Just one quick bitch ...

[Peter]

I'm focussing on my eyes too much, I think. Never had stereo vision so I'm comparing one eye with the other, and now I've decided that the left is different from the right. So it's either that I'm going blind or that I'm being obsessive-compulsive. Being the positive-minded fellow I am, the former is seems more likely.

Could be that the latter is more to the point, though, considering that I'm off Zoloft and no longer comfortably numb.

How do you manage to have two functioning eyes and not have stereo vision?  I often have a difference in colour perception between my eyes, with the left one being more blue-balanced and the right one being more red-balanced.

[El]

(Well, she's a miniature chihuahua- kinda hard to take her seriously.)

For the first twenty seconds you had me trying to figure out what a person would be like who would be described as a "miniature chihuahua". 

Lol.

Nope, it was just a shaggy dog joke.

I'm focussing on my eyes too much, I think. Never had stereo vision so I'm comparing one eye with the other, and now I've decided that the left is different from the right. So it's either that I'm going blind or that I'm being obsessive-compulsive. Being the positive-minded fellow I am, the former is seems more likely.

Could be that the latter is more to the point, though, considering that I'm off Zoloft and no longer comfortably numb.

I get that with my contact lenses- they dry assymetrically.  Annoying as fuck.

[odeon]

I'm focussing on my eyes too much, I think. Never had stereo vision so I'm comparing one eye with the other, and now I've decided that the left is different from the right. So it's either that I'm going blind or that I'm being obsessive-compulsive. Being the positive-minded fellow I am, the former is seems more likely.

Could be that the latter is more to the point, though, considering that I'm off Zoloft and no longer comfortably numb.

My left eye is different from my right eye too.  I think that almost everybody has differences in the vision of each of their eyes.

I think that the last time my eyes were checked, the vision in my left eye was 20/17 and the vision in my right eye was 20/18.

Do you wear glasses?  How long has it been since your eyes were checked by an ophthalmologist?  If it has been over a year, would going for a check-up to see if anything is substantially different with your eyes from the last time they were checked reassure you?

Also, haven't you been having migraines lately?  Migraines can affect your vision on one side.

That's why I went to see the ophthalmologist, because the migraines would blur the vision in my right eye and I thought maybe something was wrong with my eye.

I've only had one migraine, lately. The little one lasting from somewhere last week until yesterday.  Yeah, I know you're right, but my OCD brain is disagreeing with you. It *knows* there's something wrong.

My left is somewhat blurred still, so I guess you're right.

[odeon]

I'm focussing on my eyes too much, I think. Never had stereo vision so I'm comparing one eye with the other, and now I've decided that the left is different from the right. So it's either that I'm going blind or that I'm being obsessive-compulsive. Being the positive-minded fellow I am, the former is seems more likely.

Could be that the latter is more to the point, though, considering that I'm off Zoloft and no longer comfortably numb.

How do you manage to have two functioning eyes and not have stereo vision?  I often have a difference in colour perception between my eyes, with the left one being more blue-balanced and the right one being more red-balanced.

Easy: they used to point in slightly different directions and after five or so operations, they're still not perfectly aligned. I have to live with it, too, because correcting the slight squint would possibly give me double vision instead. I had that for a while, after one of the operations, and it was no fun.

[DirtDawg]

Good luck with that, DirtDawg.

Thank you.

So far, so good. The boss (General Manager, who makes decisions on hiring - chose to hire me, for instance) is telling me things that are considered "Top Secret" by corporate decree. It seems obvious that he plans to keep me on, after the main seasonal rush.

I may have found a new home in retail.



(I never thioguht I could do retail!)

[DirtDawg]

19 isn't old? 

i was born in the 80s! seems like ages ago lol

I felt OLD in the 80's. 

Me, too!

::

You were. 

Nah, not true! That's bullshit.

 ...  I was my best man in the eighties.

In the eighties, I was at least four times as strong as my early boxing career in high school, judging by how many pull ups, push ups, sit ups, squats, and how serious I was with my tai chi (dynamic stretching exercises), Aikido (personal space defense), Kung Fu (killing) and I could run eight or ten miles per day and did it five times per week, wasn't smoking, never drank. I was in the best physical conditioning of my entire life in the eighties. I also experienced the greatest monetary successes. There were no younger men who even tried to keep up with me. Earliy thirties can be your best times. I also fucked more women than in any other time of my life. I lived good during that time. I was not old, yet. I was catching my stride.



I only felt old when I tried to keep up with some of the young women I had enticed into my bed. I would not want it any other way, though.

[odeon]

Early thirties was a good time, agreed. *feels a wave of nostalgia pass*

[DirtDawg]

yeah. the odd effect should go with time though hopefully. Sensory weirdness is part of the territory with withdrawal.

