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Gilsa wrote...
That's a pretty big thing to do without your dad's support. My husband would flip out on me if I did that without involving him in the process. He was a difficult child and some doctor wanted to put him on drugs, but his parents said no. He was actually fine and gets irate if someone wants to self-diagnose a temper tantrum as anything, but the kid being over-tired. ;)

Oh yeah, that definitely caused problems. She only had to resort to doing it while he was gone because of how against it he was. Still, I guess she felt it was worth it...

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That sounds positively therapy-worthy.


LOL well if they were as big on therapy when I was just a bit younger than you, as they are now...I'd have been in it for years for pushing every guy I evermet away at a certain point in a relationship because of mine.

I am definitely not a fan of therapy. My mother and I...don't get along, to put it mildly. The summer after eighth grade when my dad and one or two of my brothers were at summer camp she dragged me to a therapist, told her a biased account of all the problems she thought I had, and the therapist decided I had Aspergers (which I've never agreed with) and so prescribed medication. When my dad got home he was pissed but since I had started taking the medication (for the first six weeks my mom actually watched to see if I would at least) because one of my best friends was moving across the country and she wouldn't let me go over to say goodbye if I didn't do it he claimed I was stuck with it.

Despite the fact that I told them I didn't want or need therapy or medication and never actually took the medication, they thought that the medication was helping me so much because as I grew up I outgrew a lot of the things mom was complaining about in the first place and so they were all convinced that when I stopped taking the medication I'd revert back into my fourteen-year-old self. I warned them I wouldn't be going to therapy after I turned eighteen and so my first session after my birthday they were talking about 'weaning me off' the medication after I rejected their offer to keep going while I was in college and upon finding out I hadn't taken any of it in four years...damn, they were pissed. They were all 'you should have told us so we wouldn't waste our money!' They seem to forget that whenever I did try telling them they forced me to take it that day...

Yeah, so basically the entire thing was completely unnecessary because as annoying as I was at fourteen I did grow out of it and they were all convinced the medication was working. That's the problem with being the oldest, I guess: parents freak out about everything. Posted Image


lol my oldest has no such problem. The only get dragged to a doctor if there's a fever over 100 or blood running. 

My problem was, I'd get into a relationship, make it to close a year and then start picking the most horrific fights. Until the guy broke up with me. I did it to my husband too, and the more he stuck around the worse I acted, until my grandmother pulled me aside one day and told me to cut the crap. Observant woman that she was, she picked up on the fact that having my Dad leave us when I was 3, and my grandfather, the only real father figure I had, die when I was 8...convinced me that men left me for what I saw as no reason. So, I subconsciously figured if they were going to leave, they'd have a reason.

Hubby took it though, and I eventually realized he wasn't going anywhere.

Who needs shrinks when ya have a grandmother? Ok...besides HER, she was bipolar we found out after she died.

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Sarah, your mom sounds terrible, to be honest. My parents enrolled me in therapy a few years ago but I had a fairly terrible childhood. I never stayed in therapy for more than a few sessions because the psychiatrists I went to tended to focus on the wrong things (in my opinion). I would have a heart attack if my boyfriend put our child on medication without us discussing it (along with our son). I'm not against medication, but your mom doesn't know what is going on in your head, for the therapist to just listen to her proves what a quack they were.



Jess, it was actually the opposite with me, since all the women in my family have some kind of psychosis.

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Just wanted to say thanks for the idea Gilsa--my CE and Soris can now have actual wedding clothes:
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And yeah, the problem with the psychiatry industry is it's too focused on making money. They'll exaggerate problems just so they can prescribe pills, which gets them money.


Annnnd dwarves!

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Sarah, your mom sounds terrible, to be honest. My parents enrolled me in therapy a few years ago but I had a fairly terrible childhood. I never stayed in therapy for more than a few sessions because the psychiatrists I went to tended to focus on the wrong things (in my opinion). I would have a heart attack if my boyfriend put our child on medication without us discussing it (along with our son). I'm not against medication, but your mom doesn't know what is going on in your head, for the therapist to just listen to her proves what a quack they were.

Jess, it was actually the opposite with me, since all the women in my family have some kind of psychosis.

Like I said, we have issues.

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Lady Jess wrote...

