What's mildly irritating you today?

[DanaC]

My li'l Pilaudog was on tramadol for most of the last couple of years of his life.

[monster]

I won't launch into a rant about the American health system or the British Health system, but I think you'll find that the fact that one is driven by the drug companies advertising directly to the potential patients and the populace having a sense of entitelement to a perfect life fuelled by said drug companies may have something to do with that.

Am I mildly irritating anyone by saying that?

[BigV]

No.

Those that might be irritated are medicated against that irritation, and those that are not medicated already agree with you.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Ha! Carrot doesn't respond well to anger. It is all just a game for him if i lose my temper :p

Today what is mildly irritating me is this:

I'm off to the docs in half an hour. May need antibiotics or...*deep breath* lancing with a sterile needle. Owww.

You know better, of course, re: lancing.

But. Every time I see that picture, I want to stab my screen and squeeze the yellow pixels out. THAT pain ends much sooner. And given that wounds heal from the bottom up, that one is painfully capped, trapping that shit inside. Good luck.

[Undertoad]

Yes.

I would not wish upon anyone my life before medication, which was troubled by significant panic disorder and social anxiety disorder. Had I known that it was not just me freaking out, that many others had the same problem, and that there was a solution, I could have had help ten-fifteen years earlier and my life would have been significantly better.

[infinite monkey]

Amen, brother.

[Sundae]

It took me a while to get the right anti-depressant.
And I know I really need it, I'm not dosing for fun, because I occasionally I let myself run out and my whole life collapses.

It's only good health care that has allowed me to switch from one to another even when I would have said I was doing okay. Well, except when I was on generic Prozac and was suicidal. Even a street sweeper would have been able to spot that was the wrong one for me. Not knocking street sweepers - it was a kind one in Leicester who made me realise I needed help. Standing crying on my way into work, he suggested that really, all was not well darling. So I headed home and called the doctor.

[monster]

oh I wasn't saying that people shouldn't get medication. And I irritate some regardless of what I post.

[monster]

I am mildly irritated by there not being enough hours in the day today. I have energy, i have a list a mile long -why can't the time available comply?

[infinite monkey]

Originally Posted by monster

oh I wasn't saying that people shouldn't get medication. And I irritate some regardless of what I post.

I am also an irritant. But you don't irritate me at all.

Irritants of a feather flock together.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by monster

And I irritate some regardless of what I post.

True.
But my post certainly wasn't typed in your direction.

[infinite monkey]

I am irritated by those that post 'those that' instead of 'those who.' I like those who use who instead of that when referring to persons.

*shudders*

[jimhelm]

THIS NECK TIE

polo season is over, alas.

[Clodfobble]

My mother and aunt are tag-team irritating me today. It is always so obvious when they've been talking to each other about me, because each one, encouraged by the other's agreement, resolves to say something to me about it... and they each end up presenting me, mere hours apart, with talking points so identical they could be a Daily Show parody, as if this random thing had just occurred to them.

They are not subtle. And I want to be extremely un-subtle right back at them. But I don't, I just grit my teeth and say, "Oh, how interesting."

[Aliantha]

Why don't you just say something like, Yeah, Mum was just on the phone telling me the exact same thing! You two must be telepathetic!