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Old Jul 13, 2017, 09:23 AM
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Good morning! Went grocery shopping today and got a lot of healthy stuff. Also got some flavored seltzer water since it's zero calories. I'm losing a lot of weight. I'm like half the size I was a year ago, it's really amazing. 6 months from now I should be at my goal. How is everyone?
Did you have a med change or is it willpower driven? IDK I find it hard to lose even a few pounds....just wondering if you have advice?
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 09:23 AM
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I have a couple of things to do today but its back to the long weekend.
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 09:24 AM
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I have a couple of things to do today but its back to the long weekend.
Most of us would love a long weekend......
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 09:26 AM
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Did you have a med change or is it willpower driven? IDK I find it hard to lose even a few pounds....just wondering if you have advice?
It's been a year of eating mostly healthier than I was beforehand. I am only 23 days into stopping binging and purging so that will make a huge difference too. Just getting out more and eating better. Plus I switched from depakote to trileptal which supposedly helps, it will continue to take a lot of work and willpower but I think I can do it
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 09:32 AM
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Most of us would love a long weekend......


Well i mean i dont work. But what i meant was til my dad is off again. I only ever hang out with my dad. Its depressing. 26 years old and no REAL friends. How did life come to this? Its been 3 years since ive been extremely sick. I wonder why its taking so long to make friends. The first year i didnt care for any. Was focusing on myself. the second year i started to gain one. That was my ex. This year ive gained old friends from high school. Have more texting buddies. But thats it. Each year is better but its such a painfully slow process.

Maybe i SHOULD look into volunteering or online dating or something. 2 years ago or so i was volunteering at petsmart cleaning cat litter boxes. It wasnt a bad gig but i was doing it alone. Each person that came in to do it was alone on their shift so it was like a one person deal. Made no friends so i quit. Thats why i dont really wanna go back to doing volunteering.
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 09:37 AM
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Well i mean i dont work. But what i meant was til my dad is off again. I only ever hang out with my dad. Its depressing. 26 years old and no REAL friends. How did life come to this? Its been 3 years since ive been extremely sick. I wonder why its taking so long to make friends. The first year i didnt care for any. Was focusing on myself. the second year i started to gain one. That was my ex. This year ive gained old friends from high school. Have more texting buddies. But thats it. Each year is better but its such a painfully slow process.

Maybe i SHOULD look into volunteering or online dating or something. 2 years ago or so i was volunteering at petsmart cleaning cat litter boxes. It wasnt a bad gig but i was doing it alone. Each person that came in to do it was alone on their shift so it was like a one person deal. Made no friends so i quit. Thats why i dont really wanna go back to doing volunteering.
So I met all my friends online and the bf-----it's a slow process to meet people who will stick around I must have met ten people or more before I met my best friend. As far as guys I think I met like 5-6 then gave up for a few years then tried again----I was much more successful in the second round. Timing is everything. As far as volunteering I wouldn't go back to the cat litter its pointless if you're working alone----find something else.
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 09:44 AM
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So I met all my friends online and the bf-----it's a slow process to meet people who will stick around I must have met ten people or more before I met my best friend. As far as guys I think I met like 5-6 then gave up for a few years then tried again----I was much more successful in the second round. Timing is everything. As far as volunteering I wouldn't go back to the cat litter its pointless if you're working alone----find something else.


Yea im looking now. Thank you.
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 10:33 AM
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Maybe i SHOULD look into volunteering or online dating or something. 2 years ago or so i was volunteering at petsmart cleaning cat litter boxes. It wasnt a bad gig but i was doing it alone. Each person that came in to do it was alone on their shift so it was like a one person deal. Made no friends so i quit. Thats why i dont really wanna go back to doing volunteering.
can you look into local soup kitchens or homeless assistance places?

when i had to do community service i worked in a soup kitchen. it was actually fun and i liked helping people. and there are people there that you work with and around
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Didn't take the 7.5mg Zyprexa feel really paranoid and confused so I took 15mg

Sucks
Felt like I was losing my mind. But I'm ok now =]

Sun is shining. Gonna go out and have a smoke maybe do something but idk what yet.

Maybe look up the rules to the road because my dad just texted me and he's going to buy a new vehicle and I want to drive it.
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 11:01 AM
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Good morning everyone. Having a frustrating day with work. I'm completely overwhelmed and now my boss wants me on another project and my computer crashed while I was on the phone with him. Now my computer is updating so it's going to be forever before I can call him back. I look stupid on top of being frustrated. Maybe I'm not ready for more work. It should be an easy process but for some reason it's kicking my ***.
On the brighter side my kids are great. That makes things easier.
I'm also out of ambien and I'm not sure I can pick it up today .
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 11:40 AM
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Good morning everyone. Having a frustrating day with work. I'm completely overwhelmed and now my boss wants me on another project and my computer crashed while I was on the phone with him. Now my computer is updating so it's going to be forever before I can call him back. I look stupid on top of being frustrated. Maybe I'm not ready for more work. It should be an easy process but for some reason it's kicking my ***.
On the brighter side my kids are great. That makes things easier.
I'm also out of ambien and I'm not sure I can pick it up today .


