The Batlord

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rostasi

^^^^^ ^^^ ^^

Well, he said it. I didn't.

Chula Vista

Still the freakiest thing I've ever experienced.

When a Brain Forgets Where Memory Is - The New York Times

So freaking glad I had people there to yank me back.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Chiomara

Oh, of course; that's understandable. It's just nice to have something around in case of panic/stress attacks that you take only when you absolutely must, so that you can stretch out the prescription a lot more (since obviously those medications are very expensive without insurance). Especially if it can save one a trip to the emergency room. I'm glad the Zoloft seems to work for you most of the time, though. It's rare to find something that works! (Wish it worked for me; I can't take SSRIs) Really though, if you are ever financially able to acquire an extra prescription I highly recommend Klonopin. (Source: Me, a neurotic muppet with OCD + panic issues, clinical depression and general anxiety. I once had an attack very similar to what you described; I, too thought I was having a heart attack and/or having a stroke due to the weird disassociative fugue-like feeling. Klonopin dissipated the horrible crushing physical sensations and the anxiety within half an hour.)

And I hope your son is safe; you mentioned him flying off to Hawaii??

rostasi

Goodness, had no idea. So, I'm guessing that depending on severity that
there are few non-pharmaceutical methods of controlling this?
I guess the term makes sense since "fugue" is derived from "flight."

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This happened to you?

Chula Vista

Was up in Irvine for 3 days of depositions with my boss, his wife, and one of our lawyers. By the end of day two it was obvious our case was hopeless. We were sitting outside having dinner and next thing I know I'm lifting up my head having absolutely no idea where I was, who I was with, why I was there, etc. It took the others a few ticks to realize something serious was going down.

They settled me down while I kept asking a million questions. Took about 15 minutes before I was totally back. I don't know what might of happened if I'd been alone.

My neighbor and PC doc explained that the stress took over the animal portion of my brain and caused the logical part to crash - remember the dreaded Windows blue screen of death? Kinda like that.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

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Fuck that sounds scary.

The Batlord

Man, **** mega-corporations. Nothing about them leads to anything good.

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Chula Vista

"We committ to placing at least $5 in purchase orders with you annually in return for Exclusive Distribution."

This one sentence, if it have been included in our contract with the China factory back in 1998, would have been the difference between me having to take another 30% pay cut vs. a 7.5% share of a possible $20 million dollar settlement.

(We placed over $50 million in POs over the course of 17 years but because we didn't stipulate an expectation up front it's, by law, meaningless.)

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”