Liveline: Thread with no name, Host with no shame

sligeach

Joe: You're horse! You're horse! 🐎

2smiggy

'i had to pay turty euro to talk to da doctor'

era piss off lisa

DoctorEdgeWild

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121400851#Comment_121400851

I've had far too many suicides in my friend group to ever decide that I know best when someone mentions it. It's a job for the doctors who have already diagnosed her. Not a ham fisted receptionist who is famous for his inability to communicate clearly.

She doesn't need caller's with zero medical knowledge diagnosing her, she needs actual doctors.

I’m honestly glad she may be getting the right help.

shearforce

"shurrup"

she hit a nerve alright, in my brain.

dvcireland

^^

NeinNeinNein

"Am I allowed to give out your second name? I have now".

Duffy, you absolute moron.

2smiggy

'lisa brady, if i am allowed to give your second name ...'

shearforce

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121400871#Comment_121400871

this is why he's on the big money

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121400863#Comment_121400863

Believe me the wrong doctors can be worse than useless. I was made seriously ill by a medical misadventure two months ago by well-meaning doctors who hadn’t a clue about how to handle a person with a colectomy. I agree it needs doctors, but she hasn’t been helped by the ones she has seen so far.

Edit - I’ve suffered severe depression along with my MS diagnosis, I did get a very effective medication which deals with that, by pressurising my GP to re-consider a certain prescription.

DoctorEdgeWild

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121400880#Comment_121400880

There's no doubt that the doctors CAN get it wrong. But we don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

The choice here was:

The doctors who had diagnosed her with several serious mental health problems.

Or

The crew who came on to diagnose her after ten minutes of listening to promote their Facebook pages.

Easy choice, and one that the National Broadcaster should have gotten right.

She does herself believe she has ADHD, and wants a complete specialist evaluation for this. Of course she could have Bipolar, and sometimes people have dual diagnoses. I can see Ireland now offers very poor psychiatric services, this was not always the case though. My father got excellent treatment for his severe depression way back in the 70s and was able to see his great psychiatrist easily as were the other patients with depression etc whom I met at the hospital. All got full attention. Now it’s the begging bowl to get near any mental health. Are now, it’s all being farmed out to charities and done incompetent bodies like CAMHS

LambshankRedemption

I didn't hear the segment but she was on with Joe for 20 ish minutes from what I can gather.

Her attention deficit can't be that bad.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121400946#Comment_121400946

Attention-Deficit-Hyperactive Disorder. The pediatrician who attended me in infancy told my mother she believed I had this….. waaaay back in the 1960s. My mother’s response “at least she is not mentally retarded”. “She’s far from that” said Dr Victoria Coffey, a then very well-known paediatrician.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Coffey

the attention deficit part happens when there is hyper-focus on one subject at hand, the attention diverts from some more important stuff that’s happening. It diverts at any time, it goes in tangents. Interest is gathered quickly, lost quickly. One can be driven and driven and driven, distracted by something else that garners attention. It often stops sleep, halts patience altogether. It’s not the most functional way of living, yet a person with it can be brilliant at times and have great imagination owing to the free flow of ideas. By same token mainstream, important stuff can be abandoned altogether. It goes in a pattern of circles. That woman resonated with me to some extent.

I think she needs a good neurological & psychiatric work up, and deserves it. Too many people in this country abandoned by services which have been relegated more to charity status.

https://www.verywellmind.com/add-symptoms-in-women-20394

There’s a lot of ignorance about exactly what ADHD actually is when it’s at home and it manifests differently in males versus females.

https://www.healthline.com/health/adhd/iq-adhd

As my teachers said to my mother, it’s a toss of the dice whether I excel or completely fail, I had the ability but was very unpredictable in my execution, half the time in my own little world.

Dan Jaman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121400592#Comment_121400592

"If the library's a-rockin'

Don't come a-knockin'."

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121401533#Comment_121401533

lol, that’s exactly what was happening. The mobile libraries were a hotbed of affairs from the boss, the drivers the staff on the ground. There was a giant hairy gorilla of a driver who knitted during stops… among other things. The boss, who was having an affair with an “old maid type” librarian arrived to one of the mobiles to find the trailer rocking and inside were the male and female staff member at it on the floor, using the mid-floor step as very useful leverage.

Used to smoke joints, drink homemade wine etc etc when I was in my 20s on them. Passed many a freezing winter’s night getting warm or merry.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058323792/my-ileostomy-you-tube

I have started a thread re my first video of a series I plan to explain ileostomy in all its facets and especially the positivity about it, but also the practicalities that turn up.

DLC333

Have you heard of ADHD Panda Syndrome caused by Strep bacteria ?

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JFK Assassination YouTube

50 Reasons for 50 Years

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121402162#Comment_121402162

I see it is an autoimmune reaction to strep in predisposed individuals. Bit like rheumatic fever type syndrome.

Re Dr Coffey, her poor black curly haired pooch had been killed on the road the first ever day I went to school. I ran out to the corpse in the middle of the road to see if I could do anything , I was barely 4. I remember so very well the dark blue blood pooled out from its mouth, and I wanted the world to stop. My mother said “that’s Dr Coffey’s dog, I will look after that when I leave you off at school”.

I told her to go away as soon as I reached school lest she be an embarrassment to me. Wasn’t a little sissy girl.

Later in life my mother told me that she called on Dr Coffey to break the bad news about her poor dog and that she was absolutely distraught as the animal had been her companion.

I had been appalled by the lack of a dog ambulance and swore I would become a “dog doctor” . I had the gumption to go right up to the severely injured dog, funny thing the way you develop a yuck response later.

2smiggy

the european overlords are looking to bring in stricter medicals and 'refresher' courses for over 70's to keep driving.

they should be told to go and fúck off at this stage. Honestly.

Eamon ryan and some fellow simpletons will no doubt tell them to cycle or use non existent public transport. or just stay in your house and hope some relation will take you shopping once a week

2smiggy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121400946#Comment_121400946

it was bad when she wanted it to be. could not shut for ages, then she shut up, then waffling away again on queue again.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121403503#Comment_121403503

That’s an awful prospect for people’s independence, and I worry about myself currently. I don’t have the endurance to drive long distances, but most days can travel locally in my lovely easy-drive automatic CH-R. I dread when I’ll be forced to give up. Just not able for Dublin buses, get sent flying precariously, can’t reach the door as I just can’t walk the aisle in a moving bus. Train is fine once I have a seat, and it can be a fight to get a LUAS seat. Usually somebody gives me a seat immediately but if it’s filled with heads of young wand with faces stuck in their phones I can end up having to ask one to relinquish seat.

Tow

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121403568#Comment_121403568

When I were a lad there was a posh auld battle axe who would get de bus into town every morning with me. I believe she was a professor in Joe's alma mater. Her voice and her walking stick were her weapons of choice. Woe betide any driver or passenger who did not obey her instructions. I was a person she would talk to, nothing but complaints about how inefficiently the buses were run and how the different depot managers responded to her complaints.

2smiggy

where I live, if you don't have your own transport, or family or friends on call, you may as well jump off a bridge into the river

littlevillage

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121403757#Comment_121403757

Would the current carry you to where you want to go? So to speak.

zell12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121403777#Comment_121403777

The river of life carries them

Bobson Dugnutt

What’s the story with people who hate Liveline and Joe Duffy listening to the show religiously every day? Is it some sort of weird fetish or something? Or a way of trying to form an online support group based around being painfully obvious and contrived?

strange auld behaviour tbh. Be interested in understand the reasons behind it.

archfi

Don't engage it.