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Freehold and Nobody! Its like an awesome comic strip!
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...*double sigh*
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Lol I got that one.
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HEy dragon I CU are ready to fight!
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I just don't think Easter Rabbi Is a thing. Their just seems to be something wrong with that somewhere.
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well if he was a copper and tellurium dragon he would be way to CuTe.
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I just don't think Easter Rabbi Is a thing. Their just seems to be something wrong with that somewhere.Hey, a Jewish guy hiding eggs in your yard makes just as much sense as a bunny.
Thats true bunnies don't even lay eggs. Mostly they just hop around and make little bunnies.
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well if he was a copper and tellurium dragon he would be way to CuTe.Dragons are Cute!
Thank you!
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See, they also constantly hurt you physically, as well as emotionally.Cats are a great pet if you need easy access to a friend who constantly hurts your feelings.That's discrimination against cats! *sticks a pawful of claws into Gran's calf*
Well you just insulted feline kind so I was just showing you how us felines feel about it =)
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Cats! proof that you can both be a mass murderer and cute as a button!
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We had a bit of snow overnight, sadly nothing that's stuck to the ground, but now it's just cold and wet outside.
Hopefully it'll let loose with the snow later.
Otherwise, I shall be very put out.
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Pawful of claws is the most adorable deadly weapon ever.
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FaWtL of claws.
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Ah, days like today are remarkably hard for me. I finished all my assignments last week, so my manager had me reviewing videos from other departments. I finished that yesterday afternoon, so I have one day with no assignments and then I'm off for the rest of the week.
So I'm sure a lot of people could fill the day with YouTube or Facebook or whatnot; or, since they're working from home, just binge watch anime or something.
I have a stubborn work ethic that won't let me do that, so in spite of the fact that even my manager hasn't found anything for me to do, I'm going to be spending the day stubbornly searching for real work I can do.
I'm a moron.
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So, it's going to be one of these days...
User: My monitors won’t turn on.
Me: Are they plugged in?
User: YES. Jeez.
Tech : Cables go bad?
Me: Both of them simultaneously?
Tech: I’ll go look at it.
Me: Ok.
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Tech: Well I’ve never seen that before.
Me: Hmm?
Tech: Her computer wasn’t plugged in.
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Nothing done, shit hit the fan at high rotation...
The sum of debt is over twice as much as my brother claimed. He refuses to accept what debt collector showing me his own papers, at the same time he expressly refuses to go to the debt collector and deal with it himself.
He refuses to make preparations for the moment of his incoming eviction from his flat once it will be auctioned.
He has some sort of complex paranoid delusion, suggesting schizophrenia (according to a psychologist at "Crisis Center"). I tried to convince him to agree to visit to the doctor, he vehemently refused, laughed at me for being very stressed, and changed topic.
He might or might not qualify for a compulsory psychiatric observation... Compulsory psychiatric help (and even more detention for that purpose) in Poland is very restricted.
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Nothing done, s&%~ hit the fan at high rotation...
The sum of debt is over twice as much as my brother claimed. He refuses to accept what debt collector showing me his own papers, at the same time he expressly refuses to go to the debt collector and deal with it himself.
He refuses to make preparations for the moment of his incoming eviction from his flat once it will be auctioned.
He has some sort of complex paranoid delusion, suggesting schizophrenia (according to a psychologist at "Crisis Center"). I tried to convince him to agree to visit to the doctor, he vehemently refused, laughed at me for being very stressed, and changed topic.
He might or might not qualify for a compulsory psychiatric observation... Compulsory psychiatric help (and even more detention for that purpose) in Poland is very restricted.
Geez. Good luck with that! That is just The Suck.
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At the moment I am spent. My head is dizzy, my chest aching (no worries, those are quite familiar to me anxiety aches) and I want to sleep until all of this ends. One way or another.
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Good luck Drejk. We can't do much from an ocean and two half-continents away, but you will always at least have the emotional support from us on this.
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You could teleport me to your side and let me stay?
