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posted to Ask Metafilter by chase at 7:09 PM on December 18, 2005 marked best answer

I would agree with all the posters suggesting Occam's razor; that one of your people is responsible. But also bear in mind Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
posted to Ask Metafilter by alby at 3:26 AM on July 17, 2008

I don't know anything about meds and little about therapy. I'll just briefly say what I've said elsewhere here, and what has really helped me, which is: give yourself a break from trying to find things exciting. See that this is an extra demand you're placing on yourself at a time when being gentle towards yourself is probably more appropriate.

Decide to do something — to take a trip, go to a class, whatever. Feel the negativity. Don't try to... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by game warden to the events rhino at 4:56 PM on July 11, 2008

Anytime you want to nitpick, think about whether it's really important. I almost crabbed one day about how the towels were being folded in the bathroom (because, OMG, they were being folded in HALF when everyone knows you fold them in THIRDS), and then I realized, it really doesn't matter and I really don't care. The towels are folded in half and the world goes on. On preview, what amro said.
posted to Ask Metafilter by ThePinkSuperhero at 8:57 AM on May 1, 2008

Ask your daughter.

I think that over fifty percent of the problems caused by mental illness (or any other impairment) are caused by the social environment.

Read up on the social model of disability. And ask your daughter to read up on it too. It could help her more than every cent of that money.

This is not some hippie liberation thing. In the context of the social model, a person with impairments can choose to have a... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by By The Grace of God at 4:21 AM on April 3, 2008

i don't have good answers for you but i'm in the exact same situation. I did work for awhile in a psych related field (behavioral field research via various surveys for a state Dept of Health) and was broke...all..the...time...not to mention the sadness/madness/scariness of losing my job every time funding for the various projects got cut/transfered/breathed on too heavily. Then i went to sales. the only thing i can say is...i got tired of pure sales but didn't want to lose the paycheck and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Soulbee at 1:10 PM on May 1, 2007