(be sure to scroll down and look at the left hand side of the screen. I found a website that is keeping legitimate track of civilian causalities in Iraq.)

"What do you get when you put American psychiatry, drug companies, the FDA, and the Bush administration all together in the same room? You get a whole lot of madness that’s what. At the center of all this madness are Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil." (I have been on 2 of the 3)

When Zoloft user Victor Motus shot and killed himself, Bill Clinton was President and a lawyer named Daniel Troy was suing the FDA on behalf of Zoloft’s manufacturer, Pfizer. By the time the Motus case went to trial in a wrongful death suit, George Bush was President and Daniel E. Troy had been appointed Chief Legal Counsel for the FDA.

"Living up to the title The Lilly Suicides, Eli Lilly, maker of Prozac, remains the target of product liability actions asserting that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) can produce agitation, violence, and suicide."

"A number of civil actions, including some class-action suits, have made the case that terminating one’s use of SSRIs can have severe and dangerous physical and psychological consequences, including nausea, dizziness, sleep disturbances, and agitation. These consequences can make it very difficult for an individual to discontinue the drug, thereby creating a physical dependence on it. Moreover, a 1997 report by the World Health Organization shows how GSK’s Paxil appears to be especially problematic in this regard. "

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Remembered the Missing
Sandalwood and sweat cloud my judgment
No sleep and long talks keep me vulnerable
Trust and Need flood in from a fresh wound
Child laughter and tears stir motivation
Comfort in being comfortable lulls me to sleep
Resistance against pious assumptions from many

*~ little bit of my last couple of days.

a ripple in still water. - echos through to oceans.

For the last year I have openly announced my pain and anger towards my son’s father. The fact that he could not bring himself to take on the responsibilities and sacrifices that our child would bring.
Three days ago, my (13 month old) son finally met his father for the first time. In that instant any grudge, feelings of betrayal, and pain I had stored away, locked in some seeping wound, seemed to fade out of me as I watched tears of regret and sorrow fall from his father’s eyes. I have no idea how I can forgive him so easily. By no means is he justified for the year of absence and broken promises he so easily gave to us.
I just want to concentrate on the present time, not making up for the past, but simply moving on and trying to embrace the future with hope and trust. Most everyone around me has his or her opinion about this situation. More often than not they think I am making a horrible mistake. – I don’t care. I am doing what I think is best for my family. I am putting my son and I out on a faltering limb of trust. I am, for once, putting faith in something that I have that unrelenting fear of ‘not knowing’ why I should. This faith is undeserved. I know this. I just can’t ‘Do unto others as they have been done to you”. This is not an eye for an eye type of world – at least not the world I chose to surround myself with. The world I believe in does not need justifications to that extent. There are such things as (huge) mistakes, ultimate betrayal, lack of humanity, etc. Just as there is undeniable compassion, understanding (even if it hurts), gaining knowledge to be able to close your eyes to blame and pointing fingers – just so you can open them to forgiveness and an unknown source of hope.

I have my doubts and suspicions that he, may still, let us down - shatter that trust again and tear open the scare tissue of hatred. I am not going to let that stop me from what I think is going to be best for my son. The latter of the two options on how this will end is worth the risk.

- Just like the bottom of Pandora’s Box…underneath the crap of the world is Hope.

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