason for outrage and for good reason. anyway It is of little real time value to ourselves to allow others to retain that type of influence over our own personal ‘beingness’ that contributes to erosion of our spirit. Gary our spirit is too personal and too prescious …even sacred…. to allow such erosion, move away from whatever is eroding it and move on….whatever it takes. That’s the only advice I can give, it may not be of any help at all. Morine In article <3a71fa7e.68207741@News>,   js…@YUCHhome.com (Jeremy’s Dad) wrote: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Morine, > >> >Okay, now I’m *REALLY* lost.  Are you saying you posted the original > >> >message under the Sad Sack handle? > >yep > >inventive eh? > Inventive?  I see it more as childish, manipulative and rude. > >It was an interesting experiment. > How nice, I (and others here) get the pleasure of serving as some kind > of lab rat.  Next experiment, please consider asking me if I want to > participate?  You’ve heard of "informed consent" I’m sure?  If you > were truly looking for my opinion, be courageous and mature enough to > ask for it. > No problem except that your "different approach" in this experiment > counted on dishonesty and manipulation.  That hardly reflects the > respect you imply in many of your posts. > >several reasons > >taking a new approach can:- > >make life interesting > >create diversions > For me, it created a great deal of confusion.  An first time comes in > blasting with a provocative statement without having been heard of > before.  No context, no explanation, just insults.  It caused me to > spend a lot of energy trying to figure out what was going on. > >open new possibilities for communication > Statements including "whassa madda,  can’t think for yourselves" and > "Going to let others dictate and bully you around?"  are a new way of > communicating?  I can’t see how. > >take a peak behind facades > HUH?!  *YOU* created the Sad Sack facade…. > >etc etc etc > >I’m sure you people can think of other possibilities. > Yes, the statement "If that’s the case then you just plain don’t > deserve a ng, obviously the ptsd issue is not as close to your hearts > as you all think." makes me wonder at how incredibly hurtful people > can be to each other.  What I *don’t* deserve is PTSD.  As for being > close to my heart, that’s not the problem.  It’s close to ruining my > life. > >yes I know, us kiwis can be annoying, > >that’s what makes us unstoppable. > Being annoying makes people unstoppable?  I disagree.  Being > determined and ambitious makes people unstoppable.  Posting > manipulative, provocative messages such as this one results in me > being angry and hurt.  I have had the pleasure of knowing only one > "Kiwi" that I am aware of and I can assure you she hasn’t ever taken > such an unpleasant approach to "communicating". > >we’re open to taking a new approach if methods are no longer working. > What exactly is it that is not "working"?  What is the grand design > you would have us follow?! > Morine, I can’t imagine what would have prompted you to post such an > inflammatory message and don’t much care.  I have enjoyed much of the > comments you have made and even if I wasn’t in agreement with all of > them, you presented them honestly, openly and respectfully.  This > ambush just plain sucked and none of us deserved it. > Gary

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> As i >mentioned previously, I have seen similar things happen in other ng’s where >people set up false handles etc. >Some ng’s people present prevocative [sic] statements and scenarios to glean how >others might react.

The ststement you made under your false identity wasn’t provocative. It was rude and hurtful. >you have given good >indication of the extent of your outrage about it, >thus reminding me how outraged we all should be when presented with such >activity….indeed how outraged i myself should be.

And yet somehow, it doesn’t seem to bother you at all. You were the instigator of the behavior. >But as someone said here, the path to something or other is paved with >forgiveness.

(Malaprop man to the rescue…) ‘The road to hell is paved with good intentions.’ >Although it wasn’t my intention to deliver you such outrage,

Maybe you would like to clarify your intention? Pain? Shame? Humiliation? >and you have >ascribed to it more energy than was necessary for the actual event, >especially in the light of some of the more major crap and baloney that I >have seen in ng’s.

Oh. Well as long as it’s not as bad as other stuff you’ve seen, I guess it’s okay then. but you leave the door open to receiving some pretty awful treatment for yourself. I’ve seen some people treat others in ways that were criminal at best. Where would you like to start? (For anyone who isn’t clear, that was sarcasm.) Risa Legal Notice: Receipt of this message constitutes your unconditional acceptance of agreement with all terms, conditions, conclusions and opinions, either expressed or implied, as interpreted by the author without further clarification.

