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Thread: Personal Woes and Advice 4
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2016-02-02, 03:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Thank you, guys. You've given me some good, solid advice, and I really appreciate it; I know words are cheap, but I truly am grateful for this. Your willingness to provide detailed commentary on the situation warms my soul.
(Also, this situation is why I've occasionally been somewhat grouchy on the forums. An unfortunate situation sometimes bleeds over into one's other pursuits, especially when a peak of unfortunate-ness occurs. Which I feel bad about and do my best to avoid, but alas, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.)Spoiler
So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2016-02-02, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
SpoilerSo, before I say anything else, let me get this out of the way.
Your parents, are capital, C, C@nts.
I do not use that swear word lightly, because I personally use it when it is most deserving, and your parents EASILY fall that low on my scale. Easily.
To be entirely honest, other than the bits where you are calling yourself an idiot throughout your post, what I think you should honestly, truly, bluntly do is this:
Take this post. Print it. Laminate it. Grab some nails and a hammer and head over to your parents' house. Then like Martin Luther and his Ninety-Five Theses, nail those papers to their front door. If they don't have a peep of a reaction that swings in your favor in any way, shape, or form, or somehow shows to them just how C@ntly they are and have been to you, you get out.
You move. Period. End of story.
How they have treated you and your very close friend is so unspeakably deplorable I struggle to find enough verbs to accurately describe it, but if you gave me enough time I would rip them apart.
You do not need that level of sh!t which they are force feeding down your and your friends' throats, and you need to get out as soon as you get the chance and cut off all communication with them.
I really like Cristo Meyers' idea of a Go Fund Me thingamajig to get the internet to help you help yourself and your close friend, and you should get onto that.
As far as making money in other ways? Even if you can't sell the land which has a lot of deer on it, you should still talk to your hunter guy about perhaps allowing him to hunt on it, for a fee. How you set it up is up to you, whether it's per kill or a once-per-day kind of deal, that's up to you, but as far as ways generating money goes, that's what I would suggest.
My deep, deep condolences for your current living situation. I would not wish this upon anyone, because I do not wish that upon me.
So, that dissertation aside, you mentioned that you made money doing freelance writing? How, or more specifically, where? I'm fairly sure I'm a decent writer, and to be entirely honest writing sounds a whole lot more entertaining to me as a money-making form of revenue than the job I currently have.I've started streaming again.
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2016-02-02, 04:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Oh lordy lordy lord... I waited so eagerly to learn Portuguese at the college, but now I have a Portuguese teacher who doesn't understand the version of Portuguese that I speak. I have problems arguing with her, since I know that she's dismissing lots of things that I know, but I can't explain them to her because I lack the academic ability to make my point. I've spent hours today trying to prove her that subjunctive mood doesn't work like she says.
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2016-02-02, 05:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
This particular problem of mine isn't quite personal, but it heavily relates to me, so I think it counts.
Namely, my wonderful, favorite aunt (her and my Grandmother are the only people that aren't completely unlikable in my family), runs a lovely pet shop. She's having financial trouble with it, because a PetCo opened nearby, and working her behind off trying to keep it running. She works from 11-8 there, every day, while also having to maintain a warehouse. All of this trouble is because her old pet store was taken from her by an [CENSORED] of a landlord that wanted his son to have a Party Store of his very own, and finagled her lease so she had to leave. She was going to have a big sale and turn a profit, but my Uncle bailed on her when she counted on him, because drugs.
That's the background. The recent part is that her separated husband now has a pregnant fiancée. Now, that would be okay, since they're separated and planning a divorce, but he didn't just do that. She constantly has to 'lend' him money that he never pays back, but she was refusing to do so this time because, well, pregnant fiancée. Note that he makes way more money than her, he just gambles and drinks it all away. I help her out sometimes at the store, like Sunday. Her 'husband', who is a gigantic jerk, barged in an demanded that she give him forty dollars. She said no, I gave my verbal support for her decision while giving him a very irritated look. He started yelling, I started dressing him down, then when she wouldn't give him the money, he grinned. He said "Well, if you're gonna listen to that little [CENSORED]-" and then demanded she give him her work car. He already has a car, and it was supposed to be her car, but 'the deed was in his name'. So then she gave him the keys after getting her supplies out of it, and it's Tuesday, and I am furious. Furious!
