This is not funny or fun, but I just need to waft a little of it off of my chest and out into the anonymous universe (especially since I’m traveling a lot right now and can’t see my therapist).

I applaud your honesty. My longtime boyfriend died ten years ago this weekend due in part to his addiction (crashed his motorcycle under the influence). His family still denies his drug use just as they did then. Every time we’re honest about addiction, we remove a little of the stigma that creates denial which…

I don’t recognize the men described here either. Truly I don’t. But I do know a lot of women who choose not to know a thing about their finances and to be dumb about cars and house fixing stuff.

I seriously came to this open thread to talk about the bad BPD week I’ve had with my mother (since I am currently banned from my parents’ home for stepping in when my mom was verbally abusing my niece and then got a lot of verbal abuse myself), but then I read your story. That is so much to be going through, and you…

Or me! Wow, there ARE a few of us brainwashed folks. :)

Good lord. Mine would do the same thing. She told the entire extended family plus her friends and acquaintances when my sister got HPV. She’s Borderline, though, so it’s par for the course. Sorry yours is that way too.

LOL. That is how he thinks! He plays the persecuted Christian a lot, so he blamed it on “the liberals” and got a sympathy bump that helped him win the primary. The flier appeared a few days before the primary. He got a lot of attention for his super long FB statuses and emails about it. This area is mainly rural,…

Oh you betcha. We are thrilled that our town made the news for such a noble reason.

I’ll ask my sister for some dirt — he was in her grade. The family has always been religious, but the level of crazy that came out when he started running for offices was surprising. I honestly think he’s mentally ill. It’s that level. He’s incredibly unethical and he performs it with stupidity. He home schools his…

I follow you. But this is just the flaming tip of the Courser iceberg. I went to high school with him. To be involved with someone that unethical for that long — lot more shit will be turned up. Here we’ve known about it for years.

You might also enjoy flier that he probably penned himself during the campaign accusing him of being a child molester. Got him the sympathy vote he needed to win!

Oh but he's the leader of the crazy train. He's my representative! This shit goes way deeper. He pulled all kinds of unethical shit to get elected. Just check out his web page if you want to witness the display of his mental illness.

He’s just that delusional. Think of him like a small town Trump.

Oh but see, he'd already used that one. Too obvious. During the campaign this flier circulated about him being a child molester. Lotta people are certain he wrote it himself.

Yeah, he’s from my hometown, and I already knew he was nutjob, but it still took me about five reads of the Detroit News article this morning. I decided to just bask in the crazy. That's all you can do.

This flier appeared when he was running for office — it accused him of being a child molester. Lotta people are pretty sure he wrote it himself.

This flier appeared during the election accusing him of being a child molester. Lotta people are pretty sure he wrote it himself to get a sympathy bump. Which worked, unfortunately.

If only. He represents my district. There's so much more bullshit going on in his office...

Oh, but there’s so much more for you to enjoy. I went to high school with this ranting Tea Party asswipe. He comes up with this shit in his sleep. He belongs in mental health custody.

She’s his Tea Party bestie. So she's an asshole for a lot of other reasons, if not this one.