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[Arachno-capitalist]

I have had some terrible experiences with psychiatrists.

You're talking about Psychologists. Psychiatrists have an MD and prescribe pharmaceuticals to adjust chemical imbalances.

[littlefallsmets]

As a child, I was harassed with the goddamned dolphin puppet from goddamned ARCHER by a goddamned school shrink and, to be honest, I've never forgiven them.

[dejavroom]

You're talking about Psychologists.

ALSO THAT.

[theinevitable]

I think it is more complicated than any of those. Brain chemical imbalances exist and are medically treatable, but the brain is a more complex machine than that. Maybe one day we'll be able to treat these imbalances as simply as a broken leg, but for most people's chemistry it isn't that simple. Mental health categories are culturally categorized, and the potential for abuse exists, but this does not negate the existence of real chemical problems which medicines can treat. Licensed therapists can help but are sometimes not good at their jobs.

The psych appointment was pretty lame. He gave me a 1-month sample of a drug which I can't drink alcohol with. Anyone got a good excuse for that one in social situations? It is also pretty BS to me that seeing a doctor who "is covered" by my insurance cost more out-of-pocket than I make in a day.

[CortJstr]

Tonight I finally get to see The Cat Empire. I've been listening to them for years and this is the first time they've come even close to DC.

[wombat]

Anyone got a good excuse for that one in social situations?

Fuck excuses. It is no one's business what you drink.

[jaydub]

You could say you're "going paleo" and alcohol is on the no-no list.  That should cause the conversation to quickly switch to another topic, because new paleo converts are worse than Jehovah's Witnesses in talking about their thing.

[KeithHernandez]

I stopped drinking a few years ago and never thought I needed excuse.  Now I wonder if people think I was doing something else or doing it because I was on something or whatever?  Just say you are trying not to drink because you are trying not to poison yourself?

[theinevitable]

I think I am going with "it's bad for the baby." Communicates "I do not want to talk to you about this."

Also that I am having a baby. You heard it here first.

[pmcd9]

So Keith, how long have you been in recovery?

[Choop]

whenever i want a night or week or month or whatever without drinking, i just tell people i'm taking a break to detox. usually they go 'oh cool' and move on. sometimes it would generate a discussion, which i can usually sideline with a new question like 'where'd you get those glasses'

[theinevitable]

I guess, mostly, I needed to come up with a line because I am horrible at thinking on the spot, so I would probably answer with a long story about why I decided to go on meds that interfere with my alcohol life.

[littlefallsmets]

"It was making me act like an asshole like my [real or imagined alcoholic relative who acts like an asshole when drunk] so I stopped."

[littlefallsmets]

Today I'm gonna realize that I really do hate all this Hamlet bullshit, all these cycles of anxiety and procrastination, the drama, the self-loathing, the helplessness, the inability to take sustained action, the hope against hope that something else is gonna intercede and get me out of this, the way I destroy everything good in my life by not having any fuck*ng confidence... but I have no idea how to start to dig myself out. None.

It's not clever, it's not charming, it's not effective but it is all I fuck*ng know and I'm trying to rewrite my resume and cover letter just to fuck*ng fuck fuck fuck*ng apply to a halfway decent day job and I'm so stressed out I have given myself goddamned diarrhea. No shit, pun originally unintended but cheerfully intended ex post facto, no shit I have actually stressed myself into the goddamned runs and I am a goddamned adult and I hate myself so much for all of it and I don't know how to stop hating myself so fuck*ng much for not amounting to fuck*ng anything and my run-on sentences too.

Fuck. I am a well-intending and relatively clever person but I am so fuck*ng unpleasant to actually be, you have no idea.

I can have more opportunity and support than 99.9% of the rest of the fuck*ng world and squander it all on self-loathing and procrastination.

What an asshole, you guys, holy shit.

[KeithHernandez]

I haven't drank since augustish 2009.  It wasn't to stop drinking though, just I hate drinking but love drinking and doing cocaine, so the only way to stop doing coke at least twice a week was to stop drinking.  I used to plan out and do like an 8 ball every few months and I would drink those days (after august 2009, i mean) but I think those days are over.  I smoked crack last July 4th and did e and coke In like march?  I think I am almost completely done with drugs that aren't psychedelics.