Comments | doktor_jess: In which our hero finds the source of her power in question

doktor_jess

In which our hero finds the source of her power in question

Apr 11, 2009 19:10

My claddagh ring broke yesterday. It's .925 sterling silver and I've had it since I was 19. A few of my friends bought it for me from Exile for my 19th birthday and it's always meant a great deal to me. I noticed a crack in it a few weeks ago, but thought it was a scratch in the silver. I love this ring, it's the first piece of jewelry that somone ( Read more... )

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doktor_jess April 13 2009, 00:47:04 UTC

I'm of the same mindset.

I can definitely use all the energy I can get now.

Thanks for the encouragement about the Prozac, I'm still working on it.

lohquesse April 13 2009, 00:19:02 UTC

Don't be scared about the Prozac - you have something that I never had when I was on it, something that Matt just pointed out. You have someone that will be there for you to help you through whatever it does - Lea will be there no matter what to help you - good or bad. And remember that we all love you and care for you :)

doktor_jess April 13 2009, 01:53:22 UTC

I'm really lucky to have friends like you.

elmo_iscariot April 14 2009, 13:46:39 UTC

My psychiatrist put me on Prozac which I got filled yesterday, but I haven't taken any yet as I'm a bit scared to. *sigh*

Are you familiar with how Prozac works?

It's a "serotonin reuptake inhibitor"--see, your brain uses serotonin to communicate with itself, ordinarily creating some, sending it over to another synapse, and then reabsorbing it. To _wildly_ oversimplify, having more serotonin makes you less depressed. Prozac and other SRIs slow that reabsorption, prompting your brain to make more of it to make up the difference. In short, you aren't actually adding anything to your brain chemistry, just encouraging your brain to do it itself. what could be more natural than that? :)

Do not fear the Prozac. Enjoy living in a time of casual miracles, where you have the ability to coax your brain into correcting its mistakes.

doktor_jess April 16 2009, 02:01:38 UTC

I'm familiar with the whole sri/ssri mechanism of action, so it's not the prozac itself that I'm afraid of, it's the side effects, the possible personality change, the risk for dependency, etc.

Casual miracles, I like that.

elmo_iscariot April 16 2009, 11:33:45 UTC

Fair enough. Proceed with caution, but don't deny yourself the opportunity, I guess.

Casual miracles, I like that.

It's from Watchmen (though I think they cut it from the movie). Ozymandias is contemplating the turn of the 21st century, which he calls "an era of new sensations and possibilities. An era of the conceivable made concrete... And of the casually miraculous."

It always stuck with me. As if it isn't miraculous enough that I can reach out my hand and fill a room with light, I've just rocketed down a flat ribbon of ground through the hills, covering twenty miles in half an hour, to sit down at this desk and send words instantly to you, three hundred miles away... It's amazing, the kinds of insane magic we humans can get used to when we see enough of it.