Bipolar

[zombie no.one]

yeah I suppose all addictions will have a common thread in there somewhere.

I've just remembered the term 'manic depression', I don't know if that's connected to bipolar?... don't seem to hear it mentioned much these days.

in the past I had long periods of depression where I was signed off work for months at a time, but the depression didn't really fluctuate, it wasn't an 'up and down' kind of thing.... none of the various antidepressants I was prescribed did a thing to lift it either.

[LilCerberus]

I'm getting the impression that my councilor doesn't understand the concept of PTSD.....

[Dalmatian Bobby Samaritan]

smoking now seems socially and culturally taboo here. it's all vapes now (same difference?)

I should have been born in the 1960s.. And just been a comic book artist for some cheapo gazette in a local town or some local book reviewer and go after Isaac Asimov novels! Back when people cared about that. "The rules for Robots," or what have you.
Everything these days requires SO much maintenance. Congrats on not smoking. You are actually giving me moral support today to not smoke a cigarette. I have a good PDF about the tobacco companies written in 1976. I mean the PDF of course was not made in 1976 but it was digitized. It talks about the Tobacco companies. And yeah I mean those guys are wolves. Sometime I wonder if they aren't werewolves (I wouldn't be surprised if some of those cats have stock in casket companies. Because yeah they are really into it. I wonder if you did a percentage survey of Americans who smoke and the reason being, because they saw James Dean smoking in rebel without a cause if that would be like kind of a high number. Reminds me of when people do those percentage survey things about Genghis Khan. And how much of the percentage of the gene pool of Russia and Eastern Europe have Genghis Khan genetics because of how thorough his invasions were. Smoking and vaping now has become the new Genghis khan. Like supposedly you can't just say no..Like Genghis Khan. Trying saying no to that dude and look at what happened to ya..)