<<if $in_Therapy eq true>><<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<else>><<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<<set $moveIn = true>><<if $in_Therapy eq true>>You've been in therapy for some time now, and have started to be able to realize what is a rational fear and what is not. You feel like you might be simply being insecure, and <<if $alexKnows eq false>>that Alex knows you well enough to make her own decisions about what she wants to do.<<else>>you've already taken steps to discuss your difficulties with Alex in the past, and that she's making an informed decision.<<endif>> Your therapy is working, and you can talk to Dr. Mellville about how to manage your depression with a partner living with you at your next session. As she says, you can figure out the rest later - the point is that this is absolutely a thing you want.\n\nYou're having too hard of a time stifling your excitement at the thought of having her around more, so you blurt your answer out.\n\n//"Yes! Let's do it!"//\n\nHer face lights up. You cup her face in your hands and kiss her, and mentally vow that you are not going to stop living because you have a mental illness. You are determined to take your life back.<<else>><<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>>You are really worried that if Alex were to live with you, she wouldn't be able to deal with your days of being unable to get out of bed or nights where you can do nothing but stare at the wall and panic. However, you're not sure how to find the words, and if you did you would probably just sound like a crazy person. Would she even take it the right way? Would she just assume that you're trying to find excuses to not live together? \n<<if $alexKnows eq true>>\nEven though you've discussed your situation with her, you still fear that she doesn't realize the depths of how bad it gets. It's one thing for you to detail how you feel sometimes, and for her to see it pop up occasionally. It's an entirely different situation for it to be something she has to live with alongside you.\n<<endif>>\n//Maybe I can use this as a reason to finally get my act together,// you think to yourself. //Maybe having her around will keep me from being so depressed so often.//\n \nYou decide to push all of your worries down, and agree to move in. \n\nThe first few weeks feel amazing, but you quickly find that your choice was not a wise one. Trying to hide your struggles with your condition from your partner becomes more and more impossible, and you find that you lack many resources to properly deal with the situations that arise as a result. Due to the lack of communication, she starts feeling like it's her fault, and a wedge is driven between the two of you. This fact is fuel for your illness, and becomes another aspect of your life that you berate yourself for.\n\nDespite sleeping in the same bed, she feels further away than ever before.<<endif>>\n \n[[Next.|familyChristmas]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
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<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou sit and stare at the note for a long while before you rip the post-it off and pick up your phone. If it's possible that this can really help you, you should at least give it a try.\n\nWhile you listen to the phone ring, your mind races. What if you really are mentally ill? What the therapist tells you you're full blown crazy? Would it be worse than being told that you're actually fine and that you're just being a huge baby about being an adult? Your mind latches on to that last thought and you feel foolish. \n<<if $motivation lte 7>>\n//Being worthless isn't a mental illness. You're just a sadsack.//<<endif>>\n\nBefore you can bring yourself to hang up, you're listening to the jarringly chipper voice of the receptionist. You double check that they'll take your insurance, and book an appointment relatively painlessly. \n\nBefore you know it, you're standing in front of the therapist's office on the day of your appointment.\n\nWhat do you do?\n\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Go to the therapist's office.</font></del></html>\n[[2: Head to the therapist's office, even though you're totally unsure of what to expect.|gotoTherapy2]]\n[[3: Bargain with yourself. Surely there's another way.|anotherWay]]\n[[4: You've lost your nerve entirely. Go home.|justgoHome]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>\n
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//Your therapist asks you a question that you're embarrassed to answer. Do you lie or not?//\n\n[[1. Lie.|lietoHer]]\n[[2. Tell the truth.|donotLie]]
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nIt's a Wednesday evening, and you're visiting at your parents' house for a holiday.\n\nIt's one of the handful of times during the year you drive out to visit your old hometown, and you've seen random people you had gone to school with around town. Whenever bumping into them, the usual short versions of what you've done since graduating are exchanged. You've gone through a few of these today and have been very aware of how much you feel you haven't accomplished. When you were in high school you had much larger plans, and you feel like you've failed to manifest most of them. Even if you had managed to, you've largely lost interest in what you thought you wanted to do growing up. Now, you're not really sure what you want to do, and you've felt like you're lacking the ambition or drive to figure it out. Everyone you've caught up with seems so much happier than you, like they've got their lives all figured out, and you've kind of been feeling like a failure by comparison.\n\nYour brother Malcolm arrives with his wife in tow shortly before you all sit down to dinner. He's been traveling for his job lately and you haven't seen him since the day he picked you up from the dentist. Your parents haven't seen him since before then. During dinner, they all catch up and Malcolm talks about the amazing things he's done on the road. \n\nYour mother turns to you and asks what you've been up to since you've seen them last. \n\n//"Oh, same old same old..."// you say. //"Nothing really new going on."//\n\nYour mother makes a face. //"Oh, nothing new? How long are you planning on staying at that job of yours?"//\n\nWhat do you say?\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Tell them about the exciting new job you're gunning for.</font></del></html>\n<<if $motivation lte 7>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2:(Lie) Tell them what they want to hear: that you're actively looking for a more prestigious position<del></font></del></html><<else>>[[2:(Lie) Tell them what they want to hear: that you're actively looking for a more prestigious position.|liethroughyourTeeth]]<<endif>>\n<<if $motivation lte 5>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>3: Admit that you don't know what you want to do.<del></font></del></html><<else>>[[3: Admit that you don't know what you want to do.|noAmbition]]<<endif>>\n[[4: Excuse yourself to the bathroom.|gototheBathroom]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
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Though you've known some of them since high school, you've never been comfortable letting them into this facet of your life, and that's true now more than ever. Your frequent bouts of both ambivalence and panic have caused you to flake out on more and more engagements, and your shame at your own situation keeps you from ever talking to your friends about it for fear that the "real you" would be repulsive to them. In spite of your best efforts, your friends have noticed that something is up, and you get the sense that your unwillingness to open up on more than a surface level has offended them. You worry about driving your friends away, and yet find yourself paralyzed and unwilling to let them in. \n\n<<if $significant_Other eq true>>Things with Alex have become more and more strained. The two of you have had several conversations about your situation. She's indicated numerous times that she's willing to be understanding and help you as best she can, but that she feels that you're not taking equal steps to move forward yourself. She worries that you "love being miserable more than you love her," and even in the wake of your desperate-sounding platitudes you can't seem to totally convince yourself that she's wrong. In spite of her obvious frustration, you can't seem to leave your comfort zone and set aside your own self loathing long enough to make a concerted effort to make things better, and you find yourselves having the same conversation on a near weekly basis. You both are feeling emotionally exhausted and the future of the relationship is uncertain.<<else>>After several long conversations with Alex, things finally reached their breaking point. She told you that you seem to "love being miserable more than you love her," and that you cling to that comfortable misery as a way to keep from effecting any positive change, and after several weeks of having the same fight she decided it was too much to bear. While she told you that she still loves you, she can't let herself or her plans be held back by a partner who doesn't share an equal interest in moving forward.<<endif>>\n\n<<if $in_Therapy eq true>>You have communicated many of these events to Dr. Melville in your sessions, and are surprised to find that what you feel more than anything is an overwhelming lack of feeling towards any of it, and she seems very concerned about how far your anhedonia seems to have progressed. You still continue to go to your sessions regularly, largely because you don't know what else to do with your time.<<else>>You have communicated much of this to Malcolm over various coffee outings and phone calls, and are surprised to find that what you feel more than anything is an overwhelming lack of feeling towards any of it. He seems very concerned, though you can tell that he's trying to not overreact to anything you say so he can 'be there' for you. Though you think it's sort of nice to get to see Malcolm more than you have been, but after a few dinners at his well-kept house and drives in his new Camaro you also can't help but make comparisons between his life and your own. Your outings almost always leave you with mixed feelings, with any positivity largely drowned out by amplified feelings of worthlessness.<<endif>>\n\nPouring over the events of the past few months is, even now, exhausting and defeating. Looking at the person you were mere months ago is almost surreal; it feels like a completely different person living a completely different life. You find it difficult to even begin to think about the prospect of your future when your present is so emotionally exhausting. You've gone from a person who had goals and plans to someone who lives largely day-to-day, expending all his effort just to get from AM to PM. Looking across the table at your mother, you feel suddenly drained, unable to go through another one of //those// conversations.\n\nYou simply clear your throat and awkwardly try and change the subject.\n\n[[Epilogue.|Epilogue]]\n\n<html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<if $on_Meds eq true>><<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<endif>><<if $in_Therapy eq true>><<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<endif>><<if $motivation lte 0>><<set $motivation = 1>><<endif>><<if $motivation gte 17>><<set $motivation = 16>><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/candle4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nIt's December, and you've returned to your parents' house to celebrate the holidays with your family. Out the living room window, you can see a gentle flurry of snow drifting down to meet the pristine blanket of white from yesterday's unexpected Christmas Eve snowfall, and you quietly laugh to yourself at how incredibly cliche it seems. \n\nStill, as you sit down to dinner, you can't help but notice how being surrounded by family, and the overly kitschy atmosphere your mom's decorations have created, have actually made you feel relaxed and almost //comfortable//. Your mom is running around frantically checking the oven and the stockings and just generally trying to "family time" it up, while your dad sits at the head of the table drinking a beer and laughing with your brother Malcolm. 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Sitting at that table, you're suddenly immensely glad for the chance to be able to ignore everything for an evening and not have to struggle trying to explain yourself for once. \n\nFortunately, everyone seems to be content with laughing at each other's jokes and discussing favorite sports teams, and for a while you think you'll be able to get through dinner without any embarrassing personal intrusions. But no sooner did the thought cross your mind than the table conversation trickles off, leaving a slightly awkward silence to descend upon the dinner.\n\n//"So how are you doing these days,// your mom asks you pointedly?\n\nIt's such a simple question, and one that you seem to have had to answer countless times recently. 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<<if $on_Meds eq false>><<set $motivation = $motivation - 2>><<else>><<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<endif>><<set $partnerHP = $partnerHP - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou go to your refrigerator, and you're greeted by a reminder that you need to go food shopping. The only thing in the fridge is a collection of condiments and a bottle of white wine your father got for your birthday. You were thinking of saving it for a party, but tonight you're feeling like you'd never be social enough to have one anyway.\n\nAttempting to uncork it with an attachment on a can opener, you managed to get cork into the wine itself. Cursing to yourself, you take this as a sign that you really do manage to fuck up everything that you touch. Deciding against using a glass, you bring the entire bottle with you into your room and drink in earnest, hoping that this will take the edge off the anger that you feel towards yourself and dull your emotional state.\n\nYou quickly down the bottle, spitting out bits of cork as you go. <<if $on_Meds eq true>>However, after you have calmed down you remember that your medication compounds the effects of alcohol, and you find yourself very drunk very quickly.<<else>>After you've calmed down, you feel quite drunk and remember that you'd forgotten to eat anything today.<<endif>>\n\nUnable to do much else, you kill time on the internet and manage to post a semi-incoherant status update before wandering over to lay in bed.<<if $cat eq true>> Your cat sits on your chest as you pull your phone into view, ceiling spinning above it.<<else>>You lay on your back and pull your phone into view while the ceiling spins beyond it.<<endif>> \n\nYou drunk-dial Alex, and the phone rings multiple times before going to voicemail. Since it's Friday night, you assume that this means that she's out partying with her friends, and you leave an embarrassing voicemail "apologizing" for not being cool and fun enough to go out with her on nights like this.\n\nYou close your eyes after you hang up, hoping to get the room to stop spinning. Your inebriated state makes your depressed thoughts even more intense, and you pass out in a state of self-loathing. This really didn't help.\n\n[[Next.|weshouldTalk]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>\n
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n//"Oh, I'm asking for a raise soon."// you mumble. //"I'm shopping around for a better position, too."//\n\nYou mom lights up. //"Oh! That's great honey! They'd be crazy not to give it to you!"//\n\nConversation turns to other subjects as you stare at your plate. You hate lying to them, but you honestly feel like your parents don't even know you sometimes. Every time you have tested the waters in the past, you come away from it feeling like you can't get through to them, like you're speaking a different language. Trying to fight through that takes so much effort and ever feels like it even works, and you just don't have the energy to try right now.\n\nEven though you spend the rest of the night surrounded by your family, you feel like an alien. You retreat into your thoughts, and get very quiet for the remainder of the night.\n\nAs you're leaving, Malcolm takes you aside and gives you a big hug. //"Don't let Mom get to you, ok? I love you kiddo."//\n\n[[Next.|bonerKiller]]<html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sink4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nIt's a little after noon on a muggy Saturday.\n\nYour mother has come over for a surprise visit, claiming loudly that she doesn't see you enough so she'd decided to invite herself over. <<if $motivation lte 6>>One of the first things she does is comment on how messy your apartment is. You tell her you know it's messy, and it actually bothers you too, you just for some reason haven't been able to work yourself up to cleaning the place up yet. <<endif>>As you converse, she walks around your place, and you get the distinct impression that you're being "inspected."\n\n//So what's going on with you lately,// she asks abruptly.\n\nTaken somewhat aback by this left-fielder you tell her you're not sure what she means. She repeats the question, saying that you haven't seemed like yourself lately - she gestures to the dirty dishes piled in the sink and notes the fact that you haven't called or visited in a while. Your reticence only seems to spur her on more; she presses you, asking if you're having problems at work or with Alex, and you're beginning to feel increasingly battered by her sudden well-meaning but overwhelming inquisition.\n\nUnder her questions you become increasingly uncomfortable. You //want// to be able to explain to her how you've been feeling, but the truth is you're not really sure yourself. Nothing horrific has happened at work or with your significant other or friends or anything like that, but all the same you can't deny that lately you've just felt drained and as though you're not really "here". \n\nYou wish you could tell your mother these things, but she hasn't been approachable about negative emotions in the past. She is the kind of person who holds the opinion that the solution to any problem is to simply try harder and maintain a positive attitude, a stance that has reared its head in past conversations when you've begun to explore the subject with her. You know she's unlikely to be understanding, and you feel the energy drain out of you when you imagine what would happen if you managed to blurt out everything you are feeling.\n\nWhat do you do?\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Let her know that you've been feeling down lately, and that you appreciate her concern.</FONT></del></html>\n<<if $motivation lte 7>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2: Try to be honest with her anyway.</FONT></del></html><<else>>[[2: Try to be honest with her anyway.|imDown]]<<endif>>\n[[3: Tell her that everything is fine, and thank her for asking.|imfineMom]]\n[[4: Change the subject.|dodgeDodge]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
Depression Quest: An Interactive (non)fiction About Living With Depression
We really want to thank you for taking the time to play //Depression Quest//. We realize it may not be the most enjoyable game you've ever played, or even the easiest, and we sincerely appreciate your involvement.\n\nIf you would like to contribute to the developers and to <html><a href="http://www.iFred.org">iFred</a></html>, click <html><a href="http://sbx.sk/A6Fz">here to do so (or paypal patrick [at] pixelsordeath.com if it's giving you trouble).</a></html>\n\nLike depression itself, //Depression Quest// does not have an end really. There is no neat resolution to depression, and it was important to us that //Depression Quest's// own resolution reflect that. Instead of a tidy ending, we want to just provide a series of outlooks to take moving forward. After all, that's all we can really do with depression - just keep moving forward. And at the end of the day it's our outlook, and support from people just like you, that makes all the difference in the world.\n\nThanks again.\n\n<html><a href="http://www.iFred.org">Learn more</a></html>\n\n[[Credits.|credits]]
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>>In feeling vulnerable, you decide to reach out to the familiarity of family. You have had your fair share of differences with your mother, but you know for a fact she would never turn you away if you needed her. \n\nYou dial the phone number of the house you grew up in, the number that hasn't changed during your entire life. Your old number. Your mother answers after a few rings, and is delighted that you had called her. You ask her what's new and she launches into telling you all about all of the activities around the house, what friends of the family have been up to, and a tangent about how she's desperately trying to get your father to eat more healthily. \n\nHearing about the day to day details of her life back home reminds you of being a little kid in that neighborhood, and is a pleasant distraction. However when she asks you how you're doing, you're faced with the decision to either lie or the familiar back and forth of trying to tell her how you're feeling and having her not understand why you're so upset. \n\nInstead, you tell her that you have to run all of a sudden, and tell her you love her and hang up. As you hang up, you feel a little more isolated than when you started. You feel like you got overly sentimental for the way you felt when you were a kid and wanted to be looked after, and let that make you forget that your mother is not a terribly understanding person when it comes to matters of mental health.\n\nYou lay down on your bed, feeling slightly defeated, and stare up at your ceiling.\n\n<<if $in_Therapy eq true>>[[Next.|medChat]]<<else>>[[Next.|dinnerwiththeFolks]]<<endif>>\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>\n
