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It's just freaky when these things are happening and you don't know where it's coming from

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My thoughts exactly!

The little kitty is letting me hold her. Yea!
She is purring like a motor...

I talked it over with my husband and were going to put the vet bill on our credit card...

I'll let you know what they say tomorrow:D

Took her in today.
She had fleas, an upper respiratory infection, and is pregnant...

They tested her for diseases - all were negative.

She's on antibiotics and will get shots/spayed after she has her kittens (probably another 3 weeks)

Then hopefully I'll be able to find her a home and the kittens too.

I'm glad you got her and took her in to get checked out. Respiratory infections are not fun. I'm also glad that she tested negative for diseases. It makes everything easier all around. With some of the diseases they can get, they have to be on meds for the rest of their life, and then you have to watch to see if the kittens have it too. I'm glad you got her before she had the kittens. I hate having stray cats, because you don't know if their eating OK, if their healthy just in general. And then most of the time they aren't fixed, so the females keep squirting out kittens until they die. Which makes an even bigger stray cat population that aren't being taken care of. Not that I actually hate the cats. I just hate that they have to live that life of not knowing when they will eat again and whatnot. I was also told that you can't spay a mother cat until the kittens are six to eight weeks old, or when they start eating hard food (and she will be ready to mate again). She won't be able to make milk for them to drink. I think she loses the hormone to make it or something. And you have to watch she doesn't go back outside. Especially if she is in heat. My one cat used to be an outside cat, and whenever she was in heat, she would fight tooth and nail to get back out. That's how she got pregnant the last time, which was three years ago. We had a hard time getting her to stay in after that, though. She was finally fixed December 2005. (YEAH!! )

I have some before and after pictures of myself. Advanced warning, though, I'm not much to look at. Just thought you should know before you looked at them. I hope they are clear enough. My mom took them and she is not too great of a picture taker. It will have to do if they aren't.

I took a picture myself to see if I could get the color better. It's only bright like that in direct sunlight or REALLY bright lights (like the flash.) Other wise it's more like in the first picture. My dad said he thinks I look like Kelly Osbourne. And that's my room. It's not black but a very dark blue. I love it.

Crazy Daisy! It's spunky and I love it!
Your beautiful! Don't be so hard on yourself!!
I love the pictures and the hair and the cats!! And the dark blue walls too!
The light shining on it makes it look like it has a hint of purple in it too.
That's actually one of my favorite colors, that and really deep red.

The vet did say that I would have to keep her indoors until her kittens stopped nursing then she can get spayed, and only then would it be safe for her to go outside again.


I'm glad you know a lot about cats, I think I'm going to have a lot of questions - LOL...
You were right about when they start showing too! She only has a few weeks left they said...
She doesn't like my other cats, and they don't like her either. I'm going to have to keep her separated - that I feel with my nosy cats is going to be hard.
She looks just like 2 of them that showed up here as strays too.
Solid black and their faces look very similar.
Kind of wondering if they are related.

Thank you so much. I can't help myself though. I'm always hard on myself. I guess I just expect more of myself then I am able to give to myself.

Maybe they will get used to each other. If you introduced her slowly to them, maybe a couple of hours a day, they would get used to her at some point. I would just make sure that you were around just in case they started making noises. Noises that sounded like they are saying, "I am SERIOUSLY going to injure you!" They don't know her scent. I think right now she is invading their space and they don't like it, but once they see her repeatedly and start to recognize her scent more they may start to like her. Of course, they could just totally hate each other in the end. Three of my cats loved each other for like six months or so and then all of a sudden they started fighting. We thought they were going to literally kill each other. I bought some cages so when they were fighting (which was pretty much all the time) I could put them in. We used the cages, too, when the kittens were born, so the other cats would stay away from the kittens. We just recently put the cages away. (When I bought my tank :D)

It is possible that they could be related, but I don't know if there is any way to tell. They might do DNA tests to see of they are related, but I would imagine it would be really expensive if they do. It could also be that they come from the same breed. Half of mine that are related don't look at all alike. At least I don't think they do. Maybe that's because I'm used to them.

Actually, I just found this page that says they do DNA testing. I have no idea what info they can give you if you order, and you had to register to get prices, unless I did it wrong.

http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/

If you have questions about cats, ask away. I'll answer to the best of my knowledge. :D

That's a great link, I actually sent it to my mom too.
She is interested in learning about some of the stuff it had in there about horses coat colors... the gene make up and such.

I'm so shocked that this cat was thin when she first started coming around.
She didn't look pregnant at all, then boom, she did.

She's so funny, always meowing.

When she first let me pet her, she was in the garage rubbing her face on the corner of the box I gave her, then she came over to me and started rubbing on my leg. I was shocked.
She never really seemed fearful, just not very trusting, I'm guessing she changed her mind, maybe the box wasn't doing a good enough job - LOL...

Once she's done with the antibiotics, I'll try introducing them slowly like you suggested. Maybe they'll become familiar with her sent for the time being.

I'll take some pics of her to show you
Oh, and of my baby fish (well, some don't look like babies anymore)
I have them all identified except for that little yellow one - it's still small and looks exactly the same.
All the others changed colors and are growing fast.
How are yours doing?

I can be pretty critical of myself too. I feel like a big dope A LOT.
I get nervous talking to people and really make myself look like an idiot.
I'm always haunted by the thought that everyone I talk to either thinks I'm on speed or just really stupid... I find myself avoiding many public situations where I have to talk to people because of it...
I was on meds for it for 15 years, then I started having seizures and none of them worked anymore.
After that I went all natural (herbs and food), it helps with the depression I have but does absolutely nothing for the nervousness.
It's something I try to deal and live with, but I'm very, very hard on myself about it (to the point that it makes me nervous - go figure) LOL

Thank you for giving me all this advice about cats - I really am thankful!

I hope at least one of you can get something out of the web page.

A lot of cats who have known people are not fearful of other people, they just don't know them and don't trust them. You did something that made her trust you-probably your patience waiting for her. Patience does pay off. I would love to see her.

My fish are doing great. Since that one died, none of the other seem to be having a problem. I found out my plecos don't like cucumbers or spinach, so no more buying them for them. I bought a whole bag of spinach and it's sitting in my fridge rotting because they won't eat it. I hate spinach myself, so I don't blame them any. They like zucchini and seem to like squash. I haven't tried the sweet potatoes yet. My big convict is moving rocks a lot lately, but I didn't think that there were any females in there ready to mate yet. Maybe he's just digging a hole under the log for the catfish. :D

I was like that until I was seventeen. I was nervous I would say the wrong thing and look stupid, or talk gibberish. (Which I do about once a week. There are like three things I want to say all at once and the sentences come out all together, combined, so nothing makes sense. I always tell the person I am talking to that I have to start over. And they always think it's funny.) There was so much pressure. I then decided that the pressure wasn't worth what I was getting from the other people, which was nothing. I figure if they think I'm an idiot, so be it. But I also don't have a confirmed medical condition, so it's a bit different. I was just tired of not meeting everyone's expectations-it's impossible to do that-so I just take it one day at a time, and congratulate myself when I do something how I wanted, or better than I wanted. And if I don't do it well, then I practice so the next time I'm a little better. Seriously, your well-being is more important than how other people perceive you.

If you do something that you don't like, just say, "Next time I'll ______." (Fill in the blank.) And practice it. People think I'm a little wacky because sometimes when I'm practicing, I talk to myself. Now all I have to do is live up to my own expectations. I was depressed too, guess I still am, because it is a life long condition, though I wasn't diagnosed by my doctor. It was the school therapist. And I never went on meds, or really got help for it. I have a lot more patience than I used to, and I'm not so hard on myself. But there are certain things that I just can't help being critical of, like how I look. If other people can't except me for the way I look, I say, I don't need them. But I still can't keep myself from being critical about it.

Thank you for those kind and encouraging words...

BTW, My mom loves the website.
She's interested in breeding one of her horses to get a baby with a distinct coloration.
She has to find a horse that has the same color gene as hers, then hope it gets passes along from both parents to the baby.
It can only be done through genetic testing and that website gave her a lot of information to go on.

They do DNA testing also, supposedly from reading that site, vets can too.

I would love to know if the cats are related but will probably never have enough money to spend on it.

I can feel the babies moving in her stomach. It's pretty cool. They're kicking around in there...
Today she was doing something weird too.
You know like when you get a muscle twitch... she was doing her back like that today... twitching it... thats the only way I know how to explain it.

I took a picture of her, I don't know what I should call her...
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She's cute. She looks healthy. Her coat looks shiny, and I was always told that is a sign of a healthy cat. She looks like my black cat, Bear. I could give you a couple of suggestions that might lead you to a name you like. If you want a theme to her color, you could name her smokey, blackie, midnight, bear, grizzley, chocolate (dark), ash, shadow. If you want an inspiring name, faith, hope, angel. Princess, Emma or Vic (short for Victoria), Muffin, honey. I've known people who name their animal after their maiden name. I kind of think she looks like a Connie.

As the babies get bigger, you will see them kicking her stomach while she is walking or laying there. You won't even have to feel it because you'll be able to see it.

I don't know what to tell you about the twitching. I know my cats twitch at their spine sometimes, but only every once in a great while. I guess they have an itch or something is irritating them. I wouldn't worry about it unless she does it a lot or she seems to be in pain. If there was something wrong the vet should have seen it when you took her in.

This page should be able to help you out a bit for getting ready for her labor. I would like to add to it-don't give her a litter box while she is giving birth. She may end up having them in the litter box, because cats are comfortable in litter boxes, and litter is not safe for the new-born kittens. Most cats have them at night, so when it is closer to time, I would take the litter box out at night. I did that the last time.
http://www.2ndchance.info/felinelabor.htm

There are two links in the page, and the first one would be good to keep in mind just in case something happens that she isn't taking care of one or more of them. When Winky was a couple of weeks old, we noticed that she wasn't getting bigger and she was thin, so I bottle fed her CAT's milk until she could stand and reach the bottom of a bowl which was about an inch and a half tall, and then she drank CAT'S milk until she was able to eat dry food. You have to stay near-by though, so if they fall in for some reason, you are there to catch them. It doesn't take a big bowl for them to fall into. They sell cat's milk at the store near where I live, so if you need it, hopefully you can find some. Your vet should be able to sell some to you too. If you need some and can't find any around your area, let me know, I'll send you some.

That is a great link!
I think I'll be reading it over and over again.

I have seen kitten formula. I'll buy some just to keep on hand.

My other 2 black cats are named Silky and Shadow.
I really like the name Midnight and Smoky and Faith for her...

:D I'm glad it's helping you. I want to say something else too. I don't know if you've heard this before, but if a kitten is sick or dead when it is born, the mother will eat it. If it happens, I don't want you to think there is something wrong and that is why she is doing it-this is natural. Also, it is kind of gross to watch them eat the after birth, so if you are watching her and you can't take that type of thing too well, you might want to leave for a few minutes. I never had a problem watching to make sure everything was OK, but I just couldn't watch them eat the after birth.:eek:

Yuck! Thanks for the warning.

LOL :D you're welcome

Not to belittle anything that has been posted here. But, it is amazing how this post has evolved!

Did you read the WHOLE 14 pages? If you did, I'm impressed. I usually can't get past the end of the second page before moving on to another post. I think I have a short attention span or something. LOL :D

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Not to belittle anything that has been posted here. But, it is amazing how this post has evolved!

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Not to belittle your posts, but it's amazing how you have 737 of them in one month.

I guess I am taking it a little offensively, but then again, I'm having a bad day.

It's funny how clough popped in with his/her 2 cents worth right at the end...
I've been trying to think whether it had anything to do with how it just stopped, but I can honestly say that I have no questions or concerns about anything...
The links are great and I think I'm going to be pretty prepared...

LOL this is a crazy thread.
Sometimes they get deleted or moved when they stray too far off topic like this one has...

Maybe the moderator didn't read it too well. Or maybe we kept enough in it about the animals. I think if he wouldn't have put in the "belittling," he wouldn't have offended. I asked a question in another forum a couple weeks ago and he answered it there, so he might have looked at my profile and seen this thread, but I don't know for sure. Or he could have just been going through the threads.

Back out to do more yard work . :rolleyes:

How's the latest edition doing? Did you pick a name yet?

Yum, yard work...
Did a lot of that today too - and yesterday.
It was so hot, I thought I was going to pass out.

What started as tree pruning, resulted in the whole tree having to be cut down.
I'm a bit of a tree hugger, so I am very upset about it.
The tree guy we hired messed up so bad... more like tree mulator...

I don't know if the moderators read all the posts.?

The new addition is doing well...
My daughter has named her Sparkle.
She's "nesting" everywhere except for the box I gave her.
And it's a nice box. If I were a cat, I'd want to be in it. LOL

I find her a lot of times in the newspaper recycling bin.
I found her in a suitcase that I left open on the floor of my closet.
And she likes to get in the bathroom counter under the sink - she'll paw the door open. LOL
She's quite the character.

I'm thinking about giving up my 2 adult African males so that I can free up the tank for more of a community environment.

They're fighting a lot and really despise one another...

