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[hobbsyoyo]

Greek contributions to science are massively overblown in the western narrative of world history. Just saying.

Rant: I just finished using the rug doctor on my carpet to clean it after a couple of months of non-stop pissing on the floor by one of our dogs. And he went and pissed on it again. I want to get rid of him but he's my wife's favorite thing ever. So there's that.

He's never been fully house broken but he got to the point where he was only having accidents every couple of weeks. Then this summer came and my wife was home all the time. Things were fine but then she started working and he completely reverted. He couldn't handle being home alone after having someone with him all summer. He was mad to be left home alone and started pissing everywhere, all the time.

Mind you, we walk them for an hour every single day. We take them to the doggy beach regularly. We give them regular baths and treats and toys and medicine. They've been to the vet more than I go to the doctor. We're very good dog owners. He's just a terrible POS dog. And I resent him.

We finally had to start kenneling him when we go to work and that cut down on the piss quite a lot. In fact, he seems to like his cage (he willing runs to it when it comes time for us to leave in the morning) as it comforts him to be enclosed while we're gone. It seems to help with his stress a lot. I know that sounds like torture but dogs are not people and they can have weird psychology.

In any case, he still makes messes regularly. And I want to get rid of him. I don't even feel like a bad person anymore. It's a huge burden for me to get up at 4 am and walk him for an hour before I go to work. But I do it. And he repays me in piss.


And no, he does not have any issues with bladder control. He can control it but he chooses not to when he's mad. Just the other night, I took them out and they went to the bathroom. Then when we got into bed, we kicked him out of bed and he immediately pissed on the floor in front of us. Because he was mad.

Oh yeah and bed discipline is non-existant. He can't just get into bed with us without pinning us down in our sleep or pushing him off. So we don't let him on the bed but he waits until we are asleep and jumps up again until we notice him after he wakes us up and we kick him off. 5 or 6 times a night.

 

[Takhisis]

Can't you keep the dog outside?

Greek contributions to science are massively overblown in the western narrative of world history. Just saying.

Of course, ‘the West’ is everything to the west of Greece and ‘the East’ everything to the east of her. Just saying.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Can't you keep the dog outside?

No it's an apartment without a yard.

Of course, ‘the West’ is everything to the west of Greece and ‘the East’ everything to the east of her. Just saying.

Irrelevant?

 

[Takhisis]

No it's an apartment without a yard.

Not even a balcony?

Irrelevant?

Greece is never irrelevant.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Greek contributions to science are massively overblown in the western narrative of world history. Just saying.

Rant: I just finished using the rug doctor on my carpet to clean it after a couple of months of non-stop pissing on the floor by one of our dogs. And he went and pissed on it again. I want to get rid of him but he's my wife's favorite thing ever. So there's that.

He's never been fully house broken but he got to the point where he was only having accidents every couple of weeks. Then this summer came and my wife was home all the time. Things were fine but then she started working and he completely reverted. He couldn't handle being home alone after having someone with him all summer. He was mad to be left home alone and started pissing everywhere, all the time.

Mind you, we walk them for an hour every single day. We take them to the doggy beach regularly. We give them regular baths and treats and toys and medicine. They've been to the vet more than I go to the doctor. We're very good dog owners. He's just a terrible POS dog. And I resent him.

We finally had to start kenneling him when we go to work and that cut down on the piss quite a lot. In fact, he seems to like his cage (he willing runs to it when it comes time for us to leave in the morning) as it comforts him to be enclosed while we're gone. It seems to help with his stress a lot. I know that sounds like torture but dogs are not people and they can have weird psychology.

In any case, he still makes messes regularly. And I want to get rid of him. I don't even feel like a bad person anymore. It's a huge burden for me to get up at 4 am and walk him for an hour before I go to work. But I do it. And he repays me in piss.


And no, he does not have any issues with bladder control. He can control it but he chooses not to when he's mad. Just the other night, I took them out and they went to the bathroom. Then when we got into bed, we kicked him out of bed and he immediately pissed on the floor in front of us. Because he was mad.

Oh yeah and bed discipline is non-existant. He can't just get into bed with us without pinning us down in our sleep or pushing him off. So we don't let him on the bed but he waits until we are asleep and jumps up again until we notice him after he wakes us up and we kick him off. 5 or 6 times a night.

What breed is the dog?
How old is he?
What was his background before you had him?


I'm honestly surprised that you're allowed to have a dog in an apartment building. Most apartments in this city don't allow dogs unless they're registered service dogs. I guess it's a safe bet that you're not going to get your damage deposit back.

 

[Lohrenswald]

I hate myself

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I head back home tonight and will probably be cripplingly depressed about it for at least a week.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

I head back home tonight and will probably be cripplingly depressed about it for at least a week.

tbf I usually am

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Third week of unemployment and I'm extremely demotivated to even apply to a job. All I'm likely to get is an underpaid dead end and probably illegal. Not drug dealing illegal or bank robbing illegal, but wage theft and 10 hour shift illegal.
And despite my free time I'm still putting off therapy. What's the point getting treated for depression if life objectively sucks ?