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nYou agree to go, even though you're really not feeling social. You know it's important to Alex, and you'd really like to see her. Seeing her does make you feel better sometimes, and you hope that this is the case tonight even if it does mean dealing with all the usual social anxiety.\n\nThe time to leave rolls around and you grab your overnight bag. Alex's apartment is a short walk away, and there are already people hanging out on the porch. You feel your chest tighten as you approach the building, and try to steel your nerves.\n\nYou quickly find your partner, chatting away with the birthday girl, and Alex immediately lightens up when she sees you. \n\n//"I'm so happy you came! I wasn't sure if you were going to make it!"//\n\nA young man taps her on the shoulder, and she turns back to you to apologize and let you know they have to do something for the party. Alex hands you a beer and plants a kiss on your cheek before going off to deal with whatever came up.\n\nAs you look around, you don't see anyone else you recognize.\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Enthusiastically socialize!<html></font></del></html>\n[[2: Awkwardly stand in the same spot, unsure of what else to do.|awkwardlyStand]]\n[[3: Put your bag in your Alex's room and avoid the crowd in there for a while.|gotoRoom]]\n[[4: Cling to the back wall, sip your beer, and wait for your girlfriend to return|backWall]]\n[[5: Proceed to drink in earnest, hoping it makes you less uncomfortable|getCrunk]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqparty02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqparty02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
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//"What's wrong?"//\n\nYou still feel anxious when you recall feeling exposed by her small question, even though it's one that always sets your teeth on edge. However, you know that she only asked out of genuine concern and from the frequency that people have been asking you this question lately, you're starting to suspect you've been a bit more transparent than you'd hoped.\n\nFriday rolls around and the two of you grab coffee, to go this time, and walk around the area talking. She asks you how you've been, and you manage to open up and summarize your emotional state, though doing so is difficult. \n\n<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>> She asks if you've talked to a doctor about this, and you admit that you haven't. She mentions that her mother is seeing a very good therapist in town, and offers to ask her about it. \n\nYou're not thrilled about the idea of going to a therapist and even less thrilled that Amanda might be telling someone about your problems, but she persists and tells you she'll email you the doctor's contact information later in the week, should you decide to take that avenue.\n\nAfter that, conversation drifts back to current events in both of your lives, talk about mutual friends, and other assorted small talk and catching up.\n\nThough it was far from the easiest thing in the world, trusting Amanda felt like it eased some of the anxiety, as though you were physically releasing a pressure valve in your brain. Being able to be honest about it with a friend who understood and didn't judge you felt like a relief, and you're less tense than normal even after you part ways.\n<<set $talked_to_Amanda_2nd = true>>\n
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nIt's a little past 8pm on a Tuesday night.\n\nYou're at your computer, frustration levels peaked, rubbing your eyes and sighing heavily. You're working on a project from your job that has you stretched to wit's end trying to meet a looming deadline, and as it lurks closer and closer you are seriously doubting your ability to get it done. You've dragging your feet a little at work due to your complete lack of energy lately, in spite of wanting to do a good job. You find yourself unable to push past it, and feel horribly useless for it. \n\nYou slide your hands off your face to look at your screen as it beeps at you. \n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: hey are you there?</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: i really need to talk to someone about something...</font></html>\n\nYou feel like you're getting nowhere with your current task, and could probably use a break. However, you know that you have a history of getting distracted and then losing motivation to pick something back up again afterward.\n\nWhat do you do?\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Multitask.</font></del></html>\n<<if $motivation lte 8>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2: Tell Attic you're busy.</font></del></html><<else>>[[2: Tell Attic you're busy.|tooBusy]]<<endif>>\n[[3: Try to regain your focus - don't answer.|dontanswerAttic]]\n[[4: Answer Attic.|helpthemOut]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>\n
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He always looked out for you when you two were kids, and although you don't see each other much anymore you are still close with him. \n\nThe phone rings three times before his wife Karen picks up, and she tells you he's away on business right now. You redial his cell phone, and it goes straight to voicemail. Feeling defeated, you hang up and lay in bed, thoughts gnawing at you as you do. You feel selfish for trying to reach out to him while he's busy in the first place - he's always so busy and he's an important person to so many people. You, on the other hand, are laying on your bed in a crappy apartment feeling sorry for yourself. Your thoughts turn to how if you were to just vanish, you feel like no one would notice for days and when you did there wouldn't be too many negative consequences for anyone. You're not in charge of anything important, you're distant from your friends, so who would even notice?\n\nYour thoughts are interrupted by your phone ringing next to your head. It's Malcolm.\n\n//"Hey kiddo, I'm sorry I missed your call, I was in a tunnel on the way back to my hotel. How's it going!"// he enthusiastically greets you. \n\nThrough a series of exchanges between the two of you, you end up actually opening up to your brother about your condition and how you've been dealing with it. To your surprise, he's known for a while but was unsure of how to approach you. He wanted to give you space to figure it out, and didn't want to put more stress on you the way your parents do. \n\nThe two of you talk on the phone for a good long time, and he proves himself to be an excellent listener and very skilled at finding the perfect times to lighten the mood with a joke without seeming like he's making fun of you or doesn't take your feelings seriously. He reminds you that you can call him any time that you need to let off some steam.\n\nYou say your goodbyes, and you find that even though you ended up in tears one or two times in explaining things, the whole conversation had done a lot to get you into a better headspace. \n\nYou feel a little less alone knowing you have an ally in dealing with your illness in Malcolm. <<else>>Remembering the conversation the two of you had when you were given the night guard, you recall that your brother had told you to call him if you ever needed to on days like this. \n\nThe phone rings three times before his wife picks up, and she tells you he's away on business right now. You redial his cell phone, and it goes straight to voicemail. Feeling defeated, you hang up and lay in bed, thoughts gnawing at you as you do. You feel selfish for trying to reach out to him while he's busy in the first place - he's always so busy and he's an important person to so many people. You, on the other hand, are laying on your bed in a crappy apartment feeling sorry for yourself. Your thoughts turn to how if you were to just vanish, you feel like no one would notice for days and when you did there wouldn't be too many negative consequences for anyone. You're not in charge of anything important, you're distant from your friends, so who would even notice?\n\nYour thoughts are interrupted by your phone ringing next to your head. It's Malcolm.\n\n//"Hey kiddo, I'm sorry I missed your call, I was in a tunnel on the way back to my hotel. How's it going!"// he enthusiastically greets you. \n\nAlthough you feel awkward about it, you talk to your older brother about how you're feeling and what your condition is doing to you right now. The two of you talk on the phone for a good long time, and he proves himself to be an excellent listener and very skilled at finding the perfect times to lighten the mood with a joke without seeming like he's making fun of you or doesn't take your feelings seriously. 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<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sunset4.gif"></center></html>\n\nYou've never really thought of yourself as a "fighter," and even to say it now it sounds hokey, but looking back on the past few months to where you are now it really does feel like you've endured an immense struggle, and you look at where you are now with a sense of something that isn't quite pride.\n\nYou still hate your job and find it unpleasant, but you're surprised to find that going into work every day is no longer a monumental challenge; you've started adopting some clever techniques, like taking short 2-minutes breaks every hour to break up the monotony, and you now view your job as just 8 short hours of your day<<if $in_Therapy eq true>>, a compartmentalization technique Dr. Melville told you about that you've found actually works quite well<<endif>>. You know this job isn't what you want to do for the rest of your life, and you've started actively looking for other positions, even attending a couple of preliminary interviews.\n\nYou've started making effort to go out with your friends more. While the social scene still makes you very uncomfortable sometimes, you're more and more able to let yourself just enjoy the company of your friends. In fact, your relationship with many of them has increased over the past little while. You still definitely have days where you flake out or don't feel up to hanging out, but for the most part your friends are understanding and appreciate your communication.\n\nBy far the biggest change you've noticed in your life has been in your relationship with Alex. <<if $alexKnows eq true>>You were terrified of talking to her about everything at first, but looking back you feel like it's only strengthened your relationship. <<endif>>She was always supportive of you emotionally, but lately the two of you have been even more in sync, and it's really starting to feel like you're building a life //together//. <<if $movedIn eq true>>It's been a while since the two of you have moved in together, and while there were a few early hiccups things have for the most part run very smoothly.<<else>>It even seems like the two of you have been making a more concerted effort to sync up your schedules, and have been spending more and more of your down time with each other; pretty soon you think moving in together may be a very real possibility.<<endif>>\n\n<<if $in_Therapy eq true>>Dr. Melville has commented on how well you seem to be doing, and <<if $on_Meds eq true>>whether a result of the therapy, the medication, or both, <<endif>> you can't help but agree.<<endif>>\n\nWith all that seems to have improved recently, it's sometimes difficult for you to think about the fact that you still have bad days - sometimes even //really// bad days. They serve as a stark reminder of the fact that this will be something you likely have to deal with for the rest of your life. Depression is a battle, and though you're certainly ahead in the fight, you know the battle isn't ever going to be over. Sometimes even Alex can tell when things are going rough, despite your best efforts to the contrary. \n\nWhile you know that your depression can never be "cured," you have a very strong support network in your friends and even Malcolm<<if $inTherapy eq true>> and Dr. Melville<<endif>>, and armed with a newfound confidence in your friends and family, you accept that though the road may be rocky, it is at very least not solitary.\n\nYou meet your mom's gaze from across the table and muster up a smile.\n\n//"I'm good, mom,// you tell her.\n\nShe says nothing, but you can feel her smile from across the room. \n\n[[Epilogue.|Epilogue]]\n\n<html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
While you desperately want to be able to explain to your boss that you aren't just being irresponsible and that there //is// and issue that you're wrestling with, it seems like such a trainwreck of a conversation that you banish the idea from your mind. Instead, you come up with some sort of excuse about how you caught the flu from a friend over the weekend and how, while you were very sick for the past few days, you're getting better. You apologize for missing so much work and you promise you'll take better care of yourself in the future so you won't have to miss more work.\n\nWhile you're almost certain that your boss doesn't buy your excuse, he seems satisfied enough by your explanation and seems legitimately happy that you're ok and back in work. He ends the meeting without any more fuss. You spend the rest of the day with your eyes practically glued to the floor.\n\n[[Next.|placeholder]]\n\n//should this affect stats at all?//
<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html>\nYou have a day job which you feel is really nothing special. You started out receiving minimum wage, but have stayed around long enough to be making enough to support yourself. The work is dull and unrewarding, and most days you feel like just about anyone could do it.\n\nYou have a hard time relating to most of your coworkers, so you mostly keep to yourself and get the work done while you're there. There are one or two people you chat with, though you wouldn't consider yourself close with them.\n\nA lot of days lately, you have a really hard time getting out of bed and forcing yourself to go in. You're starting to wonder how long you can keep this up.\n\nYou'd really like to find another job in your field of interest, but feel like you are under qualified every time you look at online job postings. Sometimes you think about going back to school, but you would be unsure how you would be able to support yourself and wonder if the degree would really help anyway.\n\n[[Back.|Next]]
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nIt is a breezy Sunday afternoon.\n\nYou've allowed Amanda, an old friend from school that is in town for the weekend to talk you into leaving the house for coffee and catch up. You meet her in a small cafe and talk about what you've been up to since you've last seen each other, and you can't help but feel like they are a lot more accomplished and interesting than you are while listening to them talk about their life after school. \n\nWhen it's your turn to brief them on your activities, you feel anxious and ashamed and give a very abbreviated version. You try to talk about your job as little as possible, and you feel incredibly boring while you describe it despite her expressing sincere interest in you and your life.\n\nAmanda has known you long enough to read your mood and tone of voice. She leans into ask a question while gently touching your hand, a look of genuine concern on her face.\n\n//"What's wrong?"//\n\nDo you...\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Suggest a change of location and confide in her honestly.</FONT></del></html>\n<<if $motivation lte 6>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2: Test the waters and open up a little, hoping she'll understand.</FONT></del></html><<else>>[[2: Test the waters and open up a little, hoping she'll understand.|openUp]]<<endif>>\n[[3: Insist that nothing is wrong and change the subject.|subjectChange]]\n[[4: Defensively ask what she means by that.|defensive]]\n[[5: Notice that your hands are shaking.|Crying]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqcafe02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqcafe02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>\n
<<if $partnerHP eq 2>><<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<endif>><<if $partnerHP eq 1>><<set $motivation = $motivation - 2>><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou look at Alex's face, and you feel your heart break. You've never meant to hurt her, and you are torn up that you've caused her pain. You can't help but feel like you've let her down, and you want to fix it. You desperately want this relationship to continue, to be stronger. It's one of the few good things in your life, and you feel like you owe her so much for helping you as much as she has. You're not sure how to solve things other than to literally remove the distance.\n\n//"Let's move in together."// you tell her, matter of factly. //"It will bring us back together. We could fall asleep together every night, reconnect with each other..."//\n\nYou are really worried that if Alex were to live with you, she wouldn't be able to deal with your days of being unable to get out of bed or nights where you can do nothing but stare at the wall and panic. However, you're too afraid of losing her to deal with that right now. You want to show her that you're serious about the two of you.\n\n//Maybe I can use this as a reason to finally get my act together,// you think to yourself. //Maybe having her around will keep me from being so depressed so often.//\n<<if $partnerHP eq 2>>\n\n//"I'm... not sure what to say. This is all so sudden..."//She thinks really hard for a minute. //"Sure, we could try it, but we'll have to figure out logistics, and I have to-"//\n\nYou interrupt her with a tight hug, which she seems initially tense but loosens up to. You both recommit to making things work between the two of you, and get exciting while talking about what could be soon. You're tremendously relieved, and can't wait to live together.\n\nThe first few weeks feel amazing, but you quickly find that your choice was not a wise one. Trying to hide your struggles with your condition from your partner becomes more and more impossible, and you find that you lack many resources to properly deal with the situations that arise as a result. Due to the lack of communication, she starts feeling like it's her fault, and a wedge is driven between the two of you. This fact is fuel for your illness, and becomes another aspect of your life that you berate yourself for.\n\nDespite sleeping in the same bed, she feels further away than ever before. It becomes clear that this didn't fix any of the relationship's problems, and it deteriorates far enough that she moves back out soon after moving in. \n\nThe reality hits you over the next few days, and you spiral into a very deep low. You withdraw entirely and<<if $cat eq true>> outside of work your only interaction with another living creature is with your cat.<<endif>> You hardly leave your apartment despite it practically haunting you with memories of the last few weeks of your time with her. You can't stop replaying the failures you made with her over and over in your head, wondering what could've been if you weren't such a fuckup. It's going to take you a long time to get over her.<<else>>\n\n//"I... I'm not sure what to say... This is..."// she seems taken completely off guard. \n\n//"I can't do that. I'm sorry. It's too much. I don't think we should be together anymore."//she says, though it doesn't feel real. You feel as though all of the blood has gone from your face, and your thoughts go silent. \n\nThe rest of the conversation is stilted and forced. She says she's sure, and that you should go. You barely hear the door close behind you as you stand in the hall, feeling utterly empty. You lean against the wall of the hallway leading to her apartment. Looking at her door, it doesn't make sense to you. It doesn't seem like the destination it used to, like the thing you waited eagerly behind after knocking, waiting for her beautiful face to peek around the corner. Now you feel like an alien staring at a foreign object, an impassable barrier. \n\nThe reality hits you over the next few days, and you spiral into a very deep low. You withdraw entirely and<<if $cat eq true>> outside of work your only interaction with another living creature is with your cat.<<endif>> You can't stop replaying the failures you made with her over and over in your head, wondering what could've been if you weren't such a fuckup. 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HEY - YOU GUESSED IT, MORE WORDS!\n\n<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>>\n\n
