Draconator

I don't think you derailed it in any way, shape, or form. Everything said is connected in one weird way or another. And I had listened to "Easy Way to Quit Smoking" (The Allen Carr book), and when I actually did quit, no panic, no outbursts of anger. I did feel withdrawal from quitting the nicotine gum, rather than cigarettes, or vaping (which I did prior to NYE 2019.) My wife and I were coming back from a funeral in Syracuse in December 2019 for a close college friend of hers. My vape stopped working on the drive back home, and I was like, "That's a bummer. Let me pop this gum in".

IPAs are good

One of the great traditions of Cal Football is Tightwad Hill. Literally a hill above where the Bears play football. Not a bad view either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tightwad_Hill

You will receive MANY suggestions. Here's mine. The village of East Aurora. There's Bar Bill and many other places to eat on one end of Main Street (Misters, burgers and such, nice bar, Pasquale's Italian Restaurant, The Pulled Yolk breakfast place, and a small bit of a walk, there's an ice cream shop owned by Steve Tasker's son. The other end of Main Street is more of a shopping district and higher-end restaurants (Ricks on Main). There's a Hampton Inn just off of Main at the end of the Main Street Strip. If you really wanted to impress your wife and family, however, stay at the Roycroft Inn. It's pricy but totally worth the cost. The Roycroft is in the middle of the Main Street Strip. The best part is it is a straight shot down Route 20A right to the Stadium. About 10 minutes not taking into account stadium traffic.

I am in the midst of my trial. What I didn't like is no matter how small the story is, you get an email about it. I'm getting about 10 to 15 emails a day from the news. So I wrote to cancel. They fought hard to keep me. I fought harder. My trial ends in November.

I didn't take any anger away from what you said. None at all. When I was thinking about jumping off the bridge and standing on the deck, I actually felt peace about it. Like it was the right decision. I'm 100% sure as I would be falling towards the ocean, I would immediately regret it and just hope I would live when I hit the water. But leading up to it, it all just made sense to me. It was hearing the words, "Try the psych ER doc one more time", and getting permission to carry out with it if the psych ER doctor didn't come though, that also made sense. I'm hella glad I made the latter decision.

I am so sorry to hear this. Suicide when you're contemplating it, seems like the only way out. You're truly only thinking about yourself. Hearing this, it has much farther-reaching effects. There's nothing I can say that will ease the pain.

I remember this statistic being high, just went and verified it. Just over 41% of all people with Bipolar smoke, whereas 21% of the general population smoke. I was a smoker. Thankfully the last anything I had to smoke was December 31, 2019. Chewed nicotine gum after that, and gave that up sometime in the fall of 2021. This is good, because smokers in the general population have a 1 in 4 chance of quitting smoking, while people with bipolar have a 1 in 10 chance of quitting.

I'm just very glad to see you back posting!

Josh Allen has a sore back from standing on the sidelines, per Steve Tasker.

Only uploaded what was taken off of (if I remember) Etsy. Someone here on TSW saw them, saved them, and posted them here, the guy on Etsy who posted them deleted them like 15 minutes after he posted them. I had them emailed to me and uploaded them via Google Drive so they can be seen better.

But we're getting wind confusion. That has to be something, right?

Please give me a moment. Seeing that rock on Cynthia's ring finger has me disappointed. Please just don't tell my wife.

I certainly don't

I just started drinking. A couple of more beers will have me using correct gramma

If #41 is cut by the Colts, Beane should take a flyer on him, just because of his awesome flowing hair. Who cares if he can play good.

@Airseven

Don't let what happened younger in life to be carried by you later in life.

Ask Terry

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ehURXcMujmJ7IO_MbsDuMWmf4zn42LMD?usp=sharing

IronMaidenBills. If he wanted a different identity, he should have changed that hideous avatar.

But, but, but, no roof

You're welcome and I 1000% agree. We need more awareness.

The car episode does sound like a manic episode. The story about your mom's cousin to me (and I'm no professional) sounds more like mild schizophrenia than bipolar. Those diagnosed with Bipolar don't normally blurt out inappropriate things, while people with schizophrenia do things like that. Thank you for sharing those stories.

Thank you for sharing your back history. If we can get past the stigma of mental health, we would all be in a much better place. And you're right. The quality of the professional is key. My current therapist visited with me for 3 hours and confirmed my initial diagnosis. We suspect my dad was Bipolar. In his later years, he didn't deny that he had it and said his mom also may have had it. Bipolar is heredity.