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If you're a middle school student it probably sounds pretty good. If you're the parent of a middle school student it probably sounds even better. For families looking for a safe, supervised and affordable alternative to the traditional latch-key conundrum, this is a program whose time has definitely come.
Actually, it's a program that has already arrived. It's the Oakley After-School Program, a city-sponsored, youth-oriented happening for students in grades six through eight.
Now in its eighth year, the program is in full swing four days a week at O'Hara Park and Delta Vista middle schools. Run by Oakley Parks and Recreation staff, the program provides students with a place to have fun, build relationships and social skills, and maybe get a little homework done as well.
According to past participant and new program leader Genesis Gonzales, the after-school program is simply a great place to be.
"I was only in sixth grade when this (after school program) started," said Gonzales, "but little by little it turned into a real program. Both my parents were working and this was a safe, supervised place for my sister and me to be. I'm very happy to be there for the kids now; to have the chance to give back."
With the emphasis on fun, fairness and basic life skills, the after-school program offers arts and crafts, indoor and outdoor games, sports and other activities, as well as movies and homework assistance. Snacks are sold daily, with the profits recycled for future snacks.
But while the program is easy, fun and relaxed, there are some definite rules.
"Yes, for sure, there are some guidelines the kids have to follow," said Recreation Leader Desiree Katrones, l9. "They have to sign in every day, and also sign a contract that says they are going to follow the rules regarding behavior and things. It's how we keep everything organized."
Through the support of the city, local and county organizations, as well as O'Hara Park and Delta Vista middle schools, which provide the classroom space, the After School Program has so far been able to keep its operating costs low and the program free.
Katrones' epiphanal moment occurred a few years ago when she spotted a couple of students - who seemed like they might be from different cliques and would never be caught together - sitting and talking at a local bus stop. Katrones believes that had they not experienced the After School Program, they might never have met, let alone become friends.
"When I saw those two at the bus stop, it was really a great moment for me," she said. "It really showed me how this program breaks down stereotypes and can bring together people who are from seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum socially, and form a friendship. If we can accomplish that … we're doing a good job."
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First: how you know that Snow Leopard will be cheaper than Windows 7? When you buy a new PC you will get a FREE upgrade to 7 soon. And even owners of old PCs can buy 7 and improve their system without buying new hardware. Snow Leopard only runs on the newest hardware (as you mentioned).
What's bad of delivering a free preview version of Windows 7 to customers? I smell envy here.
"Many" users got to downgrade to XP? Many? Where? This was only a very special deal for enterprise customers from some suppliers. And mostly only for netbooks. Show me a < $ 300 netbook that runs Leopard officially, please!
Apple is rewarding its loyal customers? What? Charging for every single major update even for features that should have been there since 10.0 like the innovative (!) Put Back button in the trash?
Why is it so difficult for the author to find proper arguments? There are a lot if you just try to think yourselve instead of repeating what Apple says on a marketing event.
Here are some more questions to ask: when will the Mac see great speech recognition, powerful handwriting recognition (not only for single Chinese characters), Blu-Ray support, full out-of-the-box TV viewing and recording or a resolution indepentend UI like Vista delivers for 2 years now?
I don't see the benefit of being uncritical to Apple.
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What's up with newspaper video today? On the news that The New York Times is , it's got to be worth some thought.
Peter Ralph recently wrote , and Rob Curley wrote in response to a really nice post by Colin Mulvany, written just before his newsroom's ranks were decimated.
Peter was on a rant about video awards, to the tune of "things that win awards are not necessarily things people want to watch," which is similar to what we hear about all kinds of journalism awards. He also called for some proper measurements or stats reporting vis-à-vis video — let's hear some real numbers, after so many newsrooms have invested so much time and so much money in churning out so many hours of online video. Come on, guys, pony up. What are your numbers?
He also called out the "time spent" hand. You say you have umpty-zillion hits on your videos, but how many of those viewers stayed in for the entire length of the video? How many clicked out before the stupid pre-roll finished? How many bailed halfway through because they were bored to death?
The final three of Peter's tips are probably the strongest :
- sales of viagra Are you STILL waiting for the number of videos watched to increase at your site? How much longer are you going to wait?
- sales of viagra WHICH videos are people watching, and sales of viagra for more of the same?
- sales of viagra Peter is wary of subjects who agree to collaborate with the videographer. Have you put sales of viagra journalistic integrity at risk when you have allowed this? Are you, in fact, doing p.r. in your video work?
Rob is an executive at the company that owns the Las Vegas Sun, which . In his post, he wrote:
We've hired skilled video shooters and editors with professional backgrounds. Our videos look great — as good, if not better than a lot of local television stations around the country, and probably better than almost any other newspaper out there … with the exception of The Washington Post and NY Times, who have basically gone with a pretty-dang polished documentary look.
One likely big difference between shooters at The Post and The Times is that all of our videographers here at Greenspun Interactive are basically expected to produce a piece a day. Everyday.
But — in my mind and priorities — more importantly than either quality or quantity in video production is this question: Are we producing videos that people actually want to watch?
That's the "save my newspaper, please" question, isn't it? The point IS the numbers (just like Peter said): If there ain't nobody watching, then WHY are you shooting all this video?
One reason is to sales of viagra In a priceless Curleyism, Rob wrote:
… we really don't have a need for video of the latest car accident on Interstate 215 unless it involves six semi-trucks, one of which was carrying fuel and another was carrying live pigs. I do want video of that accident when it happens. And damn quickly.
Yeah, me too! Moreover, I want it on my iPhone, in high-def.
Rob touches on this too, and I think this is a very important piece of our future. When the stars of the AT&T 3G network are aligned just right, and my iPhone battery isn't dead, and I have 10 minutes to kill (say, waiting in a doctor's office), I sales of viagra watching high-def YouTube videos on that pretty glass screen. Love it, I tell you!
Now, what if I could trust your Web site to dish me up at least one interesting, sales of viagra whenever I catch that sweet spare 10 minutes? Or maybe not your site, but instead a smart aggregator like ? (You get the click anyway.) If I developed high enough trust in your ability to amuse, surprise, or enlighten me, I'd be your .
That would be another good reason for you to be shooting all this video — if you could sales of viagra to you (well, me and some big number of other iPhone users), it would be well worth it.
How many people do you honestly think go to YouTube and search for news documentaries? Let me answer that one for you: Not enough to pay anyone's salary.
Rob has a very good point there, but I think we need to be realistic about the many and various sales of viagra as well as the appeal of really silly, stupid videos. I wrote earlier this month — the point being that community, sharing, communication, identity, and self-expression are all PART OF the ginormous success of YouTube, and all of those are — admit it, sales of viagra — things that news Web sites sorely lack.
In other words, there's more to video than video.
Rob refers to sports highlights, celebrity interviews, and other stuff that might be seen as tasty, fattening, sugar-laden desserts placed next to the vitamin-rich broccoli of true journalism. "Give them what they want sales of viagra," Rob wrote. I agree wholeheartedly — that's what good newspapers used to try to do (and some still do).
What is still frigging hard about all this — a news Web site today is not the buffet table that a printed newspaper used to be. I am not browsing around randomly on your Web site, happening upon your loveliest desserts or videos as I peruse the latest miserable financial news. I am, instead, perusing news feeds and blog feeds in an RSS reader and on iGoogle, clicking URLs in Twitter, scanning the "popular" list at YouTube.
