Topic: Re: Blog Thread IIa: Beyond Blogosphere. (Read 216147 times)

Zingoleb · « **Reply #700 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 22:18 »

Quote from: nobo on 17 Jul 2009, 20:25

Sounds like you need a new hobby. Get a bike or something off of craigslist. It'll get your ass out of bed and some place new every day. Plus the endorphins will make you feel better, and after a long bike ride you'll sleep better.

The closest place is Wal-mart, about six miles away. Fuck that.

I need to get a job because I have no money and that is really stifling me. But with my mental problems it's hard for me to apply for/get/keep a job so I am *seriously* hoping that by the time I'm done being run through the mental health clinic and they're done giving me tests and having evaluations done I can be on some form of disability.

Then the other problem is that I really, really don't want to be a leech.

Though, on second thought, getting a bike's not a bad idea.

David_Dovey · « **Reply #701 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 22:28 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 17 Jul 2009, 20:11

Hey, but I'll be drinking heavily tomorrow. That's bound to cheer me up.

Nothin' like a deppressant to chase away the blues.

sean · « **Reply #702 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 23:39 »

im gonna see harry potter and the awkward teenage romance tomorrow but i might fall asleep cause i have work in 7 hours and im still awake.

fkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

also saw a good show tonight might do a show report.

sean · « **Reply #703 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 23:41 »

also weirdly enough i am my most creative at the weirdest times, such as being tired as fuck in the wee hours in the morning. i dont get it!

sean · « **Reply #704 on:** 17 Jul 2009, 23:44 »

i just realized that last sentence had horrible syntax. weirdly, then weirdest. is that syntax? well, whatever it is, its a fucking grammatical mess.

okay bedtime see you later forums.

Reed · « **Reply #705 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 00:24 »

Bleh, I'm stuck in Lenox, Mass with my grandma and cousin (who happens to be a big bag of awkward) going to concerts at Tanglewood. It's boring as fuck out here, and I probably won't even get to sleep in tomorrow (It's 3:30 AM right now, they will probably wake me up between 7 and 7:30).

I would so much rather be sitting on my ass in my apartment!

JD · « **Reply #706 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 00:36 »

I got back from Australia guys. I also got a bunch of family at my house. Woo, reunions!

est · « **Reply #707 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 00:54 »

Oh man, Reed. I have been in Lenox, Mass. When I was there it looked hells of boring. You have my sympathy!

Yunior · « **Reply #708 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 01:24 »

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 17 Jul 2009, 23:44

i just realized that last sentence had ~~horrible syntax~~ polyptoton. weirdly, then weirdest.

Triple posting, huh

Gemmwah · « **Reply #709 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 02:13 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 17 Jul 2009, 20:11

Hey, but I'll be drinking heavily tomorrow. That's bound to cheer me up.

Drinking while depressed is not one of the most intelligent things in the world. And I really wish you'd stop posting about your "mental health problems" because the way you word it, ninety percent of what you say sounds entirely like bullshit.

Quote from: Zingoleb on 17 Jul 2009, 20:11

Granted, I could get on anti-depressants but when I do that I'm so annoyingly happy that people want me to go away so there's no point in that.

This is not what anti-depressants do.

It's irritating and insulting because this is pretty much all you've posted about from day one, and I've had enough. Serious mental illness is a quiet and private affair and the fact that you've picked this board to bitch about your life is ridiculous enough in itself. If you want support, find someone to talk to who has experience, or even find a forum designed to support people who have mental health issues. This is not the place for attention seeking crap and spinning lies. It belittles genuine problems that other people have to deal with and I'm finding it hugely offensive, to say the least.

allison · « **Reply #710 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 05:07 »

I had a really fucking fantastic night last night! I went to see Bo Burnham (of internet fame!) as part of Just For Laughs and he was much funnier live than he is on YouTube. Also, I saw Chris Murphy (of Sloan!) walking through the Eaton Centre and as I am hopelessly in lust with him, all I could do was stare! He smiled and winked and I swooned.

