Health

Eclipse -You shouldn’t beat yourself up about it. My ex-wife is in the process of making most of my kids frei, and I do what I can to combat this, but I won’t let this eat me up alive! Good luck!

Tzippy -Noone has to demand treatment from medical professionals. If someone is feeling slugish and can’t stand the cold -let them get a blood test called TSH (Tests thyroid function). I’ll give you hypothroidism, but not PCOS. PCOS only a woman can have. It’s true that these patients are classically obese, but one of the treatments for PCOS is to lose weight!

Finding good therapists is even harder than finding good doctors. There aren’t many, but they do exist, even in the frum community.

An org. called “Relief” helps frum people in this regard.

That’s true. You can learn this from that. But with teens they sometimes need extra help, not just from parents, schools, friends. A lot of times they need therapy. It’s sometimes a good idea to go for family therapy.

I like the notion that only people with internet, TV, etc. can do aveiros, noone else?!?!!?? Also, how come when the telephone first came out, why didn’t all the gedolim assur it? People are oiver many issurim every second on the phone, eg. L.H.

The chillul Hashem & breaking the rules were getting on the bus without change, if you do it all the time. In Israel, anything goes, here most drivers follow the regs.; which I’ll repeat, since you are having a hard time grasping them, – not to stop to pick someone up once they close the door or move out of the bus stop!

Cherrybim – Judges are just former lawyers, not angels. And lawyers never lie, they just have a different perspective of the truth than the rest of us!

Homeowner – It’s about time we start voting out the anti-semitic judges, who always find the frum Jew wrong. They did it in Iowa with the pro-gay judges; let’s do it here. We also have to get rid of federal judges without the congress involvement. We have to lobby our gov. to change the law. Too many judges don’t practice justice and they get away with it. I personally think a lot couldn’t care less, as long as they don’t look that bad and they clean their docket list!

MDD & others – Let me clarify what I meant: The Torah is Hashem’s words. Listening to the Torah is Rozon Hashem (Hashem’s will). Certain things we would know that Hashem wants us to do without him actually having to write it down; eg. murder. Like by Kayin -he should have figured out killing is wrong with his own sense. To repeat my answer to the original poster: All morality comes from Hashem -it’s only moral if Hashem wants us to do it. If Hashem didn’t care if we killed each other -then it wouldn’t be immoral! One example: Acc. to the law if someone breaks into your house and tells you I’m just here to steal and I won’t hurt you and I have no weapons -you aren’t allowed to do anything physical to him. This is immoral acc. to our laws- to harm him. Acc. to the Torah, you can kill him, no matter what he says. This would be perfectly moral acc. to the Torah!

Chevrah -I actually believe you (probably one of the few). The problem here was, that the Judge had to make a quick decision, so bacically she did whatever she wanted. Next time go to a real Court and use a real lawyer. I actually don’t feel bad for them, considering I’ve gone to court and the Judges were very far from honest and truthful. “Kol Hadom Koizev”. We daven everyday for the restoration of true Judgement.

Some sort of personality disorder -probably Dependent or possibly Borderline. Definitely needs to go to a shrink for diagnosis and treatment.

Mod 80- “in general they talk a lot about “lifestyle” but are not really committed to the idea

they generally prefer to throw some pills at the “patient”.

thats the bulk”

Maybe this is true about your colleagues, but the majority that I know are not like that! It sometimes seems this way, but in reality -practioners have little choice. We can’t force patients to do anything, so if they won’t do what you tell them -what should we do -not give them meds?!!

Who eats turkey soup?

Sam – If everyone went to a nutritionist and followed what they said, a lot of people could quit their meds. But they won’t, will they? You blame people’s lack of will power on the medical field. It’s very convenient for you to have a scapegoat for all the world’s problems. Blame us if you want, but most normal people know the truth!

L613 -Who told you NIRC has a good secular education? The learning is ok, but I don’t think the English dept. is so great. Just because they allow you to attend college, doesn’t mean they have a great secular high school.

Eclipse – A piece of advice -when something isn’t working -don’t keep knocking on the same door. Try a different career – esp. try a different community, not the yeshiva world -try a different neighboorhood. Above all, keep trying- never, ever give up!

At least they let you return it. If you come from my area, there are certain national companies that have a no return policy. If you call up the company and want to exchange or return their products, they look up your zip. If you live in my zip code, they won’t allow you to do it. It’s because some of our brethen have taken advantage previously and this is the outcome.

Blinky – I always drink Grape Juice for Kiddush and Havdalah, so it doesn’t matter if I’m fasting, but one year I fasted Erev Pesach and broke it on wine. (I don’t use Grape Juice for Arba Kossos.) This was before the invention of all these weak wines. I don’t recall ever being so sick from wine, like I was that Pesach nite. Since then, I always make sure to get to a siyum Erev Pesach!

Why when everyone talks about weight -it’s because of how the man or woman look on the outside? How come noone mentions the issue that being overweight is a major health issue in this country?

Bezalel -Yes it is, but you know how the gov. is with their tax money. It goes something like this: One for me, one for you. Nah, two for me and one for you! You get the idea.

Mr. Hirsch -There is another aspect that you aren’t taking into account that didn’t apply during the prohibition years. Medicine is getting more technologically advanced day by day. These smokers are becoming a financial burden on society as we can prolong a lot of their lives. They are now producing a protocol to detect lung cancer at an early stage. (90% of lung CA is due to smoking.) They want to make this widespread on smokers and former smokers. It will become to smokers as mammography is to women. We definitely should help people live longer, even if the cause of their illness is their own vices. But, why should the rest of us pay for this? Hence, the gov. wants to keep raising taxes on cigarettes. Let them at least pay partly for their future medical care! Most experts say we can’t afford to pay for medical care right now, let alone in the future. We are busting at the seams. Probably in the not so distant future we will be rationing health care, not what most Americans want. This is what occurs in western society, in all these socialist countries, right now!

I have an idea -maybe the gov. should put pictures that are ossur to look at on the box and then the yeshivos would finally asser smoking and throw out all smokers who won’t quit!

Minyan gal -go back on the chantix and take an anti-emetic.

Even if everyone would stop smoking today, there would still be enough lung cancers from smoking for many years to come. Smokers alone keep us medical people in business.

WIY -Today’s TV has programs called reruns, which I know some of them aren’t bad. A parent has to make sure what the kids are watching. It’s true what your saying about Family guy or other such cartoons. I personally have never watched them, but the way I understand it is that Hollywood developed cartoons for adults. They aren’t meant for children. Even Hollywood makes a distinction between adults and children on what’s appropiate. Just because you watched the worse of the worse, doesn’t mean there is nothing “Kosher” on.

WIY -Your mistake is that we all come from Yaakov and not Eisav. I don’t think that everything on TV is bad, only some things. Parents who do have TV’s should definitely monitor their kids -how much they watch, what they watch, etc. Don’t destroy these kids, because their parents let them do whatever they want, by throwing them out. They are your brothers, sons of Yaakov Aveinu, just like you!