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   XPost: alt.consciousness, alt.magick   
   From: hg@iki.fi   
      
   565  writes:   
      
   > On Jun 19, 9:47 pm, HG  wrote:   
   > > 565  writes:   
   > > > On Jun 18, 4:58 pm, "Ato_Zee"  wrote:   
   > > > > > > If they, the "voices",   
   > >   
   > > > > You best course is to seek professional advice.   
   > >   
   > > > Which professionals? The ones that will prescribe mind-numbing drugs   
   > > > with atrocious side-effects?   
   > >   
   > > What would you want the doctors to do?  Pat a patient in the head and send   
   > > him home?   
   > >   
   > > If they had drugs or other effective cures without side-effects, *of   
   > > course* they would prefer to use them.  But they don't, so they can't.   
   > >   
   > > "You have cancer.  You'd have a good chance to be cured with   
   > > chemotherapy, but we won't give it to you, because it has atrocious   
   > > side-effects, like your hair falling out.  So, sorry.  You better put   
   > > your affairs in order and say good bye to your loved ones."   
   > >   
   > >                 HG   
   >   
   > You´re right, anything that alleviates suffering is fine. But I am   
   > talking about alleviating the causes of suffering, not the symptoms.   
   > BTW have you ever tried the drugs that they prescribe? I have, and   
   > through personal experience I can tell you that, although they help me   
   > to sleep, they didn´t stop the cause of my problem.   
      
      
   Oh, I have tried the drugs they describe.   
      
      
   The main problem I have with my health is my allergy.  When I was a kid,   
   antihistamines were crude - effective, but with lots of nasty side effects.   
   They would cure my allergy, all right, but also make me extremely drowsy,   
   like taking a sleeping pill.  As a result, I decided that suffering from   
   allergy was preferable to taking allergy medication.   
      
   But nowadays, there are a bundle of working antihistamines that do not affect   
   the central nervous system at all.  I cheerfully take a pill every day during   
   spring and summer, and am a lot better off for it.   
      
      
   But on the other hand, if I had cancer and were prescribed chemotheraphy, I   
   would certainly take it, even with the awful side effects it has.  I mean, an   
   allergy just means a perpetually runny nose and itching skin, not a painful   
   and lingering death.   
      
      
                   HG   
      
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