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>It is of little real time value to ourselves to allow others to >retain that type of influence over our own personal ‘beingness’ >that contributes to erosion of our spirit. >Gary our spirit is too personal and too prescious [sic]…even sacred…. >to allow such erosion, move away from whatever is eroding it >and move on….whatever it takes.

Yes Gary. Morine, writing as sad sack, treats everyone here like crap, but those of us who are hurt by that should just move on. That sounds very much like hearing someone tell me to get over it because it’s not happening now and it wasn’t really that bad. Sounds like more fertilizer. Just my opinion. Risa Legal Notice: Receipt of this message constitutes your unconditional acceptance of agreement with all terms, conditions, conclusions and opinions, either expressed or implied, as interpreted by the author without further clarification.

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RisaCaitlin <risacait…@aol.comet> wrote in message

news:20010131213002.27520.00000244@ng-cg1.aol.com… > > As i > >mentioned previously, I have seen similar things happen in other ng’s where > >people set up false handles etc. > >Some ng’s people present prevocative [sic] statements and scenarios to glean > how > >others might react. > The ststement you made under your false identity wasn’t provocative. It was > rude and hurtful.

Thank you for your adequate expression of impact > >you have given good > >indication of the extent of your outrage about it, > >thus reminding me how outraged we all should be when presented with such > >activity….indeed how outraged i myself should be. > And yet somehow, it doesn’t seem to bother you at all.

what measure did you use to determine this >You were the instigator > of the behavior.

depends onthe context > >But as someone said here, the path to something or other is paved with > >forgiveness. > (Malaprop man to the rescue…) ‘The road to hell is paved with good > intentions.’

Similar notion to "No good deed goes unpunished." Clare Boothe Luce That might depend on premeditation and also deliberation, prior intention, and also mental projection of an action. But also i notice so many people today seem to carry with them something akin to the notion you have expressed. The idea that we shouldn’t have good intentions or commit good deeds, I guess because the populace might fear there is nothing in it for them personally, and most people are concerned they’ll get sucked in somehow. sad really > >Although it wasn’t my intention to deliver you such outrage, > Maybe you would like to clarify your intention? Pain? Shame? Humiliation?

Please advise the penance you would wish superintendant > >and you have > >ascribed to it more energy than was necessary for the actual event, > >especially in the light of some of the more major crap and baloney that I > >have seen in ng’s. > Oh. Well as long as it’s not as bad as other stuff you’ve seen, I guess it’s > okay then. but you leave the door open to receiving some pretty awful treatment > for yourself.

oh well >I’ve seen some people treat others in ways that were criminal at > best. Where would you like to start? (For anyone who isn’t clear, that was > sarcasm.)

well what would you suggest suitable sacrifice befitting the *crime* in this case? and I’m not being sarcastic, that is a fair question I believe, sarcasm is largely unecessary really. Morine Morine – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Risa > Legal Notice: Receipt of this message constitutes your unconditional acceptance > of agreement with all terms, conditions, conclusions and opinions, either > expressed or implied, as interpreted by the author without further > clarification.

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RisaCaitlin <risacait…@aol.comet> wrote in message

news:20010131213833.27520.00000246@ng-cg1.aol.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >It is of little real time value to ourselves to allow others to > >retain that type of influence over our own personal ‘beingness’ > >that contributes to erosion of our spirit. > >Gary our spirit is too personal and too prescious [sic]…even sacred…. > >to allow such erosion, move away from whatever is eroding it > >and move on….whatever it takes. > Yes Gary. Morine, writing as sad sack, treats everyone here like crap, but > those of us who are hurt by that should just move on. That sounds very much > like hearing someone tell me to get over it because it’s not happening now and > it wasn’t really that bad. Sounds like more fertilizer. Just my opinion. > Risa

well fullogg me then, I’ll just get out my lil cat’o'9 and you can all line up merry meet ;-) Morine

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Morine wrote: >Please advise the penance you would wish superintendant [sic]

You seem really angry. That’s the second post I’ve seen you ask for some sort of penance. You’ll have to work out your own. I can’t control you. I can only tell you how your behavior hurts me and hope you care. It seems like you don’t care whom you hurt or how. >well what would you suggest suitable sacrifice befitting the *crime* in this >case?

