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Shivani:
Quote from: laeshanin on 2005 September 04, 10:56:05
Regarding diet, I work with this lad who is autistic, hyperactive (I mean, hanging off the ceiling by his toes stuff and wall of death!),learning disability and also on a restrictive diet: no gluten, no dairy (casein intolerant). Some bright spark let him have a bag of doughnuts...I swear to all that's holy if I find out who I will put their organs in a vice.
Celiac disease? Nasty. Mum has that and keeps trying to convince me I also have it (even though I've been checked, and wasn't that an uncomfortable experience). Of course, if she eats anything with gluten, she's in one sort of agony or another within an hour, though I understand the more immediate effects differ from person to person.
Mind you, if that is why the guy is gluten-restricted, whoever fed him doughnuts really ought to be smacked. CD can kill you if you don't adhere to the restriction.
I was put on beta blockers once as a preventative measure for migraines--what a mistake. They turned me into the meanest bitch within a couple of weeks, so I stopped taking them and went back to stuff like Fiorocet (now Imatrex). I've also noticed some of the drugs to help you sleep (prescription) can really change a person's personality for the worse as well.
SimsHost:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 September 03, 18:26:47
Sensory channels frequently malfunction. I myself hallucinate on a regular basis. But do you know how I deal with this? Simple. I ignore it! They're hallucinations, they're not real. There is no hair-haired toothy monster that is chewing my leg off. The room is not on fire and there are no strobing lights. It's just an equipment malfunction. It's not really there. Nothing is wrong. Ignore, ignore, ignore. Why's this such a hard concept to grasp?
I was thinking more of situations where the inputs from the sensory channels are real. Even a low-level threat, such as an abusive parent (or self-inflicted abuse such as watching CNN or trying to get the quotes to come out right when replying to a SMF message), can permanently damage a human brain if the abuse is repeated daily for several years.
In the case of ignoring false inputs, you're assuming that the person has a fully functional reasoning capacity backed up by an IQ sufficient to overcome the impulses being fed to the cerebrum from that little lizard brain stem we all have. Based on the number of people who actually seek to watch CNN and figure out how to get quotes to work in a Simple Machines Forum, I would conclude that this is not a valid assumption for the general case. ;D
Well, seriously, I know folks who suffer from all sorts of strange psychological phenomena such as agoraphobia and panic attacks. (And, oddly, I've met most of them through the Sims community. There's probably a master's thesis in pshrinkology in that fact alone, for someone who cares to pursue it.) A few years ago I wouldn't have known what people were talking about when they brought up these things, but I can't deny the first-hand experience that demonstrated to me that these syndromes are very real.
These problems can be overcome, but in every case I know of, only with external help. The brain is too damaged to deal with the problems on its own.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: Shivani on 2005 September 04, 14:38:33
I've also noticed some of the drugs to help you sleep (prescription) can really change a person's personality for the worse as well.
If people are having trouble sleeping, they should do what I do. Don't!
Now, if somebody you really *WANT* to go to sleep isn't sleeping, I suggest the classic approach involving a sock, sand, and some metal pellets, like shot or BBs. Fill the sock with the sand and pellets. Apply to back of head liberally. Repeat until unconciousness results. Problem solved.
veilchen:
Well JM, most of us don't have your cast-iron stomach to ingest caffeine in its raw form; so the only alternative for us is to try and get some sleep, preferably without application of physical force :D.
But as far as dietary concerns go, I agree. All these food items with high chemical content can't possibly be good for a child. And I'm not even speaking of the bad habit of junk food ingestion, and the seemingly ever-present soda. Doesn't anyone ever read what goes into that stuff? My friends (and my kids) hate going grocery shopping with me - before it goes in the cart, I read the label very carefully, while my daughter stands around with a stance and an expression that only 16 year olds can somehow obtain. That is, until I had her read the ingredients in some of the stuff. Now she is just as careful as I am. We prefer fresh, and if we can't get it fresh, we buy frozen.
Oh how I miss my mother's huge garden and the fruit trees. I swear, everything she plants grows, even tomatoes, and that is quite a feat in our climate.
Shivani:
Quote from: J. M. Pescado on 2005 September 04, 22:44:50
If people are having trouble sleeping, they should do what I do. Don't!
Now, if somebody you really *WANT* to go to sleep isn't sleeping, I suggest the classic approach involving a sock, sand, and some metal pellets, like shot or BBs. Fill the sock with the sand and pellets. Apply to back of head liberally. Repeat until unconciousness results. Problem solved.
Nonono. I don't like violence unless it involves shooting intruders. Now if only I knew where hubby stored his guns...
Actually, he was prescribed Valium once for vertigo. I found it kind of odd that a tranquilizer could also have such negative effects.
As far as sleep goes, Insomnia is my middle name. I just live with it.
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