« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.  (Read 2964 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline Kimberly

  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 467
  • Reputation: +50/-6
I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« on: March 12, 2009, 07:34:22 PM »
Pathetic

Quote
trof  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-12-09 06:46 PM
Original message
I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
 Advertisements [?]A couple of years ago, in the deepest, darkest throes of the Bush (may his name live in infamy) administration a friend was concerned about my well being.

She's a very close friend of ours and a physician.
She and Miz t. had lunch one day.
She asked Miz t. if I was depressed.
Said I was showing classic signs.
Drinking more, smoking more, seemed to be angry a lot.
Etc., etc.

When Miz t. came home she related the conversation and asked me about it.
I said I didn't feel particularly personally depressed like 'all is lost' or 'life's not worth living any more'.
But I was living in an almost constant state of being pissed off at Bush and his machinations. Usually it was just a low-level state of anger and ill ease, but at times this rose to a state of impotent rage. Probably fueled by what I saw on TV.
I began to watch less TV.

Today they were out for lunch again and I got a better report.

Our friend said "Trof seems to be a lot happier person now. What do you think made the change?"
Miz t. replied "Two words: President Obama."

And she's right.
Although our retirement funds (which we depend on now that we are retired) are down by 40%.
I think we'll weather it out.
But now I have hope.
And our friend is right.
I'm a happier person.
I think many of us are, in spite of global warming and the economy.
Now we have hope again.

Quote
Tangerine LaBamba  (1000+ posts)      Thu Mar-12-09 06:49 PM
Response to Original message
1. There is a difference
 I know that, in my own life, it took a while to shake off that angry feeling. The helpless, infuriating feeling that no matter what I did, it wouldn't matter.

Took a while, but now I wake up, and, honestly, I feel better. Relieved. Safer.

I feel like I matter again. Like I really am a citizen of this country.

I suspect, and I agree with you, that a lot of folks are doing a bit better these days..................


Quote
Tandalayo_Scheisskopf  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-12-09 07:01 PM
Response to Reply #1
4. Try going off Paxil...
 In The Chimpington Years. Oh, I got off it all right, but there is this nasty side effect that takes place, sometimes, like a year later. Think of it as all the Brown Acid ever made, all at once.

So I am back on Generic Paroxitine, I will never be off of it because GSK was not *entirely* forthcoming about some of the side effects and the fact that it has a nasty tendency to become your lifelong friend, but that's ok:

The utter horror of what I was surrounded by, in 2005, is gone. That was the worst part. I was way ****ing scared of what I was seeing. The Paxil Kickback just amplified it.


Quote
imdjh (49 posts)      Thu Mar-12-09 06:52 PM
Response to Original message
2. Did you have magical power fantasies?
 Up until the last day of the B Presidency, I had fantasies of marching into the WH like Yoda visiting the Emperor, except that B didn't have Sith Lord powers. Then I would switch to a Roman fantasy of the defeated being led through the streets in chains. I didn't hate him, I despised him. Hate seems irrational, while despise has a rational quality in my dictionary.


Quote
Uben  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-12-09 06:59 PM
Response to Original message
3. Are you sure you are not me?
 I experienced much of the same feelings. I am also retired and have lost half my portfolio (I was well divested so I am doing fine). Life is certainly much better these days! I think just seeing Bush or Cheney talk on TV made me angry and I know it must have bled over to the way people perceive me. No worries......




WE MADE IT ! ! !


Quote
wryter2000   (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-12-09 07:09 PM
Response to Original message
6. Absolutely, I feel different
 I'm just getting over a cringe reflex when I hear the words "president" and "White House." I used to reflexively cringe because I knew what was coming next was a fresh outrage. Not just stupid things like Bush I/Quayle used to say, but things I thought I'd never have to hear about our country (like violations of the Constitution or torture or unnecessary wars).

I discovered a few weeks ago, I was still cringing, and then I'd relax because I know that, even though I may not like 100% of what Obama does, I won't get outrage any longer.


