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Michael, I am so sorry to hear that the depression is getting the best of you right now. I have gone through treatments and counseling for it, and I know how devastating it can be. Just remember, even in the darkest times, you aren’t as alone as you feel. There is a light waiting to shine again. Please seek all the help and support you need – whether it be here or elsewhere. You don’t have to suffer alone. I’m not sure why, but talking about disease is pretty easy. Sometimes you hear more than your want to. But depression is a very different animal, and often most difficult to share and discuss. Someone you hasn’t been through it, doesn’t realize that true depression is a lot more serious than just being sad or blue. Anyway, my heart goes out to you, and I hope by the time you see this that you’ll be feeling better. BTW – I’m with you – Glad those darn holidays are over for another year! Charlotte
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Michael, I don’t think you know how much you’ve been missed. I haven’t gotten to know you very well, but I remember a post you responded to when I first came to the group. Everyone was talking about the difference between drug dependency & addiction. Prescription-wise, I mean. : ) Anyway, you had written this really long response & had told (Ack-it was someone with children-Jackie maybe?). Anyway, it was so funny! I think you were referring to not taking the appropriate amount of meds & you said "& there won’t be any school that day," I know I messed it up! I can’t remember your exact words, but you had me cracking up. I know people here, myself included, have thought about you *way* more often than you know about. Sometimes though, (speaking for myself) I just don’t know if I’m annoying you by calling you out on a post or if you’re just too sick to talk to us or….I hope you’ll talk to us though. We’re here for you. (Thank you Charlotte, for starting this post.) Hugs4u&Mugsy2, Maggie
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Group! I’ve had a completely weird day. Just went to a funeral of an old friend and have re-established contact with my ex-wife. All well received but it’s too soon to tell how I’m gonna react to it all. It went well, really, but it was too weird. I hadn’t talked to "her" since the divorce was final over 14 months ago. I also have this thing I haven’t talked about here having to do with everything I post on the newsgroups being archived (Google) for anyone else to research and (as I found out with some real freaks in another NG) taken out of context and thrown at the whole group to discredit me. It simply isn’t worth the stress to me and I don’t know any other way around it. That’s why you don’t hear from me that often at the group level. And I’ve been so ill this past winter that I don’t get much time to do personal e-mails. I touch base with Mair once in a while and that’s about all I have time for. I’ll try to do better this year! Michael
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Michael Roeper wrote: > Group! > I’ve had a completely weird day. Just went to a funeral of an old friend and > have re-established contact with my ex-wife. All well received but it’s too > soon to tell how I’m gonna react to it all. It went well, really, but it was > too weird. I hadn’t talked to "her" since the divorce was final over 14 > months ago.
Yay ! Bravo for going. I knew the weirdness feeling but each time it gets less weird. > I also have this thing I haven’t talked about here having to do with > everything I post on the newsgroups being archived (Google) for anyone else > to research and (as I found out with some real freaks in another NG) taken > out of context and thrown at the whole group to discredit me. > It simply isn’t worth the stress to me and I don’t know any other way around > it. That’s why you don’t hear from me that often at the group level. And > I’ve been so ill this past winter that I don’t get much time to do personal > e-mails. I touch base with Mair once in a while and that’s about all I have > time for. I’ll try to do better this year!
There used to be a way to NOT archive x-no-archive: yes either in the first line of a person’s reply (I think putting it in the signature line at the top of the post) or in the headers of a post. I do not know how to do this. The downside, is if one of us wants to try and find one of your posts through Google, we can’t find it either. (memory refresher as to when you last posted, which I sometimes do, before asking "where’s so and so"….not that I call you "so and so", but an example, or if I want to refresh my memory of what a person’s meds are, or anything I want to check, before saying "ask XXXX because I think that person XXXXX.. also of course, there’s lurkers here, so any posts (archived or not) can be taken elsewhere. Even if you just post every few weeks.."hi, I’m here, then we wouldn’t worry so much" and then if Mair remembers, maybe she could post "heard from Michael, aok.." something like that. I suppose it’s not your fault nor responsibility thatwe worry, but now you’re part of the family here, it’s our sworn duty to worry when a person doesn’t check in. 
Hugs Michael, take good care, J
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J wrote: > There used to be a way to NOT archive > x-no-archive: yes > either in the first line of a person’s reply (I think putting it in the > signature line at the top of the post) or in the headers of a post. > I do not know how to do this.
More about x-no-archive: yes it’s kind of useless, because if someone replies to your post and doesn’t snip out what you posted, it’s still there in the archives anyways. J
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In article <LS4Mb.19307$Rc4.80343@attbi_s54>, Michael Roeper <roe…@comcast.net> wrote [ >I also have this thing I haven't talked about here having to do with >everything I post on the newsgroups being archived (Google) for anyone else >to research and (as I found out with some real freaks in another NG) taken >out of context and thrown at the whole group to discredit me.
It's not just you, its ALL posts that Google archives. However, I believe that if you put some magic words like "X-No-Archive=Yes" at the top, a post is archived but is not accessible. Someone who knows will need to tell us precisely how to write the spell, and where to put it. That doesn't stop anyone else with a terabyte of hard disk also creating an archive - but only the CIA and similar can afford that -- Andy [Chair, N E Lupus Group] See http://www.northeastlupus.org.uk for more!
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Hugs Michael, We do worry about you when we don’t hear from you. I am sorry about your friend..Happy that things went well with your ex wife… I surely hope you have a better year. I hope you are enjoying your new home and I think I remember you have a new family member(PET)…But then sometimes my memory isn’t so great…. Please feel better soon and try and post a few lines now and then to keep us updated on how you are doing…. Cindy "Michael Roeper" <roe…@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:LS4Mb.19307$Rc4.80343@attbi_s54… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Group! > I’ve had a completely weird day. Just went to a funeral of an old friend and > have re-established contact with my ex-wife. All well received but it’s too > soon to tell how I’m gonna react to it all. It went well, really, but it was > too weird. I hadn’t talked to "her" since the divorce was final over 14 > months ago. > I also have this thing I haven’t talked about here having to do with > everything I post on the newsgroups being archived (Google) for anyone else > to research and (as I found out with some real freaks in another NG) taken > out of context and thrown at the whole group to discredit me. > It simply isn’t worth the stress to me and I don’t know any other way around > it. That’s why you don’t hear from me that often at the group level. And > I’ve been so ill this past winter that I don’t get much time to do personal > e-mails. I touch base with Mair once in a while and that’s about all I have > time for. I’ll try to do better this year! > Michael
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