I would add that treatment for Bipolar Disorder of either variety is more than initially seeking help--it's a commitment to staying helped. I have BP-I, diagnosed many years ago and well-treated since then. I have a great psychiatrist, and was lucky enough to have hit upon a mix of drugs without too much trial and error that work for me and keep me pretty stable without too many side effects. Given the crapshoot that is psychiatric pharmacology, I've had a really good outcome.
But, having tasted the highs, it's hard to live knowing that the well is capped. Looking back to the time before I was treated, I can see where I was in manic episodes, and I know that there are things I was able to achieve that would not have been possible without the intense focus, energy, optimism, and creativity that come with that. Everything is shinier and better and wonderful. It's pretty fabulous. On the other hand, bad decisions become *good* decisions, and are magically totally justifiable. But it will be over at some point, and I want to have a marriage, a house, a job, and a credit rating to come back to. So I take my pills and see my shrink. Many people can't resist, or don't have the resources to get good care and management. It's a commitment, and does require some degree of discipline. Am I just happy? Or am I *too* happy? Am I sad? Tough shit, I have to get out of bed and at least go through the motions of being human, or I become my diagnosis.
TL;DR: Pills aren't a magic cure. Not for Bipolar Disorder, not for "regular" depression. Pills need to go hand-in-hand with good care and yes, self-discipline. Unfortunately, if you're stuck somewhere in the highs or in the lows, the last two can be hard to come by.
The Deluxe version of Xandros comes with this program, which runs most Windows software we've been able to throw at it (MS Office, Photoshop, etc). I'm shocked that this article overlooked this feature, which would arguably be a huge boon to Windows users looking to switch to Linux. Of course, maybe his editors would only pay for Standard, so maybe he never saw it.
Four online games at a time, eh? Not much of an online gamer, are you?
I've got time for ONE online game, the infamous EverCrack. If I didn't have a mortgage (and hence, a job), I might be able to do another similar game. But 4? I would have to have a clone living in a parallel universe to be able to invest that kind of time to 'stick' with 4 online games (as opposed to just trying them out)--and insane to WANT to.
Before throwing out numbers, kindly think of something to back them up.
Yes, exactly. I live in a suburb just north of Austin, where Cox is the cable provider. They run the same BS ads about how your satellite will go out if your neighbour's kid is jumping on his trampoline.
We switched to Dish Network just before Christmas last year, and have been very happy. We got the Dish DVR, and we LOVE it. I notice artifacting when watching football games, but at no other times. Reception is great, and the price is definitely right--less than half what we used to pay for Cox, with more channels.
And our cable would go out when it rained really hard anyway. >.
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I would add that treatment for Bipolar Disorder of either variety is more than initially seeking help--it's a commitment to staying helped. I have BP-I, diagnosed many years ago and well-treated since then. I have a great psychiatrist, and was lucky enough to have hit upon a mix of drugs without too much trial and error that work for me and keep me pretty stable without too many side effects. Given the crapshoot that is psychiatric pharmacology, I've had a really good outcome.
But, having tasted the highs, it's hard to live knowing that the well is capped. Looking back to the time before I was treated, I can see where I was in manic episodes, and I know that there are things I was able to achieve that would not have been possible without the intense focus, energy, optimism, and creativity that come with that. Everything is shinier and better and wonderful. It's pretty fabulous. On the other hand, bad decisions become *good* decisions, and are magically totally justifiable. But it will be over at some point, and I want to have a marriage, a house, a job, and a credit rating to come back to. So I take my pills and see my shrink. Many people can't resist, or don't have the resources to get good care and management. It's a commitment, and does require some degree of discipline. Am I just happy? Or am I *too* happy? Am I sad? Tough shit, I have to get out of bed and at least go through the motions of being human, or I become my diagnosis.
TL;DR: Pills aren't a magic cure. Not for Bipolar Disorder, not for "regular" depression. Pills need to go hand-in-hand with good care and yes, self-discipline. Unfortunately, if you're stuck somewhere in the highs or in the lows, the last two can be hard to come by.
2+2 != 5, but RTFA + mapquest > "simple logic".
The Deluxe version of Xandros comes with this program, which runs most Windows software we've been able to throw at it (MS Office, Photoshop, etc). I'm shocked that this article overlooked this feature, which would arguably be a huge boon to Windows users looking to switch to Linux. Of course, maybe his editors would only pay for Standard, so maybe he never saw it.
Four online games at a time, eh? Not much of an online gamer, are you? I've got time for ONE online game, the infamous EverCrack. If I didn't have a mortgage (and hence, a job), I might be able to do another similar game. But 4? I would have to have a clone living in a parallel universe to be able to invest that kind of time to 'stick' with 4 online games (as opposed to just trying them out)--and insane to WANT to. Before throwing out numbers, kindly think of something to back them up.
Yes, exactly. I live in a suburb just north of Austin, where Cox is the cable provider. They run the same BS ads about how your satellite will go out if your neighbour's kid is jumping on his trampoline. We switched to Dish Network just before Christmas last year, and have been very happy. We got the Dish DVR, and we LOVE it. I notice artifacting when watching football games, but at no other times. Reception is great, and the price is definitely right--less than half what we used to pay for Cox, with more channels. And our cable would go out when it rained really hard anyway. >.
We do this, too. Only WalMart seems to have stopped carrying the Plano Stowaway line that we like, so we get them at Academy instead.