I don't know though. I've given up a lot of fish in my time of fish keeping and I have regretted some of them.
I try to think of the fish though instead of my own personal feelings...
It still makes me sad though...

It's only between the mid-50's to the early-70's here. Today the high is 68, so it really isn't that bad. But it looks like it's going to rain, so I don't know how much I'll get to today. Neither of my parents do yard work, so it's up to me. We have five trees in our backyard (in the middle of town, with a small yard), and when the leaves fall, it's a pain to clean up, but I get it done. I end up with like 25-30 bags of leaves till I'm done. And that's packing the bags till nothing else will fit and I can barely close it. I've actually taken ten bags to work and put them in the trash compactor once because I didn't have anywhere to put them.

At least you know not to hire that company the next time you need that tree pruned. Which won't be for quite a while.

Sparkle is a good name. You could try putting her in the box a couple times a day. Hopefully she'll eventually get the hint. Did you put a towel or something soft in it? That'll help if you didn't.

Sometimes doing the right thing isn't easy. Maybe you could just get rid of one and get another one that would be better in the tank with the one you keep.

My high was 85 today - tomorrow is going to be 89 and the nights are low 70's...
I didn't go outside today LOL
I don't like it when the heat first comes, it takes a little while for me to adjust before it doesn't bother me.
I have to give you credit for cleaning up that many leaves.
That's a hard job. Great exercises, but it's not any fun.

I'm starting to get excited about the kittens.
I'm all curious about what they're going to look like.

Sparkle and her kittens are probably going to cost me a lot of money, so
I was thinking I'll probably hold off on changing my tanks around for now.
It will give me some time to think about what I want to put in it too...

I thought I responded already. Oh well. I mowed the grass today after work because it's supposed to pour tomorrow. Didn't get to it on the weekend. Finally, the grass isn't a foot high. :D

If you plan on getting her fixed before you find a new home for her, then she'll definitely cost you a lot of money. I have had a couple people tell me that when you put up signs for a cat, when the people call, you should ask for like $25 for him/her, so you get someone who actually wants it. You can say to help cover the costs of the neutering. Or you can ask the person to come to their house to visit every couple of months or something, and if they say no, then don't give them the cat. There are people who go around looking for free cats to take to a lab to test products on, and a lot of the cats die, or have a horrible life. Anyone who is seriously thinking about keeping the cat will say yes to either or both of those things.

You'll have to take pictures of the kittens when they are a couple of weeks old.

I don't know if you want to read the next part. It is just me venting about my mom.

I have a bad short term memory (or a short attention span, whatever you want to call it), and there is an article that a recent study shows that people with chronic back pain have a bad short term memory. I always forget to take my clothes out of the dryer, and on Saturday I forgot to do it after my mom asked me to. She sat there and said to my dad that I am lazy. Like I wasn't five feet away and couldn't hear her. So I sent her the article, and she sent it back to me. I asked her why and she said, "Well, you sent it too me." Which makes no sense to me. I said to her that was because she sat there and said I was lazy, the one who does ALL of the outside work by herself, and cleans the third floor (my room) by herself, AND is trying to fix up the basement, all by herself. She said she never said it. "I never said you are lazy." HA. Yeah right.

So of course we are in a fight now. I said to her, "Yes you did. I was sitting right there when you said it. I'm not stupid and I can hear." And then I told her I think she has dementia. I work in a retirement home. I would know. So she tells me I'm a liar. I said, "Why did you even have me if you never wanted me?" which is totally off the subject, but I was really upset, because she does this to me all the time (says I'm lazy and says something bad about me then denies it and calls me a liar). She said, "That's not what we're talking about."

One we weren't TALKING, we were screaming at each other. Two, she didn't deny it. If your mother wanted you at some point in your life, don't you think she would deny that and say, "I love you, of course I wanted you?" No, my mom just says, "That's not what were talking about."

I know, stupid things to argue about, but hey, I don't get along with her at all, because everything always has to be about her and how tough her life is. Like no one else has ever had a tough life. I asked her once if a friend could stay for a couple of days, she was having a really tough time. My mom said no, because when she was this lady's age, no one ever helped her out. I don't understand what that had to do with anything.

I actually went to a psychiatrist for like ten visits because of my mom, but the lady didn't help. She kept saying talk to your mom about it, but trying to talk to her and getting her to give any is like trying to demolish a thick brick wall with your shoulder.

Sorry about all of the complaining, but I needed to get it out.

