Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff
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@Faceless said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
@Auspice said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
@Ganymede said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
@Auspice said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
So long as you're buying. I'm too poor for bar drinkin'.
We're doing this some place cheap, right? I mean, me and @hedgehog are supposed to meet up in Dayton, Ohio some time. You should come with. Booze be cheap down here; I be drinking double Blantons neat for under $10.
I haven't been to Dayton in about a decade.
Because it's...Dayton. That's reason enough.
I jest.
I lived in/around Cincinnati from 2004-2007. So there were some trips up Dayton-ways. Some. Not many. That drive sucks.
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I have heard free booze, Dayton.... now throw in free room, free airfare and free food... I'll be someone's bitch.
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@Catsmeow said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
I have heard free booze, Dayton.... now throw in free room, free airfare and free food... I'll be someone's bitch.
For that amount of money you'd better be!
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@Catsmeow said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
I have heard free booze, Dayton.... now throw in free room, free airfare and free food... I'll be someone's bitch.
Mm. Airfare is a stretch. Everything else, not so.
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Hmmm.... I know people with frequent flier mi--- um...
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Being sad is finding someone that has never met you diagnose your problem succinctly.
"[C]omedians seem to have two competing personality traits: introverted anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure) and extroverted impulsiveness. Although they are similar to actors, who remain extroverted, open and interested in understanding the world around them, comedians have introverted traits that make them asocial and a little emotionally flat. Some also suffer from clinical depression."
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Argh. I'm glad I know myself well enough to know I'm in the beginning of a self-destructive downward spiral of depression...
but also annoyed that I lack the ability to do anything but try to minimize the damage. It would be lovely if I could stop. At the very least I can control myself enough to handle my hygiene and not miss work. So there's there.
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A lot of people who MU* appear to be fundamentally broken.
Myself included. I've been thinking about getting therapy.
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NO! @Julia-Cornelia NO!
You leave this thread and go troll the others.
I banish the with the power of NO.
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@Catsmeow said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
NO! @Julia-Cornelia NO!
You leave this thread and go troll the others.
I banish the with the power of NO.
God, chill the fuck out, I deal with enough people screaming at me in real life.
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@Julia-Cornelia said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
A lot of people who MU* appear to be fundamentally broken.
Myself included. I've been thinking about getting therapy.
there's no help for people like us. we're too far gone. escapism is all we have left.
it all went wrong time to forget about it and dream sweet dreams
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I highly suggest therapy to anyone who can afford it.
Just being able to talk to a professional is fantastic. I am not in a situation where that is financially feasible right now myself, unfortunately.
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@Admiral said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
I highly suggest therapy to anyone who can afford it.
Just being able to talk to a professional is fantastic. I am not in a situation where that is financially feasible right now myself, unfortunately.
There are often low-cost/sliding scale options. Check your state's mental health dept. That's how I found mine. She's incredible and works with me on what I can pay.
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@Admiral
I'm not sure where you are located (and it's none of my business), but like @Auspice says there are things out there. In fact, there tends to be (in most places) even something for the 'gappers'. Those people that make too much on paper but still live paycheck to paycheck.
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@Catsmeow said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
@Admiral
I'm not sure where you are located (and it's none of my business), but like @Auspice says there are things out there. In fact, there tends to be (in most places) even something for the 'gappers'. Those people that make too much on paper but still live paycheck to paycheck.
That's what I am! We've worked it out so it's technically $25/visit, but sometimes I can't quite manage that and she's OK with me just paying what I can on those days.
If you're in the state of Washington, it's the... Human Services? department it's through. When I lived in SC, there was the whole 'Mental Health' dept run by the county, where they review your income, bills/rent, and then decide a sliding scale from there.
Therapy out of pocket is hard. I still haven't found a psychiatrist who will take my insurance (and the idea of paying $300+ to see one of those is laughable).
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Never go to a psychiatrist. Go to a psychologist. Let a psychologist refer you to a psychiatrist if you need one.
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@Admiral said in Mental Health and Grown Up Stuff:
Never go to a psychiatrist. Go to a psychologist. Let a psychologist refer you to a psychiatrist if you need one.
Oh, I know. I need a psychiatrist, however, as I'm at the point of 'need meds for anxiety'
Saying the quiet parts out loud since 1996.
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@Auspice I have been lucky in that I can get that handled through my GP. It was very obvious I had a long-term stress-related 'I throw up violently the moment I get seriously upset' problem, though, so the anti-anxiety stuff was to help handle/prevent a concrete physical symptom/issue.