I don't have nerves and head for that...
My life was happily calm and stable for too long apparently...
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And a friend MD, is just now shooting down any hope for compulsory visit to a psychiatric ward for an observation.
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If I lived in another city, I'd consider simply ignoring that and letting him end on street... Here, I am afraid he might haunt me, stalk me, and blame me for not helping him. Like he blamed me for many-many of his own faults when we were young.
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And a friend MD, is just now shooting down any hope for compulsory visit to a psychiatric ward for an observation.
That's not good. This is one of the routes to being homeless.
As much as Mort's heart is in the right place, I'm not sure that giving him a room in your home is a great idea unless you have the tools to be able to deal with him on a daily basis for years to come.
Given what you've described so far and with the caveat that I am obviously not a psychiatric professional, I think you would be unable to handle him or give him the care he needs long term, he'd get worse, and you would end up in financial ruin trying to help him. And given that he's got paranoid delusions, he *could* end up harming others. In no way am I saying he *will* or that it would be his fault - but just that it is a higher probability from what you've described.
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I don't really know how to help your brother - maybe clear out a room so at least he'll have somewhere to come when he gets booted out of the place?
I might sound like a bad family but no.
I will not dare take him to live with me. I had suffered enough of him for 20 years. He contributed to my anxiety and insomnia. I wouldn't be able to handle him again, especially now, when he obsesses about being spied and all that crap (too long to describe his delusions).
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And a friend MD, is just now shooting down any hope for compulsory visit to a psychiatric ward for an observation.That's not good. This is one of the routes to being homeless.
As much as Mort's heart is in the right place, I'm not sure that giving him a room in your home is a great idea unless you have the tools to be able to deal with him on a daily basis for years to come.
Given what you've described so far and with the caveat that I am obviously not a psychiatric professional, I think you would be unable to handle him or give him the care he needs long term, he'd get worse, and you would end up in financial ruin trying to help him. And given that he's got paranoid delusions, he *could* end up harming others. In no way am I saying he *will* or that it would be his fault - but just that it is a higher probability from what you've described.
I suspect that unless taken for observation first, he might attack the debt collector/new owner if they come after the auctioning his flat.
If I manage to convince emergency services to take them for observation (or more accurately if he will react with aggression toward the paramedics I call, justifying compulsory psychiatric treatment), he might blame me in the future for letting the debt collector sell his flat.
If I do nothing, he might blame me for not helping him... Or get himself incarcerated for assaulting police who will be evicting him. Or maybe kill oneself. He will get remaining money for the sale of the flat (minus debt and enormous costs), but will he be able to lease a flat and function without treatment?
If I call the paramedics but he manages to remain calm enough to not warrant compulsory treatment? *sigh* That might end in real Hell on Earth for me...
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You could teleport me to your side and let me stay?
I don't have nerves and head for that...My life was happily calm and stable for too long apparently...
Also, $6,000 would be nice, too.
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I might sound like a bad family but no.
No you don't. The stress of that kind of situation can break otherwise healthy people.
Aiymi and I had a relative that was going through some mental illness issues, along with other contributing issues. We did everything we could, but after about 18 months and three suicide attempts that landed her in a hospital ward (as well as several that we weren't aware of until later), we had to admit that not only were we not helping her, but the stress was causing us to spiral down as well.
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I know, I know, I am perfectly well aware of that.
Still I have anxiety, I have some problem with refusing to help others.
In the future father might blame me because of his obsession about brotherly love (which might be result of his guilt over accidentally breaking leg of his older, more responsible and overall competent brother, who happened to drink himself to death a few years ago) and because I hadn't checked on my (slightly older and in the past much more financially independent) brother. He might not. Hard to tell. I don't think he really comprehends the seriousness of mental illness.
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I think I'm caught up on grading.
...as soon as I hit post, I'm going to get a late submission email. I know it.
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I might sound like a bad family but no.
No you don't. The stress of that kind of situation can break otherwise healthy people.
