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Here are a couple of things that have struck me as really funny lately: http://www.spamusement.com/ (thanks foxmagic!)
http://www.geocities.com/soho/coffeehouse/8321/shelbagpipe_poem.html
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2652831 (This is the Jon Stewart on Crossfire clip that probably everyone's seen now, but I post it just in case anyone hasn't.)
And I just read a comment that said that the Silverstein poem was sad! Huh?! Perhaps I'm deranged (that's a rhetorical phrase, mind you), but I was reading it to the five-year-old last night before just bedtime, and was laughing so hard I was literally crying. Even this morning, just the word "aaooga" was enough to cause both of us to giggle nonstop.
I'm feeling better. I went to see the doctor this morning. I have decided that even though philosophically I agree with Eastern medicine's lifestyle change approach, I have to stay with the Western stuff (read: SSRIs) for now. Bouncing on and off my meds has been terrible for my mental health. So, I'm going to work on using my pill reminder to make sure I actually TAKE the meds, exercising more, taking vitamins...but not tapering down. Tapering down is bad very bad. I was sitting in the examination room, looking at the big poster advertising "Symptoms for Depression and Anxiety" and the lightbulb went on in a big way, once I saw I had like eight out of ten of them. Trying to go off the meds, while good from a philosophical perspective, is fucking horrendous from a mental well-being perspective. So, I'm back on...maybe for the long haul.
I know that the pharmaceutical companies put out those posters, and that one could argue that they do so in order to get 'fresh meat' 'new recruits.' It's sort of a conflict between the idealist me and the pragmatic me. The idealist me says that I'm part of the 'system' that just sticks heavy duty drugs on problems as a 'band-aid' without addressing the lifestyle issues underneath. The pragmatic me says that the Western chemicals work, by god, so why would you want to f*** with results? Right now the 'pragmatic' me is winning...
Anyway...I didn't mean to go on about my mental health like that, but I also didn't want anyone to worry after my last entry. When I find myself falling into the black hole, I tend to have the wherewithal to claw myself back out, the strength to recognize I need help and ask for it. I think that's a good thing. :-)
And if you've read this far, I have another little extra something for your pleasure...cheesy song lyrics!! :-D Hope you like them. ( Read more... )
That says it all, really. Doesn't it?
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http://www.geocities.com/soho/coffeehouse/8321/shelbagpipe_poem.html
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2652831 (This is the Jon Stewart on Crossfire clip that probably everyone's seen now, but I post it just in case anyone hasn't.)
And I just read a comment that said that the Silverstein poem was sad! Huh?! Perhaps I'm deranged (that's a rhetorical phrase, mind you), but I was reading it to the five-year-old last night before just bedtime, and was laughing so hard I was literally crying. Even this morning, just the word "aaooga" was enough to cause both of us to giggle nonstop.
I'm feeling better. I went to see the doctor this morning. I have decided that even though philosophically I agree with Eastern medicine's lifestyle change approach, I have to stay with the Western stuff (read: SSRIs) for now. Bouncing on and off my meds has been terrible for my mental health. So, I'm going to work on using my pill reminder to make sure I actually TAKE the meds, exercising more, taking vitamins...but not tapering down. Tapering down is bad very bad. I was sitting in the examination room, looking at the big poster advertising "Symptoms for Depression and Anxiety" and the lightbulb went on in a big way, once I saw I had like eight out of ten of them. Trying to go off the meds, while good from a philosophical perspective, is fucking horrendous from a mental well-being perspective. So, I'm back on...maybe for the long haul.
I know that the pharmaceutical companies put out those posters, and that one could argue that they do so in order to get 'fresh meat' 'new recruits.' It's sort of a conflict between the idealist me and the pragmatic me. The idealist me says that I'm part of the 'system' that just sticks heavy duty drugs on problems as a 'band-aid' without addressing the lifestyle issues underneath. The pragmatic me says that the Western chemicals work, by god, so why would you want to f*** with results? Right now the 'pragmatic' me is winning...
Anyway...I didn't mean to go on about my mental health like that, but I also didn't want anyone to worry after my last entry. When I find myself falling into the black hole, I tend to have the wherewithal to claw myself back out, the strength to recognize I need help and ask for it. I think that's a good thing. :-)
And if you've read this far, I have another little extra something for your pleasure...cheesy song lyrics!! :-D Hope you like them. ( Read more... )
That says it all, really. Doesn't it?
A+