And (bottom line) your videos are not showing up there.
sales of viagra I urge you to read this painfully honest from Stephanie Romanski, Web editor for the Grand Island (Neb.) Independent.
sales of viagra The New York Times "Bits" blog just posted .


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The first thing to do is to put a password on your listener. By default the listener comes with no password, and anyone can change listener settings through the lsnrctl tool. In Oracle 9i, any computer on your network can stop your listener in the blink of an eye if you do not password protect it. First, a point on passwords. Yes, they are inconvenient, but they are much better than the alternatives. Which would you rather explain to your employer: that you have to spend hours working on password management, or that you have to spend days on fixing downtime or data corruption and that the company is losing money? And yes, an unprotected listener can easily be used to corrupt your entire database. To password protect your listener, perform the following as your Oracle user: $ lsnrctl LSNRCTL> change_password Old password: <press enter here> New password: <enter new password> Reenter new password: <reenter password>
If you have done all of this correctly, you will see the following: Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<hostname>)(PORT=<port>))) Password changed for <listener name> The command completed successfully
Just as a note, if the listener you are protecting does not have the default name of LISTENER, you must do set cur <listenername> before issuing the change_password command. At this point, save the configuration of the listener to the file system. If you are on 10g, it will save with no problems: LSNRCTL> save_config Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<hostname>)(PORT=<port>))) Saved <listener name> configuration parameters. Listener Parameter File <oracle home>/listener.ora Old Parameter File <oracle home>/listener.bak The command completed successfully
And you have a password protected listener. However, this does not happen on 9i. If you perform a save_config, you will see the following: LSNRCTL> save_config Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<hostname>)(PORT=<port>))) TNS-01169: The listener has not recognized the password
Oops! The reason is this: in Oracle 10g, operating system authentication for the listener has been implemented. The listener checks to make sure you are part of the privileged dba group, and if so it will grant you access to change the password, save configuration, stop the listener, etc. In 9i, we must do the following at this point: LSNRCTL> set password Password: <the password you chose> The command completed successfully
At this point, you can now perform a save_config. So what is the result of this? In 9i, you will now require a password whenever you wish to stop the listener or any other "destructive" listener actions. In 10g, if you are not logged into the operating system with a privileged account, you will have to enter a password as well. A typical listener stop may look like this: $ lsnrctl LSNRCTL> stop Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<hostname>)(PORT=<port>))) TNS-01169: The listener has not recognized the password LSNRCTL> set password Password: <enter password here> The command completed successfully LSNRCTL> stop Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=<hostname>)(PORT=<port>))) The command completed successfully
You are now protected against unauthorized shutdowns of your listener. This protects you from a whole range of possible security breaches. Remember that "set password" is how you enter your password for authentication; change_password is how it is changed.
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PBC Men's Tennis Players, Coaches Honored by ITA
LOUISVILLE, KY – Armstrong Atlantic State's Georgi Rumenov was named the national Player to Watch while teammate Sven Lalic was named the national Rookie of the Year as the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) released its national and regional award winners on Tuesday night. Columbus State assistant coach Eva Huning was named Assistant Coach of the Year. Peach Belt schools also swept all regional ITA awards.
Rumenov was a four-time Peach Belt Player of the Week honoree on the way to being named the Peach Belt Player of the Year. The Barcelona native is currently ranked No. 1 in both singles and doubles in the Campbell/ITA Division II Men's Rankings. He has a record of 20-1 in singles play and 24-1 in doubles action on the season. Rumenov is the second Armstrong player to earn ITA National Player to Watch honors, joining Davor Zink (2006).
Lalic, meanwhile, was named the Peach Belt Freshman of the
Year along with being selected to the Peach Belt All-Conference
Second Team for both singles and doubles. The Banja Luka, Bosnia,
native has an undefeated record in dual singles action, dropping
only one set the entire spring. He has also been ranked in the top
30 in both singles and doubles nationally this season. Lalic is
the third Armstrong player to earn ITA DII National Rookie of
the Year honors, along with Phillip Schertel (1992) and teammate
and current senior Eudaldo Bonet (2009).
Eva Huning, the 2012 Men's Assistant Coach of the Year, has helped guide the Columbus State program to back-to-back semifinal appearances in the NCAA Division II Men's National Championship. This year's team has a record of 22-3, with the only losses coming to the top two teams in the nation. She was awarded ITA Region Coach of the year on the women's side last season.
2012 Men's National Award
Wilson/ITA Coach of the Year – Derrick Racine, University of
West Florida
ITA Assistant Coach of the Year – Eva Huning,
Columbus State University
ITA Senior Player of the Year – Christian Hansen, Valdosta
State University
ITA Rookie Player of the Year – Sven Lalic, Armstrong
Atlantic State University
ITA Player to Watch – Georgi Rumenov, Armstrong
Atlantic State University
ITA/Arthur Ashe Jr. Award for Leadership and Sportsmanship –
Tyler McCullough, West Liberty University
Southeast Region Award Winners
Wilson/ITA Coach of the Year - Simon Earnshaw, Armstrong
Atlantic State University
Assistant Coach of the Year - Eva Huning, Columbus State
Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship - Jerome
Leborgne, Georgia College
Senior Player of the Year - Mikk Irdoja, Armstrong Atlantic
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Player to Watch - Georgi Rumenov, Armstrong Atlantic State
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It's been almost a year since Mary Anne Hobbs slayed the dancefloors of North America with her relentless DJ sets by turning an unwieldy situation into her impromptu "Volcano Refugee Party" tour, during which she graciously announced the end of her legendary BBC Radio1 Experimental program last year. She's been busy working at Sheffield University Union of Students as the Media Development Coordinator, as well as watching Black Swan reach critical success, which she helped source the music for. In April 2011, she returns to North America with a mixed series of solo performances and curated showcases featuring special guests Gonjasufi, Lorn, Take, Strangeloop, and others on select dates.
Mary Anne Hobbs has just recently announced her return to radio on Xfm, the station where she launched her career in radio, presenting a weekly show beginning in a primetime Saturday evening slot. The new Xfm show premiers July 9th but Mary Anne will be presenting a series of audio and visual postcards from her American tour throughout April, which will feature online at xfm.co.uk as well as on air. She'll also be publishing her tour blog & video updates, covered exclusively by URB Magazine.
"The Road Warrior Tour" is sponsored by Dubspot, a cutting-edge electronic music production and DJ school based in New York, where Mary Anne will be stopping by to conduct a workshop for students during her stay in the city. Los Angeles fashion designer Adam Saaks has also partnered with the tour, creating his signature custom-cut attire for Mary Anne Hobbs' performances. Adam has fashioned clothing designs for celebrities and rockstars such as Keira Knightly, Eva Longoria, Alicia Keys, Eve, Jessica Alba, Paris and Nicky Hilton, Nicole Ritchie, Shannon Elizabeth, Heather Graham, Lenny Kravitz, Justin Timberlake, and many more.
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"...about 100 men from the top inner circle representing their four major dimensions of power: (1) the international banking dynasties, (2) their corporations involved in vast, international enterprises, (3) the American tax-exempt foundations, and (4) the establishment representatives who have gained high offices in government, especially the United States government."
The following article, posted today on American Thinker, does well to describe some of the current activities of the third major dimension- American Thinker: Foundations Gone Wild.