Sensitivity training? I wonder what brought you to this newsgroup in the first place and what you get by being here. Risa "Just because you have silenced the messenger, you have not changed the truth of the message." – e. sue blume

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RisaCaitlin <risacait…@aol.comet> wrote in message

news:20010203085054.27451.00000963@ng-cg1.aol.com… > Morine wrote: > >Please advise the penance you would wish superintendant [sic] > You seem really angry.

nope not actually. You seemed extraordinarily angry and outraged, so I thought i’d take the worst case scenario, to locate what exactly you need to satisfy the outrage you appeared to be demonstrating. Honey I’m sure you have lived thru enough to  realise that anyone who allows ng’s to anger them is doing themselves dis-service, I fail to imagine why people would allow the shenanigans of ng’s to inspire real anger. When people got so much going on in real life that _should_  inspire *real* anger. >That’s the second post I’ve seen you ask for some sort > of penance. You’ll have to work out your own. I can’t control you. I can only > tell you how your behavior hurts me and hope you care.

If any of my posts were directed at you personally then I could understand it, But i have intentionally levelled no criticism at you personally so it goes back to intent. > It seems like you don’t > care whom you hurt or how.

and how have you determined this? from one post entitled "sad sack"? I am surprised that you make this remarkable statement. I have posted 213 posts here in the past few weeks, from what i have gathered you appear to be making your judgement * not based *  on the *collective being* of  those 213 posts, but rather on 1 post……(or something else perhaps?) Have you checked out the possibility of any healing value of some of my posts. I think you are talking about something deeper, bigger  here Now unless you (or someone else) are prepared to come out of the woodwork and *up front * state exactly   *what is expected*   with out any invasive (perhaps behind the scenes) games and agendas, then I continue to disregard this *victim* – *blame-the-vicitim* paradigm. that’s bullshit ! and I say that without anger….and also not intended to flame, or to inflame. it just is > >well what would you suggest suitable sacrifice befitting the *crime* in this > >case? > Sensitivity training?

man !! hehe big grin ;-) i had so much *sensitivity* training you wouldn’t believe….hehe trained to so sensitive ….allert….. to others…… to the needs of others …… ready to react at a moments notice….. step to the unpredictability. Trouble with hypersensitivity, we lose  our own selves. it’s taken away from us, everything gets taken away from us, to a point where it just don’t matter any more….hey !! take everything! it don’t matter ! Gets to a point where somethings taken/stolen doesn’t matter, they must need it more than I/we. You would know that. >I wonder what brought you to this newsgroup in the first > place

because it’s there. we need to analyse this? oh I don’t know, someone emailed me ther word ‘ptsd’ and it’s been in the media. I read the literature and hey presto ! >and what you get by being here.

who knows it just is Morine – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Risa > "Just because you have silenced the messenger, you have not changed the > truth of the message." – e. sue blume

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>You seemed extraordinarily angry and outraged, so I thought i’d take the >worst case scenario, to locate what exactly you need to satisfy the outrage

This is really interesting. There is another poster here who deflects obsevations by saying everyone else is angry. >Honey I’m sure you have lived thru enough to  realise >that anyone who allows ng’s to anger them >is doing themselves dis-service,

First, my name isn’t honey. Second, you haven’t been here long enough to have a clue what I’ve lived through. Third, a newsgroup couldn’t anger me. A person’s behavior could. >I fail to imagine why people would allow >the shenanigans of ng’s to inspire real anger.

Interesting. This newsgroup isn’t ’shenanigans’ to me. It’s real people with real problems and real feelings .>If any of my posts were directed at you personally then I could understand >it,

I think it was seeing my name at the beginning of the post that must have thrown me. >I have posted 213 posts here in the past few weeks, from what i have >gathered you appear to be making your judgement >* not based *  on the *collective being* of  those 213 posts, >but rather on 1 post……(or something else perhaps?)

Must be the ‘intent’ you refer to on a regular basis. I interpret your intent based on the responses you post here. This is the same m.o. that another (new) poster here has been using. "I only did it once and you shouldn’t be angry because this isn’t really real life, so it doesn’t count." >Now unless you (or someone else) are prepared to come out of the woodwork >and *up front * state exactly   *what is expected*   with out any invasive >(perhaps behind the scenes) games and agendas,

Do you mean evasive? If so, I believe the group expectations continue to be stated, by myself and others here, on a regular basis. Perhaps Cloud Dreamer will post the url to the FAQ again so you can read it at your leisure. >You would know that.

