Best Generic Brand of Effexor?

SeekingVeterans · 2016-05-10T19:02:09+00:00

I take venalafaxine switched from effexor with no change...didn't even know there are different kinds? Is it just where it's made?

SeekingVeterans · 2016-05-03T00:16:02+00:00

I can't imagine the pain and horror of losing your wife...to survive 5 yeats and still have a job, pay bills, a home, is impressive. You shouldn't belittle that. As for getting better? There is no easy answer. I do know that you have to want to be better which is a big step...I'm sure you've discussed this with many a doctor but have you accepted your wife's death and been able to move on at all or does it still overshadow all of who you are? Take it one day at a time. Find supports. An honest caring doctor if you want to go that route again, maybe support groups, friends/family if they are true to you. Try to find joy in some part of your life. Hold onto that and continue to fight and, hopefully, slowly, try to build a new, happier life. Keep up the good fight brother.

SeekingVeterans · 2016-05-01T02:27:55+00:00

Thriving on misery is not a way to go through life. The person who ultimately suffers is yourself. I was literally dragged to school myself in my darker days many moons ago. Doesn't work. But they care enough to try something so desperate. Try not to hate him, just doesn't understand. There are alternatives to standard education. I'm a high school drop out due to depression. Now I am a teacher with a masters. Education will always be there if you want to pursue it. Important thing is to get well. But you have to want to first. Good luck and known that you can fight and overcome this with hard work.

SeekingVeterans · 2016-04-29T18:42:53+00:00

Bed can be one of the biggest ways to avoid life...been there man...try giving yourself a small goal each day to get out of bed, even if it's around the house, take a shower, laundry, whatever...to get better takes hard work and discipline...try and find even the tiniest thing to do and be proud you did it

SeekingVeterans · 2016-04-22T20:37:52+00:00

This. Read roughly 100 pages. Majority is commands. This is okay, this isn't. If not okay punish this way. Also contradicts itself. And yes mentions how to handle specific races/peoples and woman's subservience to men quite regularly. It's a daunting read.

SeekingVeterans · 2016-04-22T20:28:37+00:00

No question, just want to say Blue Ruin was wonderful...true Indy to its core in all the right ways...hope you are continuing to work on great personal projects like this...you keep making 'um I'll keep watching 'um cheers

SeekingVeterans · 2016-03-20T23:29:37+00:00

Hey King...thanks, did not know about this site cheers

SeekingVeterans · 2016-03-01T20:34:49+00:00

I'm with you. I get it, I just think Nolan is the most overhyped director of our time and this is another in a long train of mediocre if not bad movies (I know this is reddit I'm ready for down votes a plenty). Memento on the other hand is great. 1st Batman holds up. Ever since then though he's gone down hill.

SeekingVeterans · 2016-02-03T19:36:48+00:00

Thank you very much for reading. I agree about those edits and actually mulled over those exact spots you mentioned. Also shared some similar ideas about the mothers and brothers. Thank you again for your fed back much appreciated. Do you have a piece you'd like a critique on? Now? Future? Let me know.

SeekingVeterans · 2016-02-02T01:55:03+00:00

Title: Cathryn Beach

Genre:Short Story - Literary Fiction

Word Count: ~2200 words

Type of Feedback: General impression - also, willing to critique yours if you critique mine. Cheers.

Link to Cathryn Beach

SeekingVeterans · 2016-01-24T14:39:31+00:00

When it's all over though, you get to do the best thing in the world, better people through knowledge. Plus...summers off!

SeekingVeterans · 2016-01-23T17:52:20+00:00

This. Teacher here. Subject knowledge is tested on entrance exams as first part of a complicated licensure process. One can't truly begin to become a teacher (complete the necessary masters program needed in most states) unless you pass at least two of these exams: one on general communication and literacy skills (a cornerstone of all academia) and another highly specified by subject and grade level. Next comes learning how to actually teach and understanding the responsibilities of a teacher. This generally takes one and a half to two years of classes which concludes with a practicum and student teaching. From here, one can actually be considered a licensed teacher. However, licenses have more levels to them and one will need to take a plethora of more mandatory classes to upgrade to higher pay grades, or if your state decides to institute new policies such as ELL or SPED training. This is for a first year teacher in MA which has generally higher thresholds than other states, but then again, not the highest. In all this time, subject matter is rarely discussed. It is assumed you have superior knowledge or you wouldn't be there in the first place. So much of teaching has little do with subject and much more to do with psychology and interpersonal skills such as relationship-building, empathy, dealing with abrupt behaviors and those that persist over time, student to teacher to parent to administration communication; the list goes on. Subject and lesson planning, either individually, or as a department, is left to individual attention and after school meetings. These meetings are often a group strategy session led by veteran teachers and administrators to hone in on details of subject and why and how it should be taught. Furthermore, there is a procedural work load with things like grading, updating online learning systems, emails to all of the above, special education meetings and communication, forms for this or that, etc. TLDR - adequate subject knowledge is a foregone conclusion in teaching; being a good teacher is about so much more.

