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Posted by sleepygirl2 on September 14, 2011, at 5:22:03
If I could stay home I would. I feel like crap.
I am so anxious and so sad. No rest for the weary.
Posted by jane d on September 14, 2011, at 6:05:02
In reply to I feel awful, posted by sleepygirl2 on September 14, 2011, at 5:22:03
Hang in there. Can you spend your day imagining you're on vacation? Or maybe just back in bed?
Posted by sigismund on September 14, 2011, at 13:03:51
In reply to I feel awful, posted by sleepygirl2 on September 14, 2011, at 5:22:03
So this is one of those occasions where you wonder if your meds are helping?
If they were helping, you might hope to feel not so bad?
I can see that (for me, getting older) there will soon be a lot of bad/weird feeling from the biochemical f*ck up coming from entropy.
Posted by Phillipa on September 14, 2011, at 16:08:26
In reply to Re: I feel awful » sleepygirl2, posted by sigismund on September 14, 2011, at 13:03:51
Sigi ummm yuppp as older than you. PJ
Posted by SLS on September 14, 2011, at 16:34:17
In reply to I feel awful, posted by sleepygirl2 on September 14, 2011, at 5:22:03
> If I could stay home I would. I feel like crap.
> I am so anxious and so sad. No rest for the weary.It gets old, doesn't it?
The combination of depression and anxiety will overwhelm the best of us. It is very difficult to sort out what is affective illness and what is the reaction to the challenges to be had in life.I hope this difficult time passes quickly for you.
- Scott
Posted by Dinah on September 14, 2011, at 17:44:28
In reply to I feel awful, posted by sleepygirl2 on September 14, 2011, at 5:22:03
((( sleepygirl )))
I hope your day wasn't as bad as you feared.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on September 14, 2011, at 20:42:00
In reply to Re: I feel awful » sleepygirl2, posted by Dinah on September 14, 2011, at 17:44:28
It does really help to feel cared about. :-)
It was rough. I felt super sensitive, on edge, a bit short tempered. I tried to maintain a calm, unaffected facade. I really hope I'm not totally transparent.
I went to sleep pretty early last night because I was so uncomfortable (took the seroquel early). I still feel sub par, and "par" is not all that great. I took a tiny bit more klonopin.
It scares me that I feel like this on meds.
Lately I fantasize about doing a job that might be gentler on me. Thanks guys, there's just not a lot of people I can tell about feeling like this. I mean when some coworker says "how are you?" you don't say "sort of like nails on a chalkboard, you?"
Posted by Deneb on September 14, 2011, at 21:12:15
In reply to I feel awful, posted by sleepygirl2 on September 14, 2011, at 5:22:03
Sorry to hear that. :(
I hope you feel better.
Posted by floatingbridge on September 15, 2011, at 1:32:06
In reply to Thanks, posted by sleepygirl2 on September 14, 2011, at 20:42:00
Well, you were able to get out there. But, yeah, sorry.
Uber-hugs, SG
Posted by sigismund on September 15, 2011, at 12:47:43
In reply to Thanks, posted by sleepygirl2 on September 14, 2011, at 20:42:00
>"how are you?" you don't say "sort of like nails on a chalkboard, you?"
I wonder why people ask. (I mostly know how people are without asking.) I take it that the question is there to monitor pessimism. When people ask how I am I could say 'Monitoring pessimism and signs of dejection like everyone else'. If you don't say you are feeling great, people start to become annoyed. Is that how it is where you are?
Posted by floatingbridge on September 15, 2011, at 12:59:19
In reply to Re: Thanks » sleepygirl2, posted by sigismund on September 15, 2011, at 12:47:43
> When people ask how I am I could say 'Monitoring pessimism and signs of dejection like everyone else'.
Maybe I'll try this. Will report back.
Frankly, nails on a chalkboard sounds perfectly reasonable. I say things like this all the time, but, well, I am not in the workforce right now.
Besides, after the massive stuttering event, there wasn't much left to hide behind.
However, I do remember when I worked, and there was an enforced wall of cheerfulness. What is it called when police stick together? The Blue Wall. Yeah. It was kinda like that.
Besides the intrusive sadists who look at the less than happy as pathological aberrations.
I admit I hold back when I go to my son's school. Then again, it's my son's school, not mine, and I feel like a little less 'honest mom' in that arena of his life is best.