And you would know this how? >because it’s there. >we need to analyse this? >oh I don’t know, someone emailed me ther word ‘ptsd’ >and it’s been in the media. I read the literature and >hey presto !

This sounds so much like another new poster here. What does that mean, you read the literature? Are you just hanging out here because you found the place and you want to have PTSD? If so, you’re welcome to mine. I’d rather not have it. You seem to be able to find a plethora of resources on the net, as evidenced by the volume of posts you make telling everyone about the wonderful sites you’ve found. You seem very capable of assessing and advising people about what they need to recover. (Again, just like another new poster here. The similarities are striking. Hmmm.) I guess I have some new information about you to consider. It’s almost like your twin is here and you’re mirroring each other. Risa "Just because you have silenced the messenger, you have not changed the truth of the message." – e. sue blume

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Risa, have I mentioned to you how nice it is to see you writing and making your prescence felt and appreciated? I am glad you feel well enough to correspond, take care,stay healthy, John De

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RisaCaitlin <risacait…@aol.comet> wrote in message

news:20010204000017.27805.00001223@ng-mn1.aol.com… > >You seemed extraordinarily angry and outraged, so I thought i’d take the > >worst case scenario, to locate what exactly you need to satisfy the outrage > This is really interesting. There is another poster here who deflects > obsevations by saying everyone else is angry.

and you are referring to? > >Now unless you (or someone else) are prepared to come out of the woodwork > >and *up front * state exactly   *what is expected*   with out any invasive > >(perhaps behind the scenes) games and agendas, > Do you mean evasive? If so, I believe the group expectations continue to be > stated, by myself and others here, on a regular basis. Perhaps Cloud Dreamer > will post the url to the FAQ again so you can read it at your leisure.

Yes thank you Cloud Dreamer delivered some helpful ideas in another thread….request retracted. > You seem to be able to find a plethora of resources on the net, as evidenced by > the volume of posts you make telling everyone about the wonderful sites you’ve > found.

well it’s easy really just utilise the search engines. and I beilieve if we find interesting websites, there’s no harm sharingthem, in fact several have been referred to by other posters and they have been of significant interest. people helping people >You seem very capable of assessing and advising people about what they > need to recover.

actually no I haven’t done that anywhere here, if you can find a post where i have advised any one person wabout what they particularly need for recovery then please advise, I’d be interested to see it. > (Again, just like another new poster here. The similarities > are striking. Hmmm.)

referring to whom? thanks for your comments Morine

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>Risa, have I mentioned to you how nice it is…

Thanks John. How are you doing? Risa "Just because you have silenced the messenger, you have not changed the truth of the message." – e. sue blume

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>Thank you for your adequate expression of impact

i think you received many "adequate" expressions of impact.  you just choose to ignore them and selectively reply to those that you can try to come up with a snappy reply to and thus avoid the real issue. >Please advise the penance you would wish superintendant

hey risa!!  you got  a new title too.  perhaps you get letters after your name also?? =)

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>nope not actually. >You seemed extraordinarily angry and outraged,

based on some of your posts, you too morine seem fairly angry.  i think sad sack was an appropriate name for you to choose.   there were quite a few people here who told you how your actions impacted them.  you chose to run rather than deal with it. >I have posted 213 posts here in the past few weeks

and all that means is that you are prolific-nothing more.   >I think you are talking about something deeper, bigger  here

definitely and i am very surprised it took you this long to figure that out. posting and conversing with people even on a newsgroup requires a sense of trust.  the fact that you come onto a newsgroup like this and post with the apparent lack of regard for trust as you did indicates an ignorance of the very basics of ptsd as well as an indifference to the people you are posting to. >then I continue to disregard >this *victim* – *blame-the-vicitim* paradigm. >that’s bullshit !

yes, it is and that’s why you were confronted on your post.  you tried to put us in a victim role and we aren’t willing to go there.  if we were, no one would have said anything to you. >i had so much *sensitivity* training you wouldn’t believe…

might be time for a refresher course then because it obviously didn’t stick.

