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Sunny side of the street.

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Hi,my name is Rob and I try to enjoy the small things in life.I love nature and seeing a rainbow or sunset.I love to read and play the piano.I enjoy keeping fit when energy levels allow.I live alone with a cat which chose me.It kept coming to my door and meowing .Happy to just be most days-not great but just ok.

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4 years ago

FastYamR6 -

What's your cats name I want to cuddle with him I Love cats !!!

Depression is the worst, isn't it ??

I like how you live your life, and consider the depression as second place to that.

You said you like seeing a rainbow. I never shared with anyone that when my dad visited me the only time in my entire life, I believe God gave me a sign that he means really well because I saw the only full complete Double Rainbow clear as day from horizon to horizon that I have ever seen in my entire life. I has no camera to save the event !!!

I'll never forget that sign from God, because we were Fighting terribly and I Totally refused even see him let alone talk to him. It all went terribly but weeks later after Cursing at him for insulting my life, we both decided to forget the whole thing and were then friends forever, He's quite a guy, letting me curse at him and all, and not even fighting back.

I'm crying a little remembering it. He's been Dead for 30 years now.

What's your cats name ??

A boy or girl ?

How did he come to choose you ??

What's the story behind that ?

There's more to life than depression.

Chris

in reply to 4 years ago

Hi Chris I call him/her ginger cat or the ginger one. I used to come home from work and found him on my wheelie bin organiser.I fed him on the back step for a week and then decided to let him in my house.It felt a massive step and a bit awkward at first as am used to my own company.He is still a bit of a street cat and only stays in when the weather is raining cats and dogs,ha😀.He’s a greedy podgy cat and only drinks milk and seems to like fish Whiskas best.Regards, Rob.

in reply to 4 years ago

FYR -

You're making me miss cats so much

I haven't had one in 18 months some shithead stole him

A mainly outdoor cat is great say hello to the ginger one the ginger cat for me

He will know you are talking about another cat person

Please encourage me if you can to remember to go the G Damned Dentist I am in unfreaking believable tooth pain I am not able to eat 4 pain pills of 2 different pain relievers have done nothing

How is your joint pain

My brother has terrible double knee pain and needs a second knee replacement surgery it puts him in a really terrible mood and nobody can stand him when he's in pain.

Does your anti d reduce the depression at all?? Meds have never worked for me Therapy doesn't work This web site is all I have but helps a lot

Chris

in reply to 4 years ago

Hi,your life must be tough if meds don’t help.I am not really helped by my meds as often feel down and overly sensitive to the unkindness of the world.I suffer dreadful stomach and bowel problems too.It is all a vicious downward cycle.I like to destract my brain through my hobbies.I sometimes get a generalised pain- maybe joints or inflammation .But I can feel like my brain is overwhelmed by it.I sound like a hypochondriac but am not.Just stay well and keep on.

in reply to 4 years ago

FYR

Sometimes I feel shooting me in the stomach would be less painful than the extreme pain I'm repeatedly in every day

The unkindness of people and this world never ceases to amaze me

Wait until u hear some of the true stories ur going to hear on this web site

One lady said chemotherapy cured her cancer but left her in pain 24 hours a day and has destroyed her entire life

Rough stuff and we think we have it bad consider her

Remind me u got to see the endodontist for that root canal it's not even possible to chew at all anymore

It's pounding and feels like a G D blow torch is firing on it

I'm overwhelmed too. We can just do one thing at a time and that's gonna have to be good enough

You're not a hypochondriac

in reply to 4 years ago

Thanks I have had the pain of needing a root canal treatment before-And I still felt it after half a bottle of whiskey.Bet the pain reminds you constantly!Take care.

in reply to 4 years ago

Also I think that depression is a strange gift in a twisted way as our sensory experience of life is just very sharp.It is a good idea to look outwards and realise that everyone experiences pain too.Empathy is a good thing

in reply to 4 years ago

So depression makes us think of everything in a sharper more focused way so we are really paying more attention to what is going on than other "normal" people if there is such a thing. Okay interesting something positive about how we have to feel

I can't drink alcohol anymore I had 3rd stage liver failure and I think I'm healed now after 3 years dry.