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nThe thought of picking up the phone and calling someone about this right now is overwhelming. Sure, you're having a hard time lately and have motivation issues, but are you really //in need of therapy//? Shouldn't you be able to just get over it yourself? What if they put you on medication that makes you feel like a zombie? What if you go and the therapist looks down on you? What will Alex think about this?\n\nTrying to think about all these things at once makes it feel like a very big deal, and you decide to take your time to think on it.\n\nThe rest of the day passes quickly, and that night you have a hard time trying to sleep because your brain is too busy thinking about all these things, <<if $motivation lte 6>>and imagining all of the ways it could go horribly wrong.<<else>>and it's hard to get any rest that night.<<endif>>\n\nThe next morning, you check your email again with blurry eyes<<if $cat eq true>> and a mewing kitten<<endif>>. Amanda's email is still there, seemingly waiting for you. You are no more decided than you were yesterday.\n\nWhat now?\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Just call already - it can't hurt to check it out.</font></del></html>\n<<if $motivation gte 4>>[[2: Call after wrestling with it for a few minutes longer.|callTherapist]]<<else>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2: Call after wrestling with it for a few minutes longer. </font></del></html><<endif>>\n[[3: Don't call. This is way too much for you to be able to deal with right now.|closeEmail]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 3>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<<set $significant_Other = false>>Panic sets in, and it sets in hard. Your mind begins frantically darting between insulting yourself for being so horrible at relationships and thinking of the "right" thing to say to make her stay. All you want in the world right now is to keep her with you, to make her feel better. Even though you feel a bit selfish and dishonest, you use it as fodder against yourself instead of changing your course of action.\n\n//"No... Things are fine. It's just what happens after you're with someone for a while..."// you tell her, though you're not even sure you quite believe that yourself.\n\nAlex looks uncomfortable. //"We're just getting used to each other. We're still figuring out how we fit together. We'll get through this."//\n\nAlex calls you out on the platitudes, and you said them with such a lack of conviction that it's hardly surprising. Your panic escalates as the more desperate you are to find the right words for her makes her pull further away from you, and it turns into a full blown fight. You can practically watch her slip through your fingers as you try to cling on tighter. It's as if you're watching yourself say these things and screaming //No, stop, can't you see how you're driving her away!?// But you can't stop, and before you know it you're both saying things that you could never take back. The rift is widening between you, and you're both almost shouting at each other before the conversation hits a brick wall and you both stand there, staring at each other. You've never seen this kind of anger in her eyes.\n\n//"We need to break up. I can't do this anymore."// she says through tears, though it doesn't feel real. You feel as though all of the blood has gone from your face, and your thoughts go silent. //"You should leave."//\n\nThe rest of the conversation is stilted and forced. She says she's sure, and that you should go. You barely hear the door close behind you as you stand in the hall, feeling utterly empty. You lean against the wall of the hallway leading to her apartment. Looking at her door, it doesn't make sense to you. It doesn't seem like the destination it used to, like the thing you waited eagerly behind after knocking, waiting for her beautiful face to peek around the corner. Now you feel like an alien staring at a foreign object, an impassable barrier. \n\nThe reality hits you over the next few days, and you spiral into a very deep low. You withdraw entirely and<<if $cat eq true>> outside of work your only interaction with another living creature is with your cat.<<else>> outside of work, you don't leave your apartment.<<endif>> You can't stop replaying the failures you made with her over and over in your head, wondering what could've been if you weren't such a fuckup. 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<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sunrise.gif"></center></html>\n\nIt is early on a Monday morning.\n\nYou are a mid-twenties human being. You have a significant other [[named Alex|significantOther]] who you are rather fond of, that you have been seeing exclusively for the past few months. The rest of your [[social circle|socialCircle]] consists of a variety of friends and acquaintances, some of whom you met at your [[day job|dayJob]] which is a little boring, but pays the rent. You'd like to be doing more with your life, [[as would your parents|family]], but you're still in the process of figuring out what that means and how to go about it.\n\nYou are also dealing with motivation issues that sometimes makes dealing with these things difficult. You feel like this is probably your fault, and on bad days can feel inwardly angry and down on yourself for being "lazy", but you're not quite sure how you can break out of it, or how other people deal with these feelings and seem so very functional. \n\nYou spend a lot of nights fixating on thinking about this, but never seem to do anything about it other than lose sleep.\n\n[[Next.|workIt]]
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Sam, a coworker of yours that you're friendly with, asks how you are and makes hurried smalltalk with you. You typically only ever talk to him on the phone when one of you needs a shift covered, so it's slightly awkward. You're waiting in anticipation for him to ask you to come in on short notice when he veers the conversation in a completely different direction.\n\n//"How do you feel about cats?"//, he asks. //"Mine had kittens a few weeks ago and I'm having an awfully hard time finding a home for the last one of the litter. You don't have any pets, right?"//\n\nIt takes you a moment to process this new information, and you're caught off guard as he begins to earnestly try to sell you on the idea of taking the last kitten off his hands. It's not something that you had specifically considered before, and he seems fairly insistent.\n\n//"She's a real sweetheart, really loves people. She's got all her shots already taken care of and the vet said she's healthy as a horse. I can bring her over by your place tonight if you're interested."//\n\nYou look around your apartment and try to picture a cat in it as he continues to tell you about how cute she is. You tell him that this is all kind of sudden, and that you don't have anything for the kitten set up here. \n\n//"Oh don't worry about that, I can bring over a litterbox and food and all that since you'd really be helping me out of a fix. It's the least I could do! I just don't want to have to put her in a shelter."//\n\nYou can't help but feel like you're being guilt tripped, but you decide to give it some serious consideration. It DOES get awfully lonely around your apartment, and it might feel less empty with a cat around. However, since you've been feeling so down it might not be a good idea to take on the responsibility of a cat even if they are fairly low maintenance. \n\nWhat do you do?\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Take the cat, knowing full well that you can take great care of it.</font></del></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2: Decline. Even though you'd be totally capable of taking care of it, you're not much of a cat person.</font></del></html>\n[[3: Become a cat owner. You could use the companionship.|kittenGet]]\n[[4: Decline. You're not in a good enough place to be taking on more responsibility right now.|felineDeclined]]\n[[5: Decline. 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<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<<if $motivation gte 8>>The time for your appointment has rolled around, but you can't find the energy to go. //Therapy is for people with actual problems//, you think. //I'm pretty tired anyway... I have a lot of work I can get done if I stay home instead...// Your mind comes up with reason after reason to dissuade you from going, and you eventually talk yourself out of showing up.<<else>>The day of your first appointment is here, and the weight of it is crushing. Your mind fixates on how everything will go wrong, how you're not even sure what you would say or do when asked to talk about your problems, or how the therapist will probably not even like you. You lay in bed, feeling paralyzed by these thoughts, and you're unable to snap yourself out of it.<<endif>>\n\nThe rest of the day comes and goes while you try to keep yourself distracted. You alternate between feeling guilty for not going and wasting the therapist's time and beating yourself up for failing at yet another thing. At points in the day, you know you //should// have gone, and are baffled by why you couldn't force yourself to keep the appointment. You use this as another reason to beat yourself up.\n\nAn hour after you were scheduled to be at your appointment, your phone rings. \n\nYou mute your phone and ignore the voicemail.\n\n[[Next.|workSucks]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $partnerHP = $partnerHP + 1>><<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<if $motivation gte 16>><<set $motivation = 16>><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<<set $alexKnows = true>>\n\nYou feel like a jerk for accidentally waking her up, but you're afraid if you put this off any longer that you won't find the strength to tell her everything later. \n\n//"No, actually. Everything isn't ok. Can I tell you something? Something important?"//\n\nAlex sits up, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. For the rest of the night you lay side by side, holding hands, as you tell her everything. You tell her how it's more than just feeling sad sometimes, how you feel trapped by your own mind sometimes, how sometimes you feel nothing at all, and how you can't shake it off. <<if $in_Therapy eq true>>You tell her how you've started going to therapy, how you feel embarrassed about it, and how it's working out for you.<<endif>>She listens the entire time, occasionally asking questions about how this or that works, or asking you to explain something further. She squeezes your hand and tells you she understands, and that she's sad you didn't tell her sooner.\n\nAfter laying silent for a moment, the weight of what you did hits you. You desperately want her to say something, to tell you how she's feeling about all of this but you're too afraid of what the answer would be to ask. You start convincing yourself that now that she knows everything, she's going to leave. There's no way someone could deal with how you really are. \n\n//"So how can I help? What do you need me to do?// she asks. \n\nYou think for a second, and the answer you come up with fills you with despair. //"I honestly don't know. I wish I knew how to fix this, but I don't know that you can do anything. I think it's something I just have to live with."//\n\nShe looks at you with sad eyes before kissing you on the forehead. //"Then I'll live with it with you."//\n\n//"I don't know how you could possibly love me."// \n\nShe rolls over and wraps her arms around your neck, settling her head on top of yours. //"You don't need to. Just know that I do."//\n\n[[Next.|stayingatHome]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/frame4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou look at her standing, barely lit, and notice there's a few candles scattered around the apartment. It occurs to you that she has tried to make this night special for the two of you. Even though you have a tight knot of antisocial frustration in your stomach, seeing how much she cares makes you want to try to melt it away so you can show her how much you care that she's gone through all this trouble. However, you desperately need to shift gears first before that's even possible.\n\n//"You look amazing. Let's have a drink together."// you suggest, hoping that this will give you the push you need to get into the mood. \n\nYou go into the kitchen and pour the two of you drinks, trying to focus on letting go of your bad mood. You sit down on the couch next to her, and she cuddles up to you instantly. \n\n//"What should we toast to?"// she asks as she takes her drink.\n\nYou think for a moment. Passing up the cheesy "to us" option, you say what's on your mind: letting go of your bad day.\n\n//"To tonight."//\n\nThe two of you cheers, and you ask her about her day. Conversation turns flirtatious, and the two of you find yourselves in the bedroom shortly after.<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<if $on_Meds eq true>><<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>>\n\nYou find that you're having trouble getting into things physically with her, and remember that diminished arousal was a possible side effect of your medication. You'd hoped that you were part of the population that wouldn't be affected by it, but it seems as though this was not the case. However, you're able to still enjoy the closeness with Alex, and fall asleep together happily.<<endif>>\n\n[[Next.|copingMechanisms]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<set $partnerHP = $partnerHP - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nAlex sighs. //"Look, if that were the case I would let you know. I don't think you're boring. You're more of a homebody than I am. I'm learning how to deal with that."//\n\n//"Deal with it?"// you think, repeating it in your mind. Does she see you as a problem to be dealt with? You try to pick her reply apart in your mind, and all of your conclusions lead to your previous worry - that you're holding her back. You begin thinking that the phrasing was chosen without too much deliberation, and that despite her attempts at reassuring you, this slip of the tongue revealed her true feelings. \n\nAs you picture how much fun she would be having right now if you had only accepted her invitation and managed to somehow get over your reservations and anxieties (despite not knowing how you would go about that), she cuddles back up to you. \n\n//"Thanks for putting up with me,"// you say, staring at the TV without actually watching it.\n\nShe sighs in response.\n\n[[Next.|amanda]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexb02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexb02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
It's a dry fall morning.\n\nYou grab your morning coffee and sit down at your desk to check your email. A new message pops up in your inbox almost as soon as you do. It's from Amanda, and seeing her name in your inbox brings back a vivid memory of your meeting in the cafe and how embarrassed you felt.\n\n//Subj: Hey buddy\nBody: Hey. Sorry it's been a few weeks. I meant to get this to you sooner, but it took a while for me to get a hold of my folks back home. Dad told me to say hi by the way. \n\nAnyway, I'm going to be in town again this Friday and was wondering if you'd like to hang out again, if you weren't too busy. \n\nLet me know!\n\n- A//\n\nYou're still a little embarrassed about how things went last time, but you do genuinely like Amanda and she's one of your oldest friends. You have no other plans this Friday.\n\nWhat do you do?\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1. Get back to her immediately and tell her you'd be happy to see her.</font></del></html>\n<<if $motivation gte 8>>[[2. Make plans regardless of your embarrassment.|makePlans]]<<else>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2. Make plans regardless of your embarrassment. </font></del></html><<endif>>\n<<if $motivation gte 6>>[[3. Apologize for "being weird" last time and make plans with her.|apologizeforExisting]]<<else>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>3. Apologize for "being weird" last time and make plans with her. </font></del></html><<endif>>\n[[4. Tell her you're busy and apologize. You're just not feeling up to it.|feelWeird]]\n\n
You feel a bad episode coming on and have the opportunity to veer out of harm's way if your motivation is high enough
This ends up helping.\n\n[[Next.|placeholder]]
<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou boot up your computer and navigate to the local craigslist. You sift through a myriad of legitimate postings, clear pyramid scams, and the occasional miscategorized random personal ad. You look through the section that is in line with your current job, and start feeling a bit of despair. Would things really be any different if you were simply doing the same thing somewhere else? \n\nYou email your resume to a few of the postings after coming up with a cover letter that you could use for a variety of things. After you've exhausted the postings for the last few days, you head back to the main page. There's a section that's more in line with the project you've been doing, though it's a highly competitive creative field that you don't feel remotely qualified for. \n\nDespite that, you click on the section. Scrolling through the postings, you daydream about actually holding a position where you would get to do something more meaningful. Despite feeling completely intimidated by the requirements, you find a listing you actually want to apply for. You spend an hour crafting a really personal cover letter and really giving your all to the task, and nervously send off the email. \n\nYou're rather convinced you'll never hear back from any of these places, but the act of trying to change your situation instead of stewing on it actually feels quite freeing. You find yourself trying to stifle the hope that you end up getting the creative job, but it still manages to bubble up anyway.\n\n[[Next.|beThere]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http:://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/htf4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou're already at your stress limit, and you don't feel like you should be taking on more. He's an amazing friend, but you're terrified that you'll end up getting fired if you don't get this done on time. Better that he thinks you're not there than just too busy for him right now, you think. You doubt your ability to be much use to him anyway.\n\nYou close everything else on your computer outside of your work project in an effort to refocus your attempts to get the job done, but you still feel like you're hitting a brick wall. Regardless of how hard you try to force yourself, you keep getting completely burnt out. You go from feeling like a complete fuckup to feeling nothing at all as you stare blankly at your screen unable to make progress. \n\n//"This is going nowhere. I just need to sleep."// You set your alarm to go off a few hours before work with the idea that you'll come back to it then, and you go to bed early.\n\n<<if $on_Meds eq true>>[[Next.|totalDumbass]]<<else>>[[Next.|tellThem]]<<endif>>\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>\n
<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sunset4.gif"></center></html>\n\n<html><a href="http://www.beesgo.biz">Zoe Quinn</a></html>: Writing, Coding, Game Design, Photography, Lead Insomniac. \n<html><a href="http://twitter.com/HanFreakinSolo">Patrick Lindsey</a></html>: Writing, Editing, Lead Grumbler.\n\nMusic/sound by <html><a href="http://isaacschankler.bandcamp.com/album/depression-quest">Isaac Schankler</a></html>\nIncludes samples from freesound.org:\n#5 from "people about their collections" by nooitgenoeg\n"bar atmosphere not so busy" by fogma\n"parisian cafe 02" by volivieri\n"typing" by jjastr1\n\nPiano layer based on "Ave Regina Caelorum" by Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474)\n\nSpecial Thanks:\n\nTom Smith, Sos Sosowski, Andy Moore, Patrick Dawson, Cameron Kunzelman, Kyle Baker, Edmund Lewry, Terry Cavanagh, Jonathan Wright, Martin Pilkington, Torbjørn G. Dahle, Ben Johnston, Michael Kwan, Gregory Kinneman, Nathan Grayson, Mary Augstkains, Scott Madin, Ichiro Lambe, Michel McBride-Charpentier, Cheryl Trooskin-Zoller, Phoebe Seiders, Caitlin Blank, Amanda Cosmos, Graham Davis, Ben Abraham, Tam Toucan, Johnicholas Hines, Ashton Raze, Brendan Keogh, Alan Williamson, Alex Androski, Matthew Duhamel, Deirdra Kiai, Danny O'Dwyer, Tom Whitaker, Jason Bakker, Ross Fowkes, Cha Holland, Ghostworks, Mitchell Sutton, Ryan S. Casey, George Shirai, Chris "Leddybear" Leddy, Edmund Adderly, David Carlton, Alex May, Cale Bradbury, Christine Love, Robin Ward, Rachel Helps, Kevin Slackie, Jon 'Meroka' Biggin, K. Adam White, Jason R. Nally, Amanda Williams, Gary Szuslik Jr., Dustin Astarita, Alex Koti, Lew Civ, Aaron Michael Kearns, Ian Cheong, Joakim Sandberg, Kylie Szymesko, and Christopher Juriansz for their amazing support during a really difficult time. This game would have been dead in the water months ago without you all. \n\nTerence Wiggins for his help with trailer ideas, blanket forts, and depression valentines. \n\nBarton Mothersill for being the internet friend one of us needed to get through some dark times.\n\nAnd you, for being willing to play games that are meant to be something other than simply "fun".\n\n<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html>