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>ROTFLMAO, glad I wasn’t drinking my coffee when I read that line! >Rick

Yeah, cause then you’d have Post Traumatic Scorched D… Risa "Just because you have silenced the messenger, you have not changed the truth of the message." – e. sue blume

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>ROTFLMAO, glad I wasn’t drinking my coffee when I read that line!

me too.  i wouldn’t want that on my conscience =)

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Hello. Question–does anyone know if research is being done into the field of Depersonalization and it’s possible causes.  I’ve suffered with it for nearly 30 agonizing years, but only found out "what it was" thanks to the Internet (some people here on this group). There is some intriguing evidence of DP being brought on by hash, or LSD, but I’ve done neither, but I think I can safely say I know what "a bad trip" must feel like. Injury to the head?  Post traumatic syndrome? Any info would be appreciated

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Question–does anyone know if research is being done into the field of Depersonalization and it’s possible causes.  I’ve suffered with it for nearly 30 agonizing years, but only found out "what it was" thanks to the Internet (some people here on this group). There is some intriguing evidence of DP being brought on by hash, or LSD, but I’ve done neither, but I think I can safely say I know what "a bad trip" must feel like. Injury to the head?  Post traumatic syndrome? Any info would be appreciated

Hi :) I am going to give you a link to a good site on depersonlization. There is alot of info at this site as well as a very active message board. I hope you can find some answers!! http://depersonalization.hypermart.net/further.htm Take care, Jackie

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In article <BRe06.631$Im4.46…@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,   "Karen Mc Bride" <Karen.McBr…@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > My brother’s appendix burst and he was on the respirator for 10 days. After > he came off of the respirator he started exihibiting schzophrenic > behavior…he saw things not there, he heard things no one else did, he > talked to people not there, imagined things happening to him. > Can a traumatic experience bring this on? Have you ever heard of this > before?

I know four people who all show similar symptoms – that have been variously classified as atypical manic depression, schizophrenia, phobic anxiety, and so on, whose "mental problems" began after being hospitalized with peritonitis. Archibald Hepelthwaite Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

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In article <BRe06.631$Im4.46…@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, Karen Mc Bride <Karen.McBr…@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > My brother’s appendix burst and he was on the respirator for 10 days. After > he came off of the respirator he started exihibiting schzophrenic > behavior…he saw things not there, he heard things no one else did, he > talked to people not there, imagined things happening to him. > Can a traumatic experience bring this on? Have you ever heard of this > before?

Sounds more like the after effects of a traumatic physical event. What used to be called Delerium. If your brothers appendix burst, he probably got Peritanitis, a massive poisoning of the entire system incl the blood. Confusions, halucinations, etc might well be expected, till he fully recovers his health. Medicine must have advances since my appendix "nearly" burst. At the time the docs said if it had burst even as they were removing it in an operating room with docs all around, I would have died. Your brother is very lucky. Take care. sp

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"Karen Mc Bride" <Karen.McBr…@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:BRe06.631$Im4.46917@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net… > My brother’s appendix burst and he was on the respirator for 10 days. After > he came off of the respirator he started exihibiting schzophrenic > behavior…he saw things not there, he heard things no one else did, he > talked to people not there, imagined things happening to him. > Can a traumatic experience bring this on? Have you ever heard of this > before?

Karen, some of the soldiers that returned from Vietnam developed psychotic symtomology due to their exposure to the hell of their traumatic experiences in their tour of duty. Please note that once their tour of duty was over, they received minimal assistance from the government of the time. Thankfully these days the authorities at least make a more genuine attempt to help these affected veterans. Your brothers problems may stem from a Post Traumatic experience from the invasive surgery. Or he may be manestfesting psychotic behaviour for the first time, brought on by the trauma of the procedure. Limbo ps- I hope your brothers condition improves before the medical profession starts initiating psychiatric treatment.

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"Spiritus" <spiri…@sanctus.org> wrote in message

news:201220002325102732%spiritus@sanctus.org… > In article <BRe06.631$Im4.46…@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, > Medicine must have advances since my appendix "nearly" burst. At the > time the docs said if it had burst even as they were removing it in an > operating room with docs all around, I would have died. > Your brother is very lucky.

I”ve heard of Two other cases of peritinitis "burst appendix" where the patients have survived against "all odds" people who have been given 0% survival chance.  One was my mother in her teens, the other was a member of my sect.  I have not heard of anyone I _know_ die from appendicitis.  Odd.

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I have a friend who had malaria and almost died as a result. When she got physically a bit better she became delusional and thought she had left the hospital and experienced all sorts of things while she had only been in her bed, and I think she also had hallucinations. I think it was diagnosed a delirium, but she refers to it as psychosis. Anyway, she fully recovered, and certainly doesn’t suffer from sz. A delirium is rather common after for example a physical illness or trauma like surgery, more so for elderly people than young people however. Annelies Karen Mc Bride <Karen.McBr…@worldnet.att.net> schreef in berichtnieuws BRe06.631$Im4.46…@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> My brother’s appendix burst and he was on the respirator for 10 days. After > he came off of the respirator he started exihibiting schzophrenic > behavior…he saw things not there, he heard things no one else did, he > talked to people not there, imagined things happening to him. > Can a traumatic experience bring this on? Have you ever heard of this > before?

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I  forgot to say she was in her twenties and it also happened when she got off the respirator. Karen Mc Bride <Karen.McBr…@worldnet.att.net> schreef in berichtnieuws BRe06.631$Im4.46…@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> My brother’s appendix burst and he was on the respirator for 10 days. After > he came off of the respirator he started exihibiting schzophrenic > behavior…he saw things not there, he heard things no one else did, he > talked to people not there, imagined things happening to him. > Can a traumatic experience bring this on? Have you ever heard of this > before?

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they are not delusions the mind works to find solutions, this inevetably leads to insight, of an ultimate reality. fundamental truth delirium is a state of enhanced mental functioning.

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"JGCPP" <jg…@aol.com> wrote in message

news:20010101041725.19168.00000951@ng-fo1.aol.com… > they are not delusions > the mind works to find solutions, > this inevetably leads to insight, of an ultimate reality. fundamental truth > delirium is a state of enhanced mental functioning.

Delirium eh The best dose of delirium in its TRUE SENSE was when I was closing in on death from Meningitis as a kid. Enhanced mental functioning my arse!!!!!!! Find some other medical terminology for your poetry, that ones to serious & often occurs prior to permanent damage or death. Limbo

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->"JGCPP" <jg…@aol.com> wrote in message >news:20010101041725.19168.00000951@ng-fo1.aol.com… >> they are not delusions >> the mind works to find solutions, >> this inevetably leads to insight, of an ultimate reality. fundamental >truth >> delirium is a state of enhanced mental functioning. >Delirium eh >The best dose of delirium in its TRUE SENSE was when I was closing in on >death from Meningitis as a kid. >Enhanced mental functioning my arse!!!!!!! >Find some other medical terminology for your poetry, that ones to serious & >often occurs prior to permanent damage or death. >Limbo

delirium? what??? delirium what is delirium

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"Limbo" <obmil2…@hotmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3a420d3f@iridium.webone.com.au… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> "Karen Mc Bride" <Karen.McBr…@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message > news:BRe06.631$Im4.46917@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net… > > My brother’s appendix burst and he was on the respirator for 10 days. > After > > he came off of the respirator he started exihibiting schzophrenic > > behavior…he saw things not there, he heard things no one else did, he > > talked to people not there, imagined things happening to him. > > Can a traumatic experience bring this on? Have you ever heard of this > > before? > Karen, some of the soldiers that returned from Vietnam developed psychotic > symtomology due to their exposure to the hell of their traumatic experiences > in their tour of duty. > Please note that once their tour of duty was over, they received minimal > assistance from the government of the time. > Thankfully these days the authorities at least make a more genuine attempt > to help these affected veterans.

