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Again with the Lego Night. :)

I need the diversion. Today, after three weeks of using the drug, I stopped my anti-depressant. (Yes, with doctor's approval). The withdrawal effects are - unpleasant. To say the least. I am unhappily surprised that they are so strong as well as unhappily aware that my doc prescribed something far medically-harsher, as it were, than other options. He and I will be having a discussion about that, assuming that I remember it in the far future when next I have a need for an appointment.

Therapy continues. I find it very good for the soul - not being a church-goer, I don't get that weekly reality-check that my Christian friends do. Discussions in my session certainly lead to some heavy soul-searching afterwards and I welcome the results, even as I have some chagrin over my self-blindness. Nonetheless, I also have some comforts - she tells me that I have more 'tools in my arsenal' than she does and said she'd like to talk to me. She also suggested that I consider becoming a counselor or therapist myself. And we talked about how, in the normal course of life, even those whose vocation is to help others will, at some time or another, require trained help themselves.

So all in all, I think I must look back on the last few months with gratitude.

Hrothny the Stickler

Just for the record, in case you didn't know, I'm a stickler for accuracy.

I'm just fine with, in fact happy to hear or read, "I don't know/we don't know, but research seems to indicate ______, which is what we're using as our base for now."

But if you catagorically state, "This is the way it was/is" you'd damned well better have some good solid actual finds/documentation for that statement. Not "Mr. Bigshot in the field says it was so" or "a conversation amoung others of the group say so" but rather Archeological Report X or Field Analysis Y.

Because otherwise, it's just wishful thinking opinion.