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How Are You Feeling Right Now?
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Completely and utterly done. My laptop suddenly died completely on me today. Totally dead, nothing works - taunted me with a bios screen and even windows login once, then died again. Haven't back my work up in a while with all the other stuff going on. Nobody can take this much fucking shit, nobody.
i'm sorry this happened. can you completely charge it and do a hard reset? i hope you can figure it out
mike....
mike....
Lost an entire month of work as I hadn't backed up with the (still ongoing) roof saga. 😞
I managed, somehow, by a fluke or miracle to figure out a totally bizarre way to let the BIOS reinstall. There's something loose in the hardware, as I can get the laptop on, but as soon as I move it the screen glitches out with a screech and that's it. Maybe it was the tension in my hand but I noticed that I got further if I squeezed the right corner of the casing, this let the BIOS setup complete and then got me in, so using a mouse with left hand while squeezing with right hand, I managed to keep it on long enough to copy my stuff. I'll still be £350 down but at least it's pay in 6 months so I won't worry about it till then. I literally restarted that machine for 5 hours, trying leaving it, trying Windows V, Windows B, both of them together, over and over. Sometimes it would come on and then just die again, eventually - progress. Today was the closest I have ever been to CTB and it's still not over, there's still more to deal with and I literally can't pay people to give me the right advice, but I will try to leave that until tomorrow now.
That's good @AvidFan, you managed to get your work data off the computer. I had a similar issue serval years ago, and I lost years worth of personal photographs, I was gutted.
I think IRL people are all going around in their own bubbles most of the time. And generally expect conversations about TV, or the next holiday their going on. I think if you said to someone at work or non friend/ family member "I feel totally fucked up in the head today", I don't think they would understand, though I guarantee, that they have indeed felt like that themselves, at one point or another. That said, the guy I work with is okay and besides asking me every morning, what did I do last night, would probably be okay if I said the opposite.
I think IRL people are all going around in their own bubbles most of the time. And generally expect conversations about TV, or the next holiday their going on. I think if you said to someone at work or non friend/ family member "I feel totally fucked up in the head today", I don't think they would understand, though I guarantee, that they have indeed felt like that themselves, at one point or another. That said, the guy I work with is okay and besides asking me every morning, what did I do last night, would probably be okay if I said the opposite.
I'm fed up, I'm getting 2 hours sleep a night if that and trying to deal with shitstorms where nobody will help me. People lying to me or incompetent or just trying to con me out of money. I've tried my absolute hardest to deal with everything thrown at me but at some point it's just started feeling impossible. On my own, sinking, screaming, no idea what I am going to do. I am going to try to just forget everything this evening but I seriously dread going to sleep exhausted and just lying awake again. I'm heading for a complete breakdown, it's been relentless for months, and there is absolutely nothing I can do to stop any of it happening.
That reminds me that people who don’t struggle with mood disorders can’t really understand.
They think depression is what is really sadness or disappointment. One is about something, and passes after a couple weeks. A mood is different. Anxiety feels more like fear, but I can’t relax even when there is no threat, or I sometimes interpret a situation as threatening, when really it isn’t.
My depressive symptoms lasted for 6 months before I figured out that wasn’t normal. A case of the blues also lasts a few weeks at most.
I don’t have any advice. I mean, you’re going through a lot of shit right now, and I would be overwhelmed by less. I’m especially sorry to read about the laptop, because you recently replaced it if memory serves me. I do hope it gets better.
They think depression is what is really sadness or disappointment. One is about something, and passes after a couple weeks. A mood is different. Anxiety feels more like fear, but I can’t relax even when there is no threat, or I sometimes interpret a situation as threatening, when really it isn’t.
My depressive symptoms lasted for 6 months before I figured out that wasn’t normal. A case of the blues also lasts a few weeks at most.
I don’t have any advice. I mean, you’re going through a lot of shit right now, and I would be overwhelmed by less. I’m especially sorry to read about the laptop, because you recently replaced it if memory serves me. I do hope it gets better.
Well, if you’re in the US, I think there are far fewer people to answer the phone than there were a month ago. 
Which is not to say they were ever good at answering phones or responding to their relevant population in the first place. I am dealing with the unemployment office at the state level, and it took me 3 days to get a real human on the line, which I had to do to reset my password.
Which is not to say they were ever good at answering phones or responding to their relevant population in the first place. I am dealing with the unemployment office at the state level, and it took me 3 days to get a real human on the line, which I had to do to reset my password.
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You're someone who gets it. I don't need advice, usually, just need to feel heard. Some people are lucky and genuinely don't know what it's like to be suicidal or have an existential crisis.
This was the new laptop that had all the weird issues when it got to low battery last year - I had well over 6 months with no further issues with it, so it was clearly cursed, but overall I think I got a year and a bit out of it. Am not entirely sure what I've bought but it should hopefully be fast enough for web browsing and Office apps.
This was the new laptop that had all the weird issues when it got to low battery last year - I had well over 6 months with no further issues with it, so it was clearly cursed, but overall I think I got a year and a bit out of it. Am not entirely sure what I've bought but it should hopefully be fast enough for web browsing and Office apps.
