Social Anxiety Disorder
…and what you should know.
I have recently contracted a mild case of the swine flu.
This resulted in me attended the GP's office where they have a range of LOVELY reading material.
While browsing the wall displaying pamphlets there were several topics to choose from; teen pregnancy, HIV and you, so your old...what will happen next etc, I found a pamphlet on Social Anxiety Disorder.
Now, I'll add the disclaimer that yes, SAD (get it??) is a serious disorder that affects 15%
of the population (according to the pamphlet) however, I'm still allowed to mock it.
If you suffer from one or more of the following, you could have social anxiety disorder:
1. Self Conscious
2. Fear
3. Disturbed sleep
4. Irritability
5. Fatigue
OR you could maybe just be....ALIVE. Hello...everyone suffers from those above conditions.
If you didn't YOU'D BE DEAD.
But it goes on.
Do you have a fear of the following?
1. Speaking to authority figures
2. Dating
3. Using public toilets
4. Public speaking
5. Exams
You could be suffering from Social phobia disorder. OR YOU COULD BE ALIVE.
I researched this topic a little further. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) apparently is a social anxiety disorder as well.
Now I kid you not the following is a list of "obsessions" from the Anxiety Australia website
Common obsessions include:
1. Thoughts of contamination (e.g. 'Will I catch AIDS from shaking hands?')
2. Repeated doubts (e.g. 'Did I leave the door unlocked, Did I turn off the light')
3. Need for orderliness (e.g. get distressed when pictures are crooked, objects are untidy)
4. Aggressive impulses (e.g. thoughts of killing one's child or hurting oneself)
5. Sexual imagery
Let me just go over that list and point something out.
THOUGHTS OF KILLING ONES CHILD.
OMG what the hell??
The way people "deal" with these obsessions is to develop compulsions to "drive the evil demons away".
Obsessions include:
1. Checking
2. Washing
3. Ordering
4. Requesting or demanding reassurance from other people ( e.g. 'Did I lock the door
Again, all the signs of BEING ALIVE. I don't know about you, but I wash, keep things in order, check that I have locked the door before I go to bed etc however I don't have THOUGHTS OF KILLING MY CHILD(not that I have one).
Another compulsion taken from Anxiety Australia is:
PRAYING.
That's right, those billions of people out there worshipping a god as part of organized religion are actually mental (and most likely dream of killing their children).
So from what I can deduce if you exhibit the following signs:
1. Respiration
2. Conscious thought
3. Have family
4. Have friends
Then you are AILVE.
...and also have social anxiety disorder.
Consult your local GP.
-ms
Mini blog
So it's time for another blog, however there is nothing I find irritating or incredulous.
I should go on a rant about the media and how they are not reporting on anything of interest, but that's been done before.
I could go on a rant about how there are stoopid people in the world and they annoy the hell out of me, but it's been done before.
I could go on a rant about why I'm better then Dane (I still am) but it's been done before.
So people, I'm left with nothing.
Maybe I've become apathetic with life? Maybe this is the great depression people talk about? However I feel fine. I'm not depressed, I like my life.
Maybe that's my problem? Maybe I've learnt the art of filtering out all the crap in the world and learnt to be happy with the things I can't control?
However it makes me sad to think that I could do that. There are things beyond my control that I should be angry about (war, the price of internet, the lack of fairy bread in my life). I don't want to become a vapid self involved person.
Maybe I've learnt to deal with the fact that people are douches and there is nothing I can do to change that? No amount of subtle suggestions are going to turn the idiots in my life into normal people.
Do you think this is what people seek? Is this what it's all about?
Or does the Hokey Pokey have the monopoly on that??
-ms
Dog Bites Girl, I Bite Daddy
I read about the following on the weekend and cringed. Not because a child was involved, but because 9 times out of 10 incidents like these are avoidable.
Now don't get me wrong, dogs can attack - but there is always a reason. Most of the time it would be fear and territory.
You don't have to be an animal expert to understand the thought patterns that dogs have.
You don't have to be a genius to know you probably shouldn't let your child in the dog pen with a large dog while it's eating.
In that previous sentence I was going to say it was an unknown dog, but it is the neighbors dog after all.
Craig, who didn't reveal his last name (probably couldn't spell it) is the father of the child who was attacked.
THE father of an eight-year-old girl savaged by a rottweiler has lashed out at the dog's "stupid" owner, and says the dog should be destroyed.
Hey Craig,
What was your daughter doing in the dog pen with her uncle and yourself especially if you say the owner is "very very stupid"?
You claim the owner is stupid because "she doesn't have collars on any of the dogs which makes it very hard to control the dog when it has it's mind set on something" Yet you were happy to let your child near the dogs? If you thought it was stupid and dangerous, why didn't you prevent your child from being near the dogs.
I think I know someone who won't win "Father of the Year".
Your ex-wife has even jumped to your defense! Saying there should have been a sign.
I can't see why your two broke up, your ignorance and stupidity are so unique, you would have made a perfect couple.
Hi Ms Ex-Craig,
Why should there be a sign when your husband is the one cleaning cages and feeding the dogs?
Hang on, you already answered that:
"They are bred to be pets. You would assume they are safe"
You are so stupendously dumb I want to cry.
What is it with parents today that feel the need to blame everyone and everything else instead of themselves?
Music, Video Games, Movies, Other people and my personal favorite ADHD, the made up disease that is caused by a bad diet and poor discipline.
Parents of mini-Craig: You made a mistake. It doesn't make you a bad parent, just an incompetent one. Take the shame, your girl is fine. Now kindly fuck off.
To the Herald Sun: None of the points I raised seemed to pop into your thick skulls? or would you rather spread fear and stupidity instead of news and actual issues? Pick up your game douchebags.