Today: ROLLERCOASTERS!

evilbobthebob · « **Reply #711 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 05:34 »

I feel like Wil. Two days of application forms and CVs, and I doubt I'll get anything from any of them. Unlike Wil though, I'm completely prepared to do utterly boring manual jobs. I saw an ad about cleaning bins, but unfortunately you needed to have equipment. I do feel like an idiot for having a gap year now though. I don't actually plan to go cool places or anything, but it looks like I won't have anything better to do. Hmm. Maybe I should go on a road trip round Europe or something. I have relatives in Sweden and there's a girl I know who wants to go on a road trip at some point

Joseph · « **Reply #712 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 05:38 »

I am finding myself more and more estranged from my apartment mates. I can no longer hold a conversation with most of them for more than five minutes, which is getting a bit distressing. Thankfully, there's still stuff to see about the city, but I find that more than anything else, I end up reading a bunch or spending a ton of time online. I really can't wait for the course to be over at this point (have an exam and a composition to do though), and get the rest of the traveling underway. I think once I'm on the move, this'll all be a lot easier.

It's not so much that I'm lonely, I guess; more that I figured out of the 10 people I'm living with, I'd have a bit more common ground with at least one of them.

valley_parade · « **Reply #713 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 05:48 »

What happened last night:

-Went to a show at a record store with some friends. The one band I wanted to see sucked, so I spent most of the time browsing vinyl and chatting up two Canadian girls.

-One of them was wearing a skirt and wanted to mosh. Asked if I had boxers on. I dropped trou in the middle of downtown Pittsfield and let her borrow my jeans for like 20 minutes.

-Bought TEH PUNX on vinyl

-Went to a party, had drunken, cake infused, messy makeouts.

it was a night. It was a night.

Aimless · « **Reply #714 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 06:59 »

Quote from: Gemmwah on 18 Jul 2009, 02:13

This is not what anti-depressants do.

Uhm. I'll readily admit that I don't know either you or Zingo, but such a categorical dismissal isn't entirely appropriate. It depends on what he means with antidepressants, what his therapy regimen looks like, what his actual underlying disorder is, what else he's consuming... just saying. People are different, and, when it comes to psychotropic drugs, nothing is clear-cut.

EDIT: Quoted the wrong bit, sorry!!

tania · « **Reply #715 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 07:12 »

Quote from: allison on 18 Jul 2009, 05:07

I went to see Bo Burnham (of internet fame!) as part of Just For Laughs

my old roomie and her girlfriend were there too! haaaaate

okay no i don't really hate you or her i am just hell of jealous

Jimmy the Squid · « **Reply #716 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 07:36 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 17 Jul 2009, 20:11

Whinge fuckin' whinge.

I'm going to try and not be mean to you but dude I do not think you are taking the right kind of anti-depressents. At best they kind of bring you back to normal, usually they kind of just blank out emotions?

Can I have your anti-depressents? Are you sure you're using them right?

Aimless · « **Reply #717 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 07:41 »

There's a wide range of reactions to any given class of medication used clinically for the treatment of depression. Some people experience something that is almost akin to mania. Or _is_ frank mania. I get the impression the latter is more common among those who're more bipolar than anything else, of course.

Anyway, didn't he say something about not yet having learned what his underlying disorder is?

Sox · « **Reply #718 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 07:53 »

I used to have a friend who was started on anti-depressants after she tried to kill herself. She went from drawing black and red suicides to drawing brightly colour ponies and "kawai" stuff. She refused to take them for years because of the reasons Jimmy already said, but then she was put on something that stopped the mania and seemed to put her on a permanent upswing.
I wonder how she's doing right now, actually. I'm gonna try track her down.

Barmymoo · « **Reply #719 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 14:17 »

I had the funniest day at work today. We've just introduced a Think 25 policy for age-restricted products (as opposed to Think 21; if you look under 25 you will be asked for ID) and it resulted in a lot of people being asked for ID when they are well over 30, because we're all so edgy about the policy. I asked a group of Polish men for ID and they didn't understand me, and my supervisor had to come over and speak some very sketchy Polish to them. We got there in the end and they were all over 25, so I felt a bit silly but never mind.

The funny part was how many ridiculous things happened because of the policy. A girl (also Polish; we have a large Eastern European population at the moment) came in and bought quite a bit of booze, and I asked her for ID. She showed me her Polish passport and it said she was a month older than I am, although afterwards my supervisior said she was pretty sure that she'd seen the girl in school uniform which suggests it isn't actually her passport. I think she has an older sister, so she probably used that. Anyway she came back in later and tried to buy more booze, and was IDed again a total of three times whilst going round the shop. They followed her out (we were a bit suspicious at how a small girl can drink a bottle of WKD, six cans of lager and a bottle of wine in an hour and come back for more) and discovered she was selling it on to smaller children, so she has been permanently banned from buying alcohol in-store now.

