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[John Henry]

I went to a doctor, told them I'm an English teacher, and I need something to help "keep me mellow" in class all day. Maybe not in those exact world, but you know what I'm gatting at. What if I told him the little monsters give me panic attacks or anxiety attacks or some shit...Do you think he would give me something nice?

[kat2]

I wouldn't do it in the town you live in. Word travels faster than you would believe.

[PaperTiger]

Depends on the doctor you see. They carefully control all "controlled substances" here and usually have to dispense them out of a hospital if it has any "mellowing" or pain-killing properties. Some doctors seem really reluctant to hand them out in any kind of dosage that would do any good, but I've heard mixed reviews on this subject.

I was having a less than mellow period in my life and went to find a doctor who could prescribe some Valium or other benzodiazepams and this bumling moron prescribed a dosage that wouldn't calm down a doormouse (I'm about six foot eight and flabby). So good luck with that, but I reckon you'll have to shop around a bit. Try Itaewon...as the choir stated, you don't want that kina stuff getting back to your boss.

[RACETRAITOR]

One good thing about Korean medicine is how they're a lot less likely to rely on mood-altering pills to control patients. It's really embarrassing how many North Americans are on those pills.

The other day I had to explain to my wife, whose father was missing for three years of her life thanks to one of Park Junghee's reeducation centers, and then who was beaten when he returned, why my sister, who had an average middle-class life with supportive parents and a post-secondary education paid for by them, is feeling depressed and needs to be on all sorts of anti-depressants.

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[John Henry]

[Gwangjuboy]

[seattlespew]

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[John Henry]

Actually, I don't need anything. I'm fine. I was just wondering what they would do if I went in and said I needed something cuz the kids drive me crazy.

Don't know, they want to give me prescription meds for being obeese (which I am not).I wonder what would happen.


PS, people do get depressed in ths country. They just go get those hot suction cup hickey things done to "help their blood" instead. Good for health!

[RACETRAITOR]

I was referring to my wife not needing anti-depressants after a depressing childhood, deprived of her dad and then later beaten by him, in contrast to my (also non-American) sister needing them after a happy childhood. I was not contrasting my sister to my father-in-law. I was contrasting her to my wife.

My wife was not being beaten in prison. Her dad was. He was in there because he was too smart for his own good. Park imprisoned a lot of people for being suspected communists, revolutionaries, misfits, and gangsters. Probably some guilty, but a hell of a lot more who weren't. Of course being illegally imprisoned hardens you. It definitely made him understandably a lot more cynical about the South Korean government. Of course he doesn't need drugs to get over his problem, but his mental status was not in question in my post. His daughter's was.

And I don't know how the fact that anti-depressants aren't used often in South Korea is pro-North Korean propaganda.

[John Henry]

[RACETRAITOR]

My original point was related to your first post, and then these weirdos started accusing me of communist propaganda.

It's good that you're okay. If you're feeling depressed, a doctor is usually not the person to go to. Yet in our culture, it's too easy for a person to go to a doctor and ask for anti-depressants. I assumed in your first post this was what you were after. It's no better than relying on alcohol.

[Corporal]

[Qinella]