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Thanks so much for the encouragement. It is very much needed right now.

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I have managed to do all of this and exercise regularly, except for the caffeine part. I still have 2 cups of coffee daily. I am a big Daniel Amen fan and I absolutely trust what he says about caffeine and pretty much everything, but I haven't reached all of my goals, yet. I am also gluten and...

4 Enchiladas and French fries with Lemon Zinger tea. Today was just that kind of party.

You're right. I need to look into ED. I've had a lot of physicals since I had my original schizoaffective dx at 21, but I don't think I have been checked for that and even my last therapist told me to get checked. Thank you.

Damn it, I am trying. I got back on 300 mgs of Lithium twice a day, but the pills are not extended-release, so mornings and late afternoons, I am right back where I was. I have another appointment in the morning with primary care and am hoping to get some extended-release tablets. In the...

Thank you. Have a good evening. 🌹

I can see how what I initially posted might have made you see my relationship with my husband different than it is -- I often describe my outward responses with as much intensity as my inner responses -- "attack" was the wrong word, but it is not your business, especially after I tried to get...

I don't think so. Mother truckers might have a harder time appreciating a mudflap girl cookie cutter -- not in every instance, of course. Trucker mothers won't always like it, but they might get them to make cookies for their sons. 🤣 Don't mind me. I have WAY too much time on my hands.

I have never had a service dog, so please understand if I am no help, at all. It sounds to me that some of what you are going through is a bit of grief, realizing that your dog isn't always going to be there for you. I imagine this is part of why reaching out to friends is helping. I'm not...

You're damned right you are. I've never even had a chicken leek pie. There you are getting them delivered and cheesy bread right after, too. 🤣

That's great. I am glad that you are getting that. Does your mum come by every day? And bring food? I admit that I am a little jealous.

I hope so, too. It really sucks when you are looking for help and you get extra stress, instead. I've been through that a lot, lately.

Oh no! I am sorry. That is unhelpful. Then, of course, you arguing with them about it makes you look more delusional, right? I was not diagnosed with PTSD until about 6 years ago, as I think I recently told you. I had flashbacks that were called hallucinations and I remember arguing with the...

12 years?? Have you been trying to get help all that time? Do you mind me asking what you are diagnosed with? I guess I ought to be grateful that I was on gabapentin for pain. I didn't know it treated mood disorders. But my mom told me about my stepdad's cancer probably 2.5 weeks after the last...

Yay! Finally! 👍 🐳 I've been so thrown for a loop by all of this. If I had needed to wait for 2 weeks for help, I think I'd have wound up in the hospital. When I went down, I went down harder than I have in probably 10 years.

I typically drink only cold-brew coffee and tea because I have a problem with tannins but also have an addiction I have refused to let go of. I upped my intake of green tea recently by 3 cups and lowered my intake of coffee by 1 cup (which lowered my overall caffeine intake) and didn't seem to...

Thanks. I got an appointment for in the morning. That's possibly the only nice thing about living in a village -- next-day doc appointments. So, is that your dinner, then?

Oh sorry -- primary care doc

I think I like your mum. She's all about the good food, isn't she? That's lovely. I'm alright. I am wrestling with the awareness that my PC gave me extended-release dosing instructions but not extended-release pills. I think I will call and try to fix the issue because even though I have an...

Hello! how goes it?? 🐳

Thank you for mentioning this. Because you did, I had a bit longer talk with my husband about our current situation. We've decided to stick it out for the next 18 months, rather than moving again this summer. That doesn't exactly make me feel settled, but I do feel less rushed and immediately...

Why do you feel I need to be told this? If I did not understand what I was doing or that it was unhelpful, I wouldn't be able to describe it as such. And there's a lot more, but again, I wasn't providing this highly summarized snippet (which does not describe my behavior in any meaningful way)...

He's always done this. But this provides a good example of where I have thought I was having paranoia when it really was just me not wanting to feel judged. I thought better of sharing any of this but I chose to, knowing that there was this possibility. You made a lot of assumptions, here...

You would think so. My counselor didn't know what I was talking about. He's looking into it.