tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11957052.post5065216449500493338..comments2023-09-13T17:12:50.998+01:00Comments on A Compass Rose: The War on Girls: 'inDependent'Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05022023043718407104noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11957052.post-58449203005834224712013-11-06T19:02:56.231+00:002013-11-06T19:02:56.231+00:00I love this post and how you opened up in it. I re...I love this post and how you opened up in it. I read the post about how you kicked the prescription a couple of month ago and loved it. And this post is a great follow up. We have become to dependent on medication, or maybe society is making up become dependent. Either way, there are other ways to overcome personal issues, better ways. Medication should be the last salution, not the first.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022023043718407104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11957052.post-80729945883798262172013-11-05T09:17:35.379+00:002013-11-05T09:17:35.379+00:00These photos are so raw and intimate, they really ...These photos are so raw and intimate, they really compliment your message. Modern medicine/pills are absolutely amazing and CAN help people, but I don't believe that it should be the first and only thing that we reach for at the sign of illness.<br /><br /><br />-Maryam<br /><br /><br />www.maryamnortonphotography.comAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022023043718407104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11957052.post-91920796158875291692013-11-05T06:13:14.176+00:002013-11-05T06:13:14.176+00:00I think you have a powerful message, speaking from...I think you have a powerful message, speaking from your personal experience. I have seen too many doctors treat symptoms, instead of problems, and I do agree with you. <br /><br /><br />However, I also have to disagree. Not everything has an underlying problem and does need a fix. I suffer from manic depressive illness (bipolar disorder) and for me to even be at a normal, I have to have medications. I have to find a balance, because without them, my life is a series of highs and lows and no in betweens. You have to be careful with medicine in general, but especially those for mental diseases. I've been on medicine where I was a zombie, a shell of myself, and I've been on medicine where I could do nothing but sleep. I stopped taking it, thinking I could control it, but I can't. What I have has no underlying problem - it simply is something I have to live with for the rest of my life.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022023043718407104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11957052.post-30389186277883865822013-11-04T18:39:40.991+00:002013-11-04T18:39:40.991+00:00Thank you Shannon. Oh yes, especially when you lo...Thank you Shannon. Oh yes, especially when you look at the selection of the over the counter drugs. There seems to be just about a 'fix' for anything.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022023043718407104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11957052.post-15070902184243211702013-11-04T12:20:47.399+00:002013-11-04T12:20:47.399+00:00Powerful message. I think too often these days wel...Powerful message. I think too often these days well meaning doctors just treat the symptoms rather than the actual problem. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022023043718407104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11957052.post-23190667294861245572013-11-04T07:31:46.795+00:002013-11-04T07:31:46.795+00:00Ya Alexander thank you so much for taking the time...Ya Alexander thank you so much for taking the time to write such lovely comment, I really appreciate your feedback on this post. Thank you for your kind words. :) There really seems to be a magical pill for everything. I remember the adverts back in the States having so many for medicines and pills for this and that.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022023043718407104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11957052.post-7034112368878313272013-11-04T07:28:47.654+00:002013-11-04T07:28:47.654+00:00Thank you so much Chelsea. :) Yes, that would rock...Thank you so much Chelsea. :) Yes, that would rock. I love having dreams like that...I def see some how being able to meet up somewhere in the world one day. :)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022023043718407104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11957052.post-77279066463739662282013-11-04T05:35:58.615+00:002013-11-04T05:35:58.615+00:00i love the photos that you take for this series. s...i love the photos that you take for this series. so powerful! also, this has nothing to do with the post but i just had to tell you that you were in a dream i had last night. i had gone to visit you in england and it was such a blast! wish we lived closer to each other!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022023043718407104noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11957052.post-39159698438215739552013-11-03T21:39:26.618+00:002013-11-03T21:39:26.618+00:00Wow...what a powerful story! It shocked me some, ...Wow...what a powerful story! It shocked me some, but the more I read into it the more I saw Society today. I work with troubled people. People who struggles with their own demons and are unable to care about the little people in their lives. Truth is, nowadays there is or seems to be a magical pill for everything. I've had my own battles with depression...I will call it mild depression because it did not knocked me totally down but it did affected my life. I am very happy you found your peace...I hope more people read your post and learn from it. You are so BRAVE!!! Thank you for sharing your story.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05022023043718407104noreply@blogger.com