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2016-02-02, 05:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Bulldog, man, I feel for you.
Having followed your story for a while now, I have to admit I'm surprised with how the whole thing has played out. It's pretty crazy in general.
I do agree with your wife. Internally, you should forgive your parents. Don't put yourself in a situation to continue being abused- you absolutely have to protect yourself and well being. Holding on to bitterness is not going to help your well being, just hurt it. (This is, admittedly, much easier said than done.)
I'll second this.
My grandmother's wilderness property, before she passed away, would lease out hunting rights to a local hunting club on a seasonal basis. It didn't bring in much, but she also wasn't charging enough, either. Given your circumstances with the high deer density, and his willingness to buy the property, I would say you could probably lease it out for a reasonable amount every hunting season. (Just make sure to give him right of first refusal on re-renting each deer season.)
I would look around to see what seasonal hunting leases go for in your area, then talk to the family and make sure they're okay with it and willing to let you have the earnings.My Homebrew A Return to Exile, a homebrew campaign setting.
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2016-02-02, 10:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
From my own experience (I own forested lands in an area that's full of moose and deer and cottages and hunters) I don't think there's a chance that anyone will pay for the right to hunt.
I have local guys who looked me up and asked me if they could hunt on my lands... I said yes, and in exchange for that, they're keeping an eye on the place for me. I could also likely ask them for a bit of meat every fall as tribute, on those years I don't get a deer myself.
That guy is interested in buying the land and building himself a cabin there, because he knows the land is likely for sale, and wants to have his own land and cabin. I can almost guarantee that that guy knows and is in good terms with plenty of other landowners in this outdoorsman paradise region where there's basically forest and deer everywhere you look, and is therefore not lacking options and places to hunt for free.
May I suggest (again based on my own experience) nearly clear-cutting the land, instead? Deed to it stays in the family...
Northern WI is in the native range of Sugar Maple, Black Cherry, Yellow Birch -- all of those are worth quite a bit of coin.
Alternatively, again based on my grandpa's experience -- if you know any maple syrup producers in the area, and your forest has enough mature Sugar Maples, now THAT is something that might be worth leasing. Pretty sure, though, that they'd have to be directly neighboring you to be interested and for it to be financially worth it to run collecting piping on your property. It's the case with my grandpa's land...
I think your best bet is to try to reason with your parents. Are they going to give you that land someday, anyway? I mean, they won't live forever, and you're likely to outlive them. If you have decided you'll sell that land, why make you wait?Offer good while supplies last. Two to a customer. Each item sold separately. Batteries not included. Mileage may vary. All sales are final. Allow six weeks for delivery. Some items not available. Some assembly required. Some restrictions may apply. All entries become our property. Employees not eligible. Entry fees not refundable. Local restrictions apply. Void where prohibited. Except in Indiana.
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2016-02-04, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
I've had horrible Internet troubles the past two days, so I haven't responded as much I wanted. But a quick message for now:
Unfortunately, I'm not quite sure what to offer as advice about freelancing. See, I started on Elance, which was an excellent site, but they're closing it down, because the greed bug bit them.
Now they're moving everyone over to UpWork, which is a horrible platform full of 30-cent-for-a-thousand-pages workers and an almost unusable interface.
I'm lucky enough to have two long-term clients who have me booked up for this year at least; and who are working with me directly, off any platform.
I guess you could try UpWork, though; I'll try to work up some pointers for you and PM it to you this evening, if I get the chance. Sorry I didn't get back sooner.
