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Too many students on this board... by that I mean all of us are so taken up by school, we rarely drink.
This is wrong


To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Originally posted by MsA:
Too many students on this board... by that I mean all of us are so taken up by school, we rarely drink.
This is wrong

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I don't know what it's like where you're from... but around here, there are few groups of people who can be found drinking more often than the students.

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Originally posted by Navyseils:

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Originally posted by MsA:
Too many students on this board... by that I mean all of us are so taken up by school, we rarely drink.
This is wrong

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I don't know what it's like where you're from... but around here, there are few groups of people who can be found drinking more often than the students.

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I was going to say "we're definitely doing this student thing wrong then..."

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Which is precisely my point

We are all so responsibly consumed with studying and working and such... we should be drinking until we're running naked through the streets

Come on Rosie, Navy, Rose, etc... ( well ok not Rose...somebody just give her so many bawls she goes donkey bonkers* and a thanks to Magda for that phrase)

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Originally posted by MsA:
( well ok not Rose...somebody just give her so many bawls she goes donkey bonkers*

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LOL! Actually getting my caffeine from Primer breath spray and black tea these days. Sugar, you know. (yes, I miss bawls, but I don't miss the 35 pounds I've lost)
Navy's not a big drinker, either. Think Mountain Dew is his drug of choice.

Speaking of being a student, though, I'm writing a paper right now and I want to postulate something in it so I'm testing it a little by asking as many people as I can: What is the very first thing that comes to your mind when you see or hear the words mental illness? Posted a thread about it over in real world, but I'm sure a lot of folks here don't go there. If anyone feels like word-associating that for me, I'd appreciate it. (Lila, you are over-qualified ;) I want your response, but keep it as brief as you can for me.)


What reason had proved best ceased to look absurd to the eye, which shows how idle it is to think anything ridiculous except what is wrong.

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Yeah, I did one of my drinking nights recently. I'm afraid there's probably not going to be another until sometime in mid 2012 now.

But I don't mind drinking large quantities of Mountain Dew in the meantime to make up for that. The import shops around here finally started selling it. £1.50 per can, but hey, it's available when I get desperate.

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YAY Rose on the weight loss:) HUGS

Um first thing I think of is - condition which impairs function emotionally

HUGS Navy...guess what you've had more to drink this year than I have

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Blinkies

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.

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Originally posted by PhoenixRose:

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Speaking of being a student, though, I'm writing a paper right now and I want to postulate something in it so I'm testing it a little by asking as many people as I can: What is the very first thing that comes to your mind when you see or hear the words mental illness?
but keep it as brief as you can for me.)

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Someone in a psych ward on heavy antidepressants, then someone on antianxiety meds trying to function in the real world, then borderline personality disorder and wanting them to shut the fuck up already, then schizophrenia and wondering how to rewire their brains so they work right again, then friends and family with "issues" and diagnoses (or not), then hoping it doesn't hit me but screaming inside every time I see signs of stress bringing on symptoms of depression/anxiety, and watching myself like a hawk for a tendency to drinking as a coping mechanism, and wondering if I'm paranoid or if it's justified, and praying it misses my child.

And then wondering why all the crazies inevitably seem to pick me to talk to, and really really hoping I don't get sucked into psychiatry because I just don't have the patience to deal with it.

Throughout all this I keep thinking "just stay on your damned meds!" at the bipolar people out there who miss the highs so they stop the drugs then hit the lows and start the spiral towards suicide and being unable to function. I also can't help thinking that all people really need is a good smack and a "get your shit together!" which is another reason I probably really shouldn't be in psych work. I have the professional "understanding", but there's a disconnect between that and my personal feelings which I just can't seem to resolve.

Does that help?

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