I have a friend who's son as asperger's. And she is REALLY cautious about how easy they label kids these days and toss medications at them. So she got SEVERAL opinions, tests, and did a crapload of research before she accepted the diagnosis. My youngest had a teacher that told me she was sure she has ADHD, because she isn't as mature as "most 15 year olds" and she talks alot and has a short attention span.. I'll admit she isn't. And I'm GLAD in a way, because 15 years olds now...aren't kids anymore. But I'll be damned if she's getting put on medication because she's DIFFERENT from some teacher's cookie cutter idea of what a kid her age should be.


Doctors LOVE diagnosing kids with ADD. That and depression make it easy to get people on medication that costs a ton of money, and that you're supposed to stay on for quite awhile. Both my mom and brother have very clear cases of ADD, so I'm completely unsympathetic to the rampant, baseless diagnoses people make about it. And I did end up taking anti-depressants for a year in high school, but since realizing that changing my lifestyle and way of thinking was a thousand times more important than trying to cover it up with medication, I have very little sympathy for anti-depressants now either. Being cautious about diagnoses is, IMO, a much better route (unless it's something life-threatening). What's more, a lot of problems people like to just prescribe medication for can in fact be solved better by making a conscious effort to change, and by having people there who are able to help.

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Nonvita wrote...

Lady Jess wrote...

I have a friend who's son as asperger's. And she is REALLY cautious about how easy they label kids these days and toss medications at them. So she got SEVERAL opinions, tests, and did a crapload of research before she accepted the diagnosis. My youngest had a teacher that told me she was sure she has ADHD, because she isn't as mature as "most 15 year olds" and she talks alot and has a short attention span.. I'll admit she isn't. And I'm GLAD in a way, because 15 years olds now...aren't kids anymore. But I'll be damned if she's getting put on medication because she's DIFFERENT from some teacher's cookie cutter idea of what a kid her age should be.


Doctors LOVE diagnosing kids with ADD. That and depression make it easy to get people on medication that costs a ton of money, and that you're supposed to stay on for quite awhile. Both my mom and brother have very clear cases of ADD, so I'm completely unsympathetic to the rampant, baseless diagnoses people make about it. And I did end up taking anti-depressants for a year in high school, but since realizing that changing my lifestyle and way of thinking was a thousand times more important than trying to cover it up with medication, I have very little sympathy for anti-depressants now either. Being cautious about diagnoses is, IMO, a much better route (unless it's something life-threatening). What's more, a lot of problems people like to just prescribe medication for can in fact be solved better by making a conscious effort to change, and by having people there who are able to help.


I agree. I was diagnosed with ADD, depression and anxiety. I admit that I tend to get depressed easily and lose focus rather quickly, but the medication they gave me just increased my anxiety, which is my real problem. None of the therapists I have ever seen (I've seen several, though that is because I have gone with my cousins to their therapists) are willing to actually work with their patients. They tend to only listen to certain things and then apply you to a tamplet.

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That's actually really sweet. Posted Image


Bittersweet really. Remember the Endrin conversation about forgiving a father before he Died? Mine died 9 months after my wedding, without me having forgiven him for leaving, and not being there for me at all my whole life. He gave me away at my wedding, but only for his mother's sake. So I had guilt over the wedding, guilt because I never forgave him, and anger still that he knew he was dying AT my wedding, and in that whole nine months didn't tell anyone. The result of which being he never saw his first, and since I'm an only child, ONLY grandchild. If he'd told someone, we'd have made the trip so he could see her.

I still occilate between being ticked at him, feeling guilty, and wishing he was still around. The good thing that comes out of it though, is hubby made amends with HIS father several years after. And my father in law is pretty awesome. So at least he'll never go through what I did. ^_^

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Nonvita wrote...

Lady Jess wrote...

I have a friend who's son as asperger's. And she is REALLY cautious about how easy they label kids these days and toss medications at them. So she got SEVERAL opinions, tests, and did a crapload of research before she accepted the diagnosis. My youngest had a teacher that told me she was sure she has ADHD, because she isn't as mature as "most 15 year olds" and she talks alot and has a short attention span.. I'll admit she isn't. And I'm GLAD in a way, because 15 years olds now...aren't kids anymore. But I'll be damned if she's getting put on medication because she's DIFFERENT from some teacher's cookie cutter idea of what a kid her age should be.


