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6871
« on: August 02, 2015, 06:13:36 AM »
Youtube has enough of these mouth-breathers clogging it up with their shallnotbeinfringed™ bollocks, I'm glad that we now have some rekt do go with it.
AM I BEING DETAINED™*
I DO NOT CONSENT
6872
« on: August 02, 2015, 04:56:44 AM »
Depends what I'm reading, a fiction novel for funsies I'll hear the characters voice read their bits and a generic one do the narrating but for reading messages, articles, textbooks and the like I'll just scan the page for the information and that's it.
I prefer the subvocalised stuff because it's a bit more relaxing, whereas the other feels more like a computer ripping information from something as fast as possible.
6873
« on: August 02, 2015, 03:04:28 AM »
Eh, I really need them to do something new. Open world console game or something.
Sure, let's just add every region and the ability to play as a bad guy too.
haven't they explained why they won't/can't have every region? i SWEAR it was something like that
nintendo condoning bad behavior? lol i wish
The thing I remember was that it was to do with level scaling and how it would be pretty difficult to maintain a sense of progression if each region was to have baby pokemon up to legendary pokemon because after you've finished walking Kanto or Johto, you'd have some stupidly strong pokemon and just breeze through all of the other regions. I think that was their point anyway, I could be wrong >_>
6874
« on: August 02, 2015, 02:58:42 AM »
Reported
6875
« on: August 02, 2015, 02:55:50 AM »
Youtube has enough of these mouth-breathers clogging it up with their shallnotbeinfringed™ bollocks, I'm glad that we now have some rekt do go with it.
6876
« on: August 01, 2015, 04:12:53 PM »
I really wish I hadn't played Pokemon X for 500 hours before playing OR, it just... eh.
The games are too similar to be as enjoyable as it should have been.
That they are gonna do another Gen 6 game rather than make something new is... not very appealing news.
6877
« on: August 01, 2015, 10:47:32 AM »
Ah good, well I'm glad it worked out like that because I imagine finding out that someone who you trusted with information like that being found to have shared it could have damaged said trust quite badly.
It's good that this is how things are tending to go now though, it's unbelievably stupid that there are families out there who would cast out one of their own over something so petty.
6878
« on: August 01, 2015, 10:30:14 AM »
What kind of person actually has a "kill list"? That ain't normal yo'
I know! It's like Prime Suspect: How to basic You gotta keep these things spontaneous.
6879
« on: August 01, 2015, 10:24:53 AM »
I really wonder, who is this dedicated viewer that we got?
Dedicated viewer?
6880
« on: August 01, 2015, 10:24:22 AM »
Blegh, sorry doubt I'll make it today. Hmm, there is a 12am one tonight on BF4 right? (bongtime)
Das right.
Ah good, I should be around to play for a short bit then.
6881
« on: August 01, 2015, 10:08:50 AM »
Blegh, sorry doubt I'll make it today. Hmm, there is a 12am one tonight on BF4 right? (bongtime)
6882
« on: August 01, 2015, 09:23:03 AM »
Yay no more retarded indie games nobody gives a fuck about
Unless they just give everyone three indieshits to vote between in which case it'd be just like the steam community voting when it's sale-time.
6883
« on: August 01, 2015, 09:21:01 AM »
I shall try and drop in for the BF4 session, but it might end up being a bit tricky because of the shit I need to get done today <.<
I'll post ITT if I can make it or not
6884
« on: August 01, 2015, 09:19:23 AM »
How about the fact that it's the equivalent of smashing rocks together to make fire rather than using a box of matches or a lighter?
We will breed the Ubermenschen!
...by rolling nature's dice until we get a bunch of highly inbred blondeyblues.
Nowadays we can just do things like selecting an embryo that isn't going to be born with a horrible disease and promptly die, I imagine when the public gets their knickers out of a twist we'll be able to start splicing genes into human embryos rather than just firing gametes together until something desirable sticks.
Eugenics is the primitive forefather to genetic engineering, so whilst muh feels applies to the luddites who think that the apocalypse will be unleashed when we make glow in the dark humanoids for eugenics it's just because it's outdated.
6885
« on: July 31, 2015, 08:34:03 PM »
>tfw 2:12
>tfw 02:34 >tfw ran out of sleeping tablets yesterday >tfw it's gonna be a long night ;_;
6886
« on: July 31, 2015, 06:17:38 PM »
Women are dumb and have no right to be in the workplace.
6887
« on: July 31, 2015, 11:46:49 AM »
I don't think anyone argues that
I just find it funny Tali falls off a cliff and kills herself. What a decent character turned fuck awful through the course of the series.
that only happens if you make the wrong choices
Or intentionally wipe out a race of meatbags to make the universe a better place for the superior forms of life <_<
6888
« on: July 31, 2015, 11:42:24 AM »
Nope. Women can't orgasm from rape. They also can't get pregnant because the body has defense mechanisms against unwanted sex.
Oh really? Please tell me how to use my body in such a way.
He's parodying some yank politician who said that, I can't remember who though given how half of them say something mind-numbingly stupid on a weekly basis.
6889
« on: July 31, 2015, 08:58:13 AM »
The 4pm BF4 one tomorrow I should be able to make, I think I've already got you added so I'll turn up around then and jihadifield 4 it up.
6890
« on: July 31, 2015, 08:54:36 AM »
Mine was pretty shit but I updated it to be something absolutely stupid that requires me to read it off a piece of paper
See **********************
6891
« on: July 30, 2015, 08:53:19 PM »
lol, I have two more months until university starts up again.
When it does, it's gonna be Psych Module 2, Counselling Module 1 and Science of Mental Healthcare Module 1. Should be slightly more interesting than previous years at least.
6892
« on: July 30, 2015, 07:11:40 PM »
Wait, is this related to 40k?
No
This is Warhammer Fantasy
40k is the sci-fi branch. And if it WAS 40k, you'd know they'd be showing off Space Marines and Chaos.
Uhuh, i thought this was like warhammer 40k - 40k
This is 40k's Older Brother, I'm not a big fantasy fan but I still enjoy Warhammer's setting enough to keep half an eye on it. If this was a 40k Total War game I'd have been screaming incoherently with joy for about the last 3 months solid <_<
6893
« on: July 30, 2015, 03:56:59 PM »
>Release date 2016
Thank the Emperor ;-; I have enough time to get lodsemoneh to buy a PC by then <_<
6894
« on: July 30, 2015, 02:31:17 PM »
Are they still randomly banning people for modding?
You won't get banned for SP mods
Oh good
6895
« on: July 30, 2015, 02:07:44 PM »
I hate you all, ruining tom and jerry like this.
6896
« on: July 30, 2015, 02:05:20 PM »
Are they still randomly banning people for modding?
6897
« on: July 30, 2015, 01:01:08 PM »
God dammit I'm gonna need a better PC ;-;
6898
« on: July 30, 2015, 10:46:47 AM »
No offense but there's a lot of cringe in this thread. Some of yall need to just get off the internet and reevaluate how you live your lives. Or work on self esteem.
Wow! It's like after reading this post, all of my problems just seem so small and insignificant! Thanks, Lord Starch! You know, you should tell this to everyone with depression! "Reevaluate how you live your life" and "Work on self-esteem!"
No, really, that's absolutely beautiful. Put that shit on a fucking T-shirt.
"Reevaluate how you live your life"
- Lord Starch
Maybe put them on some offshoot of the Livestrong bracelets. That'll sell millions!
"Work on self-esteem"
- Lord Starch
If I'da known it was all that simple, I woulda stopped being depressed YEARS ago! You're going places, man. You're gonna be the next Dr. Phil. I mean, everything you said--it's all so nuanced, so erudite, so considerate of the complexity of the issue, but most of all, it's... Fucking retarded. I mean, wow.
It's this sort of glib, vapid ignorance that only makes me hate people even more--Self-esteem is probably the last thing I need to "work on". Whatever the fucking fuck that even means. "Work on self-esteem"? Please, describe to me in your own words what you THINK that means. It'll be hilarious.
Needless to say, your post lacks the substance, sophistication, and tact required to tackle such an issue.
This is the exact type of mongoloid idiocy that I was trying to preempt.
What are you accomplishing by posting this utter shit here? Wait, don't answer that--I already know.
Never post on this board again.
This reaction is reason you stay depressed. Your outlook on life and your fellow man is atrocious. All I'm saying is that maybe instead of being an online pessimist, you should change up and analyze how you live your life. But eh, I was just throwing in my two cents. I don't care what you do.
Can we seriously not turn this fucking thread into a garbage pile.
Not my fault he overreacted to a simple comment.
Actually yeah, it is. If you had a better grasp on the subject at hand that you'd understand that this shit isn't just an off switch. Depression doesn't give a fuck about how happy or well off you are.
It's neural fuckery at its finest and it doesn't give a shit about any walls you put up to stop it. You could be the king of the world and be depressed as shit. You could be well off and be depressed as shit.
And you might even tell yourself things, try to make yourself realize that you're actually okay but it gets reflected and turned back on you in a negative way by your own twisted and warped thoughts. Do you understand that? Here, let me give you an example.
Let's say, somebody who's depressed realizes it. And they start trying to shift their thoughts to better areas. Looking at their life and realizing that, hey, they're pretty well off. You'd think that would work right?
No.
Because then, the person gets down about realizing that they're being stupid about things and that they're being ungrateful for what they have, and you start right back off at square one.
I even wrote you a post explaining that all things considered, I know that I'm well off. But yet I'm still in this shithole of a state no matter how much I try to beat it.
That's what you don't get. This shit isn't just a fucking off switch. It's a slow burn that hides around every fucking corner of your head and waits to come out and twist things against you, and when you think you've beaten it, boom, it comes crawling back out of the dark corners of your head and pushes you right back down into the mud as easily as the first time.
Do you understand me?
I get you. I already knew coming in that there isn't an off switch and its relatively complicated to fix. From what little I've read about it, they say you have to change aspect of your everyday life and focus on introspection. Quite frankly I probably won't ever get it in the sense that you do since I haven't experienced depression, but I suppose I'll make an effort to understand it more than I do now. The symptoms have been explained, but what about the solutions?
You know what? I don't even fucking know anymore. Depression at its core is a chemical inbalance which can be partially countered with its opposite chemicals. Basically, by being happy.
Growth, new experiences and lots of mental activity and stimulous that makes a person happy is always the soundest bet. But that's why I made this thread. I feel like I've hit the wall here. I've defined myself as a person, I've grown and changed, I've learned to do stuff that I enjoy, and I've learned about what makes me happy and satisfied.
And here I am. What the fuck am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to do things like that when I've already established a strong base to work off of? It depends on the depression. Some people have temporary downs which can be climbed out of.
Mine is fucking chronic. It'll always be there.
You know, I planned to head to Barnes and Noble to day for a poetry book, but I think I'll pick up a book on depression as well, as I'm now genuinely curuious about it. So we've established that it's a chemical imbalance that, from what I'm seeing, cannot be counteracted by conciously trying to be happy through introspective analysis or engaging in things that make you happy. Do you think antidepressants are the best solution to this problem? I was always skeptical about them since I assumed one would become dependant on them, but seeing as how it's more physiological than mental, I assume it's the most practical route. I've heard that people could improve by seeking consistent therapy as well.
I hope depression wont always be there for you though.
Anti-depressents aren't even a real solution. It's the opposite really. Yo don't become dependant on anti-depressents. Your brain rejects them.
They're a trick to your brain. Essentially, what they do is, trick your brain into thinking that it has what it needs in terms of a normal healthy chemical balance. And this, naturally, only works for so long. Eventually your brain adapts to the dosage and so over time, the dosage needs to be raised.
It's basically, a money racket. It doesn't fix things. And I can't even consider it because I've conversed with all my various docs and they all agree that with the amount of chemicals I'm taking right now, in the form of meds for chemo, already make me unstable. Throwing more pills on top of things has the potential to seriously fuck me up if it already hasn't.
Ehh, I get that they are pretty unpopular and psychiatric medication is treated like rat poison in terms of opinion but the more advanced and refined medications are a lot more effective/less shitty than people tend to expect.
It does depend on the patient but say you take the generic client with MDD, suicidal ideation and constantly depressed mood. They can't go to work and all they are able to do is lie on the floor/sofa and waste the day away.
Chances are CBT alone won't break the cycle, you need the big guns to get them off the floor then the other treatments have a chance of working. You tell a man who is currently weighing up Bridge or Train that it's an issue with the way he is thinking about his problems and chances are that's going to be as useful as some of the quotes in this venerable comic now obviously a trained psych isn't going to be that blunt but from my experience it might as well be.
The combined approach of temporary medication coupled with regular therapy seems to be (and has been) the most effective approach in my opinion.
When you say they trick the brain, that's not technically true. Take SSRIs for example, the nice simple one, say the patient has low levels of serotonin floating around, this can be in part dealt with by making more of the serotonin available - you do this by binding the SSRI to the nerve cells in place of the serotonin which would normally be reabsorbed and 'destroyed' by the nerve cells. You have more serotonin available as a result and this improves the mood of the patient. I'll just quote this bit from the NHS's website
It would be too simplistic to say that depression and related mental health conditions are caused by low serotonin levels, but a rise in serotonin levels can improve symptoms and make people more responsive to other types of treatment, such as CBT.
That'd be why you get put on them, to make the therapy more effective/responsive and to give the initial uplift to start the slog uphill.
Got a nice diagram here for anyone who can stomach biochemistry <.<  This is for an NaSSA drug as opposed to SSRI but it's somewhat the same. The yellow bars (drug) cockblock the green and blue maws that would otherwise eat up all the nice little neurotransmitters (green/blue space invaders) thus having the desired effect of increasing availability of the two
So perhaps you can describe it as a trick, but it's a relatively simple mechanism to increase the amount of NT in your system.
As for the money racket, eh I can't say I disagree but I wouldn't dismiss it outright. I find it disgusting that there are people who profit from maintaining sickness rather than curing it, but the degenerates aside the medication does help people and when they reach a point in their life where they are stable enough to come off it then the treatment is complete.
Sadly in your case, as your doctors have rightfully pointed out the chemo cocktail would not be complemented by a dose of SSRI/NaSSA/Tricyclics without some pretty catastrophic side-effects which is unfortunate but the way things go, I'd hope they could at least provide some form of psychological therapy but I imagine the backwoods of canada aren't populated with too many professional shrinks :l
Unfortunately, no. Even in the more populated areas of my province we just don't have a big number of medical proffessionals in regards to psychology things of that caliber. We're a bit notorious for it actually. To give you an example. My province is shaped basically like a big rectangle.
You know how many psychiatrists manage the top northern half?
1.
One person. I've read about her before. She makes house calls to all the really remote settlements up north where there are no roads via plane. I think we've got a bit more psychologists in the province though. Bit easier to find than a psychiatrist.
Jesus, and I thought the NHS was understaffed...
6899
« on: July 30, 2015, 08:57:22 AM »
No offense but there's a lot of cringe in this thread. Some of yall need to just get off the internet and reevaluate how you live your lives. Or work on self esteem.
Wow! It's like after reading this post, all of my problems just seem so small and insignificant! Thanks, Lord Starch! You know, you should tell this to everyone with depression! "Reevaluate how you live your life" and "Work on self-esteem!"
No, really, that's absolutely beautiful. Put that shit on a fucking T-shirt.
"Reevaluate how you live your life"
- Lord Starch
Maybe put them on some offshoot of the Livestrong bracelets. That'll sell millions!
"Work on self-esteem"
- Lord Starch
If I'da known it was all that simple, I woulda stopped being depressed YEARS ago! You're going places, man. You're gonna be the next Dr. Phil. I mean, everything you said--it's all so nuanced, so erudite, so considerate of the complexity of the issue, but most of all, it's... Fucking retarded. I mean, wow.
It's this sort of glib, vapid ignorance that only makes me hate people even more--Self-esteem is probably the last thing I need to "work on". Whatever the fucking fuck that even means. "Work on self-esteem"? Please, describe to me in your own words what you THINK that means. It'll be hilarious.
Needless to say, your post lacks the substance, sophistication, and tact required to tackle such an issue.
This is the exact type of mongoloid idiocy that I was trying to preempt.
What are you accomplishing by posting this utter shit here? Wait, don't answer that--I already know.
Never post on this board again.
This reaction is reason you stay depressed. Your outlook on life and your fellow man is atrocious. All I'm saying is that maybe instead of being an online pessimist, you should change up and analyze how you live your life. But eh, I was just throwing in my two cents. I don't care what you do.
Can we seriously not turn this fucking thread into a garbage pile.
Not my fault he overreacted to a simple comment.
Actually yeah, it is. If you had a better grasp on the subject at hand that you'd understand that this shit isn't just an off switch. Depression doesn't give a fuck about how happy or well off you are.
It's neural fuckery at its finest and it doesn't give a shit about any walls you put up to stop it. You could be the king of the world and be depressed as shit. You could be well off and be depressed as shit.
And you might even tell yourself things, try to make yourself realize that you're actually okay but it gets reflected and turned back on you in a negative way by your own twisted and warped thoughts. Do you understand that? Here, let me give you an example.
Let's say, somebody who's depressed realizes it. And they start trying to shift their thoughts to better areas. Looking at their life and realizing that, hey, they're pretty well off. You'd think that would work right?
No.
Because then, the person gets down about realizing that they're being stupid about things and that they're being ungrateful for what they have, and you start right back off at square one.
I even wrote you a post explaining that all things considered, I know that I'm well off. But yet I'm still in this shithole of a state no matter how much I try to beat it.
That's what you don't get. This shit isn't just a fucking off switch. It's a slow burn that hides around every fucking corner of your head and waits to come out and twist things against you, and when you think you've beaten it, boom, it comes crawling back out of the dark corners of your head and pushes you right back down into the mud as easily as the first time.
Do you understand me?
I get you. I already knew coming in that there isn't an off switch and its relatively complicated to fix. From what little I've read about it, they say you have to change aspect of your everyday life and focus on introspection. Quite frankly I probably won't ever get it in the sense that you do since I haven't experienced depression, but I suppose I'll make an effort to understand it more than I do now. The symptoms have been explained, but what about the solutions?
You know what? I don't even fucking know anymore. Depression at its core is a chemical inbalance which can be partially countered with its opposite chemicals. Basically, by being happy.
Growth, new experiences and lots of mental activity and stimulous that makes a person happy is always the soundest bet. But that's why I made this thread. I feel like I've hit the wall here. I've defined myself as a person, I've grown and changed, I've learned to do stuff that I enjoy, and I've learned about what makes me happy and satisfied.
And here I am. What the fuck am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to do things like that when I've already established a strong base to work off of? It depends on the depression. Some people have temporary downs which can be climbed out of.
Mine is fucking chronic. It'll always be there.
You know, I planned to head to Barnes and Noble to day for a poetry book, but I think I'll pick up a book on depression as well, as I'm now genuinely curuious about it. So we've established that it's a chemical imbalance that, from what I'm seeing, cannot be counteracted by conciously trying to be happy through introspective analysis or engaging in things that make you happy. Do you think antidepressants are the best solution to this problem? I was always skeptical about them since I assumed one would become dependant on them, but seeing as how it's more physiological than mental, I assume it's the most practical route. I've heard that people could improve by seeking consistent therapy as well.
I hope depression wont always be there for you though.
Anti-depressents aren't even a real solution. It's the opposite really. Yo don't become dependant on anti-depressents. Your brain rejects them.
They're a trick to your brain. Essentially, what they do is, trick your brain into thinking that it has what it needs in terms of a normal healthy chemical balance. And this, naturally, only works for so long. Eventually your brain adapts to the dosage and so over time, the dosage needs to be raised.
It's basically, a money racket. It doesn't fix things. And I can't even consider it because I've conversed with all my various docs and they all agree that with the amount of chemicals I'm taking right now, in the form of meds for chemo, already make me unstable. Throwing more pills on top of things has the potential to seriously fuck me up if it already hasn't.
