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I'm Slacking Posted: 01-07-07 02:03am


Ever since my dog passed 1 month ago today (almost tomorrow) I have changed in a bad way...Slacking off with everything and no intrest in anything I do at all and all I think about is wanting to see her and thinking of when I die whenever that will be that I will see her again but anything else I dont wanna do or have intrest in. Hell today I was supposed to call a buddy at work at 11am and go out with him to get a controller for his nintendo wii he just got but instead I went back to sleep and woke up and decided I did not wanna go out so I stayed home and ive still yet to call him and it is 11pm now. I have also been extremly forgetfull, now im forgetfull at times but never in my life this forgetfull and put off going on msn to talk to some guys at work or get them things or go on my xbox 360 and play my boss some hockey. I am sure if this keeps up I will be thrown on the streets because I do no work at home anymore and ive been more attatched to afterlife and an afterlife chatroom then anytime ive been attatched to anything in my life. If you have searched my posts before you will see I have had it exremly bad and my dog was the best soul I have ever met in my life. Maybe this is normal I dunno but this has been happening since her death now.

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Posted: 01-07-07 03:04am


Have you considered getting another pet? Many times caring for something is what keeps people going. Whenever I get screwed up I pick up one of my cats and it helps. Also if you have been depressed for a month now it could be more than just the death of your dog. It is possible that this episode of depression is independent of the pet. I got really really depressed after a relationship ended when I was 18 and attempted suicide. It turned out that it wasn't the relationship ending that made me depressed but chemical factors in my brain caused by a physical injury. I'll give you the same advice that I should probably take myself: see a psychiatrist and ask if this is depression. If so you can get medicated.

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Posted: 01-07-07 03:29am


It took me a week of crying and i'm usually always smiling although i'm never happy but it's impossible for me to be down 24/7, ive cried a few more times after and I still think of her alot. It may be time to get a new pet but I think it's way too early...I mean you don't get a gf after a breakup 1 month ago with a gf or a wife of say 13 years as it takes sometimes years although I love dogs to death but I would feel like i'm betraying her by showing another animal I care for them and she see's this in heaven and gets all jealous like when she was alive. I've kissed her urn with ehr ashes several times like I give her kisses alot and told her I love her all the time although I don't anymore that much as I find it weird talking to myself now. It feels like just yesterday I saw her downstairs laying by herself like she usually did but she was an extremly happy dog (vets said it and other people) and the vets said the healthiest dog they have ever seen for her size and age (15) and moves around like a 10 year old. She was a chocolate lab pittbull and in the month my I swear I have heard her but i'm guessing it was my subconcious.

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