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22 minutes ago, 10menwent2mow said:1 hour ago, Dons_1988 said:Why not try a month or so without a drink, or even a couple of weeks and see how you feel?
Did it earlier in the year, after a two week holiday where I'd eaten and drank to excess. Felt fine and I have been trying to exercise more in the time since then. I've lost around a stone since the summer and I do feel much better for it. Lack of a female relationship probably isn't helping my outlook either but I wouldn't say that I'm lonely in that respect.
That's good.
Look after yourself mate and keep an eye on it. One of the hardest parts of depression for me early on was just figuring out what the f**k was going on in my head. Keep talking on here and maybe consider the GP etc if it keeps up.
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I'm going from 5k to 10k using the attached plan. Then at the beginning of may me and 3 others will be doing a relay as part of a marathon weekend where we each do about 6.5 miles each.
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5 minutes ago, 10menwent2mow said:
Thanks for all the replies. Haven't really considered going down South.
Yeah I can have a drink and be fine the next day too, it's when it gets out of hand and you get the fear because you can't remember the end of the night.
And yes, totally a few days without bevvy makes you feel a lot better.
I think I wouldn't change the experience of uni at 17 but yeah you are just a daft wee kid. Certainly there was a huge amount of pressure to drink excessively as a student in the early 2000's. Even when I went back in 2013, I noticed that things had changed slightly. There wasn't really that pressure anymore. As a 'mature student' I really didn't hang around with any of my fellow classmates which was probably the start of isolating myself.Why not try a month or so without a drink, or even a couple of weeks and see how you feel?
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Some horrible piece of shit has left a burst open bag of rubbish in our stairwell. Also some absolute scumbag has been spitting in the lift.
I don't physically feel like I want to boot the shit out of someone for real that often, but this boils my piss something crazy.
Humans are vile0 -
Journalism and Politics and International Relations. I went back to Uni to do the Politics course with a view to doing secondary teaching. Journalism was a major error, went straight from school to do it and its one of my gripes about the education system that we are asking kids at the ages of 15,16,17 what they want to do with their lives. I get what you are saying about them going hand in hand, I certainly wouldn't have the bouts of self loathing without alcohol, I'm actually a pretty happy go lucky person without a drink.
I think it’s normal that if life hasn’t gone to plan that when we (usually wrongly) believe our ‘youth’ is over that it can feel quite crushing, I have certainly been there but what I’d say from my own experience is that if you are suffering from depression then that voice in your head can be very loud and very convincing but it’s normally wrong.
You’re totally right about 15/16 year olds and asking them to choose their future, I’d say it’s pretty rare that someone of that age knows for sure where they want to end up, but there seems to be a social standard to commit yourself to a life when you’re not really ready.
On the drink, I’ve always believed the drink exacerbates your current mood. If you’re feeling shit then it will make it 10 times worse to get pissed.
Again, personal experience but under the right circumstances I can have a drink and be fine the next day, but if i use it to numb the pain or to avoid issues then I will be in for an incredibly difficult day afterwards.0 -
It was dreadful.
The sport scene bit raised a very slight reaction but generally just awful.0 -
Friends was indeed fucking horrible. Hateful shite. The characters were atrocious people.
That’s quite a strong opinion for what is a pretty inoffensive, if a bit shit series.0 -
Watching the haunting of hill house just now.
Didn’t think It’d be something I’d like but the wife had heard it was really good.
I’m actually enjoying it a lot, 5 episodes in.0 -
Why not do it in 3 and 1/2 hours ?
Fair point.
I will possibly amend my target as it gets closer. My current half marathon best is 2hr 7 minutes so 4 1/2 felt realistic.
I’ve never done a marathon so guessing a bit.0 -
Will I delete my post on the grounds that it doesn't qualify as an unpopular opinion?
You should delete your account tbh3 -
Friends was just an endless recycling of a single unfunny joke:
1. Cutesy bird says something.
2. Dopey guy misunderstands, says something stupid.
3. Dopey bird misunderstands misunderstanding, says something even more stupid.
4. Cutesy bird looks confused.
5. Canned laughter with lots of hoots and cheers.
6. Moses Supposes reaches for remote.
Not sure anyone would argue friends is some sort of high brow/pinnacle of comedy phenomenon.
