depression

How To Make Your Toshiba Laptop Run Like A TRS-80 Model I

I’ve been going completely crazy lately at the glacial speed of my Toshiba Satellite P50t laptop running Windows 10. My virus scanner kept reporting that the 10+ minutes that it took just to boot up was slower than 100% of computers like it, and hitting the “tune up” button wasn’t helping.

They don’t make ’em like this any more

For goodness sake, my TRS-80 Model I running NEWDOS/80 back in 1984 could boot faster. Not to mention all the waiting and spinning icons actually using the damn thing. It’s 2017 for your-chosen-deity’s sake, and a machine with a 2.8GHz processor should be just a bit speedier than that.

So after ruminating for ages on the decline of modern technology and how things “should” be, rather than how they actually are, I decided to suck it up and upgrade the hard drive in the laptop to a Solid State Drive (SSD) to save my remaining mental health.

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By Graham Stoney, ago

Mother Induced Social Phobia

No wonder you feel anxious

No wonder you feel anxious

A widely prevalent and highly debilitating form of extreme social anxiety caused by being raised by a controlling or domineering mother.

Often accompanied by Nice Guy Syndrome. Male sufferers tend to exhibit passive or submissive behaviour, especially around women. Symptoms include self-consciousness, panic attacks, social anxiety, depression and a lack of direction in life. Inner conflict and mental confusion typically results from excessive critical admonishments during childhood such as: “You’re just like your father!”; who while overly passive, was in fact quite a decent bloke.

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By Graham Stoney, ago

Feeling Depressed? Try having a Good Cry

I was feeling depressed on Tuesday. I’d been struggling with Chronic Fatigue for over a year, and it was one of the bad days when I woke up feeling like I’d been run over by a bus that just kept backing up and having another go me it over and over. I’d also spent over a year writing and publishing an ebook which wasn’t selling as well as I would have liked. I was having a bad day and felt lousy.

Australian society doesn’t do a great job of encouraging us guys to express how we feel, especially when we’re down. Our English stiff-upper-lip cultural heritage combined with the rugged blokey mentality tells us that if you’re a guy and you cry, there’s something wrong with you. Yet crying is our natural way of releasing emotions of sadness or loss. When you have a good cry, it might feel … Continue reading…

By Graham Stoney, ago