"You don't know me/us. Don't hate."
Thanks, I'll be honest, this "type" of Christian, the one always telling everyone else how to be, how to be "saved", how to have a "personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior" generally gets under my skin. Possibly it's the Catholic in me yelling at the young punks to get off my lawn. Many times I just roll my eyes and move on, but I felt like posting this time. (Perhaps the Spirit moved me :p)


The funny thing about them bashing the D4 is that I've always seen less of the drinking and partying stereotype associated with those orgs than associated with the NPC. I mean, at least bash the real party girls, right?

(On a side note, can no one spell my name right? Drole, Fille. I know it's french, but there are plenty of people who don't have words in their names. Nothing personal, it's just that I'm always Drolefile, or drollfille or something else. It's "funny girl" in French. NOT THAT HARD. *vented*)

The answer to all your questions...
 

All call for GC Clinical Professionals Healthcare Providers...

The etiology of this current overly religious GCers: long discourse without circuitous thought patterning, agitation and aggression, dementia, schizophrenia, personality disorder including paranoia, disruptive traits including inappropriate anger, suspiciousness, and threats of self-harm or harm to others are common presentations.

Mania — The American Psychiatric Association's diagnostic criteria for mania include the following.

• A distinct period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive, or irritable mood, lasting at least one week (or any duration if hospitalization is necessary)
• During the period of mood disturbance, at least three or more of the following symptoms are present: inflated self esteem or grandiosity; decreased need for sleep; more talkative than usual; racing thoughts or flight of ideas; distractibility; increase in goal-directed activity; and excessive involvement in pleasurable activities that have a high potential for painful consequences, such as spending money or sexual indiscretions
• The mood disturbance leads to significant impairment in social or occupational functioning. The symptoms are not directly due to substance use or a general medical illness.
• The most common behavioral symptoms associated with manic episodes include pressured speech, hyperverbosity, physical hyperactivity and agitation, decreased need for sleep, hypersexuality, and extravagance. Less common features include violence, religiosity, pronounced regression, and catatonia.
• Impaired insight is a frequent component of the manic state and may impair compliance with medications. Patients with mania may experience depression, irritability, expansiveness, or mood lability during an episode of mania as often as they experience euphoria. A "mixed episode" is characterized by a sufficient number of depressive symptoms to meet the criteria for a major depressive episode while also meeting the criteria for mania.

Differential diagnoses suggest: Schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, abuse of alcohol, cocaine, or amphetamines, and personality disorders such as narcissistic, borderline and histrionic personalities may mimic bipolar disorder, and at times coexist with the illness. In addition, in the primary care setting, clinicians may be confronted with medical illness with symptoms that resemble manic episodes including thyrotoxicosis, partial complex seizures, systemic lupus erythematosus, cerebrovascular accident, human immunodeficiency virus, tertiary syphilis, or steroid-induced mood symptoms.

Evaluation: Evaluation should include a mental status examination, clinical history, physical examination (including a neurologic evaluation), vital signs, review of all medications, and laboratory studies including complete blood count, liver function tests, thyroid stimulating hormone, and routine chemistries. It is critical to obtain information from family or other caregivers since the patient with dementia, delirium, or psychosis may not be able to supply their own history. Family members should be encouraged to bring in all medications to which the patient has access. The Folstein Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) is a fast and easy screen for cognitive dysfunction.

Rx: The treatment of bipolar disorder can be organized into three distinct phases depending upon the current state of illness:

• The acute phase of treatment focuses upon containing the presenting level of symptoms and often includes establishing safety with the patient. The patient in the acute phase may be suicidal, psychotic, or displaying such poor judgment as to pose an imminent risk to themselves. Hospitalization is often necessary until the severity of symptoms lessens.
• The continuation phase may last weeks to months with a goal to reach full remission of symptoms and restoration of functioning.
• The maintenance phase of treatment aims to sustain remission and lasts at least one year after the resolution of symptoms. Long-term or lifetime maintenance is recommended for patients who have suffered three or more manic episodes

What's your diagnosis, Doctors?

Chief GC Medical Center
Senior Research Scientist
Dr. AKA_Monet


This above has to do with JUDGEMENT OF OTHERS and using God as the scapegoat...

Monet--go to bed! LMBO

:cool:

Pardon Madmoiselle.

That is the best I can do without copious amounts of alcohol... And I should know how to spell your name. I do know what it means... ;)

Pardonez vous, oui?
ETA: I was responding to a french only post, then it changed after I hit submit. *yikes*

Awwww. Hey! I'm having a manic episode of religiousity!!!! ;)

Je ne sais pas? Je pense que "pardonez", jamais "pardon" mais "l'attention"?...

Je desire du vin!!!

Moi aussi!

Jésus a bu du vin. Le vin n'est pas mauvais.

Did you ever know that you're my herrrreeeeoooooooo
 

Drolefille - I'm sorry if I've messed up your name in the past - I'll be very careful from here on out. You and AKA Monet go on my heroes list for the past few posts.
One good thing about all this mess (on not 1 but 2! 2! threads - the topic so great it could not be contained!) is that I have a renewed appreciation for the intelligence and wit of many members of Greekchat.
So it's all good!
eta: One of my favorite Kinky Friedman quotes: "May the God of your choice bless you!"

I was thinking the same thing!

Judging by earlier posts, the real party girls are those Frenchie-talking girls with all their "vin!!!!;)

I'll admit that I saw the original thread and that I thought about saying something as a Christian--but I have learned that people on this board are going to do whatever they want (its a public board, why not?), and sometimes they will pick just for the sake of picking. I come here to talk about Greek life, not spirituality. It really doesn't change any minds engaging in back and forth on most issues on an internet chat board, especially this one, because most of the players are skilled at taking your words apart and finding discrepancies (really, some of these GCers should be lawyers and detectives!)

Sometimes not getting involved at all is the higher road. Save yourself the heartburn and walk away from this argument--it won't work.

Everytime I read one of your smart allick posts, I seriously laugh my arss off!!!

Thanks for always making my day! :D

You're welcome! :)