Sorry you're having a hard day, I'm glad you can seek comfort in your kids. I hope the computer sorts itself out!
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 11:42 AM
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Had a good day. Saw my psychologist this morning and had a good chat. We talked about how to keep the things I experience from turning bad and how to recognise signs that it's turning. We always have a laugh, she gets my sense of humour now. She's good to talk to.
Going to see the new planet of the apes tonight. Can't wait!
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 12:21 PM
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Good morning everyone. Having a frustrating day with work. I'm completely overwhelmed and now my boss wants me on another project and my computer crashed while I was on the phone with him. Now my computer is updating so it's going to be forever before I can call him back. I look stupid on top of being frustrated. Maybe I'm not ready for more work. It should be an easy process but for some reason it's kicking my ***.
On the brighter side my kids are great. That makes things easier.
I'm also out of ambien and I'm not sure I can pick it up today .
Are you on windows 10----it seems to update at the worst times.....
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Antipsychotics make me like stimulants

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|Low dopamine|-|high dopamine|

The paradox!

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Old Jul 13, 2017, 01:42 PM
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I've never heard that either. The only thing I've been told is that with each relapse you get further away from normal functioning...but I haven't experienced that either and I've had many relapses.
Thank you for supporting me willow, I hope this doesn't come across as self sabotage as that's not what this is. I'm still seeing my cpn and my psychologist and I've got a back up plan. I just can't stand the side effects anymore. For me they outweigh the benefits right now and my cpn said it's important that you get the right balance.
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It's 8am and I'm up and about. My bf who's as work today was getting ready and he looked genuinely concerned and asked if I'm okay when I got up, that's how bad my sleeping was usually I'd be dead to the world till 10/11! I think he gets how much it was affecting me now. I love getting up earlier and actually having motivation to do something! I might go for a coffee before my appointment with my psychologist
Sorry I hope it doesn't come across as digging on meds too much, I know they really help people.
It's great you're up and about, and I'm glad that your bf gets it now. I prefer to have less sleep than too much sleep too. I don't think that doing what's right for you is putting down meds. Everybody needs to find their own balance re meds.

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Had a good day. Saw my psychologist this morning and had a good chat. We talked about how to keep the things I experience from turning bad and how to recognise signs that it's turning. We always have a laugh, she gets my sense of humour now. She's good to talk to.
Going to see the new planet of the apes tonight. Can't wait!
I'm glad you had a good chat and are working on early warning signs - that's a really good thing.

Hope you enjoy the film! I want to see it too, but I have to catch up my Mum on the first 2 before we can go. Luckily I recorded them on TV recently for her. Today I went to see the new Spider-Man film, which I thought was good and pretty funny

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I wrote to the rehab pdoc a week ago and he *still* hasn't bothered to come and see me to talk about it!! The upset is slowly being replaced by anger the longer it gets. How can they justify treating people so badly?! And how can they consider themselves good at their jobs when they can get people so wrong. Every day they hurt me a little bit more with their wrong assumptions about me.

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Old Jul 13, 2017, 02:27 PM
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I wrote to the rehab pdoc a week ago and he *still* hasn't bothered to come and see me to talk about it!! The upset is slowly being replaced by anger the longer it gets. How can they justify treating people so badly?! And how can they consider themselves good at their jobs when they can get people so wrong. Every day they hurt me a little bit more with their wrong assumptions about me.

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Are you on windows 10----it seems to update at the worst times.....

Yes I am. It is always when I need it lol
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I wrote to the rehab pdoc a week ago and he *still* hasn't bothered to come and see me to talk about it!! The upset is slowly being replaced by anger the longer it gets. How can they justify treating people so badly?! And how can they consider themselves good at their jobs when they can get people so wrong. Every day they hurt me a little bit more with their wrong assumptions about me.

*Willow*

That is awful . I'm sorry.
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So I'm sitting in a completely empty parking lot. This car pulls in and parks right beside me. It's not even like it's a good spot. We are at the park. All the spots are good. People-I don't get them
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So I'm sitting in a completely empty parking lot. This car pulls in and parks right beside me. It's not even like it's a good spot. We are at the park. All the spots are good. People-I don't get them


People always do that to me
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Old Jul 13, 2017, 03:04 PM
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So I'm sitting in a completely empty parking lot. This car pulls in and parks right beside me. It's not even like it's a good spot. We are at the park. All the spots are good. People-I don't get them
I had this one friend you could not walk behind her to get by without her stepping right into you, it's like she had sensors that worked the opposite way of everyone else.
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