Written from the heart with lots thought and reasoning behind it all, a great read!
Here we readers are with another 5 star submission from Susan, who writes from her heart and soul and tell about life the way it really is. About anti-depression meds, I have always wondered what else they are fucking up in your body to give you that happy go lucky feeling. Are we just programmable robots that know to go to the kitchen cabinet every 8 hours and get out the pills and something to swallow them with? I was taking Neurontin for some extremity pain and tingling, but while it took away some of the effects, it also caused weight gain and that spacey effect on my mind. When I told the doctor I was going to stop taking them, he had a cow about it and said I needed to take a stronger dose! Sometimes depression is caused by all the negative crap in newspapers and on the electronic media. I've even found how much better I feel if avoiding afternoon coffee group and their constant bitching about everything, politics, sports, weather and sex.... Relaxation and reading, especially well written features like this from Susan are some of the best therapy there is in life, I also think if we realize how well we have it all compared to some third world countries, we should be thankful. Editorializing, yes, but this has to be one of the best and most moving 2 part series I have ever read and it really didn't involve sex. But then am a depressed will be what is asked when I see the doctor on Friday, and of course the doctor will say "how are you"? While he charges $128 for an office call lasting almost 10 minutes ! Keep the writing coming SJP, I need the therapy.. Maybe I should just send you the doctors fee? :) :) jaybird
Everyone has a story, and if telling yours helps one other victim to realize that they are not alone and can rise above the pain, then maybe that is your retribution, your ultimate triumph.
I think here we should consider what I call "The Asparagus Quandary". That some people love asparagus, some people hate asparagus and many people will only eat asparagus if cooked a particular. For instance I will only eat fresh-picked baby asparagus that has been lightly steamed or grilled. I abhor asparagus that has boiled or out of a can.
Some people can smell asparagus in their pee. Some people can smell asparagus in other people's pee. Some cannot smell it in their own pee. Some cannot smell it in other people's pee. Just one of a endless multitude of biological differences between people out of the same genetic pool. Yet some miracle drug is suppose to work the same for every patient?
Diagnostic agnostic, sometimes Dr. Dolittle's prescription is to do nothing. Depends on what you are listening too. The internet is often similar to trying to hold a conversation with a pushme-pullme. Bad advice from both ends!
These days people generally smoke herbs for entertainment, claiming to use them for medical proprieties. Yet anyone who has studied medicinal herbs knows that there are degrees of efficacy not just fro crop to crop but from plant to plant. Wiki "terrior" and you can begin to see the confusion inherent to relying on herbal medicines.
Some people say laughter is the best medicine. some people say tears are the best medicine. I say laughing until you are in tears is the very best!
My wife and I were volunteers for an NGO that attempted to provide abused women and children with safe shelter and access to whatever medical and social services they needed. Our society glorifies predation and cruelly deprives social services for the most deprived and impoverished so some rich people can have more & more pretty, shiny toys. Continuous deprivation of funding has reduced the police and social service agencies to impotent shadows of what is needed. It took years of therapy for me to overcome the deep depression I fell into as a result of all the funerals I had to attend for the victims of government neglect due to the callous indifference of the onepercenters and their groveling apologists.
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keep it up SJP........I can read your stuff all day........and will!
Written from the heart with lots thought and reasoning behind it all, a great read!
Here we readers are with another 5 star submission from Susan, who writes from her heart and soul and tell about life the way it really is. About anti-depression meds, I have always wondered what else they are fucking up in your body to give you that happy go lucky feeling. Are we just programmable robots that know to go to the kitchen cabinet every 8 hours and get out the pills and something to swallow them with? I was taking Neurontin for some extremity pain and tingling, but while it took away some of the effects, it also caused weight gain and that spacey effect on my mind. When I told the doctor I was going to stop taking them, he had a cow about it and said I needed to take a stronger dose! Sometimes depression is caused by all the negative crap in newspapers and on the electronic media. I've even found how much better I feel if avoiding afternoon coffee group and their constant bitching about everything, politics, sports, weather and sex.... Relaxation and reading, especially well written features like this from Susan are some of the best therapy there is in life, I also think if we realize how well we have it all compared to some third world countries, we should be thankful. Editorializing, yes, but this has to be one of the best and most moving 2 part series I have ever read and it really didn't involve sex. But then am a depressed will be what is asked when I see the doctor on Friday, and of course the doctor will say "how are you"? While he charges $128 for an office call lasting almost 10 minutes ! Keep the writing coming SJP, I need the therapy.. Maybe I should just send you the doctors fee? :) :) jaybird
Pills?
There is little I can add to jaybird8100's comment. He pretty much said it all. Just don't give up your AK-47.
A survivor's tale well told
Everyone has a story, and if telling yours helps one other victim to realize that they are not alone and can rise above the pain, then maybe that is your retribution, your ultimate triumph.
A Rose by any other Name
I think here we should consider what I call "The Asparagus Quandary". That some people love asparagus, some people hate asparagus and many people will only eat asparagus if cooked a particular. For instance I will only eat fresh-picked baby asparagus that has been lightly steamed or grilled. I abhor asparagus that has boiled or out of a can.
Some people can smell asparagus in their pee. Some people can smell asparagus in other people's pee. Some cannot smell it in their own pee. Some cannot smell it in other people's pee. Just one of a endless multitude of biological differences between people out of the same genetic pool. Yet some miracle drug is suppose to work the same for every patient?
Diagnostic agnostic, sometimes Dr. Dolittle's prescription is to do nothing. Depends on what you are listening too. The internet is often similar to trying to hold a conversation with a pushme-pullme. Bad advice from both ends!
These days people generally smoke herbs for entertainment, claiming to use them for medical proprieties. Yet anyone who has studied medicinal herbs knows that there are degrees of efficacy not just fro crop to crop but from plant to plant. Wiki "terrior" and you can begin to see the confusion inherent to relying on herbal medicines.
Some people say laughter is the best medicine. some people say tears are the best medicine. I say laughing until you are in tears is the very best!
My wife and I were volunteers for an NGO that attempted to provide abused women and children with safe shelter and access to whatever medical and social services they needed. Our society glorifies predation and cruelly deprives social services for the most deprived and impoverished so some rich people can have more & more pretty, shiny toys. Continuous deprivation of funding has reduced the police and social service agencies to impotent shadows of what is needed. It took years of therapy for me to overcome the deep depression I fell into as a result of all the funerals I had to attend for the victims of government neglect due to the callous indifference of the onepercenters and their groveling apologists.
Susan HONEY, you deserve a Pulitzer for telling it like it is. I raise my hat to you ... the BEST WRITER on Literotica.
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