...up the meds! Yay for me!
She also said I should write an article to a woman's magazine to dispel the stigma surrounding mental illness. And that could lead to an appearance on Ellen and speaking engagements...
I told her my ultimate goal would be to confront prime time television on their stigmatizing mental illness in about every crime/medical drama they air. Anti-depressants in the medicine cabinet? CRIMINAL! SUICIDE! RUN AWAY! UNFIT MOTHER - QUICK, TAKE THE KIDS! She aptly pointed out that any psychiatrist on these shows and movies is always sleeping with a patient. Well, stigmatize the profession, you effectively stigmatize the illness. And the people who suffer with it. And those who are undiagnosed are deterred from seeking treatment.
And then they miss the whole redeeming point of being mentally ill - it can be pretty amusing sometimes. Right down hilarious! Even I laugh when I think of the time I mistook Claire for some strange kid standing in my living room! Just ask me (in private) about my one experience with alcohol - you'll pee your pants! Come on, people, you know I'm funny.
Aside from that, we talked over the biased insurance coverage. Too bad I couldn't get her on the topic of her dogs. Or her bedazzler. Seriously, though, I shouldn't tease. She's great at her job.
The kids are down. Andy's at Scouts. "Life" is a rerun. I am having a Coke and a novel that just barely became interesting, thus saving it from being tossed unfinished in the garage sale pile.
Just you wait for the garage sale post - Liz and I are joining forces for the Pecan Grove garage sale on the 28th, and between the two of us we could fill an entire three-bedroom house. Me with books. Her with everything else. We've decided to buy cokes and let the kids hock them for 50 cents a can. I can't find the cent sign on my keyboard; I can't believe I've never noticed that before.
On that trivial note, good night!
15 comments:
You are the second person to mention a bedazzler! Kimberly so wants one (had a link to an ad so now I know what one is). If she is ever depressed we could refer her to your psychiatrist!
And if you are dying to put a cents sign in your blog type in:
¢ exactly - where you want it in your doc even using the compose tab and check preview - comes out as a cent sign for me.
Ok, it converted it to a cent sign - type in & #162 ; without the spaces between the & and # and between the 2 and ;! Sorry.
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I of course had to try that. Got it wrong the first time but that's pretty amazing.
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HURRAY!
Now I want to try. Let's see if that little trick works on Macs.
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I WANT A BEDAZZLER, LIKE, WHOA.
HA! It totally worked. Macs rule!
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It also usually works just to type the alt key and the 4 at the same time.
I wish I lived in Houston for things like garage sales. Blast! Springtime is upon us!
oooh! you so need to read Sophie Kinsella books! They so won't be thrown into the garage sale pile! She is a riot, and I have not read a book of hers and NOT liked it!
I am looking forward to your article, Jennifer!! It's gonna be amazing... you go my friend!!
If you guys have room for one more person in your garage sale, I'd love to join (I have a pile building in the corner of my garage I'd love to get rid of :)
too much business to make the cents sign...I am going to type "cents" for the rest of my life! BTW- I would give anything to watch you on the Ellen show! I LOVE Ellen. To see the banter between the two of you would be ridiculous and great!
Hey I saw a great episode of "The Practice" where there was a new mom with post-partum depression who caused controversy with the show's characters. In the end, it turned out they all thought she was a great mom who just needed some help. No kids were taken away, no sleeping with the shrink, etc. It was great! So there are SOME good things on TV. . .that's what I keep telling myself anyway. . .:)
I'm looking forward to Jen's dance on the Ellen show. I think we'll need a preview at the next GNO. :)
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