Society makes me sick

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Sorry for posting off topic Sweatleaf.

I read the topic because I was concerned but it's hard to give any deep advice right now as I'm having a rough time myself. If you can get a prescription for something like Xanax to take "as needed" you might be able to at least keep the anxiety under control for certain occasions. At least it's an older drug that's not prohibitively expensive, if you can just manage to get a prescription.

[quote="Sweetleaf"]Maybe I can have one of my friends/family members call that potentially helpful mental health place I looked up.....If I can't, and trust me its pretty frusterating not being able to do something as simple as pick up a phone to scedule an appointment all because phones make me nervous in general and its very hard for me open up to someone I don't know about my issues especially over a phone and in person isn't much better. Also I could get a ride there maybe and that way I wouldn't have to go alone.

I'd call them for you. Of course, that would involve me getting your private information in order to set up the appointment, and you don't know who or what I am. I could be wearing one of those tracking things around my ankle and posting things from my darkened basement with my expansive machete collection hanging on the wall.

I think you can probably find a safer bet around where you live. You have people who care about you, I'm sure they would do it.

If you really don't have any alternatives there, you can send me a personal message with the phone number of the place. I can call them and report back what I find out.

I'm sorry I wrote "Screw the downers." I should have put, "Forget the downers."

You really come off as blaming Society for all your troubles. This may be true, in part, but you are part of Society even if you don't like the part you play. Expecting humans to be anything different than what they are is futile. Blaming everyone else isn't the answer.

The only thing you can change is yourself and your attitude. It's pretty simple. I think you're making so much of it because you may be feeling overwhelmed. That's pretty standard.

I've spent time being depressed. I know what suicidal feels like. Please don't assume I don't know about the dark places. I know them all too well. What I do that's different from you is I refuse to waste one more second of my precious life dwelling on the negative. The best way to banish the darkness is to focus on the light. Since you are the master of your own mind, you can choose what you focus on. Why do you choose darkness?

You want to be someone else, like Ozzy Osborne. I remember Ozzy before he got that wild idea to bite the head off that pigeon. Things were hard for him and he acted out of desperation, but he's the one who changed his crappy life. Nobody was there to help him along until he stepped up and did what he did. It helped that he had talent to offer, but nobody just knows how to play a guitar; they work at it for years. What are you working at?

I've known a few rock stars in my time. I don't know why anyone would want to be one. About the only times they're happy is when they're on stage or drugged out of their skulls.

Pink Floyd's "The Wall" pretty much slams the educational system. When I first heard it in high school my friends laughed and liked the rebellious nature of the song. But the song goes beyond the fantasy of a rebellious student. Are we really going to take the song seriously when it claims that our education system is a form of mind control? Most people are grateful for having an education because it gives them knowledge which brings opportunity.. But with knowledge comes a price and that price is indeed having your mind controlled by others. Teachers instill mind control by ridicule and constantly nit picking and finding fault with their students and humiliating their students by pointing out their mistakes. Thus teachers are like vipers. A student quickly learns that it is not imagination that is important but rather the ability to memorize information.

Oh, by the way, which one IS Pink?[/i][/quote]

Which member of Pink Floyd is the character based on? I would assume all of them....though a lot of the insanity was mostly referencing Syd Barret like the one scene where he shaves all his hair off is based on Syd Barret. But then there's a lot about Roger Waters and some references to other band members. But basically the character experiances some disturbing things and the plot basically follows how he deals with it and it doesn't leave the dark details out.[/quote]

I was actually quoting a line from one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, Have a Cigar.

"The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think,
Oh, by the way, which one is Pink?"[/quote]

Oh I see...lol the character in the movie The Wall goes by that name so thought you meant what member of the band is he supposed to portray.[/quote]

I never saw that movie. One of these days...