Comments | cleolinda: Mama de Cleo rides again

cleolinda

Mama de Cleo rides again

Jul 28, 2009 15:17

So yesterday I got absolutely zero work done because my dogs spent all morning barking hysterically at stove repair people. The two guys themselves were nice; they've been out to our house a total of three times to install a new range for us (and I'll have to take a picture of it; it's totally space-age awesome and... a bit difficult to cook on, ( Read more... )

depression, bipolar, appropriate responses to bad situations, my mother, shenanigans

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moodybunny July 28 2009, 21:36:09 UTC

Lamictal worked amazingly well for me until it gave me uncontrollable shakes. I'd been on it for months at that point.
It's a rare side effect which took my doc forever to figure out what was wrong.
Best of luck to you on your medicinal journey.

sienamystic July 28 2009, 21:36:49 UTC

Your mother, she rocks so hard.

kijikun July 28 2009, 21:38:07 UTC

If this is the same stuff I'm on (I'll have to double check) They have to take you up slowly by 25mg, and if you miss a day you have to start all over. They aren't supposed to jump you up 150 to 200 like that. It can screw you up big time.

kijikun July 28 2009, 21:41:28 UTC

I still have crying jags sometimes and my social paranoia kicks in at time, but I don't go into fully panic attacks when things go wrong and I managed to have only one partial panic attack at con (more from being over tired and missing something I really wanted to see but knew I couldn't get into. I went and cried in the bathroom. God bless my friends for putting up with me)

constancedh July 29 2009, 07:13:08 UTC

Oi.... that sounds tough. Good luck!

kijikun July 29 2009, 07:20:40 UTC

Thanks. After the first week it was like having a revelation of realizing just how much my bipolarism effected me. Getting a proper diagnostics after years of mistreatment was a godsend (I'd been treated for ADD since I was very young and anxiety since my early 20s - turns out I was never ADD at all).

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scornedsaint July 28 2009, 21:39:23 UTC

"Here's the phone, talk to my mother. And GOOD LUCK."

I love hearing things like this, because not only does it serve as a reminder that your mother is everything I want to be when I grow up (...or tomorrow, when I have to call my landlord who has failed to send me my lease for the past two weeks), but it's also a PSA about crazy scamming shenanigans.

fiveforsilver July 29 2009, 00:22:02 UTC

your mother is everything I want to be when I grow up

That's exactly what I was thinking, I totally want to be her when I grow up. I wouldn't even think to call and ask if that was a legit charge, much less have the guts to actually do it.

Also, good luck with your landlord.

t4_flirt July 28 2009, 21:44:00 UTC

Your mother is awesome. My mom is the same way. And when it comes to BS, I tend to be the same. I would've called around like crazy as well. Way to go Mama de Cleo!