My heavily alcoholic parents would be proud

I hope you don't mind that I tell a lot of the truth and don't really care how bad it sounds or even If I have to pay a big price and even suffer for it

That's not gonna change that's just me

It's less boring to just chat away instead of my watching Dr Phil like I always do. He's really boring with guests always having same problems.

I wish he would actually fix somebody for once instead of just talking about everything

They calculated that he makes as much money as 14,000 therapists at about 65 million dollars a year.

That's close to a quarter million a day

I would pretend to fix other people's problems all day too for that change.

I know I'm a bit scheptical

Do these shows every actually fix anyone???

in reply to 4 years ago

Sounds like a nice man!Sorry about your liver.Alcohol just makes things worse.

in reply to 4 years ago

Yeah I'm overly hard and judgemental towards him I am obviously very jealous about that kind of money.

I did my share of alcohol over the years. It's really embarrassing that the local wine store cut me off completely when I bought $200+ each purchase and stupidly told them my dad died of liver failure and I am too. What an F'n idiot to tell them that !!!

I enjoyed it immensely and lost all my friends and family by dunk dialing them. I'm not Always the smartest guy.

in reply to 4 years ago

Yes a bit addictive.Learn to like yourself.Also I meant that the Doc.sounds a bit of a twat.

in reply to 4 years ago

I was attacked yesterday by two total Assholes on this site and I actually thought u were doing that too. I misinterpreted you. One was blocked by management and the other was warned. This HU web site has no tolerance at all for inappropriate unsupportive abusive people.

Did I mention that I was in jail twice recently due to mentally ill behavior in public?

Proud of your new friend?

in reply to 4 years ago

You are ok .They would rather punish people than do something constructive like help them.

in reply to 4 years ago

Wow - I thought you would crucify me for saying that never imagined you would support me.

You're smarter than you look

😁

in reply to 4 years ago

Gosh thank you!

in reply to 4 years ago

They would rather punish people than do something constructive like help them. Im going to tell my Probation officers that you said that. He's a big boy and can handle it.

I told you I really do tell the truth about anything no matter how bad I just totally don't care.

The punishment is fine that I'm going to get

dollfiend in reply to 4 years ago

I agree that our mental health treatment can be so offensive and cruel. I had to do 18 mos. for running around naked and trespassing littering etc. I was so manic that they kept me in the hospital for a year, and I almost lost everything. There is no real help that I see, especially for those who have committed crimes while manic or otherwise mentally ill in public. My neighbors don't want me in the neighborhood. During the probationary period, it was total control. I had to take all kinds of drugs including a heavy dose of lithium. It's all money and greed and power struggles, condemnation, punishment. I'm almost 51, and have had to suffer since I was a kid. I'm so tired. I literally broke my neck and needed surgery but I had to endure that pain too. They kept me committed for a year, then released me into what they call behavioral court. I have injuries from my manias, some remain because they refuse to look at my back. I am sick and hurting from all the mandated "treatments" I have had to take. These days my memory is bad and I get horrible anxiety and depression. It is hard to get out of bed.

in reply to 4 years ago

We have all done stuff that we are not proud of.And those who think they are better are just deceiving themselves.To err is human.Don’t beat yourself up!Just move in.

in reply to 4 years ago

Just move on -sorry!

Catatvet054 years ago

I adore cats. I have an 11 year old fluffy white cat. She’s admittedly, my life and I am so scared of anything happened to here. Thought she went missing the other day to only realise my mother had accidentally locked her in a cupboard. I was fuming but at least she was cosy with fresh fluffy towels to sleep on. She can be a little shit when she wants something. Love you 🐈 😆. Hope my little story brought a smile to your face. Take care.

in reply to Catatvet054 years ago

Yes you seem perfectly sane to me😀I love and hate my cat too-so selfish but I can talk to it in a bonkers way so it has to put up with me too.A nice fluffy cat’s tale!Thanks.

Catatvet05 in reply to 4 years ago

😆 love and hate relationship

in reply to Catatvet054 years ago

OMG cats are just the Best!!!

Catman22

Chris