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@catalina and now i'm having a cheap, nitrogen-free coffee ☕

@drcable i don't know how prescriptions around anxiety/depression are managed there. though i had a solitary consult with a psychiatrist when i expressed to my physician that i wanted to add a second anti-D atop my other, all the anti-Ds i've been prescribed as an adult originated with primary care physicians

@drcable i really hope you're able to halt the anxiety you've been enduring for a long time <3

@drcable thank you. i'm better than i was during the escitalopram trial. the major depression will be with me for the rest of my life, even if i can manage the symptoms with a good medication regime

@drcable i understand. the anxiety is so often the trigger mechanism for the subsequent depression, so if one can halt the anxiety, this should help with preventing some of the depressive symptoms

@drcable es/citalopram might/might not work for you. some people respond very well to it

unfortunately, i was not one of them. a look back on my TL from all or march and early april reveals how it wholly shut me down for up to 18hrs a day. i was taking it atop my long-term bupropion prescription, and the only thing positive about es/citalopram was it completely nixed my anxiety

now i'm on venlafaxine in lieu of escitalopram

@drcable only thing i can offer is to take it one day at a time, keep a daily journal for yourself to track how you're being affected and know that if it doesn't work after a trial, you can stop one med to try for another type

@drcable i admit i would probably get bored after the novelty wore off. as a planner, i find infrastructure exciting insomuch as how communities of people had a direct part in conceiving it. i find the preponderance of urban planning convos around solely transportation planning or civil engineering to be easy, low-hanging fruit topics which can be rationalized and quantified. harder is to talk about social/human behaviour and the city's impact on these

@djsundog capitalism

@drcable hahaha no i did not

@catalina hmm. sounds novel. sort of like having a coffee porter beer, except no beer

@catalina hmmm

well, my coffee i think is nitrogen-free, which i imagine is pretty hard to do since the atmosphere is about 78 per cent nitrogen. i buy a canadian brand inspired by a vancouver theme which isn't exciting, but it isn't terrible, either

granted, i love clover presses, but those aren't exactly everywhere. as for nitrogen coffee… i'm an uncultured rube

@catalina ::raised brow:: "nitrogen coffee"

is 'terminally basic' a synonym for something along the lines of 'spoilt rotten' or nah

@catalina there are other grocery stores there, aren't there

@catalina how come

@catalina mercifully, no

we have whole psycheque here, and it's only for the 1%'ers (located in the Mink Mile)

no, loblaws is a major canadian grocery company with lots of regional/provincial supermarket brands (here in its home base, it's Loblaws and No Frills, but others areas include Zehr's Provigo, and so on), but they make a lot of their own food products under the brand name 'president's choice', which is usually less spendy than on-brand stuff and is also superior in quality and flavour and variety nearly always

exciting huh

@catalina no, TJ's has never been in canada

and i've never seen cheap kalamata olives here. but i do know where the olive bars are (mostly at loblaws supermarkets)

@catalina hey i love kalamatas

@catalina yay, with that annoying ewoks song and none of that pan-galactic celebrating garbage