There is still so much stigma with "coming out" with mental disorders, and the public thinks that you can just will these issues away. You can't half the time because your brain's wires are crossed and twisted. It's like trying to delete a permanent virus in your PC, you can't do it. You have to think of creative ways to get around your issues and literally plan your day out as best you could. 

 

I use a service dog now to help me get through, but I get really dirty looks from people because I'm able-bodied. This made me more visible as "someone with issues", and the general public is largely ignorant and rude about it. I do get treated worse when my dog is with me, so I also understand the need to keep hiding if you have invisible disorders.

 

I hope that he finds the peace and security he deserves. I know how it feels to be in that warped state of mind and it's a hell you can't seem to escape at times...

Being bipolar myself this hit close to home when I found out he was missing and has bipolar and having a manic episode I've been there. I was just saying this to a friend it is really hard to talk about having bipolar/mental illness or go for treatment sometimes we rather not deal with the issues of being bipolar/having mental illness because we sometimes feel like we are a burden to our loved ones,friends,family or that we are being judged as some nutter.

I found that Society is also quick to label/not care/just sweep it under the rug or act like mental illness isn't real or that it is all in our heads and we are doing it for attention we definitely need better awareness for mental illness and better mental health care systems. I really do hope they find him and he is safe.   

I just finished one of my many cullenmance's last night I was not expecting the epilogue I got it was very positive at least in my eyes it was. I just have to do joh and gather some more fade touched mats. I might avoid the forums to avoid the spoilers as I'm not sure if any of the other platforms get it earlier than some as it has occurred in the past til I can experience it myself. My anxiety has ramped up 1000 times and its only going up more as time gets closer to release.

Yes that's why I said it depends on what kind of hero you made in DAO. I always play as a human female thief/archer in my official first playthroughs. Never really liked playing as a mage, but sometimes I try on my second playthrough just to try other romances.

So we will never see Cullen with the Lion helmet? It was just in the trailers? Why?

I think it is in this interview at the like 58 min mark they explain about the helmet I really would've loved if they kept the helmet

I'm trying not to get too excited about the DLC. For one, several people either aren't in it (if it's post-Cory, and it sounds as if it is) or they're the center of the story - either Leliana, Vivienne, or Cass should be Divine and not around. That pretty much eliminates at least one of them from being in the DLC...unless something happens to the new Divine, and the hints point to the qunari, the deep roads, and/or Solas, mostly. I'd love to see more Cullen (and most of the others,) but I'm concerned the DLC is being written in response to the people who wanted the ending to be more tragic, etc. Or maybe I'm just extra pessimistic tonight because I'm assdeep in moving boxes, etc., lol.

nah can't blame you on being that way as one never knows what bioware is going to pull i'm just hoping nothing traumatic 

ok so I'm kinda wondering as was reading tweets on twitter and well this tweet on dlc caught my attention wondering of there will be cullen related stuff within this tweet is by mark darrah 

It would have been cool to see some jealousy scenes, like Atton and Mical in Kotor 2. That was sooo funny to see Atton behaving agressively with that poor disciple who did nothing to him.

 

OMG I just realize that it's Greg Ellis who did the voice acting of Mical o___o

 

The character was not very interesting, too bad. I played in french anyway. Just realized this because I rewatched the scene on youtube XD with Greg Ellis' voice Mical is now 200% sexier than he was in french, haha.

 

Hum, anyway, some jealousy scenes could have been cool in DAI. Or at least things like "hey, I see that you spend a lot of time with Iron bull... may I ask why?" 

 yeah see I miss the way you'd get confronted in DA:O or they'd comment in banter I wish we would have gotten some kind of banter,drama and jealousy I loved the banter between Alistair and Morrigan in dao. 

best stuff was this 

Actually, while there's an option for a few jealous comments with the mod, I think, I just set up the packaged mod without any of that. Honestly, the only way I'll ever romance Josephine is this way. I tend to give my PCs very different personalities and there are a couple of them that this fits best.

yeah my quizzy's have different personalities course my current quizzy has a story going on where there is a bit of tension going on with 2 people with whom she has/is involved with so far its been a clustered roller coaster ride of emotions. I'll most likely add the mod in it's mighty tempting 

yea I'm tempted to install that polyamory but my mind is like the gif in the spoiler I mean heck when I played sims way back I used to have sims romancing tons of others while with others and oh man the drama  

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I hope you all know this meme too because I'm cracking up over this! 

 

http://dany-vakarian...is-been-done-or

 oh man i think I killed my keyboard reminds self to not drink water while going to look at things that make me lol someone should send it to Weekes 

ummm yeah anything I hear as maybe and rumor I take with a grain of salt and file it under rumor until I hear it officially confirmed  from one of the devs or they make an official announcement for dlc. 

i haven't been on AO3 in ages,but I just started reading In Sorrow With Pride So far I'm enjoying what I have read so far

We need to start a clan. And find this lady and she can be our Keeper.

 

And why do I have the feeling that half the people of this thread are going to be going candle shopping soon to find the perfect Solas scent.

 

Or would it be incense......mmmm......maybe an oil diffuser?

Oh man I'm a candle addict I have all kinds of candles I used to be really big into yankee candles if I start again with candles and trying to find the perfect Solas scent I'll be like this

I wasn't too impressed with item pack,but the dragon age fan in me reasoned that I have to have all dlc even if i'm not impressed with it,but yeah I haven't even started JOH yet as I decided to start new playthrough  I'm still hoping that we get more interactions in the next story dlc,but I'm still hoping for a more Skyhold upgrades in the dlcs to fix the roofs and stuff 

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 specifically our young strapping former Templar's roof and room 

yeah my Lavellan considers them broken up after Solas left she had everything removed from his room  and she had it redecorated. She even went as far as having the murals painted over as it was too painful for her to walk into that room without being constantly reminded of Solas and being heartbroken.

Oh man have I been busy lately with work this thread moves fast. I've decided to start jewelry making at home again and I took up ceramics again I have some summer projects lined up with the possibility of making a Cullen/ Female mage lavellan project I'm still not sure yet that will probably take me a while to finish that as I'm pretty much a perfectionist when it comes to ceramics. I've already started working on my charm necklace that will probably take me a few weeks to finish depending If I like the way it turns out. 

I just read those tweets and have no idea 

Weekes 

I think the funniest I experienced was when practicing fencing with my brother as he had a tendency to forget I'm ambi and i'm able to fence with both hands so it threw him off and would confuse the heck out of him  but yeah it probably has to do with animations in regards to everyone being right handed in game 

Lefties FTW!!!! We shall rule the world! 

I have the best of both worlds I'm naturally ambidextrous ;p

yeah my canon has Cullen in his early to mid 30's

I only just opened up my tumblr again 

I use shantia's mods I also use Altered Finery mod and a few others I can't think oh the hd eye textures the lore friendly version of them 

lol I'm my own beta tester with creating mods I used to love people pm'ing though offering to be a tester for mods I used to create for sims I actually modified cullen in my game I don't think I will release it though 

ya know what I miss separated save folders for each character I really hate having a whole ton of save files in one folder it can get really confusing at times. I'd even settle for save file renaming

Ouch! That's an expensive repair. Since the HD wasn't effected, can you take it to have data recovery done if you don't want to replace the HD? Data recovery can be kind of expensive, compared to the cost of a new HD, depending on how much you need.

well luckily I have four 1 tb each hd that are new the hd in question though I have 300 gb of data that I need to recover that would be mighty pricey to recover that much data. I guess I'll just install the new hd and set the data that I need to recover hd as a secondary hd so I can access the data until I get everything off of it that I need 

Ugh my day just keeps getting better and better my mobo died  Ugh now I have to rma it and pray that they do a cross shipment. The bad thing is that when the new mobo arrives is that I'm going to lose all my saves and mods I created unless I set up a new hd as my primary and the one i have my saves on as  a secondary 

You know I have noticed in some areas that some of the characters, feet sink into the floor and the first time I noticed it.  I didn't know what was going on. At first I was asking myself wait, did my character get taller or am I just imagining it, then I noticed that their feet had sunken into the floor during cut scenes or just standing idle