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If it is not going to be your primary mood stabilizer (you have lithium for that), you could probably get away with a lower dose than usually prescribed.

No, never. Do you like old black-and-white movies or does the acting somehow just feel not real to you.

Thanks, DJ and Harp, for the birthday wishes. Feeling tired and anxious at the same time. Hot and sweltering. I just need a break from this heat.

DJ, I'm glad you have a decent AC that works. It's so important. I don't have AC and just swelter in front of a fan. (But last year I bought a monster fan muh ha ha ha). Hot and humid again today here. Looks like there won't be any decent relief until middle to end of the week.

I'm not sure that it is known to work or whether I'm just odd, but Tegretol (carbamazepine) took away all my serious suicidal ideations. I will caution that some people find that Tegretol aggravates depression, but in my case it was the opposite. It was like Tegretol provided a missing piece in my brain. As always, YMMV.

Sparkling clean. I'm joking because it is not clean at all. What is your favorite cake?

Not as bad as I could be, but not great. Today was my birthday, and I spent it alone, in bed with a broken leg, and sweltering. Just wonderful.

The high today was 88 degrees F (31 C) and it was humid. Sweltering.

Abilify followed by carbamazepine

Depending on where you live, the cost of living can be substantial or can even be less than here. Santa Fe is an artsy city and is expensive. Albuquerque is a large city and is much less expensive than Santa Fe, but like any large city it has a crime problem. Santa Fe is ideal, but property values are like twice the property values in Albuquerque.

Generally, no, but there was one time when I thought I was leaving and sublet my apartment and then ended up not going so I had to live with the subletter for a couple of months. What is your favorite seafood?

No. Sometimes I buy postcards and give them away unused as keepsakes though. Why do you think the world is going to hell and why in such a short time? I remember when Bill Clinton was president the world was mostly peaceful and we all had hope for the future. Now even the future of the EU is in question. Now nationalism is gripping the planet.

Better today. I found out that I'm addicted to caffeine. Without caffeine, I feel sick physically and want to sleep all the time and emotionally I feel dysphoric. Got my Mountain Dew today and things started to come together in a good way.

This is why I want to move to North-Central New Mexico. I lived out there for a summer when I was in grad school, and the weather was simply perfect. It rarely got over 90 F and there was no humidity. The nights were actually chilly (in the 50s F). A lot of people out there don't have AC because they don't need it. Even businesses don't have AC. The reason that it is not hot like Arizona is because this area is at a high altitude. It's a little piece of heaven in an otherwise hot and/or humid country.

I'm glad they got him. Wouldn't surprise me if he were a serial killer in the making. There is no excuse for cruelty.