Hello and Intro- No time like the present
Posted: December 5th, 2013, 4:29 pm
Hello all,
I fairly recently became a listener of the podcast (since about 2 months), and now love it and know what a huge and important contribution it is.
So here's my status, and will try to keep it brief: I'm what I would call mildly depressive, on generic wellbutrin for the last 5 months, which my girlfriend insists she can tell when i'm on vs. not on. She describes me as being much shorter-tempered/less patient and quicker to raise my voice when i've been off it. I'm prescribed for 2 pills a day, but tend to only take one simply to cut down on the expense.
Which brings me to another reason I thought i'd try the forum: I am someone who's biggest challenges tend to be based in my lack of success (especially financial). I've been invested in an artistic pursuit for 20 years+, and have been in various day jobs over that time, a situation that has become particularly difficult both from the recession and from lack of work in my area (publishing).
So I tend blame a lot of my frustration and unhappiness on lack of financial freedom, even on a modest scale. It's all about scraping by, esp. the last few years.
Anyone who can relate?
Look forward to chatting with you--
M
I fairly recently became a listener of the podcast (since about 2 months), and now love it and know what a huge and important contribution it is.
So here's my status, and will try to keep it brief: I'm what I would call mildly depressive, on generic wellbutrin for the last 5 months, which my girlfriend insists she can tell when i'm on vs. not on. She describes me as being much shorter-tempered/less patient and quicker to raise my voice when i've been off it. I'm prescribed for 2 pills a day, but tend to only take one simply to cut down on the expense.
Which brings me to another reason I thought i'd try the forum: I am someone who's biggest challenges tend to be based in my lack of success (especially financial). I've been invested in an artistic pursuit for 20 years+, and have been in various day jobs over that time, a situation that has become particularly difficult both from the recession and from lack of work in my area (publishing).
So I tend blame a lot of my frustration and unhappiness on lack of financial freedom, even on a modest scale. It's all about scraping by, esp. the last few years.
Anyone who can relate?
Look forward to chatting with you--
M
I've been very lucky in this latter part of my life, though, because not only is my wife a wonderful, caring, supportive woman whom everyone loves, but she's also been way better than me at making a good income. So we're ok financially. Our means are modest, but I know how much worse it could be, and how easily it could be a lot worse. You have my sympathy.