Doctors LOVE diagnosing kids with ADD. That and depression make it easy to get people on medication that costs a ton of money, and that you're supposed to stay on for quite awhile. Both my mom and brother have very clear cases of ADD, so I'm completely unsympathetic to the rampant, baseless diagnoses people make about it. And I did end up taking anti-depressants for a year in high school, but since realizing that changing my lifestyle and way of thinking was a thousand times more important than trying to cover it up with medication, I have very little sympathy for anti-depressants now either. Being cautious about diagnoses is, IMO, a much better route (unless it's something life-threatening). What's more, a lot of problems people like to just prescribe medication for can in fact be solved better by making a conscious effort to change, and by having people there who are able to help.

Currently my littlest brother (ten) is on ADD medication because his teacher's complained he never paid attention in class but he is really smart and due to being so much younger than everyone else a lot more worldly then any of us were at his age so a large part of it was probably boredom. He certainly doesn't have any grade problems nor show any signs of it at home but the teacher claimed he did and my old therapist confirmed it so...
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@Lady Jess: Well I'm glad you were able to salvage something from that tragedy, at least.

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Well... if anyone cares I'm ADD and I think I was ADHD... also LD...learning disabled but that more school than anything...



hypoglecemic too....nothing major but really annoying when I'm caught somewhere w/o something to eat....

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We need dwarf porn...



Skinny dipping at the dalish camp



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LOL, Jess, good one.

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Yeah, I made this for the next time I get hopelessly off-topic here. Posted Image
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Yeah, I made this for the next time I get hopelessly off-topic here. Posted Image
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Kryyptehk approves +50

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Kryyptehk wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Yeah, I made this for the next time I get hopelessly off-topic here. Posted Image
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Kryyptehk approves +50

*tilts head* You know, now I'm curious what your approval is at...Posted Image

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Sarah1281 wrote...

Kryyptehk wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Yeah, I made this for the next time I get hopelessly off-topic here. Posted Image
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Kryyptehk approves +50

*tilts head* You know, now I'm curious what your approval is at...Posted Image


Can't tell you, it'd make people jealous. Namely KoP:lol: jk jk

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Kryyptehk wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Kryyptehk wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Yeah, I made this for the next time I get hopelessly off-topic here. Posted Image
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Kryyptehk approves +50

*tilts head* You know, now I'm curious what your approval is at...Posted Image


Can't tell you, it'd make people jealous. Namely KoP:lol: jk jk

I can only assume that's a confession that you like me better. Posted Image

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LOL love that poster....

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Sarah1281 wrote...

Kryyptehk wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Kryyptehk wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Yeah, I made this for the next time I get hopelessly off-topic here. Posted Image
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Kryyptehk approves +50

*tilts head* You know, now I'm curious what your approval is at...Posted Image


Can't tell you, it'd make people jealous. Namely KoP:lol: jk jk

I can only assume that's a confession that you like me better. Posted Image


:whistle: -hands Sarah lovingly stitched Gorim plushie-

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LOL love that poster....

You know it's going to see a lot of mileage. Posted Image

Kryyptehk wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Kryyptehk wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Kryyptehk wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Yeah, I made this for the next time I get hopelessly off-topic here. Posted Image
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Kryyptehk approves +50

*tilts head* You know, now I'm curious what your approval is at...Posted Image


Can't tell you, it'd make people jealous. Namely KoP:lol: jk jk

I can only assume that's a confession that you like me better. Posted Image


:whistle: -hands Sarah lovingly stitched Gorim plushie-

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Yeah, I made this for the next time I get hopelessly off-topic here. Posted Image
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Hehe this is awesome. I would need myself a dwarf one, Zev one, and Alistair one, though.

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Nonvita wrote...

Sarah1281 wrote...

Yeah, I made this for the next time I get hopelessly off-topic here. Posted Image
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Hehe this is awesome. I would need myself a dwarf one, Zev one, and Alistair one, though.

How are these?
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Hah! I will definitely be using that Zevran one. :lol:<3


And since I can't even seem to stay on-topic for one post... >.<
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I am hearing things about family and therapy that I never heard of before. Things like that make me happy of being born a Middle Easterner, and into a great family.

Anyways, Bhelen is awesome.

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I was born into a large family too, KoP, and a very happy one. :)

Though if you want to exhange oversharing on the internets I did get depression after I graduated college. You know, the "oh **** what now?" Thing?

*overshares on the internets*

Lifestyle change sorted that out.

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soignee wrote...

Though if you want to exhange oversharing on the internets I did get depression after I graduated college. You know, the "oh **** what now?" Thing?


Something to look forward too.