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Are you referring to Borderline Personality
Disorder?

The quarter requirments are not just for looks,
they determine if the applicant gets SSI or
SSDI.

Perhaps what you meant to say is that when
applying don't worry about SSI or SSDI because
that is determined by the Social Security office.
Meaning there is no choice. Either one has the
quarters and they get SSDI, or they don't and
they get SSI.

The truly big difference is that Medi-caid/Medi-Cal
pays for med, Medicare does not.

SSDI = Medicare

SSI = Medicaid/Medical

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Question 1: True or False. It is more common for a man's left testicle to hang lower than his right.


Question 2: When a man ejaculates, the amount of sperm he releases on average is:
a) 1 teaspoon
b) 4 tablespoons
c) 1/2 cup
d) 1/4 cup.


Question 3: True or False. Early vibrators were used by doctors to bring women to orgasm as a part of medical treatment.


Question 4: A 2004 Cosmopolitan poll revealed what as a man's favorite sexual fantasy:
a) Doing it in public
b) Filming it
c) Tying someone up
d) Having a threesome.



Question 5: True of False. The "Kama Sutra" instructs men to make the sounds of the animals who lend their name to different positions like the dog, tiger or elephant.


Question 6: The G-spot can be found:
a) On the clitoris
b) Inside the vagina
c) On the cervix
d) Nowhere, it's a myth.


Question 7: True or False. Half of all American women say they have orgasms during sex.


Question 9: Which of the following primates has the largest erection:
a) A chimp
b) A gorilla
c) A human
d) A baboon.

Question 10: How many Americans in their 80s participate in sexual activities at least once a month:
a) 3 percent
b) 13 percent
c) 23 percent or
d) 33 percent

Go to the article for the answers:

http://www.asuwebdevil.com/issues/2005/ ... rts/692659

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... 5Apr1.html

Others Aware of Red Lake Plans, Officials Say
As Many as Four Believed to Have Helped Plot Attack

By Dana Hedgpeth and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, April 2, 2005; Page A03

RED LAKE, Minn., April 1 -- As many as 20 teenagers may have known ahead of time about plans for the shooting spree that resulted in the deaths of 10 people on the Indian reservation here March 21, tribal and federal officials said Friday.

Capt. Dewayne Dow of the tribal police told a group of parents, teachers and staff at a three-hour school board meeting that authorities believe as many as 20 students were involved.

Roland Lussier, left, comforted son Roland Jr. after a wake for his older brother, Chase, last week in Red Lake, Minn. The last funeral for the 10 who died in the March 21 shootings is scheduled for today, and observers said many young people on the Red Lake Band of Chippewa reservation are still on edge. (Richard Tsong-taatarii -- Star Tribune Via AP)

One law enforcement official said the FBI believes that as many as four students -- including gunman Jeff Weise and Louis Jourdain, a classmate arrested Sunday -- were directly involved in planning an attack on Red Lake High School, and well over a dozen others may have heard about the plot.

"There may have been as many as four of these kids who were active participants in the plot," said the official, who declined to be identified discussing an ongoing investigation. "The question is, how many other kids had some knowledge of this or had heard about it somehow? We think there were quite a few."

FBI agents plan to perform forensic analysis on 30 to 40 computers seized Friday from the high school computer laboratory, FBI and school officials said. Investigators hope to learn more from the school computers, since much of the alleged discussion and planning among Weise and his friends occurred through e-mails and instant messages, the law enforcement official said.

Those developments capped a week in which daily funerals or wakes kept many members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa in a state of stunned disbelief.

"It still feels like it's a bad dream," Donald May, a member of the tribal council, said in midweek. "We're in shock."

The burial for the last of the 10 fatalities was scheduled for Saturday. "I went to a lot of these funerals these past few days, and I'm just numb," said Allen Pemberton, another tribal council member.

As the week passed in this isolated community, the FBI's continuing investigation was compounding the residents' ingrained distrust of outside authorities.

"It used to be when you saw someone who's a non-Indian coming on the reservation, there's only one reason -- he's either an FBI agent or a Mormon," said Mike Fairbanks, a 40-year law enforcement veteran and a member of the Red Lake Chippewa.