The second thing was that a woman came in with her son, who was about 11, and he went off to buy some stuff for himself. He bought a can of Shandy Bass and his mother went ballistic, saying "who sold you that? It's got beer in it!" and so forth. There was a big kerfuffle with the managers because there is no point in having a Think 21 policy if something alcoholic gets missed off the system, and it turns out that shandy has 11% beer but only 0.5% alcohol content.

And finally a man was standing in the queue at the cigarette kiosk and starting shouting about how there weren't enough staff on the tills (there are only two tills there, and the second cashier had just gone on a coffee break). They put me onto the other kiosk till and we got the queue down but he kept on shouting at my supervisor, saying "When I win the lottery I will not shop here any more!" and so forth. The supervisor looked at him and said "why wait til you win the lottery?".

Anyway it was funny if you were there. TL;DR: our shop's new policy regarding alcohol creates a lot of drama.

Alex C · « **Reply #720 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 14:58 »

As a young looking dude I've always thought it was kinda funny yet sad how relieved people behind the counter look when I dig out my ID and my money at the same time and fork it over without even being prompted. It shouldn't have to be that difficult of a process yet an amazing number of people seem to get miffed about presenting their ID. I really don't understand why people with proper ID should really feel put out over it; I keep my money and my ID in the same place anyway. We're all in this together, people, just make it easy for the nice person to give you your booze.

nobo · « **Reply #721 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 15:18 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 18 Jul 2009, 14:17

As a polish man who is not quite 25, I find your story humorous.

Also, next time ask

Macie legitemacje? (Mah-chye leh-gi-te-ma-tsyeh?) for Do you have your papers? That should work.

MrBlu · « **Reply #722 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 15:19 »

Why are there so many spammers on Twitter...?

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Quote from: Misconception on 17 Jul 2009, 21:10

Johnny bring us an ice-cream cake that says LEBIANS on it. Please.

Oh God, I'm so late

Lines · « **Reply #723 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 16:17 »

I am going to have Japanese food, go skating, and maybe go to an arcade. Fun will be had. And then I will come home and not be able to sleep because I'll be so excited that I'll be in Chicago in two weeks. Ohhhhhhh MAN.

J-cob9000 · « **Reply #724 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 16:27 »

For right now, i hate all of you that are having fun because I am sick as fuck and do not feel like doing shit.
And I'm cold as balls. I hate fevers.

Hat · « **Reply #725 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 16:48 »

Quote from: Yunior on 18 Jul 2009, 01:24

Quote from: Objects inside Clouds on 17 Jul 2009, 23:44
i just realized that last sentence had ~~horrible syntax~~ polyptoton. weirdly, then weirdest.

Triple posting, huh

Oh my god

the best part about this

is I just made up the word monoptotic

for rapping

(gonna make a rap about words that violate the sonority sequencing principle)

ViolentDove · « **Reply #726 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 17:01 »

Covering the Sydney Roller Derby Grand Final today!

Woooooooooooooooo

MrBlu · « **Reply #727 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 17:48 »

Quote from: Hat on 18 Jul 2009, 16:48

sonority sequencing principle

I'm liking this forum more and more because these folks send me to Google/Wikipedia so often.

Lines · « **Reply #728 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 21:25 »

So tonight: Food was good. For whatever the skating rink we were aiming to go to was closed, so no skating, but the arcade was awesome. It was a variety of classic through mid-90s arcade games and was super awesome. I was definitely the only girl there and it didn't go unnoticed by the guys who ran the place, which made me laugh.

nobo · « **Reply #729 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 22:13 »

Nice! I went to a buddy's house and we played Mario: lost worlds (original NES Mario2) for 6 hours and only got to level 7-1. that game is ridiculously hard.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #730 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 22:42 »

Quote from: Gemmwah on 18 Jul 2009, 02:13

Quote from: Zingoleb on 17 Jul 2009, 20:11
Hey, but I'll be drinking heavily tomorrow. That's bound to cheer me up.

Drinking while depressed is not one of the most intelligent things in the world. And I really wish you'd stop posting about your "mental health problems" because the way you word it, ninety percent of what you say sounds entirely like bullshit.

No, it's not, but I thought it might help me out a bit. Not that anything happened - the booze was canceled, or something. I don't know. Also! Glad that you see fit to call me a liar. This is why I generally tell no one at all about my problems because this is the general response I get.

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Quote from: Zingoleb on 17 Jul 2009, 20:11
Granted, I could get on anti-depressants but when I do that I'm so annoyingly happy that people want me to go away so there's no point in that.

