I didn't make it out skating tonight. I'm sore all over (??) and achy, so I stayed in and made a nice Spanish omelette. Which is not an omelette with tomatoes or anything like that. A traditional tortilla española is an omelette with potatoes, onion and a little bit of garlic, cooked in an omelette pan into a pie-shaped concoction with is then cooled and cut in wedges. Oh, and add a little parsely. Yum.
Today I saw my shrink. Who loaded me down with Lunesta and Zoloft samples so I wouldn't have to pay. Who told me not to worry about the bill for now ("My kids are out of college," he said). Who told me I'm "damn impressive" and "doing marvellously" all things considered. Nonethless, he told me to come back in a month ("there's a crash coming" -- like I didn't know that).
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8 comments:
Only "damn impressive"? Understatement or what not... But if he predicts a crash, then forewarned is forearmed. May be his way of making sure there's no crash.
Must investigate the Spanish omelette.. will be alone at home this weekend. Na, son will be there, but having a fifteen year old around's as good as being alone. So Spanish omelette it will be.
(Word verification is bfwbkdoc. A comment on your doc?!!!)
I'm a fan of Ambien myself. I bite them into thirds on an average night, half if it's been a bad day. Delicious.
I found that Zoloft left me a bit of a zombie and completely without a libido. Lexapro has been my ssri of choice for the last few years. I'll be interested in hearing how you like the Zoloft.
That's a therapist who really does what he does for the love of the job and genuinely cares for his patients. He's damn impressive too. That you are damn impressive is a given.
Zoloft worked for me...I just gained weight on it. I was on it a year, and at first I thought it killed my sex drive because I'd look at my ex and have 0% desire for sex with him. Then as the zoloft made me feel more together and aware, I realized that my sex drive wasn't dead. It was just him. Hah!
Wish I'd had a shrink like that. Mine cost me a fortune!
bfwbkdoc: stands for(so there's a crash coming is there) Bloody Fucking Wanker (then the doc gives the freebie stuff) Big Kiss Doc!
Zoloft made me really fat. I took it for post partum issues and gained 35 lbs. on top of baby weight. It also made me like a 3rd party disinterested viewer of my own life...really weird. Welbutrin was better.
Good luck with all of the above!!
I kind of like french fries.... Preferrably crinkles. but the only place i can get them is at sonny's barbeque. and every time i'm there i'm obliegated to get the all you can eat barbeque whatever.... dayum it's good!!!!
I also dark organic chocolate. that makes me feel like living again.
sex also works but you cant really depend on having it at the right time can you?
De-ID: Well, I'm just holding it together, not saving the world or anything else I might want to be able to to. Do investigate the tortilla. It's good. Cook it0 in olive oil. Fry up the potatoes, onions, and garlic in olive oil too (first). It's yummy. Real comfort food.
Kyaroko: I have not found Zoloft to diminish the libido, but maybe it does. I've been without for a while now and I'm not jumping strangers on the street, so let's assume there is some libido-depressing function (when I was with PdeFF, trust me, I really wouldn't have noticed) there. I find Zoloft just kieeps things from dipping too low. I still get upset, but really, I don't stay there.
Kira: I am so lucky with both my psychopharmacologist and my therapist (shrink/medicating doctor and talk therapy person) both of whom have simply told me that I'll pay them when and if I can. The reason I'm on Zoloft and Lunesta is that both are still under patent, so the drug companies are still handing out free samples big time. Thus I only have to pay for presriptions for my Adderal (which is available in generic form by the delightful name: amphetemine salts) which is $5/month under my new (thank heavens I have health insurance, even if it sucks) HMO. The name brand drugs would be $15 or $25 a pop, I'm not sure.
CK: I spent a fortune on therapist and shrink before, but since the crises of the last year my shrink has made it clear I should simply keep coming to see him and pay when possible. He doesn't dun me, that's for sure. My therapist simply took me on knowing I can't pay right now. I used to see her a few years ago when I was getting over a couple miscarriages in a row (pretty darn depressed) and when I called her this time her response was that I should come see her and not worry about finances just this once.
They have both been lifesavers. Of course, in the past, I did pay large sums of money to them (or at least my insurance company did), but they aren't in network in my HMO, and don't want me to switch (and I don't want to either).
Fatalist: I think my shrink knows that if he tells me, I can prepare myself. And if I start feeling awful ("Oh, I've made such a mess of my life, how did I get here, I'll never be debt free, I'm a bad mother, I've only I'd been a better wife, PdeFF would have treated me better, Oh, I'm an awful person, wah wah wah, bleah bleah bleah"), instead of wallowing in it, I'll just call him up and say: should we up the dose? He's a good guy, and he's looking out for me. He likes me (d'oh). No, not that way, he just likes me. He laughs when I tell him the crise du jour, crise du semaine, crises du mois, etc. I don't think a lot of his patients package it all up so that it's superentertaining, so I think I get better treatment because I can make him snort.
LJS: I'm plump enough (still attractive, but plump) that I just don't worry about gaining 5 pounds or so. Nardil really packed the weight on me, and also made it impossible to drink wine or eat cheese. Not a good medicine for me. So I like Zoloft better. I didn't much like Wellbutrin (it didn't seemed to do much for me). Psychopharmacology is clearly an art, not a science.
Doc-T: French fries can be quite effective. Good chocolate also. Sex, yes, if it's satisfying. Otherwise, one is better off without. A pretty sad statement of the relations within my marriage the last few years.
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