Re: Picky Dinner Guests

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jmcquown said:

She's one of those people, if she doesn't know what it is it
must be terrible. If anyone mentioned sourdough she'd freak.
WHATEVER.

I'd advise to steer clear of mental cases like her.

There's clearly something screwy in her upbringing that has affected
this way. I don't think she sees that she has a choice in the matter.
It's called a mental illness.

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Quoted message said:

jmcquown said:

She's one of those people, if she doesn't know what it is it
must be terrible. If anyone mentioned sourdough she'd freak.
WHATEVER.

I'd advise to steer clear of mental cases like her.

I would agree. Feed it turkey and be done with her.

Michael

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Abe said:

Quoted message said:

jmcquown said:

She's one of those people, if she doesn't know what it is it
must be terrible. If anyone mentioned sourdough she'd freak.
WHATEVER.

I'd advise to steer clear of mental cases like her.

There's clearly something screwy in her upbringing that has affected
this way. I don't think she sees that she has a choice in the matter.
It's called a mental illness.

Why would you blame a person's mental illness on her parents?

Serene

Serene said:

Abe said:

Quoted message said:

jmcquown wrote:
> She's one of those people, if she doesn't know what it is it
> must be terrible. If anyone mentioned sourdough she'd freak.
> WHATEVER.
I'd advise to steer clear of mental cases like her.

There's clearly something screwy in her upbringing that has affected
this way. I don't think she sees that she has a choice in the matter.
It's called a mental illness.

Why would you blame a person's mental illness on her parents?

I seriously doubt she has a mental illness. She's just an extremely picky
eater. Apparently (yes) it's the way she was raised. She only eats food
she was fed as a child. Granted, now that she's 60 she should have spread
her wings a little bit. But she's certainly not mentally ill.

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Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

jmcquown said:

She's one of those people, if she doesn't know what it is it
must be terrible. If anyone mentioned sourdough she'd freak.
WHATEVER.

Quoted message said:

I'd advise to steer clear of mental cases like her.
There's clearly something screwy in her upbringing that has affected
this way. I don't think she sees that she has a choice in the matter.
It's called a mental illness.

Or it could be neurobiological. Disorders on the autism spectrum, for
example, can cause severe food aversions in some.

K

Serene said:

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

I'd advise to steer clear of mental cases like her.

There's clearly something screwy in her upbringing that has affected
this way. I don't think she sees that she has a choice in the matter.
It's called a mental illness.

Why would you blame a person's mental illness on her parents?

Why not? That is what a lot of those mentally people do.

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Serene said:

Quoted message said:

> I'd advise to steer clear of mental cases like her.
There's clearly something screwy in her upbringing that has affected
this way. I don't think she sees that she has a choice in the matter.
It's called a mental illness.

Why would you blame a person's mental illness on her parents?

Why not? That is what a lot of those mentally people do.

Mental illness is a damned shame. My now deceased friend has a grandchild
with Schizophrenia. It is ugly. Very ugly and no one is to blame.

Michael

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Michael \'Dog3\ said:

Quoted message said:

Why not? That is what a lot of those mentally people do.

Mental illness is a damned shame. My now deceased friend has a grandchild
with Schizophrenia. It is ugly. Very ugly and no one is to blame.

It is a damned shame, and you never know when it is going to strike you, a
family member or a friend. It can run a range, from mild down to a serious
and debilitating depression, from zany moments to raving lunacy. It's hard
for the rest of us to deal with because there it can be hard to deal with
rationally. I don't know many people without some form of mental illness
somewhere in the family.

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It is a damned shame, and you never know when it is going to strike
you, a family member or a friend. It can run a range, from mild down
to a serious and debilitating depression, from zany moments to raving
lunacy. It's hard for the rest of us to deal with because there it can
be hard to deal with rationally. I don't know many people without some
form of mental illness somewhere in the family.

I've often wondered what brings it on. I mean, is it genetics or
something else? David (the schizophrenic) has complete bouts of sanity.
Then he just loses it. Never will I forget the time I had to pick him up
from Lambert here in St. Louis. Sarah, his grandmother, called me panic
stricken. He just hopped a plane and wound up here in St. Louis. Could I
help. Well,I was way out of my league but I did the best I could. I wound
up calling security to *secure* him and then made arrangements to get him
back to Atlanta. It was a total nightmare and I can only imagine what
Sarah must have gone through all those years. David's father also does
the best he can. I dunno... it has got to be hard.