Quote
peace13  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-12-09 07:27 PM
Response to Original message
8. I hear you!
 For eight years we were held hostage and our Constitution was ripped from us. We worked like dogs in Ohio to get Obama in the WH. Since January I have painted the entire fist floor of the house. It needed it six years ago, but I just could not get it together to do it. Now we are putting Humpty Dumpty back together again and it feels soooooo good. Keep up the good work. My motto is, have some fun every day, and we tried to keep that up even under the Dark Lord but it was very difficult. Peace, Kim 


Quote
Elidor  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-12-09 07:45 PM
Response to Original message
9. Glad you're doing better, trof
 I've always enjoyed hearing about life at Chez Trof, so it's nice to hear that things are well there.

I have a strange mechanism for dealing with things that are out of my control. I suppress them mightily. Much later, they will bubble up again and surprise me. By the final couple years of the Bush administration, I was quite calm. It was almost over. Now I feel angry. Mostly, I just need some exercise. As soon as the bitter cold lets up, I'm going to spend a lot of time out walking. I have cabin fever. But the impotent rage thing, yeah. So many times, I've shaken my tiny, impotent little fists at the barbarity and idiocy of it all.

I hope that someday someone will tell me what that was all about in Iraq. We spent all that money, all those lives, just pissed it all away, and what do we have to show for it? Saddam's dead body? And why are the people who conned us walking free? Why is the captive press that helped sell us the propaganda still deemed credible and serious and respectable? When will it change? When will people wake up? Journalism has failed, has been subordinated to profits and political expediency. Reporters comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted. And even the new guy supports radical notions of government secrecy. And he seems hell-bent on protecting the Bush gang from the consequences of their crimes, because he doesn't have the stomach for that fight. Until their abuses are repudiated and overturned, the stage is set for the next tinpot dictator to con the masses with his fake folksy charm and then to re-employ everything Bush & Cheney did.

I'm sorry. We were discussing your newfound peace. I should lighten up, heh. Have a good weekend. I bet you have some minor culinary miracle brewing up tonight.

 


Quote
givemebackmycountry  (1000+ posts)        Thu Mar-12-09 07:54 PM
Response to Original message
10. The Bush administration was like a really BAD strain of crack cocaine....
 I hated that I was doing it, but every time he was on TV I had to take another hit.
I HAD TO WATCH.

Why?

Because as a reasonably intelligent American, every time I saw that stupid ****ing monkey speak on TV, I had to watch to prove to myself that I KNEW he was an idiot, while everyone else fawned over him as the Boy King.
I would get SO mad after a "major" speech that for days after, I would walk around angry and looking for a fight.
God help the right winger that would say something stupid to me, because I would unleash a torrent of strong language so ugly, so in your face, that I would often alienate those around me that cared for me.

I ruined relationships with friends and potential friends, male and female, because I had a hair triggered mouth with so much pent up anger.

I am much better now, much happier, and so much more at peace.

WE WON.
Now, they can kiss my ass for all I care.
 
Logged

Offline jukin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 16229
  • Reputation: +2113/-170
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 07:46:54 PM »
More proof that liberalism is a mental disease.

Logged
When you are the beneficiary of someone’s kindness and generosity, it produces a sense of gratitude and community.

When you are the beneficiary of a policy that steals from someone and gives it to you in return for your vote, it produces a sense of entitlement and dependency.

Offline LC EFA

  • Hickus Australianus
  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4527
  • Reputation: +414/-33
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2009, 07:51:48 PM »
I really don't get why someone would want to post about their mental problems on a public forum.
Logged

Offline delilahmused

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7384
  • Reputation: +1367/-80
  • Devil Mom
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2009, 08:33:56 PM »
What a bunch of shallow, petty people! How can anyone be such a loser that their happiness depends on a politician? I'm not wild about the election results but I'm not trying to talk myself into psychosis, either. I have a GREAT life. I have wonderful friends, a great family, a fulfilling (if somewhat smelly) job, plenty of opportunities to express my creativity. How pathetic and superficial they are.

Cindie
Logged
"If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world."
Mick Foley

"I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season."
Hedy Lamarr

"I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It's just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade."
Morticia Addams

Offline DumbAss Tanker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 28493
  • Reputation: +1710/-151
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2009, 09:46:14 PM »
Sounds more like "Psychopath with exacerbating stimulus removed" than "Happier person," if you ask me.
Logged
Go and tell the Spartans, O traveler passing by
That here, obedient to their law, we lie.

Anything worth shooting once is worth shooting at least twice.

