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I haven’t updated my Salmon on the Thorns web page in over
nine months but hope to soon, but for now here is an update
on my progress for the few who might be interested.
After about 1.5 months on 7.5 mg olanzapine (down from 10 mg) and
1000 mg divalproex sodium (down from 1250 mg) I haven’t noticed
any adverse effects; if anything I am doing better, including I find it
a little easier to get up in the morning. And I haven’t gotten into
long sessions of supposed four components activation.
I updated the picture on my home page but due to the lighting
it is a bit too red so I probably will replace it in the next while.
I still have to update my CV on there to reflect the fact that
I have been a Ph.D. student again since September 2015
and to add some recent arXiv.org non-peer-reviewed publications
and one accepted peer-reviewed publication and one other
peer-reviewed publication that we should resubmit within
the next week. Two related web pages that I will also link
to in my update are:
http://www.thegeomechanicsproject.com/
which describes my supervisor’s research, and
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Dalton11
In the timeline I submitted in the spring of 2016 I said I hoped
to be finished the Ph.D. by September of 2017 but that now
is unlikely but the end of 2017 is still a possibility. And my
supervisor said that he would then hire me as a postdoc
if I wanted.
Lately I’ve still been going to Folk Night at The Ship Pub
on Wednesday nights often followed by the last set of
Andrea Monro at The Black Sheep Pub, and I usually
go to visit the Fidlers late on Saturday nights. I was
going to go tonight instead this week but we are supposed
to have a blizzard starting shortly so I will go tomorrow
night as usual.
Due to the snow I haven’t been getting as much walking
exercise as usual, plus I have been taking some biotin,
and that plus holiday eating (plus effects of medication)
means that I have gained 10 lb since early December
of 2015. But I might start using my student gym
membership and also might resume playing badminton,
and doing some yoga on my own, and could cut back
on food and beer a little.
I still haven’t given up on Sarah McLachlan but I know that if I
am to have any chance with her I will have to get
in better shape both physically and creatively,
even though I am now mentally stable and have
been for a while. Also it has been a long time since
I had signs of interest from her so perhaps the best
I can hope for is friendship. Also of course I am
open to other women until she tells me not to be,
though I have had no luck on Plenty of Fish yet.
I am still hoping that I will come out of the low years, even
though they aren’t currently very low except in terms of
creativity, soon, perhaps 21 years (a multiple of 7) after
they started on Jan. 29, 1996, which was a year after
my peak orgasm of Jan. 29, 1995, and a day after
Sarah McLachlan’s birthday (I wonder was she born at night, I was
born at 7:40 a.m. Feb. 17, 1964 here in St. John’s,
Newfoundland, for any astrologers). But it could be
that I will have to wait until 29 years are up (the usual
7 years plus a 22 year normal+reverse polarity full
sunspot cycle). I hope for some sort of completion
of my spiritual emergence, and not with another
waning crescent hypomania but with steady creativity.
However I think that my medication, while it has eased
my way, has delayed the completion of that shamanic
spiritual emergence, which is partly why I got my
psychiatrist to reduce the dosage (also I want to be
on the minimum medication that will be effective,
to avoid physical side effects such as hair loss,
weight gain, diabetes, liver disease, and increased
susceptibility to heart disease; plus I already have
damaged kidneys due to past lithium consumption).
"And the wind began to howl.” I think Vancouver
weather and St. John’s weather are starting to
diverge now:
https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/bc-74_metric_e.html https://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/nl-24_metric_e.html
Some snow shovelling is in my future tomorrow
evening and Sunday.
--
David Dalton
dalton@nfld.com http://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
http://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “My thoughts are for you, love, till I’m out of my mind
For twenty-one years is a mighty long time." (Bob Miller)
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