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Mental Health Support

TexasBushwhacker

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15. Yeah, I had a problem with Kurt, Hemingway and Van Gogh being in there

Reply to Denninmi (Reply #14)

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 11:20 PM

Jan 2013

because they all killed themselves. Not something you want to aspire to. I also have trouble with posthumous diagnoses like Beethoven, Dickens, and Michaelangelo. Unless they specifically spent time in an asylum like Van Gogh, or wrote of their troubles like Churchill, it's really just speculation.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] seaglass Nov 2012 OP

Thank you for bringing this libodem Nov 2012 #1

it's good. i like it. mopinko Nov 2012 #2

I grew up in a world where mental illness was something to hide, to keep in the closet. hunter Nov 2012 #3

Hunter... haikugal Dec 2012 #4

I've heard of people who take meds, get therapy... hunter Dec 2012 #5

LOL haikugal Dec 2012 #6

Um, a lot of that sounds awfully familiar to me... Denninmi Dec 2012 #8

Honestly, I vacillate about these lists. Denninmi Dec 2012 #7

Something regarding the attitudes of others towards mental illness. Denninmi Dec 2012 #9

Well, I do bathe and eat and all that, but Jamastiene Dec 2012 #10

I can't say for sure whether it would be best to do that or not, but Jamastiene Dec 2012 #11

I liked it. Quantess Dec 2012 #12

Not sure. Separation Dec 2012 #13

I caught that, too. Denninmi Dec 2012 #14

Yeah, I had a problem with Kurt, Hemingway and Van Gogh being in there TexasBushwhacker Jan 2013 #15