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So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2016-02-08, 09:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
A more minor issue here:
I have a coworker who is being obnoxious about some topics that are rather important to me. And it's taking up more headspace than I'd really like. I don't think it's bad enough to go to management, I just could use some tips on getting him out of my head.Hail to the Lord of Death and Destruction!
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2016-02-09, 07:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
I mean you can tell them you're not comfortable discussing those things if you don't want to argue with them. Alternatively just ignoring them can work but can end up being MORE confrontational if you don't explain why. This assumes they're talking directly to you about these things. If it's just things you're overhearing, then ignoring it is probably the best case. Putting things into perspective, consider the amount of ridiculously terrible ideas/opinions that people have in the world. There's bound to be a couple of said people around you. You can't really fight them all so trying to ignore it is probably best, especially since you said its probably not severe enough to warrant talking to management about.
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2016-02-09, 08:34 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Regarding the much-appreciated advice and input that you kind folks have offered regarding my strange situation -- let me put this in spoilers to avoid threadjacking here:
SpoilerFirst of all, thank you all very, very much. The excellent people here are the reason I love this forum -- wish I could give all of you a hearty handshake!
About the various solutions offered:
- I like the Go Fund Me idea a lot, as a way to try to get my business idea going, but I'm not sure how I'd attract attention to it and persuade anyone to donate. That's the biggest obstacle -- I've been pretty much kicking around that idea for a year, but it's kind of pointless doing a Go Fund Me if it nets me nothing, and I can't imagine it netting me something.
- Unfortunately, as pointed out, one can't rent land to hunters in the middle of half a state of prime hunting land. Nice thought, though -- thank you.
- Yes, the advantage here is that the guy wants the land for a cabin. That's pretty much the only reason it's worth much of anything at all.
- I'll look into the timber cutting, but I doubt I can have it logged, either. :(
- I'm not sure what to do about my parents. On the one hand, they're getting pretty old, so part of me wants to pretend none of this happened, and remain in contact with them. The other part of me is extremely enraged over their treatment of my wife and me, and wants to depart the area, never to see them or contact them again, and start again with a clean slate and without them lurking around in the background as a reminder of all this.
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So the song runs on, with shift and change,
Through the years that have no name,
And the late notes soar to a higher range,
But the theme is still the same.
Man's battle-cry and the guns' reply
Blend in with the old, old rhyme
That was traced in the score of the strata marks
While millenniums winked like campfire sparks
Down the winds of unguessed time. -- 4th Stanza, The Bad Lands, Badger Clark
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2016-02-09, 09:57 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
The difficulty right now is getting it more out of my head. I find myself replaying the scenarios over and over, thinking about what I could have/should have said. Or worrying about what he might say next (I have something coming up that I'm almost positive he's going to make a mean comment about). And I don't like that it's taking up so much headspace over one jerk.
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2016-02-09, 01:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
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2016-02-09, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2016-02-09, 02:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Yours are ears most bles't in their ignorance. May they always remain so.
But yeah. If you have someone taking up headspace they don't deserve, you have at least two options, and probably some others.- Force them out of your headspace by putting something else into it. The earworm example is a good illustration - if you need to squeeze a song out of your head, cram another one in its place. Dive into a project that demands your attention. Take up humming. Get excited about your plans after work. Part of what makes it hard to get something out of your head is the fact that you're aware of how hard it is. Once it's out of your head, it's less of an issue.
- Develop a level of psychopathy that allows you to diminish this person's value as a person in your mind. When he ceases to be a person at all, he ceases to be worthy of your attention, and you'll simply stop thinking about him. For what should be obvious reasons, this solution is not for everybody.
I'd work on number 1, personally, but that's only because I've been down road number 2, and frankly, forgetting that people have feelings can really get in the way of being entertained by them. Just trust me on that.My headache medicine has a little "Ex" inscribed on the pill. It's not a brand name; it's an indicator that it works inside an Anti-Magic Field.
