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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2015 23:35:32 GMT -5
Hi all , been awhile since I posted on here depression/life has been hard lately  so I have been just living day to day.. sigh. Also with my other health problems I have that makes it difficult also. some days I just don't want to get out of bed I really don't but I always force myself to. but I hope you all have been doing well. Glad to see you back, man -M |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 16, 2015 0:06:29 GMT -5
Hi all , been awhile since I posted on here depression/life has been hard lately so I have been just living day to day.. sigh. Also with my other health problems I have that makes it difficult also. some days I just don't want to get out of bed I really don't but I always force myself to. but I hope you all have been doing well. Sorry to hear it's been such a struggle. I was recently there myself. Fortunately, things turned around when they least seemed likely to. We're here if you feel like talking about it more. Many of us have waged that battle (and some are still waging it). |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 16, 2015 5:33:26 GMT -5
Hi all , been awhile since I posted on here depression/life has been hard lately so I have been just living day to day.. sigh. Also with my other health problems I have that makes it difficult also. some days I just don't want to get out of bed I really don't but I always force myself to. but I hope you all have been doing well. Sorry man. Maybe participating in some of the threads will put a smile on your face. I come here when I feel down sometimes. |
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Post by impulse on Jul 16, 2015 8:17:21 GMT -5
Hang in there, WM. Shax, glad to hear things seem to be on the upswing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2015 9:40:23 GMT -5
Back at work for (knock wood) my first full day (came in yesterday about 1:30) since June 19. First time I've had to be functional in the a.m. in the intervening 4 weeks. Part of what propelled me back to work (I still have something like 30 hours' worth of sick leave accrued) was the physical isolation of interacting with no human beings at home, which exacerbating my longstanding tendency toward depression.
In which vein, I can & do definitely empathize, wicked mountain.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 16, 2015 11:35:04 GMT -5
Back at work for (knock wood) my first full day (came in yesterday about 1:30) since June 19. First time I've had to be functional in the a.m. in the intervening 4 weeks. Part of what propelled me back to work (I still have something like 30 hours' worth of sick leave accrued) was the physical isolation of interacting with no human beings at home, which exacerbating my longstanding tendency toward depression. Glad you recognized this and acted to do something about it, dan. Must be hard going back, but it sounds like the right call. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2015 11:53:38 GMT -5
Just saw my mistake above -- I actually have something like 30 days' worth of sick leave left. When it comes to being able to carry time over (we can do the same with vacation, though that's capped at 240 hours), my situation here is pretty much the opposite of the newspaper field.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Jul 16, 2015 14:51:40 GMT -5
Dan and wicked, sorry about the depression. It's tough enough dealing with someone close to me with it. Can't imagine the dealing with it myself.
And damn Dan that's a lot of sick days! I think I got like 90+ hours sick time over a 2 year accumulation of not using any.
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Post by DE Sinclair on Jul 16, 2015 14:57:40 GMT -5
Back at work for (knock wood) my first full day (came in yesterday about 1:30) since June 19. First time I've had to be functional in the a.m. in the intervening 4 weeks. Part of what propelled me back to work (I still have something like 30 hours' worth of sick leave accrued) was the physical isolation of interacting with no human beings at home, which exacerbating my longstanding tendency toward depression. In which vein, I can & do definitely empathize, wicked mountain. When I was in the Navy I was out for 30 days with mono. Fortunately, I was married at the time, so I was allowed to go home to recuperate, otherwise they were going to keep me in the hospital the whole time. I thought all that time off would be great, but I was bouncing off the walls by the time I finally got the ok to go back to work.
Unhappily, a female petty officer that outranked me came down with mono (aka the "kissing disease") at the same time I did, leading to much teasing and snickering around the office. Made worse by the fact that she was someone I didn't particularly care for.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2015 15:36:33 GMT -5
Mono was a real nightmare for me midway through my sophomore year in college. Most people who get it apparently sleep all the time; yours truly, of course, was among the relatively few who don't sleep, period. I was thisclose to hallucinating during the worst of that interval. As a special bonus, the young MD whom I initially complained to about my symptoms (predominantly the sleeplessness) diagnosed me as being depressed & prescribed me Elavil. A week or so later, after things got no better, I went back to his practice, where an older partner took one look at me & delivered the correct prognosis.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 16, 2015 17:00:03 GMT -5
Mono was a real nightmare for me midway through my sophomore year in college. Most people who get it apparently sleep all the time; yours truly, of course, was among the relatively few who don't sleep, period. I was thisclose to hallucinating during the worst of that interval. As a special bonus, the young MD whom I initially complained to about my symptoms (predominantly the sleeplessness) diagnosed me as being depressed & prescribed me Elavil. A week or so later, after things got no better, I went back to his practice, where an older partner took one look at me & delivered the correct prognosis. Mono nearly ruined college for me and, weirdly enough, came back four years ago and nearly destroyed my teaching career. I still maintain it's one of the reasons my marriage is so strained. I had every specialist from here to Kalamazoo look at me, but none could figure out how/why it came back so many years later. Mono never really leaves your body, but the symptoms aren't supposed to be able to come back. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2015 17:05:07 GMT -5
My college's main political science prof apparently had a chronic case of mono. I assume the symptoms were pretty low-grade, since it wasn't obvious from his classroom demeanor or anything, but still ... the very thought makes me cringe.
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Post by shaxper on Jul 16, 2015 17:06:59 GMT -5
My college's main political science prof apparently had a chronic case of mono. Wow. I literally thought I was the only one. And I pray it's never coming back for me again. |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 16, 2015 20:49:51 GMT -5
Today started amazingly well, crashed and burned horrendously in the afternoon, and, just as I was starting to feel things were getting better, I got a phone call: my 73 year old mother is in the emergency room. Well, screw dieting tonight, at least...
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Post by Crimebuster on Jul 17, 2015 4:24:16 GMT -5
Today started amazingly well, crashed and burned horrendously in the afternoon, and, just as I was starting to feel things were getting better, I got a phone call: my 73 year old mother is in the emergency room. Well, screw dieting tonight, at least... Hope everything is okay. Fingers crossed for you. |
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so I have been just living day to day.. sigh. Also with my other health problems I have that makes it difficult also. some days I just don't want to get out of bed I really don't but I always force myself to. but I hope you all have been doing well. 
