[QUOTE=KorJax;40345244] it's easy to just turn into a slug and couch/computer it up all day :v:[/QUOTE]
That is what I do, all day, every day.
I am kind of looking forward to it. It will be a learning experience for myself, and I will be moving in with some of my best friends anyway. Still, I think it will be a little scary at first.
[QUOTE=MasterFen007;40345174]Oh shit Splurgy's alive.[/QUOTE]
Oh hey
The facebook page reminded me
I just realised that this October marks 8 years since I started posting here
[QUOTE=Splurgy_A;40345162]You smoke weed? How often?
Weed could actually be making your social anxiety worse if you light up a lot - although when you are high you may feel normal or even talkative, chronic THC consumption can aggravate mental illness such as schizophrenia and anxiety disorders in people prone to them.
If you seek therapy, they can not put you on drugs. They might discuss the option of medication with you but if you out and out say "I do not want drugs" they can not make you take them. That being said, medication can be incredibly helpful because a lot of what mental illness is has to do with neurones in your brain squirting out the wrong amounts of neurotransmitter and medication can help. Medication and therapy as a combination tends to be far more effective than just medication or just therapy alone, although medication is not a panacea.
What do you mean by this? What is the "backfire" and why is it inevitable?[/QUOTE]
I'm not uninformed about anxiety and plenty of things that surround it.
I don't smoke often, not even a monthly thing, i'm aware it can cause heightened anxiety. Also the idea that marijuana aggravating things like schizophrenia in yourself if you have someone in your family with it is inconclusive and there's no actual significant proof to state that it is. But that's a topic for another day and i'm trying to not argue as much as i do on FP.
I'm also aware i can decline medication, but as i already said i'm also fairly confident that seeking therapy will not help me as i feel that there's nothing they can really tell me or suggest to me that i don't know or haven't tried aside from drugs. Like i said, this is something i've had for over 6 years and i've done heavy research on it myself. Of course i'm not a doctor in the field but i know my own self better than a doctor and i'll naturally have a mental inhibition to tell them EVERYTHING. So i may be digging myself in a deeper hole but even if i start to think about seeking help i'm able to talk myself out of it farily quickly. It took me 5 years alone to work up enough courage to see if i could get medically diagnosed with ADD.
Also the backfire is just whenever you end up looking like an idiot. At least when that happens with friends it's a shared experience and isn't nearly as bad as if it happened to me alone.
You know you've been playing to much minecraft when a wolf barks and you yell at your own dog irl, then have to give him a treat to say sorry 3:
[QUOTE=DigitalySane;40345674]You know you've been playing to much minecraft when a wolf barks and you yell at your own dog irl, then have to give him a treat to say sorry 3:[/QUOTE]
One time I played Minecraft for a total 15 hours straight.
While it made me stop gaming so much, I DID get a bitchin' house done.
I have at least 3000 hours in minecraft at this point
been playing since about 1.1 alpha i think
i feel like playing minecraft again.
[editline]19th April 2013[/editline]
anyone here host a server?
haven't played minecraft for like 2 years
meh
I never really got into Minecraft, Terraria is my drug of choice
Minecraft is too mainstream so I play Xbox live arcade ripoffs
I could never get into Terraria. Minecraft as well but i'd play it over terraria. It takes me like an hour to build a house in minecraft, then afterwards i'm just kind standing around going "now what" then proceed to get blown up by creepers. My friends hate me in the game because i tend to just be walking around and somehow always find creepers and end up destroying bits of our cities by accident.
Terraria always seemed like a downgrade from Minecraft, never was interested in it.
I use anki to learn my Spanish vocabulary but copying my handwritten notes from class into the program is tedious as fuck. I wonder if I should outsource it to mechanical turk or something
[QUOTE=mysteryman;40345504]I'm not uninformed about anxiety and plenty of things that surround it.
I don't smoke often, not even a monthly thing, i'm aware it can cause heightened anxiety. Also the idea that marijuana aggravating things like schizophrenia in yourself if you have someone in your family with it is inconclusive and there's no actual significant proof to state that it is. But that's a topic for another day and i'm trying to not argue as much as i do on FP.
I'm also aware i can decline medication, but as i already said i'm also fairly confident that seeking therapy will not help me as i feel that there's nothing they can really tell me or suggest to me that i don't know or haven't tried aside from drugs. Like i said, this is something i've had for over 6 years and i've done heavy research on it myself. Of course i'm not a doctor in the field but i know my own self better than a doctor and i'll naturally have a mental inhibition to tell them EVERYTHING. So i may be digging myself in a deeper hole but even if i start to think about seeking help i'm able to talk myself out of it farily quickly. It took me 5 years alone to work up enough courage to see if i could get medically diagnosed with ADD.
Also the backfire is just whenever you end up looking like an idiot. At least when that happens with friends it's a shared experience and isn't nearly as bad as if it happened to me alone.[/QUOTE]
Uh there is significant evidence to suggest a link. THC activates cannabinoid receptors, which are cell surface proteins that influence intracellular metabolism and gene activation, leading to a whole different range of factors being transcribed and or metabolised. According to a paper entitled "Dysfunctional Prefrontal Cortical Network Activity and Interactions following Cannabinoid Receptor Activation" [url=http://www.jneurosci.org/content/31/43/15560.full.pdf]here[/url] (you may need a uni login) administration of a THC-like cannibinoid receptor agonist causes large scale disruption of coordinated activity in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex, both areas that are important in schizophrenia. [url=http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00048670801961156]IV administration of THC induces schizophrenic symptoms in neurotypical patients[/url]. A longitudinal study of Swedish conscripts (almost fifty thousand of them) showed that after fifteen years, heavy cannabis smokers were six times more likely to have schizophrenia than people who did not smoke the ganja at all (and this association remained after the stats were adjusted for social background and other mental illnesses). There is a fairly consistent picture in studies that there is a link between smoking weed and getting schizo. Sorry to be so down on you but I think people ought to be aware that the evidence is not just "shaky". I get really annoyed when stoners judge me for taking other drugs but smoking weed is ok because it is all "harmless" and "natural"... anyway, if you don't smoke often it is probably irrelevant.
[quote]I'm also aware i can decline medication, but as i already said i'm also fairly confident that seeking therapy will not help me as i feel that there's nothing they can really tell me or suggest to me that i don't know or haven't tried aside from drugs. Like i said, this is something i've had for over 6 years and i've done heavy research on it myself. Of course i'm not a doctor in the field but i know my own self better than a doctor and i'll naturally have a mental inhibition to tell them EVERYTHING. So i may be digging myself in a deeper hole but even if i start to think about seeking help i'm able to talk myself out of it farily quickly. It took me 5 years alone to work up enough courage to see if i could get medically diagnosed with ADD. [/quote]
There are many different types of therapy. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy works to sort out negative thinking patterns by using a range of techniques to minimise negative thoughts, for example. You would be surprised at how well it can work even if you feel it is helpless. Going to therapy would be a big step but potentially a good one - after all, what do you have to lose?
Also, may I ask why you are so hesitant to try medication?
[quote]Also the backfire is just whenever you end up looking like an idiot. At least when that happens with friends it's a shared experience and isn't nearly as bad as if it happened to me alone.[/quote]
What makes you think that it is inevitable?
Terraria always felt a little restricting in the building aspect due to the missing third axis. I definitely prefer minecraft over it, but when terraria came out, all my friends immediately fell in love with it and just threw minecraft out like a used condom.
I'd play minecraft again, but I get bored in vanilla and don't know of any good mods.
So I got my hair cut short and I kind of look like a lesbian but I don't care I love it so much.
Can't get out of this house fast enough. Financial issues are basically making family relationships self-destruct.
[QUOTE=Slowbro;40346179]So I got my hair cut short and I kind of look like a lesbian but I don't care I love it so much.[/QUOTE]
Before and after, go
Don't have a recent before picture but this is me now.
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So an old highschool friend of mine died earlier this week.
Great topper to the week in general.
The fuck is with so many people dying lately?
Someone in my school died of cancer today.
And the onion couldn't of put it any better.
[url]http://www.theonion.com/articles/jesus-this-week,32105/[/url]
This week has been pretty fucked now that I really think about it.
Though everything has been kind of eclipsed by my boyfriend of 3 years breaking up with me. :suicide:
Garry seems to have changed the bumping algorithm or something, this thread is below threads that have not been replied to in a day
[QUOTE=Splurgy_A;40346108]
There are many different types of therapy. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy works to sort out negative thinking patterns by using a range of techniques to minimise negative thoughts, for example. You would be surprised at how well it can work even if you feel it is helpless. Going to therapy would be a big step but potentially a good one - after all, what do you have to lose?
Also, may I ask why you are so hesitant to try medication?
What makes you think that it is inevitable?[/QUOTE]
I have time and money to lose. I don't want to use medication because i simply don't want to use it. I don't want a CURE ALL thing. I know you're simply not just prescribed medication and they expect it to work without any other sort of counseling or therapy and they are used on conjunction but i simply do not want to be on drugs. Most of the time the drugs that i know which would be prescribed often carry many side effects i don't want to suffer from. My sister recently went to the doctors for depression and anxiety and they immediately just gave her a bottle of paroxetine, which carries a lot of side effects [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroxetine#Adverse_effects[/url]
I also say inevitable because it's quite literally inevitable. At some point you do something and will end up looking like an idiot. That's being human. Despite that just being a normal human thing it's still something people laugh at or make fun of. It is inevitable that at some point things will backfire. Not all, but things will.
[editline]19th April 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Splurgy_A;40347559]Garry seems to have changed the bumping algorithm or something, this thread is below threads that have not been replied to in a day[/QUOTE]
it's been like that for months. he has no plans to fix it.
I have a greasemonkey script to correct it if you want.
[QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;40347108]Someone in my school died of cancer today.
And the onion couldn't of put it any better.
[url]http://www.theonion.com/articles/jesus-this-week,32105/[/url][/QUOTE]
Two of my teachers have cancer.
Just last week I lost my business teacher because he had to take a medical leave due to cancer.
Now I have to restart the whole semester with a permanent substitute. That's the second time this has happened to me.
[QUOTE=mysteryman;40347611]I have time and money to lose. I don't want to use medication because i simply don't want to use it. I don't want a CURE ALL thing. I know you're simply not just prescribed medication and they expect it to work without any other sort of counseling or therapy and they are used on conjunction but i simply do not want to be on drugs. Most of the time the drugs that i know which would be prescribed often carry many side effects i don't want to suffer from.[/QUOTE]
You can just stop taking the drugs if you have negative side effects. Nothing they start you on is potent enough to permanently ruin anything.
Saying drugs are off the table for no good reason is kind of like those people who refuse blood transfusions for no good reason
[QUOTE=Splurgy_A;40347559]Garry seems to have changed the bumping algorithm or something, this thread is below threads that have not been replied to in a day[/QUOTE]
GD is sorted by post ID, so newer threads are at the top instead of the most recently replied to.
[QUOTE=Zeke129;40349620]You can just stop taking the drugs if you have negative side effects. Nothing they start you on is potent enough to permanently ruin anything.
Saying drugs are off the table for no good reason is kind of like those people who refuse blood transfusions for no good reason[/QUOTE]
It's more of a personal "i think i can beat this without drugs" mindset. Eventually though i wouldn't be surprised if i somehow ended up seeking them out anyway.
Also, it's sort of funny that this topic was brought up today because i got a call from my mother like 2 hours ago. We finally got results back from a test i took for ADD.
The doctors are saying that i don't have ADD, but ADHD.
So wee......
well maybe i'll actually get help. Oddly enough in the backwards illogical way i work, i don't have anything against taking drugs like adderall but i'd still rather just straight up therapy first.
everything is shit, man. my friend (who was like a brother to me) shot himself in front of my sister on the day before my birthday, now i'm depressed and my sister is all sorts of fucked up and i can't help her
this has been a horrible week for both me personally and the world in general
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