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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 2729113" data-attributes="member: 7240">Then may I suggest you begin by developing a routine for administering your meds and making your appointments yourself. If you're not independent enough to survive without daily maternal intervention, creating opportunities for using condoms will be all the more challenging.I don't know much about the interactions anti-depressants have with anti-convulsants or whatever it is that you are also on but there is a big menu of anti-depressants out there so I'm sure there is one that won't produce adverse drug interactions. Out of curiosity, what, other than negative drug interactions, could be the downside of doing anti-depressants? I'll bet they'd cost less than the money you're currently spending on self-medication through alcohol and tobacco.Aaron, you're being passive-aggressive when you say stuff like this. And you know it. Your previous statement is calculated to articulate the highest-possible level of resistance to what people are saying here, couched in the language of total submission and compliance. You're having an argument with us in which your position is that you are an irredeemable loser and our position is that you are not. This statement is a clever tactic to try and force us to agree with you. Fortunately, many of us are very experienced with this particular kind of discourse and refuse to let you win. You are unhappy. You want to believe that you have no control over this unhappiness; indeed, you want to believe that you have no control in your life, period. So, when you fight with people, your aggression is cloaked in a discourse of powerlessness. That's because you want to have power without responsibility, without agency. You want things to turn out the way you want without making yourself responsible for the outcome.Start with trying to become an independent, responsible guy. See what kind of person you are once you have taken charge of your meds and your living situation.1. Ask your mom to give you a list of all your doctors' phone numbers and addresses.2. Ask your mom for custody of all your meds.3. Call the people who run your disability program and ask if they, or an agency they can direct you to, can train you in setting up a routine for taking your medication.4. Set up a profile on Yahoo! and other free internet dating sites.5. Make an appointment with your psychiatrist about getting back on anti-depressants. Also ask him/her for advice on setting up your own medication-taking routine.6. Book a time to visit your brother in Pittsburg and get the lay of the land there in terms of rent, cost of living, etc. to see what it would take to move there.7. Call your female friend whom you've been losing touch with.Let me recommend a goal that you can choose to achieve, that does not have to be contingent on another person but will nevertheless help you to take women down off that pedestal:8. While you're in Pittsburg, go to a strip bar and buy yourself a lapdance as an early 30th birthday present; actually, try and talk your brother into buying it for you.In my view, people should only set goals if they can achieve them with or without other people's cooperation. A goal totally dependent on someone else agreeing to something isn't a goal; it's a hope, and, in my view, a hope waiting to be dashed.</blockquote>

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