Thanks to John for the link, and reminding me how angry I was when I read about it on Saturday.
I don't like Mondays.
- db
All this and more…After these commercials
I'm not a big fan of watching free to air T.V
The commercials get in the way of the show and my short attention span means I forget where in the show I was up to.
Alas I have watched everything I've downloaded and my net is capped so I've been forced to watch free to air T.V
After about 3 hours of this activity I've discovered that the current commercials being aired SUCK BALLS.
The O'Brien windscreen ad annoys the hell out of me.
The actor in this has a weird lisp and cannot pronounce the letter 'R'.
Guess what, when you're advertising O'Brien, you need to have the ability to articulate your R's.
I don't know who O'Bwien is, but apparently he's in competition with O'Brien in the windshield business.
Bev Mark's Beds.
Oh my god.
okay, number 1 - Why is Denise Drysdale on my T.V? Isn't she dead? I know she's a D grade actor, but I can't for the life of me remember why she was "famous" to begin with.
The number 2 issue - How many times can you say AUSTRALIA in one commercial? Seriously...watch it next time it's on, count the nuber of times that dried up old hack says Australia. Is she selling beds or Australia? It's subliminal messaging..only not so subtle.
The Optus "Whale song". What was the point of that ad? They probably spent millions of dollars filming that. Oh yay, you can communicate with dolphins via cgi. How about YOU FIX MY FUCKING INTERNET?. Gosh
The Cadbury Gorilla ad.
Normally this would be on my LOVE list. However some douche bag has decided to play some crappy John Farmham song over the top of a LEGENDARY PHIL COLLINS SONG.
Fail cadbury...fail.
Commercial I LOVE at the moment.
the Chuppa chup ad. WHY WONT YOU OPEN YOUR TENDER LITTLE HEART?
Gold!
Gruen Transfer panel members take note.
LIFT YOUR GAME
-MS
ps. Let me know if I've missed any crappy commercials, I will review them. If my blood pressure peaks then I'll add them to the list.
The Fable and the Creme Egg
A couple of thousand years ago there was (supposedly) a man named Jesus who tried to change the world.
He told all that would listen hat he had a direct line to the creator of the universe. Jesus wandered around touched people both physically and spiritually.
Now when I say physically I don't mean sexually - Jesus was dead against natural urges and such. By physically I mean he helped the blind see and the deaf hear.
At least that's what I'm told.
You see, nobody bothered to write any of it down for decades. The ones who did write it down not only never met Jesus, but also never met any one else that did. They wrote down what was told to their parents from his grandparents.
I say "his" because, of course, back then women were nothing more then sperm sacks that pumped out children - barbarians right?
Even though it seems like it would all be hearsay - the people who spread the story were certain it was true, and they didn't embellish any fact. Of course they were certain that "colored" people had less of a brain, the world was flat and people that were mentally ill were possessed by an evil spirit.
Nonetheless The story was never altered in any way. Jesus was eventually ostracised by the leading politicians at the time and was killed, presumably because the heads of state were afraid of his influence.Or something. I'm sure it's not that important.
This fable was so convincing that it caused millions of people to kill millions more defending the name of Jesus. It also has caused great medical advances to be halted because it may interfere with what the racist misogynists wrote down thousands of years in the past.
I don't want to be all doom and gloom though. You see, in the 1700's society went through a phase that was named the "Age of Enlightenment" where people of "science" ditched the fairy tales and superstitions and focused on what was available in the physical and visible realm. Advancements made during this time led the way for many inventions and theories that we still benefit from today. It seemed that finally, modern man had evolved into a rational and intelligent being. Needless to say it didn't last.
In the 20th century man again had risen above the nonsense of religion and in particular Christianity to have another scientific and social revolution. The sexual revolution freed people from the stigma and shame that was forced upon them by the religious right and the Civil rights movement, whilst attributed to Christ only came about because people no longer unfailingly believed in hearsay and stereotypes, but believed what was in front of them - other human beings. Both of these revolutions in modern society, whilst still ongoing, showed that there was still hope that society would use logic and rational thought instead of believing in invisible and irrelevant forces.
At least that's what I thought.
A couple of years back I worked an IT job that had me working within a social services organisation that was closely tied to Christian and Catholic institutions. One person that they seemed to hold in high esteem was George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney.
After reading up on him I was angered that a social services group that helped homeless teens, some kicked out of home for being homosexuals, followed and idolised a man who has such ass backwards thoughts and views on the nature of sexual orientation. I was also confused how a man who believed in a talking snake and an omnipresent omnipotent, yet strangely jealous deity, could actually be followed by anyone with half a brain.
I thought Pell, like most old, crazy lunatics would eventually fade away.
Until I scour the web for news this last week. Guess who's back saying stupid shit?
I must admit, though, that it isn't Pell's fault he is an ignorant and stupid person. He is merely a product of the environment he was raised in.
How can we expect a group of people that believe that a talking man in the sky controls the universe to actually produce a smart well-rounded individual?
More importantly - How can we actually allow these people to influence others and worse still our own Government?
When Rudd got into the media fuelled argument with Howard claiming he was a bigger christian, I admit it seems to me he was arguing that he was a bigger fool.
If there was any other group that was so misguided and ignorant that had any influence over any other living being, they would be labeled a dangerous cult and would be exposed for the idiots they really are.
So, as we all (myself included) chow down on our chocolate chicken abortions this long weekend lets spare a though for poor people who believe that 1976 years ago a dead man floated up into the sky.
Believing that ludicrous and impossible story would really put a sour taste through my chocolate.
And that would REALLY piss me off.
-db