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it's very simple, luke's vanity trumped his concern for his mental health. he discontinued taking his medication and his page is already showing it-the updates either seem to come at a trickle, if at all some days. then for several days, luke swings back into a mild hypomania despite his tennis elbow and writes more than he did in the previous four days.


from tom wolfe's hooking up-luke take your lithium!

"The demise of Freudianism can be summed up in a single word: lithium. In 1949 an Australian psychiatrist, John Cade, gave five days of lithium therapy--for entirely the wrong reasons--to a fifty-one-year-old mental patient who was so manic-depressive, so hyperactive, unintelligible, and uncontrollable, he had been kept locked up in asylums for twenty years. By the sixth day, thanks to the lithium buildup in his blood, he was a normal human being. Three months later he was released and lived happily ever after in his own home. This was a man who had been locked up and subjected to two decades of Freudian logorrhea to no avail whatsoever."

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Luke needs to be on Heroin (or Oxycontin) for his tennis elbow...He would be a smiling, sweaty mess and pretty soon there would finally be hardcore porn pics from all these shoots he attends posted on lukeisback.

Holly could then get him to quit cold turkey, take him in to her home detox, sing to him Like Drew Barrymore in that movie with Steve Zahn as her Heroin addicted loser husband, change the sheets when luke shits the bed in explosive diarrhea, then after 4-1/2 days they would bond and forever be together after such a life altering experience.

I should be a therapist...