Re: If you're feeling bad atm please read this :o)

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote in
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Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:
Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote
Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rowland McDonnell) wrote:
Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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wrote:
Mandy <mandy2uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]

If they can then surely someone can
tell you where you can go to get medical treatment?

Yes, I am required to go to my GP. Except that I'm not capable
of doing so, and I'm banned from the premises (no reason given)
and I'm banned from contacting my GP (no reason given).


Can you change your GP or is the one you can't see the only one in
your area?

No way of doing that. The single surgery in my area `sacked' me
(again, no reason given, no idea what brought it on; I think I was
maybe costing them too much. My GP was on holiday when it
happened, which means their actions were against regs and possibly
illegal). If you approach a GP out of area, they just say that
they're not permitted to take on patients out of area - which is a
lie, and if you put in a formal written complaint about what they
said, they lie again and say that they didn't say that but come up
with another excuse as to why they won't consider taking on any
patients from out of area.

Have you thought about taking legal action over what happened?

As I've already explained, I cannot get a solicitor to get involved.


Could you explain it again to this dumbo please? Or let me know which
thread the explaination is in so that I can see for myself?

[snip]

it's
not right that you're left with no medical bods! :o(

Correct, but so what?

So there must be *someone* on your side?

My wife. No-one else. She has a full time job and has proven unable
to get me access to any of the help I need.


What about the Citizens Advice Bureau?

There is no hope. Hope is a killer. My only hope is to
abandon all hope - if that makes sense. I can live if I
accept that every day is meaningless, empty, misery with
no point and no reason with nothing to do and no purpose
in life. I can live like that. That's all I have.

How about doing something to give you something to look
forward to
each day?

Eh? I've no idea what you could be thinking of. *DO*
something? How? Have you no idea just how incapable I am?

You're not incapable, you're ill! :o)

Eh? I'm incapable /because/ I'm ill.

Have you thought about getting alternative treatments like
hypnotherapy and things like that?

Nothing could convince me to pay any private mental health
treatment. As far as I can figure out, the field is mostly a scam
for ripping off vulnerable people. I base my comments on having
met some private mental health therapists (yes, plural) and seen
'em in action. Just as bad as the old-fashioned Freudian
psychotherapists - although modern techniques are different.
Freudian psychotherapy is utterly discredited, but it's been
replaced by the equally bad (for pretty much the same reasons)
psychodynamic therapy.


Not private mental health stuff but things like hypnotherapy and NLP
and things like that?

What are you on about?


I'm on about alternative treatments that don't involve medical doctors
:o)

I have no access to NHS services. I will not pay for a private mental
health therapist because I trust none of them.


I'm not saying you should, just that there are other options open to you
that might work y'know?

[snip]

As I've tried to explain, I cannot do so for all sorts of
reasons. Nor do I think I'll find any useful books. There seems
to have been no decent technical documentation published in the
last two decades. Books on computer stuff - /modern/ such books
- are almost impenetrable to me. I'm quite happy with
old-fashioned formal technical manuals, but I can't get anywhere
with the modern stuff. All of it's written and structured far
too badly for me to make coherent sense out of it. `Applescript
for Dummies' is the single most annoying technical book I've
ever wasted my money on, for example. Utterly useless for
learning anything as far as I'm concerned.

I've got no idea what any of these are like, but how about this
page http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mac-OS-Missing-Manual-
Tiger/sim/0596009410/2/ref=pd_sexpl_s_b/203-6082089-6923107?ie=UTF8
&pf=book - is there anything on there that might help?

The `Missing Manual' series is a prime example of `totally crap
modern computer documentation'. It does in any case not contain
much that's of use. I have an earlier edition of the book you
cite.


Ah right! How about these then or are they the same
http://amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_nr_seeall_6/203-6082089-6923107?ie=UTF8
&rs=&keywords=Mac%20%2B%20advanced&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AMac%20%2B%20advanc
ed% 2Ci%3Astripbooks

Please stop it. You've no idea what manuals I might find useful if I
were capable of doing anything with them, but I'm not.

I don't want to buy more computer books. I have no use for them.


Okey dokes :o)

No, if I were going to produce a Web site, I'd look at on-line
sources and try to learn a bit more HTML, then I'd get on and
write it. <shrug>

You could try Bravenet... they've got all sorts of add-on things
and you can build your own site as you go as well as learning
html?

The problem has nothing whatever to do with the technicalities of
producing a Web page, but the problems of producing worthwhile
content.


You know lots of stuff that could be a great source of information to
those less knowledgeable than you!

Indeed I do. But it's slowly falling out of my head and there's
nothing I can do about that at all. As I've explained many times, I
am incapable of producing a Web page that's worth putting on the Web.


So write a few notes just for you then... not necessarily a webpage but
pen and paper sort of writing :o)

What part of that do you not understand?

It seems to me that you're not really reading what I write, given that
you keep banging on about the same things which I've told you are out
of the question.


I read everything you say but my memory lets me down :o(

But I am not capable of producing a worthwhile Website at the
moment. Nor is there anything I'd be interested in putting up on
a Website aside from some information about motorcycle
maintenance - the bits I've picked up that don't seem to be in
the books. But don't suggest that I do it because I've already
tried and failed in utter, hopeless, suicidal despair.

Okey dokes! :o)

Every time I've attempted something like that and failed, it's
driven me deeper down into the pit of despair. So for the sake
of maintaining what's left of my mental health, I've stopped
making such attempts - and that is because they have proven
harmful to me, okay? So please stop suggesting that I do
something like that. I've tried, and it's done me nothing but
harm.

I'm sorry that things like that have done nothing but harm you
:o(

<shrug> That's life.

It shouldn't have to be though :o(

<shrug> The Nazis shouldn't have slaughtered millions of people
simply for being Jewish or gypsies or whatever, but they did. Worse
things happen in the world. Pol Pot was doing his mass-murder spree
when I was a youngester.


There are lots of things that shouldn't have happened but did :o(

Talking about `it' with people who understand - well,
that's not possible. No-one understands my position, so
it seems. Certainly I just get attacked by a bunch of
slavering hounds in this newsgroup f I should open my
mouth, don't I?

Rowland.

I'll listen if you mail me off the group! :o)

I thought you wanted no more email from me.

Huh? When did I say that?

Inference based on lack of reply.

I have replied!

If so, your reply didn't arrive.

I'm really starting to not like Windows Mail!

It's written by Microsoft. What else can one expect except poor
performance? However, do you have any record of when the email was
sent? It's not impossible that it might have got lost in transit.


I'd reply again if your messages hadn't been deleted when I replied to
them :o( Send them again and I'll reply again :o)

Send both emails to me again and I'll reply as soon as I
get them :o) For some reason Windoze Mail deletes anything you
reply to
:o(

Why do people buy MS software at all, I wonder? There's got to be
*some* way to turn that idiotic behaviour off - are you sure that
it deletes the emails rather than moving them to a different
folder/directory/whatever?

If it does, I don't know which folder it gets moved to! :o(

[snip]

You could try doing a search, and also asking on a different newsgroup
to see if someone can tell you how to stop it being stupid like that.


OK, I'll see if I can work out how to subscribe to a newsgroup now...
Steve was the one that set up Xnews for me so I don't know what he did!
:o(

Rowland.


--
Stay Safe
Mandy
Money talks, chocolate sings

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