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:pIt was horrible.. I spent all day playing games with friends and eating seafood!! :bawling:

Actually, today is my birthday... So you're right on time! =)

The kid thing is strange. I recently went to a get-together with some of my old college friends, folks I hadn't seen in 20 years.. They all had kids, and I was just sitting there alone. That was kinda weird feeling. I mean, I didn't think it would matter to me. As far as I know, I'm not able to...

Well.. doing better now. Considering how badly thrashed up I was, I would say much better. I took yesterday off work and spent most of it crying, sleeping, and trying not to puke anymore. Went out with my Mother for my birthday steak, but started getting sick again in the car before I could go...

It makes sense that they would have their own version of PTSD. I mean, so much of the illness is physical in nature. Despite what me might like to tell ourselves, we are still animals just like all the other vertebrates on the planet, which great similarities in bodily systems. I mean, the...

That is a good point. :)

So I was looking about last night, about alcoholic families, and I found this article about the roles in an alcoholic family. Some of them jumped out at me, particularly the ones of Hero and Lost Child. The lost child one, it struck a deep chord in me. Here it is: Lost Child - no connection to...

Yikes.. I forgot what I was originally going to post about in new thread.. but this is a good one so I'll not detract from it. The thing that struck me in my readings about trying to deal with my current addictions, Cigarettes and Diet Soda (don't laugh); is that there is always a root to it...

I have to go with the zero-tolerance route. The truth is that I don't want a glass of wine, or a beer (well, I do... but) What I really want is the world's biggest bottle of black rum (Kraken or Sailor Jerry, preferably.) Not really so much a bottle, more of a vat.. or a cask. That is the type...

Nah, you just follow roads and interstates so as not to get lost, so your path would be clear. Besides, if you needed to drop altitude quickly you could simply choose to fall, at which point you would reach terminal velocity incredibly fast. :)

Flight, without question. Truth is, with as scatter brained as I get, I would try to walk across the road while invisible one day and SPLAT! But flight would solve so many transportation problems. Definitely flight. :)

So you said it involves the idea of moving, even just the slightest implications of it. Were there bad moves in your past? Or are you more concerned with stability (even if you think you have none) and the fear that you might end up moving to a place where things are worse?

Hey, @SheilaKathy I am normally really good at paying off my credit card in full each month, but the promise of increased income threw me for a loop. I now understand how 85% of lottery winners end up going bankrupt within 3 years of winning the big bucks. The realization that you can actually...

I can definitely relate to this. My breath actually caught in my throat when I read it, so it's pretty clearly something that bothers me, even if I wasn't aware of it. Sometimes I am so ugly to myself that it's simply staggering. I say things that would get me slugged by another person. I've...

Well it was an expensive weekend for me, and it's about to get more expensive today. I went out of town with some friends, and ended up eating out twice, buying overpriced food at the Dollar General and taking in a movie at $20. All told it was probably about $50-60 spent... Due to other...

Well okay... @enough nailed it. :) But yeah, it does really help in tandem with each other. Ultimately a therapist can only show you the way; but you must walk it yourself. There are no shortcuts and most of it will be uphill.. But it's totally worth it. Just remember that getting started and...

@FridayJones I know what you mean. I've been living very simply for quite a long time (3+ years) since my divorce. Now I've got enough to do that comfortably, and everything shiny is attacking me at once. Madness!

That's a tough call. I know that I miss mania.. Back in simpler times when I was just a madman running around... But I bet you anything, that if you asked me then whether I would like to keep living in that way or in the manner that I do now; I know he would give it up in a heartbeat. I think a...

I would say you should trust him and give it a shot. If he's into you he'll be okay with it. I know that I don't care at all whether a girl is close with her family. It's just not as important as other factors. And I think there's a lot supposition in your post. Suppose this... suppose that...

I don't know if it would do any good, but I might look into some ambulance chasing lawyers just out of spite. Assholes.

Then you are that person that people see on the outside. You have a name, you have an identity. You may feel hollow -inside-, but that person that people see on the outside is easily as important as your inner self. Almost more important. One of my favourite quotes comes from Batman Begins...

Yeah, you should tell him about it. I often get the question "any suicidal thoughts?" during sessions. My usual answer is "no more than normal", because it's such a daily part of my life. But thinking about it isn't the same as taking actions toward that end. Your therapist should understand the...

It's alright not to go. I have missed funerals before for various reasons. Sometimes I didn't hear about it until afterwards, other times I simply couldn't get there. Not to mention the fact that dead people scare me and I can't stand to be in their presence. :confused: But it's alright...

@SheilaKathy That sounds like a great idea. I'll start now. I want to get a new set of glasses (okay) and get my cavities out (also okay) but other things are burning me up. I go into what I call "fevers", like car fever, computer fever, game fever.. When it comes over me I just go nuts about...

Oh wow.. This hits me... I recently got a raise and that money is burning a hole in my pocket.. And I haven't even gotten it yet! I mean, I literally have not gotten one single check at the advanced rate, but I'm all over amazon looking at stuff. I've kept it down to a dull roar so far.. but...