Aiymi and I had a relative that was going through some mental illness issues, along with other contributing issues. We did everything we could, but after about 18 months and three suicide attempts that landed her in a hospital ward (as well as several that we weren't aware of until later), we had to admit that not only were we not helping her, but the stress was causing us to spiral down as well.
Seconded. My mom and I went through the same thing with my little sister, over and over and over again, for 25 years: drugs, alcohol, suicide attempts, mental illness, running away, asking for money to come home again, then blaming us and cutting us off, and starting all over again.
My mother finally said it best: "One of these days this is going to kill her. And we can't make her want to live and we can't stop it. I know it sounds harsh but I can't let it kill me, too."
Eventually they have to decide that they want to live badly enough to either get their S#!+ wired or ask for reasonable help to do so, or you have to be prepared to let them go.
I'm so sorry you're going through this, Drejk.
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Happy belated late Easter (or whatever equivalents you have celebrated ^^')
Wow that's a lot posts Oo...
Err where to start?...hmmmm...
Yes cats are cute!... and they are also demonic beings in disguise, who's most likely out to kill you or world domination, one of those two to be sure.
Funny thing, my parents old tom cat has knocked one his lower canine-teeth loose, so now he looks like a orc-cat. We tried to get a hold of him and pry it out, but it apparently hurts so much that he yowled like there was no tomorrow and became a hissing whirlwind of claws.
In other words a cat-dentist I'm not (tried putting him in a torn-off shirt sleeve to pin his front legs...he tore through it like it was only so much tissure paper).
Kitty (and Hi's adventures) - I'm so jealous! I so want to see a place like Singapore (or at least somewhere equally exotic ^^ ), but I'm afraid that the heat, strain, getting my meds there, anxiety or the somewhat stringent law-code would kill me! (or at least leave me bankrupt from all the fines! ^^')
ST - Sphere's look interesting, might take a look at it. Even if its not where I probably would look first for a "D&D-ish" rebuild, it seems interesting as a really functional alternative to usual vancian casting spiel.
TS - I'll have to get back to you on your "class-smahing", I've read it once and I'll likely read it again to refresh my take on it. But, from memory it seemed interesting, I'm not sure I completely agree with the "narrow-ness/wide-ness" of all the classes or with your take on specific classes (Druid is precious! Handz it over! Youz can take the singy ones!), but it still came across as well-thought out.
Nobody, Cap, Vid, Freehold, Orthos etc. - Too many post :p
I haven't even read thorough all of them yet! Just wanted to say you guy rock, and that watching (and reading) the back-and-forth's in this thread has become a nice and comforting little slice of humor and camaraderie for this grumpy old sour-pus.
Drejk - Man, I don't really know what to say. Its tough, and your caught right in the middle where its easy to get hurt either way. Listen to your head, heart and gut (in that order), if you believe that take him in would be bad for you, then don't. You relieve his suffering, by adding your own on top. The best would of cause be if you could get past his suspicions and delusions, and convince him that what you're suggesting (some kind of debt plan or selling the flat) its something you really want, its something you have to because the consequences for not doing so could be so much worse. But it isn
't your fault if that turns out to be impossible, cause I believe from everything you have written here that you have tried your best. You want to help your brother, otherwise you wouldn't trouble yourself with writing about it here.
Don't hold back though. Ask advice if you feel you need it. Heck just ask for someone to listen to your woes if you feel so inclined.
I'm here for you man. Ask directly or PM me if there's anything you believe I can help with.
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I think I'm caught up on grading.
...as soon as I hit post, I'm going to get a late submission email. I know it.
I was wrong. I got three.
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And the absurd work day continues...
User: Do you have any glue to fix a broken shoe?
Me: ...
Me: Are you guys just trolling me now?
User: What's that mean?
Me: Right now it means I don't have glue.
User: Oh. Would anyone else have glue?
Me: I don't know. You should probably ask anyone else.
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Ironically, I have landscape adhesive, which is perfect for gluing shoes.
Edit: And wasp spray and a turkey repellent (a shovel).