Ehh, I get that they are pretty unpopular and psychiatric medication is treated like rat poison in terms of opinion but the more advanced and refined medications are a lot more effective/less shitty than people tend to expect. It does depend on the patient but say you take the generic client with MDD, suicidal ideation and constantly depressed mood. They can't go to work and all they are able to do is lie on the floor/sofa and waste the day away. Chances are CBT alone won't break the cycle, you need the big guns to get them off the floor then the other treatments have a chance of working. You tell a man who is currently weighing up Bridge or Train that it's an issue with the way he is thinking about his problems and chances are that's going to be as useful as some of the quotes in this venerable comic now obviously a trained psych isn't going to be that blunt but from my experience it might as well be. The combined approach of temporary medication coupled with regular therapy seems to be (and has been) the most effective approach in my opinion. When you say they trick the brain, that's not technically true. Take SSRIs for example, the nice simple one, say the patient has low levels of serotonin floating around, this can be in part dealt with by making more of the serotonin available - you do this by binding the SSRI to the nerve cells in place of the serotonin which would normally be reabsorbed and 'destroyed' by the nerve cells. You have more serotonin available as a result and this improves the mood of the patient. I'll just quote this bit from the NHS's website It would be too simplistic to say that depression and related mental health conditions are caused by low serotonin levels, but a rise in serotonin levels can improve symptoms and make people more responsive to other types of treatment, such as CBT. That'd be why you get put on them, to make the therapy more effective/responsive and to give the initial uplift to start the slog uphill. Got a nice diagram here for anyone who can stomach biochemistry <.< This is for an NaSSA drug as opposed to SSRI but it's somewhat the same. The yellow bars (drug) cockblock the green and blue maws that would otherwise eat up all the nice little neurotransmitters (green/blue space invaders) thus having the desired effect of increasing availability of the two So perhaps you can describe it as a trick, but it's a relatively simple mechanism to increase the amount of NT in your system. As for the money racket, eh I can't say I disagree but I wouldn't dismiss it outright. I find it disgusting that there are people who profit from maintaining sickness rather than curing it, but the degenerates aside the medication does help people and when they reach a point in their life where they are stable enough to come off it then the treatment is complete. Sadly in your case, as your doctors have rightfully pointed out the chemo cocktail would not be complemented by a dose of SSRI/NaSSA/Tricyclics without some pretty catastrophic side-effects which is unfortunate but the way things go, I'd hope they could at least provide some form of psychological therapy but I imagine the backwoods of canada aren't populated with too many professional shrinks :l
6900
« on: July 30, 2015, 08:36:52 AM »
I do wonder if I have PTSD though to be serious.
I know there was a LOOOOL response but for another serious reply because reasons and all that. Obviously I don't know what might be the cause or if you are inclined to discuss the symptoms and all that, but what I can say is that it doesn't have to be seeing your whole family/squad/village get gunned down infront of you to cause PTSD it can be relatively inane circumstances (by comparison). The psych who was treating me for it explained it to the effect of when there is a traumatic experience, there are a couple of ways the memory can be handled within the mind/brain. One that involves a massive biological effect can rewire parts of the brain (Adrenaline surges reshaping the mapping via neuroplasticity iirc) which is why you get the old soldier who cannot switch off and is always jumping at shadows. Then you have a more cognitive based one (Although I imagine the two are linked) in which the painful memory/experience can be stored in the mind incorrectly so that the emotional/triggered sections flare up easily (So flashbacks, hallucinations, paranoia and other assorted psychoses) which can be solved by EMDR. EMDR is in a nutshell, reliving the experience whilst the shrink waves a pen/pencil/stick infront of your eyes that you have to track whilst going back over what happened and it helps to recode the memory into one that has the same active effect on you as any other normal memory. Case in point would be how I was flinching/spacing out whenever there was a 'thunk' noise, coupled with an echoing shriek/squeal I could constantly hear. After they sorted that out, the memory is painful and certainly fucked me up, but I can function normally now <.< So that's a bit of a ramble but chances are if this checklist/self eval form points towards it, it might be worth speaking to a GP/Doctor about what they recommend. Unless you are able to function fine as it is, in which case it might not be necessary to be treated for it given that the treatment simply involves getting you to the point where you can function adequately again <.< (The form is one I found on a yank website, civilian version as opposed to veterans edition and it's about the same as the NHS one I saw a few years back) Anyhoo, if this is at all helpful then great if it's just Deez Nuts then ya gotem <_<
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