On 6/14/2014 11:43 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/14/14, 11:32 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 6/14/2014 9:43 AM, F*O*A*D wrote:
On 6/14/14, 8:31 AM, Poquito Loco wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:43:14 -0700 (PDT), Tim
wrote:

Very interesting article and well worth the read...

http://www.sott.net/article/279716-N...t-isnt-weapons




Quite interesting. I doubt if many psychiatrists would like reading
this. It could a bunch of drug
pushers out of business.


Your assumption that mental health professionals are unaware of how some
people react badly to psychotropics is another indicator of your general
ignorancw.



I think mental health professionals should start studying the impact of
the lack of physical human interaction caused by cell phones, texting,
emailing and social media networks.

Humans are social creatures and require the non-verbal body language
inputs gained by physical, personal communication. We've become a
society of zombies, relying on text messages to communicate, often being
totally misinterpreted.

Many people, especially young ones, don't know how to deal with
adversity or problems because they lack the personal and physical
interaction with others.

Einstein had it right:

http://firsttoknow.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Technology_Einstein.jpg







There's a world of medical literature and research on the problems
created by isolation from society. Old causes and new causes, such as
those you mention.

It's common in literature, too, e.g., the works of Camus, Beckett,
Dostoyevsky, and in the works of Durkheim. Beckett's Waiting for Godot
is worth a read, if you are interested in what happens to people who are
so disconnected, they cannot do much of anything.




The problem I have with all that Harry is that psychoanalysis remains a
very inexact science, IMO (recognizing that I am not in anyway qualified
to judge). Sure, statistics are kept and theories abound but they are
constantly changing or being replaced with new theories.

It's basic common sense to me that when human beings have limited
exposure and direct interaction with others in a social environment they
are going to have difficulties understanding or dealing with issues that
involve others.

In our days of youth we pretty much knew who to avoid, who to challenge,
who to hang with or whatever due to our personal and physical
relationships. It's unlikely either of us would go up to the biggest,
strongest, meanest jock in our class and call him an asshole. We'd
probably get our blocks knocked off.

Threats or violent tendencies today are isolated by virtue of being
words on a screen. We witness it here in this newsgroup from time to
time. People make threats to others with absolutely no idea who they
are talking to, what the person is like, how big they may be or whatever.

I relate the same thing to the violence we read about everyday and the
attempts to apply mood altering drugs to kids who would be perfectly
normal if you took their cell phones away and had them join a youth
baseball team or something to occupy their time, learn to interact with
others and, learn that sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.