It’s clearly a bit shit but it’s easy watching and suitable as a sort of background noise.1 -
At the end of September I was 105kg (I’m 5 foot
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I’m now 95 kg and the goal is to get into the low 80’s this year.
I’ve also signed up to a marathon in May and I want to do it in 4 and a half hours.3 -
I totally get this. I get so anxious and down, with today being pretty horrible. I just feel so shit that I'm so utterly alone in the world and tonight really focuses that. I'm sitting by myself and will be by myself until I go back to work, with my only interactions with other people being if I go in to a shop. I see folk having fun with friends and just feel so miserable and can't stop thinking about how terribly I've messed everything up to be in this position. Even just to be having a couple of beers with a friend would be good but I simply no longer have that many friends, and none who live up here anyway.
Even worse is that I did have something set up but had to cancel due to my own failings. I was really looking forward to it and it would have been a good laugh. I feel like I've let folk down because I had to cancel and I'm worried that folk might just drift away from me, like so many others have done so before. I've lost so many friends and fear I'll keep losing them until I've none left.
It also really makes my mind focus on my total lack of having a girlfriend. That's 8 years now since my last serious one. 8 fucking years. I feel like time is really running out and sometimes feel total panic. I know I'll never meet someone sitting in alone all the time but I don't have anyone to go out with anyway, and I must come across as creepy when I do have a beer in the town by myself so have no chance anyway.
Loneliness is a killer and it's nearly got me before. This night is really tough. Being alone can often be good, but being alone every single day is not.
Anyway, sorry for the rant. Hoping for better things next year.
Hang in there mate.
I’ve felt and still occasionally feel all the things you’ve said, it’s never too late for things to pick up.
You will come out the other side.0 -
I am better. Doing some meditation and relaxation from an app Pacifica.
Amazingly none of my daughters have disowned me or hate me and just want to see me get well, which is real love and very humbling
I have been very lucky and I really don’t want to blow this now.
Thanks for all the good wishes guys and girls of P&B
Look after yourself min, glad you’re on the mend.0 -
Jerel ifil, hands down.
Worst footballer I’ve ever seen.0 -
I think they've got a point.
Not enough loathing of Celtic among the diddies for my liking either.
Hardly.
Rangers won a home game 1-0 against Celtic. Most reasonable diddies wouldn’t really give a shit.
laughing at them after an OF game is saved for utter skelpings, of which rangers have taken a few of late. If Celtic has been done by 4 or 5 today (which they could have) then I’m sure plenty would find it funny.
I was quite pleased rangers won as it keeps some sort of title race alive but you won’t see me celebrating it.2 -
Kincardine and Bennett on here begging other posters to laugh at Celtic is the diddiest, most small time thing I have ever seen.
Self respect at rock bottom here
It is a bizarre and laughable response to their biggest result in years.2 -
People that try and hang onto Christmas as long as possible and shops still playing Christmas songs .
After 25th December , it should get itself to f**k
Correct.
All the decorations etc immediately look tragic as f**k as soon as Boxing Day hits. Get rid and move on.0 -
Including January?
f**k you [emoji6]0 -
Tbh I don’t mind levein having a wee go at McInnes as derek probably started it post match.
However, I think revealing private phone conversations is a bit off.0 -
My snide remark aside you've already achieved your 15 points for the month. No c**t would have predicated that when I made my post in late November...
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Referencing my November post. I set 15 points as an optimistic target and we've gained 11 to date. We've a tough fixture coming up preceded by a game against Hibs. The optimist in me still thinks we're on for 15 pts.
Quite liked that dig at the hibees so have a Charles.0 -
"Sexy St Johnstone" is a trademarked term, these days.
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Fair play. You’re committed to this at least.0 -
Aye I tuned in about half an hour ago and heard that bigot p***k say that Stevie Gerrard is the Scottish football personality of the year.
Turned off.
Lazy pandering shite that is just getting worse and worse. If this shit keeps up I'll stop listening. Shame, as I tune in when I can and have done so since it started but it's fast approaching the point where it tips over in to being too sycophantic, lazy and shite.
Personality of the year?
As far as rangers managers go he’s pretty inoffensive and quite boring.0
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What the f**k, jail for that? Really?