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Kona Real Estate Market and Distressed Property Update (August 15, 2012)
The Kona real estate market inventory has edged up slightly over the past month. At the same time, the 12 month moving average and median price has also moved upward.
This is the first time since the downturn began in late 2006 that year over year prices have shown an increase. Basically, this means that the average and median prices in the past 12 months are higher than they were in the same period from 2010 to 2011.
Kona Market at a Glance
The North Kona residential moving average and median price is showing a slight increase. This increase is for homes priced up to $4,000,000 that have been sold in the last 12 months. The new median price is $374,000, up from $370,300, for the 12 month period from August 15, 2010 to August 15, 2011.
Another statistic that reflects the residential price increase is the median price for all West Hawaii homes sold in the past and previous 12 month period. The median price for the 835 sales in the 2010 to 2011 period was $330,500, and for the 2011 to 2012 period it is $340,000; a +3% change.
The increase appears slow, however, each statistical update seems to show an improving trend.
Distressed Properties Inventory Continue Slow Decline
The Big Island trend over the past 12 months shows a steady decline in the percentage of distressed properties. Waikoloa is the only exception, showing a slight increase in the percentage of distressed properties available for sale. However, the total numbers of these properties show a significant decline since August 2011.
The island-wide count for REO (foreclosure) properties for the major lenders tracked is the same as the last update at only 88 properties. This is dramatically down from the high count of 236 properties in August of 2011.
While the overall Kona real estate market inventory remains extremely low in the under $400,000 price range, there are some great deals to be found in the $500,000 to $700,000 price range.
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NJ Mom Accused of Bringing 5-year-old into Tanning Booth Pleads Not Guilty
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A deeply tanned New Jersey mother accused of causing skin burns to her young daughter by taking her into a tanning booth pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a child endangerment charge, and the tanning salon's owner appeared to corroborate her story.By David Porter , May 02, 2012
New Jersey CVS Mixed Up Cancer Meds With Kids' Fluoride
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The state attorney general's office has begun a preliminary investigation into a CVS pharmacy's mistaken distribution of pills for the treatment of breast cancer to children instead of the fluoride pills that were prescribed.By Associated Press , March 03, 2012
Whitney Houston Remembered at Hometown Funeral
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Clapping hands and swaying to gospel hymns in the church where Whitney Houston's powerful voice once wowed her congregation, the biggest names in entertainment sang along with the choir to remember the pop superstar at her hometown funeral Saturday.By Nekesa Mumbi Moody , February 18, 2012
NJ Camel Predicts Giants Will Win the Super Bowl
LACEY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey camel with an appetite for picking winning NFL teams has signaled the New York Giants will win the Super Bowl.By Wayne Parry , January 26, 2012
NJ Woman Charged in Penis Silicone Injection Death
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey woman who police say injected a man's penis with silicone, resulting in his death, has been charged with manslaughter.By Associated Press , December 10, 2011
Flying Squirrel Invades New Jersey Emergency Room
RAHWAY, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters were needed stat after a flying squirrel went nuts in a New Jersey hospital's emergency room.By Associated Press , November 30, 2011
NJ Dad Arrested in Death of Girl Tossed in Creek
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Score(Home/Away): 7-4 W
The Peoria Rivermen scored the final five goals of the game to earn a 7-4 victory over the San Antonio Rampage on Wednesday night at Carver Arena. The two teams entered the game tied for the top spot in the West Division and the Western Conference and the win pushed Peoria into sole possession of first place for the first time since Oct. 30.
Derek Nesbitt scored four times and finished with five points and became the first Rivermen since Charles Linglet on April 3, 2007 to have a five-point game. It was the first Rivermen hat trick since Derek Armstrong scored four times on Jan. 30, 2010.
The Rampage found the back of the net first when Petr Prucha capitalized on the power play at 16:06. His wrist shot looked to be going wide, but it deflected off of Jake Allen's glove and trickled into the net for his eighth of the year. Brett MacLean and Garret Stafford picked up assists on the goal.
Bracken Kearns put the Rampage up 2-0 on the very next San Antonio shot just 57 seconds later off a bad bounce in front of Allen. Ryan Hollweg's shot deflected off of Matt Watkins and bounced right across the slot to Kearns for the tap-in.
The Rivermen responded with a power-play goal of their own with just 20 seconds left in the opening frame. Nesbitt and Nikita Nikitin moved the puck around the perimeter and Nathan Oystrick's slapshot beat Rampage goaltender Al Montoya five-hole. It was Oystrick's ninth of the year, which leads all Rivermen defensemen, and sixth power-play goal.
Peoria carried the momentum into the second and capitalized when Nesbitt's goal tied the game at 2-2. At 4:45, a no-look T.J. Hensick pass from the corner set up Nesbitt just outside the crease.
San Antonio regained the two-goal lead on back-to-back goals from MacLean and Stafford this time 1:24 apart midway through the middle frame.
Hensick and Graham Mink combined to setup Nesbitt for two goals, at 13:31 and 15:45, to draw the Rivermen back to even through two periods. After an even-strength one-timer put Peoria down 4-3, Hensick found Nesbitt at the top of the left circle on the power play to even the score.
Tyler Shattock was responsible for the eventual game-winner with his second of the year at 6:14 of the third. Dave Spina and Shattock entered the San Antonio zone two-on-two and Shattock let one go that beat Montoya blocker side.
Nesbitt added his fourth of the game on a 4-on-3 advantage by redirecting a pass from Oystrick, and Stefan Della Rovere added a shorthanded empty-netter late in the third to wrap up the scoring.
Peoria's seven goals were the most scored in a game this season and the most since they beat the Rampage 7-2 on Nov. 20, 2009.
Peoria outshot San Antonio 37-28 on their way to their first win of the season when allowing three goals or more goals. The Rivermen power play finished 3-for-6 and the penalty kill was also efficient going 4-for-5.
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Thread: how to write a timer?
Jul 15 2012 06:38 PM #1
how to write a timer?
Hey all, sorry if this is the wrong forum to post it in, seemed like the closest (or at least most active) part of the Lua scripting forums for my question.
I'm writing my first plugin, and I'm still quite a newbie when it comes to programming in general (no formal training) but I've been able to nearly finish my plugin until I ran into a problem trying to write a timer. Essentially I'm trying to write a simple timer that will call a function, wait 60 seconds, and then call another function. I've tried a few ways to get this to work using Turbine.Engine.GetGameTime(), something along the lines of:
Code:function timer(duration,startTime) local completed = false local timestamp = Turbine.Engine.GetGameTime() if timestamp >= startTime + duration then completed = true return completed else timer(duration,startTime) end end curTime = Turbine.Engine.GetGameTime() if timer(60,curTime) == true then <do more stuff> end
I've also tried using while loops which crashed the client (such as: while timestamp <= duration do <stuff> timestamp = Turbine.Engine.GetGameTime() else <more stuff> )
anyway, I'm wondering if there is a way to accomplish this that I'm not seeing,or maybe if there's a way to fix my nubby little code there to make it work.
