Turboscottomatic's Baclofen Journey and, BTW - Hello!

[Health&Happiness]

Turboscottomatic's Baclofen Journey and, BTW - Hello!

Are you making fun of me Murph?

[turboscottomatic]

Turboscottomatic's Baclofen Journey and, BTW - Hello!

Health&Happiness;1145140 wrote: Don't feel bad Turbo!! (I know easier said than done right??). Just wanted to say we are all rooting for you. You're headed in the right direction since you are working with your doc, taking bac and posting on here! We all enjoy your thread. Hope you perk up soon! Let's make this a great week!

:l

H&H -

Thanks for the rooting! I perk up quickly. I'm all better now already. FTR, I am so used to 'cycling' that it is more or less like breathing for me. For years now, even when I go waaaay down, I have a little observer-self who sits on my shoulder, back behind my ear, and he tells me, "Don't get too caught up and do anything rash. You know this will be over in 4 or 5 days." And it's true. Then 6-8 weeks of mania, with a week or so of calm and normal thrown in there somewhere, then again to 4 or 5 days of way down. I have known for years that I have troubles in my head, but I never recognized the rhythm of it until the last couple of years. I only recognized the down. I didn't recognize the mania because I felt that way most of the time. It felt normal to me, even though I would wear myself and those close to me OUT. Exhausting everybody.

What amazes me is how precise the whole thing is. And why it took me so long to see the cycling. I almost never would go more than about 10 weeks without having a short period of depression. And almost never more frequently than about 5 weeks. And the periods of depression were always between about 3 and 7 days. Almost never would anything really deviate from this rhythm. Maybe that's why I didn't recognize it. It was TOO rhythmic. Like breathing. I never notice I'm doing that either, unless I think about it.

Now I have a good psych and he has me on Lamictal and Klonopin (and more recently, baclofen). The Lamictal and Klonopin came straight from the hand of God. Now the cycling is muffled and I feel 'normal' (not depressed/not manic) more than half the time. And I get a little depressed for a day or two then I'm fine. More like a bit 'blue' then like the Apocalyptic Armageddon of Doom that is going to kill me painfully, which is what those short periods used to be. The meds have installed a bottom on it, so I can't really keep sinking, not knowing how I will ever get back up. Just doesn't happen anymore.

And, IMHO, Murph is not making fun of you. He's asking me for some nekkid pictures of my woman.

:eeks:

T

[turboscottomatic]

Turboscottomatic's Baclofen Journey and, BTW - Hello!

Murphyx;1145259 wrote: I'm rooting for (the future) Mrs Turbo and I'll be reading your thread intently to get further news/photographs of her.

Oh yeah and there was some stuff about you and fat rodents, but I wasn't really paying attention after the whole (the future) Mrs Turbo revelation, soz.
I'll think about the photos. Have to be careful. Last time I put some photos of her on the WWW she told me to feck off and then ran away with the man she was compromising in the photos......

Murphyx;1145259 wrote:
In Europe we call them mankinis and here they are absolutely acceptable and normal and not amusing in any way whatsoever....

My friend, surely you jest. These are amusing in every way whatsoever, forever and ever, Amen.

T

[Murphyx]

Turboscottomatic's Baclofen Journey and, BTW - Hello!

Health&Happiness;1145732 wrote: Are you making fun of me Murph?NOOOOOOOOO!

turboscottomatic;1145769 wrote: And, IMHO, Murph is not making fun of you. He's asking me for some nekkid pictures of my woman.

YESSSSSSSS!

Health&Efficiency I only quoted your post because it allowed me to make the hilarrrrrrious comment about (the future) Mrs Turbo ... and because it included the word 'rooting'. However, I'm now unsure as to whether 'rooting' means the same thing in Americania as it does in the real world. So my joke fell flat on both counts. :upset:

turboscottomatic;1145772 wrote:
My friend, surely you jest. These are amusing in every way whatsoever, forever and ever, Amen.

I can assure you if you saw me in a mankini, sunbathing in the British perma-drizzle, the very last thing you would be is amused.

[RudyB]

Turboscottomatic's Baclofen Journey and, BTW - Hello!

turbo, i'm having the same experience w sleep. i've been reading a book called 'healing w/out freud or prozac', and he writes about the limbic brain being intimately tied in w physiology, and how, when we learn to supercede it a bit w our rational brain, we can have enormous positive influence on our biology. with baclofen, we tend to be less anxious, and very, very relaxed (i do, anyway), such that, it makes sense to me that we would sleep better and less. he reports studies of people (many people) who reduce their exhastion tremendously by monitoring their hearts, either w the help of a computer program or just by tuning in to how it feels, and consciously getting into that space of relaxed calm whenever they might totally stress out. the results are impressive. they also report needing less sleep.

i hope you are calm today, and continuing to enjoy your freds. i don't mind them as long as they continue to stay away from my garden.

[Ne/Neva Eva]

Turboscottomatic's Baclofen Journey and, BTW - Hello!

hullllooooooooooooo!

[Murphyx]

Turboscottomatic's Baclofen Journey and, BTW - Hello!

Turbo, where you at man?

turboscottomatic;1145772 wrote: I'll think about the photos. Have to be careful. Last time I put some photos of her on the WWW she told me to feck off and then ran away with the man she was compromising in the photos......

I'm guessing she discovered your plan to publish her nekid pics and put you in hospital. Hang in there mate, I hear penis-reattachment surgery often ends up successful. We're all pulling for you. Oooo perhaps not the best expression.

Check in when you can.