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Mental Health The Mental Health Social vs a place for our voices

I saw this and wanted to share it with you guys :)


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Yes! Got a rental agreement signed and deposited $100 to secure my new apartment. :) Finally gonna move out of this Chinese horror show.
 
^Hah, bonus! Have fun setting everything up and making the place your own.

What's everyone got going today?

I'm going to be mowing the lawn when the sun dips below the treeline so I don't lose 5lb of water in the process. ;)

Also, I should take the hedge trimmer to all the overgrowth in the flower garden...Before the seeds fall... but I hate killing flowers and interrupting this little ecosystem that has established itself...blargh.
 
I feel like a Nazi when I mow the lawn and the mowing of the lawn is their little holocaust.
 
This was a really interesting read- very touching. I particularly like in the beginning how it addresses common misconceptions about mental illness and money\lifestyle, and also a candid discussion of medications and psychiatric help. It is really nice to see more people in the public eye speak eloquently about mental illnesses, in this case bi-polar and depression. Some of the most amazing people I have known have suffered from both, and it would be so good to see the public misconceptions change.

http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/06/24/only-the-lonely/
 
^ Have you ever watched his youtube video about bi-polar? It is really good. The part about american doctors diagnosing children under 5 is scary as hell, though.The cocktail of drugs that the two young brothers are on in the film is criminal IMO and yet they have the mother convinced that this is what is needed.

On a lighter note, my bed looks like a beach near my house where elephant seals come to have their babies, Año Nuevo. The babies are called bubbies by the biologists and they just loll around like huge snoring mounds. My three cats are in their usual triangle formation on my bed, two are snoring audibly and the third is about to roll off in her sleep if she isn't careful. They are all getting fat! I'm putting them all on the ceasar salad diet, venrak.:)
 
^Wow, that is awesome! I'd love to hang be able to watch those families on the beach... I've got groundhogs and rabbits around here, and the occasional kingfisher, that's it. But my cat did recently have a litter of kittens, five of them, so I've been enjoying that for the past two months. I'm keeping one of the females who is a crazy coloured calico, even at that age, and there's a black one with faint grey stripes that hasn't got a home yet, so I might end up keeping her too. I'm having to deal with the mother's new tendency to catch birds these days; I had a stern conversation with her while having a smoke on the deck about not killing the birds and how I've had to dig two graves in the garden already because of her.
 
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This was a really interesting read- very touching. I particularly like in the beginning how it addresses common misconceptions about mental illness and money\lifestyle, and also a candid discussion of medications and psychiatric help. It is really nice to see more people in the public eye speak eloquently about mental illnesses, in this case bi-polar and depression. Some of the most amazing people I have known have suffered from both, and it would be so good to see the public misconceptions change.

http://www.stephenfry.com/2013/06/24/only-the-lonely/
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This is excellent!!!
Thank you for posting this :D
 
spork said:
^Do you have any kitty pics?
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I do! I just have to get them onto the PC and I'll be sure to share a few.

Got up early today, which is rare for me. It's a beautiful day today. I'm really regretting not getting a garden going this year. Oh well, there will be time for other gardens. Possibly. We'll see :)

I'm spending the morning on BL, listening to tunes and drinking coffee. Which reminds me, I want another coffee.

How's the day treating the rest of you so far?
 
Greetings all, I've been hanging in there ....just but that will have to do for the time being.......living for tomorrow

Having relented a few weeks back and returned to my GP due to what seems to be relentless depression I've gone back on Venlafaxine.

I'm coming to the conclusion that part of the action of ADs is to make you feel so dreadfully ill in the first couple of weeks that you get a slight sense of relief from the worst of those symptoms subsiding.

Best wishes to all<3
 
spork said:
^Do you have any kitty pics?
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My good friend just got a kitten...a little charcoal grey girl named Molly (no relation to NDTITL, or NDTITST [no drug talk in the social thread lol) with white socks *so cute*

I'm gonna ask him to send me some pics right now actually.
 
Yayyy kitten pics!! =D Whenever I'm feeling upset, angry, or depressed I scour the Internet for super cute pics and videos of kitties. It usually seems to help my mood a little bit or at least distract me from other things for a bit. Does anyone else do this?

Keep hanging on, atm. It's really good to see you here. <3
 
I still feel as though the cult I joined are observing me. I feel as though they are watching my actions. Should I see a psych or am I being melodramatic?
 
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