Alright. Well, clearly I shouldn't have even opened up to try to explain this to you, as you already had your mind made up. Seems like you didn't even comprehend the DFW quote, or attempt to.

Regarding the selfish attitude thing…

I feel you. I sometimes worry this may be the way I ultimately go, as I've come real close to doing it in the past. Just don't stay isolated, is my advice. Have friends, talk to your family, put yourself out there, even if you don't want to. When I'm majorly depressed, I can turn into Captain Hermit and totally…

This may have been what stopped me too, as my mom's dad killed himself. As horribly awful as I felt and wanted to leave this earth more than anything, in the end I just couldn't bear to think of the horrific pain I would cause her, after seeing what she went through after her dad died. It sounds so fucking selfish…

I'm no anti-science person by any means, but I have SO many issues with SSRIs. And I ran a few SSRI studies, which is probably what contributed to my feeling this way. The pharm industry is just so completely enmeshed with the data that gets published that it almost renders the whole scientific peer review concept to…

Yeah, my limited experience, one call, with a suicide hotline was excruciatingly bad. (In defense of these hotlines in general, this was a local number in a non-metropolitan area. I am sure many of these resources truly are helpful.) It seemed like I caught them off guard and they were really unprepared. They seemed…

Seriously. With the OJ case, at least they were able to severely fuck up his life forever with that civil suit. That this guy is essentially profiting off his infamy for shooting a kid is disgusting on so many levels.

Oh my god. I was just writing about my own German Shepherd (who died a few years ago) and was starting to get really emotional just thinking about how great she was and how much I still miss her. And then I read your comment, and now tears are uncontrollably streaming down my face. That is just heartbreaking, and so…

HOLY SHITBALLS, ADORABLE PUPPY. You lucky duck, I am jealous :)

God, I love this one so much. And I know I've seen it before, but I still can't help but laugh.

I know I am late to this (am temporarily on west coast time, whaddyagonnado…) but I would just like to present Addendum: GIS results for "cats are liquids":

This is… terrifying. :(

That's a really interesting thought about depth of education.. I will say that the current medical education I am receiving is horrifically impossible to learn. It is just so much shit in such little time (as I'm sure you witnessed your wife going through), and this is coming from someone who was capable of a badass…

One day I accidentally got trapped in a gold conversation with him, and I literally did not speak for 20 minutes while he hollered about it. I had no idea they were called gold bugs! I always just thought they were referred to as 'weirdo gold people' or whatever. I love that name.

Wasn't there some huge drop in suicides at MIT after they began allowing cats in the dorms (a policy specifically intended to help with the depression rates on campus)? Someone was telling me this recently. Anyway I agree totally with your point… my good friend was suicidal last year and since then has gotten a cat,…

I worked in gynecology for a while and I understand there are certain small procedures and whatnot. I don't want to go into obstetrics. And yes, there are outpatient surgeries to perform with urogyn. I am okay with these kinds of less intense surgeries & procedures. I get what you are saying, but I don't think going…

Re: the widespread ignorance of science, I completely agree and it is frustrating as hell. Even the people who are otherwise relatively educated but just don't have a solid grasp on what science is… I had a boyfriend who was very liberal, had a master's degree, who argued with me about whether cold water boiled faster…

I think this documentary is on Netflix, though my account has been temporarily disabled (card expired, ha!) so I couldn't look up the name. I have read several synopses of it and had to go fetch my eyeballs after they rolled out of my fucking skull. Anyway I think it is actually a pretty popular movie, which is scary.…

He's also a birther conspiracy theorist, so I think we tend to roll our eyes at most garbage pouring out of his mouth. God, it is so draining to have to hear him rant about investing in gold too.

Oh for sure, it's totally laziness. And I mean, I think most people end up getting bored and lazy and complacent with their jobs at some point in their lives, but most of them aren't in a position to so intimately affect someone else's life when they do so. I think they try to counter it with all the CME stuff, but I…