Some of the distrust was cropping up between tribal members.

"I've been getting strange looks," said Cartera Hart, 16, as she left a grocery store on the reservation. Hart, who was dressed in black and wore a hoop through her lip, said she hangs out with about a dozen students who were friends with Weise and Jourdain, who is the tribal chairman's son. Friend Alyssa Roy, 15, said, "There's going to be more and more people tormenting us and thinking we're involved."

To cope with the attention, and with the shootings, some tribal members simply withdrew to their homes. As the weather turned warm and sunny on Thursday, basketball courts and parks were empty. A few younger children rode bikes around in their yards, close to their houses.

"I stay in my house, and I don't want my kids to go outside," said Barbara Bedeau, 42, who said she has struggled to explain the shooting spree to her daughter, 8. "I want them to stay close, near me. It's made us all scared."

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Others Aware of Red Lake Plans, Officials Say

At two counseling centers set up on the reservation, a handful of the counselors who had been brought in from around the area sat, one afternoon, sipping donated sodas and waiting for someone to counsel. Some parents said that their teenagers had gone for counseling the first few days after the shooting, but that they would like to see the roughly 30 counselors come to their houses, because they are nervous and afraid.

Many tribal members said they felt more comfortable talking about their grief in private, with friends and family. Some people said they were on edge as FBI agents showed up at residents' houses, and teenagers were being taken to the detention center for hours of questioning.

Roland Lussier, left, comforted son Roland Jr. after a wake for his older brother, Chase, last week in Red Lake, Minn. The last funeral for the 10 who died in the March 21 shootings is scheduled for today, and observers said many young people on the Red Lake Band of Chippewa reservation are still on edge. (Richard Tsong-taatarii -- Star Tribune Via AP)

"It's hard to see your kids go through this," said the father of two teenagers at the Red Lake high school, who asked that his name not be used because he is afraid that if other students were involved, they would go after his children. "They don't listen to as much music anymore" he said. "They don't seem to like to watch as much TV. They're not on the Internet as much."

At the high school grounds, a few miles from the man's house, police cars and yellow tape blocked the entrance. Teddy bears, flowers, candles and signs offering condolences hung along a metal fence in the schoolyard. Inside the school, the sounds of drills could be heard as workers repaired the damage.

School officials said they plan to reopen the nearby elementary school April 11, but are unsure when the middle school and high school would reopen. Some students say they are ready to go back and move on; others are trying to transfer to other school districts.

"I don't want to go back," said Amanda Lussier, 16, whose boyfriend, Steven Cobenais, was wounded in the shooting. Cobenais, 15, was listed in critical condition at MeritCare Hospital in Fargo, N.D.

"It will be too hard, knowing all that happened there," Lussier said.

Tribal chairman Floyd "Buck" Jourdain Jr. appeared at Friday's school board meeting and defended his son. "I sincerely feel my son is a victim, just like everybody else's," Jourdain said. "He's equally traumatized as anybody. He's been more traumatized, because he was a friend of Jeff Wiese's. The only thing he's being guilty of is being a friend."

Eggen reported from Washington. Special correspondent Dalton Walker contributed to this report from Red Lake.