Offline Chris

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1476
  • Reputation: +522/-16
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2009, 11:29:14 PM »
Trust a DUmmy to require someone to tell them if they are happy or not. :whatever:
Logged
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

Offline Vagabond

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2478
  • Reputation: +166/-52
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2009, 11:32:59 PM »
How much of a loser do you have to be to have your entire emotional state determined by an election?  I'll admit, I was upset that my vote was cancelled out by a bunch of idiots that voted for a man based on the color of his skin for about an hour.  Then I got back to living my life.
Logged
There comes a time when even good men must run up the black flag of anarchy and slit throats. - H.L. Mencken

Offline RobJohnson

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8876
  • Reputation: +333/-109
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #7 on: March 13, 2009, 02:00:44 AM »
It's funny, I actually see more written prescriptions for mental or sleeping disorders then I did last fall. Of course this is my own non-scientific observation.

Plus I see more and more people pulling up in new vehicles using Medicaid.......that shit pisses me off.
Logged

Offline USA4ME

  • Evil Capitalist
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14835
  • Reputation: +2476/-76
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #8 on: March 13, 2009, 07:51:20 AM »
Quote from:
Tangerine LaBamba

I feel like I matter again.

With you and your ilk, it's only a feeling, because you still don't.

Watching the DUmp is like looking through the window at patients in the Psychiatric Wing of the Mayo Clinic.

.
Logged
Because third world peasant labor is a good thing.

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2009, 08:02:31 AM »
Quote from: RobJohnson on March 13, 2009, 02:00:44 AM
It's funny, I actually see more written prescriptions for mental or sleeping disorders then I did last fall. Of course this is my own non-scientific observation.

Plus I see more and more people pulling up in new vehicles using Medicaid.......that shit pisses me off.

I don't go to the grocery store with the wife because of that. I see people using foodstamp credit cards that drive new cars (and not the small ones either) and SUV's getting buggies full of steaks etc.. ......I'd go ballistic and have a bouncy to tell if I tagged along.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline SSG Snuggle Bunny

  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 23551
  • Reputation: +2475/-270
  • Voted Rookie-of-the-Year, 3 years running
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #10 on: March 13, 2009, 08:07:27 AM »
Quote from: delilahmused on March 12, 2009, 08:33:56 PM
What a bunch of shallow, petty people! How can anyone be such a loser that their happiness depends on a politician? I'm not wild about the election results but I'm not trying to talk myself into psychosis, either. I have a GREAT life. I have wonderful friends, a great family, a fulfilling (if somewhat smelly) job, plenty of opportunities to express my creativity. How pathetic and superficial they are.

Cindie

[youtube=425,350]8RKZLDlMWSI[/youtube]
Logged
According to the Bible, "know" means "yes."

Offline FlaGator

  • Another Pilgrim
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5412
  • Reputation: +1032/-31
  • Democracy can survive anything except Democrats
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #11 on: March 13, 2009, 09:00:40 AM »
They will never figure out that it wasn't their hatred of Bush that made them mentally ill, it was their mental illness that made them hate Bush. The don't quit have the cart and the horse in the proper orientation.
Logged
"My enemy's enemy is the enemy I kill last."
Klingon Proverb.

Offline Wineslob

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 14480
  • Reputation: +816/-193
  • Sucking the life out of Liberty
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2009, 09:31:19 AM »
Quote from: Chris on March 12, 2009, 11:29:14 PM
Trust a DUmmy to require consensus to tell them if they are happy or not. :whatever:




Fixed!   :-)
Logged
“The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.”

        -- Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC (106-43 BC)

The unobtainable is unknown at Zombo.com



"Practice random violence and senseless acts of brutality"

If you want a gender neutral bathroom, go pee in the forest.

Offline Karin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17752
  • Reputation: +1895/-81
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2009, 09:46:05 AM »
Quote
Took a while, but now I wake up, and, honestly, I feel better. Relieved. Safer.

Until Mohammed goes BOOM.

