dubkitty wrote:hmmm. i will check that out. i haven't had luck with nutritional remedies for my multiple diagnoses, but i won't rule anything out that may help. i'm really tired of struggling with my brain.
That's because they don't work. You have to use a chemical to treat a chemical imbalance unless you have a mild case. People with clinical depression, manic or otherwise cannot rely on Eastern methods. I wish we could but they don't work the same way as chemicals.
I'm sure I'll have someone argue this with me but take into consideration that I have bipolar disorder and have exhausted every known method to man to treat it other than surgical intervention. It's a constant and very frustrating thing to live with.
"I do not have the ability to think rationally 90% of the time and I also change my mind at the drop of a hat".
But it depends on what the cause is.....the chemical thing is way overused, IMO. Again, all opinion here but I would say most of the people I come across are looking for chemicals to deal with situational issues.
I know you're kidding, but for me, I believe my illness was brought on by a decade of hard drug abuse. I used to have issues, but nearly what I do now. If I wasn't medicated...God help everyone around me. One thing about bipolar people is they will get it in there head every once in awhile that it's a good idea to stop taking their medicine or try to get off of it. Yea. Not cool. Adam go...crazy. I'm not ashamed of who I am though, otherwise I wouldn't speak so openly about it.
I totally agree with what you're saying. Chemicals are NOT the way for someone with seasonal depression, or acute cases. I mean it sometimes can help, but it's not always necessary. It's more for people with chronic disorders like mine. Who literally have no other options. It sucks.
"I do not have the ability to think rationally 90% of the time and I also change my mind at the drop of a hat".
MSUsousaphone wrote:Again, all opinion here but I would say most of the people I come across are looking for chemicals to deal with situational issues.
i agree with this. however, the only thing that's made me relatively functional after literally 40 years of chasing my own tail in a ever-tightening circle of rage and depression is to taste the rainbow of gaily colored medication. i don't really love it, but it's working better than not taking medication.
In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni
FIFTY YEARS OF SCARING THE CHILDREN 1970-2020--and i'm not done yet
I'm normally a happy guy. I know everything in my life is going well and I have so very little to complain about. But, a while ago, I just really wanted to kill myself. No real way to explain it, no justification, just a want. So, started taking medication, and now I don't, really. It's nice.
I think about blowing my head off from time to time; but it's usually just a passing sensation in response to having to work too hard at life. Usually in the evening hours when it's late, I have to wake up a 5am and my brain won't shutup long enough for me to go to sleep.
It would be so much easier to kill myself. But then I contemplate how difficult it would be for the people I would end up leaving behind. People who depend on me and care about me and love me (which in itself is such a hard concept to wrap one's head around). Then I tell myself to stop being a lazy asshole and get my stick back on the ice.
So many people out there with much larger problems than mine for me to cop out like that.
JUST RUN SOME RUSSIAN CIRCLES. RUSSIAN CIRCLES MAKES EVARYTHANG BETTER.
um. i'm about as unhappy as i've ever been relationship wise, but i'm ecstatic in everything else. and i'm just too in love with myself to ever feel truly suicidal.
when i was a kid i went through that. i'm sorry y'all have to deal with it now. was fucking horrible then, and i didna have any real responsibilities. i can't even imagine how awful depression stuff must be as an adult.
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
lol. at first i was like, OOOOO! SMALL BOX (twcg'sgs)!! but then a few patches were silent and some just fedback into that NOT FUN digital feedback ugliness and the free dl' algorhythm i got DIDN'T FUCKING WORK.
reinstalled the bios with the update. so. fucking. GOOD.
lol. it's dumb and i'm not going to do it but i'm tempted to replace the M9 with 2 H9's.
Eric! wrote:YOU'RE like having two pedals in one
with your...momentary fuck switch and all..
Glad to hear it! I want to justify buying one and you may have made that possible with an endorsement. Haha...not that I need much persuading. I would probably get rid of some redundancy in my set up and get this to replace it.
"I do not have the ability to think rationally 90% of the time and I also change my mind at the drop of a hat".
So I finally got a power cord for the Metasonix TM-1. Holy fuck. This thing is NUTS. It makes sooooooooo many insane noise at the slightest turn of a knob. I was a little timid with it at first because I've never used anything Metasonix and was, I dunno, scared? Yea that's the right word. Instant NIN sounds out of this bastards. I can see where Trent got a lot of the sounds he created. At first I had it just hooked up with the Dirge dual. Then I got brave and threw it on my pedal board after all my dirt and before the BEF Pro. HOLY FUCK! With the BEF Pro, it's...just...OMG. OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I NEED A CV CONTROL NAOWS!
The one complaint I have about the device (can't really call it a pedal), is that there's no on or off. It's just on and oscillating like a motherfucker.
I wish this one had Midi. I've seen them with it. I could then plug the bitch into my fucking Maschine, which would be tits! HUGE TITS! Maybe I can use the iPad with it if I get a docking stations. Download some fucked up Korg shit and do all kinds of crazy stuff.
I'm horny.
"I do not have the ability to think rationally 90% of the time and I also change my mind at the drop of a hat".