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2016-02-09, 04:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
You mean you think your parents won't let you? Or you mean you don't think the current forest cover has any meaningful market value given its somewhat remote location?
I'm not sure what to do about my parents. On the one hand, they're getting pretty old, so part of me wants to pretend none of this happened, and remain in contact with them. The other part of me is extremely enraged over their treatment of my wife and me, and wants to depart the area, never to see them or contact them again, and start again with a clean slate and without them lurking around in the background as a reminder of all this.
You can put some distance, for the time being.
If I were you, I would still try to do a bit more work on them regarding "your" land. Do you have any siblings that could potentially keep it in the family after your parents are gone? If not, then you might be able to make them understand the inescapable fact that it WILL get sold sooner or later if you decide so.Offer good while supplies last. Two to a customer. Each item sold separately. Batteries not included. Mileage may vary. All sales are final. Allow six weeks for delivery. Some items not available. Some assembly required. Some restrictions may apply. All entries become our property. Employees not eligible. Entry fees not refundable. Local restrictions apply. Void where prohibited. Except in Indiana.
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2016-02-14, 12:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Hi! Welcome to what linguists call the difference between prescriptive and descriptive language. If you're a native Portuguese speaker, you may use grammatical rules that aren't "correct" by textbook standards, just like how native English speakers end sentences with prepositions without hesitation even though it's "wrong." And even if she is also a native speaker, you might have different dialects.
Trouble is, she's the teacher and you're the student. Even when you're right, she's the one in power. Now, there's two ways you can look at it: An excercise in futility, because you're never going to change her mind, or an opportunity to get more in depth with the language than your peers can. Make notes in the margins about things that you and the book disagree with. List hypothetical sentences and check whether they're grammatical to you, your teacher, both, or neither. If you really wanna study Portuguese, this is a great way to get even more out of your studies! (And if you find you enjoy it, I highly recommend taking an introductory Linguistics course--but then again, I'm biased. :)
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2016-02-14, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Okay, so not sure if this belongs here or in Relationship Advice, but recently two of my friends were complaining about some of their complications involving their boyfriends. And I won't go into details, but suffice to say, I kinda want to slap them because their problems (from what I know-and supposedly I only know half the story) is "It's complicated because they're so damn perfect!"
Don't get me wrong-I'm happy for them both. I'm glad they have someone. But it's a stark reminder that I don't really have anyone like that, and I'm just feeling really lonely.I have a LOT of Homebrew!
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2016-02-14, 07:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Yeah, I was feeling the loneliness set in earlier today. Like, 12:00 AM loneliness.
So I decided to sleep in all day, then go walk around, buy my favorite kind of chocolate, and buy some things I wanted to get such as a new hdmi cord for my lappy top and a new usb port.
So I treated myself today to some ****ake mushrooms today, which was nice.
Aaaaaaaaaand I've got to wake up super early tomorrow! Isn't grocery work fun?!?!I've started streaming again.
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2016-02-17, 07:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
There's a stereotype of a person who complains about their life as a passive aggressive way of initiating a pissing contest (in which they are winning, obviously). There's also a stereotype of a bitter and angry single person that nobody in a relationship really wants to talk to in case something about their relationship comes up and triggers a rant on singleness from the single person.
If the first stereotype is actually what's playing out, your challenge is not to become the second stereotype as a way of shutting the process down.
More generally, if your singleness is bothering you, and you've been single for quite some time, take stock. Are you putting a large amount of effort in to attracting a partner? Are you happy and at least moderately successful in other areas of your life? If the answers are yes and no repsectively, put more effort into living a happy, fulfilling life. Make sure you have a social circle, have fun things you like to do socially, have hobbies you can talk to other people about, have a job you can stand and that pays you enough to live (not survive, live) off of.
