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Default Jan 29, 2020 at 05:10 AM
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That is so difficult for me, because I was born in '64 and grew up with a whole lot of amazing 70s music. I am a guitar player, was in a number of bands, entered several guitar competitions, etc. That said, I do belive the 60s were the best decade of that century overall for popular and then the emerging rock music.

Do you enjoy HipHop?

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Default Jan 29, 2020 at 09:42 AM
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That is so difficult for me, because I was born in '64 and grew up with a whole lot of amazing 70s music. I am a guitar player, was in a number of bands, entered several guitar competitions, etc. That said, I do belive the 60s were the best decade of that century overall for popular and then the emerging rock music.

Do you enjoy HipHop?
Yes, I really do. I don't listen to it regularly, but when I do, I often dance. I once almost took a HipHop dance class, but it was cancelled. Even my husband wanted to take it. LOL! He really can't dance. I'd have to avoid looking at him if we did. I know that's mean

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Default Jan 31, 2020 at 07:53 PM
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Swimming. Too bad it is too expensive to do regularly here.

Q: Beach or mountains?

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Default Feb 02, 2020 at 10:33 PM
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Beach but I live in the mountains so that makes sense.

Would you rather sleep significantly too much or not enough?

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Default Feb 02, 2020 at 11:04 PM
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Too much. I do very poorly with too little sleep.

Q. Does your appetite for food change with your states (mania, depression, etc)?
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Default Feb 03, 2020 at 05:01 AM
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A: Yes, big-time. I do not eat at all for days when depressed or manic, for different reasons.

Q: Over all the years of your illness, which mood state have you spent the most time in?

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A: Yes, big-time. I do not eat at all for days when depressed or manic, for different reasons.

Q: Over all the years of your illness, which mood state have you spent the most time in?
Even though I have bipolar type 1, and have had many doozy full blown manic episodes (some with psychosis), if I calculated the time, my answer would be hypomanias. Prior to my worst episodes, I would be in hypomanic states for months on end before reaching full mania. Or sometimes, I even returned to stable or depression without necessarily reaching full mania. Those sustained hypomanias were still problematic. My psychiatrist has even said in the past that mild hypomania is my baseline. I'm not sure that is true, but I can certainly appear as such for long periods. That's where I most like to be, mood-wise.

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Default Feb 03, 2020 at 02:27 PM
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A: Writing a novel in three and a-half weeks.

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Default Feb 10, 2020 at 10:48 PM
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Ugh, I'm not good with this so I'll go safe and say the Beatles.

Q: Have you ever broken a bone?

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Ugh, I'm not good with this so I'll go safe and say the Beatles.

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Luckily, I haven't.

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Default Feb 11, 2020 at 02:06 AM
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Yep. As a child. Got it at school

Q: Have you ever had scarlet fever?

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Yep. As a child. Got it at school

Q: Have you ever had scarlet fever?
No, and I don't even think I know anyone that has. How common is it?

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Default Feb 13, 2020 at 01:49 PM
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It's not very common, but cases have increased by about three-fold in the last five years or so. There are three serotypes, so one person could theoretically get it three times.

A: I do not laugh nearly enough. Sometimes not at all in a given day. Things just don't seem very funny to me anymore. I do think the lithium plays some kind of role with that. Or so it seems.

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Default Feb 15, 2020 at 11:23 PM
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I try to limit my exposure because I get overly stressed.

Do you or have you ever gone to support groups through NAMI, DBSA or the like?

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Default Feb 16, 2020 at 01:41 AM
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I have been to SMART Recovery and Recovery International, but never any of those others.

Favorite movie of all time?

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Default Feb 16, 2020 at 08:57 PM
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Apollo 13 and yes that's probably weird

Do you tend to feel hot or cold?

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Cold at night this time of year

If you could hibernate or estivate, which would you select to do?

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I would hibernate. I’d prefer to be awake in the summer.

Q. Favourite time of year?

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Default Feb 17, 2020 at 07:38 PM
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Good coffee, not weak barley there coffee. Almost strong enough to chew.
If it's weak give me tea anyday

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Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace.

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