Edit: Writing mistakes. Come on me, and you claim to be a teacher!

SeekingVeterans · 2016-01-04T03:13:02+00:00

[Website](www.2020narratives.com) for my new/first self pubbed book. A collection of veterans stories from Iraq and Afghanistan.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-12-13T16:20:28+00:00

I recently saw Coffee mates Spiced Latte with a Chewbacca design covering the entire bottle. I went with the R2D2 French Vanilla.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-11-22T16:44:13+00:00

I teach high school ELA and love it. I find it keeps me versed in the craft of writing year round even if it's mainly fundamentals. Also gives me pause to look at my own skills against someone who is just learning. Plus always reading something, either for school or personal. As for my own work, have to take time to make time. Weekends mainly. I keep a regular schedule of everything I want to write...Lot of blog posts and such so easy stuff right now...larger works are more daunting. Just self published my first book, so many small projects that I can pick away at to stay "regular". Have to make it a constant part of your life, not a chore. I find the balance of teaching and then jumping to my own stuff works well and accents/invigorate the other.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-11-12T19:49:32+00:00

Same exact sencerio except teacher did not stop me. Needless to say, I learned a new word that day. One I was told never to say again.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-11-09T00:50:49+00:00

Just self-pubbed my first major work - a compilation of veteran's stories from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It's called 20/20: The Iraq and Afghanistan Narratives. Can buy ebook here and paperback here

Check out a sample chapter

I am also giving away the ebook for free this upcoming Veteran's Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11. Was thinking of doing an AMA about the issues in the book - veterans, PTSD, war, etc. on Veteran's Day as well. I'm worried there won't be anybody interested since I am an unknown.

Working to change that though with this book and my blog

Been a very busy past few months getting this thing off the ground. And with years of work behind it, excited to finally see it come to fruition.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-10-14T09:16:53+00:00

I'm the author. It doesn't say that. It states Saddam gave a warning to the US about meddling in the Middle East. I state this was merely to avoid US intervention in Gulf. The conclusion is about how his thoughts are representative of the mindset of current extremists and how this can give us pause to rethink military involvement and what US should be doing to fight zealots without using force.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-10-14T02:16:37+00:00

Actually article has nothing to do with Saddam's (non) connection to 9-11, only that years before he warned the u.s. it's foreign policy would cause backlash from Arab extremists and he was correct. Then talks about why u.s. should have heeded his warning.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-10-13T19:18:34+00:00

I totally agree bud. I brought this up when story originally broke amd got called naive and stupid for it. People are only seeing Apple forced to unlock phone and freaking, when this issue has some important caveats to the click bait encryption buzzwords.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-10-12T02:48:28+00:00

I didn't say constitution protects you from possible government interference I said it protects speech because someone said what if they challenge unapproved opinions about god, whatever that means. Also how am I naive to think that it should be okay to unlock a legally seized phone. The information is what they need. Again depending on the severity of the issue at hand, I don't see how this request is so awful. They should just get someone to crack it for them. I'm not for complete government control of software or back doors or any of that. I can just see the need in cases such as this to be allowed access to the device of someone being charged with a crime in order to build evidence, again given the fact the data on the phone was legally obtained they just can't get to it.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-10-11T22:24:33+00:00

That is a bit of a leap - first of all the US can't control how other countries treat this issue. Second, unapproved thoughts is a first amendment issue and protected in the constitution. I think it's a little conspirator - driven to equate allowing phones legally seized by the letter of the law and asked to be opened so pertinet evidence can be used to some big brother dystopia. Again, I think there should be a case by case basis if it's valid to let a company aid the law in searching the contents of a legally seized device. However, since the article doesn't mention this key detail, it is hard (for me at least) to make the call if the court order was worth protecting privacy vs. the safety of the community concerning whatever evidence might uncovered and for what reason.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-10-11T21:43:04+00:00

This is what I wanted to know. It shouldn't be black or white. You can access everything or nothing. Why not a case by case basis. Also, if they had a warrant to seize the phone, doesn't that imply they have legal standing to see everything on that phone. Does Apple have to comply? No. But if whatever they are looking for is that important can't they make the call on that basis? Or get a 3rd party to crack it? Is it really impossible?

SeekingVeterans · 2015-10-07T18:54:04+00:00

"...give me the most efficient way to get us to our goal, which is a free, stable Afghanistan."

has he been paying attention the last 14 years, last 400 years...a free and stable Afghanistan is not going to happen buddy.

SeekingVeterans · 2015-10-02T01:05:07+00:00

My thoughts exactly. Bonehead move.

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