My house and mental health issues

[The Industrial Atheist]

Thanks C'thulhu. My grandma has depression and I think she's been on Lorazepam. I don't doubt cannabis is helpful for you.
With the Schizophrenic aspect of my disease there are auditory hallucinations, so C.annabis would likely do some not nice things to me. There was some AD I took for sleep a year ago that really made me way manic. Usually I don't get like that.

I get manic from ADs too, and some sleep aids.  I also have some auditory hallucinations but not bad enough to want to take anti-psychotics any longer.  Cannabis can aggravate that if I use too much, but so far like anything else the benefits outweigh the risks.  Moderation works for me.

I'm not quite sure what differentiates schizoaffective bipolar, schizophrenia, and type 1 with psychosis.  Like not all bipolar sufferers have psychosis, actually I think it's not that common.

I'm not that well read with Bipolar Disorder but with Schizophrenia, you can definitely have depression but not mania. The auditory hallucinations are the classic symptom of Schizophrenia. With both Schizophrenia and Schizoaffective, you can have intrusive thoughts,  can this happen with certain types of bipolar?
For the first probably 5-10 years my diagnosis was Schizophrenia.
Schizophrenia can be really difficult in terms of cognitive functioning and the hallucinations can make it difficult to function. I was on a site where someone said basically everybody there has to be (relatively) high functioning because we can all use a computer and have the ability to communicate fairly well.

[Jackalope]

I'm not sure what you mean by "intrusive thoughts" here, but in the sense I relate to the term, yes. Not the kind that urge one to do bad things, if that's what you mean. The former I think that is more associated with my PTSD though.

[The Industrial Atheist]

I'm not sure what you mean by "intrusive thoughts" here, but in the sense I relate to the term, yes.  Not the kind that urge one to do bad things, if that's what you mean.  The former I think that is more associated with my PTSD though.

I guess it's basically hearing your own voice, within your own self, as if it's a thought, but you didn't think it. In my case I don't get them any more, but when I did they were pretty disturbing.

[Brian37]

UGGGGGG, 

While I can laugh at what my cat is doing now, long term I need to figure out how to stop him from digging to China in his litter box basically emptying it out. Even with the domed ones, he still manages to dump the litter out. But considering what I just got over, this is a walk in the park. 

He's roaming around the house now that it is not a dumpster, but he digs and and digs to China. I think he is happy he has the litter box back, and I I am laughing because all morning he has been going back and forth to it, but damn it he's making a mess. 

I'd strangle him if he weren't so damned cute, "DUDE KNOCK IT OFF!"

I'ts like buying your teen kid a used car at 16, and the very first day they take it out they wreck it.

[vorlon13]

Some kitties are diggers.

EQBUC#2 is quite an accomplished digger. Fortunately almost everything that goes over the side is just litter, it's very unusual to get a doot flung out. Keeping box scooped out helps with that of course.

LOL, he even moves the spilled litter around, usually into little piles on the tile floor.

[Brian37]

If you wanted to dig a new subway tunnel, my cat would be the guy for the job.

Oh, and my portable air conditioner crapped out on me this morning, brand new. So I looked up the model number and error message. One screw later and the draining of a water well, it fired back up. It had a sensor to prevent damage.

[Brian37]

I also learned a very expensive lesson today, fortunately I can make up for it by filing for my mom's last pension payment I have not gotten yet that teacher's pension says I still get. I waited because I needed to sent them my birth certificate.

Anyway, never carry large amounts of cash on you. I lost half my payment for today's and yesterday's clean. I should have paid by check. But fortunately I can get half what I lost back by filing for that last payment, plus sell the antique furniture in my storage unit.

I swear, that is the last time I carry large amounts of cash on me. I feel really fucking stupid. I cant say it was stolen because I didn't see anything, and I always lock my van anyway which is where I kept it. I am hoping beyond hope it is still in my van. Otherwise it is somewhere in the dumpster and I mistook it for trash.

[Brian37]

Well the house is virtually empty besides a bed and two bookcases. After my new place is set up I am not going to have a ton of stuff either. You know the old saying, "You cant take it with you". Sure you can while you are alive, but if you have ton of shit it is a pain to move if you need to move. But I am also not getting any younger and considering how hard it was to move my mom's stuff for her, I am not going to put that on a family member or friend when I get too old to help myself. 

Cheap plastic chairs a folding table and at most maybe a lazy boy for the living room, but not much else.