Michael

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Michael \'Dog3\ said:

I've often wondered what brings it on. I mean, is it genetics or
something else? David (the schizophrenic) has complete bouts of sanity.
Then he just loses it. Never will I forget the time I had to pick him up
from Lambert here in St. Louis. Sarah, his grandmother, called me panic
stricken. He just hopped a plane and wound up here in St. Louis. Could I
help. Well,I was way out of my league but I did the best I could. I wound
up calling security to *secure* him and then made arrangements to get him
back to Atlanta. It was a total nightmare and I can only imagine what
Sarah must have gone through all those years. David's father also does
the best he can. I dunno... it has got to be hard.

I have a cousin who was eventually diagnosed as manic depressive. My uncle
attributed it to drugs. She got into pot and acid as a teen..... like most
of us. AFAIAC, she was always a little weird. She got a lot weirder as
she got older. They sent her to university for years and were quite
convinced that she was going to be a professor. I don't think she ever
made it through first year, just kept dropping out in time to leave in good
standing and then going back the next year to try it again.

My wife as a cousin who had her ups and downs. She had a set of twins and
then a double whammy post partum depression. They put her on anti-
depressants , which caused her to gain a lot of wait, so she started taking
amphetamines to curb her appetite and give her more energy. Her self
medication just about killed her and she became worse than ever. FWIW....
her father was also slightly manic depressive and got involved in a study
on bi polar and heredity. At her parent's 50th anniversary, and after a
lot of counselling, she claimed to have found lost memories of her father
molesting here. Her sisters never had that problem, or suspected him. My
wife, her sister and another cousin used to spend a lot of time with them.
The uncle used to visit them when they were out of town and he was there on
business. He would take them out for dinner and be a perfect gentleman.
They just can't imagine that he would have done it.

I know, I know..... the dirty molesters single out one victim. I don't put
a lot of faith in that. I attribute it more to therapists planting ideas in
their patients' heads. IMO, the therapist did her a major disservice by
planting that idea in her head and then compounded it by urging her to
contact her family and friends and tell them that her father had molested
her. What an asinine approach. Maybe the plan was to suggest that the old
man was a pervert pedophile who preyed on little girls and they would all
suddenly remember that he had done it to them too, maybe go to the police
and press charges. In the end, it just turned into a big source of
embarrassment for her because no one believed her.

Dave Smith said:

Michael \'Dog3\ said:

I've often wondered what brings it on. I mean, is it genetics or
something else? David (the schizophrenic) has complete bouts of sanity.
Then he just loses it. Never will I forget the time I had to pick him up
from Lambert here in St. Louis. Sarah, his grandmother, called me panic
stricken. He just hopped a plane and wound up here in St. Louis. Could I
help. Well,I was way out of my league but I did the best I could. I wound
up calling security to *secure* him and then made arrangements to get him
back to Atlanta. It was a total nightmare and I can only imagine what
Sarah must have gone through all those years. David's father also does
the best he can. I dunno... it has got to be hard.

I have a cousin who was eventually diagnosed as manic depressive. My uncle
attributed it to drugs. She got into pot and acid as a teen..... like most
of us. AFAIAC, she was always a little weird. She got a lot weirder as
she got older. They sent her to university for years and were quite
convinced that she was going to be a professor. I don't think she ever
made it through first year, just kept dropping out in time to leave in good
standing and then going back the next year to try it again.

My wife as a cousin who had her ups and downs. She had a set of twins and
then a double whammy post partum depression. They put her on anti-
depressants , which caused her to gain a lot of wait, so she started taking
amphetamines to curb her appetite and give her more energy. Her self
medication just about killed her and she became worse than ever. FWIW....
her father was also slightly manic depressive and got involved in a study
on bi polar and heredity. At her parent's 50th anniversary, and after a
lot of counselling, she claimed to have found lost memories of her father
molesting here. Her sisters never had that problem, or suspected him. My
wife, her sister and another cousin used to spend a lot of time with them.
The uncle used to visit them when they were out of town and he was there on
business. He would take them out for dinner and be a perfect gentleman.
They just can't imagine that he would have done it.

I know, I know..... the dirty molesters single out one victim. I don't put
a lot of faith in that.