Really – Please do tell me about it?? (British war pensioner no. fm7856 – war psychosis – in receipt of 92 pounds monthly penions – severly abused and driven out of the country after taking up the role of whistle-blower relating too illicit activities within the military command. Labelled as "mentally ill" after being worked into the ground for years with double split shifts – justified against the mil. own medical advisors on the grounds of "exigience of the service" – largely excluded from employment etc  etc. Perhaps you are relating too the young soviet veterans? – Back in the late 70’s I met some soviet youth/social workers at an (- associated with the thentime <old-> Labour Party) social club in London Earls Court. When I had related a little of the social exclusion and the inedaquacy of financial and other provision for the British war disabled – the soviet young youth/social worker was clearly shocked and found this difficult to fit into her own observations of the relative general wealth of London society.  Asking her what she found so strange – she said that it was hard to imagine such poor treatment of military disabled veterans – considering that the problem in the USSR tended to be more that the disabled military veterans got so many privaliges – free train passes and cheaper accomodation – guaranteed job access etc that that occasionally civilian non-disabled workers would express thier envy or disgruntlement at the percieved favoured position of disabled war veterans.  Considering that this statment was partly positive and affirmative of Soviet societly and at the same time admitting that there were real social tensions – I was supprised at it especially considering that there were a number of obvious adult minders accompanying the group.  The young woman who I must admit I was pretty keen on – even smiled and explained when I asked her about one of these "gooks" stood near the bar watching all of us intensly – with the rather plump question "So is here – over there – from the KGB!?" – she replied – "Oh goodness no – far too intelligent and sociable – he must for sure be GRU!" – and then went on to tell me the story about the ex KGB General and the ex GRU (military intelligence..) General – sat in the senour citizens club and debating the various attributes of "- our great national Newspapers!" The KGB guy asks the GRU pensioner -"You military guys were always a bit better informed than we where –  so which of the great national newspapers is the best Borish – the Pravada or the Isvestia?" – After thinking about the qeustin for some minutes – the GRU fella responds with "Well it comes down to this – While for rolling your own cigarettes – the Isvestia burns much more consistantly – but the great paper of the party Pravda – is by far softer and so better suited for use in the toilet!"  -  A sence of realtiy returned to the situation when I noticed that she did actually give the guy at the bar a rather nervous glance as she finnished the joke. Perhaps it helped that while she was Russian and we were in London – the language we were speaking was German. ron b. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Your brothers problems may stem from a Post Traumatic experience from the > invasive surgery. > Or he may be manestfesting psychotic behaviour for the first time, brought > on by the trauma of the procedure. > Limbo > ps- I hope your brothers condition improves before the medical profession > starts initiating psychiatric treatment.

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>Delirium eh >The best dose of delirium in its TRUE SENSE was when I was closing in on >death from Meningitis as a kid. >Enhanced mental functioning my arse!!!!!!! >Find some other medical terminology for your poetry, that ones to serious & >often occurs prior to permanent damage or death. >Limbo

typo

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Sorry JGCPP, must have been having one of those days. Will try to control the impulsive responses. Limbo "JGCPP" <jg…@aol.com> wrote in message

news:20010105101907.14089.00000027@ng-fl1.aol.com… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >Delirium eh > >The best dose of delirium in its TRUE SENSE was when I was closing in on > >death from Meningitis as a kid. > >Enhanced mental functioning my arse!!!!!!! > >Find some other medical terminology for your poetry, that ones to serious & > >often occurs prior to permanent damage or death. > >Limbo > typo

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In article <BRe06.631$Im4.46…@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,   "Karen Mc Bride" <Karen.McBr…@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > Can a traumatic experience bring this on? Have you ever heard of this > before?

– Many causes for schizophrenia, but there is a direct link between trauma and SZ. why you will see Nam vets pushing shopping carts and talking to the wind. people who go into shock for whatever reason can also go into altered states, but can not pigeonhole anything becaue of the variety of causes, will even see charasmatic people who place themselves into altered states and have the same symptoms as those who have spaced out for other reasons, brain just too complex to come up with simple solutions and all the experts have to admit that they havn’t even scratched the surface to see just how complex and awesome the brain is, but can short circuit on us and not so easy to fix.  Crazy Lou  http://www.grizzadam.com/nam/homepage.html http://www.grizzadam.com/nam/images/skepticsaward.wav Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/

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My brother’s appendix burst and he was on the respirator for 10 days. After he came off of the respirator he started exihibiting schzophrenic behavior…he saw things not there, he heard things no one else did, he talked to people not there, imagined things happening to him. Can a traumatic experience bring this on? Have you ever heard of this before?

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I don’t think the complete cause of sz is understood, but many people believe that stress can trigger it in susceptable individuals. I think combat stress in wars often triggers it. I had my first psychotic episode a few months after I left home to take a job for the first time. Walt Karen Mc Bride <Karen.McBr…@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:BRe06.631$Im4.46917@bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> My brother’s appendix burst and he was on the respirator for 10 days. After > he came off of the respirator he started exihibiting schzophrenic > behavior…he saw things not there, he heard things no one else did, he > talked to people not there, imagined things happening to him. > Can a traumatic experience bring this on? Have you ever heard of this > before?

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