This is not what anti-depressants do.

They always seem to have for me in the short times I've taken them.

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It's irritating and insulting because this is pretty much all you've posted about from day one, and I've had enough. Serious mental illness is a quiet and private affair and the fact that you've picked this board to bitch about your life is ridiculous enough in itself. If you want support, find someone to talk to who has experience, or even find a forum designed to support people who have mental health issues. This is not the place for attention seeking crap and spinning lies. It belittles genuine problems that other people have to deal with and I'm finding it hugely offensive, to say the least.

You're right! It's a private affair that no one - I repeat, no one - in my life knows about. I choose here because it affords me a degree of anonymity and I can fairly freely say how I'm feeling. I go to a counselor who sees me a grand total of once a month for an hour. Is this enough for me? No, it's not, because all I feel and go through feels so vastly overwhelming that I can't just talk about it in one small session like that. This is just a good way to let out what's on my mind, and if you don't want to hear it, that's fine, but I don't appreciate being called a liar.

Quote from: Jimmy the Squid on 18 Jul 2009, 07:36

Quote from: Zingoleb on 17 Jul 2009, 20:11
Whinge fuckin' whinge.

I'm going to try and not be mean to you but dude I do not think you are taking the right kind of anti-depressents. At best they kind of bring you back to normal, usually they kind of just blank out emotions?

Can I have your anti-depressents? Are you sure you're using them right?

I've had limited experience with them and it wasn't really pleasant for the people around me. Of course, I don't actually realize this until later on when I've calmed down and realized how fucking annoying I was on them. Same shit happens when I get happy.

I had a nice big post on how I've had a moderately good day and some things that happened to me today that actually matter, but I'll probably just be called an attention seeker for saying that I am doing something with my life.

est · « **Reply #731 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 22:56 »

I think one of the main problems I have with you is that you are telling us all this personal shit all the time and we don't even know you.

When you see people in here talking about stuff that has happened in their lives and people listening and caring more often than not it is because that person has been around here for a few years and talked to some of us outside the forums and they've generally gotten to know people instead of flooding the blog thread with the drama of their life when we don't even have the first clue about who they are.

est · « **Reply #732 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 22:58 »

I mean, there are plenty of other bullshit forums for you to vent on anonymously if that is what you want to do. This forum is not for that kind of shit.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #733 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 23:05 »

Ach, fuck me.

I'll just shut up, then. I really shouldn't expect any more than this.

Sorry for shitting up your lives guys, I'll go be quiet like a good boy.

Eris · « **Reply #734 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 23:11 »

Quote from: est on 18 Jul 2009, 22:56

I think one of the main problems I have with you is that you are telling us all this personal shit all the time and we don't even know you.

This is basically the main gripe here. I mean, it is like you sitting on a bus and telling everyone about the voices you hear in your head, or any of the number of issues you have been telling us about. You are on the very outer level on intimacy with us, and didn't let us get to know you even slightly before telling us about all this, so we have no connection to you.

Plus, there is also the added aspect that on the internet we don't know if anything you are saying is true or not, and after being burned before, some people around here tend to be very skeptical about what people say about their personal lives. You, for all intents and purposes, could be lying about all this; you could also be telling the truth, but we have no way of knowing. You being very eager to talk about it all and having a shopping list of symptoms doesn't make it sound very believable to someone who doesn't know you from a bar of soap.

Zingoleb · « **Reply #735 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 23:29 »

I'm sorry, then. No sarcasm, just...I'm sorry. I'm never able to talk much so when I do get the chance I tend to ... ramble on.

I'll just keep quiet about the problems and talk about the highlights of my day, if that's any better. It is not like I can convince anyone that I am being truthful, and besides that, what is the point?

I've got nothing to say anymore, then. Yeah, yeah, you're welcome.

Allybee · « **Reply #736 on:** 18 Jul 2009, 23:32 »

relationship between me and a once-close friend have all but completely evaporated. hurt and confused

DarkAvenger · « **Reply #737 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 00:12 »

Dear John,

I am home alone all weekend because my Mom is in Red Deer so I have been doing pretty much nothing lately. I have been going out occasionally, mostly spending time with my girlfriend before I go to Vancouver for the rest of summer. Also today I got new glasses which are totally sweet and I am psyched to wear them (I couldn't read comfortably for the longest time so these will help me enjoy it again (checked out a bunch of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams a while ago, reading them before I leave for Vancouver)) Also am rewatching Trigun to boost my nerd cred by 5 points. Leaving on Tuesday, going to spend most of my time playing guitar and walking around downtown Vancouver. None of my friends believe that it is much much safer than Calgary, but to each his/her own I suppose.

Sincerely, me.

PS I am also leaving you for someone else. Ha.

MrBlu · « **Reply #738 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 00:24 »

Quote from: Eris on 18 Jul 2009, 23:11

sitting on a bus and telling everyone about the voices you hear in your head

I just had a great idea.

squawk · « **Reply #739 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 00:32 »

Some of Army Boy's letters home from basic training were posted online by his sister. He is handling the transition better than I could have imagined, although it is not unexpected at all. Sometimes I wonder what it's like to have such a wonderful attitude towards life in general. While I miss him like hurricanes, I am pretty stoked to know that he is okay, and that his spirits are as strong as ever. I am going to send him a drawing of a Machop this week.

Johnny C · « **Reply #740 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 00:54 »

Quote from: DarkAvenger on 19 Jul 2009, 00:12

PS I am also leaving you for someone else. Ha.

whyyy

Johnny C · « **Reply #741 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 00:55 »

Quote from: Allybee on 18 Jul 2009, 23:32

relationship between me and a once-close friend have all but completely evaporated. hurt and confused

this sucks! i am sad that this happened.

scarred · « **Reply #742 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 02:33 »

Dearest Blag, please put up with the gin-influenced pity pandering that follows.

I feel like I'm drifting away from all my friends, slowly but surely. Part of me knows that this is all because we go across the country to different colleges for months at a time. But we're all back for summer right now, and it feels like it used to. Then again, the seed of anxiety is placed deep within me. And I know it'll never be the same as it was. And part of me doesn't want it to be. But god dammit I'm scared as shit of change and new things and all that hooey.

All My Love,

Scarred.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.

Apologies.

Joseph · « **Reply #743 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 03:00 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 18 Jul 2009, 22:42

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Quote from: Zingoleb on 17 Jul 2009, 20:11
Granted, I could get on anti-depressants but when I do that I'm so annoyingly happy that people want me to go away so there's no point in that.

This is not what anti-depressants do.

They always seem to have for me in the short times I've taken them.

Just want to point out that the effect of anti-depressants in the short term are often very very different than when they have been used for a few months, and that different anti-depressants can have radically different effects with the body-chemistries of different people. It is worth bringing these problems you've had with anti-depressants up with a doctor and taking the doctor's advice for more than a short while. If they continue to cause problems, let the doctor know that you feel the drug chosen is not working as it should.

Dinner conversation last night with my one friend here revealed him to be really sexist. But at least he listened to my admittedly fairly uninformed attempts to offer different reasonings for the things he was saying?

BeoPuppy · « **Reply #744 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 03:54 »

Quote from: est on 18 Jul 2009, 22:58

I mean, there are plenty of other bullshit forums for you to vent on anonymously if that is what you want to do. This forum is not for that kind of shit.

... ehm, not to be thick or anything, but, why not?

I mean, it stays in the blogthread and he's basically blogging about what happens to him ... sooooo ...

KvP · « **Reply #745 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 04:09 »

I think the advice is more for Zingoleb's benefit than it sounds. What est is saying is that those of us who have been here for awhile have, by that fact, opened up avenues of empathy from others that we didn't have fresh off the boat (so to speak) and that oversharing like we've seen will tend, more often than not, to fall on deaf ears. The frequency and enthusiasm of this oversharing can be off-putting. Which isn't to say that those in the rough going shouldn't be reaching out, but there's something missing here. People can blog about whatever they want but it shouldn't be expected (or taken for granted) that there are people here to listen. The problems Zingoleb talks about are really really something that should be dealt with by professionals. Lord knows that when you're having psychological troubles things are confusing and putting things out is comforting, but we here on the internet can't really do anything but sit here and listen and offer words of comfort, which is sometimes enough but here it's pretty obvious it's not doing anything for anyone. The well-established and persistent nature of these problems makes the blogging take on an exhibitionist, attention-grabbing quality. Not to speak as though people aren't present but it comes up so often that it seems like the state that Zingoleb's in is one that he takes comfort in. Which is a more common element of mental illness than a lot of people want to admit.

