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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I've been taking Ambien for a few years and have never had a problem - i take when I wake up in the middle of the night so I just get right back into bed. I had no idea the effects it has on some people! Some of the stories are kind of funny. Next time I take it I might have to stay up for a while and see what happens!
P.S. Ananodon, I'm with you. While the posts to Salon articles can be very interesting and informative, it also provides an anonymous forum for every angry, bitter person out there who has no where else to release his/her inner-viciousness. It amazes me how upset people can get about other people's issues.
They don't remember ANYTHING. If there is nothing to remember, like getting up to piss, rolling over or getting a glass of water, you're going to believe you slept well.
Maybe it is all in the head? You feel rested the next day not because you slept well but because you BELIEVE you slept well.
Perception can be reality.
My exwife took Ambien, but wouldn't go to bed, she enjoyed the feeling to much. She would stay up as long as possible untill she staggered like a drunk. I have seen her fall and bust her ass, and I would have to help her into bed. I kept worrying that she would fall and hit her head. The next day it was like it never happened because she couldn't remember a thing.
Sorry, you missed the boat. Chester was not taking Ambien, or any other drug, at the time--which you would have understood if you were actually able to read English--or if you had paid attention instead of looking for a "hook" for your latest spate of woman-bashing. Grow up.
Still and all, Chester's fairly obvious psychological problems (chiefly with repression) were enough to make me dump him. You should be so lucky as to have his problems.
Here are a few things you should think about.
1) I'm not male. I'm female. But thanks for just assuming that I'm male.
2) Yes, i post a lot of letters on Salon Letters, but that's because i'm in class all day with my laptop, and law school classes can be quite boring. What's your excuse for posting at 7am on a saturday?
3) The only typos i found in my posts were the one time I ommitted the word "do", and perhaps you think "ergo" is not really a word (it actually is). You, however, have many, many problems with apostrophes and you don't know how to spell non-sequitur. But picking on me for my typing skills is pretty low, don't you think? Why not actually talk about whether marijuana is as bad as you say it is?
To that end, please, do some research on marijuana instead of just insulting people.
Foolish curiosity and a bit of boredom at work just took me through all of these letters. What I can't understand is why there is so much vitriol over an essay not altogether different than the weekly NYT column Modern Love. It is clearly in the "Life" section, not "News & Politics" or "Tech & Business." It was witty and amusing and wasn't presented as hart-hitting journalism.
Thanks for confirming my suspicions that civility is dead and misanthropy is the new black.
Almost two years ago, my direct supervisor had, and from all accounts still has, a severe Ambien addiction. Her addiction compelled me to leave an otherwise perfectly good job. It was mentally draining to communicate with her and very unrewarding, financially and emotionally, to pick up the slack in our department. Fortunately, I landed a promotion in a nearby state, but in many ways I would have rather stayed on board. Many of her colleagues could not understand what she was talking about when she talked shop sober, but I could with little difficulty. Her professional reputation was irrevocably damaged, but the administration would not pursue disciplinary measures. Apart from not doing her job, she would often display some bizarre behavior. There were days when she would follow me into the bathroom. One time, she asked me about my bra size and then insisted her breasts were smaller than mine. Truth be told, only pre-pubescent girls and some female athletes are flatter than me. She's been caught sleeping under her desk a-la-George Costanza. She even told me she would sometimes double her doseage. Her husband was totally complicit because her addiction afforded him the opportunity to pursue emotional, and possibly, physical affairs while she was comatose. The fact that she often binged on food during her Ambien-induced state not only contributed to her weight problem, but caused a lot of gastrointestinal distress when she was sober. I feel so sorry for her because she is very intelligent and knowledgeable in our field, but this addiction is destroying her life. She deserves so much more.
A miracle for those with chronic insomnia. I'm willing to trade dependence - and I have no doubt I'm dependent - for the ability to function during the day because I got 8 hours of sleep. But anyone who washes it down with alcohol has bigger problems.
And LeCastor, we get it, you're in law school. Mazel tov. You display the characteristic arrogance of the 1L that hasn't yet been wiped away by a bad judge, psychotic partner, opposing counsel, or just the bitterness of mucking the sewers of other peoples' problems day after day. Assuming you make it through, you'll figure out what I mean.
And the lawyers who smoke weed regularly are not, on average, particularly high functioning attorneys. You have to keep a lot of balls in the air to practice than to sit in Civ Pro and recite the holding in International Shoe. Pot has a tendency to make you a little more interested in chilling with a bag of chips and some Buffy DVDs than in preparing your client for tomorrow's settlement conference, returning the 30 messages you have to return, and writing that motion to dismiss you've been putting off.
At least the Ambien lets me work the other 16 hours a day, which is what it takes sometimes.
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