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Pookyl · Jan 20, 2020 at 03:54 AM

Mango

Favourite comfort food?

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Mango

Favourite comfort food?

East coast (Mid Atlantic state) vanilla cream filled donuts (or Long Johns). I don't mean Boston cream or other custard stuff. I'm talking vanilla whipped cream sweetened with lots of confectioner's sugar. I prefer the ones dusted with confectioner's sugar, but will eat the ones iced with chocolate, if they are the only ones left. [I prefer vanilla.] As for savory foods, a good meatloaf with mashed potatoes. I like meatloaf with an array of condiments (mustard, catsup, India relish, lingonberry preserves, and my great great grandmother's chili sauce).

Q: What is a comforting thing you do, when comfort is needed? Something other than eating.

bpcyclist · Jan 21, 2020 at 03:24 PM

When my psychosis and my mania, esp. the racing thoughts, get out of control, and every coping skill I have has been exhausted, I am left with my last resort skill. Which is, to crawl into bed, pull my weighted blanket up high to my chin, get my pillows just perfect, grab onto my bible and clutch it to my chest, and hold on for dear life.

BeyondtheRainbow · Jan 21, 2020 at 09:54 PM

Q: What is a comforting thing you do, when comfort is needed? Something other than eating

A: Curl up under my weighted blanket and try to read or otherwise distract myself

Q: What is the most helpful thing a therapist has said to you?

bpcyclist · Jan 22, 2020 at 05:49 PM

"Your wife is a bit**." Best, most accurate counsel I ever got.

You?

BeyondtheRainbow · Jan 25, 2020 at 11:19 PM

Q: What is the most helpful thing a therapist has said to you?

A: (Sort of hard to follow, but we were talking about how I could manage to go to a small group at a church. I wasn't feeling safe between MI and general shyness. He finally told me that "I know why the rules keeping the relationships apart exist but I just know I could help you do this. You'd like my group; you and my wife would be friends and it would be so much easier for you". I don't know why that gave me courage but it did and I went to church a few weeks later and small group a few weeks after that.

Q: If you had to give up one food group what would be easiest and what would be hardest?

bpcyclist · Jan 26, 2020 at 01:57 PM

Q: If you had to give up a food group, what would be easiest and what would be hardest?

A: Easiest? Meat. I pretty much have done it and it's very easy for me. I don't miss it but a few times a year. Hardest? Fruit and broccoli. I love, love, love broccoli.

Q: Have you ever caught a really big fish?

BeyondtheRainbow · Jan 26, 2020 at 08:01 PM

No. I was a nature counselor at a camp for kids with special needs and spent a ridiculous amount of time doing fishing because I wasn't afraid to touch worms. We had a stocked pond so I've helped "catch" a lot of trout but none were big.

Q: Have you ever been ziplining? Would you do it if given a chance?

Jan 26, 2020 at 08:04 PM

I never been but I'd do it in a heartbeat if I had the chance.

Q: What do you do to calm yourself when revved up?

BeyondtheRainbow · Jan 26, 2020 at 08:59 PM

Crawl under my weighted blanket and try to read if I can, breathing exercises if i can't. If I need it I have a tape of my therapist walking me through progressive relaxation, done under the weighted blanket.

What is your all-time favorite tv show?

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Originally Posted by BeyondtheRainbow

Crawl under my weighted blanket and try to read if I can, breathing exercises if i can't. If I need it I have a tape of my therapist walking me through progressive relaxation, done under the weighted blanket.

What is your all-time favorite tv show?

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies. It just doesn't get any better. I like to think that I base my sense of humor partially on Bugs'. Some of those cartoons are beyond brilliant. But of course I have had different favorite adult shows over the years. Right now I most enjoy comedy shows, like Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Q: What is a movie that brought you to tears?

Innerzone · Jan 27, 2020 at 12:31 PM

Quite a few. But one that just really gutted me, I'd love to say, but I can't remember the title. It was about the nazi's stealing and hiding of art in ww2, and people working to get it back to its rightful owners. It wasn't Monuments Men (which I've seen twice), and the other titles I turned up seem too recent to my memory of seeing it, which I think was pre-2010(?) Anyhow, it was powerful and a half.

Do you have a favorite song, and if so what is it and why is it your favorite?

BeyondtheRainbow · Jan 28, 2020 at 01:41 AM

My favorites vary depending on my mood. I like folksy stuff and a lot of Christian music. I love the few songs a kid named Zach Sobiech recorded before dying at 18 from a nasty bone cancer. Maybe one of his songs is my favorite.

