Where my mind is

Last week my therapist suggested I think about the things that I'm angry about.

Yesterday my psychiatrist gave me free samples of the newest antidepressant doctors are being urged to prescribe to chronic pain patients, particularly those with fibromyalgia and diabetic neuropathy. In the study of fibromyalgia patients, out of those who completed the study, a statistically significant, but not very impressive, difference was found between treatment and placebo groups. Nearly forty percent of study participants dropped out before the study was over. This is our newest best hope.

According to the Drug Policy Alliance, "In early October, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation (H.R. 3015) to fund databases to track what prescription drugs Americans are taking. This information would then be shared among states, as well as with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies -- all without your knowledge or consent." This does not appear to be a major news story.

"One of the nation's leading medical groups, the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS), decried a move by the U.S. Senate to join with the House in funding a federal program AAPS says will lead to mandatory psychological testing of every child in America – without the consent of parents." This also does not appear to be a major news story.

The Supreme Court gets to weigh in on the medical marijuana debate.

In the past couple of days, daisydumont has linked to videos for Joseph Arthur's "All of Our Hands" and Bruce Cockburn's "If I Had a Rocket Launcher."

Today's syndicated feeds have brought me this, on judgment and repentance as well as this.

Two of the library books I am reading are Kimberly Winston, Faith Beyond Faith Healng, about people who had sought faith healing and not been healed; and Alex Heard, Apocalypse Pretty Soon: Travels in End-Time America.

If you can feel the connections between all these things, I suggest you get out of my brain.