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Re: everybody's trying to annoy me... » kara lynne

Posted by wendy b. on April 19, 2003, at 9:58:17

In reply to Re: Pissy, snipey, itchy and scratchy..., posted by kara lynne on April 19, 2003, at 0:31:22

> "ever have those times when you think everyone and everything is setting out purposefully to bother and annoy YOU?"
>
> METOOMETOOMETOOMETOOMETOO

Again, I kind of knew I'd get a big reaction to that one! It seems almost universal amongst us depressed persons. Is it a kind of paranoia? I often wonder. Or just plain old distorted thought processes? I guess that is what it's commonly called. But when I'm feeling it, it doesn't seem distorted at all, it seems very very real. But reading a post on psychosis a few weeks ago, the difference between our garden-variety neuroses vs. psychosis is that if you're fairly WILLING to admit that there might be OTHER explanations for what you're perceiving to be attacks on the self, one's personal space, etc., which I am, then you know you ain't totally crazy. At least, not YET...


> even the red lights!!

Yeah, I didn't commiserate on that one yet. I get soooo annoyed in the car! And I have to acknowledge to my daughter that I am fully aware that the other driver, or the little man inside the light box who turns on the yellow when he sees me coming, can NOT hear me, and that I KNOW she is the only one who does hear me, and that I'm VERY SORRY, I say, and tell her she can hit me or tell me to shut the hell up, whenever she wants...

> Just last week a friend of mine was talking about about how we become our zits. Our narrowed focus is truly impressive. I can so very much relate to you wendy, I love reading your posts.

Thank you, you're too kind... but I think YOU are a very funny and interesting writer - you have a way with words. The self-centeredness I mention is annoying, even to myself! [Isn't THAT a weird sentence?] I get sooo tired of having the same problems, working on the same issues over and over...

>I want to say more but I'm burned out from the day (see other post) and I'm going to go watch some nice mind-dulling television.

The television is such a friend to the depressed. My therapist said that it was FINE to veg out in front of the TV as a way to escape the self-torture or the stress, so I take her at her word...


> Why did you stop taking Neurontin if it helped? I'd be so happy if all it took was Neurontin!

My new pdoc is a Man of Science; since there haven't been any double-blind placebo studies PROVING without a doubt that it works for mood-stabilization, he has a problem prescribing it. But I will tell him that I've realized it did help me with certain problems (thank you for helping me sort this out!), I think he will be able to oblige... He is very easy to talk to, and when I go in and rattle off stuff about norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, dopamine receptors, and atypical anti-psychotics having side-effects that I won't be able to live with (movement disorders), he realizes I've done my homework. He also said right off the bat that we were 50-50 partners, and that it might take a while til we get the right combo of meds, but that we would make that the goal.
(Better Living Through Pharmaceuticals!)

Have a not-so-annoyed day!

W.


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