Thanks in advance
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Jul 16 2012 12:04 AM #2
The simplest solution would be to use an Update event handler to compare the current game time to a desired game time. The reason you use the Update event is that it fires asynchronously, allowing you to check the time once every time a frame is rendered, preventing the endless loops you were encountering. A more robust solution is to use a Timer class which can be instantiated as many times as needed, will support the AddCallback/RemoveCallback mechanism and will thus allow triggering multiple events if needed:
Code:function AddCallback(object, event, callback) if (object[event] == nil) then object[event] = callback; else if (type(object[event]) == "table") then table.insert(object[event], callback); else object[event] = {object[event], callback}; end end return callback; end function RemoveCallback(object, event, callback) if (object[event] == callback) then object[event] = nil; else if (type(object[event]) == "table") then local size = table.getn(object[event]); for i = 1, size do if (object[event][i] == callback) then table.remove(object[event], i); break; end end end end end Timer = class( Turbine.UI.Control ); function Timer:Constructor() Turbine.UI.Control.Constructor( self ); self.EndTime=Turbine.Engine.GetGameTime(); self.Repeat=false; self.SetTime=function(sender, numSeconds, setRepeat) numSeconds=tonumber(numSeconds); if numSeconds==nil or numSeconds<=0 then numSeconds=0; end self.EndTime=Turbine.Engine.GetGameTime()+numSeconds; self.Repeat=false; -- default self.NumSeconds=numSeconds; if setRepeat~=nil and setRepeat~=false then -- any non-false value will trigger a repeat self.Repeat=true; end self:SetWantsUpdates(true); end self.Update=function() if self.EndTime~=nil and Turbine.Engine.GetGameTime()>=self.EndTime then self:SetWantsUpdates(false); -- turn off timer to avoid firing again while we are processing (not likely but it's a good practice) -- fire whatever event you are trying to trigger if self.TimeReached~=nil then if type(self.TimeReached)=="function" then self.TimeReached(); elseif type(self.TimeReached)=="table" then for k,v in pairs(self.TimeReached) do if type(v)=="function" then v(); end end end end if self.Repeat then self.EndTime=Turbine.Engine.GetGameTime()+self.NumSeconds; self:SetWantsUpdates(true); end end end end -- somewhere else in code, you would instantiate an instance of the timer timer1=Timer(); -- then set the TimeReached event handler myEvent=function() Turbine.Shell.WriteLine("Timer Just Fired!"); end AddCallback(timer1,"TimeReached",myEvent) -- and finally, set the timer timer1:SetTime(60, true); -- cause the timer to fire every 60 seconds, auto repeating
EDIT: Fixed bug in Repeat codeLast edited by Garan; Jul 16 2012 at 05:23 PM. Reason: typo
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Jul 16 2012 02:24 PM #3
thanks alot very helpful info. Game servers are still down so I can't try it quite yet but I'm pretty sure that's exactly what I needed.
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Jul 16 2012 05:27 PM #4
You're welcome. Note, there was a minor bug in the Repeat part of the code which I fixed after you posted so you probably should review the code you are using. The bug was that the line "if setRepeat~=nil and setRepeat~=false then" was incorrectly typed as "if setRepeat~=nil and self.Repeat~=false then" and the line "self.Repeat=setRepeat" should have been removed.
I will be adding this sample to the Writing LotRO Lua Plugins for Noobs thread as it seems to be a worthy addition.Last edited by Garan; Jul 16 2012 at 06:30 PM.
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Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)
Hospital: I stayed on a psychiatric ward for two months. I went in voluntarily, under the advice of my GP, as I was suicidal and at high risk of following through with it. She sent me to A&E, where (after a wait of several hours) I was seen by a psychiatrist who asked me various questions about how I was feeling and why I was going into hospital, and then I was sent over to the ward where I'd be staying.
Once I was there I got asked more questions about how I was feeling and about my circumstances (I think my files had been mislaid), and also given a brief physical examination - I think they just took my blood pressure and heart rate. Then since it was the middle of the night they showed me my room and I went to sleep.
I didn't leave my room much over the course of the next few days, but eventually when I did I found the layout of the ward was like this: there were several corridors with bedrooms and bathrooms off of them, two corridors being single-sex the other one mixed. You got a bedroom each and the bathrooms were between every two people, with a shower and toilet in them. There was also a sink in each of the rooms. Apart from that there was a small kitchen where you could make tea or coffee, a staff kitchen you weren't allowed in, a dining room which also had vending machines, two TV rooms also with a bookshelf, the IPAS room (no idea what that stood for, but it was basically just an activities room where you could do various arts and crafts and there was one computer you could use with internet), and in the middle of everything was an office where there were always a few staff posted. There was also a dispensary where you got your medication, a small room for doing physical examinations, two gardens where you could go and smoke (I assume I would have been allowed in them, but I actually never tried going or asking if I was allowed), and a couple of other rooms which had no particular purpose.
My general experiences: I think I was quite lucky with the ward I ended up on. It was boring as hell, but there were at least a few things you could do to occupy yourself, like arts and crafts or you could usually get on the computer for half an hour to an hour every day or so. There were also organised activities like an exercise class. The food was standard hospital fare, so not especially enticing, but not completely inedible either. I didn't speak much to the other patients, but I gathered that they were a mix of people who'd been sectioned and voluntary patients like myself. The nurses were generally quite nice, each patient had a named nurse who was the person you were supposed to go to if you were having problems.
I was listed as 1:15, which meant someone had to check up on me every 15 minutes. If you were on a 1:1 it meant there was someone with you constantly. Violent patients were either on a 1:1 or were put on a separate ward. I saw the doctors once a week, who reviewed my medication and checked how my mood was doing. There were no psychologists or therapists on the ward, but if you were seeing someone outside of the hospital then they could arrange for you to be transported.
A week before I was released from hospital I was allowed home for the weekend to see how I'd cope. Since it went alright they discharged me permanently. I probably could have got out a lot sooner than the two months I spent in there, but at that time I was so indifferent to my surroundings that I made no attempt to leave.
Despite certainly not enjoying my time in hospital, I do still think it was a positive experience, since it did what it was intended to - keep me out of harm's way until I was no longer a danger to myself.
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Early intervention in Psychosis team (EIP)
Team of people who specialize in treating first episode psychosis in young people. Contains all the different elements of mental health care; CPNs, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, psychotherapists etc who work together to treat all aspects of the young person's problem. Will treat people for up to 3 years, tend to offer quite extensive support with regular appointments with psychiatrists to check up on how meds are going along with appointments with other members of the team to help people, for instance, find a job, apply for classes or organize their time etc. Also assign everyone a key worker who you can talk to about any problems you're having or if you need any help with anything (for example filling in forms). -
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Another thing - there should probably be a bit on different types of therapy available (I can't really comment since I've not yet had any). *sits back and waits for others to do all the hard work*
Edit: Also some stuff on self harm wouldn't go amiss.Last edited by superwolf; 22-06-2011 at 00:26. -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)(Original post by superwolf)
GP - likely to be the first person you see if you're having mental health problems. They should either diagnose you or, if your case seems more complicated, refer you on to a psychiatrist for diagnosis. They can prescribe you with medication, and also make referrals to other mental health services such as counsellors or the Crisis Team.
Psychiatrists - deal with harder to diagnose mental illnesses, or ones which have proven treatment-resistant. They are not to be confused with the psychiatrists you get on American TV shows, where they psychoanalyse you - in my experience the main roles of British psychiatrists are to diagnose and prescribe treatment. Can prescribe some but not necessarily all drugs.
