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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5202601" data-attributes="member: 54707">Not at all. I wasn't a psychiatrist though. A psychologist. It wasn't too bad. The internships ran concurrent with the studies.And I gave it up for the same reason I gave up being a teacher. (Though I now homeschool my kids and occasionally teach for both college and church.)I gave it up because I was working for the state. And they wouldn't let me cure anyone. Wouldn't let anyone cure anybody. Not even treat them decently. Just wanted them shot full of drugs and warehoused so the private contractors housing them for the state could collect money for each patient so warehoused.Cures were actively discouraged. Subsidies and state welfare quotas were encouraged. It was a scam. After I saw where it was going and that it wasn't gonna change, I bailed and went on to other things. Nobody was gonna get cured, and nobody could be cured as heavily as they sedated them. Treatment was sedation. The guy working boss over the whole project took me out to lunch one day. We got into a discussion on psychology and different treatment methods and he didn't even know who Adler or Jung or James were. He didn't really know any treatment methods other than heavy drug therapies. I kid you not. Nice guy, totally clueless about his chosen profession. And I think he liked it that way. Fill out the right paperwork, talk to each patient the required thirty minutes a week, sign off on meds, back to their beds. It was convenient. Just like when I was a teacher in the public system everything but a real education was discouraged, a quota of other things were encouraged. So when I saw that wasn't gonna change anytime soon either, I quit it. I don't like being involved in things where the system actually discourages success and achievement. I prefer the opposite course, where things actively encourage success and achievement. I thought about private practice in psychology but by then I was gravitating towards writing full time and business.That's interesting. Never ate it, and never heard of doing that.It's real heavy in some fields, especially near the river. But it's mighty, mighty hard to kill and will choke off most anything else around. And it's a real pain trying to slog through. I avoid it.You can burn it off, but that's hard to do too unless it's really, really dry.Maybe I've overlooked it though as a,potential source of medicines or nutrients. I'll go get some and examine it under a microscope and test it some with my chemicals. See what it shows.Well, it's my weekend off for the month. The wife and I have an arrangement where she gets one weekend a month off, and I get one off. So I think I'm gonna go do some yardwork since the sun is low and check the habitats and then maybe go out to the lake.See ya. And have a good weekend everybody.</blockquote>

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