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="www.beesgo.biz/beeare2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nYou take your beer and shift through the crowd until you arrive at Alex's room. The room is actually empty of other partygoers, and you sit on her bed as you set your bag down.\n\nThankful for the personal space and feeling a lot less claustrophobic, you mess around on your phone while you sip your beer. You keep telling yourself you'll go back out in 5 more minutes, but every time the time rolls around to go back out you feel the panic creep in, and you stay rooted to this spot. You figure no one here knows you anyway, so it's unlikely that you'll be missed.\n\nA few minutes later, Alex comes into the room. \n\n//"Oh there you are. I was wondering where you'd gone off to. Figured I might find you here."//\n\nShe sits down on the bed next to you, buzzed enough to be slurring slightly. \n\n//"I'm really glad you turned up tonight. To be honest, I really didn't think you'd show. It's really cool you did. Really."//\n\nYou know she meant it lovingly, but you're not quite sure how you feel about that statement.\n\n[[Next.|Mom]]
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/coffee4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\n//"Do you think something's wrong with me?"//\n\nYou start to feel incredibly insecure as the realization creeps over you. Something you had said in your conversation made it seem like you were defective to her, and you find yourself feeling incredibly exposed.\n\nAmanda pulls away and apologizes profusely. //"Oh no I didn't mean anything by that... I'm really sorry, I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable."//\n\nYou apologize as well, and say that it's probably because you haven't been sleeping well.\n\nShe tries to steer the conversation to one of mutual interest while you're still feeling incredibly embarrassed and vulnerable. You find it hard to focus on what she's actually saying, because you're busy analyzing your behavior in your own head while making small talk.\n\nThe awkward undertone remains, and the outing ends soon after that.\n\n[[Next.|innerLife1]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqcafe02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqcafe02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nYou sit in the driver's seat of your car for several minutes trying to decide what to do. You think of all the help that this could allegedly offer you, and worry desperately about disappointing Amanda if you don't go. Yet at the same time the utter fear of having to talk to a complete stranger about these things is paralyzing. \n\nYou worry about sounding whiny and melodramatic, or that the therapist will be mean or that she won't understand what you're trying to say. You worry that people will find out and that you'll be seen as defective somehow. You sit in the driver's seat of your car for several minutes trying to decide what to do. While you are terrified of seeming melodramatic or defective, more than anything else you're terrified of disappointing Amanda and //not// going. \n\n<<if $motivation gte 6>>While you still aren't sure if her concern is genuine or not, she still took time out to send you this information, and the thought of her accepting disappointment, the look on her sad but knowing face that you've seen in too many others before is, itself, motivation enough for you. You start your car and drive to the therapist's office.<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>>\n\n[[Next.|gotoTherapy]]<<else>>These thoughts overwhelm you, and your hand feels too heavy to move. No matter how much of you screams //Turn the key. Do this for yourself//, the parts that tell you how pointless it is and how little it matters drown it out. Nothing in you is able to move forward on this, and you go back inside in spite of yourself.\n\n<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>>[[Next.|workSucks]]<<endif>>\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/sunset3.gif"></center></html>\n\nWhile you certainly can't say that things over the past few months have been easy, you're almost ready to let yourself believe that the worst parts are behind you. It may be difficult to see past your self loathing on most days, but even so sometimes you can't help but notice that things do seem to be getting better. \n\nOne of the more difficult challenges you find yourself having to face on a daily basis is your job. In spite of your attempts at positive thinking<<if $in_Therapy eq true>> and other cognitive behavioral techniques Dr. Melville taught you<<endif>>, the prospect of going into work every morning still fills you with dread and ennui. Fortunately, you've been able to contain these feelings for the most part, and at least you've been managing your attendance and keeping your job performance up enough that you aren't making things worse by getting into trouble with your boss. Your employment situation may be far from ideal, but for now you're content to punch the clock and collect your paycheck. On some evenings when you've been feeling particularly motivated, you've even caught yourself hunting through online classifieds and bookmarking some new jobs that look interesting. Who knows - you may not be far from taking a leap and trying for something new.\n\nIt's been some time since you've hung out with any of your friends in earnest, and now that you feel like you're coming out of the woods you're beginning to feel self-conscious about having alienated them over the past little while. You realize that much of your flakiness and subsequent withdrawal was largely a result of trying to hide from them out of embarrassment. The notion of trusting people with your vulnerabilities is very frightening to you, and in your self-loathing you realize that your behavior did cut them out. Though it will take a huge leap of faith on your part, you resolve to repair your social relationships. You've started sending out casual messages to some of your friends asking to hang out, and for the most part the responses have been more encouraging than you were expecting. \n\nThings with Alex were quite tense for a while. <<if $alexKnows eq true>>After your conversation with her, she really did seem to be taking a more active role in helping to understand your situation.<<else>>Though you never had the courage to outright talk to her about what you were going through, she always made her best effort to be as supportive a partner as possible.<<endif>> Even so, the past few months tested the limits of your relationship to the limit. <<if $significant_Other eq true>>Ultimately, you were able to take her advice and step outside of your own head more and more. It was a difficult thing for you to do; your defense mechanisms ran so deeply that oftentimes you weren't even aware of them, but you let yourself trust her as your partner and your relationship has become much stronger for the experience.<<else>>Despite Alex's genuine effort, you ultimately found it too difficult to be able to step outside your own head enough to let yourself actually try and work through things together, and she eventually decided she couldn't be with someone who "loved being miserable more than she loved her." Her loss hit you hard and snapped you into reality; you've been taking her advice and pushing yourself outside of your comfort zone lately. The two of you recently went out for coffee for the first time since the split, and while your future is uncertain, she did seem genuinely happy that you're doing better now.<<endif>>\n\n<<if $inTherapy eq true>>Dr. Melville seems optimistic about your progress, and <<if $onMeds eq true>>the medication seems to be helping (or at least not hurting), so <<endif>>you've resolved to stick with it, at least for now.<<endif>>\n\nDespite all the clear progress you've made lately, you still carry the weight of your insecurities practically everywhere with you, and you even have some days still where you can't do much at all. On these days, it's very tempting for you to slip back into older, unhealthy habits, but much to your own surprise, you've so far managed to avoid a major backslide. You know that you have a long way to go before you can feel like your life isn't spinning totally out of control, and even when you do you'll never //ever// be rid of your depression completely, but you have a strong support network and for the first time you can remember you're actually feeling optimistic. \n\n//"Things are alright, mom// you tell her. 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<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nIt's a cold Saturday afternoon. \n\nYou've just arrived at Alex's apartment, and you're happy to finally see her after a week of absence due to your schedules not lining up due to work and school. You hug her in the doorway but she breaks away sooner than normal and sits down on the couch as you take off your sneakers and lay them in the usual place, right next to hers.\n\n//"There's something I was hoping we could talk about, actually."// She says.\n<<if $partnerHP gte 3>>\nYou instantly worry that you're being blind sided by a break up conversation due to the sudden shift in tone, but she quickly smiles and puts you at ease once she sees all of the color leave your face.\n\n//"It's nothing bad! I promise!"// With that she leads you over to the couch and sits on the other end of it, facing you. \n\n//"So. I hope this doesn't freak you out, and if you feel like things are going too fast just tell me."// She talks faster than usual and fidgets. //"We seem to have a lot of weeks like this and they really suck. I was thinking I'd ask, since things are so strong with us, what are your thoughts on maybe moving in together?"//\n\nIt takes a few seconds to sink in, and leaves you a bit shocked when it does. You were worried she wanted to spend less time with you, not more. \n\n//"Do you want to?"// you ask.\n\n//"Well... yeah, I do. I mean, we'd have to sort out logistics and everything but those are all things we can take care of."// \n\nYou start to walk through the steps of imagining the two of you living together. You love the thought of being able to wake up next to her every day and seeing her so often. However the more you picture it, the more a few concerns become apparent. 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I just..."// Her voice cracks. //"I wish I could be ok with everything, I wish I could help you through it all, but I don't know that I can..."//\n\n//"I feel like such a monster... But I don't think this is working anymore..."//<<else>>\n\nShe starts to tear up. //"I mean, I don't know what's going on with you... I barely feel connected to you anymore... It's like when you're here, you're not really *here*. I feel like no matter what I do, I can't make you happy!"//\n\n//"It's killing me to say this but..."// Her voice cracks. //"I don't think I can do this anymore..."//<<endif>>\n\nYou try to reign in your kneejerk reaction to run. Unsure of what to say to that, your mind races. You know you have to choose your next words carefully. Though the self deprecation rages in your mind, you try to think through it. You try to sort out what you really want to do here. A myriad of feelings is boiling inside you - which one do you listen to?\n\nWhat do you do?\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Sway her opinion and come back from this as a couple, stronger than ever.</font></del></html>\n[[2: End this. You're not making her happy.|notgoodenoughforHer]]\n<<if $motivation lte 7>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>3: You're having difficulty managing the relationship and your personal life. Break things off, for you.</font></del></html><<else>>[[3: You're having difficulty managing the relationship and your personal life. Break things off, for you.|cantdothisNow]]<<endif>>\n<<if $motivation lte 5>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>4: Tell her you're dealing with a lot right now and ask her to stay while you figure it out.</font></del></html><<else>>[[4: Tell her you're dealing with a lot right now and ask her to stay while you figure it out.|pleasedontGo]]<<endif>>\n[[5: Tell her she's wrong about things. 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<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: oh okay!</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: let's find you a doctor then :)</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: just remember</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: there's nothing wrong with having depression</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: you wouldn't be ashamed to have bronchitis or something</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: so there's no reason to be ashamed if it's your brain that's sick instead</font></html>\n\nYou google around with Attic and after a bit of searching you find a doctor that has gotten really good reviews.<<if $talked_to_Amanda eq true>> You recognize the number as the same one that Amanda had emailed you a few weeks back and feel a bit ashamed for failing to do this sooner.<<endif>> You make a note of it, and tell Attic you plan on calling her in the morning before work. \n\nYou end up going to bed after that, with a slight sense of accomplishment.<<if $cat eq true>> Your kitten pads over and curls up at your feet<<else>> You tuck yourself into bed<<endif>>, with the thought of maybe feeling better soon on your mind. You try not to get your hopes up as you drift off to sleep.\n\n[[Next.|therapy2]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
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<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<<set $significant_Other = false>>You look at Alex's face, and you feel your heart break. You've never meant to hurt her, and you are torn up that you've caused her pain. It's an expression you're not unfamiliar with, it's one you've seen flash across her face many times during your time together. You can't help but feel like you've let her down, like you're a weight around her ankle. You're hit by this overpowering feeling of failure - you're supposed to be her partner, an uplifting influence on her life, not dragging her down to where you are.\n\nYou think about the future - where is this going anyway? You're not sure you could ever be what she needs. <<if $alexKnows eq true>>Even though you've discussed your situation with her, you still fear that she doesn't realize the depths of how bad it gets. It's one thing for you to detail how you feel sometimes, and for her to see it pop up occasionally. It's an entirely different situation for it to be something she has to live with alongside you the closer you get.<<else>>Alex knows you very well, but she doesn't fully know about your condition or how low you get. You feel as though if she were to have to deal with it more and more, to know about it first hand as you get closer, there is no possible way that she would want to stay with you.<<endif>>\n\n//"I..."// you start to speak but the words choke in your throat. None of this feels real. \n\n//"I think we should break up..."// the words feel foreign as you speak them, as if they were a collection of sounds rather than the death knell for your relationship. \n\nSoon enough, both of you are in tears as you talk through it. You're both devastated, but settle on breaking up. \n\nThe reality hits you over the next few days, and you spiral into a very deep low. You withdraw entirely and<<if $cat eq true>> outside of work your only interaction with another living creature is with your cat.<<else>> outside of work, you don't leave your apartment.<<endif>> It's going to take you a long time to get over her, but in the moments that you feel a brief clarity of mind, you take a small comfort in hoping that she can find someone who is better for her now.\n\n[[Next.|familyChristmas]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<set $partnerHP = $partnerHP - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\n//"I don't...// you start, unsure of how to phrase how you're feeling in a way that doesn't hurt her. \n\nEven at those two words, her face is falling. //"Right... this is sudden..."// she says, clutching the top of her robe closed. \n\n//"No, no, it's not you I-"//\n\nShe cuts you off. //"It's not you, it's me, right? It's ok, I get it..."// She moves to her bookshelf and blows out some candles you had failed to notice. //"It was cheesy anyway."//\n\nThe hurt in her voice cuts you down to your core. You can tell she feels rejected by you, and everything feels like it's happening so quickly and slipping through your fingers. You wish you were telepathic and could let her know exactly how you feel about her, so that she wouldn't be wounded by your own mood.\n\n//"This was all really nice, I just have had a hard day and-"// you stammer, but she leaves the room and you hear the bedroom door close. Unsure of what else to do, you sit down on her couch to wait for her to return.\n\nYou feel terrible for hurting her, when she clearly meant nothing but good. Although you didn't want to have sex with her right this moment, you are beating yourself up for handling it so poorly. Why couldn't you find the right words to let her down gently, without her thinking that she had done something wrong? Why do you have to be such a shitty partner?\n\nShe emerges from her room, now dressed. Her eyes are red, but you can tell she is trying to not show that she was crying.\n\n//"I uh... I actually have to do a lot of coursework... So maybe you should head home. This was kind of a dumb idea anyway. Sorry."//\n\n//"Okay..."// you mutter, not wanting to make things worse. \n\nA couple of seconds of silence pass as neither of you are sure of what to say from there. You leave with a quick goodbye, and curse yourself the entire way home.\n\n[[Next.|copingMechanisms]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pills4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nIt's a sunny Saturday afternoon.\n\nYou're in deep thought on the way home from therapy. However you notice this time that you're not in the same negative feedback loops you usually get trapped in when being this introspective. You realize that, although you still have your bad days, your lows aren't quite as low as they used to be. \n\nYour antidepressant's bottle rolls across your dashboard as you take a left turn. You've been on this medication for quite a while now after a period of trying a few different kinds. Though you still have minor side effects, they've overall become an unnoticed part of your life. \n\nYou feel as if your life has generally changed for the better recently, and you begin to wonder if you need them anymore. You don't feel as much despair or hopelessness, and you hate yourself a lot less these days. \n\n//"Maybe it's time to stop taking these,"// you think, //"I seem to not really need them anymore."//\n\nWhat do you do?\n\n[[1. Continue taking your medication.|keepTaking]]\n[[2. Go off meds.|gooffMeds]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqtherapy02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqtherapy02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nIt's a glaringly sunny Monday, and one of the few days that your brother Malcolm is in town and free long enough for you two to actually see each other. \n\nYou have a dental appointment that day but you make plans for him to pick you up afterward.\n\nYour appointment takes a little longer than expected because your dentist tells you that you've started grinding your teeth in your sleep to a worrying degree. Given how nearly everything in your life has been feeling enormous and stressful lately, this doesn't come as a surprise to you. He suggests that you try to reduce your stress levels and fits you for a night guard. It feels awkward and too big for your mouth, and you feel embarrassed looking at your puffed out face in the mirror with it in. You finish up the appointment in a hurry and leave about a half an hour overdue for meeting your always punctual brother in the parking lot.\n\nYou finish up as quickly as possible and leave the building to scan the parking lot for your brother's car, but you don't see his old Civic anywhere. You pass by a blue Camero and jump as it beeps at you, causing you to jump in surprise. It takes you a moment for to realize it, but it's Malcolm in the driver's seat. \n\nYou hop in the passengers seat and compliment him on his new ride and he mentions that it's a perk of a promotion he's recently obtained at work. He starts telling you about how much more money he's making, how his career is really taking off, and how he's starting to look at houses with his wife soon. \n\nYou clutch the bag containing the night guard in your hand and feel yourself clench your teeth as you think of your crummy apartment and how long it's been since you've been able to take a day off work without having to worry about making ends meet. He's only 2 years older than you, but it feels like he's eons ahead of you in every other aspect of your lives.\n\n//"So..."// he asks, //"How did your appointment go? Did you get drilled full of holes or what?"//\n\nA sense of shame creeps over you.\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Laugh about your dorky night guard with your brother.</FONT></del></html>\n<<if $motivation lte 7>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2: Tell him about the night guard and why you need it.</FONT></del></html><<else>>[[2: Tell him about the night guard and why you need it.|resolution3]]<<endif>>\n[[3: (Lie) Tell him it was a routine cleaning.|resolution1]]\n[[4: Tell him about your tooth grinding problem, but not the stress causing it.|resolution2]]<<endif>>\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
