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Queens sounds like a good balance for Rob. Seriously. Mostly middle class, not as expensive as BK, not dangerous but still urban.
that’s ridiculous. how many times can i say i truly really really like my neighborhood and feel like it’s the best most comfortable place i have EVER lived. people in park slope do NOT annoy me at all. also queen can be pretty expensive. the inexpensive areas of queens are seriously waaaaaay out and straight up hood in parts. plus i would never in a million f’ing years wanna commute on the 7 train. everyone i know who works in manhattan and commutes on that tells me how horrible it is.
i think my ideal neighborhood would be tribeca. (yes i just saw you say whaaaaaaa?)
Good advice from the anti-medication crowd. My point was only that if you remove the things that are most negative in your life and find yourself reacting just as negatively to newer pursuits that ought to have been more positive, then your problem could be clinical. Bit treat that as a last resort scenario.
We do overmedicate mood here, but that does not mean thre isn’t clinical depression. Lots of folks are taking meds just to cope with normal life, and that’s just silly. But if this is truly a clinical issue, the meds help you get to a place where you can resolve the underlying clinical issues. THe meds are a means to resolution, not the cure.
Also, I understand how one might find the yuppie mentalilty Rob disparages to be ridiculous, but I totally don’t see how it can ruin one’s whole experience of a city the size of NYC.
It seems inconsistent for so individual a person to be so affected by their perception of others’ views.
I also don’t get the necessity for Americans to medicate themselves everytime there is a life drama of some sort. In motherland, you just got a kick in the ass. Handle your pressures productively not destructively. Bunch of nonsense.
oops, dibs, I forgot the < than. I guess I owe you a drink.
biff, re anti-depressants, I think you should distinguish anti-depressants/SSRIs from some of the stuff that is prescribed with them, especially the benzodiazapenes like Klonopin, Valium, Xanax, and so on.
The latter are nasty addictive drugs extremely difficult to get off. The former, not so much.
Nevertheless, unless the issue is strictly a chemical imbalance, I agree that the underlying reason for the need of the drug must be attended to. When it is, then the drugs can be tapered of.
Of course this requires a commitment and a fair amount of money.
So, even though I’m still a little hung over… that meeting wasn’t so bad. I wasn’t asked to bless anything (I think they realized I didn’t care). And the meeting actually moved to a topic I *do* care about and we may have actually accomplished something…. maybe.
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Queens sounds like a good balance for Rob. Seriously. Mostly middle class, not as expensive as BK, not dangerous but still urban.
that’s ridiculous. how many times can i say i truly really really like my neighborhood and feel like it’s the best most comfortable place i have EVER lived. people in park slope do NOT annoy me at all. also queen can be pretty expensive. the inexpensive areas of queens are seriously waaaaaay out and straight up hood in parts. plus i would never in a million f’ing years wanna commute on the 7 train. everyone i know who works in manhattan and commutes on that tells me how horrible it is.
i think my ideal neighborhood would be tribeca. (yes i just saw you say whaaaaaaa?)
*rob*
rob,
Good advice from the anti-medication crowd. My point was only that if you remove the things that are most negative in your life and find yourself reacting just as negatively to newer pursuits that ought to have been more positive, then your problem could be clinical. Bit treat that as a last resort scenario.
We do overmedicate mood here, but that does not mean thre isn’t clinical depression. Lots of folks are taking meds just to cope with normal life, and that’s just silly. But if this is truly a clinical issue, the meds help you get to a place where you can resolve the underlying clinical issues. THe meds are a means to resolution, not the cure.
oops, layoffs…not payoffs. freudian perhaps.
tybur,
what is chatter where you work about the possible state shutdown earlier…and possible payoffs, retirements, etc?
Also, I understand how one might find the yuppie mentalilty Rob disparages to be ridiculous, but I totally don’t see how it can ruin one’s whole experience of a city the size of NYC.
It seems inconsistent for so individual a person to be so affected by their perception of others’ views.
I also don’t get the necessity for Americans to medicate themselves everytime there is a life drama of some sort. In motherland, you just got a kick in the ass. Handle your pressures productively not destructively. Bunch of nonsense.
oops, dibs, I forgot the < than. I guess I owe you a drink.
biff, re anti-depressants, I think you should distinguish anti-depressants/SSRIs from some of the stuff that is prescribed with them, especially the benzodiazapenes like Klonopin, Valium, Xanax, and so on.
The latter are nasty addictive drugs extremely difficult to get off. The former, not so much.
Nevertheless, unless the issue is strictly a chemical imbalance, I agree that the underlying reason for the need of the drug must be attended to. When it is, then the drugs can be tapered of.
Of course this requires a commitment and a fair amount of money.
So, even though I’m still a little hung over… that meeting wasn’t so bad. I wasn’t asked to bless anything (I think they realized I didn’t care). And the meeting actually moved to a topic I *do* care about and we may have actually accomplished something…. maybe.
thanks everyone. i hope jester is right. id rather try to look at it that way.
*rob*