RRRRRAAAAARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!

[Bob]

That does sound messed up.....

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

happy birthday to me

bitch ran a stop light and hit me, its not serious, just a dent..  The worst part is she kept going.  Waiting for the cops.

But I'll have the last laugh, dumbass had a one word vanity plate and I have a very nice witness who was willing to stick around and give a statement.

[Bob]

Wow, what a dumbass. 

Make her time in front of the court VERY expensive and punishing.

[Thrifty]

Ever have one of those days when something from the previous day still had you pissed off, and you hope to recover in the new day, but then the new day just keeps dumping new shit on you?  Today is like that.

[Lembach]

Ever have one of those days when something from the previous day still had you pissed off, and you hope to recover in the new day, but then the new day just keeps dumping new shit on you?  Today is like that.

I am having a week like that.

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

not liking for the fact that you're having a sucky week, but I feel your pain

[Thrifty]

Ever have one of those days when something from the previous day still had you pissed off, and you hope to recover in the new day, but then the new day just keeps dumping new shit on you?  Today is like that.

I am having a week like that.

Bummer.  I'm hoping that this is just a one day thing and not the start of a protracted shitty week.

I have a blister right on the bottom of my foot and it's difficult to walk.

[Lembach]

I'm seeing a psychologist to hopefully treat my anxiety and my fear of going outside. So I have to go...outside...to her office. She's covered in my medical plan, but has to be referred by my primary medical caregiver. So I have to go outside to see her too, so she can say "Yes, I recommend you see this doctor". Then continue to go outside every session, paying for a cab each time on all these fun little trips.

[Bob]

Anyone that can travel with you on the first few visits?

[Lembach]

My housemate if he's available. Guy runs his own landscaping business and his busy season is just picking up.

[Bob]

Maybe just ridding over there with you....   And listening to music on your earphones on the way home will help if you are in cab or bus.   Jazz would be good for that.   John Coltrane.

[LucasM]

Lembach, Bob's suggestion of music is good.  For my head injuries to reduce 'input' when I leave the house I wear headphones with favorite music playing [since I drive I have to keep the volume down so I can hear other traffic].  I also wear wrap-around sunglasses (that are more like lab goggles, in that there's very little space between the lenses and my face so light is dimmed all over).

Rather than something potentially agitating like Coletrane (or other free-form jazz), I'd recommend any of the following.  They are all close to, or in, a genre of music I consider so relaxing that I've got most of them listed in my iPod as 'coma-inducing'. [A warning: None of them should ever be listened to while someone is driving.]

   If you like electronic music (this isn't harsh electronica, but very gentle with long notes and slow changes):
Brian Eno - Neroli or Lux or possibly Thursday Afternoon
John Foxx & Harold Budd - Drift Music/Translucence (sold as a 2-disc set, Drift Music is more electronic, Translucence more piano-oriented)
   If you like piano:
Harold Budd - In the Mist
Harold Budd & Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois - The Pearl
   If you like flute:
Paul Horn - Inside the Great Pyramid
   If you like world music:
Adham Shaikh - Journey to the Sun  (this is the music I choose by default during my twice-weekly back massage for reducing my muscle spasms/pain)

I hope that helps.

Congratulations for having the courage to set up the appointments and the further courage of preparing to get out to the appointments.  That takes an awful lot of guts.

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

I've been having some anger issues, think it's part of the Cymbalta withdrawl.  You know when you start yelling at a pair of pants for falling off a hanger you're having issues.
Find that playing hard rock helps.  Some Guns and Roses does very well.  "Back off Bitch" is one of my faves.  If I'm depressed I usually turn to Ellvis rock.  ELO's "Mr Blue Sky" always cheers me up.  Music has amazing healing properties.

[LucasM]

Mrs.DC, I'm sorry you're having a rough time as well.  A suggestion, if you're feeling uncomfortably angry possibly start with angry music, but with each subsequent tune pick 'slightly less angry' music until you are at a level you are comfortable with.  If you listen to just 'angry music' while you are uncomfortably angry you will tend to stay in the feeling out of control angry state as the music will continue to invoke it in your system even if it could have calmed down.

The same is true with other moods: if anyone starts with music that coincides with their mood 'as is', then gradually shifts the music to what they would prefer to be feeling, then their brain will follow along.  If anyone plays music contrary to how they are feeling at a given time it will be irritating, but if gradually moved (via music) in that direction, each slight change will be OK with their system.


Yes, music is very powerful in its effects on the brain.

It turns out that "sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll" have more in common that we thought.  According to a new study, published in Nature Neuroscience, demonstrates for the first time that music causes the release of dopamine in the brain, just like other pleasurable stimuli, such as food, drugs, and sex.

Most interesting is that even the anticipation of a particular part of a song results in the release of dopamine, the authors report.  "This is what music theorists have been telling us for centuries," said Robert Zatorre, a neuropsychologist at McGill University in Quebec, Canada, and senior author on the study — that a resolution of dissonance or the crescendo of a song affects the listener emotionally.

To assess the biological mechanism behind a pleasurable musical experience, the team conducted PET and fMRI brain scans while measuring the "chills" — aka changes in temperature, skin conductance, heart rate and breathing — that participants felt in response to their favorite songs, which ranged from classical to jazz to techno and even bagpipes.

The researchers found that during peak emotional moments, when patients got the "chills," dopamine was released in two areas of the brain:  First, in the caudate, an important part of the brain's learning and memory system, during anticipation of a musical peak, then during the peak experience, in the nucleus accumbens, a key site of reward and pleasure pathways.

The results may explain why music is so highly valued in society, said Zatorre, a trained organist who doesn't listen "to anything composed past 1750," he laughs.  "Art in general has survived since the dawn of human existence, and is found in all human societies.  There must be some strong value associated with it," he added.  "This study is maybe one step in the direction of acknowledging that there's a whole lot more out there to understand about what is valuable and rewarding in the human experience."

Source:  http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/29459/title/Musical-pleasure/#ixzz1AgzbxKzE

Feel Good Music - Dr Daniel Amen's Blog

[Mrs. Dick Courier]

I'll try more soothing music.  Wouldn't want to lose my temper at work and start tearing out a patient's eye.  That would be very bad.