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Letter To The Editor / Adaptation, Reality and Life
Letter To The Editor / Adaptation, Reality and Life
Jerry Weinstock
Being a Psychiatrist here in Key
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So, Dr Weinstock (USMC retired), please tell us how you really feel about things. Don’t hold back anything. Your litany about your feelings of hopelessness and helplessness is a start, a good start.
Heeding the words of a famous philosopher will really help:
Oddball, ‘Kelly’s Heroes movie’ “Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves. Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?”
1. “a medical officer With the Marine Corps special forces –prior to that”
• And here I thought the Marines’ unofficial motto was “Improvise, adapt, and overcome.” You disappoint me as you sound desperate, demoralized and defeated!
2. “10 per week. I speak to the callers to a limited degree, They are experiencing agony.”
• There are an estimated 30,000 psychiatrists in the USA. Pres Trump has been in office almost 76 weeks. That means that approximately 2,280,000 ‘snowflakes’ have melted so far! Pres Trump is having a “uuge success”.
• Can you estimate the number of calls you get from “deplorables (Ms. Clinton’s term)” per week?
If I was a Force Reconnaissance Marine, about to execute a direct action mission, the last thing I would need is counseling by a defeatist shrink. Again, might makes right. Always has and always will. As a 31 years Marine I know that we need pansies in the infermary and not on the front lines.
Freedom isn’t free and for a gracious society to exist, strong ones have to fight the battle for the inept and the ungrateful.
Mr. Sofranac, thank you for your service.
So you are saying that the Marines don’t have a “safe spaces, crying rooms, yellow cards, cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets, and a video of puppies” when threatened, stressed, troubled, traumatized, micro-aggressed, victimized or triggered?
This is absolutely shocking, just shocking. So yesterday, so militaristic, so alpha-male. How can they cope without all these back-up aids?
Mr. Sofranac’s reply is totally correct. Most of “civilized” society does not want to know how they afford their civility and nicieties, while outside their doors, the fighters provide their civilization, however unappetizing it may be to swallow.
Upon rereading you letter:
• Is your letter “a call for help?” Don’t psychiatrists have a psychiatrist they can call when “in agony”. If you do call, you will become the 2,280,001 “snowflake that melted”. On the positive side, Obamacare should cover the session/s.
• Most people I meet are “glass half full or half empty” types. You are a glass completely empty type and it appears someone took your glass too! This concerning.
• Let me try an “intervention”. “Snap out of it” (Cher, movie ‘Moonstruck’).
Oh Jerry, Jerry, Jerry. Relax, relax, relax. I’m so glad that you are finally retired from your long held head-shrinking craft. A well deserved retirement is obviously in order for your tortured soul. May I suggest for you some yoga classes, deep therapeutic massages, mud baths and frequent colonic cleanses for your obvious anal retention. Your future will be much brighter when you let go of those pesky control issues that clearly haunt you.
“I receive calls for appointments. Averaging about 3 a week but lately as many as 10 per week. I speak to the callers to a limited degree, They are experiencing agony.”
Given the above, I just realized that Michael Savage’s “Liberalism is a Social Disorder” is a psychiatric textbook. Amazing!
err my bad “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”