The Easter grass sometimes get stuck to them.

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This is a really dangerous general statement to make, and hearing stuff like this contributes to people being unwilling to try necessary medication. I'm sorry that's been your experience, but they greatly increase quality of life for many many people who don't have terrible side effects.

REALLY? Their daughter was severely mentally ill and they didn't want to live without her when she killed herself. THAT'S what was "so bad." You should be grateful you can't even imagine it, but you can still have some fucking empathy.

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Eh, I think the fact that they genuinely believed there is a heaven and that the 3 of them would all get to be there forever, together and free of mental illness, makes it a bit LESS sad. I envy believers. They most likely didn't have the same fear of death that others do and weren't as terrified in their final moments, especially considering how well-thought-out and planned this was.

But what a tragic fucking story.

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I have found a few over the years, and a few on the opposite side as well. I would say if it isn't a dealership, you have a pretty even chance of finding a good one.

The biggest problem is you can tell if they are a good shop if they are booked solid. Have to find that balance of small enough shop to be legit, but not too small to where they lack expertise.

When I was a kid, living in south east pa, we would occasionally get this weird phone call of a recorded message saying, repeatedly, "there's been an outbreak at (so and so location). This is not a drill." I don't remember the words exactly, but every one of my family at one point had gotten the call at different times in our lives. After the message repeated a few times, the line would go down. Couldve been a prank, but it happened during the day a lot (when kids were in school. This was before smart phones)

When I was in college, I came home late from a party and was the only one home. I decided to go down to our classic, unfinished Pittsburgh basement and play some music. About ten minutes in, the basement lights started flickering. They had never flickered before, and never did again after this night. I shouted, "stop it!" And it stopped for a few minutes. Then they started flickering again. Again, I yelled for it to stop. The lights came back on again. I then turned around to see a guitar cable that I had on a nail in the wall swinging. I had about five or six cables on that wall, all next to each other, and only one cable in the middle was swinging. Not slightly, either, full on swinging. The whole, rolled up cable. Needless to say, I left the room after that.

A few weeks later, I had another creepy incident in this house. We had a cheap radio I think we bought at five below. It was the kind of radio that you would turn on/off by turning the volume knob. There was only one button on it - scan. You would turn it on, press scan, and it would just find the clearest station. One night, I woke up, and the radio had been turned on to the maximum volume, and it was all static. It was impossible for this radio to make static, since you could only scan to the clearest station. It was also impossible for someone to leave it on because it was at the maximum volume, and right outside my room. I would've heard it if someone was blasting music as I was trying to sleep. I just turned it off and went back to bed.

I'm sorry, I just used guns as an example. How we are still so quick to dismiss mental illness when it is tied to something that gets us emotional.

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Yeah I've heard that but we have family in Delaware. No biggie but rather stay in PA. Thanks so much tho.

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Sure, they work, but they tend to make you fat, exhausted, and incapable of having sex. You get rid of your hallucinations, but you have no desire for life leftover. There are reasons people don't take them.

(source: I take them.)

An old friend and I were on 502 in Moosic coming back from the theater and saw what could only be described as a real-life Rafiki (walking stick and all) in a cloak standing on the side of the road. We both saw it.

What a deeply, grindingly sad story. It's almost sadder knowing they took active steps to ensure their dog survived. WHY why WHY can't this place give mental illness the attention, care and compassion needed to not die?

We'd take it, I don't care how old or what kind. Salvaging any life out of this tragic shambles would feel like doing something. We have two, there's always room for one more.

We passed the crossroads, just look at who won/lost in 22 here.