Crisis Team - are usually called in when it's thought someone is at particular risk, e.g. are suicidal, but for one reason or another aren't being admitted to hospital. They make home calls or can arrange transportation if you need to see someone further away, such as in hospital. The Crisis Team are mostly composed of nurses and social workers, but they also have psychiatrists, psychologists and other experts who can see you if necessary. If you are under the care of the Crisis Team you can call them any time of the day or night, and request that they come and see you. Because they are meant more for emergency situations the Crisis Team will not usually see you for more than a few months, for longer term treatment they may refer you on to another team.
Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) - a nurse assigned to you who can check on how you're doing and give advice on medical issues as well as practical ones like applying for benefits.
AGI - I've only described the ones I've had experience with, and you might want to check with other people to see if I've got anything wrong. Descriptions of the EIP, psychologists and CAMHS would be good. I used this site for reference, you might want to link to it.
I'll try and do a description of being in hospital tomorrow.(Original post by Sabertooth)
Early intervention in Psychosis team (EIP)
Team of people who specialize in treating first episode psychosis in young people. Contains all the different elements of mental health care; CPNs, psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, psychotherapists etc who work together to treat all aspects of the young person's problem. Will treat people for up to 3 years, tend to offer quite extensive support with regular appointments with psychiatrists to check up on how meds are going along with appointments with other members of the team to help people, for instance, find a job, apply for classes or organize their time etc. Also assign everyone a key worker who you can talk to about any problems you're having or if you need any help with anything (for example filling in forms). -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)
If anyone can contribute more to the below points raised, it would be appreciated.
GP - likely to be the first person you see if you're having mental health problems. They should either diagnose you or, if your case seems more complicated, refer you on to a psychiatrist for diagnosis. They can prescribe you with medication, and also make referrals to other mental health services such as counsellors or the Crisis Team.
Psychiatrists - deal with harder to diagnose mental illnesses, or ones which have proven treatment-resistant. They are not to be confused with the psychiatrists you get on American TV shows, where they psychoanalyse you - in my experience the main roles of British psychiatrists are to diagnose and prescribe treatment. Can prescribe some but not necessarily all drugs.
Crisis Team - are usually called in when it's thought someone is at particular risk, e.g. are suicidal, but for one reason or another aren't being admitted to hospital. They make home calls or can arrange transportation if you need to see someone further away, such as in hospital. The Crisis Team are mostly composed of nurses and social workers, but they also have psychiatrists, psychologists and other experts who can see you if necessary. If you are under the care of the Crisis Team you can call them any time of the day or night, and request that they come and see you. Because they are meant more for emergency situations the Crisis Team will not usually see you for more than a few months, for longer term treatment they may refer you on to another team.
Community Psychiatric Nurse (CPN) - a nurse assigned to you who can check on how you're doing and give advice on medical issues as well as practical ones like applying for benefits.
AGI - I've only described the ones I've had experience with, and you might want to check with other people to see if I've got anything wrong.
Descriptions of the EIP, psychologists and CAMHS would be good.Another thing - there should probably be a bit on different types of therapy available (I can't really comment since I've not yet had any). *sits back and waits for others to do all the hard work*
Edit: Also some stuff on self harm wouldn't go amiss. -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)
Hello everyone, I guess this is my story.
When I was 14 I started to feel "different" from everyone else, and I just wasn't enjoying life, starting to under perform in school and became very cold and angry with people. I never thought anything of it, but one night it reached a point, and I self harmed. About a week later my parents found out about my self harm, and tried to take me to the doctor, but I refused. Instead they went and insisted that I got a referral to CAMHS (Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services... I think). Initially the doctor refused, saying they needed to see me, but eventually, after my dad phoned many times, I got an assessment at CAMHS.
I was then diagnosed with Depression and I saw a counsellor once a week. However over time, there was no improvement and I started to become suicidal. I then moved to meetings twice a week and I started to see a psychiatrist who put me on Fluoxetine (Prozac). Over time, I started to see improvement, and eventually, after about a year in their care, I was discharged.
Luckily I managed to gain enough motivation to do well in my GCSEs and I lasted through AS's relatively untouched by depression. However in March of my A2's, I noticed my self esteem was dropping and I was becoming more down. However I said nothing and continued on. Over time it did get worse, and very quickly (I did see a college counsellor, but they dismissed that anything was wrong). Eventually one night, after multiple triggers I broke down while out in town with some friends while celebrating leaving college. I experienced a brief episode of paranoia where I was convinced that I was being followed and was going to be killed. This breakdown was followed by several serious suicidal plans. After this, I decided to see my doctor, and I got referred to a psychiatrist with suspected Bipolar Disorder. Unfortunately, as I was about to move out of the area, there was nothing they could do.
I then had to start all over again! I had to go to my doctor, but he was reluctant to refer me to the CMHT (community mental health team), and I was put on a series of anti-depressants over about 5 months (fluoxetine, citalopram, escitalopram, venlafaxine and duloxetine). I was meant to get CBT at the same time, but my PCT (primary care trust) kept screwing me over. Eventually I managed to arrange some counselling by myself, and I attended that for about 3 months. As my counselling was coming to a close I was still as bad as I was before, so I went and saw a private consultant psychiatrist, who after a consultation, came to the conclusion that I was suffering from Bipolar Disorder Type II, and wrote a letter to my GP suggesting that I was put on mood stabilisers and receive CBT.
While this was going on I was having great mood swings and being very suicidal and impulsive. One day I confessed all my suicidal thoughts to my counsellor, who then called my GP as she was worried I was going to commit suicide. Based on her suggestion and the letter from the private consultant, he referred me to the local CMHT on an urgent basis (which meant I was seen within a week).
Since moving into the care of the CMHT I have had a few assessments, and my diagnosis was changed from Cyclothymia to Emotionally Unstable (or borderline) Personality Disorder, which actually explains everything! I can't start any treatment yet as I will be moving to a new area soon for uni, but when I move there I should be starting DBT. I'm also on Depakote (a mood stabiliser) and Mirtazapine to help with my depression and mood swings, and hopefully the DBT will help with my self harm and just provide me with something to help me cope better. BPD, for me, is like not knowing how to react, and I always seem to overreact to everything, resorting to self harm and suicidal behavior too quickly.
It's been a bit of a trek and the hardest bit is sometimes actually getting the help, but even if your doctor doesn't seem to believe you, keep trying because something will eventually work out.Last edited by paper-wings; 23-06-2011 at 23:23. -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)
Things started from me in secondary school: was bullied for about 5 years by various people, which made me extremely paranoid and nervous when walking to, from and around school. Around the end of Year 9 I became unhappy in my friendship circle. Put up with things for another year but then shifted to a new group of friends and hid in the Music department. During sixth form I realised I was depressed but didn't want to get help whilst at home. I figured I could wait until I got to uni. I picked an Oxford college to apply to partly because it had a lake which I could easily drown myself in if necessary.
Missed the grades for Oxford but was let in anyway. I was quite confused as to how I'd managed to get in. One of my tutorial partners was quite shocked to hear I hadn't got straight As and was very rude about it, saying how I didn't deserve to be there. Was psychologically abused by him for a whole academic year but was also the only person who knew about his bipolar and thus had to prop him up and deal with his highs and lows. He was nearly chucked out of Oxford because of his bullying ways.
