ahmo
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@jimells Thank you for your eloquence.
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My name is Jim. I'm 58 years old. This disease has wrecked my health, but it is society that has wrecked my life.
Using Peterson's estimate: Nineteen million patients world wide. Every year they experience a years worth of torment and suffering. So that is nineteen million person years of suffering, every year, for people with a disease that is being ignored. Even in the US alone that is a million years of suffering per year, presuming the one million estimate. If its really four million ....
That suicide, though often contemplated, does not happen because we have neither the strength nor the planning to carry it out.
EditedIt happens all too often.
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