Yeah.
I did Zoloft for over a year. I had some difficulties getting off it, too. I tapered off like I was supposed to, but it was a bitch!

I didn't have any ocular/visual problems, though. I had full blown, total body, sensory hallucinations, jumping out of my skin at nothing type shit, and severe anxiety.

Zoloft did not work for me. It did not make me comfortably numb. It made me cry and feel sorry for everyone. It took me a while to figure it all out. I trusted the doctor too much, back then.

[DirtDawg]

Early thirties was a good time, agreed. *feels a wave of nostalgia pass*

*grabs at that wave, but it's out of reach*

[odeon]

yeah. the odd effect should go with time though hopefully. Sensory weirdness is part of the territory with withdrawal.

Yeah.
I did Zoloft for over a year. I had some difficulties getting off it, too. I tapered off like I was supposed to, but it was a bitch!

I went cold turkey. Not recommended, but after all I'd read, I just couldn't stand the thought of taking it again.

I didn't have any ocular/visual problems, though. I had full blown, total body, sensory hallucinations, jumping out of my skin at nothing type shit, and severe anxiety.

Zoloft did not work for me. It did not make me comfortably numb. It made me cry and feel sorry for everyone. It took me a while to figure it all out. I trusted the doctor too much, back then.

Zoloft made me numb, sometimes comfortably, but I didn't even realise how numb I was until years had gone by. It got so bad that I was unable to read a book from cover to cover because I couldn't focus. It suppressed the OCD and the depression, but it suppressed everything else, too.

It's a nasty drug. I can't believe that doctors will routinely prescribe it to people for a year at a time, with little or no follow-up after that. Just another prescription for another year.

[Calandale]

I think I'm going blind. Either that or my OCD is back. 

Didn't your mother tell you that would happen?

[odeon]

I think I'm going blind. Either that or my OCD is back. 

Didn't your mother tell you that would happen?

She did. I didn't listen.

[Natalia Evans]

I can't believe I lost some of my game cases for my games. I hope I didn't lose any with games inside them. That be bad.

[DirtDawg]

yeah. the odd effect should go with time though hopefully. Sensory weirdness is part of the territory with withdrawal.

Yeah.
I did Zoloft for over a year. I had some difficulties getting off it, too. I tapered off like I was supposed to, but it was a bitch!

I went cold turkey. Not recommended, but after all I'd read, I just couldn't stand the thought of taking it again.

I didn't have any ocular/visual problems, though. I had full blown, total body, sensory hallucinations, jumping out of my skin at nothing type shit, and severe anxiety.

Zoloft did not work for me. It did not make me comfortably numb. It made me cry and feel sorry for everyone. It took me a while to figure it all out. I trusted the doctor too much, back then.

Zoloft made me numb, sometimes comfortably, but I didn't even realise how numb I was until years had gone by. It got so bad that I was unable to read a book from cover to cover because I couldn't focus. It suppressed the OCD and the depression, but it suppressed everything else, too.

It's a nasty drug. I can't believe that doctors will routinely prescribe it to people for a year at a time, with little or no follow-up after that. Just another prescription for another year.

No shit!

My old doctor prescribed it to me after just a few questions I asked, involving my inability to focus. I think they get kickbacks, over here, from the drug companies.

[ozymandias]

yeah. the odd effect should go with time though hopefully. Sensory weirdness is part of the territory with withdrawal.

Yeah.
I did Zoloft for over a year. I had some difficulties getting off it, too. I tapered off like I was supposed to, but it was a bitch!

I went cold turkey. Not recommended, but after all I'd read, I just couldn't stand the thought of taking it again.

I didn't have any ocular/visual problems, though. I had full blown, total body, sensory hallucinations, jumping out of my skin at nothing type shit, and severe anxiety.

Zoloft did not work for me. It did not make me comfortably numb. It made me cry and feel sorry for everyone. It took me a while to figure it all out. I trusted the doctor too much, back then.

Zoloft made me numb, sometimes comfortably, but I didn't even realise how numb I was until years had gone by. It got so bad that I was unable to read a book from cover to cover because I couldn't focus. It suppressed the OCD and the depression, but it suppressed everything else, too.

It's a nasty drug. I can't believe that doctors will routinely prescribe it to people for a year at a time, with little or no follow-up after that. Just another prescription for another year.

No shit!

My old doctor prescribed it to me after just a few questions I asked, involving my inability to focus. I think they get kickbacks, over here, from the drug companies.

Being married to a pharmacist and being a nurse..........................drug companies are ruthless and unscrupulous...............so what else is new.  MONEY TALKS!!  Oh the things I could tell you!