Zoe Quinn & Patrick Lindsey
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/work4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nWhen you wake up the next morning, short of feeling well rested you actually feel //more// stressed out. While it was definitely nice to get a break from work, you're now faced with a new problem you hadn't considered before: you still have to go to work today. While you aren't having the same problems physically getting out of bed you were having yesterday, the prospect of having to face your boss after missing a day of work does not seem appealing in the slightest.\n\nYou worry that your absence won't be seen as believable or legitimate, that your coworkers and boss will think you were just trying to half-assedly play hooky. Or worse, you fear that someone will actually ask you what's //wrong.// Being caught in that instance and having to either make up a half-baked excuse or worse, that they'll see right through you and //know//, quickly has your mood matching the drizzly weather outside. You know that you have to go into work, but your fear of being perceived as either lazy or defective is making you regret yesterday's decision to take the day off, and ultimately you feel worse for it.\n\n[[Next.|sleeplessNight]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>\n
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/catte4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nYou've never been a fan of cats. You feel like they all hate you, and you figure you have enough hate coming from your own inner monologues already. \n\n//"I'm sorry, I just can't right now. I hope you find a good home for her."//\n\nYou sit through a few more sales pitch statements that border on guilt trips and rebut them with fabricated excuses about your landlord not allowing pets before your coworker gives up, and thanks you anyway. You wish him luck in finding a home for her, and as you hang up you feel pangs of guilt as you imagine him having to put her in a shelter. \n\nThe next day at work, you run into your coworker and breathe a sigh of relief as he informs you that he was able to find a good home for the kitten.\n\n[[Next.|couchPotato]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
//this messes up your therapy's effectiveness.//\n\n[[Next.|placeholder]]
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She fell asleep hours ago, and you've been laying here unable to shut your brain up long enough to fall asleep. You've added the feelings of insecurity about your relationship to the rest of the noise in your head keeping you up tonight.\n\nIt was kind of a tense night between the two of you. You arrived after a stressful day at work, and as you made dinner together you barely said a word. You were stuck in your own head and had a hard time really being present with her as your thoughts turned to all of the ways you feel like you're deficient at being a good person and beating yourself up mentally for each one. \n\nShe told you she could tell you were in "one of your moods" and said that she wouldn't push you, but missed talking to you as the two of you sat on the couch together. You wanted to tell her how much you love her, but you couldn't make the words come out right and ended up sounding defensive instead.\n\nAs you lay there next to her now, you trace your fingers across her arm just lightly enough to not wake her. You still haven't explained your depression to her<<if $in_Therapy eq true>>, or how you've started seeing a therapist<<endif>><<if $on_Meds eq true>>, or that you've been taking medication<<endif>>, and it's starting to feel more and more like a secret you're keeping instead of something she simply doesn't know about you yet. It's becoming more and more apparent that it's impacting your relationship with her, and you feel guilty about this. 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<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou're one of the few people you know of whose parents never got divorced, but you do wonder if they still love each other sometimes. \n\nYou have an older brother named Malcolm who has moved across the country with his wife to work a high paying job. Every major holiday that you see him at, you feel a bit jealous and like the lesser kid despite being genuinely happy to see him. You feel very ashamed of these feelings. \n\nYour parents genuinely care about you. This often involves inviting you back to your childhood home for dinner, though your mother thinks you never visit quite enough. But you get the impression they don't fully understand you. They want to see you succeed, and don't know why you haven't gone farther in life yet because you're "so smart and talented". Any time you've tried to talk to them about your motivation issues, they tell you that the solution is simply to work harder, or want it more. Your father is generally more forgiving of your lack of a career path, while your mother seems to think you're "too smart" to be in the position you're in. \n\nYou know they love you and that they're not bad people, but you really feel like a big disappointment sometimes.\n\n[[Back.|Next]]
<<set $motivation = $motivation + 2>><<if $motivation gte 16>><<set $motivation = 16>><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/shoes4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou are really worried that if Alex were to live with you, she wouldn't be able to deal with your days of being unable to get out of bed or nights where you can do nothing but stare at the wall and panic. <<if $alexKnows eq true>>Even though you've discussed your situation with her, you still fear that she doesn't realize the depths of how bad it gets. It's one thing for you to detail how you feel sometimes, and for her to see it pop up occasionally. It's an entirely different situation for it to be something she has to live with alongside you.<<else>>Alex knows you very well, but she doesn't know about your condition or how low you get. You feel that you have to tell her more details, no matter how gutwrenchingly hard it may be to admit to how awful you feel, in order for her to make an informed decision.<<endif>>\n\n//"Well, I'd like to, but I think it's best if we talk about it a bit more before committing to a decision."//\n\n<<if $alexKnows eq true>>Though she seems a little defeated, you make it clear that you're not making excuses and actually mean that you want to talk. You reiterate a lot of what you've told Alex that night, and although she gets a little defensive and tells you that she knows all of that already, she confirms that she is willing to help you sort through your issues.\n\n//"I feel like you forget I love you sometimes. I know that there will be bad days, and I'd rather try to work through them with you. We can figure all of this out. Together."//\n\nHer words sway you, and you can't help but hold her close to you.<<else>>Though she seems a little defeated at first, you make it clear that you're not making excuses and actually mean that you want to talk this out with her. \n\nIt's incredibly difficult for you to open up about this, but you take her hand and try to. You tell her how it's more than just feeling sad sometimes, how you feel trapped by your own mind sometimes, how sometimes you feel nothing at all, and how you can't shake it off. She listens the entire time, occasionally asking questions how this or that works, or asking you to explain something further. She squeezes your hand and tells you she understands, and that she's sad you didn't tell her sooner.\n\nAfter laying silent for a moment, the weight of what you did hits you. You desperately want her to say something, to tell you how she's feeling about all of this but you're too afraid of what the answer would be to ask. You start convincing yourself that now that she knows everything, she's going to leave. There's no way someone could deal with how you really are. \n\n//"So how can I help? What do you need me to do?// she asks. \n\nYou think for a second, and the answer you come up with fills you with despair. //"I honestly don't know. I wish I knew how to fix this, but I don't know that you can do anything. 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<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hold4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nIt's a rainy night.\n\nYou are hurrying through the rain to Alex's apartment at her behest. Though your pace is quick, the rain is steadily soaking up your pant legs as you traverse the town, and it's darkening your already poor mood. \n\nThe call came while you were at home after a day of dealing with abnormally frustrating people. You'd spent the afternoon trying to unwind and get some work on your project done. Alex called and interrupted one of your "try to make progress, get frustrated at not making progress, have a harder time making progress due to frustration, repeat" loops and you haven't fully shaken off the feelings of being annoyed with yourself from it yet. \n\nYou knock on her door, and on the third knock hear her voice call from further in the apartment to come on in. As you cross the threshold, dripping rainwater all the way, you notice that the lights are turned down very low in the apartment. You squint to navigate it as you clutch on to your damp umbrella, but end up hitting your shin on a side table, mumbling a profanity under your breath.\n\nYou barely make out Alex emerging from the hallway, clad in what looks to be a robe with the bare skin of her legs peering out underneath. \n\n"Why don't you come in and... warm up?" she asks in her designated, slightly cheesy, "sexy" voice.\n\nAfter a beat of silence, she states more naturally "My roommates are out of town this weekend so I thought it might be nice to have a little fun while they're away."\n\nYou appreciate her affection, but you're too wrapped up in your own negative feedback loops to be in the mood right now.\n\nWhat do you do?\n\n<<if $motivation gte 12>>[[1: Let go of your stress and be intimate with your girlfriend.|intimacy]]<<else>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Let go of your stress and be intimate with your girlfriend.</font></del></html><<endif>>\n<<if $motivation lte 6>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2: Try to unwind with her before getting physical.</font></del></html><<else>>[[2: Try to unwind with her before getting physical.|letsgetPhysicalPhysical]]<<endif>>\n<<if $motivation lte 3>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>3: Suggest you do something else instead.</font></del></html><<else>>[[3: Suggest you do something else instead.|tellhernoThanks]]<<endif>>\n[[4: Tell her you're not in the mood.|rejectHer]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexb02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexb02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>\n
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//Family Christmas. You have a quiet moment alone with your brother in your childhood house and you tell him how you are.//
<<silently>>\n<<set $motivation = 9>>\n<<set $malcolmKnows = false>>\n<<set $on_Meds = false>>\n<<set $in_Therapy = false>>\n<<set $significant_Other = true>>\n<<set $talked_to_Amanda = false>>\n<<set $partnerHP = 3>>\n<<set $shotdownbyMom = false>>\n<<set $talked_to_Amanda_2nd = false>>\n<<set $cat = false>>\n<<set $jobHP = 3>>\n<<set $friendHP = 3>>\n<<set $alexKnows = false>>\n<<set $talked_to_Internet = false>>\n<<set $movedIn = false>>\n<<endsilently>>\n\n<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/title.gif"></center></html>\n\n//Depression Quest// is a game that deals with living with depression in a very literal way. This game is not meant to be a fun or lighthearted experience. If you are currently suffering from the illness and are easily triggered, please be aware that this game uses stark depictions of people in very dark places. If you are suicidal, please stop playing this game and visit <html><a href="http://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/LifelineChat.aspx">this link to talk to someone.</a></html> \n\nThe goal of this game is twofold: firstly, we want to illustrate as clearly as possible what depression is like, so that it may be better understood by people without depression. Hopefully this can be something to spread awareness and fight against the social stigma and misunderstandings that depression sufferers face. Secondly, our hope is that in presenting as real a simulation of depression as possible, other sufferers will come to know that they aren't alone, and hopefully derive some measure of comfort from that. \n\nIt goes without saying that because of the very nature of depression, it is experienced differently by every person who suffers from it. We aren't trying to say that this is the "best" or "most accurate" representation, merely that this is an amalgamation of the experiences of the developers and several people close to them. Many of the following encounters deal with issues such as therapy, medication, handling a love life, and reaching out to support networks. In reality, less than half of depression sufferers actually seek treatment, for reasons such as lack of money, perceived personal failing, or public stigma. These things were included in order to touch upon as broad a range as possible, since all these elements can be very important to sufferers of depression, though they will likely not be the experiences of most sufferers.\n\nIt's important to recognize that not everyone with depression is so lucky. Many people with the illness don't have a lot of the luxuries that we have in this game. We've written it this way so that we can focus specifically on the illness, which becomes more and more difficult to deal with as the person who has it is less and less well-off.\n\nFor that reason, a portion of the proceeds from this game will be donated to <html><a href="http://www.ifred.org/">iFred.org</a></html> to help support depression treatment and education. <html><a href="http://sbx.sk/A6Fz">Click here if you'd like to contribute (or paypal patrick [at] pixelsordeath.com if it's giving you trouble)</a></html>\n\nThis game uses audio as part of it's gameplay. We encourage you to play with your sound on.\n\nThank you for playing.\n\n[[Begin.|Next]]
<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou sit down at the computer and open your chat client. Attic is indeed online, and the two of you catch up briefly before you start passing links to news stories and weird YouTube videos back and forth. Eventually, he asks if you would like to play a multiplayer game with him, and you start the download. Realizing you haven't eaten yet, you tell him you'll be back in time for the download to finish after you've made yourself dinner.\n\nOut in the kitchen, you notice the time on your microwave. Several hours more than you had expected had passed, and you've only just realized it. Though it's not going out to a bar with people, you feel like this had taken the edge off the loneliness that you were experiencing earlier. Even though he's an "internet friend", sometimes when you are too down to be social, he's the perfect person to talk to. You connect with him on a meaningful level, and you've found it easier to be yourself while talking to him than you do in most face to face social interactions. When you're down, you find yourself using this as another reason to feel like a loser, as though you could only make friends if they didn't have to deal with you in person, but for now you're relieved to be around him.\n\nYou finish making your sandwich and sit back down at your computer. Your download has finished, and attic's waiting on you to start.\n\n[[Next.|weshouldTalk]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 2>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou begin doing mental back flips to convince yourself you don't actually need to be here in an attempt to reconcile your fear of going to therapy with your desire to feel better. You've internalized some of the negative stigmas attached to seeking help for mental health, and you use these as arguments against yourself. \n\n//I'm not broken enough to be here,// you tell yourself. //I have a job and a girlfriend, and this is only for people who REALLY need help.//\n\n//I should just get over myself.// Part of you is SCREAMING, because you KNOW if that were possible you would not be standing here right now. You KNOW you've tried so hard to exorcize this unnamed ghost that haunts your life, to no avail. But you can't seem to let yourself walk into the building.\n\nCognitive dissonance runs rampant in your head as you are simultaneously convinced that you both don't need or deserve the help.\n \nYou turn to walk away and notice the office is calling you. Panicking, you silence your phone as you head home.\n\n[[Next.|havingahardTime]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
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<<set $motivation = $motivation - 2>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<<set $significant_Other = false>>Panic sets in, and it sets in hard. Your mind begins frantically darting between insulting yourself for being so horrible at relationships and thinking of the "right" thing to say to make her feel better. All you want in the world right now is to keep her with you, to make her feel better. Even though you feel a bit selfish and dishonest, you use it as fodder against yourself instead of changing your course of action.\n\n//"I'll find some way to start spending more time with you, I promise!"// you tell her, tears welling up in the corners of your eyes. //"I know I can be really stupid sometimes but I'll be better, I'll figure out some way to be better, just... Just don't go."//\n\nAlex looks uncomfortable. //"I know I'm hard to deal with, that this stupid brain of mine makes me do stupid things and..."// you start to hate yourself for saying these things, for sounding so pathetic. //"Just... just tell me what I can do to make things right and I'll do it... Anything."//\n\nYour panic escalates as the more desperate you are to find the right words for her makes her pull further away from you. You're verbally flailing for the right answers, and she calls them out as being platitudes. You can practically watch her slip through your fingers as you try to cling on tighter. It's as if you're watching yourself say these things and screaming //No, stop, can't you see how you're driving her away!?// But you can't stop, and before you know it she's crying.\n\n//"I... I think we should break up. I can't do this anymore..."// she says, though it doesn't feel real. You feel as though all of the blood has gone from your face, and your thoughts go silent. \n\nThe rest of the conversation is stilted and forced. She says she's sure, and that you should go. You barely hear the door close behind you as you stand in the hall, feeling utterly empty. You lean against the wall of the hallway leading to her apartment. Looking at her door, it doesn't make sense to you. It doesn't seem like the destination it used to, like the thing you waited eagerly behind after knocking, waiting for her beautiful face to peek around the corner. Now you feel like an alien staring at a foreign object, an impassable barrier. \n\nThe reality hits you over the next few days, and you spiral into a very deep low. You withdraw entirely and<<if $cat eq true>> outside of work your only interaction with another living creature is with your cat.<<else>> outside of work, you don't leave your apartment.<<endif>> You can't stop replaying the failures you made with her over and over in your head, wondering what could've been if you weren't such a fuckup. 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Though you've known some of them since high school, you've never been comfortable letting them into this facet of your life, and that's true now more than ever. Your frequent bouts of both ambivalence and panic have caused you to flake out on more and more engagements, and your shame at your own situation keeps you from ever talking to your friends about it for fear that the "real you" would be repulsive to them. In spite of your best efforts, your friends have noticed that something is up, and you get the sense that your unwillingness to open up on more than a surface level has offended them. You worry about driving your friends away, and yet find yourself paralyzed and unwilling to let them in. \n\n<<if $significant_Other eq true>>Things with Alex have become more and more strained. The two of you have had several conversations about your situation. She's indicated numerous times that she's willing to be understanding and help you as best she can, but that she feels that you're not taking equal steps to move forward yourself. She worries that you "love being miserable more than you love her," and even in the wake of your desperate-sounding platitudes you can't seem to totally convince yourself that she's wrong. In spite of her obvious frustration, you can't seem to leave your comfort zone and set aside your own self loathing long enough to make a concerted effort to make things better, and you find yourselves having the same conversation on a near weekly basis. You both are feeling emotionally exhausted and the future of the relationship is uncertain.<<else>>After several long conversations with Alex, things finally reached their breaking point. She told you that you seem to "love being miserable more than you love her," and that you cling to that comfortable misery as a way to keep from effecting any positive change, and after several weeks of having the same fight she decided it was too much to bear. While she told you that she still loves you, she can't let herself or her plans be held back by a partner who doesn't share an equal interest in moving forward.<<endif>>\n\n<<if $in_Therapy eq true>>You have communicated many of these events to Dr. Melville in your sessions, and have told her that you feel like you're losing more and more control over your life. She seems very concerned, and has suggested that you keep coming to your sessions for the time being.<<else>>You have communicated much of this to Malcolm over various coffee outings and phone calls, and have told him that you feel like you're losing mor and more control over your life. He seems very concerned, though you can tell that he's trying to not overreact to anything you say so he can 'be there' for you. You're glad to spend more time with him, even if the rest of your personal relationships are uncertain.<<endif>>\n\nPouring over the events of the past few months it is difficult to not feel a profound sense of loss. What's worse, part of your brain is still acutely aware of how badly you've managed to mess things up, and that just makes you feel worse. Most days you feel detached, like you're simply watching your body go through its motions. You desperately wish you could regain control, but you seem unable to force yourself to take any of the necessary steps.\n\n//"Things are fine, I guess// you tell your mother across the table. 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That subway encounter where I felt like all the attractive cool people were laughing at me.
Hear about a local meetup for people who also do projects like yours, have one of the options be to try to go but hang out near the building, freak out, and go home.
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If you're in therapy or on medication, the time comes when you have or want to tell your significant other or parents about it.
Be in a group talking with your coworkers making small talk about their lives and feel like you're the least interesting and skilled person in the group, or otherwise feel like an outsider.
Have the chance to lie to your therapist and reduce therapy's effectiveness.
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 2>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<<set $significant_Other = false>>Panic sets in, and it sets in hard. Your mind begins frantically darting between insulting yourself for being so horrible at relationships and thinking of the "right" thing to say to make her feel better. All you want in the world right now is to keep her with you, to make her feel better. Even though you feel a bit selfish and dishonest, you use it as fodder against yourself instead of changing your course of action.\n\n//"I'll find some way to start spending more time with you, I promise!"// you tell her, tears welling up in the corners of your eyes. //"I know I can be really stupid sometimes but I'll be better, I'll figure out some way to be better, just... Just don't go."//\n\nAlex looks uncomfortable. //"I know I'm hard to deal with, that this stupid brain of mine makes me do stupid things and..."// you start to hate yourself for saying these things, for sounding so pathetic. //"Just... just tell me what I can do to make things right and I'll do it... Anything."//\n\nYour panic escalates as the more desperate you are to find the right words for her makes her pull further away from you. You're verbally flailing for the right answers, and she calls them out as being platitudes. You can practically watch her slip through your fingers as you try to cling on tighter. It's as if you're watching yourself say these things and screaming //No, stop, can't you see how you're driving her away!?// But you can't stop, and before you know it she's crying.\n\n//"I... I think we should break up. I can't do this anymore..."// she says, though it doesn't feel real. You feel as though all of the blood has gone from your face, and your thoughts go silent. \n\nThe rest of the conversation is stilted and forced. She says she's sure, and that you should go. You barely hear the door close behind you as you stand in the hall, feeling utterly empty. You lean against the wall of the hallway leading to her apartment. Looking at her door, it doesn't make sense to you. It doesn't seem like the destination it used to, like the thing you waited eagerly behind after knocking, waiting for her beautiful face to peek around the corner. Now you feel like an alien staring at a foreign object, an impassable barrier. \n\nThe reality hits you over the next few days, and you spiral into a very deep low. You withdraw entirely and<<if $cat eq true>> outside of work your only interaction with another living creature is with your cat.<<else>> outside of work, you don't leave your apartment.<<endif>> You can't stop replaying the failures you made with her over and over in your head, wondering what could've been if you weren't such a fuckup. 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<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nAs your mother looks across the table at you expectantly, everything inside you wants to run away. You have had this conversation with her enough to know that anything you can say would either be a lie or would result in a lecture. After spending the day feeling like you're a failure already, you can't really handle more of the same from your family regardless of how well they mean. \n\n//"Actually, I'll be right back, I have to use the restroom."//\n\nYou excuse yourself from the table despite not actually having to use the facilities, and head to the bathroom. You lock the door behind you and flip down the toilet lid, take a seat, and rest your head in your hands. You take a few deep breaths as your mind runs through it's typical self deprecating scripts, though you still feel as though it's a moment of relief. \n\nEven though you love your family, you really feel like they don't know you at all sometimes and this makes them exhausting to be around on nights like this. You wish you could tell them what you are feeling. That sometimes it feels like you're lost in the woods, and that if you were to drop dead in your apartment the world wouldn't notice. You want to make her understand that more often than not, you feel like an alien, like there isn't anywhere in this world that feels like a place where you belong, and you have no idea how to fix it or what to do. You wish you could find the words so they would understand you, but you end up feeling like an outsider instead.\n\nInstead, you decided to remove yourself from the situation and calm down. You couldn't see a resolution where attempting those things would work, and you needed a moment of space instead.\n\nYou hear a knock on the door. \n\nMalcolm's voice comes through the door. //"Hey kiddo, you alright in there? You've been in there for a while."// \n\n//"Yeah, I was just feeling a little sick."// \n\n//"Well, if there's anything I can get you let me know. They're about to serve pie though, if you're feeling up to it."//\n\n//"Yeah, I'll be out in a minute."//\n\nMalcolm is quiet for a moment. //"Hey, just so you know... I'm really proud of you."// You hear his big footsteps walk away from the door, and you splash some water on your face before leaving to rejoin your family.\n\n[[Next.|bonerKiller]]<html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/static4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nIt's 2am on a Sunday, and you have work in the morning. \n\nYou roll over to see the sickly green glow of the time displayed on your LED alarm clock and let out an exasperated sigh. You've been trying to fall asleep for over 3 hours now to no avail. Every time your head hits the pillow, you're overcome with anxious thoughts that wrap themselves around each other. Worries about your job lead to worries about your future lead to worries about your very identity, and you're unable to shake them off long enough to doze off. Your eyes won't even stay shut as your mind races through imagined scenarios going horribly wrong, which you promptly attribute to your general worthlessness. \n\nYour thoughts run too fast for you to come to a satisfying conclusion on any one of them. Your room is completely silent, but the silence has given way to a loud static noise rattling around inside your head. Your heart beats loudly and you worry it's beating a little too fast. You worry that if you focus too strongly on your racing heart, you'll freak yourself out hard enough that you have a heart attack.\n\nYou have to be awake for work in a mere 8 hours, and you know <<if $motivation lte 6>>your performance has been sagging lately, and that this won't help the situation one bit.<<else>>that your work is so much worse on only a few hours sleep.<<endif>> \n\nWhat do you do? \n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1: Force yourself to sleep.</font></del></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2: Go to bed. It shouldn't be that hard.</font></del></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>3: Just close your eyes and let it happen. Why won't your thoughts back off for five seconds?</font></del></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>4: Snap out of it. What is wrong with you? Why can't you stop stressing out for five seconds?</font></del></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>5: You're probably going to go into work tomorrow exhausted and fuck everything up and get fired.</font></del></html>\n[[6: Go to your computer. Sleep is clearly not happening no matter how long you lay here.|tossandTurn]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqglitchf02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=0&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqglitchf02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=0&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
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<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\n//"Oh no. Just a cleaning..."// your voice trails off as you stare out of the passenger's side window, head resting on your hand. \n\nThere's a brief silence and you can feel your brother's eyes on you. You hear him take a breath, preparing to say something, then hesitate. Though you may not be exceptionally close anymore, you know that he could tell you're holding something back. You brace yourself for probing questions you really don't have the energy to answer.\n\n//"Hey. Why don't we get something fancy for dinner? My treat."//\n\nYou feel like a little kid again, being looked after by your big brother. A part of you prickles up and feels pathetic for this. But the larger part of you that is stressed out, exhausted, and grateful for the familiar comfort of family. \n\nMalcolm never presses you further that night, and takes your mind off of things for a while. \n\n<<if $talked_to_Amanda eq true>>[[Next.|amandaWTF]]<<else>>[[Next.|workSucks]]<<endif>>\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<set $malcolmKnows = true>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\n//"Actually, I guess I have been grinding my teeth in my sleep too much."//\n\n//"Oh yeah?"// Malcolm asks. //"Isn't that a stress thing?"//\n\n//"Yeah... I guess I've been having kind of a hard time lately."// \n\n//"I'm sorry to hear that kiddo."// Malcolm glances over at you. You stare out the window, feeling suddenly self conscious. As you watch houses and cars zip by, he asks //"Anything you want to talk about?"//\n\n//"I dunno. It's hard to talk about."// Trying to figure out where to start feels like trying to pin down something flying around in your head, except it's one of millions of tiny bits of static flying around in there. It's more than talking about specific events, because there are times you feel miserable without any specific catalyst to point to. It's a constant din of noise in the back of your head that never goes away, it only ever gets turned down.\n\nYou try to explain all this to Malcolm, and he asks a lot of questions without judgement in an effort to help you give words to this jumbled up mass of negative emotion. The two of you end up getting takeout and going back to your place, and talk late into the night. <<if $cat eq true>>Your kitten takes a liking to him really quickly, and despite the serious conversation going on around her, she rolls around between the two of you.<<endif>>\n\nAfter a long back and forth he asks, //"Is there anything I can do to help you with this?"// \n\n//"Don't tell mom, ok?"//\n\n//"Yeah, she wouldn't get it."// he replies with a slight laugh. //"Does talking about it help?"//\n\n//"Sometimes, kind of."//\n\n//"Well ok. Know that you can call me any time you need."// he rests one of his enormous hands on your shoulder. //"You'll get through this, kiddo."//\n\n<<if $talked_to_Amanda eq true>>[[Next.|amandaWTF]]<<else>>[[Next.|workSucks]]<<endif>>\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/hall4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\n//"The dentist said I'm apparently grinding my teeth too much when I sleep."//\n\n//"Oh?"// Malcolm replies, //"Been stressed out lately kiddo?"//\n\nDeciding that you don't really want to go into it, you tell him that you don't think that's the case and it's probably just a random thing. He doesn't pry farther, and instead begins reminiscing with you about the time you chipped a baby tooth because he accidentally knocked you over once. \n\nYou go out for dinner and catch up on things, but you still feel somewhat distracted by the gnawing anxiety in the back of your mind. Though you enjoy your brother's company, you still feel like you want nothing more than to go home and hide from the world tonight. It becomes hard for you to try to stuff all of your horrible feelings down and go emotionless when someone like the dentist can see a fraction of what goes on inside your head. It leaves you feeling embarrassed and weak, and you hate yourself for feeling that way. You wonder if you're really fooling anyone into thinking you're a normal person, and then you wonder if your brother knows and is hanging out with you out of pity tonight.\n\nAfter he drops you back off at your apartment, you throw the night guard out. You can't stand to even look at the thing.\n\n<<if $talked_to_Amanda eq true>>[[Next.|amandaWTF]]<<else>>[[Next.|workSucks]]<<endif>>\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/badend.gif"></center></html>\n\nThere's no doubt that depression is a battle, and it seems to have taken a particular toll on you. As the days go by, you find yourself interested in less and less. You think back to your life a mere few months ago, and compared to where you are now it seems like you've just lost so much. \n\nWork has become unbearable, as the thought of you dragging yourself day in and day out to a job you can't stand just so you can scrape enough money together to do it all again the next day has ground your will down; lately your job performance has suffered tremendously, and your boss has already had a conversation with you about your absences. At this point, losing your job is not only a real possibility, it's downright probable.\n\nYour personal relationships have deteriorated as well. While you could never describe yourself as a social butterfly, your constant flakiness and continuing withdrawal from your circle of friends has all but alienated them from you completely. Nowadays you rarely see or speak to them, and when you do, the conversations are strained and perfunctory. You almost never leave your apartment anymore. \n\n<<if $significant_Other eq true>>While you and Alex are still together, your relationship with her seems to have taken the full brunt of your depression. With your desire to interact with the world completely eroded, she spends more and more of her time at home with you; a fact which in spite of your anhedonia you feel guilty about. However, on the rare occasions that she does go out without you, you spiral into fits of jealous panic, convinced that she's going to abandon you for someone "better." Both situations are putting an immense strain on your relationship, which has unfortunately become a breeding ground for resentment and codependency. Things have only gotten worse as she's continued to excel in her program at school, as she's made it very clear on more than one occasion that her education and career are very important to her, and she doesn't want to have to be slowed down by someone who insists on being stagnant. It's clear even to you that your once mutually supportive relationship now doesn't seem to be going anywhere, and you strongly suspect that it's only feelings of guilt that are preventing Alex from leaving altogether.<<else>>Your detachment from the world even ended up costing you your relationship with Alex. While she made every effort to be supportive and understanding, your refusal to try and manage your situation forced her to have to choose between having to constantly look after you and pursuing her own goals. As she continued to excel in her program at school, as she made it very clear on more than one occasion that she was dedicated fully to her education and career, and couldn't afford to be held back by somebody who insisted on being stagnant. The subsequent split was practically inevitable.<<endif>>\n\n<<if $in_Therapy eq true>>You continue to visit Dr. Melville, though your attendance is infrequent, and when you do go to your sessions, your presence is merely physical. Whether it is the therapy itself that has ceased to provide you any benefit, or simply your state of mind which is preventing you from obtaining any value from your sessions you can't say for sure, but it has become increasingly clear to both of you that your appointments are simply exercise in wasted time. In fact, on a few occasions Dr. Melville has even suggested putting your sessions on hiatus.<<else>>You never could wrap your head around the whole notion of therapy and view it as anything other than invasive. Refusing to admit your need for help, your decision to try and tackle your depression on your own now seems woefully miscalculated. Your friends may have been willing to listen to you at first, but over time your reluctance to accept any of their advice simply drove them away, leaving you with little in the way of a support network. With nobody to vent to and an inability or unwillingness to seek help on your own, you quickly lost any desire to attempt to overcome your depression and your downward spiral seemed to compound geometrically.\n<<endif>>\n<<if $on_Meds eq true>>While you somehow managed to keep taking your medication on at least a loose schedule, you quickly became frustrated that the results weren't immediate and dramatic. Your constant complaints that your pills "don't work" ring hollow even in your own ears; you knew all along that there was never going to be a 'miracle cure,' and it seems like your seemingly irresponsible lack of active involvement has caught up with you.\n<<endif>>\nPouring over the events of the past few months is, even now, exhausting and defeating. Looking at the person you were mere months ago is almost surreal; it feels like a completely different person living a completely different life. In fact, it's hard for you to imagine ever having had a life that wasn't completely devoid of feeling or drive. The prospect of trying to imagine what your future holds seems not only impossible, but irrelevant and of little interest to you, as your life has become just a series of trudges from one emotionally exhausting moment to the next. \n\nYou look across at the table to your mother, weakly meeting her gaze before dropping your eyes to the floor. You open your mouth to answer, but no words come out. 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It's a clear autumn afternoon.\n\nIt's a rare day that you're out with a group of friends. You have all gotten lunch together at a hip new Japanese cuisine place. You're trying new dishes after being egged on by one of your friends, and having a fairly good time laughing with old friends. \n\nYou begin to notice someone attractive casting glances your way. \n\nYou shrug it off and wonder why they're looking at you like that, and forget it ever happened as your dishes arrive and you get lost in conversation with your friends.\n\nA little later, you excuse yourself to go to the bathroom and end up waiting in line for the single bathroom that the restaurant has behind the attractive stranger. They turn and begin to strike up a conversation with you.\n\n"Oh hi. Sorry if this is random, I just wanted to tell you I really liked your shirt!" they say, smiling at you. \n\nThey linger a little longer until interrupted by the bathroom being vacant.\n\nYour friends seem to have noticed this exchange, and are making odd faces at you, and wave you back over to the table. \n\n"They were TOTALLY checking you out." one says.\n\n"Are you gonna talk to them and get a number?" another one says over him. \n\nHow do you respond? \n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>>
WORDS WORDS WORDS\n\nYou open up and she suspects you have depression, citing that her mother has it and sees a therapist. She offers to get the number for you. \n\n
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/food4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n//"Actually..."// you start sheepishly, //"I'm not really sure what I want to do right now."//\n\nYour mom puts down her fork. //"So what, you're planning on living the way you do for the rest of your life? How would you afford a house on that paycheck? What about kids?"//\n\nYour father interrupts, lightly placing his hand over your mother's. //"It's ok Linda let the kids be what they are. There's nothing wrong with not knowing what you want to do in your twenties. I didn't get into construction until I was nearly forty."//\n\nYour mother looks across the table at you, unsatisfied with her husband's reasoning. //"I don't think it's normal for someone at that age to not have a path. You need to think hard about it or you'll never make anything of yourself. You-"//\n\n//"Mom, come on..."// Malcolm interjects.\n\nThis emotionally exhausts you. You want to tell her that you are thinking hard, and that not knowing what you're doing with yourself bothers you more than it could ever bother her. That sometimes it feels like you're lost in the woods, and that if you were to drop dead in your apartment the world wouldn't notice. You want to make her understand that more often than not, you feel like an alien, like there isn't anywhere in this world that feels like a place where you belong, and you have no idea how to fix it or what to do. You wish you could find the words so she would understand that being looked down on for this kills you, and drives home the feeling of being a total outsider. \n\nInstead, you get very quiet for the rest of the meal while your mind goes numb. Everything inside you feels exhausted.\n\n[[Next.|bonerKiller]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
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While the whole thing seems a bit weird to you, the fact is you //are// in quite a bit of pain and this seems like it will at least help. While the process of making the mold of your teeth is far from pleasant, the ordeal is over quickly enough and you leave with a thing that, if embarrassing, is at least supposed to help you sleep a bit better at night.\n\nNot long after, you wake up to find that you've ground a hole clear through it.\n\n[[Next.|
<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pens4.gif"></center></html>\nA while back you and some of your older friends were out at a bar catching up. After liquefying considerably more of your paycheck than was perhaps "responsible" and ending up thoroughly in your cups, you open up to the only people you really consider yourself "close" to and end up launching into a drunken tirade about the meaninglessness of your utterly menial job, and ultimately your own existence.\n\nHaving never really seen you in such a state before your friends were briefly taken aback by your sudden uncharacteristic outburst. One of your friends suggested that you get involved with your hobby on a more regular, long-term basis, suggesting that spending your energy on something you actually care about might help you to better cope with the shittiness of your "nine to five."\n\nAlthough you were embarrassed that you let your guard down and you felt self-conscious at seeming to have single-handedly brought the mood down at the table, you convinced yourself on the cab ride home that maybe it would be worth trying out. \n\nYou began your project some months ago and have, miraculously, managed to keep at it, though your level of motivation and subsequent effort rises and falls considerably. While you were surprised when you started at how good it felt to actually work on something you were passionate about, lately you've found it hard to muster the energy to really care about even this.\n\n[[Back.|workIt]]
Family holiday. Feel like you're not meeting your parents' expectations of you. Have the opportunity to open up to your brother.
You get criticized for something completely legitimate and minor at work. Your choices are basically how hard you implode on yourself.\n\nIt's basically a merry-go-round of "STUPID,STUPID, STUPID! WHY DID YOU DO THAT?" inside your head.
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Start taking meds and have a series of encounters following each other where you're dealing with all of the adjustment awkwardness. This way we don't have to have a kajillion checks and can just put people through a short ringer all at once and the point will be made.
Be stuck wide awake in bed unable to turn your brain off. Go a bit more in depth with the kind of shit that keeps us up at night, stupidly. If you're seeing someone you should have the opportunity to wake them up and talk. If not, you should have the option to PHONE A FRIEND.\n\n//I'll take this one - P//
I'm not sure what the everyday situation would be (maybe a promotion or new job?), but you'd have the option to either try to improve your life (crossed out probably) or avoid trying to feel like you have control over your failure (assuming that you'd probably fail anyway). Basically choosing to sit in limbo vs. having a concrete "no" or failure.\n\n//I think this is basically the same as idea seed 24. I'm going to develop that one a bit further.//
Have the option to make 1 of 3 friends locally and grow your support network. Can't do any of this if you're too low. Not sure where or how this would happen because I am awful at making friends irl.
If you're really low, realize that you haven't been eating for a few days and your apartment is trashed.
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<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/call4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nYou groggily grab your morning coffee and <<if $cat eq true>>scoot your rapidly growing kitten off your office chair and despite her protests as usual, <<endif>>sit down at your desk to check your email. You notice the note you left yourself a few days ago with the therapist's number on it. You've been somewhat putting off calling her purely out of nervousness, but you feel like you should probably make the decision to do it or throw the note out and stop stressing yourself out about it.\n\n<<if $cat eq true>>Your kitten curls up in your lap as you consider what to do.<<else>>What do you do?<<endif>>\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1. Call the therapist's number. You're looking forward to the help you think they can offer.</font></del></html>\n<<if $motivation gte 4>>[[2. Get it over with and call the therapist's office.|callTherapist2]]<<else>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2. Get it over with and call the therapist's office.</font></del></html><<endif>>\n[[3. Throw the note out. Who are you kidding?|thrownoteOut]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>>\nDespite your best efforts, the stress of the meeting, not to mention the last few days, has finally caught up with you and you finally lose your composure. The dam breaks, and you find yourself trying to explain your situation to your boss. How you've been feeling lately, and how you really //do// like working here but how things have been very difficult lately and you really have been feeling physically ill because of it. Throughout your...confession? you look up from the floor to your boss, and see his faced trained on you in a look of a strained sort of compassion. You can tell he wants to understand what you're telling him, but has never had to deal with anything even remotely like this before.\n\n<<if $in_Therapy eq "yes">>While it feels good to finally spill your guts, as it were, you worry about having overstepped your bounds and try and rein things back in in an attempt to help save your job. You explain to your boss that you're currently seeing someone about this, and doing everything you can to get a handle on it to make sure it doesn't negatively impact your work life anymore. Your boss nods in a way that signifies he's no more comfortable with this conversation than you are, and upon your revelation tells you he's glad you're feeling better and stands up to end the meeting. \n\nIt was far from how you would have chosen to spend your afternoon, but at least you still have your job.\n\n[[Next.|placeholder]]<<else>>While it feels good to finally spill your guts, as it were, you worry about having overstepped your bounds and try and rein things back in in an attempt to help save your job. Your boss nods in a way that signifies he's no more comfortable with this conversation than you are, but nevertheless hands you a business card with the number for Employee Services, telling you they can put you in touch with someone who can help you deal with this sort of thing, before standing up to end the meeting.\n\nIt was far from how you would have chosen to spend your afternoon, but at least you still have your job. As you leave the office, you stare at the phone number your boss gave you.\n\n[[Next.|placeholder]]<<endif>>\n\n//thinking of eliminating this as a separate track to enter therapy just for the sake of simplicity. If so, the second option would read identical to the first, with the exception of the relevant passage about seeing a therapist.//
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Laying in bed with nothing but your thoughts to keep you company makes you feel like you're going insane. The harshness of the light coming from the screen makes you squint as you turn it on, despite how often you find yourself in this exact situation. There have been so many nights lately just like this. \n\nAs you begin reading a news story, an online friend of yours IMs you. \n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: you're up late again i see.</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#0000A0">You: Yeah. Can't sleep.</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#0000A0">You: Again.</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: thinking too much again?</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: *thinking</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#0000A0">You: You guessed it.</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#0000A0">You: :(</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: wanna talk about it?</font></html>\n\nYou end up talking with attic for quite some time about how you've been feeling. He's always been easy to talk to about personal matters, and the added security of talking online helps. Being able to rethink what you say as you type it out and check it before you send it out helps you gather your thoughts, and you find it less intimidating in a way to type it all into a prompt than say it out loud. \n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: i don't wanna be that guy who thinks they can diagnose something because i read a wikipedia article</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: but it kinda sounds like you might have depression</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: you should talk to someone about that</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: like a doctor</font></html>\n<<if $in_Therapy eq false>>\nYou pause. You're not sure if it's how tired you feel or being frustrated from mentally eating away at yourself earlier in the night, but what he says rings true. Maybe you //should// see a doctor about this.<<else>> You pause. Are you really that transparent? Or is it that you've gotten used to talking about your feelings at this point? 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//Note this node and its choices do not currently connect to anything, as the nested choice that led here has been removed. I kept them in in case there was anything that could get recycled into other instances.//\n\nYou fall into a pattern of avoidance with the hopes of staving off any potentially uncomfortable confrontations with your coworkers or boss. Before you realize it, you've missed several days of work back-to-back, and now your boss //has// started to notice. While you've been avoiding his calls, the fact that he's bothered to call at //all// is indication that things have snowballed out of control and you finally wrench yourself out of bed and into work.\n\nThat day, just as you expected, your boss calls you into his office for a "meeting." As you enter the small room and sit down, your palms are sweating and your heart rate has accelerated considerably. You find yourself focusing on the worn-down, stock "corporate" carpet on the floor, the generically inoffensive "art" and random motivational posters on the wall, the large white scratch that runs across the whole front of your boss' desk; anything to avoid having to look at your boss sitting across the desk from you, unable to meet his gaze. You wish you could disappear. You open your mouth to try and preemptively apologize but your throat is dry and your brain instantly vacates of coherent thought when you try to speak. After a few excruciatingly uncomfortable seconds, your boss speaks up.\n\n//I've noticed that you've been missing quite a bit of work lately,"// he begins. //"While we certainly want you to get better if you're feeling under the weather, the number and frequency of absences is concerning, and I just wanted to make sure everything was ok.//\n\nYou can feel your face flush and, if possible, you begin sweating even more. Your boss does seem genuinely concerned about you, yet the thought of trying to //explain// this...whatever it is that you've found yourself less and less able to cope with recently sets alarm bells off in your brain and seems like an inherently bad idea. But the fact that you're in this office, having this meeting, means that you can't try and write this off. You have to tell him //something.//\n\nWhat do you do?\n\n[[1. Tell him the truth. Honesty is the best policy, right?|tellbossTruth]]\n[[2. Come up with some other explanation. There's no way he'd understand.|lietoBoss]]\n\n<<display $motivation_Checker>>
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Despite your feelings of discomfort, even you can tell that your friend really needs someone right now. You put on your coat and hike through the winter slush to meet him for lunch, unsure of what to expect.\n\nOn your walk there, you worry about what to say to him and your general ability to be anything resembling "helpful." You worry about monopolizing the conversation, about complaining too much, about your ability to empathize. By the time you get to the restaurant the only thing keeping you from turning back and heading home is the fact that your shoes are soaked through with slush and your desire to get out of the cold as soon as possible.\n\nYou join your friend in a booth he's procured\n\n
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You talk with your friend a bit which helps ease your mind, and you excuse yourself after a few minutes of banter. \n\nYou retreat to bed with a renewed calm after venting a little and being cheered up by your friend, and manage to not lose TOO much sleep that night.\n\n[[Next.|placeholder]]
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<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: oh okay!</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: i'm glad you're taking that step.</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: i've heard it's not an easy one.</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: i know people kind of suck at understanding this sort of stuff sometimes.</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: but there's nothing wrong with having depression</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: you wouldn't be ashamed to have bronchitis or something</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: so there's no reason to be ashamed if it's your brain that's sick instead</font></html>\n\nYou spend a few more minutes talking with attic about your therapy and your feelings about it. He's incredibly supportive, and you're happy to find that you have a confidant that understands your illness and is willing to lend an ear when you're having nights like this. \n\nA little while later you fall back into bed<<if $cat eq true>>, kitten in tow,<<endif>> and find it easier to drift off to sleep. Even in therapy <<if $on_Meds eq true>>and on medication<<endif>> you know you're still gonna have nights like these sometimes. It's good to know you have a friend who will help carry you through them.\n\n[[Next.|havingahardTime]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
It's a drizzly morning in November.\n\nYou wake up to the sound of rain, well after the time when your alarm is usually waking you up. <<if $has_Job eq "yes">>After back to back double shifts at work, you have a well-deserved day off. <<else>>You currently have no plans for the day, and are not sure how you're going to spend it.<<endif>> <<if $significant_Other eq "yes">>Your significant other is typically in classes all day on this day of the week, so it's unlikely that they'd have free time to spend with you. <<else>> You're no longer seeing anyone and don't have any potential romantic interests, so tonight will not be a date night barring a romantic comedy situation.<<endif>>\n\n
<<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/door4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou are really worried that if Alex were to live with you, she wouldn't be able to deal with your days of being unable to get out of bed or nights where you can do nothing but stare at the wall and panic. <<if $alexKnows eq true>>Even though you've discussed your situation with her, you still fear that she doesn't realize the depths of how bad it gets. It's one thing for you to detail how you feel sometimes, and for her to see it pop up occasionally. It's an entirely different situation for it to be something she has to live with alongside you. It's an entirely different situation for it to be something she has to live with alongside you. Even though you've explained it to her in the past, you've never felt like you've been able to communicate how it is to really live with this cloud hanging over you fully.<<else>>Alex knows you very well, but she doesn't fully know about your condition or how low you get. You feel as though if she were to actually see it, to know about it first hand, there is no possible way that she would want to stay with you.<<endif>>\n\nBeyond that, you're not sure if you could live up to being what she needs. Your condition isn't going away any time soon, <<if $in_Therapy eq true>>and your therapist has discussed with you how it's very tricky to navigate relationships alongside managing your depression.<<else>> and you're worried that adding a whole new set of challenges to your relationship might be too much to handle right now.<<endif>> Moving in seems to you like it would be creating more problems than it would fix in your current state.\n\nAlex looks at you expectantly, and you have a hard time looking her in the eye. Although you know she's going to be let down by this, you have to do what's right for you. You can't force this if you're not ready. \n\nYou hold her hand as you tell her that you're not ready to take this step yet, and she looks absolutely crestfallen. \n\n//"But... I don't understand... Things are going so well..."// she stammers, beginning to tear up.\n\nYou explain to her that it isn't her fault, and that you would love to see her more, but that it's just not something you can rush into right now. She takes it well, though still seems wounded by it, and the two of you end up having a conversation about how to better manage your schedules so you can see more of each other. However, the two of you are unable to make it work, start drifting apart, and sadly decide to end things.\n\nAlthough it's painful that things didn't work out, and often wonder if you made the right decision, you know deep down that you had to make the call that you did. 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The quality of your work is beginning to slide pretty massively.
You see on facebook that there's a social outing that most of your friends are going to, but you weren't invited. TIME TO FEEL LIKE SHIT but do you ask for an invite/see if you were overlooked or just feel like you're a lifeless joykill that no one wants to spend time with (hint: I usually feel the latter).
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The past week or so you've found your job motivation flagging more so than usual; you've been in a fog practically all day today, simply going through the motions without realizing even what you've been doing half the time, and yet time seemed to be moving at half speed. You're so checked out that when your boss approaches you to tell you that it's dead and you can go home early it barely registers. \n\nAs you walk home, the streets hiss from the recent rainfall. You know that your significant other will be in classes until late, another couple hours at least. You briefly consider using this serendipitous solitude to catch up on that [[project|project]] that you've been working on haphazardly for the past few months. \n\nAs soon as you think about the work that awaits you at home you can feel the panic creeping in from the back of your brain, unbidden. All you can think about is how incredibly far behind you are, and the amount of work seems nothing less than insurmountable. \n\nBy the time you arrive home and change out of your uncomfortable work clothes the stress is weighing down on you like a heavy, wet wool blanket. Your computer seems to be staring you down from your desk. You want to sit down and work but the mere thought of trying to work sends your stress levels flying; more than anything you feel suddenly and absolutely //exhausted,// and feel a strong desire to simply hide in bed.\n\nDo you...\n\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>1. Order some food, grab a drink, and hunker down for a night of work. </font></del></html>\n<<if $motivation gte 9>>[[2. Reluctantly sit down at your desk and try and make yourself do something|startWork]]<<else>><html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11"><del>2. 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<<set $partnerHP = $partnerHP - 1>><<if $on_Meds eq false>><<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<endif>><<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/blanket4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nAs you look at her laying next to you, your mind races through all the ways that telling her could go horribly wrong. You're paralyzed by the fear that she'll finally see that her idea of you, the one that she loves, isn't the person you really are. That she'll see you as the collection of insecurities and worthless thoughts that you're made of, and you'll never get to lay here next to her with the moon filling the room and making her sleepy eyes shine at you like this. You don't want to hide things from her but you're too afraid of losing her to make your mouth open and speak the horrible truth. \n\n//"Everything's fine. Go back to sleep sweetheart."// You kiss her forehead and settle into a spooning position. She dozes off again with little fuss, and you feel awful for lying to her. \n\nThough you're laying in bed with her, you feel completely alone as you spend another hour or two wide awake and full of self loathing, berating yourself for being such a coward.\n\n[[Next.|stayingatHome]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexa02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
<<set $motivation = $motivation + 1>><<set $partnerHP = $partnerHP + 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beer4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou dial Alex, who picks up after only two rings. 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After winding down with a beer, you cautiously open up a little bit more about your feelings surrounding your job and how drained it leaves you feeling, how you feel like you're simply existing, selling days of your life for no real purpose. You surprise even yourself when you start talking about how frustrated and stymied you feel by your job, about how you used to feel passionately about things but feel like all your energy and capacity for creativity is getting leeched out of you each and every work day. You can't remember how long it's been since you've externalized this much raw emotion.\n\nThe two of you spend several hours in that diner booth, long after your half-eaten food was cleared and the waitress stopped refilling your coffee cups. As you get up to leave a sudden wave of self consciousness washes over you and you suddenly feel incredibly awkward. Then Alex stands up and grabs you tightly around your waist; you realize that, short of boring her with your seemingly endless rants, she's simply happy to have gotten a chance to spend time - //real time// with you. 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<<set $motivation = $motivation + 2>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/books4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\nYou have your first session with your new therapist, Dr. Susan Melville, a tall woman in her mid 40's with a disarming demeanor and patient eyes with the start of the slightest smile lines. She makes you feel comfortable fairly easily, which is a pleasant surprise after all of your anxiety over the appointment. \n\nAs you leave, you make a second appointment. You're still skeptical about all of this, but figure you might as well see where this goes. The hardest part, it seems, was taking the first step. You're still not sure if and how you're going to tell your family or your partner but you figure you'll deal with that when the time comes. Either way, you feel relieved that you managed to see this through instead of being paralyzed with worry over it. Even if nothing comes of it, you did something you said you would instead of flaking out or running away.\n\nYou're emotionally exhausted when you get home and collapse into bed. You sleep better that night than you have in a week, and you're not sure if it is because you were so tired when you got home or if it's because of the therapist.\n<<set $in_Therapy = true>>\n[[Next.|havingahardTime]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqtherapy02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqtherapy02102013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
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<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/pizza4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n\nThis is far from the first time you've had this conversation with her, and it's one that plays out the same way every time. You explain your fears of being worthless, she tries to tell you that she doesn't see you that way, you insist that she is biased or just being nice to you because she's your girlfriend, and she gets frustrated. It never resolves, nothing new is ever said, and rarely do you feel reassured by it. \n\n//"Forget about it,"// you mumble. You don't have the energy for that particular argument tonight. \n\nShe seems to feel similarly, as she runs her fingers through your hair and settles in next to you. The weight of an unspoken, unresolved issue in your relationship joins you in the room for a little while, but you dare not pick at it for the rest of the night.\n\n[[Next.|amanda]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexb02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqalexb02112013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
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<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/couple.gif"></center></html>\nYou met Alex through a mutual friend a few months back. The two of you hit it off pretty well that first night, and after a series of initially awkward dates you finally became a couple, much to your surprise and excitement.\n\nAlex is 3 months younger than you are, and is currently a student with a part time job and broad social circle. She's also got a wide variety of interests, and often times you worry that you might be too "boring" for her, but she has been good at trying to reassure you that she's happy with you. \n\nYour relationship consists of a lot of nights in watching Netflix when you've both got time off work and she doesn't have classes, with the occasional social outing that she tends to have to talk you into attending.\n\nShe tries to be understanding when you are "in one of your moods" as she puts it, though you are starting to feel like she doesn't understand what it's like for you, and this is a source of tension in your relationship. Coupled with your reluctance to want to go to college parties, this feeds your worry of not being exciting enough for them.\n\n[[Back.|Next]]
<html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/beeare4.gif"></center></html>\nYour social circle is made up of a few close friends, some of which you've known from high school, and some from jobs that you've worked. \n\nYou've also made various acquaintances through reluctantly going to social events with Alex, and you keep in touch with a few "friend of friends" that you occasionally run into. \n\nYou also have several online friends that you talk to regularly, that you feel less guarded with possibly due to communicating from the safety of being behind the keyboard. You enjoy the low commitment of the friendships, since they don't expect very much of you other than to listen and share personal thoughts and experiences. Despite the low commitment, you feel fairly connected with these people, and tend to be more honest with them than people you interact with "in real life" on a day to day basis.\n\nYou feel incredibly nervous trying to make new friends on your own, and are very good at talking yourself out of going to unfamiliar places or larger social engagements regardless of how much you may actually want to attend. Meeting new people stresses you out to a high degree, and this is something you wish you could work past.\n\nYou admit you have a bad habit of flaking on social engagements even with long-time friends, and are puzzled as to why some days you just can't force yourself to go see these people that you really do care about. Those that have stuck around long enough to be that close with you understand that this is a thing you sometimes do, and have seemed to more or less accept it even though they chide you for it on occasion. However, you've had friends in the past give up trying to maintain a friendship with you because of this trait, taking your social anxieties as a personal slight, or eventually getting tired of trying to track you down all the time. \n\nYou feel incredibly guilty about this, but are not quite sure how to change.\n\n[[Back.|Next]]
<<set $motivation = $motivation - 1>><<if $motivation eq 1>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 2>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 3>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 4>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic1.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 5>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 6>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 7>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 8>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic2.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 9>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 10>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 11>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 12>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic3.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 13>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 14>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 15>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>><<if $motivation eq 16>><html><center><img src="http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/attic4.gif"></center></html><<endif>>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: okay</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: just think about it alright?</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: there's nothing wrong with having depression</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: you wouldn't be ashamed to have bronchitis or something</font></html>\n<html><FONT COLOR="#D1D1D11">attic: so there's no reason to be ashamed if it's your brain that's sick instead</font></html>\n\nYou tell him that you appreciate his concern and start sharing YouTube links with him instead. You idly continue to surf around online until you fall asleep at your desk<<if $cat eq true>>, kitten curled up on your mouse pad next to you<<else>>.<<endif>>\n\nThe alarm sounds at 8am and you awake in a haze of confusion before remembering how you ended up at your desk, and you drag yourself to your shower grumpily. \n\n[[Next.|havingahardTime]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomeb02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>
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You don't so much sit down on the couch as //sink into// it. You turn on the TV and start going through your usual channel routine. After a few cycles of this you realize that you're really not doing much more than thumb calisthenics and absently killing time. You check the clock and see that over 20 minutes have already passed since you sat down.\n\nAs your self-imposed time limit creeps ever nearer, you become more and more anxious. You stand up and walk to the fridge, telling yourself //I'll just make a quick sandwich and get to work after that - can't be productive on an empty stomach, right?//. As you eat you start pacing around your apartment, heading past your bedroom in the process. You stop in the doorway, as if physically unable to cross the threshold. Familiar waves of exhaustion start racking you and you feel simultaneously tired and panicked. You close your door and head back to the couch.\n\n//It's still early yet,// you tell yourself. //As long as I get to work in an hour I'll have plenty of time to be productive.// As you flip channels and let the CSI and Jeopardy reruns wash over you you sink deeper into the couch, feeling at once encroached upon and shielded by being quite literally swallowed up by it. As the second hour draws nearer, sure enough you find yourself getting anxious and jittery. You repeat the fridge-pace-couch process a couple more times before you look at the clock and realize that several hours have passed and, not surprisingly, you've managed to get no work done.\n\nYou crawl into bed, acutely aware of the fact that you have work in the morning and that any opportunity you had to catch up on your own creative endeavours today was squandered. You're feeling so disgusted with yourself that when Alex calls to talk to you on her way home from class, you simply say you had a really rough day at work and you're trying to rest up before your shift tomorrow. She says she understands and wishes you a good night, though you can't help but notice that she sounds slightly disappointed.\n\nIronically, the stress of potentially upsetting your partner compounds with the stress of not having gotten anything done this evening and the stress of having to go into work tomorrow. The buzzing of anxiety in your brain melts together with your body's utter physical exhaustion and you sink into a semi-hypnagogic anxious funk, too tired to try and work but too anxious to fall asleep for several hours.\n\n[[Next.|partyTime]]\n\n<<display 'motivation_Checker'>><html><div><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" width="15" height="15"><PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop"><PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high><PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent><embed src="http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/audioplay.swf?file=http://www.beesgo.biz/dq/music/dqhomea02092013.mp3&auto=yes&sendstop=no&repeat=1&buttondir=http://www.strangecube.com/audioplay/online/alpha_buttons/classic_small&bgcolor=0x000000&mode=playstop" quality=high wmode=transparent width="15" height="15" align="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object></div></html>