http://namisandiego.org/factsheets/ptsd.pdf

Posttraumatic stress
disorder (PTSD) is an
anxiety disorder that
can occur after someone
experiences a traumatic
event that caused
intense fear, helplessness,
or horror. PTSD
can result from personally
experienced traumas
(e.g., rape, war,
natural disasters, abuse,
serious accidents, and
captivity) or from the
witnessing or learning
of a violent or tragic
event.
While it is common to
experience a brief state
of anxiety or depression
after such occurrences,
people with
PTSD continually reexperience
the traumatic
event; avoid individuals,
thoughts, or
situations associated
with the event; and
have symptoms of excessive
emotions. People
with this disorder
have these symptoms
for longer than one
month and cannot function
as well as they did
before the traumatic
event. PTSD symptoms
usually appear within
three months of the
traumatic experience;
however, they sometimes
occur months or
even years later
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
August 2003
How common
is PTSD?
Studies suggest that anywhere
between 2 percent
and 9 percent of the
population has had some
degree of PTSD. However,
the likelihood of
developing the disorder
is greater when someone
is exposed to multiple
traumas or traumatic
events early in life (or
both), especially if the
trauma is long term or
repeated. More cases of
this disorder are found
among inner-city youths
and people who have recently
emigrated from
troubled countries. And
women seem to develop
PTSD more often than
men.
Veterans are perhaps the
people most often associated
with PTSD, or what
was once referred to as
"shell shock" or "battle
fatigue." The Anxiety
Disorders Association of
America notes that an
estimated 15 percent to
30 percent of the 3.5 million
men and women
who served in Vietnam
have suffered from
What are the symptoms of PTSD?
Although the symptoms for individuals with PTSD can vary considerably, they
generally fall into three categories:
? Re-experience - Individuals with PTSD often experience recurrent and
intrusive recollections of and/or nightmares about the stressful event.
Some may experience flashbacks, hallucinations, or other vivid feelings
of the event happening again. Others experience great psychological or
physiological distress when certain things (objects, situations, etc.) remind
them of the event. (Continued)
to a feared situation as a way of
making him or her gradually less
sensitive to it.
Cognitive therapy is therapy that
helps people with PTSD take a
close look at their thought patterns
and learn to do less negative
and nonproductive thinking.
Group therapy helps for many
people with PTSD by having
them get to know others who
have had similar situations and
learning that their fears and feelings
are not uncommon.
Medication is often used along
with psychotherapy. Antidepressant
and anti-anxiety medications
may help lessen symptoms
of PTSD such as sleep problems
(insomnia or nightmares), depression,
and edginess.
There are a variety of treatments
for PTSD, and individuals respond
to treatments differently.
PTSD often can be treated effectively
with psychotherapy or
medication or both
Behavior therapy focuses on
learning relaxation and coping
techniques. This therapy often
increases the patient's exposure
? Avoidance - Many with PTSD will persistently
avoid things that remind them
of the traumatic event. This can result in
avoiding everything from thoughts, feelings,
or conversations associated with
the incident to activities, places, or people
that cause them to recall the event. In
others there may be a general lack of responsiveness
signaled by an inability to
recall aspects of the trauma, a decreased
interest in formerly important activities,
a feeling of detachment from others, a
limited range of emotion, and/or feelings
of hopelessness about the future.
? Increased arousal - Symptoms in this
area may include difficulty falling or
staying asleep, irritability or outbursts of
anger, difficulty concentrating, becoming very
alert or watchful and/or jumpiness and being easily
startled.
? It is important to note that those with PTSD often
use alcohol or other drugs in an attempt to selfmedicate.
Individuals with this disorder may also
be at an increased risk for suicide.
their families, friends, mental
health professionals and supportive
members of the community.
NAMI offers monthly informational
meetings, a monthly
newsletter, free educational programs,
a lending library of books
and video-tapes, and support
meetings for consumers and
families throughout the county.
NAMI San Diego, a non-profit
organization, provides education,
support services, and advocacy
to improve the quality of life
of everyone affected by mental
illnesses. It is an affiliate of the
National Alliance for the Mentally
Ill (NAMI) and NAMI California.
Its membership includes
persons with brain disorders,
For information and support, call
Albright Information
& Referral line
(800) 523-5933
(619) 543-1434
http://www.namisandiego.org
How is PTSD treated?
What are the symptoms of PTSD? (continued)
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I think the main reason to learn about
a potential mental illness is to be
able to either rule it in, or out,
as a correct diagnosis.

Then make an informed decision about
the treatment plan, and give it a
good clinical trial.

---

The negative thing about ignoring a
potential mental illness, with is
biological, is that a MI requires
medication and therapy for recovery.

If a biological condition is just
treated behaviorally, it won't go
away. The person will then feel
tortured in any program because
the core is not being treated.

After a mental illness, such as
Depression, Bipolar Disorder and
Schizophrenia is successfully treated
then the behavioral aspect may or
may not be still present.