Med Compliant

[Froggie]

So anyone here like to watch House?
The 2 hour season premiere this week was pretty good.
There was a small focus on a "manic depressive" patient in a psychiatric hospital. The larger story was actually about admitting our shortcomings, wanting to get better and taking steps to make progress.
The show actually got me to thinking how inconsistent I am with taking my own meds, and how poorly I treat myself. I want to be more med compliant. I want to get better too.

[A.E.V.]

good for you froggie!
a sentence I hated when I was young and my parents used to throw it at me, but is very fitting here: knowing is half the battle!

Anne

[AJ]

I missed the premiere! I like that show too, even though he is the most arrogant....

[paul m]

Hello Froggie. Med Compliant? Before I started to smarten up , I took my pills when I felt like, flushed them so my wife would not notice that I had not taken them, threw them out the car window for the same reason, did not take them as directed, drank what I thought were reasonable quanities of alcohol, and generally ignored advice about caffine intake ,took conflicting OTCs (over the counter meds) ,stayed up all night and other things.

None of which affected me at all, I remained just the same, I didn't get better either Take Care. paul m P.S. House was pretty good, I especially liked the part where you have to earn priviledges, many do not know about that, or the white room, etc.

[Froggie]

LOL, I did / do most of the same things Paul, but I never threw my meds out the car window! lol. You crack me up
I do stay up way too late, but convince myself that I can handle it. (yeah right). Just like I drink too much and convince myself that I can stop. (but don't). And used to say to myself, i know those meds are just in the other room and i should take them, but I am fine, I don't need them, and I am too lazy to get a glass of water and take them.
All I can say is, small steps. No more trying everything at once, then becoming depressed when I inevitably fall down on something. I am learning to be kinder to myself. What a novel idea. Only took me 43 years.

[Froggie]

I missed the premiere! I like that show too, even though he is the most arrogant....

Maybe I like the show because I can be pretty arrogant too - but unlike him, I bite my tongue - well most of the time!
It was a good show, 2 hours. Maybe I was depressed at the time, but I even shed a few tears! How pathetic is that?

[Woody]

You can watch it online here

Very good ... it is worth watching.

[AJ]

Thanks Woody. As soon as our house is in order (painting) and I find the T.V.

[Woody]

Hopefully you have not hired Mr Bean as your painter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hNkUyQaXwE

[uni]

Oh, "med compliant"! I thought at first it was "med complaint"! Of which I have many!

[AJ]

I saw that episode Woody. If we had Mr. Bean I guess we'd have to buy a new house!

[Froggie]

Oh, "med compliant"! I thought at first it was "med complaint"! Of which I have many!

A touch of dyslexia hey Uni?
You can start a thread for Med Complaints....I bet it would get lots of posts!

Darn! I missed this weeks episode!

[paul m]

Hey Uni. I agree with Froggie, start a thread on complaints. Wait, there problems is not enough bytes to print them all . paul m

[uni]

Hmm, a thread on "med complaints", hey? Forget that, let's just make it a whole new forum!

Thanks, Froggie, for the added diagnosis of dyslexia! As if I don't have enough porlbrems - er, problems.

A cute t-shirt saying I once came across: Bad Spellurs Untie!