Posted by Victoria on April 11, 2000, at 21:29:28
In reply to ritalin has made a big difference, posted by george o on April 10, 2000, at 22:49:42
Terrific! Glad to hear you're doing well. It's good to hear when something works for someone.
> 40 mg (20mg 2x a day) and i'm really not the same person. at the start of this year i was just waiting to die and now i get out and listen to music and may sit in with a friends band at this aging hippie hang out. i had become super reclusive but this place is so small and friendly it feels just like home. I live in houston tx and wonder if every city has places like this. The inner city (where i live) contains small intimate clubs which foster creativity and the middle aged crowds are always friendly and well behaved. now that i can't work i stay up all night anyway so i can hear bands that don't start until 11pm sometimes. i wish i were motivated to do more than play my guitar and watch tv, but i'm just glad that i no longer feel so vacent. oh yeah, i called a lady i had once planned on meeting and told her the truth about why we had never met and she had no problem with it. i've gone out with people and hidden the illness but i knew that she was smart enough to fill in the blanks. she tells me that i'm the only man she has contacted through this dating service who could speak in complete sentences, which is precisely why i called her, i seem to be drawn to women who are both intelligent and well educated. the idea of dating a clinical psycholigist really makes me laugh a lot, hope i can avoid opening up too quickly or getting any type of intensity going between us. she liked my sense of humor and tha fact that i laugh really hard sometimes, so we'll something funny at the movies. i have a different pattern of mood swings, much less severe and i believe that the ritalin has disrupted the cycle, or maybe it's the fact that i've been avoiding the religious fanatics who taught me over the years to feel so much guilt and fear. george
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