Do you have a hard time saying no to others?

bpcyclist · Jan 28, 2020 at 04:18 AM

Much, much easier than when I was younger and felt I always had to accomodate everyone's needs somehow in whatever solution.

Have you ever toured a submarine?

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Much, much easier than when I was younger and felt I always had to accomodate everyone's needs somehow in whatever solution.

Have you ever toured a submarine?

Yes, but an old inactive WW 2 one called USS Torsk. It's in Baltimore, MD docked at the Inner Harbor. Though not me, my parents were on an active submarine. They even rode on it from Oahu to Maui or Kauai (I forget which) in Hawaii. It was a special opportunity for family members of the navy men on that submarine. My brother was career navy who spent many of those years in submarines as a nuclear reactor operator or chief overseeing the reactor operations. My parents enjoyed that trip!

Q: Do you like camping? If so, why? If not, why?

Jan 28, 2020 at 09:38 AM

I love camping. It's fun to get out in the woods with friends/family and just get away from all these distractions of modern life.

Q: Have you ever been backpacking?

BeyondtheRainbow · Jan 28, 2020 at 09:40 PM

No, I've never been backpacking.

What is your favorite job you ever had?

Jan 28, 2020 at 11:38 PM

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No, I've never been backpacking.

What is your favorite job you ever had?

My favorite became my least favorite, with my mental illness partly to blame. I was a manager in a large company's marketing department. I developed and wrote content for their marketing and sales pieces.

Q: Do you like being an adult? Why?

Jan 28, 2020 at 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Innerzone

Quite a few. But one that just really gutted me, I'd love to say, but I can't remember the title. It was about the nazi's stealing and hiding of art in ww2, and people working to get it back to its rightful owners. It wasn't Monuments Men (which I've seen twice), and the other titles I turned up seem too recent to my memory of seeing it, which I think was pre-2010(?) Anyhow, it was powerful

I saw a movie that fits your discription, it was called The Woman in Gold. That one strikes deep. Maybe that title rings a bell?

Jan 29, 2020 at 12:01 AM

I guess I like being an adult, but I don't live like most adults do. I am still not very independent, but I got away from high school/forced school and problems there.

Which decade is your favorite for music (e.g. 60s, 70s, 80s)?

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Pookyl Poohbah Member Since Aug 2017 Location: Australia Posts: 1,435 6 79 hugs given	Jan 20, 2020 at 03:54 AM #541 Mango Favourite comfort food? __________________ Pookyl ———————————————————————————— BP1, GAD, Panic Disorder, Agoraphobia, Claustrophobia Psych meds: Saphris, Seroquel XR, regular Seroquel. PRN Diazepam and Zopiclone

bpcyclist Legendary Member Since Sep 2019 Location: Portland Posts: 12,681 (SuperPoster!) 4 40.2k hugs given	Jan 22, 2020 at 05:49 PM #545 "Your wife is a bit*." Best, most accurate counsel I ever got. You? __________________ When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot, but I always found them--Rodney Dangerfield*

Anonymous43918 Guest Posts: n/a	Jan 26, 2020 at 08:04 PM #549 I never been but I'd do it in a heartbeat if I had the chance. Q: What do you do to calm yourself when revved up?

bpcyclist Legendary Member Since Sep 2019 Location: Portland Posts: 12,681 (SuperPoster!) 4 40.2k hugs given	Jan 28, 2020 at 04:18 AM #554 Much, much easier than when I was younger and felt I always had to accomodate everyone's needs somehow in whatever solution. Have you ever toured a submarine? __________________ When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot, but I always found them--Rodney Dangerfield

Anonymous43918 Guest Posts: n/a	Jan 28, 2020 at 09:38 AM #556 I love camping. It's fun to get out in the woods with friends/family and just get away from all these distractions of modern life. Q: Have you ever been backpacking?

BeyondtheRainbow Wise Elder Member Since Apr 2015 Location: US Posts: 9,226 (SuperPoster!) 9 9,383 hugs given	Jan 28, 2020 at 09:40 PM #557 No, I've never been backpacking. What is your favorite job you ever had? __________________ Bipolar 1, PTSD, GAD, OCD. Clozapine 250 mg, Emsam 12 mg/day patch, topamax 25 mg, ,Gabapentin 1700 mg & 100-2 PRN,. 1.5 mg clonazepam., 50 mg Seroquel

Anonymous42227 Guest Posts: n/a	Jan 29, 2020 at 12:01 AM #560 I guess I like being an adult, but I don't live like most adults do. I am still not very independent, but I got away from high school/forced school and problems there. Which decade is your favorite for music (e.g. 60s, 70s, 80s)?