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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 12:27 PM
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I think I'm having a nervous breakdown
I'm not sure how much I'm kidding.

I just caught my self literally LOLing at the office. Cow-orkers are staring at me.

I just noticed I'm drinking three-day-old coffee (wrong cup).

I think there's a conspiracy going on with my telephone. I like the display to be up so I can read it sitting down. Somebody keeps putting it down.

I was thinking seriously about wearing my bicycle helmet on the bus (long story).
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 12:31 PM
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1. Depends on what you were laughing about
if it was incongruous laughing not related to any outside stimuli you're getting hebrephrenic.
The telephone thing is just common paranoia.
Tell us the bus helmet story.
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 12:31 PM
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2. I get a bit of that.
A few years ago I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (a pretty mild form of it, FWIW), and I have little bouts of paranoia at work (open plan office - the paranoid worker's worst nightmare). There's really no rational way of snapping out of it, other than sitting it out. But yeah, I was worried about people looking on my computer, talking about me, snooping, going through my stuff, the whole shebang.
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Donkeyboy75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 01:04 PM
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4. Good thing you missed the "SLB is a shithead"
Edited on Fri Jul-23-04 01:04 PM by Donkeyboy75
thread over in the meeting room a few weeks ago, then. :evilgrin:
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Screaming Lord Byron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 01:05 PM
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5. Actually, I posted that under my other ID
It's a personality disorder thing.
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luaneryder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 12:54 PM
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3. If you're female
I'll welcome you to menopausal hell. If not, we still have some of the same symptoms.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 01:15 PM
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6. Go to...
http://www.power-surge.com

There you will find message boards and thousands of other midlife women who are also having a "nervous breakdown".

Really, I'm not kidding. :)

That place saved my sanity awhile back.
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