Quote from: DarkAvenger on 19 Jul 2009, 00:12

Dear John,

I am home alone all weekend because my Mom is in Red Deer so I have been doing pretty much nothing lately. I have been going out occasionally, mostly spending time with my girlfriend before I go to Vancouver for the rest of summer. Also today I got new glasses which are totally sweet and I am psyched to wear them (I couldn't read comfortably for the longest time so these will help me enjoy it again (checked out a bunch of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams a while ago, reading them before I leave for Vancouver)) Also am rewatching Trigun to boost my nerd cred by 5 points. Leaving on Tuesday, going to spend most of my time playing guitar and walking around downtown Vancouver. None of my friends believe that it is much much safer than Calgary, but to each his/her own I suppose.

Sincerely, me.

PS I am also leaving you for someone else. Ha.

Dear you,

Trigun, while a good show, is very light-hearted and coherent for an anime and thus does not garner much in the way of respect from anime aficionados, who generally like their stuff dour and incomprehensible. So all in all I don't believe your nerd cred will be affected by your consumption of that program.

Sincerely, John.

PS I never loved you and I'm the one who's been killing your pets.

PSS Vancouver sucks.

PSSS Those glasses make your ass look fat.

So hey, got a new therapist (sort of) and she's engaging herself pretty effectively in this second week of our relationship. It's a give-and-take, whereas with my other therapist it's more of a give-and-give. I'm not sure which is more effective at this point. Sometimes when New Therapist talks I think she goes off on tangents and I veer from the course she wants me on, but on the other hand there aren't gaps and silences like there have been in the 15 years prior to this.

Aimless · « **Reply #746 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 04:43 »

Those are all fair points, they make sense in the context of this forum (as I see it). I just dunno how I feel about seeing a stranger be called a liar, esp. when it's based on assumptions about how people with mental health issues "should" act, and assumptions about how they "should" react to medications... assumptions that don't necessarily hold true in all cases. That is offensive as well. Not to diminish anyone else's reactions, but...

Anyway, best of luck with this new therapist

have you gotten a clear idea of what she'll be trying to do, and how?

In other news, moving from one's regular home to any form of care facility increases one's risk of inappropriately being prescribed psychotropic medication in the worst way, if one happens to be over 85 years old, irrespective of level of cognitive impairment and clinical indications.

Dear blog thread, I thought I'd learned that putting off writing a paper is teh st00pid because there will come a time when you'll be stuck home writing it while the sun shines bright in the sky and people roam around in shorts and bikinis... but it turns out that my putting off the writing in favour of reading yet MORE articles is going to pay off, in that the first draft will be far more convincing.

The only problem is, I think that we have significant methodological problems, and I'm not sure if I can convince the prof. I dunno if I want to publish something that I know is methodologically shaky, even if everyone else seems to be doing it as well. Still, life is exciting =)

Jace · « **Reply #747 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 05:16 »

Quote from: Barmymoo on 18 Jul 2009, 14:17

They followed her out (we were a bit suspicious at how a small girl can drink a bottle of WKD, six cans of lager and a bottle of wine in an hour and come back for more) and discovered she was selling it on to smaller children, so she has been permanently banned from buying alcohol in-store now.

Okay, so like, this is illegal where I live, like, they will fine you and possibly arrest you. Is england just cooler about these things or what?

On to the psychological blogging: I imagine that whenever I have a post anywhere longer than like 3 lines no one reads it, but sometimes I just like putting it out there. I pretty much have the same problems over and over, no need to repeat them.

About 2/3 of the time I type something long out and delete it then do a one or two line post that says everything, but better.

nobo · « **Reply #748 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 05:49 »

Quote from: Zingoleb on 18 Jul 2009, 23:29

I'll just keep quiet about the problems

If you need someone to listen about the problems, just PM me. Sounds like you could use a sounding board, and I could use a forum buddy.

allison · « **Reply #749 on:** 19 Jul 2009, 06:09 »

Yesterday included rollercoasters, Russell Peters (he is a comedian, you should check his stuff out on YouTube) and beer. I ran into a guy who used to go to my highschool. We started chatting and he came to the pub with us, and because I seemed to have found a new friend, the people I came with (read: ride) ditched and went home. I was stuck downtown! Then I ran into a good friend of mine who said he'd drive me home. When I got home, a friend drunk-dialed me and where that is usually annoying, it was adorable and kind of worrisome and I really really hope he got home okay (he was talking about passing out in a field).

Today I am going to visit my really close friend in the hospital. She got admitted because she has a number of blood clots in her lungs. I am not sure why or how this happened, but they think that it's from stress. She's in a lot of pain and I just wish I could help! I hate feeling like there's really nothing I can do and I am just a useless tool.

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