I spent this week attending a reunion of former work colleagues. I used to work in an industry where we spent a lot of time on the road together which created really strong and intimate friendships between us. Since being booted off facebook in early 2021, I generally miss all of these stories as they happen; because these are friends that I don’t now regularly communicate with. That is, if they even post the story in our facebook group-most are probably not mentioned there anyhow. I didn’t have time for long conversations with most of the other 40+ attendees this weekend, but here are 3 of the stories from those that I did have time to talk at length with.
Friend 1: Child is 18 years old and completely non-functional. This child was adopted out of a foreign orphanage at age 2 and raised in a loving family with one sibling. Child started partying and doing drugs at 13-14 and has “trauma-based” mental health issues stemming from infancy spent in orphanage without much human interaction and certainly without a mother’s love. Was sent to an in-patient rehab facility in 2021 and is now home with mom & dad and drug free except marijuana and pharmies for mental health. Is attending a music program at a local college, plays a lot of video games and wants to become a famous DJ.
Friend 2: Child is 17 years old, had serious mental breakdown in 2021. Was sitting in the kitchen with a knife threatening suicide after cutting off own hair. Appeared as though in a trance. Police were called and immediate admittance to psychiatric facility was considered, although child was ultimately kept home that night. Psychiatric treatment including pharmies & therapy since and child is “managing” but not great.
Friend 3: Young man 26, the son of one of my former colleagues (who died suddenly in August 2022). Told me he recently stopped being vegan after 8-9 years. Spoke of major improvement in his overall health since eating protein again. Said he gained 10 pounds almost immediately, doesn’t get sick often as he did while vegan and feels generally much better. I asked his motivation behind the diet change originally and he told me the idea came from an AP course he took in high school (in an uber-progressive city) on The Environment. In this course he was taught about the destruction of the planet and how much damage food animals do to the earth and will lead to the demise of the planet. He decided that he was not going to contribute to this destruction so he went vegan. We talked about the social programming aspect of that class and how he now sees that he (and other classmates) was manipulated at an impressionable age into doing something that was in fact harmful to his own health. It was a fascinating conversation!
Several others spoke of their children starting college in the past 2 years and “failing to launch” returning home after one semester because they couldn’t “handle” school and being away from home. Another friend (mother of 4) lost her husband “suddenly” few years ago.
Things are just not right in 2023.
Thank you for sharing those things. It is very enlightening. I have a niece who is vegetarian rather than vegan but she was never been keen on meat as a child. She looks fine on her diet.
However I am aware she went through a period last year of being down. She is at university and so some of this may just be stress. But whilst I don't pester my family about avoiding the vaccines although I have told them in 2020, it seems that she probably has had them. As the vaccines are if anything neuro-toxic they do interfere with the brain which leads to anxiety.
My wife and I are not great meat eaters but enjoy a varied balanced diet. Meat is expensive anyway and we but organic as hopefully if the animals are raised properly they will not have poisons in them or at least not too many.
However, the farm shop we buy from sends off its pork for processing into bacon etc. Sadly the firm they use puts sodium nitrite (E250) in the meat so what was organic is now poisoned !
https://alphaandomegacloud.wordpress.com/2022/11/19/sodium-nitrite-e250-the-poison-in-your-food-and-how-to-remedy-it/