Struggled on the work front due to being way behind the others due to differing interests and having had to teach myself my A Level Music and thus not being as well prepared as I could have been. Suicidal thoughts pretty much every day. Didn't do well in exams.
Second year I began to shake the whole time, though often not visibly. This was put down to a virus, even though I'd had plenty before and never shook. Had a first episode of psychosis where I thought my tutors were trying to kill me and was seriously paranoid. Terrifying but I didn't understand what was going on, so I kept my feelings to myself.
Tutor accused me of lying about illness. Huge fights about options, resulting in a lot of nasty things being said that damaged my self-confidence and shattered it to pieces.
Went to Sri Lanka and had lots of private medical tests done: blood, heart, MRI brain scan. Nothing. Neurologist sends me to a psychiatrist who diagnoses mild depression and anxiety and sends me back to the neurologist. Back in the UK, I get my GP to write a letter to my tutor. He suddenly starts being sympathetic.
I approach two welfare tutors for help and become extremely attached to one of them, who is equally extremely fond of me. I mention to her in passing that I hear voices and she asks me to see a GP. GP sends me to a psychiatrist at my local trust. He thinks it's early stages of psychosis and wants to set up a joint psychiatric care programme. In trying to hurry things along, the Oxford tutor in charge of my academic welfare frogmarches me to a GP there, triggering a six month psychotic episode and nervous breakdown during which I'm unable to work and have hallucinations, voices, paranoid thoughts and general inability to function. Oxford psychiatrist just thinks I'm "very troubled" and sends me on my way. Peak of this episode is a suicide attempt just before Easter. Somehow manage exams and go back to London, where I'm sent back to a psychiatrist.
Next few months are a haze. Eventually agree to try medication and am offered CBT and a CPN. Mirtzapine doesn't suit me, so we change to Sertraline and throw Risperidone into the mix. Probing from psychiatrist results in a fresh episode which started in February and is currently ongoing.
Maybe this doesn't sound too bad but I've left out lots of it coz it's rather raw and painful for me at the moment. It's hell -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)(Original post by superwolf)
Here's a video I posted in the Depression Society. I admit it's a little bit silly, but it does tell a bit about my experiences with depression:
I was brought here by superwolf ^^ to share a couple of videos that I've made... to be honest I don't really tend to go into my experiences that much, but thought I'd post here anyway. The first is just a bit about me and some stuff I've been through, the other is something I made to help a friend of mine... dunno if it'll make other people feel better too. It's a song I listen to when I'm feeling bad.
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)(Original post by PointeShoes-x)
Wow your first video made me cry! I'm so glad you're overcoming the bullying and abuse.
Thank you for watching it -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)
I will copy and paste a blog post I made last week... last thurs was 3 years ago to the day that 2 years of depression got me this low... read on to the end. There is a hopeful ending.
Three years ago today, I had a breakdown and got scarily close to ending my life.
I'd been breaking down over the weekend... beginning a friday until 3 years ago today (I say until, of course it wasn't all that simple)
I was at my absolute lowest. I was having help. On the friday I had an appointment with a connexions lady, who was lovely and tried to help me more than the "professionals" did... I remember sobbing for over 3 hours with her. I just couldn't stop, couldn't cope, felt unable to go home. She tried to have me referred to hospital, tried an emergency referral with a supported housing place, Called my psych (I don't remember if she wasn't there or was just unhelpful) in the end all she could do was make an emergency appointment with my gp and put me in a taxi... the gp was horrible and got annoyed when I'd been there 10 minutes because that was the allotted appointment time.
I think I exhausted myself and ended up going home anyway.
I don't remember any of the weekend.
On comes monday, I have my LAST EVER appointment with the psych at CAMHS (that terrified me a bit... the prospect of having no proper help and support_
I remember leaving the house feeling desperately low. I really couldn't stand feeling like that any longer. I wholeheartedly wanted to GET OUT any way I could.
As I remember, I had an appointment with the above mentionned supported housing group in the morning, then the psych.
The CAMHS place is on a busy road, and I remember walking down and seeing a bus and REALLY REALLY wanting to throw myself under it. I decided I might as well go to the appointment, an hour or so wasn't going to make much difference, and if I felt no better, that was it, I was going. I don't think I consciously thought it, but if I felt even the slightest bit better, I thought maybe there was some hope.
So I was 2 HOURS LATE for the appointment somehow. Not surprising given my state of mind really. But I was SO SO bloody lucky that I could see her anyway as she wasn't seeing anyone else. Had I not been able to see her, I would have walked out and I might not be typing this.
I told her what I had wanted to do before coming in, that if I felt no better on leaving I intended to go through it. She didn't take it seriously. When I asked if Adult services had accepted the referral she told me they hadn't. I wasn't severe enough!!!
I don't know what happened in the rest of the session, but when I came out, somehow, I felt a little better. So I went home, and from then. I slowly started getting better by myself, with no help from doctors.
Maybe I had to hit rock bottom before I could get back up again, But I believe that in feeling that littlest bit better, I had realised that there was hope, and I clung onto that for dear life.
It might seem strange that I remember this day, this date. I don't even remember what happened on my 18th birthday, which was 2 weeks later. But I can't forget this date. I don't think back on it and wallow. Today I feel reflective, emotional, grateful, hopeful, lucky and glad to be alive. This was the date that I really learned the three things I always remember now and keeps me going.
We are capable of more than we believe we are
We ALWAYS have a choice
There is ALWAYS hope.
In the last 3 years I've had my ups and downs, I've had mini relapses and managed to pull myself out again. I'm in the process of doing so now. But I've found what works for me, and I'm working on it now. Sometimes I just forget, and I need a taste of depression to shock me into working myself out of it. I believe sometimes we need to experience what we don't want to be to carry on creating ourselves as who we really are. Like I said, I've worked out what works for ME and it doesn't involve doctors.*
I do NOT want to find myself back to where I was 3 years ago today.
I love who I am.
I love life.
I'm not putting down or dismissing doctors, I'm only saying that the help they offer doesn't work for me, if it works for you, thats great -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)
I'm bored, why not.
I'm Rachel and I'm 19. The first time I felt like there was something wrong was when I was 14, in year 10. I had always been quiet at school but I had one very close friend and through her I was able to be considered a part of one of the very set friendship groups at my girls' school. But I always felt like an outsider, like the people I called my friends tollerated and included me but didn't actually like me. One day one of these friends came into school with invitations for her birthday party and I was the only one in the group not invited. That evening I went home and cut myself for the first time.
I don't know what made me do it - I guess I'd seen classmates come into school with scratches on their arms and then receive hugs and attention from everyone else all day. It seemed to be what you did if you were seriously upset.
As well as the initial high cutting gave me I felt almost smug for the next few days. However my 'friends' treated me they didn't know that I had my scars under my jumper - my secret, real friends.
My depression escalated quickly - within two months I was seriously suicidal. It was the christmas holidays and I wasn't getting on with my parents, I think they put my moodiness down to being a badly-behaved teenager. I planned to jump out of my bathroom window and dive towards the garden as if it was a swimming pool. If all went to plan I would break my neck and die instantly. It really scares me how close I got - one evening I climbed onto the window ledge before deciding I couldn't do it.
Luckily the suicidal thoughts went away on their own once I went back to school in January and got back into a routine of lessons and homework to keep me occupied. My self-harm continued to get worse for a while but by summer it had dried up.