The idea is to build a life that you'll be happy with regardless of your relationship status. If you're honestly happy, then people are more likely to want to share that life with you. Now.... if you've honestly done all that, and there aren't any massive deal breakers (look, my partner will understand there's more to me than my four foot long narwhal tooth and asyptomatic typhoid) you're leaving out, and there has been sufficient time for things to actually work (I've been lifting weights for a week and I haven't gotten a date yet! This is bullcrap!), I got nothin'.This signature is no longer incredibly out of date, but it is still irrelevant.
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2016-02-17, 07:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
I'm not trying to initiate a pissing contest, and I (don't think) I'm bitter or angry.
I'm trying to attract a partner. I've asked out a few girls I've liked (and got rejected) and I'm active on OK Cupid. And I guess I'm reasonably happy.
I just kinda wanted to get it off my chest. Usually I can look at myself, say "I'm single, it sucks, but whatever, I'm good" but when I posted... I was just feeling real lonely.
Thank you for your advice.I have a LOT of Homebrew!
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2016-02-17, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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So I have had depression for most of my life, and I usually can handle it pretty well. Recently it has become a bit more difficult to shoulder. Not overwhelmingly so or anything, more a product of a bunch of life choices all coming at once, being the end of college and whatnot. But I was just wondering what are somethings other people do to help with depression? I usually go to my hobbies but I am finding them lackluster and I guess I'm just lacking passion for them right now? I was just curious as to what other people do.
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2016-02-17, 09:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
I have a LOT of Homebrew!
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2016-02-17, 10:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
The pissing contest was intended to be the people annoying you. However, best to make sure you're not falling into that one as well. As far as the advice goes, it's the only mate-finding advice I think I've ever seen work reliably (when actually implemented). It can also, depending on how honest you are with yourself, be extremely difficult to actually implement. You may not want to thank me for it just yet, but you're certainly welcome to it.
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2016-02-17, 10:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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So the counseling center at my school is in short complete crap. They will only see people if suicide is eminent, and when I did manage to get a few appointments in a couple years ago the therapist didn't actually help at all, just went well yeah you seem to have depression and offered nothing beyond that. And as for friends, my best friend was recently unjustly suspended from the university, one reason being a mutual friend was a coward and let him out to dry for what was the mutual friend's mistake. My other close friend I can trust with this kind of thing works close about 5 hours a week and is also a full time student and so hanging out and talking with her is incredibly difficult.
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2016-02-17, 10:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Okay. Well, first things first: *Offers hugs*
Second things second, do see if you can find time for friends. It will help, even if it's hard to manage. If it really isn't possible, though, it's not possible.
Third of all, I mean full-on professionals-like a psychiatrist. Now, we're not allowed to give medical advice on these boards, so that's all I can say on it, but a real professional (not just a school therapist) should be able to help.I have a LOT of Homebrew!
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2016-02-18, 01:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Antidepressants and forcing myself to talk with and be around people (as in, like, over a voice chat program) seemed to help the most. For me at least these things worked the best.
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2016-02-18, 04:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
My mental health nurse is being really passive aggressive and skeptical about me getting papers that prove to the social services that I can't study at a normal pace. My psychiatrist is well supportive, though.
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2016-02-18, 09:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
Thanks for the replies guys, it is comforting to know that if nothing else the playground will listen. Finding a local therapist does seem like the best option at this point.
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2016-02-19, 07:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Personal Woes and Advice 4
I've been thinking for a while, for various reasons, that I might have Asperger's.
I've also been thinking for a while, for various reasons, that I might have depression.
Now I'm starting to think, with more certainty than either of those, that I might have ADD, of all things. It's come a bit out of left field, but I happened to come across an article about ADD in adult women, and almost everything about it sounded very familiar. So I did some more reading, and almost all of that sounded just as familiar. What's more, a lot of the particularly problematic stuff that I was associating with Asperger's and depression are defining/significant features of ADD.
I really need to get on and make an appointment with a psych and get an actual diagnosis on something. If it is ADD, that would be rather curious, as well as useful to know.
Are there any women around with ADD?Last edited by Serpentine; 2016-02-19 at 07:24 AM.
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