 

[Lohrenswald]

And despite my free time I'm still putting off therapy. What's the point getting treated for depression if life objectively sucks ?

I guess you need to believe you are wrong

 

[shadowplay]

I recently switched DSL providers, and today is the activation date for the new service. I plugged in the new modem and entered the new login details and am easily online. GREAT SUCCESS

So then tell me why the hell they sent a technician to my house to wake me up at 8am to tell me he's here to "install the internet."

 

[Takhisis]

And despite my free time I'm still putting off therapy. What's the point getting treated for depression if life objectively sucks ?

The whole point of depression is that it's subjective. Try for some treatment.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Depression is a clinically-diagnosed condition. It's not just "subjective," like a bad mood.

#psychiatristsinthefamily

 

[Lexicus]

Depression is a clinically-diagnosed condition. It's not just "subjective," like a bad mood.

#psychiatristsinthefamily

Ehhhh, don't get too gung-ho about that. Psychological diagnoses are still on pretty subjective terrain generally. There was a thread about 'political' diagnoses not too long ago. Lots of words that can easily be weasel words in the DSM.

That said, since depression is a mood problem it is in some sense subjective even if it's clinically diagnosed.

 

[Lohrenswald]

There was a thread about 'political' diagnoses not too long ago.

Yea but we are just some schmucks on the internet

 

[Lexicus]

Yea but we are just some schmucks on the internet

Sure we are, but politicization of psychology is a real thing. More precisely there is a long history of pathologizing people who don't go along with dominant ideologies.

The classic example probably being drapetomania. One Flew Over the ****oo's Nest is about the same kind of thing. We have taken many important steps in the right direction - society used to be a lot tougher on people who didn't conform - but I don't think we can say we've made a clean break with that history.

 

[Gori the Grey]

And despite my free time I'm still putting off therapy. What's the point getting treated for depression if life objectively sucks ?

The whole point of depression is that it's subjective. Try for some treatment.

Depression is a clinically-diagnosed condition. It's not just "subjective," like a bad mood.

#psychiatristsinthefamily

I took Tak to be countering GS's claim that "life objectively sucks." If you feel that way, I understood him to be saying, that is a subjective state. The name of that subjective state, I understood him to be saying, is depression. So one should, I understood him to be saying, seek out therapy, so that it can be clinically diagnosed and treated. I understood him, in other words, to be fundamentally agreeing with your view, RT.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I took Tak to be countering GS's claim that "life objectively sucks." If you feel that way, I understood him to be saying, that is a subjective state. The name of that subjective state, I understood him to be saying, is depression. So one should, I understood him to be saying, seek out therapy, so that it can be clinically diagnosed and treated. I understood him, in other words, to be fundamentally agreeing with your view, RT.

Well, I was diagnosed with depression in the past but moved to another city shortly afterwards, never went into therapy and the depression kind of went away (for a while).
Looking back, I've convinced myself that my moods and behaviour are very consistent with type II bipolar disorder (yes, yes, I know that armchair self-diagnosis is unreliable) which would have been very useful to know 15 or 10 years ago when my life was salvageable, but since then I've dropped out of uni twice, had some crappy jobs and spells of unemployment, and haven't made any progress since I was 21. My cv is an utter disaster.
Even if I got a happy person brain tomorrow, I don't see how I could be happy. It just feels too late now.

I didn't mention friends or relationships because that's not a factor at all in my life and hasn't been for years.

 

[Takhisis]

I took Tak to be countering GS's claim that "life objectively sucks."

Yep. Something ‘sucking’ is always a subjective view, because it's based on values, which are (again!) subjective.

 

[ReindeerThistle]

Well, I was diagnosed with depression in the past but moved to another city shortly afterwards, never went into therapy and the depression kind of went away (for a while).
Looking back, I've convinced myself that my moods and behaviour are very consistent with type II bipolar disorder (yes, yes, I know that armchair self-diagnosis is unreliable) which would have been very useful to know 15 or 10 years ago when my life was salvageable, but since then I've dropped out of uni twice, had some crappy jobs and spells of unemployment, and haven't made any progress since I was 21. My cv is an utter disaster.
Even if I got a happy person brain tomorrow, I don't see how I could be happy. It just feels too late now.

I didn't mention friends or relationships because that's not a factor at all in my life and hasn't been for years.

Objectively, you have had a lot of misfortune. I completely understand what you're going through. Your attitude won't get you a better job, or necessarily get you through school. If you have been diagnosed, treatment is totally up to you.

Knowing the problem is a good start. You are not alone in this. There are millions in materially similar situations. In the US, 6.3 million Americans aged 16-24 are neither in.school nor working. That's one in seven. I am not an idealist, but doing something about the job or school situation may help. Again, totally up to you.

I wish you the best.