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[fitz_clementine]

So this morning, I was having a dream that there was a broken alarm clock in my room that kept beeping and flashing, and that for some reason both John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats and Data from Star Trek were trying to help me fix it, but none of us actually knew what we were doing and the beeping and flashing just kept getting louder, brighter

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I love you, fresh egg!

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The best part is mopping up the runny egg yolk with the toast so the toast gets slightly soggy and much more flavorful. I love it when the egg yolks are like ridiculously orange. The oranger the better; I don't find yellow yolks all that aesthetically pleasing.
YES. Okay, I am glad we have the same standards for eggs & toast. (Unless... you aren't one of those people who likes their toast really dark, almost burnt, are you? You better not be.) Keep practicing. I have high expectations.

And. Better coping is always good. : D

(This is the closest thing I have to an egg icon. I should probably work on that.)

Eggs, eggs, eggs! Get your fresh eggs here!

[fitz_clementine]

I like crisp toast, but not burnt. I hope that'll do!

Re: Eggs, eggs, eggs! Get your fresh eggs here!

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I like mine even less done than that. Just... cook yours a little longer, I guess?

[avi_chiara]

okay. so. I only got through 2 or 3 paragraphs of that article before becoming disinterested, but here's my experience...

paxil at 12 yrs old did make me dark and flat and unable to orgasm (while masturbating, silly!). It was bad bad bad; before paxil, I felt deep, passionate, swirling abyss, panic & crying & blood depression, on it I just felt dead.

then prozac then zoloft then combo of zoloft and wellbutrin. I can't even remember now. I eventually started to get better while on zoloft & wellbutrin. still I can't be sure that was because of the drugs.

My father used to keep the medicine locked in his safe and would dispense it to me one pill at a time. Sometimes I didn't take them. My poor father. He did the best he could.

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[fitz_clementine]

Oh, the first couple of paragraphs are pretty reasonable. Psych drugs are overprescribed, and often misprescribed even in cases where a person does clearly have actual, serious mental health problems. I don't have any illusions about that, nor do I have any illusions about the fact that most psych drugs can have terrible (or just annoying) side effects. That's why I'm careful to research any medication a doctor recommends to me before I'll agree to try it (and more often than not I won't agree to try it, either because I don't think it sounds like something that would help me any or because the potential risks seem to outweigh the potential benefits

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[avi_chiara]

Whoa, I finished reading it... I can't even understand where that's coming from. I mean... whoa. Your soylent green reference is making more sense now.

I guess I would tend to disregard the whole article.

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[fitz_clementine]

Again, I want to make it super-clear that I am not "pro-meds" so much as, basically, "pro- informed people using any treatment that, for whatever reason, works to make them less depressed or whatever without other people telling them that they are bad, wrong, or foolish for doing so, and without trivializing the problems that led them to seek an anodyne in the first place." If that's Kundalini yoga, great. If it's running away to join the circus, great. If it's CBT, great. If it's Prozac, or Ritalin, or marijuana, great. If maybe a drug sort of works for a while, but a person eventually has to find something less chemical to sustain them in the long run, that's also okay. If a person doesn't want to take drugs, I don't think that they should ever be forced, coerced, tricked, or manipulated into taking them.

I'm glad you shared that story with me / felt comfortable enough to share that story with me, by the way. I really am.