http://disqus.com/by/Melissa00Y/enThu, 28 May 2009 18:21:34 -0000http://www.xenex.org/works/heshe.php#comment-10173897<p>I wrote this. My name is Melissa and you can find information about me on this website. This wasn't written for other people to enjoy or be grammatically correct, it was written to get something out of myself that was bothering me. I am not claiming to have not been involved in the downward spiral of things, I am claiming that my illness made it worse, faster, and hurt more in the end.</p><p>I did not use names so as to protect people's identities so I decided to accentuate the pronouns by capitalizing them as though they were actual names, sorry you didn't like that but its how it was done and others have told me they liked it in private communication. I am not trying to please everyone.</p><p>The "It" taking over my body was an oversimplification of how one feels when one is getting sick from a mental illness and while I do not have an illness to the point where there are times I have 0% control of my actions (yet), these illnesses do exist, trust me, I have seen them first hand. To be more accurate but less literary, my illness severely affected my actions, thoughts, and decisions in a highly negative way. Things would have gone differently had I not been sick. That was all I was trying to portray. Giving the illness a human like role allowed me to do this without sounding like a textbook on psychology. Was I ever completely out of control? No, but it was close a few times.</p><p>No, I am not a teenager but I would see nothing wrong with teenagers doing "stuff like this". Our next generation should be taught about alternative lifestyles and practice them if they are mature enough and do so safely.</p>Melissa00YThu, 28 May 2009 18:21:34 -0000http://www.xenex.org/h8n/swineflu.php#comment-9977416<p>Hey, I never claimed that the invasion of Iraq was a Zombie cover-up. I always said it was GWB being an idiot. The recession might be a zombie cover up but I know for DAMN sure this "swine flu" turns you into a zombie. I am not THAT stupid.</p>Melissa00YTue, 26 May 2009 21:26:55 -0000