Posted by Racer on October 7, 2000, at 2:30:33
In reply to Burnt Buttered Popcorn....seriously, posted by Greg on October 6, 2000, at 21:03:22
I haven't had burnt buttered popcorn, but with high-anxiety depression, during the worst parts of it, I have a difficult time eating because everything smells and tastes like petrol...
And on the drugs, I get overwhelmed by real smells around me, which are suddenly so very strong and noxious that they make me sick. Otherwise ordinary smells: bananas will give me dry heaves, some other fruits can make me sick up, and so on.
Not to mention, I can smell the people around me, but (at least according to my SO) apparently can't smell that my cats have missed the litterbox.
Smells get weirded out by the drugs for me too. I guess that's all I wanted to say...
(Oh, and my own smells are different, too. I don't always 'know' myself by smell when I'm on ADs, though usually I'm very very sensitive to the 'normal' scents around me. As in, when I'm not medicated,, I can distinguish between all three of my cats by scent, I know my mother or my friends in the dark by scent, I can pick my horse out of a herd blindfolded by scent. I'm more like an animal this way, don't ask me why, but I'm very sensitive to smells.
Are you usually sensitive to smells? Or is this new with the drugs?
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