1. Yup. Some sort of social anxiety

2. Yup, playing uncharted 4 at the moment

3. Nope

4. Living with the Mrs. and our 2 wonderful children. Well not really my Mrs. engaged for 4 years and prob wont ever get married cause the cost of health care sucks. And our “kids” are our 5 year old Chihuahua/shih-tsu, Cali and our 3 year old domestic house cat Camo. 

5. Biggest challenge in our life right now is finishing our house. In the process of doing a total restoration on a 110yr old house and it seems to be taking forever to get things exaxtly as we want them. We totally gut the house 4 years ago and our livingroom is finally finished, again. Everything is functional, just not “finished”.

Old Mr Dangerous said
If you’re also lucky enough to have this day off (or later on as days go by), then let’s do some of them there questions like we durn well used ta! 

 

1. Are you mentally ill? (Or, have you been diagnosed and disagree… been called a certain illness by someone else… Or do you think you are some sort of mentally ill… etc)

2. Do you game? (Board games, quest games, video games, mind games, sports games, etc? Why or why not?)

3. Military service? (Have you served, planned to serve, etc. Why or why not?)

4. Who do you live with? (With parents, room-mating with strangers, just you and 30 cats, spouse, etc? Why?)

5. What is your biggest challenge in life? Do you plan on vanquishing the challenge? Have you Already?

 

Smoke some sherm, drink your Faygo Brambleberry Tea, trim your toenails, whatever it is you do to ponder and type. Take your time.  

1. Undiagnosed..but of course.

2. I feel like i do, but i dont. Just dont have the time or like console or the homies.

3. No. But i would do great. 

4. My parents for now. God willing not for long. Greatful for a place to lay my head.

5. Revert to question one.

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Old Mr Dangerous said
If you’re also lucky enough to have this day off (or later on as days go by), then let’s do some of them there questions like we durn well used ta! 

 

1. Are you mentally ill? (Or, have you been diagnosed and disagree… been called a certain illness by someone else… Or do you think you are some sort of mentally ill… etc)

2. Do you game? (Board games, quest games, video games, mind games, sports games, etc? Why or why not?)

3. Military service? (Have you served, planned to serve, etc. Why or why not?)

4. Who do you live with? (With parents, room-mating with strangers, just you and 30 cats, spouse, etc? Why?)

5. What is your biggest challenge in life? Do you plan on vanquishing the challenge? Have you Already?

1. Yes. Schizo

2. Yes.

3. No. Don’t care.

4. Nobody

5. Finding a significant other that clicks with my personality.  Yes. No.

 1. Are you mentally ill? (Or, have you been diagnosed and disagree… been called a certain illness by someone else… Or do you think you are some sort of mentally ill… etc)

Nope. I was shy when I was younger, but I basically punched it in the face. I FORCE myself to be outgoing.

2. Do you game? (Board games, quest games, video games, mind games, sports games, etc? Why or why not?)

Pretty frequently, Mostly phone apps “Love Nikki”, Bingo, Slots…. I have a couple of vintage consoles I play sporatically- Super Nintendo, PS2…I have a PS somewhere as well. Hubby just recently bought me an Xbox One- CoD bundle. I’ll be blastin nuggets off all day! whoop whoop!

3. Military service? (Have you served, planned to serve, etc. Why or why not?)

I wish I had. There’s history in my family. Great grandpa was a “sharp shooter” in WWI, fought in the battle of Argonne, Grandpa served stateside as MP in the Marine Corps- funny story, he was only 14 when the US joined WWII- so he ran away from home to join the army. His parents found him in Texas and dragged his ass back home. When he was old enough he finally joined the Marines. My dad enlisted for the Marines to go fight in Vientnam, his number was called up anyways, so better to sign up than get dragged into it. Unfortunately he was rejected- he said flat feet, but I think it was b/c of his birth defect w/ his pancreas.

My husband’s grandfather served in WWII- part of the 2nd Infantry, he was 30 when he enlisted! The company called him “old man”. He carried a bazooka, lost his best friend on the beach in Normandy, and evaded capture by the Nazis- TWICE! Once by jumping off a bridge, and another time by leading them into an ambush. The man gave no shits. I think he was a bootlegger during the great depression.