I understand Daisy.
If you need to vent, you go right ahead.
I actually have more to write back to you,
But my kids are being bad right now, so I need to give them baths and put them to bed...
I'll be back to finish it later...
Till then try to do something that relaxes you... I like watching my fish when I'm upset... go say hello to your Oscar...

Oh yeah, since my room is on the third floor, usually when it starts turning 50 at night, it's like 70 something in my room, so I get used to it really quick. I don't put my air conditioner in until my thermostat goes past the highest mark, which is 90, and stays there for a while when it starts cooling down. The high outside today was like 70 or something and it's at least 82 in my room. That's now, at almost 8 at night. I don't think you would like my room. :D

Check your PM

Your room is probably so hot because the heat is rising to the top floor.

We don't really have a gradual temperature change here.
It pretty much goes from cold (30-50 LOL) to 80 or above practically overnight.
Then the really hot weather kicks in around mid May.
Thanks to the norths sub zero temperatures this past winter we got 1 day we had a tad bit of snow.
It was really great fun...

Tomorrow is tank cleaning day for me.
I'm hoping I'll get some good pictures.
Usually after I clean the tanks and rearrange things, the little guys
Come out of their territory and you can see them real good.
I'm going to try to get some good pictures of them for you to see.

It feels like it does it overnight here sometimes, but I know it doesn't. I'm glad you enjoyed the snow. I hate snow. I never call off work, so I always have to drive there in it. (24/7 hour facility, so you can even go in with a snow emergency. Yuck!)

Have fun cleaning your tank! :D I did that over the weekend. Pictures would be good. I'm really interested in seeing what they look like.

Got to go or be late for work.

I just got home and someone ate Oscar! :( The kenyi wasn't eaten, just laying there when I found him, but someone (or a couple someone's) actually ate my oscar. :( I loved my oscar. His eyes and his fins were gone. I guess no more oscars. I'm surprised they didn't go for all the littler ones first, went right for a big one. And of course I won't know which one did it because all of them but the plec's are carnivore's, I think. I think it might be one of the convicts, but again, not sure. When I had just the convicts and two small tanks, I had two dwarf frogs that were eaten (never found them) and one of the other convicts was eaten and a betta, because I heard putting one betta in with the fish would be okay, but they ate him anyway. He stayed in a little corner by himself and the one day I came down and he was gone. I was told it was because of the frogs, but the frogs were gone by then, too.

Do you think I should feed them twice a day instead of just once? I bought shrimp pellets for the raphael's because I didn't know where I'd be able to find live brine shrimp. I'm afraid they would over take the tank any way. Or crawl out and die and have a horrible smell. :eek: Do you think I would be OK with snails (I think they have one called a mystery snail?? ) and a turtle? I know someone who has a turtle in her tank and I am intigued by it. I already have reptile pellets, which are supposed to be OK for amphibians. I bought them for the frogs.

Guess what. The sky was blue today. All day. Not one drop of rain.

One of my favorite Romance authors, Cathy Maxwell, is in need of a title for her new book, so she put up a post for suggestions (not on this board). What do you think? (do you like romance novels?)

Loved by a Highlander <---
Is This Love? <---
Touched by Love
Touched By Desire
Hot Scot <---
Tempting Fate
Burning Need
Burning Desire
Burning Love
For the Love of a Scot <---
Ransom for Love
Surprising Love
Unexpected Love
Unexpected Desire

My personal favorites are the ones that have arrows. I'm a nut for historical romances, and I especially love the ones with scots or the highlands. Oh, I want to go to Scotland so bad. I like mysteries a lot too. The one I'm reading now is called Always Time to Die by Elizabeth Lowell. Actually, I just started it. On page six. Do you like to read? If you do, what do you like reading?

I'm sorry to hear that Daisy.
It could be the convicts, but it could also have been the Africans too.
They are mean fish.
The baby Oscar was probably just to young to defend himself.

Oscars (some of them) can be really mean as babies, but I only witnessed that once.

I also had a young red devil kill a young Oscar before...

Unfortunately it's a risk to take when mixing South, Central, and African Cichlids.
Sometimes they do all right together, and sometimes they don't.
I never had any luck keeping any of them together, but I know of a few people who have been successful at it.

The fish you have may kill snails, I've only kept snails in non aggressive tanks. So I don't know if they'd do OK or not.

I've never heard of a turtle that didn't need land?

I had a turtle once.
It was nasty.
I put it out at the pond thinking it would have a better life
And it ran away.
He probably died because besides the pond, there was no other water.
And he was a land/water turtle.

