I should probably find a new therapist. I have noticed some difference for the worse since I stopped going to mine, but I also felt like I was going around in circles accomplishing nothing. Talk therapy really did help me when I first started though. ADs have become less effective for me recently, but I won't knock them. They may not be for everybody, but they probably saved my life.
Zoe: Captain will come up with a plan. Kaylee: That's good. Right? Zoe: Possibly you're not recalling some of his previous plans.
'Safe'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
sj - Oct 01, 2009 9:33:08 am PDT #24902 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
erin_obscure - Oct 01, 2009 9:34:55 am PDT #24903 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
Costco already has it's xmas decs out. Including a 5 foot tall polar bear made out of white wire and fairy lights. I just stood there, jaw agape, wondering at the possibly implication of having a Polar Bear in one's front lawn for months. Like, before Halloween.
ION, that polar bear link? At top volume? My cats did not even open their eyes. I wish i could nape that soundly! Or perhaps they are just immune to Kenny Loggins and polar bear roars. Lucky kitties.
Atropa - Oct 01, 2009 9:37:14 am PDT #24904 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
wanders into thread laughing hysterically
Sooo, my recruiter emailed me today with a job lead! A tech editing contract gig ... that pays about 2/3 of what I made ... as a contractor ON THE TEAM THAT I WAS LAID OFF FROM. Ahahahahaaha. I guess management is starting to realize that gosh, maybe those "extra" editors were needed?
rocks back and forth, because if I don't laugh, I'll cry
Polar bear, man. Polar bear.
Much hugs and sympathy to everyone who wants or needs them. Me, I'm going to have some more tea, and try to stop laughing.
Jessica - Oct 01, 2009 9:38:46 am PDT #24905 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
t shoves chocolate through the interwebs to Jilli
Polter-Cow - Oct 01, 2009 9:41:17 am PDT #24906 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, Jilli, that's priceless.
Barb - Oct 01, 2009 9:41:26 am PDT #24907 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
::shoves more chocolate through the interwebs to Jilli::
Clovis needs to deal with them.
Now.
sj - Oct 01, 2009 9:41:44 am PDT #24908 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
t passes Jilli a cuppa
erin_obscure - Oct 01, 2009 9:43:14 am PDT #24909 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
And just tossing in my $.02 on pharmacueticals for depression. My father, my sister, and I are all on the same antidepressant, and each of us arrived at that with different doctors, without consulting each other. I discovered this on my last visit with Dad as we discussed all the drugs we'd been on, and how both of us had the exact same reactions to all the usual suspects. This after many years (9 in my case) of treatment before arriving on a drug that functionally treated my depression without leaving me with severe side effects. Had i brought up the subject a few years earlier, i could have possibly spared myself years of nasty side effects based on Dad's reactions.
Sure, sometimes depression is environmental. Imma gonna go out on a limb and say that it can also be an inherited chemical imbalance, just based on my own personal experience. Not that i'm a Dr or anything ;P
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 01, 2009 9:43:35 am PDT #24910 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Jilli, that's... weird.
Talking therapy is just stretching exercises for your brain.
Sure. But it makes me cranky. Except with really good therapists - who tend to be expensive (and I'm a self-funding grad student with no money). So, for the moment I'm doing without. I'll try again in the future.
I am going to have a chocolate mousse and a cup of tea. And that is deep as my brain wants to think this evening.
Steph L. - Oct 01, 2009 9:45:00 am PDT #24911 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
A tech editing contract gig ... that pays about 2/3 of what I made ... as a contractor ON THE TEAM THAT I WAS LAID OFF FROM.
That? Is some weak-ass shit. Feh.
w/r/t anti-depressants, I think all y'all have witnessed my attempts to go off them, most notably my Zoloft-free Massive! Panic! Attacks! of last fall. So my brain, apparently, needs drugs. And I am more than willing to provide them.