I learned years ago, to distance myself from a toxic family member. Even knowing that I would inherit a small fortune to be in their good graces, I opted not to have that stress in my life at any price. His caretaker got pretty wealthy, almost 2 years ago, lol. (Though I love her to pieces.)

I finally just went alone and realize it's for the best. I want to go at my own pace. Plus, I sing out loud, and my singing is worse than my dancing, so I'm performing a public service. ;-)

Or the passive/aggressive drive-by.

I hit a REALLY rough time in my life in a year or two. I had a big betrayal from someone I love (so you can guess what that was, lol), my brother died, my two best friends died, I was just diagnosed with MS and several other brain disorders, we had to evacuate our home for over 3 weeks due to a hurricane, my teen…

Paxil was WEIRD for my daughter. Her eyes were as dilated as saucers, and she got weirdly over-affectionate and loving, even to strangers. It was like she was rolling, lol.

I took Prozac for PTSD when it first came out and I couldn't tell I was taking anything. Then one magical day, about 3 weeks in, I realized I was feeling pretty damn good. I have also tried SSRI's about 2001, and Jesum Crow! They seemed to amplify my problems. I couldn't figure out if it was the side effects that I…

Yeah during her teen years, when she often felt overwhelmed, a bath was her respite. For HER, it helped her more than any pharmaceuticals ever did, but none of the nasty side-effects. That was sure fine with us. (The reason I capped "for HER", is because meds have helped so many, and I don't want anyone to think I am…

Spacefink!, I wrote somewhere in this thread that baths were much more therapeutic for her, rather than a matter of cleanliness. Bathing was a place to gather herself and feel calm. As she "grew out" of her anxieties and learned better coping skills, she now takes them once or twice a day, at most.

Thanks IWASDARTHVADER. To be honest, she kept finding mine and I would find it in her room , (rather yuckily to share something so personal), but I remembered how I felt as a teen, and I gave her one of her own rather matter of factly. I was already blasted here because I gave her one, but I know humans at that age…

Yes! I used to refresh the page like a trained monkey to read his take on it. I couldn't wait!

I don't understand, mimilady.

Kind of spoiled the mood, didn't it?

I'm an open book about myself, but I try not to give TMI about my kids, though I have done so a little, like in this thread. I don't want to go into her personal issues. If it makes her feel calmed and relieves some uncomfortable feelings, I don't care if she runs the faucet all day.

Absolutely! I took a pic of my youngest child when he was about a year old and posted it to a Mom's Yahoo group (circa 1997), and what does everyone see? The HMW right behind him, lol. That sucker is very "efficient", lol.

My teenage son is *extraordinarily* clean, lol. My daughter also take up to 5 baths a day (but I know hers is for therapeutic/hygienic reasons. I bought her a Hitachi Magic Wand when she was mid teens and I could swear the lights dim a few times a week.

Sounds like Walter White's "fugue state".

The longest lasting is when my co-worker and I were doing wheelchair races in the hospital down a very long corridor. I kept winning and he got faux-angry and started pushing me from one end of the corridor to the other and he fell down while he was pushing as fast as he could. I went crashing into a cinderblock wall…

Oddly enough, my aunt quit smoking years ago, and my mother started. My aunt, the younger smoker, has FAR more medical problems that my mom, the older smoker though. (My mother has insulin dependent diabetes now, and my much heavier aunt doesn't.) I would love for them to be in a study. So alike in so many ways, and…

My mom is an identical twin. When we were kids, the only way we could tell them apart is to get them to speak. (One was a smoker, one wasn't. It was obvious which was.) My aunt and uncle came for a visit one summer and my father walked in on my aunt while she was taking a bath, and he started shaving. Aunt covered her…

By about 2:20, I was ready to puke.