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Post by hondobrode on May 26, 2015 22:26:46 GMT -5
Glad you're here, wickedmountain. I enjoy your presence on the boards and I know I'm not alone.
Depression really is an insidious disease. While things like Alzheimer's and Dementia steal your past; and childhood ailments, genetics, and politics abscond with your future, depression robs you of your ability to live in the present. It can come to rule your life, to the point that it's been said, "If a curative wand lay on a table eight feet away, it would be too much trouble to walk over and pick it up."
Do hang in there. As cliché as it sounds, it actually does get better. Now and again. 
Hii TY Very much how nice of you to say exactly it also makes simple every day life things hard to do etc  ty friend. I've only been depressed once in my life, and it was during my first divorce and probably a couple years after that. I knew my mind and outlook weren't normal at that time and that I needed help. Therapy and trying a number of different medications until we found one that clicked for me and that's what helped me pull out of it. The days were dark and I didn't care about anything. It truly was painful. I'm glad you're on the CCF, wickedmountain, and enjoy your contributions, including this. Speaking for myself, I'm always open to listening and giving feedback despite not being a therapist or anything. |
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Post by wickedmountain on May 26, 2015 22:35:47 GMT -5
Hii TY Very much how nice of you to say exactly it also makes simple every day life things hard to do etc ty friend. I've only been depressed once in my life, and it was during my first divorce and probably a couple years after that. I knew my mind and outlook weren't normal at that time and that I needed help. Therapy and trying a number of different medications until we found one that clicked for me and that's what helped me pull out of it. The days were dark and I didn't care about anything. It truly was painful. I'm glad you're on the CCF, wickedmountain, and enjoy your contributions, including this. Speaking for myself, I'm always open to listening and giving feedback despite not being a therapist or anything. I'm glad to hear you were able to overcome that period of your life . I understand completely and ty very much I appreciate that |
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Post by hondobrode on May 26, 2015 22:37:18 GMT -5
Started at Hertz today in training for a sales position selling through 1,600 stand alone kiosks at airports throughout the country. I haven't reported to a regular office environment in decades. I miss the freedom of being an outside rep, but I'm also kind of embracing the stability and clockwork routine as well.
The legal battle between me and my previous employer should be going to court any day now.
Still have my insurance licenses in place and am also partially through training with a local insurance brokerage whose agreed to let me work freelance for them, representing a full line of products from a couple dozen companies they have relationships with.
I don't at the moment, but will be getting my employee discount I can share with friends and family. If anyone needs a rental vehicle, you can save a little coin with Hertz, Dollar, Thrifty, Firefly, or 24/7.
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Post by berkley on May 26, 2015 23:36:09 GMT -5
That looks like exactly the kind of site I've been looking for. Wikipedia's entries for particular years in comics don't seem to be quite as in depth as their similar pages for literature, poetry, music, and films, so I've been hoping a website like this was out there somewhere. Would love to see something similar for European comics. |
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Post by BigPapaJoe on May 26, 2015 23:57:02 GMT -5
10 year high school reunion coming up in a few months. Has anyone ever been to one of these? I'm indifferent about potentially going. My high school was a pretty nice one I'd say. My experience overall was positive. There are always going to be assholes, but I remember more good experiences than bad ones. Part of me feels like it's pointless to attend because of Facebook and everyone I care about I already keep in touch with. At the same time there are people I don't keep in touch with, but wouldn't mind having a quick word. Plus I have some curiosity as to actually seeing some people in person after a decade.
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Post by Nowhere Man on May 27, 2015 0:17:04 GMT -5
As shocking as it seems to think about, 2016 will be my 20th high school reunion. Jeez I shouldn't be this old. I'd never go. I didn't have a good experience. It's a Christian private school and I'm now a card-carrying atheist, so I don't think it would be a good mix. I was always an agnostic (though I didn't realize it in my younger days of course) and my parents wanted me to go given the relative safety of the environment and better teaching. Unfortunately, my interests were always history and science, and as you might expect, faith-based schooling is severely lacking in those two areas for the most part. You certainly aren't going to get many unbiased facts.
