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Thanks mate.

Seriously though, Its been a rough year..lots of death, chaos, crazies, and other random drama. So far, 2006 has been one of the worst years I''ve lived through, the only redeeming part is that my son will be born in this year of static and sandpaper.

Wouldn't The Samaritans do a better job than some Sonic Youth fans?
At least they don't have to type in such stressed out way!Yeah!

Sorry to hear that, RdTv.

I've lost five friends this year (they were all older people), so it's been a rough time. And at the weekend my cousin's three-year-old daughter died too. I'm good at dealing with stress though, so I tend to be able to manage things pretty well.

Do the Samaritans do an online service?

Not sure but i think they do actually.

Useful I imagine, in the modern world.

Probably not.Anyway,on a more serious note i have to admit that my year started with a bang.First i've been getting a lot of stress from my now ex patner and at the same time i've had some awful family problems that i wont discuss on here.For the first time in my life i didn't have a choice but to go and see a counsellor who turned out to be very helpful in many ways.I would have never thought that could happen but i was getting more and more depressed and i couldn't bear it anymore.I should also add that London,being such a big city,can be very stressful when it comes to commuting and stuff like that.Living as i do in a densely populated area(Westminster)adds to that even more.Some days it seems i cant get away from people and that can be a bit stressful.

By the way has anyone read that article on the newspaper about websites that give people tips on how to commit suicide?Aren't they awful?

It's better than giving them tips on how to build a bomb. :eek:

Yeah, I'm feeling mildly stressed right now. The sale of my flat has taken two months to get absolutely nowhere, one of my closest friends went into hospital for cancer surgery yesterday, and I get no satisfaction whatsoever from my job.

But, on the plus side, I don't live in daily fear of bombs and rockets dropping on my neighbourhood, and I don't have to spend all my time worrying where my next meal is going to come from.

I know what you mean. It helps to take a break from the chaos, once in a while.

That's all booked honey.I do go home often.Problems come with you wherever you go unfortunately.

Oh... That sounds worse than I thought. :(

On the other hand i have to say that my job isnt really stressful at all.I generally cope with anxiety(as i've suffered from it since i was a teenager)in various ways.Music(as obvious a thing as it may sound)helps me a lot,friends and family are always there for me and i'm blessed with having one of the nicest mums in existence.Sonicl rightly pointed out that compared to what a vast amount of people are suffering right now,our problems might appear like very small ones.

no way man. stress is not my scene.

Here's a fun site to get rid of your stress temporarily. It will make you laugh.

http://www.netdisaster.com/

Type in the target:http://www.sonicyouth.com/gossip, choose the type of disaster you'd like to see happen, for destruction choose massive, for control use mouse and then click go!

I love the nuke disaster.

A little this summer, yes.

Chemistry-(voluntary) summer school
Summer Homework from English 10H, and AP European History
My first job

i am a little bit stressed, but i have been worse. a lot worse.

I've spent the past 8 months duking it out with two major corporations who happen to control two critical financial elements in my life: my car loan and my mortgage. Both companies made huge accounting errors against me; their mistakes made it look like I've been delinquent, and they've hurt my credit. It took finally contacting my state's consumer protection division for my mortgage company to reverse their accounting mistake--it's the kind of thing that would take any monkey two keystrokes, basically switching numbers from one side of the ledger to the other. And it took a LOT of intervention from my car insurance company to straighten things out with our jackass car loan people.

All I can say after all this is, whenever possible, shop locally for these things. Use your local banks, have a place where you can walk in and sit down and talk to somebody face to face. Trying to straighten these things out over the phone with anonymous representatives--who may not be the same person you talk to next time--is frustrating as fucking hell.

I've since switched all this to my local credit union.

The offending parties, by the way, were GMAC and AMC Mortgage Services. Do not--I repeat, do not--do business with these giant corporate idiots.

My blood boils just thinking about it. I hate talking on the phone when it concerns loans, bills, whatever. What really annoys me is when I get a fucking voicemail or some pre-recorded git telling me to press a button for this or that department. :mad:

i generally hate when people call my house, but i particularly hate those fucking waste of space monotone messages asking you who you're gonna vote for in this that or the other election.

Banks are the worst at winding people up.

i've been having mad problems with my electricity company for the last 6 months... i'd like to wring their bloody necks! and my fucking doctor's neck too, the lazt shit!

And how!

Well, I've learned my lesson. I will never, ever choose to use an out-of-town car loan bank or mortgage company again. It's impossible to deal with the automatons on the other end of the line when you need to fix a problem.

It feels so much better to have everything at my credit union now. I can walk 5 blocks from my work office and see a real person. Plus, I really do believe in keeping the money in my own community, when I can.

i wonder if one day they'll learn my address correctly.Every time they have to send me a new card it misteriously goes in the hands of some other person.And Halifax employees are officially the worst at giving information to people.I stopped counting how many times they gave me wrong opening times,confusing information about my overdraft etc.Them and British Gas are just inept idiots.

I've recently moved to a new apartment and my electrical bill is through the same company. I've had to phone a number of times to tell them that bills should be stopped at my old residence, but no... Those cunts keep sending me bills for both addresses and if I don't pay them up front, they'll cut all my electricity where I am now. First pay and then they reverse it.

This is a great thread for whining & bitching, by the way. :D

Halifax are the worst to deal with. I reduced my balance to 1p a couple of years ago, and intend leaving it that way forever. The reason was, apart from their general incompetence, they wouldn't let me pay a cheque into my acount because they 'aren't a clearing bank'!?!?!?! Apparantly, they're just a pretend bank.

So I opened an account with Bradford and Bingley. Bradford and Bingley are much nicer, and they don't hide behind plastic screens either. And they gave me some shares.

Except that they'll take a fucking age to repay you. British Gas owe us £40 since we switched to NPower, and they're being a complete pain in the arse about it. Delays, excuses, claims that they still haven't had the meter reading etc. And every time we call about it, they insist that they have no record of our previous call.

Our experience, combined with their generally unethical behaviour, leads me to believe that no-one should ever do business with them. At all.

Tv Licence people i found to be honest and reliable.When i moved into a place that already had a Tv Licence they refunded me whatever i had paid upfront within one week.

All the gas and electric companies are crooks so far as I can tell. I've had people at my door from two of the companies claiming that I'm being charged at the wrong tariff and I just need to "sign these forms" to get it corrected - e.g. sign up to get my energy supplier changed, but they weren't going to mention that.

That's what you get with the privatization of electricity, railways, etc.

Your private green house?

I am not a narc.

I think i once started a thread about weird doctors.I had one that made me want to waste away rather than go to see her.Any symptoms i had were apparently caused by smoking and drinking.The cure was tough shit.