Couch 82: If you're happy and you know it, be a number!

It would be I didn't know it is the harbinger of mania. See I should be asleep but my brain won't stop .
With some T youcan never win 😉

I just really have to stop caring about teenagers and their desperate pleas for help on this site. I keep thinking they are telling the full story and they never are. Duh, StressedMess, you have a teenager, you know the nature of the beast!

Reading about someone in dire straights and only being able to offer words is completely stressful. I've been avoiding some posts too.

Then being told I am wrong, there is no issue, it's not the parents fault, and being thanked with saccharine sweetness for my totally ineffective advice.

Does PC get many trolls?

Must be something in the air. I'm completely manic too - haven't slept in about three nights. My best friend says as long as I'm aware I'm manic I'm doing ok. I told her being aware is nice but being asleep would be better

I was born and raised in MI and I remember Bill Knapp's. Are they still around?

I always avoid the children. I don't try to decide if someone is real or not - for all I lnow they may be, but I do know I am not the person to deal with them.

Honestly, I think there are several. There are a couple of people I tried to help, both in the forum and in PM -- actually spent a bunch of time looking up resources for a person, finding funding and loans, places to stay, places to get mental health assistance, etc. I still cannot tell whether the people just posting for attention, like making fake calls to the crisis line, or if they are posting for some other malicious purpose. In either event, I try to stay away.

BPA, I didn't post yesterday because I didn't want to make you feel worse, but small rodents are susceptible to heat and fumes both. If you have to move the babies again, you absolutely must transport them in the passenger area of the vehicle with you if you want them to live. Also, don't give them salted peanuts. That is something I learned the hard way and it sucks for the animal when we don't know things like that. I still feel sick when I think about making that mistake.

MKAC your generosity is appreciated, thanks for caring!

Time for me to learn that lesson about NOT taking on other people's pain.

I think that one's expectations after giving advice can lead one to feeling bad. Sometimes the help is helpful right away, sometimes it takes awhile for someone to put help into use, and sometimes help is not helpful to that other person.
But I come at it from the other direction -I would rather not have any help at all than have the person who wanted to be helpful mad/resentful at me when I don't use or want their type of help.

Hi! I dont think they are. Mayor Hubbard of Dearborn used to go there every day. I think its a Tim Hortons donut shop now.

Yeah, I think for me, I am fine with people who don't want help or don't want to change. I get ticked off with the people who claim they want help and claim they want to change, but then get angry when people offer the exact help they claim to want. It's like that nail in the head video. Someone is complaining endlessly about a headache, but won't take the ****ing nail out of their head. Oh, your head hurts -- take out the nail. Nooooo, the nail is NOT the problem. Yes, it ****ing well is. If you don't want to take the nail out, fine. Just don't pretend like the nail is not the problem and don't act like I am stupid for thinking the nail IS the problem. That is when I get ticked off -- when I am treated like I am a horrible person or stupid when I point out the nail.

It is off-putting for me if someone asks for help and then seems upset with me about what I offer. I fully believe I could be wrong about what kind of help is needed (in my view - perhaps the nail is not the problem even if I think it is - I could be wrong about that part) but becoming testy because I did not give the right help is annoying. Say thanks and go ask someone else is how I try to handle it IF I have been careless enough to ask for help.

I almost never ask for advice or help about me specifically because the wrong kind really does piss me off - so I understand why someone would get pissy about the wrong advice. I often, on this site, am given advice I don't want or need even where I specifically say it is not what I am looking for. I have even had to tell the therapist I am not looking for her advice - I just wanted to tell someone about it. Also, I might well want to change, but differently than the advice giver's way of doing it.
But that is different from when someone posts "please give me advice" and then gets pissy (I do think pissy is different from simply rejecting the advice).

Hell yeah!

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And Cup o' Soups.

I do not understand why I am so irritable and unable to concentrate lately.

I wish I could just stop being so afraid. It's frustrating, I'm out, but not really, because he's still in my head. Along with everyone else who's ever effed me over. I'm tired of it. I want my life back. Why is taking it back so hard?

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Shakey hugs if you want them.

SD you're spot on. When some young girl is saying "eff you very much" to my post, I find myself feeling exceedingly pissy.

Thanks SM. passes a pumpkin spice latte

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Wow - I did not realize some one responded to you like that after they asked for help.

It was more of a passive-aggressive "implied" fuvm to me. That's why I asked if PC gets a lot of trolls. I was sort of pushing for more explanation not so much saying what she should do.

Shakey I need that latte today, thanks a million . I'm trapped in my house with a virus (thanks kids!!) and of course they feel all better now since I'm the one who stayed up all night passing out ginger ale and saltine crackers and comfort. Ugh.

Work is my refuge sometimes!

I hear you. I'm trapped in the DES. I wish I was at work. I have no idea why anyone would be on assistance by choice. I'd rather be back doing my crazy 10 hour nights...

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I am so crabby. I was on Facebook desperately wishing there was a current events test / intellectual reasoning test that was necessary as a prerequisite to voting in this country.

I am eating trader joe's triple ginger cookies and filling out time sheets for my fee request.
I hate doing fee requests.

I have something like 5 of them I need to finish by the end of the year.