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Post by berkley on May 27, 2015 1:10:51 GMT -5
I went to one a few years ago. It wasn't an anniversary in the sense of 20 or 30 years since we finished high school but rather the year most of us turned 50, which was actually 32 or 33 years since then (1978). I certainly wasn't the most popular guy in high school, and was a bit apprehensive about the whole idea of a reunion, but everyone was very nice and friendly. Not that they weren't back then too - it was more a matter of my own quietness and lack of social skills, etc, etc. I'd say it was a good experience, but everyone's situation is different. I probably wouldn't take a chance in Trebor's situation either, from the sounds of it.
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Post by the4thpip on May 27, 2015 1:52:39 GMT -5
10 year high school reunion coming up in a few months. Has anyone ever been to one of these? I'm indifferent about potentially going. My high school was a pretty nice one I'd say. My experience overall was positive. There are always going to be assholes, but I remember more good experiences than bad ones. Part of me feels like it's pointless to attend because of Facebook and everyone I care about I already keep in touch with. At the same time there are people I don't keep in touch with, but wouldn't mind having a quick word. Plus I have some curiosity as to actually seeing some people in person after a decade. My 25 year reunion is coming up on Sunday. We did one for 5 years, one for 11 (long story), one for 20 and now this one. After 20 years, people had the faces and bodies they deserved. |
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Post by Cei-U! on May 27, 2015 7:46:20 GMT -5
My 40th (!?!) is coming up in August.
Cei-U!
I can hardly wait!
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 7:53:52 GMT -5
I went on a bit of an online shopping spree over the weekend. All those sales were beckoning me.
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Post by Crimebuster on May 27, 2015 9:23:01 GMT -5
I think Facebook has taken a lot of the steam out of reunions, but we had our 20th a couple years ago and meeting in person is still a lot better than Facebook. Facebook does make planning these things a lot easier, though.
Like Trebor, I went to a small private Christian school and am now an agnostic. My class was very, very cliquey, but for the large part, that has disappeared with time. People are friendlier and more interesting now than they were in school. I mean, we were all kids who didn't know who we were, and none of wanted to be there. Now, we're actual people. Even those who didn't get along back in the day seem to like each other now. OUr 20th was a really good time, and we're hoping for a much bigger turnout for our 25th.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 9:28:33 GMT -5
Ugh. Several recent posts I want to respond to, but right now I'm just struggling to get on top of this hangover from my first dose (at bedtime last night) of Seroquel. I feel well & truly run over, as if by a large truck. Not a complaint per se, as I know such consequences are pretty standard with new psychotropics, but in the meantime basic functioning -- physical, mental, etc. -- is a bit of a chore.
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Post by Rob Allen on May 27, 2015 12:21:38 GMT -5
I went to my 20th high school reunion in 1994. At that point, pre-Facebook, I had a lot of curiosity about what had happened to my classmates. This was an urban public high school in New Jersey; my class was 70% black, so I was a minority there. Having gone thru school as a short-haired, bespectacled nerd, it was fun to show up with long hair and contact lenses and have people not recognize me. One woman literally staggered when I told her who I was. There was good news and bad news from the people who were there, but a lot of the people I wanted to see didn't show up. I don't plan on attending any more reunions at this point.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on May 27, 2015 13:25:25 GMT -5
Anyone ever fast for whatever reason?
I ate dinner Monday night at about 7pm. I haven't eaten since. Just liquids and cigarettes.
My son is having a gastronomical surgery today to fix his chronic constipation. So yesterday he had to go through a bowel clean out and couldn't eat or drink. So I didn't either because hunger is something I can deal with (as long as my blood sugar doesn't get too low) and I couldn't eat when he can't. Even if he doesn't know.
Now my wife, her father and his wife are in the hospital cafeteria eating and my wife is quite adamant I eat. I don't want to but I know it's three to one and it's not an argument I can win. Still doesn't make me feel any less selfish.
He will probably get liquids and stuff today and tomorrow but the doc said no solids till Friday. I know my blood sugar won't last that and know if I want to be "by his side" in this I'd better eat now so I can keep from it for another two days.
I hope this surgery works. I'm tired of starving my boy for 2-4 days when he has these clean outs before. It's barbaric.
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2015 13:27:13 GMT -5
Fasting? Only under vile duress, i.e. when unable to beat because of Crohn's or whatever. When I'm not at work I'll sometimes neglect to eat for maybe a day or so, but that's not quite fasting.
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