Thanks. Over the years I have learned what to say to doctors to give them enough information so they don’t do anything to hurt any existing conditions, but little enough so that they don’t form much of an opinion on it.

Schadenfreude can be a beautiful thing, especially when it is with a person who fucked you over in the first place.

For me, I don’t think it’s them looking for a simple answer. It is if none of their ‘infallible’ tests find anything, then it must be something mental. And if you have a history, like I do, they go right to it. And, yes, it is sad, it is very similar with abuse. I got asked that question a lot when they were trying to…

You received awful care. Being put on 17 meds then required 2 year outpatient care for one hospitalization due to suicidal ideation is ridiculous. I have been hospitalized for psych around 100 times and never have I ever been on 17 meds at one time. I think I topped out at ten. Then requiring 2 years of outpatient…

Even though I got the most expensive PPO, I still have a huge stack of medical bills totaling thousands of dollars. I love this ‘best system in the world’

My mom still buys Avon, and all I can think of them is an old lady catalog brand, and I’m 39. If they want to stay relevant, they need to really ,ugh, I hate saying this phrase, ‘reinvent themselves’.

Yup, I had to play a game of hide and go seek with the doctors to get proper care. I am lucky enough that I didn’t need referrals or anything, because having to go through that layer of shit would have made it even worse.

It really would be impossible to get a true second opinion if they had everything every other doctor has written about you in the past. I have also been in the situation where I was in a hospital that shared a records system with another that already determined my seizures were psych related. I recounted it in another…

I know exactly how that feels. Whenever I went to a new place I never brought my old medical records. The doctors always wanted the easy answer. They never wanted to spend the time because you had something unusual or a difficult diagnosis. I noticed this a lot in the mental health field as well, except they would out…

Car manufacturers are just starting to learn what the tech field has been dealing with for a long time. Electronic security is hard. Regardless of what you do to secure something, there might be some small piece of code, or some trick that combines five unrelated things to lead to an exploit. We are only seeing the…

I have taken dozens of meds for off label use. One I have been on for almost twenty years is a way off label use too. And, not a single word from the pharmacist except ‘do you have any questions?’

In that particular situation it was very hard for me to downplay the mental health issues. I was in a hospital where I was hospitalized 5 or 6 times in the psych unit, and I was in medical there three times for serious suicide attempts. Plus, I have self harm scars on my arms that are visible when wearing a hospital…

Since their conclusion was that they were psych related, they said the solution was to see a therapist. I was so furious every time they said that. I have spent hundreds of hours with therapists and psychiatrists.

I have long suffered with mental illness, but, I recently started getting seizures. They started after a concussion. I received test after test, and they came back negative. I stayed weeks in various hospitals.

I have pretty much that exact car as a rental because some lady decided to back into the side of my Golf R while I was blasting my horn. And, well, this car is a pleasure, after the initial car they gave me. The repair place had about three rental cars and they gave me a Versa Note. That was the absolute worst car I…

I think that might be the page break in a two page spread. You can sort of see it at the top of the ad.

I don’t have my friend’s device handy, but the iCloud uploading and optimizing is also working fine on my device. According to the settings my photo library is taking up 2.9gb on my iPhone, in photos there are over 17k photos taking up about 65gb of space on my Mac. Also, according to Photos the upload process to…

I switched over to Photos and it does what it says, however it lost a feature I used all the time. In iPhoto, I could grab a thumbnail and drag it into any app or file dialog and it would open the file. But now when I drag it, nothing happens. I have to export the file for anything to happen. It’s annoying because it…

My friend has an 8gb device and I turned on ‘Optimize’ and after a few days it cleared out a lot of space on her phone, she went from 0 free to about 3 gb free. It took a while for it to sort things out though. Are you sharing an account with her? That could be the case, but, I am not sure.

Life is Strange has been very triggering for me, and when Kate committed suicide it hit me hard. I cried for quite a long time. I have suffered from depression for many years and have had made many suicide attempts. I have never been on the other side, and even though it was a game I felt a little of what I did to the…