*RANDOM THOUGHTS*

[jjostm]

* Yesterday, when I was experiencing withdrawl symptoms from the medications I'm on, I thought something was quite interesting. When someone takes medication to keep one's brain in check, and the medication becomes addictive, one isn't addicted, but "dependent." However, when one smokes large bags of crack to keep one's brain in check, one isn't

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[anatomiste]

Well. I am employed by a small retail outfit in a shopping mall.

It plays the same tape of Christmas music every day! Including "Santa Baby."

I hate "Santa Baby."

[jjostm]

I despise that song. The woman sounds like a retarded slut. I call it the Carol of the Retarded Slut. Every time I hear that song, I want to light my head on fire.

You have my sympathies.

BTW: Congratulations on being rejected at that irritating radical feminist community! =D

-j

[anatomiste]

>Congratulations on being rejected at that irritating radical feminist community!

Thank you! *bows*

[daphneisgood]

Just out of curiosity, what community?

[narqo]

i think addiction is different because you crave the stuff. like my head meds, for example, i forget to take them all the time, but if i don't take them, i feel sick and can't stop crying. that's dependency, not addiction. if i was addicted, i'd crave it. i wouldn't be able to wait to take it. i see the difference, but i see what you're saying.

[jjostm]

Truth be told, I sorta like the Xanax...so, in that way, I'm a dependent addict?

But even crack heads, many want to get off of it...but their body goes into rebellion if they don't get it... So maybe they're "dependent" as well?

I think addict works fine for both, though, because even those who are on prescription medication...their bodies are addicted to the substances. I know I am...

-j

[narqo]

okay, but i think there's a difference between physical addiction and psychological addiction. you can have both, but if it's all physical and not mental at all, i think that's when they call it dependency.

[jjostm]

All that notwithstanding, I needs my Happy Pillz™.

Happy Pillz™: So you can get out of bed.*

-j

*WARNING: Side effects may include dependency/addiction, headache, dizziness, nausea, bleeding from the eyes, body ache, liver illness, Mormonism, spontaneous singing of bad Christmas music, projectile vomiting, liquified intestines, coma, stubbed toes, and upset stomach.

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[rula]

ahhh christmas music has been annoying the hell out of me too!! (no pun intended.. um.. man i'm tired)

it is evvvverywhere i go, in this city especially, with its floods of holiday tourists (who walk too slowly) doing their shopping and having huge family meals and being generally obnoxious as i try to get through finals.

and - i know (one of) the radio stations you're referring to!
just like the department stores, basically, with their perma-christmas:
95.5, i think, is the one that's been playing christmas/'generic winter holiday' music for the past month. and they advertise this, too! "listen to us to get so crammed full of forced holiday cheer that you'll want to kick christmas in the ass once it finally comes around!"

ahhhhhhh

this is why one of my (quite religious) friends absolutely hates this season. he says consumer whores have ruined it, and he wants to escape to a poor country without such things. i tend to agree. except the moving to a poor country thing. i need to stick it out and get a degree, or something :]

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[jjostm]

You know what *really* pisses me off, though? Okay, I'm tired of WPLJ playing their bloody Christmacrap and all...but I heard a version of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas," where they replaced "merry Christmas" with "happy holiday." Listen, if you're going to try and capitalise on a Christian feast day for your bottom line, at least you could mention said feast day.

I wish everyone a Happy Christmas-regardless of their religious affiliation. A guy who works here, who is a Sikh, wished me as much, and I wished him the same.

I think I agree with your friend...but isn't there some way to take that ethos, and bring it here, where it's more comfy? =)

I think the Old Kalendarists have it right, having Christmas next month. Not only do they not have to deal with the ho ho horror, they get excellent bargains. =D

-j

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[narqo]

on replacing "merry christmas" with "happy holidays"

first of all, there are too many syllables.
second of all, there's christmas (which is the celebration if christ's birth) and then there's xmas (which is a mostly non-religious season of gluttony and greed). i enjoy both, but it pisses me off SO much that people are now suddenly offended by santa, xmas trees and xmas sales. get over it. there was no jolly old a-hole handing out presents in the manger. there aren't too mant evergreens growing in the desert in bethlehem. mary and joseph didn't have gifts for the magi. mary didn't bake xmas cookies. xmas is a holiday for everyone. happy holidays my ass!

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[jjostm]

AMEN SISTER! PREACH IT!

-j

[mlfoley]

However, when one smokes large bags of crack to keep one's brain in check, on isn't dependent, but "addicted." I think "dependent" is one of those words that we've come up with, like differently abled, vertically challenged, and dance-impared. I think addicted works fine, thanks.

Ha, I've wondered the same thing. It seems we're only "addicted" when the government makes an arbitrary decision to legalize some chemicals and outlaw others.

Of course this comes from someone who greatly resents having to be dependant on any chemicals at all.

[jjostm]

Of course this comes from someone who greatly resents having to be dependant on any chemicals at all.

I'm right there with you. I told my brain to go f itself the other day when I started feeling withdrawl... Garagha.sgfs.

-j

withdrawal

[richardlog]

I feel for you.

I was on Effexor for a while and decided to drop it.

That sucked.

I felt like my whole nervous system was rebooting every few minutes or so. It was like a really weird electric shock. I was also very sleepy for a while.

Re: withdrawal

[mlfoley]

Reading stuff like this makes me wonder which is worse - the tics and OCD or the fallout from using psychiatric drugs. My ex is on one of them and it just makes her sleep all day. I don't want that to happen.