Posted by sigismund on September 15, 2011, at 16:03:24
In reply to Re: Thanks, posted by floatingbridge on September 15, 2011, at 12:59:19
Why don't you get back into bed
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Why don't you get back into bedReasons to be cheerful part 3
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Summer, Buddy Holly, the working folly
Good golly Miss Molly and boats
Hammersmith Palais, the Bolshoi Ballet
Jump back in the alley and nanny goats18-wheeler Scammels, Domenecker camels
All other mammals plus equal votes
Seeing Piccadilly, Fanny Smith and Willy
Being rather silly, and porridge oatsA bit of grin and bear it, a bit of come and share it
You're welcome, we can spare it - yellow socks
Too short to be haughty, too nutty to be naughty
Going on 40 - no electric shocksThe juice of the carrot, the smile of the parrot
A little drop of claret - anything that rocks
Elvis and Scotty, days when I ain't spotty,
Sitting on the potty - curing smallpoxReasons to be cheerful part 3
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Health service glasses
Gigolos and brasses
round or skinny bottomsTake your mum to Paris
lighting up the chalice
Wee Willy HarrisBantu Stephen Biko, listening to Rico
Harpo, Groucho, ChicoCheddar cheese and pickle, the Vincent motorsickle
Slap and tickle
Woody Allen, Dali, Dimitri and Pasquale
balabalabala and VolareSomething nice to study, phoning up a buddy
Being in my nuddy
Saying hokey-dokey, Sing Along With Smokey
Coming out of chokeyJohn Coltrane's soprano, Adi Celentano
Bonar ColleanoReasons to be cheerful part 3
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Yes yes
dear dear
perhaps next year
or maybe even neverin which case
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Posted by sigismund on September 15, 2011, at 16:05:04
In reply to Reasons to be cheerful part 3, posted by sigismund on September 15, 2011, at 16:03:24
Posted by sleepygirl2 on September 15, 2011, at 18:51:43
In reply to Re: Thanks » sleepygirl2, posted by sigismund on September 15, 2011, at 12:47:43
It mostly bothers me because they really don't care to know. Also because I imagine them better off than I am. It saps my energy too, all that 'I'm great, you're great, we're all f*ck*ng wonderful...where is the nearest bridge?'
I'm being dramatic there, but really, showing up is an effort. Perhaps my next response will be "well, I'm f*ck*ng here aren't I?"
Posted by floatingbridge on September 15, 2011, at 19:19:14
In reply to Re: Thanks » sigismund, posted by sleepygirl2 on September 15, 2011, at 18:51:43
I find the f word very appropriate sometimes.
Posted by sigismund on September 15, 2011, at 20:18:29
In reply to Re: Thanks » sigismund, posted by sleepygirl2 on September 15, 2011, at 18:51:43
'The calamity of consciousness' might be a useful phrase.
For example
How are you, Sig?
Hoping that the enjoyment of tracking the narcissism outweighs the calamity of consciousness.
Posted by sleepygirl2 on September 15, 2011, at 20:48:42
In reply to Re: Thanks, posted by sigismund on September 15, 2011, at 20:18:29
Posted by floatingbridge on September 15, 2011, at 22:34:02
In reply to Yellow socks (nm), posted by sleepygirl2 on September 15, 2011, at 20:48:42
Agreed.
:-)
Posted by floatingbridge on September 15, 2011, at 22:44:46
In reply to Re: Thanks, posted by sigismund on September 15, 2011, at 20:18:29
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> Hoping that the enjoyment of tracking the narcissism outweighs the calamity of consciousness.That could work very well, too. Brings my mind to a pause.
Re: yellow. Honestly, I overheard someone say pink is the new black. That was about five years ago, so maybe the trend has changed.
Posted by Phillipa on September 16, 2011, at 18:27:22
In reply to Re: Thanks » sigismund, posted by floatingbridge on September 15, 2011, at 22:44:46
I remember when the power color in NYC was yellow. All the men wore yellow tie prints. Phillipa
Posted by floatingbridge on September 16, 2011, at 21:50:32
In reply to Re: Thanks » floatingbridge, posted by Phillipa on September 16, 2011, at 18:27:22
> I remember when the power color in NYC was yellow. All the men wore yellow tie prints. Phillipa
I forgot that term, power color. I vaguely remember yellow in ties. When was that?
Posted by Phillipa on September 17, 2011, at 19:38:42
In reply to Re: Thanks » Phillipa, posted by floatingbridge on September 16, 2011, at 21:50:32
FB it was a long time ago forget. Phillipa
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