bixxby
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Just enjoy what you're given and know you'll get to see them again as soon as you can man
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
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Gavinmad
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Nah. I made a comment in passing that he didn't pick up on, and I ducked out of bringing it up again. Maybe I'll mention it next time, gonna try and start seeing him regularly again.
Tarrant
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Easier said then done I guess. Between my dads health (though now at least his cancer is in remission) and now my mothers own ailing health coupled with the fact that I feel drawn back to that area pretty hard and it makes it hard. Building up to the time I'll be excited but I sank into such a deep depression last summer when I left that it's now starting to weight heavily on my mind as the time gets closer to my being able to go out there and see everyone.
I'm trying to not let it work that way, just some times are harder than others I guess.
Izo
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You could always throw a few infractions around. Unload. It'll make you feel better.
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Izo
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Adebisi
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Not depression news. Mental health related. An article about a kid who suffered from schizophrenia and killed his mother.
What Michael Did | Toronto Star
Very sad
What Michael Did | Toronto Star
Very sad
TheBeagle
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Been dating this really super pretty lady for about 5 or 6 weeks. Everything's been amazing, we have a truly primal attraction to each other, but I've noticed that she doesn't respond to sarcasm very well. So today she drops a bomb on me that she's bipolar, takes meds, which mostly work, but not completely effective all the time. I respond with "So does that mean you are going to stab me in my sleep if I snore too loud?" Apparently this comment was worse than Hitler gassing the Jews. She's tired of people thinking she's cray cray, no one takes it serious, blah blah... WTF bros? Wut do?
Gavinmad
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Well...bipolar disorder is treated with anti-psychotics, which aren't your garden variety crazy pills. So she needs to toughen up and you need to apologize for being an insensitive douche. I mean I think you were being funny, but she's obviously very sensitive about the disorder so you need to act contrite and try to update your filters and hope she gets used to your sarcasm.
TheBeagle
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Ya I apologized for being a douche, even though I don't think I was being a douche...but whatevs. I guess not everyone can be a hardened, cynical smartass. Seems to have smoothed things over, but definitely updating my filters and re-thinking if I actually want to get get serious with her.
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I have lots of patients who tell people they have Bipolar Disorder but actually have Borderline Personality Disorder.
Gavinmad
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Well if she has a legitimate diagnosis of bipolar disorder, that's something that can mostly be managed by meds so you might as well see what happens with the relationship. If she has borderline, enjoy the sex until you can't stand her anymore and then run like hell and don't look back.
TheBeagle
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Next time I'm at her house I'm gonna check out what meds she's on, I seem to remember one of those daily pill things on her bathroom counter.
To be honest, I would have never guessed there was anything at all going on if she wouldn't have told me. Other than being a little sensitive and oblivious to my brand of sarcasm she's been great.
To be honest, I would have never guessed there was anything at all going on if she wouldn't have told me. Other than being a little sensitive and oblivious to my brand of sarcasm she's been great.
So...this may be news to some apparently, but people don't like when you make completely unoriginal jokes about a serious and chronic illness that causes severe distress and will for life, that others unfairly and severely stigmatize them for having.
The more you know
So I finally took the plunge and made an appointment to see a therapist. Just... tired of feeling like this.