Year 11 was better and the old scars slowly faded. The following summer was even better - I got good GCSE results, went on an amazing holiday to California and even got asked out by a boy! I was looking forward to college and applying to uni after that - maybe Cambridge!
However, things didn't go to plan. I hated my body and started a diet which rapidly descended into bulimia which controlled my life. I started self harming again worse than ever. After about 6 months of getting worse and worse I snapped and attempted suicide. It came on suddenly, one day I just decided to overdose.
I ended up in A&E and although it was a horrible experience I was able to finally get the help I needed. I was referred to CAMHS and saw a psychiatrist and CPN the next day. I was put on 20 mg of fluoxetine and given weekly appointments with the nurse. I didn't get better though and I soon stopped taking my medication. I don't think I really wanted to get better - I hadn't hit rock bottom yet.
For the next year things carried on without changing much. My eating disorder got worse, then better, as did my self harm, but a year after my suicide attempt I found myself back in the same situation - desperately depressed, cutting myself deeper every day and skipping lessons to eat and puke food. I started to stockpile pills to overdose on and took a couple of smaller overdoses, I guess as 'practice'.
Luckily my parents realised what was happening this time. They searched my room while I was at a party, found my pills and took me straight to A&E which was probably a good thing as I was drunk and planning to overdose when I got home.
This time the person I saw at A&E decided I wasn't safe and I was admitted to hospital. Luckily I was a few months under 18 and was able to go to a children and adolescents' unit. I spent 6 weeks there and I can honestly say it really helped me. At first it just kept me safe, but the supportive staff and patients really helped me feel better. I started on fluoxetine again and this time went up to 60 mg which really did lift my mood. There was a school attached to the unit and my case teacher was so nice to me, it made me feel better about myself. Just being away from home was like being on holiday, not having to deal with the stress of my parents, college or choosing what to eat.
When I was discharged I was in a much better place but that was only the start of my recovery. My self harm wasm just as bad as before I'd been admitted to hospital but I was less suicidal. I tried going back to college but couldn't deal with it, so I was allowed back to the hospital as a day patient so I could access the school which gave me a safe environment in which I could try and study for my A levels. I had to teach myself the material I'd missed.
My exams didn't exactly go well but luckily I'd scored highly enough in previous tests to get the grades I needed for uni. I left the hospital for good after my last exam and over the summer things slowly, slowly improved. At first I wasn't sure whether or not I should actually go to uni but I made a decision to go for it and that gave me something to strive to be well for.
I think one of the main things in my recovery was the therapist I saw over the summer. My dad gets private medical insurance through his work so I was able to see a CBT therapist at The Priory. She was really good, she was able to explain where some of my issues had come from and really helped me unpick my thoughts and feelings. I feel much better equiped to deal with difficult situations since seeing her.
In September I left for uni and I have to say it was the best thing I've done in my life, I'm a lot happier away from home. I met a boy who has been so amazingly wonderful and supportive. I still struggle sometimes and I'm still on 40 mg of fluoxetine, but from my worst things have improved X 100000000000000. I'm working on putting this episode of my life behind me and moving on to better things.
Wow, sorry it's such an essay! For anyone who's feeling really bad, do remember that it will get better. Trust me I know that it feels like it won't, but it will. -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)
Some of your experiences really brought tears to my eyes and I think it's amazing that you're still holding on to be honest.
My experiences are probably nothing compared to some of yours, but I thought I'd share anyway, even if it seems a little silly.
I have always been held outside for most of my life, when I lived in my home country I was bullied and pushed outside because my family was not like everyone elses but I seemed to be able to deal with it as a younger child.
The depression probably started in year 9, my first year at school in this country. At first it was exciting, but I felt alien to everyone and people treated me like I was stupid. Everytime someone asked about my life or me they would have that smile, the kind where you can tell there's a hidding meaning to this question and no matter how you answer they will laugh at you. I dragged myself through the year with as little work as I could get away with, my motivation was near nothing and I didn't just feel alone, I felt so strangely empty. The people I spent time with in school, and I meant spent time with and nothing else, would save me a seat at lunch and rarely ever talk to me, finally summer came and I found an escape in my horse riding. Spending hours in the mountains with my horse, telling her about everything and how I was feeling actually helped me for the time being, even if she didn't understand me, it felt like she was listening. It felt like when I was riding I was in limbo for the time being, stuck in my own little bubble, away from the rest of the world and like time stood still. But everytime I returned to the stables, time started again and the real world came back to me.
My first suicide attempt (I tried to put it inside a spoiler since it's a little more graphical)
Spoiler:ShowIn year 10 my parents argued even more than they used to, my mother would come back into the kitchen and cry about things in the past. Like her wedding and how it was never like she had wanted, I always came and sat by her till about 4am. Just trying to make her feel better about my herself and her life. And it was out of more selfish reasons than it first appreared, my own life was already hell and I couldn't stand the thought of one of my parents leaving me.
So school was a nightmare and home was worse, my lonely feeling started going from empty to numb, eventually I couldn't stand it anymore. I just sat in the kitchen, with tears silently streaming from my eyes with the knife, just pushing it further in (sorry if it's too graphical). The strange thing was that it made me feel somewhat alive and almost releaved that there was a way out of everything. I hate when people say that it was self-harming, because although it might seem like that to them, for me I really wanted to take my life, they say suicide it the weak choice, but for me I started looking differently at things. My life wasn't a life worth living, it was a train jurney and at any point when that jurney became too hard, I felt like it was my right, maybe my only right in life, to get off the train at the next stop and just walk away. And I started questioning if suicide was truely the most selfish act of them all, or if forcing someone to live a life that they hate every monent off because you don't want to lose them was more selfish.
I pulled the knife out and sat in the shower, just staring into the wall of patterns and thinking about how someone could have made them look so pretty. I closed my eyes feeling so tired of everything. A few hours later I woke up, my jeans were soaked, I felt so weak (physically) and so hopeless because it hadn't worked (and now and I feel stupid for sharing that). It felt like a trap, I couldn't even find a way out of my life. I cleaned myself up and wrapped a long bandage on my arm to hide it.
The next day everyone asked what had happened to my arm, I told them had I had falling off my horse and pulled my wrist. But it wasn't the last time, this time it was in self harm I admit that. It was a way to feel something again. Soon it became a thing I could easily do 3-4 times a week.
My Geography teacher noticed some cuts at one point and kept me after lesson I talk about it. I told him how I was feeling and he promised not to go to the head about it if I promised to talk to him when I had problems. What I didn't know was that another student was listening outside the window which is next to the outside toilets. When I got out it was a matter of hours before people started asking me about the selfharming and what made it worse was that someone had edited the story slightly and claimed I had gone to my Geography teacher and told him is was because people bullied me.
When I started year 11 (my Geography teacher left after year 10), it was a challenge to get out of bed every morning, and go through the same ritual before going to school (even though people had forgotten about the rumours). I would sit in the shower for 10min trying to convince myself to come back out, I'd put my my uniform and look in the mirror wondering what happened to the happy little girl I once thought myself to be, find my breakfast and eat it before brushing my teeth and hoping I would just choke on the damn thing. 3 weeks into September I took a large overdose of strong painkillers. I spend the night throwing up and passing out, my whole body felt weak and cold and although there was nothing left in my stomach I still had to throw up. At one point I must have passed out, and I had the strangest dream.
