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Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Damned if I do....

My stepfather probably had what we would call today bipolar disorder. He had a violent temper and wild mood swings. I remember one particular weekend I had cut the lawn and put the lawn mower away. My stepfather thought I had missed a spot. He yelled at me. "Why didn't you check with me before you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, December 18, 2005

Feeling Friendship

I've got this friend. I'll call him Steve on accournt of that's his name. I haven't seen or talked to Steve in about 7-8 years. I don't know where he's living now. I don't know his phone number. I don't have his email address. I don't know where he works. He's a really good friend. Steve and I met... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, December 17, 2005

Well now that blogit has confused me with all these new topics, I made a couple of changes. I moved Name that Tune to Movies and Entertainment since Arts and Entertainment no longer exists and it makes more sense there than it Arts and Crafts, which is where it landed when Arts and Entertainment was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, December 12, 2005

Male or Female?

Once while visiting New York City by former girlfriend and I asked a native for directions. We got them. Afterwards I asked my girlfriend whether the person we spoke to was a man or a woman. She didn't know either. Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, December 2, 2005

Love at the Food Court

I thought I saw them kiss but I wasn't sure. Then they kissed again, and again and again. We're fairly tolerent around these parts but still I had never seen a same sex couple express affection so openly. They were not only a same sex couple, but a mixed race couple. The white woman was a tall and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, November 28, 2005

Happily Hopeless

I have been diagnosed with major depression I have no hope for recovery. What I do have is faith in my recovery. Hope and Faith. Faith and Hope. We hear those words together so often that we tend to think they mean the same thing. There's even a TV sitcom called Hope and Faith. Hope and Faith are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 26, 2005

Kicked Out?

Jeff's Jot's seems to have been kicked out of the longest running blogs list, probably because I haven't posted in it for almost two weeks. I don't see what that has to do with it, it's been running for the same amount of time either way, but now that I'm posting in it, it should reappear on the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 13, 2005

Proud of Thinking for Myself

I was talking with Patty after church today, and I was telling her about the depression and all the things I was doing to take care of myself i.e. taking my medication, going to my support group ect. She told me I should be proud of myself. I told her that I was. Later it occured to me that I'm... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 12, 2005

Postponing Happiness?

Do you sacrifice the present for the future? In other words, do you do things that make you less happy today, because you believe it will make you more happy tomorrow? For example, would you deny yourself a vacation in order to save the money for a house? I wouldn't. Do you deny yourself good... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Pushing Myself

My parents are telling me I should "push myself" to get back to work despite having severe depression. They don't get it. They don't get that I'm already pushing myself. I push myself to come to the library every morning when I really feel like laying around watching TV. I push myself to go to my Dr... Sign in to see full entry.

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