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Yakamaru

Yakamaru

Silly McFly
If you end up with a spoon stuck in your head, can you say you've been spoon fed?
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Simo

Simo

Professional Watermelon Farmer
Massan Otter said:
I've just read that a Yellow Snow Warning has been issued for the east of Scotland. They could have phrased that better...
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Just don't eat any!

Huh, none of the music links are showing in the posts today...site has been acting odd, for me...maybe, old, slow computer, too.

Stadt said:
Good luck. I'm still trying to find something that works for me and it's so tiring. Doesn't help that my doctor doesn't seem to listen to me.
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Yeah, it's hard...things that work on serotonin have made things much, much worse, such as SSRIs/SNRIs...very scary things, the only time I felt better from them is when I stopped taking them. Never again. Ditto with some of the out-layers that work on Dopamine and such; Wellbutrin, Remeron.........I think psych meds are in a very, very primitive state. They're supposed to adjust levels of chemicals in the brain, and yet, they don't even have a way to measure these chemicals, to see how they might be adjusted.

I also see a talk therapist, and try to eat well, and such, that helps more, I think, and then, something to help me sleep.

I also hate it when I hear that depression (and anxiety) is a 'treatable illness'. So's cancer, but that doesn't mean the treatment is at all pleasant, or that one will even live, for that matter. Whatever stupid pharmaceutical company advertising agent who came up with that 'treatable illness' soft-peddling, namby-pamby euphemism needs a swift kick in the face.
 
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backpawscratcher

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Simo said:
Just don't eat any!

Huh, none of the music links are showing in the posts today...site has been acting odd, for me...maybe, old, slow computer, too.



Yeah, it's hard...things that work on serotonin have made things much, much worse, such as SSRIs/SNRIs...very scary things, the only time I felt better from them is when I stopped taking them. Never again. Ditto with some of the out-layers that work on Dopamine and such; Wellbutrin, Remeron.........I think psych meds are in a very, very primitive state. They're supposed to adjust levels of chemicals in the brain, and yet, they don't even have a way to measure these chemicals, to see how they might be adjusted.

I also see a talk therapist, and try to eat well, and such, that helps more, I think, and then, something to help me sleep.

I also hate it when I hear that depression (and anxiety) is a 'treatable illness'. So's cancer, but that doesn't mean the treatment is at all pleasant, or that one will even live, for that matter. Whatever stupid pharmaceutical company advertising agent who came up with that 'treatable illness' soft-peddling, namby-pamby euphemism needs a swift kick in the face.
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At least it’s better than the phrase “Happy Pills”, which one of our tabloid newspapers used today to refer to anti-depressants. As if there wasn’t enough misunderstanding about mental health amongst the general public as it is.
 
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Okami_No_Heishi

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Sometimes, I break out my prescription of Puckitall. That shit works! But honestly, the only thing that has ever worked for my depression is marijuana. I could take a handful of expensive pills every day or smoke weed. But that's just me.:p
 
Simo

Simo

Professional Watermelon Farmer
Okami_No_Heishi said:
Sometimes, I break out my prescription of Puckitall. That shit works! But honestly, the only thing that has ever worked for my depression is marijuana. I could take a handful of expensive pills every day or smoke weed. But that's just me.:p
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Yeah, that does seem to help. We have medical here now, but the dispensaries have been REALLY slow to open...I could get it for TMJ/TMD/facial pain. What's odd, though, is that it still costs the same, as it would 'on the street'...and insurance doesn't cover it, of course! But it does seem to make me more relaxed, and in a better mood, especially the day after.
 
Simo

Simo

Professional Watermelon Farmer
backpawscratcher said:
At least it’s better than the phrase “Happy Pills”, which one of our tabloid newspapers used today to refer to anti-depressants. As if there wasn’t enough misunderstanding about mental health amongst the general public as it is.
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"Crappy Pills" would have been more apt! God, the meds they are coming out with these days, and the side effects: I shudder at the mere idea. I really think SSRIs are more not at all the panacea that the millions of dollars of ads spent pushing them make them out to be, AT ALL.
 
Simo

Simo

Professional Watermelon Farmer
DivinePrince said:
Uggggh I really hope my cat doesn't have pancreatic cancer, but she has so many of the signs. (Unknown growth on pancreas, inflamed intestines, abnormal pockets of fluid in the abdominal cavity.)
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Oh, that's sad to hear, and I sure hope you cat is OK. It's so hard. My little orange Manx is 17 now, and he is doing pretty well, and his appetite has stayed pretty good, but I get some of the same fears. I get so attacthed to my cats; never had kids, just cats, so I (think) I know how hard this has to be.
 
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BahgDaddy

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I found this and thought it was rather inspirational...

"We are drawn to wolves because no other animal is so like us. Of all the rest of creation, wolves reflect our own images back to us most dramatically, most realistically, and most intensely. Like wolves, we evolved as hunters; we have long legs and considerable powers of endurance, adaptations to the chase rather than to hiding; we have minds that are capable of fine calculation, not just of spatial relationships, but of strategy and coordination. Like wolves, we band together to kill larger prey, and that has given us a different social system and a different personality from the chimpanzee; we have long childhoods, strong social bonds, complex social roles, and status differences; we tend to claim and defend territories; we have complex forms of communication; we are individuals; we have strong emotions." Steinhart 1995
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Yakamaru

Yakamaru

Silly McFly
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backpawscratcher

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*pads into thread*

*grabs bananas from infinite banana bucket*

*swings up to platform*

*peers down at entrance and waits for arrivals*
 
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