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Posted by tabitha on July 23, 2002, at 1:32:57
Trying to be kind and not subvert thread away from exercise & healthy diet tips, since I don't have any to offer...
My hair just falls out at the root, but not to make bald patches, it just gets thinner all over. Then it grows back. Fortunately it's thick enough so no one notices but me. Makes a mess though because it's pretty long.
I haven't stuck with vitamins for any length of time. My doctor recommended zinc & selenium, that's standard advice for hair loss from Depakote, but my understanding is Depakote actually causes zinc deficiency, so I'm not sure if that remedy really applies.
My theory is I sometimes go a while eating very little protein (too much sugar instead), it seems to correlate to the times when it falls out. It was worst on effexor, so I stopped that.
I really ought to try B vitamins though, I've heard for a long time they're good for depression. What happens with me is, I buy vitamins, take them for a while, notice the vivid new colors of pee, don't feel any different, stop taking them, then find them in the fridge a year later and throw them out.
So why are you free of your "roommate" tonight?
Posted by Gabbi on July 23, 2002, at 1:43:48
In reply to To Gabbi, Miscellaneous, posted by tabitha on July 23, 2002, at 1:32:57
Oh, I was living in the past, I haven't had an honest to goodness roomate in 2 years. And well my Dad isn't here because he has a better social life than I do. Which frankly, would not be difficult for anyone but he is 70 revoltingly healthy and well I'm tired of saying "have a good time dad"
I was a bit mean to him yesterday he's always working out, taking his vitamins, and on my back about all "those pills"...He told me I should use more natural methods, and I said
"Thats pretty funny coming from a man with a plastic hip"
I'm usually much nicer but I hadn't had my coffee, and no sleep, benzo withdrawl... oh dear there really is no excuse is there?
Posted by tabitha on July 23, 2002, at 1:54:50
In reply to Twitchy ,clicked twice AGAIN **%benzo withdrawl (nm), posted by Gabbi on July 23, 2002, at 1:46:02
So your dad's got a date? Or a bunch of cronies? Ah well, at least you get the place to yourself a bit.
Thanks for the Us article summary. I used to think BBob was really sexy, before Angelina got her mits on him, then her choice validated my opinion, but now he just seems a bit used. I still think she's gorgeous though.
I read this stuff about breathing last night. It was about panic disorder, and claimed you could cure it by breathing (probably an exagerration), but my therapist also told me that chest breathing causes anxiety. I totally breathe high up in my chest. So today I made myself breathe from my plump bloated tummy, and darned if I didn't feel less stressed at the end of the day.
Well it's time for this insomniac to sign off. Sweet dreams Gabrielle.
Posted by Gabbi on July 23, 2002, at 2:26:03
In reply to Re: Twitchy ,clicked twice AGAIN **%benzo withdrawl, posted by tabitha on July 23, 2002, at 1:54:50
No, Its not that important. My Dad is out with his girlfriend, and it is nice to be alone, REALLY nice
And breathing helps a lot, duhh, I mean breathing deeply. Thats why yoga is so relaxing. Also oh, I'm too tired to get into that.. About the rich part. There is this "stuff" which I'm sure is snake oil, but you know if I had the money to lose I'd buy it for curiosity's sake.
Its called serenity, at ABRAKADABRA.com and it doesn't have any of the typical herbal helpers in it like ST.Johns Wort, HTP5 or Kava Kava,
but is guaranteed to work as well as any SSRI's TCI's or lithium.
I hate that, I know better, but it just sounds so so good, Yeah I know what P.T Barnum said.As for Angelina... she makes my toes curl. Thats a good thing... Oh for politeness sake I'm signing off too whats left of my brain after the hospital visit..and the withdrawl...isgooooiiiiinnnnngggg
good night
I'm changing my board name. I don't like Gabbi I don't even recognize it when I see it.
Its very spooky though, my real name is Shelli spelled with an "i" middle initial R.
When I found this board, I saw ShelliR and read a post she'd written I honestly thought I'd joined before and forgotten, because her letter was something I would write she was panicking about her career and age also the same as mine.
Then I saw another letter and realized it wasn't me.
Where else could I say that ?Oh, I said I was going didn't I.
Goodnight Tabitha.
Posted by Gabbi on July 23, 2002, at 2:32:49
In reply to Tabithaaaa if I was rich I would still be broke, posted by Gabbi on July 23, 2002, at 2:26:03
Posted by tabitha on July 23, 2002, at 4:40:30
In reply to Tabithaaaa if I was rich I would still be broke, posted by Gabbi on July 23, 2002, at 2:26:03
Hi, here I am checking in again.
I understand benzo withdrawal can be really awful. No wonder the abracadabra stuff sounds appealing. Sometimes I just try things, knowing there's not much scientific basis, hoping for placebo effect, or that maybe it really does work. Did you get any help from the doctors about tapering off instead of going cold turkey?
Are you getting any follow-up counseling since the hospital? I went to the hospital once for aspirin overdose, and the experience there was traumatic itself. Stomach pump, shirt and bra taken off in the ER in front of people, about a gallon of charcoal stuff forced through a gagging nose tube which I puked everywhere, and the nurses and doctors were not particularly nice to me at all. One nurse took down my story and I didn't get any counseling or med evaluation. The doctor just threatened to put me in the locked ward unless I let them call my parents (I was 21 at the time), so the humiliation of my parents knowing added on top of it. I just felt ashamed for months afterward.
Posted by Dinah on July 23, 2002, at 5:40:10
In reply to Re: Tabithaaaa if I was rich I would still be broke, posted by tabitha on July 23, 2002, at 4:40:30
And they call them the helping professions....
Sorry that you had to experience that, but if it is any consolation, your description of your experience made me decide to fight any urges to overdose even harder.
((tabitha))
Posted by Dinah on July 23, 2002, at 6:14:45
In reply to Tabithaaaa if I was rich I would still be broke, posted by Gabbi on July 23, 2002, at 2:26:03
LOL Gabbi
Once I was driving down the street and saw a car just like mine stuck in a ditch. I immediately thought "Oh no. I'm in an accident! Now I'm in trouble. How stupid of me." It took several seconds to realize the absurdity of that.
By the way, if you are usually nicer than to say that to your Dad, then you must be very nice indeed. It seems like a mild enough comment under the provocation. I know I said much worse to my parents while living at home.
Posted by Gabbi on July 23, 2002, at 13:05:13
In reply to Re: Tabithaaaa if I was rich I would still be broke » Gabbi, posted by Dinah on July 23, 2002, at 6:14:45
Dinah, L.o.l is not worthy of that story.
"oh no now I'm in an accident" I love the way you write. For some reason it reminds me of Winnie The Pooh, (the good old ones before the disney corporation got them)It gives me the same laugh as Piglet always does. Particularly when the Baloon he was carrying burst.
He thought the world had blown up and he must be on the moon or some other planet but stood up figuring, "well I suppose even if I AM on the moon I needn't be face down in it"And remember "you have to admire a man who can spell Tuesday even if he can't spell it right"
Posted by Dinah on July 23, 2002, at 19:41:09
In reply to Re: Tabithaaaa. Dinah Thank-you for the story., posted by Gabbi on July 23, 2002, at 13:05:13
I usually get Eeyore.
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