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7-Feb-20 7:47

I got a root scaling done without anesthetic today because I didn't want to wait to be numb.

That's how bad I wanted to be away from people. It wasn't even the dentists visit. It was that there were people everywhere (it's a large, busy office)

David Bowie must have been thinking of me when he wrote I'm Afraid of Americans (and Rebel Rebel for that matter but that's a different story)

I don't regret the sore mouth, as I am back in my lair sooner than I would otherwise be. Meh. Sigh | :sigh:

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Mark_Wallace7-Feb-20 19:11

7-Feb-20 19:11

Not wanting to be around people isn't paranoia, it's perfectly normal.

There's a probably about the same number of people who want to be alone most of the time as those who can't be alone for long -- and an equal split for each grade betwixt one and t'other.

Thinking you're a nutter, when all you really are is just another human, is the only craziness going on, here (there may be an element of narcissism involved, but that ain't insanity, either; it's a survival thing).

The grass is not greener. You can take everyone's word for that.

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honey the codewitch7-Feb-20 19:43

7-Feb-20 19:43

Well no. What you're talking about and what I'm talking about are two different things. I'm referring to the paranoia - the feeling that those around me are out to do me harm or otherwise have ill intent, and are taking special interest in me.

I'm diagnosed schizoaffective, Mark. Despite your comment, I am not making up my mental health condition, and suggesting I am is uncalled for.

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Mark_Wallace7-Feb-20 20:01

7-Feb-20 20:01

honey the codewitch wrote:
I am not making up my mental health condition, and suggesting I am is uncalled for.

Trying to prove you're paranoid? I did nothing of the kind.

Telling someone that they're worrying about nothing is not an accusation of anything.

Besides, with any "mental illness", you need to go at least as far as getting a third or fourth opinion. Psychology is not a science, and if a shrink tells patients that they have a psychosis, chances are that they will develop it.

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honey the codewitch7-Feb-20 20:08

7-Feb-20 20:08

Mark_Wallace wrote:
Thinking you're a nutter, when all you really are is just another human, is the only craziness going on, here

This is the statement I'm referring to. My husband read it too (i'm on a 55" screen) and came away with the same impression.

If that's not what you mean then frankly, I don't know what you meant by that.

I've already been diagnosed by several professionals, Mark. I don't need your input on how to care for myself.

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GenJerDan9-Feb-20 22:01

GenJerDan

9-Feb-20 22:01

When we moved to Texas, we got a house out in an unincorporated area, where you could stand on the roof and see Bell, Coryell, and Lampasas counties. VERY quiet neighborhood, each house on at least two acres, etc etc etc. I loved it.

My wife started to hate it within a year. Too far away from people, boring, etc etc etc. So we moved to Europe.

Advance the clock 10 years, and now my wife says "I understand why you don't want to live too near anyone else. I hate people. They're all idiots. We need to build a house away from the city, get away from all these #$#@$! people." Laugh | :laugh:

We won't sit down.
We won't shut up.
We won't go quietly away.

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Mark_Wallace9-Feb-20 23:31

9-Feb-20 23:31

My wife's from a city of 20-odd million people (and counting), so, when we moved to a tiny town of 3,000 people, she was expecting to hate it.

Turns out that the only thing she hates about it is the few people who are a pain in the @rse (which factors out by the number of inhabitants, wherever you are).

The only reason she'd even think about moving back to a city is the availability of shops, restaurants, and stuff in general. To be around more people? Not a chance.

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Eddy Vluggen8-Feb-20 10:59

Eddy Vluggen

8-Feb-20 10:59

Tried not to reply, but..

honey the codewitch wrote:
That's how bad I wanted to be away from people. It wasn't even the dentists visit. It was that there were people everywhere (it's a large, busy office)

That's agorafobia or misantropic (or a mix), not paranoia. It's paranoia when you check your wallet after the anesthetic and check the time.

..which you should not do in front of them. Trust is a nice romantic term, like wisdom; that's for idealists. I don't trust my code, I test and measure.

honey the codewitch wrote:
I don't regret the sore mouth

Star anise (illicium verum). Available in any larger grocery-store, and numbs the mouth if you chew or suck on the seeds.

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honey the codewitch8-Feb-20 11:07

8-Feb-20 11:07

I am agoraphobic, and I have social anxiety so it kind of blends together into an ugly dread.

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Mark_Wallace9-Feb-20 23:34

9-Feb-20 23:34

Eddy Vluggen wrote:
I don't trust my code

Because you don't like feeling alone?

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Oi Jörgen

Wendelius7-Feb-20 7:23

Wendelius

7-Feb-20 7:23

How are you holding up? I see there's a small crisis evolving
Brist på fläskkött – största på årtionden

Translation: They are running out of bacon.

jeron17-Feb-20 8:00

jeron1

7-Feb-20 8:00

Wendelius wrote:
small crisis....They are running out of bacon.

Small? That's a torch and pitchfork scenario! Smile | :)

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Jörgen Andersson8-Feb-20 2:41

Jörgen Andersson

8-Feb-20 2:41

Buying my meat at the local farmer. So I haven't noticed anything yet.

That of course means the bacon is smoked for real instead of injected with smoke aroma.

Oh well. It could be worse I suppose.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

kalberts8-Feb-20 3:29

kalberts

8-Feb-20 3:29

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
That of course means the bacon is smoked for real instead of injected with smoke aroma.

Are you smoking it yourself?

I have got both instructions for how to build my own small smoking chamber and a nice place in my garden where I can build it. Like you, I want real smoked meat, sausages and fish! Last year, one of the Norwegian newspapers made a survey of smoked sausages, and some eighty percent were "smoked" with the smoke aroma. There are cases of "real" smoking, but they are few and far between.

I guess that your local farmer also doesn't pump a lot of water into his meat, to "make it more juicy". (Or rather, to raise the weight of the meat so that he can earn more money.) It seems like most of the meat and poultry you find in the supermarket nowadays have water added.

Jörgen Andersson8-Feb-20 10:31

Jörgen Andersson

8-Feb-20 10:31

It's all done at the farm.
They have their own cows. And their neighbour supplies the pork.

Small scale means it doesn't taste identical all the time.
Last year the bacon started having a different taste. They were out of apple and started smoking with plum instead

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello

kalberts8-Feb-20 12:51

kalberts

8-Feb-20 12:51

Jörgen Andersson wrote:
Small scale means it doesn't taste identical all the time.
Last year the bacon started having a different taste. They were out of apple and started smoking with plum instead

Isn't that great?

With "industrially made" food that has had the same unchanged taste from the 1960s till today, you get so bored. There is never anytyhing new and exciting to it. (That is actually my greatest objection against Coke: The taste is sort of 'OK', but after fifty years, I am sort of through with it!)

Sometimes, I make food based on industrial ingredients, such as canned or dried soup. But I always add some vegetables, spices or whathaveyou of my own, so that it is different every time.

Jörgen Andersson9-Feb-20 2:47

Jörgen Andersson

9-Feb-20 2:47

Member 7989122 wrote:
Isn't that great?

It was.

Problem is when someone great gets that reputation and can't keep up with raising demand.

Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello