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First my bona fides. Over the course of about 40 years I was a low grade chronic depressive who experienced two suicidal ideations. The immediate cause of depression and therefore suicide is often an imbalance of the hormone serotonin. The body has a number of self-defense mechanisms like coagulants for wounds or adrenalin for danger. The secretion of serotonin is one of them. Serotonin which regulates mood, sleep and appetite is also a vasodilator. When as the result of undue stress there is a sustained rise in blood pressure capable of harming organs, Serotonin kicks in to preserve these tissues. The ability to identify the cause of such stress is crucial. One of the most common causes is of course grief. In grief the body shuts down to the extent that even the immune system is affected. Life altering events like the loss of a job, breakup of a relationship, financial distress can have a similar effect. The real problems occur when the mind doesn’t recognize that it is in such a state. In order to justify its state of malaise it will create causes and things like unexplainable paranoia or anger arise. In my own case, the mind sought to shut down: to not think. I’d play 14 hours of minesweeper with nary a potty break so that I wouldn’t have to deal with my distress or take a whole day to make a bed because my attention span was about 30 seconds. There were a few days I didn’t make it to work and a few social events I dressed for but couldn’t bring myself to leave my home. The really difficult cases of depression occur when there is no identifiable cause of stress. That was my case. My diagnosing psychiatrist readily determined that I had been a low-grade borderline chronic depressive for 40 years or more. Upon exploring my family history, the cause was evident. Alcoholism which is closely related to depression was prevalent on both sides of my family. It was never a problem with my parents both of whom came for dysfunction alcoholic families. Moreover, there were a few suicides on my father’s side. My depression was determined to be genetic and I was treated accordingly. My point here is that there are instances when depression - suicidal depression - is solely the result of an undiagnosed change in brain chemistry and that the victim of such a depression is no guiltier of causing it than is a victim of lung cancer who never smoked. Moreover, it is intellectually presumptuous and cruel to impute on them a rational cause or moral failing. I’ll get off my soap box now but not before commending Andrew Solomon’s The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, a 2001 National Book Award winner. The more you know and understand about depression the less likely you’ll be its victim and the more likely you’ll be able to recognize it in others and get them diagnosed and treated.

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If masturbation counts maybe 6?

Da! Da!

And WOOF!!!

I want to ride that!!

I know where I want to be.

Yes I will. Anything you say.

Another a Galloping Gourmet.

In my wildest dreams . . . !

A twink of my dreams.

[bIGGEST SWOON]

Y M C A

Yea but they’re too many carbs in Julia Child’s version.

I’m in LUST yet again.

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In MY Golds Gym if you’ve got your hands on two dumbbells you better have a shirt on. But I’d visit his gym any time!!

I swear officer I was not beating off. Oh you want me to do what?

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I didn’t pay extra but Rick Hammersmith once topped me and so proved once again that great tops almost always started as bottoms.

He what owns the pipe has the right to determine what flows thru it. Years ago a CNET tv program reported that the largest number of viewers of the Playboy website came from IBM IP’s. The next week I lost a number of IBM colleagues who were quietly escorted off the premises.

Sexy smile # 3. Taken together too much of a good thing. Alas.

Sexy smile # 2.

Sexy smile # 1.