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[It would be really nice if they had better ways of doing this than "Here, try this pill."]

Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

I wonder if you had serotonin poisoning?
Long story why, but I did have a very mild case of that once...and I did have trouble talking.  Also saw lots of sparkly geometric shapes.

My best friend's on a shitton of Effexor; works for him...I tried the baby dose of that and went nuts.

It would be really nice if they had better ways of doing this than "Here, try this pill."

Even my cousin, who is a psychologist, says that we need to focus more on psychotherapy than referrals to psychiatrists for drugs unless it's absolutely necessary.

Absolutely agreed, there's lots of overprescription, for reasons economic. Pills are cheaper.
Pills are also way easier than fixing society so that it stops making lots and lots of people profoundly unhappy and alienated.

Therapy...or more specifically, the correct sort of therapy, can create permanent, drug-free improvement...and using drugs only when necessary should be the goal. 
If I didn't believe in therapy I wouldn't dream of being a therapist.
..I'm just one of those extra-speshul people who have both and mostly feel horrible anyway.
Like...I can't have my gun here anymore, because it's too convenient.

Rog had that brain infection thingee...he actually might be able to get off the drugs in time, ought to be taking lots of b vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids and such.
And he should be mediating...everybody should be fucking meditating.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1361002/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120613183813.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130409131811.htm

Yesterday it occurred to me ...I should train to run marathons.
Running makes my legs constantly sore,  but it also makes me  feel less depressed.
Very few things do the latter.  And I don't push my meat-sack enough.

Night shift tends to cause the sprouting of weird ideas.   Some useful.
Don't see how this one would be.

Aww...

Dust explosion.  Fucking lovely.

Roger: feel better. And by 'better' I do not mean to imply 'poop more rainbows.'

Just don't take Wellbutrin. I tried that once and it made me forget how to fucking talk.

I wonder if you had serotonin poisoning?
Long story why, but I did have a very mild case of that once...and I did have trouble talking.  Also saw lots of sparkly geometric shapes.

My best friend's on a shitton of Effexor; works for him...I tried the baby dose of that and went nuts.

It would be really nice if they had better ways of doing this than "Here, try this pill."

Texas will always http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYa-pFh_sHA
I mean, God bless Texas.

...I should brush my teeth more...

Why do people think we're interested in discord?

When will they figure out that we're all about dis cord:



Everything's about dis cord here.

As opposed to dat cord ovah deah.
...Hi new poster.  Are you a human?
P.S.:
I don't think it's so much we're interested in discord as it's just an emergent property of our beings.
Hail Eris.

I like this a lot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xljA6zJn4I

CLICK IT.


JUST FUCKING CLICK IT.

GUHHAHAHAHA....

Roger, that was incredibly repulsive.  Yet, somehow, so right.
Get better...
Remember, pills do not make you sane, they just help you enjoy insanity a LOT better.

So after a day of studying chemistry, I got a call from a friend who has been on-again, off-again with a guy in the middle of a divorce, against pretty much everyone's advice. As of this afternoon, it's off again, and I am going to fucking light someone on fire if it goes back on.

She spent a lot of time complaining about how hard it is to find a guy. She's early 30's, no kids, super pretty, smart, educated, good job. Sometimes I wish people would take a minute to think about who they're complaining TO.

Sympathies.
If she does, and she probably will, are you going to light Unicycle Bagpipe Guy on fire?

 

Just got the news that my nephew has a greater than 70% chance of having bone cancer in his knee. 14 years old. Shit.

That there is a raw deal.

Aye.

I looked up osteosarcoma, looking for evidence that surely there's got to be some good news for the kid.

Nope.

5-year survival rate, in the best case scenario, can reach as high as 70%-80%. No data published on 10-year survival rates.

Im'ma sit right here and hope it's a totally false alarm.

STOP DOING THIS SHIT.

...No kidding, that's a nice tripod he's melting.

I thought it was not so much feeling guilty, as just recognizing that the good luck you were born into or stumbled into in life doesn't make you necessarily superior  to anyone else or anything.

Not so much "don't be proud of yourself " its' "don't shit on others."

...We don't have a choice but to work, so we might as well try to feel good about something we don't have a choice but to do.
...Just saying, it's more adaptive.

I walked seven miles and then I ate green papaya salad and now I need to work on chemistry but what I really want is a nap.

That looks really, really good, have to learn how to make it.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140117191354.htm

A team of engineers has developed a class of tiny bio-hybrid machines that swim like sperm, the first synthetic structures that can traverse the viscous fluids of biological environments on their own.

Cyborg flagellum.

Edited to add, found this one amusing.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140117104040.htm
Dr Google's now an epidemiologist.