They carry a lot of germs and diseases humans can get too.
I didn't know that until mine had been long gone, but apparently
They carry some parasites and salmonella.

Today's tank cleaning isn't going so well.
Last time I cleaned my tanks, I left my Python outside on my deck.
When I went to get it today, I noticed my dog had chewed the hose up - so I couldn't use it.

So I decided to do the buckets.
Well, I walked out of the room to dump a bucket.
I had put the hose to the syphon back into the tank so that I didn't have to start it again.
Well, it fell out and about 25 gallons of dirty tank water poured onto my floor before I got back in there.
It's been a disaster... so far.
I need to buy another python hose attachment.

My top 3 would be:
Loved by a Highlander
Tempting Fate
For the Love of a Scot

I don't know if I have a favorite kind of book because I read a little of this and a little of that.

I absolutely loved The Notebook. The movie was great, but the book was fantastic.

Message in a Bottle was 100 times greater than the movie.

The Perfect Storm was better than the movie.

(I think they are by the same author, not sure, but I'd have to say those were my 3 favorite books)

I've read a lot of books written by psychotherapits (self help book) and books about dealing with depression.

Right now I'm reading Your Best Life Now by Joel Osteen for the second time. Kind of like a self help book but with religion in it.

I tried reading a self help depression book before but it just made me feel worse, so I stopped. Guess it was the wrong book.

I'll finish tomorrow. It's started lightening really bad just now.

:eek: I hate lightning.
Once when I was 19, I was talking on the phone to my husband (boyfriend at the time) during a
Thunder storm and lightning came through the phone line.
I wasn't seriously hurt (even though it hurt really bad) but it knocked me across the room.
Amazingly, my sister had just walked into the room and was asking me something, so I had the phone away from my ear.
My fingers got the worst of it - although it felt like my whole body had been zapped real good - probably was...

I'm a horrible photographer.
Every now and then, I'll get a really good picture,
But this is the best I have gotten so far.
I'm still taking them, so hopefully I'll get some good ones.
Not all the fish are cooperating.
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I hope your day went better today. Those pictures are pretty good. I like the colors of the second one (the yellow one) the best.

I would have to ask that lady about her turtle. I have no idea what kind it is.

I actually have two depression self help books. It's been a long time since I've tried to read them (well, not that long, maybe three years at most). The one is Breaking the Patterns of Depression by Michael D Yapko. Came out in '97. It makes you analyze your life and other things and tries though help you find the good in yourself. (I was in a really bad spot at that point in my life.)
He has Learn By Doing sections in each chapter. I don't understand how all of them help you. One example is Learn By Doing #4:

Purpose: To help you consider the role of medication in your case by evaluating what is hype, misconception and good common sense in the opinion of others.

Many people still hold the naïve and outdated notion that to take a medication for depression is a personal weakness. Yet Prozac has caught on with people in ways no other drug ever has. Why do you think this is so? After you list your own reasons, ask at least a half a dozen other people for their perspective on Prozac– why it’s so popular, when they think its use is appropriate, and when they think it is inappropriate. What do you find out?

The chapter is supposed to be about taking action to help yourself feel better, but I don’t understand how learning about Prozac is supposed to make you feel better about yourself. I tried to do this and everyone was like, "Are you taking Prozac or thinking about it?" No one wanted to answer the question. I guess this book would help a lot of people, but it didn’t work for me.

I tried reading The Purpose Driven Life, but he repeated himself in every chapter. I remember I felt like he was trying to brain wash whoever was reading the book. Did that a couple years ago too.

I’m sorry to hear about the lightening striking you when you were younger. The charge was most likely going through your whole body. I have heard of people who get hit directly and their whole body swells up. I personally love lightening and thunder storms. They calm me down. I used to always feel like some of my anger was coming out in them. Now they just relax me.

The book that was talking about Prozac, in my opinion, was trying to persuade you to take the medication... and if not that one, some drug for depression.
I guess I was reading more along the lines of positive thinking books.
I stay away from antidepressants and mood stabilizers now and I truly feel better than I ever have by going all natural.
Joel osteen book is really good.
I've noticed that he repeats himself a bit, but I don't mind it because what he's saying is really good - plus I've forgotten by that time and I look at it as a reminder.
Reading that book has given me a better outlook on life.
I checked it out from the library before I decided to buy it.

It drives me nuts when an author repeats him or herself. That's why I can't read that type of book. I feel like yelling, "You said that already, go to the next subject!"