I like what you wrote at the end saying that SAD has options to consider if their partner says no to getting help. It’s not easy. My ex-husband had depression for 2 years starting right after the 2008 economic crisis when we both got and lost 3 jobs each. He would neither talk about his symptoms nor acknowledge any…

“I want you to physically see what you’ve done.”

Fuck you Brian. YOU did that to yourself, don’t try to twist it to something its not. Pathetic excuse for a man.

I have been dealing with near chronic depression since I was about 12 (over 40 years). I’ve come out of it a few times here and there, but always fell back into it. I finally just went on meds. BUT, I do think it’s possible to manage it without meds, and even preferable.

Reading Wood’s testimony and then watching it...I probably should have prepared myself. It puts her performance in Westworld in a VERY different and gut-wrenching context (how on earth did she stand filming those scenes in Season One of sexual violence?)

Manson is trash. Shia LaBoeuf is trash. And Wood is right: WTF…

I agree with allowing yourself and others some time to mope and wallow in this shit time we are all in, but Jesus we have to draw the line somewhere. Please, if you see your partner doing something that looks like struggling or giving up, say what you are noticing and ask if they want help! This shit sucks but we have…

I feel so horrible for her. The abuse is just awful, and she was clearly groomed by him as well. And he just glorifies this shit: I want to be kinda careful about this because I don’t think it’s a good idea to say that a person’s writing makes them responsible for actions taken by others, but Manson’s career is…

As the anxiety/depressed partner, it’s rough on the not depressed/anxious partner, particularly if the depressed/anxious party is new to depression/anxiety and doesn’t know what their breaking point is or how to communicate that.

Using self-harm and suicidal gestures to control victims is the part of domestic violence that will never cease to infuriate me. It’s an incredibly effective form of control and has the fringe benefit of adding stigma to people who struggle with self-harm and suicidality but aren’t abusers.

I saw the video of her speaking out about this (without speaking his name) a while ago and I felt so bad for her. I hope the best for her, she seems like an incredibly nice woman. 

I worked 3rd shift at the IRS.

Not my first job, but my first job in “fine dining”. I had been waitressing and bartending at a cheap chain restaurant when I was hired at a very fancy restaurant that provided me with only the most minimal of training. On one of my first nights there, the server that I was shadowing asked me to drop a steak knife…

One of my coworkers had a death in the family, so we circulated a sympathy card to sign and mail to her. My other coworker, who was a lunatic, complained that she had not gotten a sympathy card when her grandmother died and why did XX get one when she did not? She brought this up weekly as a response to everything.…

I’m lucky to have very good managers who absorb the crazy from the worst/most entitled customers, sometimes for hours at a time/over the course of a shift if they keep calling back. They make more than me but between doing the schedules, handling all the changes and updates to the menu/app/online ordering, tracking…

I lasted with co-workers (in broadcasting) for a little over 3 years. I hated it so much that I left radio completely ( sexual harassment was off the charts) and have been self employed for forty years now. No boss! No co-workers! At this point I’d die before I worked for anyone else. I don’t know how people stand it.

This is what I found proved true after many years of office work: there are three ways to get hired — know someone, be a complete bullshitter, or be qualified. It’s split pretty evenly which means that 2/3 of the workforce isn’t really qualified for their jobs. And of course the higher-paying jobs have the biggest…

I sort of miss those early corona press conferences. A few people would get up there and say smart, helpful stuff, and then Trump would get jealous of the attention and get up there and spouting nonsense. “Sure, take this unproven drug that has dangerous side-effects, what do you have to lose? Oh me, well I’m not…

Glad you got to get out of there and have the delicious knowledge she was not rewarded for bad behavior.

It was fairly anticlimactic. He’d called both my work line and cell phone multiple over two days times before finally leaving a VM, which I ignored.

Reading through these I’m amazed that I’m still amazed at how many flat out incompetent lunatic people can hold long term jobs. My story is kind of a mirror universe of the requirement—the terrible employee was the only one NOT fired but it didn’t work out well for her.

Back in the early 80's a co worker and I got married (not to each other) around the same time. I was first. One day she handed me a book that was all about sex after marriage for Christians. How wonderful it is, how they enjoy sex more because Jesus, whatever. I was like okay, you should have given this to me before I…