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too much of any of them and I become liable to wander at night which was tolerable when it was just me in the house (the worst case would be I woke up in a diffferent part of the house) but last year my mum decided to move back in with me (having sold our former family house in SE England, which had become way too big and empty for her as she got older.

I have apparently once decided to wake and then go to sleep again in the stairwell (might have learned that from the cat we had back ni the 90s/2000s!) but was otherwise unresponsive, and a second time wandered out of my bedroom with no recollection of doing so. This scares my mum as Dad used to do this when he was younger and took way more benzos (and a great deal else) than me and he only made it as far as age 57.

I suspect it was more cigarettes (I have stopped with these since 2009), booze, stress at work/family and working with strong industrial chemicals that were more dangerous to his health. I still don’t drive a car so thats one less risk to myself and everyone (you cannot ride on your bike if you are too high as you overbalance when getting on it before you can do any more harm…) but those things did give me a scare too as I work on some computers and other stuff that is safety critical and I could accidentally harm old/vulnerable people or wreck the livelihoods of 150 other people across the world; which if I did through criminal negligence (and being full with unprescribed drugs when on duty counts as such) would (quite rightly) land me in Court and prison/mental hospital…

thanks – seems that Dad’s idea to send me and my sister to (different) Catholic junior schools in the 1980s might not have been such a bad thing – even if his belief in religion was directly proportional to how much of the benzos he took 😉 although its not sin to take drugs or booze if they are “medicine” and you otherwise behave well, at least learn some basic arithmetic and languages other than your first, and rescue your friends from the gutter if they overdo it. That way the angels are supposed to protect you; although it also fits in perfectly with the concept of harm reduction on Earth….

I am not that good a religious person and TBH was far worse when I was younger; (nor was Dad TBH) I still tihnk Father Ted is a perfectly accurate depiction of a lot of the things that go on in the Catholic church (and much that I have myself seen over the years).

any recent rediscovery of faith is an unintended consequence of my interest in radio eqiupment, languages and UK govt budget cuts; they shut off the BBC World Service transmitter on 648 KHz and whilst monitoring the MF frequencies I discovered Radio Maria Nederland on 675 KHz (one channel up from 666 KHz) and realised listening to this is a good way to keep up with both Dutch and German. Neither religion nor drugs should be taken to excess, in both cases that is harmful.

What I do find interesting is how the religious lot in mainland North Europe and some bits of the UK manage to still convince young people that faith exists and is a good idea, and most of the drug testing labs in EU (and also many computer security labs!) are funded in Catholic countries or regions or where folk are just slightly more religious. TBH how else would you expect young people today to still believe there is a entire extra universe of people and their associated ecosystems up above in the sky?

i can understand that; my parents initially didn’t know there was even a choice of faiths available for junior schools – and what I think is dodgy in England (may be different elsewhere) is that just about every so called ”non religious” infant and junior schools is run or part funded by Church of England but they don’t admit it. I had to pray in every junior school I attended and only two of them were openly religious. They only stopped with that for high school because EU or UN (possibly both) kicked up a fuss in the 1980s.

yet every other faith has to specify if a school is religious or they get accused of being a training ground for terrorists (or that happens anyway).

in other countries its completely illegal to force 4 year olds into compulsory education to start with (they can go to kindergarten if they want to); let alone make them follow religion. Hardly surprising we British take more drugs than most of the EU, starting from our teenage years…