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Tilting the Void

Warning: swearing, knitting, drinking, and Oxford commas might be involved.

Pshaw. What do they know?

Wednesday, 14. May 2008, 00:16:42

According to Yahoo Health and their ridiculous click-thru survey, I'm at risk for major depression.

Everyone falls victim to crying jags at work now and then, right? :rolleyes:

Nothin' a fifth of gin can't cure. I mean, really. Hmph.

On a more serious note.If I can get my hinder parts in gear...

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As long as you're drinking your depression away, you might as well wash down a few barbituates, while you are at it...

By noah counte, # 14. May 2008, 01:19:14

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You at risk for depression ?? No way!!
you have music in your heart!
no depression rests around music and this is a fact!!!:heart:

By ellinidata, # 14. May 2008, 04:32:40

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Heh. That's why I listen to the blues...

By mlynnjohnson, # 14. May 2008, 05:49:32

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:lol:

I like the blues too...
time to take that survey ! :lol:

By ellinidata, # 14. May 2008, 10:27:51

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I always worry about "adaptations" of tests that are proven to be effective tools. The three tests they mention in the adaptation paragraph all have significantly more questions. The fewer questions you cull from the original, the less certain you can be of correlation.

Of course, just because the test is ridiculous, doesn't mean you aren't at risk for depression... :lol:

By noah counte, # 14. May 2008, 13:11:36

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The paranoid part of me is pretty sure it's a tool used by some marketing wing of the cryptofascist pharmaceutical corporations to get gullible people hooked on their mindbending drugs.

Now excuse me, I have to go make a tinfoil hat :lol:

By mlynnjohnson, # 14. May 2008, 13:48:15

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Well, depression is nothing to laugh about - it's devastating. It's also really easy to see your family physician, say "I'm depressed," and get medication.

The tinfoil hat is a whole 'nother problem. When I practiced law, I had seemingly endless contact with one poor soul after another who had issues with methamphetamine. All were convinced that they were being spied on by microwaves or lasers or any number of other nefarious tools that one government or another (or in some cases, aliens) employed to distill the secrets that only a hillbilly from the hills of Kitsap County could carry in his or her head.

By noah counte, # 14. May 2008, 14:07:19

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Don't get me wrong--It isn't something to laugh about, certainly, and I don't want to be pulling any couch-jumping Tom Cruise antics! I do think antidepressants tend to be overprescribed, but I know personally people who need antidepressants to survive.

You practiced law?? (You might've told me that before, but I have a mind like a steel sieve. Ain't nothin staying in there.)

Now the drug of choice on the streets out here is shifting away from meth to oxycontin and the like, which go for something like 80 bucks a pill. You still see the meth-heads though--that stuff is frightening in the way it ruins peoples lives.

By mlynnjohnson, # 14. May 2008, 14:18:45

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Depression is stinky.

That I practiced law is only relevent when it becomes relevent. Heh.

Meth is hard to get away from once you get started, that's for sure. Oxycontin is scary too (and a difficult detox), and doctors are easily persuaded to prescribe it - often under names that don't have quite as negative a connotation (percocet, for example). Aside from being addictive, it's got some really cool adverse side effects like circulatory collapse. Neat!



By noah counte, # 14. May 2008, 14:26:35

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Heh. I'm safe from that--anything like percocet or vicodin makes me hurl like Linda Blair. The last time I was recovering from minor surgery, the doctor didn't believe me, but to humor me he put me on an anti-nausea pill I was to take 30 mins before the actual pain killer. Still barfed with spectacular force, heh. Went back to ibuprofen, my drug of choice next to caffeine and the occasional drink here or there.

Circulatory collapse? That's great. A guy who works with my husband is a self-professed addict to prescribed Oxcycontin. It sounds pretty gnarly and he can't quit--not won't, can't.

My whole goal in life after this crappy spring is to stay the hell away from doctors as much as humanly possible! Not that they aren't wonderful when you need them--but I don't want to need them!

By mlynnjohnson, # 14. May 2008, 15:27:37

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Yeah, I can't pop narcotics without a healthy dose of zofram or phenergan. Luckily, I don't like what narcotics do to me, so I don't have to worry about it. Well, I like the feeling. I really don't like the feeling of liking the feeling, though.

Can't, won't. At some point, it becomes the same thing.

I'm with you on doctors. Lawyers, too. They are great when you need them, but life is a lot better when you don't need them.

By noah counte, # 14. May 2008, 15:59:23

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