[quotelost half my portfolio (I was well divested so I am doing fine). ][/quote]

I wonder if he meant "diversified."  Another loony lefty who doesn't know investing nomenclature, like their Dear Leader. 
Logged

Offline RobJohnson

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8876
  • Reputation: +333/-109
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2009, 11:18:20 AM »
Quote from: LC EFA on March 12, 2009, 07:51:48 PM
I really don't get why someone would want to post about their mental problems on a public forum.
I'm no doctor...but many do this, just in different ways.  :evillaugh: :rotf: :rotf: :fuelfire: :tongue:
Logged

Offline RobJohnson

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8876
  • Reputation: +333/-109
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2009, 11:22:58 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on March 13, 2009, 08:02:31 AM
I don't go to the grocery store with the wife because of that. I see people using foodstamp credit cards that drive new cars (and not the small ones either) and SUV's getting buggies full of steaks etc.. ......I'd go ballistic and have a bouncy to tell if I tagged along.

Escalade Medicaid is a nickname I gave to one of my patients.  :-)

Logged

Offline diesel driver

  • Creepy Ass Cracker and Smart-Ass White Boy!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 9130
  • Reputation: +609/-55
  • Enhancing My Carbon Footprint!
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2009, 12:07:57 PM »
Quote
Took a while, but now I wake up, and, honestly, I feel better. Relieved. Safer.

DUmmies have NO idea what it is like to "wake up".

They only know how to "come to"....
Logged
Murphy's 3rd Law:  "You can't make anything 'idiot DUmmie proof'.  The world will just create a better idiot DUmmie."

Liberals are like Slinkys.  Basically useless, but they do bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs...
 
Global warming supporters believe that a few hundred million tons of CO2 has more control over our climate than a million mile in diameter, unshielded thermo-nuclear fusion reactor at the middle of the solar system.

"A dead enemy is a peaceful enemy.  Blessed be the peacemakers". - U.S. Marine Corp

You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out of office.

Offline jinxmchue

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3841
  • Reputation: +114/-26
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2009, 03:05:06 PM »
Quote from: jukin on March 12, 2009, 07:46:54 PM
More proof that liberalism is a mental disease.



Yep.  We're in some pretty dark days thanks to President B.O., but I'm upbeat and positive because my emotional well-being does not hinge on who runs the government.
Logged

Offline EastFacingNorth

  • Math Geek
  • Full Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 250
  • Reputation: +32/-22
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #18 on: March 15, 2009, 01:48:13 AM »
Quote
imdjh (49 posts)      Thu Mar-12-09 06:52 PM
Response to Original message
2. Did you have magical power fantasies?
 Up until the last day of the B Presidency, I had fantasies of marching into the WH like Yoda visiting the Emperor, except that B didn't have Sith Lord powers. Then I would switch to a Roman fantasy of the defeated being led through the streets in chains. I didn't hate him, I despised him. Hate seems irrational, while despise has a rational quality in my dictionary.

Considering that The Anointed One's inauguration was far and away the closest thing this nation has ever seen to Mussolini's March on Rome, that's quite appropriate.
Logged
Taxation if and only if Representation.

The Founding Fathers only got it half right.

Offline delilahmused

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 7384
  • Reputation: +1367/-80
  • Devil Mom
Re: I am 're-diagnosed' as 'a happier person' now.
« Reply #19 on: March 15, 2009, 12:13:40 PM »
Quote from: EastFacingNorth on March 15, 2009, 01:48:13 AM
Considering that The Anointed One's inauguration was far and away the closest thing this nation has ever seen to Mussolini's March on Rome, that's quite appropriate.

Dear Leader is more concerned with appearance than substance. How else to explain his attendance at Hollywood's big inauguration bash while snubbing Medal of Honor members and their families? Right now, I'm so enjoying watching him and his constant foreign policy faux pas. The left thought they were getting a grand diplomat who would wow the world with how "French" he could be. Instead they got a classless buffoon whose big talent seems to be in the spokesmodel category. He reads from a teleprompter with style! It's the only time he really gets to play intellectual. But hey, as long as he keeps that bottom drawer of the desk in the Oval Office stuffed with classic American film and Michelle can have one of the staff go down to the White House gift shop for a bauble or two they'll never be without a gift for visiting dignitaries and heads of state. If I was the left, if I'd voted for the guy I'd be SO embarrassed. I really didn't think half black boys from Chicago via Hawaii could be crackers but the Messiah proved me wrong.

Cindie
Logged
"If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world."
Mick Foley

"I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season."
Hedy Lamarr

"I'm just like any modern woman trying to have it all. Loving husband, a family. It's just, I wish I had more time to seek out the dark forces and join their hellish crusade."
Morticia Addams
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »