203: 1/13 Live Show

[Corri]

One of the Best shows yet guys! I'm sending it to some friends, they have been resisting podcasting so far but they will get hooked eventually. You should do a call out for every fan to sign up three converts. Ahhh pyramid schemes... Where do we send this e-mail to the radio network?

[ron]

This show was great and the time flew by. Liam and Spooky are great additions, and the four of you together are hilarious. Keep up the great work!

[Stijn]

guys Great show the high-school stories were great ... i listen to it on my bike and i'm quite sure some people thought i was crazy ... the four of you really do that more often

[Nick Postagulous]

Well, I guess I'm glad that you (Katg) don't really understand what depression really is. I've got it, well, not with the 20 mg of Lexapro I take a day.

My depression is, of course, totally irrational. I see the world wrong, and this is due to not having enough brain juices. There are three kinds. Serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. I'm on an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) so the extra serotonin which doesn't get picked up helps my lil brain to make connections.

So, what am I like when my meds are pooping out on me, or when I foolishly have a few goodish months and decide I'd like to start tapering down? Well, the primary feeling is misery and sorrow. Added to that is that I am miserable about nothing in particular, but everything. The feeling is invalid. It is hard to see through your own perceptions and see that the way you used to see things i the real way to see them. Even now, just the thought that I'll have to be like this until I'm an old man is daunting.

And that's when I'm having a good day. I'm at a good solid 80% of normal today. I'll never be like those folks who are all active and giggly and all that crap. In fact, I think their brains are a little broken in the other direction.

But, PMS is not depression. You don't get depressed about anything. That's sadness. Depression is irrational sorrow brought on by cognitive dissonance or chemical imbalances.

I personally wouldn't consider myself "flat", the term used for no emotions. I pretty well do give a damn about most things.

Crap, I'm late for something. Good show so far, haven't made it all the way through.

[stjoe]

Originally Posted by Nick Postagulous

Well, I guess I'm glad that you (Katg) don't really understand what depression really is. I've got it, well, not with the 20 mg of Lexapro I take a day.

My depression is, of course, totally irrational. I see the world wrong, and this is due to not having enough brain juices. There are three kinds. Serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. I'm on an SSRI (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor) so the extra serotonin which doesn't get picked up helps my lil brain to make connections.

So, what am I like when my meds are pooping out on me, or when I foolishly have a few goodish months and decide I'd like to start tapering down? Well, the primary feeling is misery and sorrow. Added to that is that I am miserable about nothing in particular, but everything. The feeling is invalid. It is hard to see through your own perceptions and see that the way you used to see things i the real way to see them. Even now, just the thought that I'll have to be like this until I'm an old man is daunting.

And that's when I'm having a good day. I'm at a good solid 80% of normal today. I'll never be like those folks who are all active and giggly and all that crap. In fact, I think their brains are a little broken in the other direction.

But, PMS is not depression. You don't get depressed about anything. That's sadness. Depression is irrational sorrow brought on by cognitive dissonance or chemical imbalances.

I personally wouldn't consider myself "flat", the term used for no emotions. I pretty well do give a damn about most things.

Crap, I'm late for something. Good show so far, haven't made it all the way through.

Well said Nick. Been through all of that. Tried 3 different drugs in the last few years and none agreed with me. I'm more bi-polar, though.

[ugm2099]

spooky, whats your myspace name, or website? i wanna see your drawings.

[Keith's Dad]

Originally Posted by ugm2099

spooky, whats your myspace name, or website? i wanna see your drawings.

SPOOK, SPOOK!

Spookys myspace is http://myspace.com/spookymanifesto

[spooky]

thanks, dad, i had some more from that chinese place, the one with MSG, and passed out. i just woke up, most of what little snow there was has melted. anyways, i have my actual website going up soon, its being built, i will plug it when its done. and when my books come out, i will plug those too. thanks for the interest guys, ive had like 200 hits on my page since the show came out, thats alot for me, im not a myspace whore with 2500 friends.

[fettdog]

Great show guys - and double length to boot.

You were talking about not wanting to leave a message on Adam's machine in case he had been in a car wreck, but something like that actually happened at the place I worked a couple of years ago.

My boss at the time called her husband up, who was due to be at home that day and when the machine kicked it started going "Hello? Hello? Where are you? Are you dead?".

Next day, she wasn't in. You guessed it. She got home and he's lying there dead, after suffering a major heart attack and she's now got the guilt of the message she left, not knowing whether he's lying there gasping his last breath as she's going "Are you dead?".

True story.

[cognitiveg]

http://www.dumpalink.com/post/1129541317/Mousetrap

For all you sickos out there