The strange dream and please do not laugh.
Spoiler:ShowI was in this lake, with all these little lights around me, I started slowly floating upwards untill I came to the surface, I was surrounded by trees that formed a near perfect circle as I looked up at the night sky. I kept floating upwards untill I was sucked into a star, where everything was an odd cold white, I started walking, without knowing where too. Just walking, and I felt to strange, new and alien at the same time. Then I almost started going over my life in my mind, the times I hurt people the times they hurt me, and all the times I felt happy with other people. Then I fell back out of the star, into the lake, my chest started to hurt and I woke up on the bathroom floor
After telling my mother that the whole week I spent in my bed after being sick was my own fault I went to see a doctor. Who put me on medication, they didn't really make me feel better, they made me feel nothing, which was at least better than before. I found what felt like a friend at the time, but turns out I was the only person who was nice to her and that was the only reason she spend time with me untill she found new and better friends. I told her about my parents which weren't getting better and about how I felt, and all she did was look at me for a bit and then asked what I was ding the coming weekend. In the back of my mind I was thinking maybe she actually cared and thought we should have a movie night or something. But she repllied with "oh no reason, I was just wondering, my friend is coming over from English which I'm SOOO excited about, then we're going out, which will be amazing, oh did I tell you about this new dress I bought?". I know it was so stupid of me to automatially assume that she might want to spend some time together, but I was so upset because it felt like she didn't even listen to me and she even went on to talk about how unfair and horrible it was that her parents wouldn't give her more than 20euros to go out with her friend for. Not only was I not invited, but her parents not letting her waste money on alcohol was more important (I know I sound so selfish, but it really hurt to hear).
After this, she didn't speak to me much, infact she decided to tell the whole class that I was mentally ill and shouldn't be allowed around people in school. She was very unpopular, but while sharing all of my problems that I had trusted her with, people paid attention to her.
At the end of year 11 I found a boyfriend who went to university in England, we stayed together for 2 years and he really helped me to feel better a lot of the time. Through sixth form I got very stressed though and developed insomnia. After year 13, I was recovering from insomnia, high blood pressure and still trying to handle my depression as well as the break with my boyfriend.
I finally found something to keep me going, my animal charity work, which I do seem to take a lot of abuse for from people around here since to them animals shouldn't be helped before humans. But fostering homeless dogs and working at the local clinic has really helped me to get better. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever trust people again after so many let downs, and maybe that's why I chose to throw my love on animals, they never betray me, they never laugh at me and they never leave me. They are always there when I wake up and always there in the foot of my bed when I fall asleep, and the feeling of having changed the life of another living being so something good and being rewarded with trust and loyalty gets me out of bed every morning. Even though I still feel a void inside myself.
That is my story, even if it's not as bad as some of the others on here, I still thought I'd share. -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)(Original post by superwolf)
Had a thought - I see a lot of posts made by people who don't know how to bring up feeling depressed with their doctor, so some general advice about that might be useful. I'll try and post something about it later. -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)(Original post by Anonymous)
What happens when you tell your doctor you are feeling depressed? I honestly think I am depressed but what will being diagnosed actually change? I do not want to take any medication or therapy so is going to a doctor really worth it? Sorry for all the questions...
But if you really don't want any treatment, then the main advantage I see to being diagnosed is that if you're working and may possibly need time off then you'll need a doctor's note, if you're on benefits then likewise, and if you're studying then you might want either time off or extensions on deadlines.
I went for years without treating my depression, when it was (self-diagnosed) mild to moderate. And looking back, although I was more or less coping, now that I've seen how bad my depression got from leaving it untreated (definitely moved into the 'major' category), I sincerely regret not making a proper effort to treat my depression while it was still less of a problem.
Don't worry about asking questions - I'm probably getting drunk tonight (), but I'll be glad to answer anything tomorrow. -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)
Thought I'd post my experiences with some medications and my overall experience so far.
I'm being investigated for MS/Stroke and so my main problem is tiredness.
Started on
Citalopram - Made me feel very suicidal,felt worse rather than feeling better so I changed.
Lustral (sertraline) - I was told to take this at night but it kept me awake and so the following day I was very very tired.
Mirtazapine - I use the sedating effect to my advantage (or did to begin with). First time I took it, I HAD to go to bed after 20 minutes. It doesn't have the same effect anymore though. I have put on a lot of weight on it as mentioned before because its an appetite stimulant (now weighing 20ish stone) and so I've asked to come off it. I was told this would be a slow process (2 weeks on 30mg one night then 15 mg next night, 2 weeks 15 mg, 2 weeks 15mg one night then 0mg next night, 2 weeks with nothing then onto Prozac). However, I should be starting the 15/0 2 weeks today but I have uni resits so I don't think this is the best time to come off tablets. On the 30/15mg weeks, I felt drugged after I'd taken 30 mg and then after 15mg I wasn't getting enough sleep. I've just finished the 15mg every day for 2 weeks, I've been really tired and had to have afternoon naps so I spoke to my Dr today who's suggested I go back to 30mg until I've done my resits.
I am a 20 year old student. I've been undergoing health investigations since January 2010. I've been investigated for diabetes, hypoglycaemia, epilepsy and others. I was sent for a CT scan and an urgent MRI was requested. They came to the conclusion it was MS but wanted me to have a lumbar puncture (waiting list of 26 weeks). In the meantime, I saw a haematologist who said my symptoms sounded like depression so I went to see my GP. I was put on citalopram in December 2010. Since then, my treatment was moved from South Wales to London. I saw a different neurologist and had a lp in London. (I got a letter for the original lp the other day - its in August almost a year after it was requested and I've already had one in London now).
I've never been given an official diagnosis - my GP in Wales put me on mirtazapine to help me sleep which my GP in London disagreed with (she said it was for severe depression which I don't have, although she never mentioned taking me off it - not until my neurologist suggested I change to Prozac).
I've tried counselling but I don't feel as though it helped me so I stopped going. I just felt like I was talking but wasn't being offered any help. I'm going to try CBT soon.
I personally don't feel as though I've got better, I've just got better at hiding how I'm coping from people because I can't stand being asked 'How are you' over and over. It's affected my life massively but at the moment I have to learn to live with it. I do get some dark moments where I'm just walking and I don't know where I'm going. I also buy pain killers and set up a plan in my head then I feel guilty and come back to my boyfriend in tears. When I get into a state like that, I hear voices telling me to go and get pain killers, I don't feel as though its me controlling myself although I've never told anyone that. -
Re: Depression Guide and Personal Experiences (post your experience with Depression)
Hi guys,
I'm a third year journalism student from Lincoln.
Since I was in college around 5 years ago, I have suffered from depression. Over the years I have visited a number of different counselling services provided by different people, but nothing seemed to help.
In my first year of university, while in the middle of one of biggest 'episodes', I attempted suicide, and even since it has been nagging at the back of my mind.
One thing I noticed was the lack of support structure in place for people like me. Now, for a final project as part of my TV module, I am making a 10 minute investigative film into the system in place for students around the country.
For this though, I need a case study to strengthen the story.
I'm looking for somebody with a similar experience as myself to appear in my film and tell their story. Full anonymity can be provided if need be.
I realise how hard this could be to talk about, but if anybody is willing to help me out, I will really appreciate it.
Please get in touch, as I think this is a massively important subject.


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