On or about: 04-23-08  09:46, Ardith Hinton did engage James Bradley
regarding, but not limited to: Senior Moments...  2C.

 AH> In this case the guy had a seriously dysfunctional
 AH> upbringing... or so I gather.  Because he was agoraphobic, he may not
 AH> have sought professional help even after moving away from home.  He
 AH> self-medicated in various ways for awhile & then eventually joined a
 AH> twelve-step program.  As you said somewhere else in this series,
 AH> whatever makes people feel better... even temporarily... may be
 AH> preferable in the long run to a mental/emotional breakdown or suicide. 

If it worked for him, it works for me. In reality, nothing does beat
getting to the sticky bits in a healthy way, ASAP. Because this fella was
withdrawn from seeking help - where today he could call a distress line -
perhaps in his day, this initial step of sensitivity was hard/impossible to
come by.

 
 JB>  beer is seething with B vitamins, but it shields the
 JB>  B12 receptors.


 AH> I'm not completely clear on the dynamics, but I understand
 AH> brewer's yeast is an excellent source of B vitamins.  IIRC alcohol
 AH> interferes with the absorption of B vitamins, however... and a
 AH> deficiency of B12 may resemble (or even cause) Alzheimer's, psychotic
 AH> depression, or schizophrenia.  Since the B vitamins work together, a
 AH> lack of one might render the others less effective. My mother's
 AH> "dementia" improved in tandem with her nutrition, anyway....  :-) 

Korzicoffs (The spelling HAS to be wrong.) is a psychosis. Often a thump on
the head, can bring it to the forefront, but it is the B12 receptor that is
shielded by alcohol abuse, that keeps the patient from returning to
reality. Oddly, dad looked and acted like he was getting over a bad thump
on the head for about three months. He shook that diagnosis, but remained
entrenched in denial.

 JB>  follows a chicken crossing the road....

 AH> That's cute!  With regard to spelling I might say 
 AH> "depending on who we've borrowed it from & how well we may 
 AH> (or may not) have managed to get our tongues around the 
 AH> pronunciation they'd have been using at the time."  We all 
 AH> have our talents.  I do spelling & grammar.  I take it you 
 AH> do Linux....  :-))

I do Linux, but very poorly.  I estimate, I've been a new user for
eight years. Of course, I'm smarter in it than I used to be, but I couldn't
advise anybody but the greenest user.

On the English front, I ran into it just the other day: Double up the
consonant, when adding the suffix, except when the vowel before is a
double, and it rains on a Thursday... I remember the day Mrs. Simpson
taught us this, and I figured right there that I had little interest or
talent for following this mess, and further, who in their right mind...
 
We then moved to math, where I quickly learned altitude multiplied by the
base will always find the area of a rectangle or square, and behold a
triangle; divide that by two. They were soon teaching me Pythagoras in
grade school.


 JB>  I'm pretty sure "Vas ist das" is a little wrong, as you

 AH> Okay.  This example pertains to German phonics... which you
 AH> may not  have much call for in your everyday life!  In short, the 

L!!! I'll say. One of the first full-time guitarists I worked with, used it
as an example of how English was mostly derived from German, and it never
left my lexicon as an example.

 AH> German language does not use the letter "v".  What native
 AH> speakers of German say when they spell a word beginning 
 AH> with a "w" sounds to us like "v".  You typed
the first word 
 AH> as you hear it, although that's not quite the way they'd 
 AH> spell it.  Now you know about as much German as I do.  I 
 AH> gave up on German when I got to lesson nine, which 
 AH> consisted of twenty-five prepositions using three different 
 AH> cases.  ;-)
 
Ya... That doesn't look like my idea of fun either. I still hope to learn
more Russian/Ukrainian. A cousin tells me the alphabet holds no hidden
agendas. (IE: "C" sounding like "S" or if combined with
an "H"...) Naturally, with him learning it as part of his
curriculum, and being able to practice it with 80% of his town folk -
actually most of those being more comfortable conversing in Ukrainian -
might sway the "easy" scales.
 
 JB>  [...] he had been doing things detrimental to his health
 JB>  for some time, like walking into a river in October, but
 JB>  the glimmer of his formal self was more than endearing.

 AH> I hear you.  I must point out, though, that a lot of
 AH> allegedly sane  individuals walk into the ocean here on New Year's Day.

...But they retain an eagerness to get out. Machismo might keep them in for
a length, but rarely are they there looking for their fishing rod.

 AH> I imagine it is safer with the ambulance brigade nearby.  :-/

At the least, you should tell someone that you are going in to look for
your fishing rod.
 
 
 JB>  indicated something was going against his former self.

 AH> Could be, but I still prefer the unencumbered self....  :-)

Like a child or pet, they have no motive but the obvious. That can be
refreshing, until you have to change diapers under a three hundred pound
body, many times a day.


 AH> Me too.  I liked the Queen Mother's attitude when somebody
 AH> wanted  to air-brush out her wrinkles & she said (basically) "Leave 
 AH> 'em in... I've earned every one of 'em!"  I'm reminded also 
 AH> of a poem I read many years ago, "When I am an old lady I 
 AH> shall wear purple."  If you want to do your own thing why 
 AH> not do it now?  That way you can establish a precedent 
 AH> before you get old....  ;-)

Great... The fire brigade wouldn't know what to do with me, or where to
find me without a cadaver dog. I'm set for life! 

I can see it now. "He started shaving once a day, had his garbage out
every week, payed his bills once a month, and the taxes were filed yearly
*on time*. There's something *wrong!*"



... James

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