Really. Usually sexual victimizers who get away with it are
emboldened to pursue other easy targets.

Quoted message said:

I attribute it more to therapists planting ideas in
their patients' heads.

Those type of therapists are as bad as the cads who selfishly exploit
the vulnerable.

Quoted message said:

IMO, the therapist did her a major disservice by
planting that idea in her head and then compounded it by urging her to
contact her family and friends and tell them that her father had molested
her. What an asinine approach. Maybe the plan was to suggest that the old
man was a pervert pedophile who preyed on little girls and they would all
suddenly remember that he had done it to them too, maybe go to the police
and press charges. In the end, it just turned into a big source of
embarrassment for her because no one believed her.

And then it was almost as bad as if he'd had done those things, since
she now believed that he had, plus all the added trauma from no one
taking her side. If you want to hurt someone really badly, convince
them that one of their parents whom they thought loved them, never
really did.

--Bryan

Amarantha said:

Or it could be neurobiological. Disorders on the autism spectrum, for
example, can cause severe food aversions in some.

Interesting. Tell me more. Do autism disorders ever cause slight food
aversions? Does it work in reverse? I'm thinking of adults I know who,
while not as extreme as the woman Jill described, are pretty picky.
Would it make sense to suspect an autism disorder in them?

--Lia

In article <[email hidden]>,

Julia Altshuler said:

Amarantha said:

Or it could be neurobiological. Disorders on the autism spectrum, for
example, can cause severe food aversions in some.

Interesting. Tell me more. Do autism disorders ever cause slight food
aversions? Does it work in reverse? I'm thinking of adults I know who,
while not as extreme as the woman Jill described, are pretty picky.
Would it make sense to suspect an autism disorder in them?

Not by itself, no. If there are other strong indicators of autism, it
might make sense to get it checked out.

Miche

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Miche said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Miche

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Electricians do it in three phases

If I asked you to elaborate, that would be off topic for this NG,
wouldn't it?

--Bryan

In article
<[email hidden]>,

Bobo Bonobo(R) said:

Miche said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Miche

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Electricians do it in three phases

If I asked you to elaborate, that would be off topic for this NG,
wouldn't it?

Yes, yes it would.

Miche

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Electricians do it in three phases

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Quoted message said:

Amarantha said:

Or it could be neurobiological. Disorders on the autism spectrum, for
example, can cause severe food aversions in some.

Quoted message said:

Interesting. Tell me more. Do autism disorders ever cause slight food
aversions? Does it work in reverse? I'm thinking of adults I know who,
while not as extreme as the woman Jill described, are pretty picky.
Would it make sense to suspect an autism disorder in them?

Not on that sole evidence, no. But some people in the autism spectrum,
do have digestive abnormalities, and their condition can be helped with
diet. There is increasing research evidence, that nutrition/food
reactions play some part in a number of mental health problems (such as
schizophrenia), and behavioural disorders.

Janet.

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Quoted message said:

jmcquown said:

She's one of those people, if she doesn't know what it is it
must be terrible. If anyone mentioned sourdough she'd freak.
WHATEVER.

I'd advise to steer clear of mental cases like her.

It sounds like she and Jill deserve each other.

On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 13:28:23 -0800, Serene <[email hidden]>

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Abe said:

Quoted message said:

jmcquown wrote:
> She's one of those people, if she doesn't know what it is it
> must be terrible. If anyone mentioned sourdough she'd freak.
> WHATEVER.
I'd advise to steer clear of mental cases like her.

There's clearly something screwy in her upbringing that has affected
this way. I don't think she sees that she has a choice in the matter.
It's called a mental illness.

Why would you blame a person's mental illness on her parents?

Serene

gotta blame somebody!

your pal,
blake

Dave Smith said:

Michael \'Dog3\ said:

Quoted message said:

Why not? That is what a lot of those mentally people do.

Mental illness is a damned shame. My now deceased friend has a grandchild
with Schizophrenia. It is ugly. Very ugly and no one is to blame.

It is a damned shame, and you never know when it is going to strike you, a
family member or a friend. It can run a range, from mild down to a serious
and debilitating depression, from zany moments to raving lunacy. It's hard
for the rest of us to deal with because there it can be hard to deal with
rationally. I don't know many people without some form of mental illness
somewhere in the family.

very true. it's a shame that compassion isn't nearly as widespread.

yourpal,
blake