Posted by grapebubblegum on June 17, 2001, at 22:20:37
In reply to Re: Its far harder to tell the truth, posted by stjames on June 17, 2001, at 19:12:33
And are you making the pre-supposition that the drugs you may talk yourself into in a psychiatrist's office are "fun" drugs? I dunno about everyone else here, but I've never taken anything that was a "feel-good" drug, rather medications that alleviated whatever was ailing me at the time psychiatrically. Sort of like, if you take aspirin when you have no headache, would you feel victorious that you snuck an aspirin when you don't really need it? Would you feel better in any way? Or would your non-existent headache just still be a non-existent headache?
And also no one has mentioned this facet: you could do the same with any specialty of doctor. You could go to a gastroenterologist and describe an ulcer down to a T, based on textbook reading, and you might walk out of there with Rx ulcer medication. Would that make a different point than the one you are trying to make? "It's so easy to fool a gastroenterologist..."
I'm not trying to be a smart-aleck, at least not 100%; I just do not know exactly what the point is that you are making and how it differs from fooling a cardiologist into giving you heart meds or a dermatologist for prescribing you some Rx psoriasis cream for that matter.
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