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   From: burkesbabes@bigass-babes.com   
      
   On 12/3/2018 9:58 PM, David Dalton wrote:   
   > While my medications have eased the low years so that   
   > they are not too low except in terms of creativity, they have   
   > also prolonged the low years so that, even when the sunspot   
   > cycle comes back up, I might not come out of the low years   
   > while I am on the medication, and my current psychiatrist is   
   > fairly resistant to suggestions that I decrease one or both   
   > of my medications, whereas my past psychiatrist Dr. Nurse,   
   > who died of pancreatic cancer a few years ago, was more   
   > amenable to letting me suggest medication adjustments.   
   >   
   > If I did have a regular income then I think I would try tapering   
   > off the olanzapine but remain on the divalproex sodium (or   
   > Lamictal if I switch to that) for a while, and then maybe   
   > try tapering off that. I think I could do that if I continue   
   > to abstain from alcohol 1--9 days before full moon and   
   > from marijuana during all of waxing moon, and continue   
   > to not believe perineum click divination (the alcohol   
   > during waxing gibbous moon and the blindly believing   
   > perineum click divination led to my last and worst   
   > mental health hospitalization of late June and early   
   > July of 1996, two sunspot cycles ago).   
   >   
   > ButI don’t have a regular income and for now am living   
   > on my savings, which might last another six months,   
   > so I need to investigate ways of getting a regular   
   > income again, either as a postdoctoral fellow or   
   > otherwise (ideally maybe a book advance). I don’t   
   > want to have to go on welfare again. And I don’t   
   > think, regardless of income, that I would start coming   
   > off medication for at least another two years, when   
   > the sunspot cycle will have started to come up   
   > the left flank of the next peak.   
   >   
      
   Muse on, big fella.   
   LOL   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)