4. Who do you live with? (With parents, room-mating with strangers, just you and 30 cats, spouse, etc? Why?)

Hubby, “Common law”, basically fuck the system! I was married and divorced once before, and that little piece of paper is an expensive scam! We have 2 cats: Elvis and Priscilla. Unfortunately we can’t have babies :'(

5. What is your biggest challenge in life? Do you plan on vanquishing the challenge? Have you Already?

Right now my biggest challenge is losing weight. I was appx 250 a couple of years ago, lost 40lbs, gained back some, now losing it again. Really working on counting calories- using an app to help, lost about 15 so far been using it for a month straight. Being obese is like wearing a heavy straight jacket. I can’t deal with it anymore!

Old Mr Dangerous said

I was pretty clear and open-ended in the parentheses… You can discuss it any way you wish, and you did well. I also agree with the irritation of someone saying “I’m so OCD today!” when they aren’t, ever. In my experience, j could easily claim “depression” due to my choice to drink lots of beers when I drink on my nights off, or social anxiety disorder when I had to deliver speeches in front of crowds in college. But I don’t, because those are situational stimuli localised to a particular time and place. I’m actually quite elated and optimistic most of the time, so I could never lie and say I’m depressed chronically. .. I wasn’t fully honest though, as I have residual loop memories at night attributed to traumatic events. So I can claim PTSD, easily. I have had night terrors and insomnia due to these loop memories. I sleep with a bipap machine for my sleep apnea now, and that has helped ease me into a healthier sleep pattern. Cannabis helps block some REM dream cycles as well.

It is definitely weird moving back in with parents. After I left the south to live back in NY, I ended up sleeping in my in-laws basement for like 4 years. What a waste of time.  

I don’t consider my manic depression or bipolar disorder to be too serious, but I have had plenty of people speculate that I’m schizophrenic and a lot that say I need professional help. I don’t think I have schizophrenia though because other than thinking I was the devil on ecstasy once, I’ve never hallucinated or heard other voices in my head or anything like that. I do wonder if I have P.T.S.D. though. I hope not, that shit sounds expensive. But it would make much more sense than being Skitso. I used to have really bad anxiety, used to bite my nails, pull out eyelashes, shit like that, but I got over it somehow. For the most part. There’s a lot of anger and distrust. I don’t know, they all could be right and something could be wrong with my head or maybe I’m just angry and immature. Who cares. It’s best to just not worry about things and do a bunch of cool fun shit all the time.

King Lucem Ferre said

I don’t consider my manic depression or bipolar disorder to be too serious, but I have had plenty of people speculate that I’m schizophrenic and a lot that say I need professional help. I don’t think I have schizophrenia though because other than thinking I was the devil on ecstasy once, I’ve never hallucinated or heard other voices in my head or anything like that. I do wonder if I have P.T.S.D. though. I hope not, that shit sounds expensive. But it would make much more sense than being Skitso. I used to have really bad anxiety, used to bite my nails, pull out eyelashes, shit like that, but I got over it somehow. For the most part. There’s a lot of anger and distrust. I don’t know, they all could be right and something could be wrong with my head or maybe I’m just angry and immature. Who cares. It’s best to just not worry about things and do a bunch of cool fun shit all the time.  

I don’t think you have schizophrenia, just in your writing alone it’s obvious you don’t. Often those who suffer from the disorder will respond in what’s called a “word salad” where basically they say or write things that don’t make a lot of sense. There’s also a paranoia and obsessive component of schizophrenia. What causes all this is literal brain damage- people suffering from schizophrenia have damaged areas of the brain (either caused by birth defect, malformation, or injury). I studied psychology in college and did my practicum at a halfway house. One of the consumers actually said to me “If I wasn’t kidnapped by aliens, then how do I know so much?” And he was schizophrenic, on his meds, and considered functional enough to be at a halfway house.

Yeah, there was this youtube channel I used to check out damn, I wish I could remember the name, anyboobs, the girl obviously suffered from schizophrenia and her delusion was that “the conglomerate” was out to harass her. At first blush it seemed like some sjw nonsense (ranting about construction workers and “muh patriarchy”) but as she got worked up, the word salads would come out. Like clearly the words were actual words, but it made no sense.

An example would be “I bought a 25 Sunday tomorrow 15 is the problem. DO YOU KNOW ME?! Maybe I SHOULD sail a ship, I mean, it IS all in the newspaper forward turkey tomorrow 12.”