Gina

Martin Amis character

Despite the pic being in Blackpool the coat and architecture are somehow giving ‘our man in Russia’

That is a great coat

BESSIE

Just the most beautiful prose without a word out of place. A masterpiece.

Have a lovely day, everyone.

Ha ha ha

I did that once, went to some bar that was open until midnight on a Sun back when that was still a novelty. The very idea now fills me with absolute horror.

Quick stationery room kip / cry amidst the foolscap and box files

Ah yes, the old ‘still drunk’

If you haven’t had to go into the office in yesterday’s clothes, trembling with a hangover, having a panic attack / existential crisis and clutching a can of fat coke have you really lived?

Ha ha ha

Going as Widmerpool from A Dance To The Music Of Time #worldbookday

Not this time

I was just engaged in some Happisburgh chat at work enthralling people with my correct pronunciation

Ha ha ha

Seemed to be a lot of driving around of film studies students in your youth 👀

I should try that

Eating cottage cheese like a yoghurt. Is that weird?

Mine arrived yesterday! But it has a shit cover :(

Mine arrived yesterday! But it has a shit cover :(

Just saw your posts - good luck! Btw you can get a pill cutter cheaply on Amazon.

As a long term chronic anxiety sufferer I wondered what they’d do but I think 40 yrs of my own coping mechanisms have essentially allowed me to live with it as long as I look after myself in other ways. Sertraline didn’t do much apart from blunt things but I’d try again if I felt I needed sth extra

I went on them during a bad patch a few years ago and was also prescribed a temp sleeping aid, the latter was the real game changer tho I think, I was sleeping so poorly that I felt completely insane. I’m not sure I ever actually needed to be on an SSRI but I wanted to give it a go.

Ha ha - yes quite. How to sound like a junkie without actually being one. ‘If I stop taking them my bones rattle’

‘Profusely illustrated’ 😳

Yeah I think I will do that once I’m done with this next box, and I might take them every other day - just need to find a couple of weeks where it’s not going to mess up anything else!

Yeah last doc I spoke to was surprised I was getting withdrawal from the low dose I was on, but it definitely is that because brain zaps are SO specifically an SSRI withdrawal symptom and they go away when I take the pill and reappear when I don’t. I think it impacts some people worse than others.

I think you probably need to miss a few days to get the brain zaps - I was getting them when I forgot to take the pills for a few days, which I did quite a lot, as I guess it took a while for it to deplete enough in my system. But now I’ve properly tapered the dose I’m getting them a lot more. Sigh.

I do get night sweats very occasionally but as a peri menopausal woman it’s hard to know whether it’s the pills or just me hormones…