{"id":6901,"date":"2017-02-10T14:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=6901"},"modified":"2017-02-10T14:16:33","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T19:16:33","slug":"pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2017\/02\/10\/pills.html","title":{"rendered":"Pills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSo to get a refill for my anxiety pills I have to go see the doctor in person. Can&#8217;t just phone it in. This, itself, causes me anxiety. The doctor doesn&#8217;t like western medicine, at least the pills portion of it. He advocates EFTs: Emotional Freedom Techniques. It&#8217;s what I interpret to be derived from acupuncture, though I have not read up on the practice because it does not interest me. It&#8217;s a bunch of bullshit tapping on your head and chest as a way to exorcise the demons within. I remember when he started demonstrating these EFTs to me in his office. I heard quacking noises in my head. He discouraged me from looking up EFTs on YouTube, saying that the people there don&#8217;t do it right. I think he wanted me to avoid YouTube because I might see the spew of negative comments from similarly incredulous viewers saying what a crock of shit all this EFT crap is.<\/p>\n<p>I am actually willing to allow that there is more to EFTs then was revealed in that brief demonstration of his.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure what to do about the pills. I have no other reason to go see the doctor, but I guess I&#8217;ll get a flu shot or something. I don&#8217;t want to look like an addict, because I&#8217;m not, at least not with the pills. I still have a full bottle of the old anxiety pills. I didn&#8217;t like those because their half life was 24 hours, versus 12 hours for the Lorazapam. Those old pills are presently expired, though I&#8217;ve read that that does not really matter. Medicine makers cannot afford to do long-term testing on the potency of aged drugs, so they just say it&#8217;s bad after a year to cover their asses.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody here is reading a poem called <strong>RECOVERY<\/strong>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Random page 61 is from <cite>Naked Lunch<\/cite>, by William S. Burroughs. He is talking about Bang-utot. I remember this. It&#8217;s a disease where men fear erections because of the risk it will enter their body and kill them.<\/p>\n<p>Page 181 has a beautiful line: &#8220;I called from a drug store phone booth &#8230; and asked for Narcotics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nice. Like all drug deals ever made the call came from payphones. There was an article in <cite>The Atlantic<\/cite> last week about this. I disagree with the conclusion of that, and even a fair number of facts seem to have been munched. I thought the story was so lame I did not even link to it or comment on it at the payphone site.<\/p>\n<p>Going out walking, treacherous as it is.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So to get a refill for my anxiety pills I have to go see the doctor in person. Can&#8217;t just phone it in. This, itself, causes me anxiety. The doctor doesn&#8217;t like western medicine, at least the pills portion of it. He advocates EFTs: Emotional Freedom Techniques. 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