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I received an invitation to come to an interview by the director and she cc'ed the vice director as well. Should I reply to both? if so, should I send two separate (but identical) emails or do I just "reply all"?

Here's the email:

"Hi xxxxx,

The Vice Director, XXX (cc'ed on this email), and I have reviewed your application for the executive committee for our May event; and we would like to interview you this week.

Would you be available for an interview this coming Friday at any point between 9am and 4pm?

We are very much looking forward to hearing back from you and meeting with you in the near future.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Best,

XXXXXXX

Director"

Right now my parents are separated and still in the process of deciding what next, and things don't look pretty so far. I realize all that stuff about how it's "not my fault" and it's their problem, etc etc etc. I'm way past that stage. But after all they ARE my parents. it's only natural that I feel sad/angry, except I don't (anymore). I believe any negative emotion I had is manifesting differently, for example my room and desk have been in a horrandeous state for quite a while. I'm generally a messy person but this is just.......

I'm putting off my own laundry, showers, hairbrushing and general beauty and self-care tasks for centuries at a time if at all.

So I was wondering, is that healthy? If not, what should I do? Please keep in mind that I am also a university student and should be graduating in under 2 years from now. This state helped keep negative emotions out of the way of my studying. However, if it's unhealthy, I don't believe in trading off my own well-being with my degree.

FYI: I do have a hobby on the side (dancing) and I am making sure I stick to it especially during these difficult times because it has a major role in my general emotional stability throughout my life. But it doesn't seem to be adequate as much as I would have liked it to be at the moment.

Any thoughts or advice will be highly appreciated. Thanks.

My mother decided to "speak up" and tell me about how our father has been emotionally since they got married, about how he ignores her hardships if he disapproves of anything (related or not). the way she describes sounds very passive, he doesnt name call, shout or hit. He just ignores, gives nasty looks, criticizes, becomes careless etc.

Now I know that if all this is true then ofcourse it is abuse and it must be dealt with. However, my father has always been an extremely friendly and loving and we all thought of him as perfectly honest, dedicated, responsible, wise, loyal and the list goes on...

During hardships he would always stand by us and goes the extra billion miles to help out. Yet my mother says the complete opposite of this and that it all changes behind closed doors!

It's a fact that my mother can be a difficult person to deal with and she is not always the most open-minded person in this family. There is a chance that all of this is a mis-interpretation of all those occurances she complains about (a common thing she does daily, but in way less serious situations). but then what if its not!

She also spoke about how he keeps our family relatively isolated. We don't have family friends and my father is very reluctant to having any friends really... but I just thought he's unsocial. He doesn't like our family "exposed" and makes sure we have some super-strong privacy. Sometimes I disagree with some of his views, but just looked at him as being wrong....not abusive!

Right now my mother is emotionally relying on me while working on getting a divorce. If my father goes out of the picture, I will automatically take charge of what remains of the family for many irrelevant reasons.

It is also worth to mention that my mother has a history of depression. Now she tells me that she's had depression because of my father, but i suspect that she may be having troubles with him BECAUSE of her depression....

How can I tell whether my mother is telling the truth or just mis-interpreting everything her way? I cannot find any tell-tale signs....or just don't know what to look for.

I'm afraid I might assist in breaking our family up when my mother was just being too emotional and exaggerative. But I'm also afraid to refuse helping my mother stop the real abuse she may be going through. I don't want her to feel that I'm undermining her situation as a "victim", also a common complaint of hers.

At first I was totally non-acceptant of beggars here thinking they are not earning their own money or asking for financial assistance when they clearly can. But I didn't want to do things based in my own ignorance and unawareness of how it really is.

I am not a hater, I'm trying to find explanations. Toronto streets are FULL of beggars of all sorts and many are mentally unstable or in REALLY bad shape (as in you can smell them a mile away). Now I've lived in many countries through out my life and my impression was that the Canadian government does a relatively good job (compared to others) to financially assist such people. Yet it definitely has the highest number of beggars I've ever seen in one place.

I can't find suitable explanation for this phenomena. I can't even find a suitable source (using google) that gives a clear explanation of why things are the way they are.

Does anyone have more insight into this? I'd really appreciate useful sources as well.

thnx

I am an undergraduate and I requested a reference letter from my lab TA. He said he would be more comfortable if we wait till the final marks for the course are out so he can base his opinion on a solid mark which I thought was fair. Now my final mark is out and it is NOT that well even though I nailed all the lab work which was under his supervision. So it's the written exam that ruined it.

I told him earlier that I will send him a reminder once the marks are out. The marks were out yesterday and then he emailed me today asking me (again!) to remind him whenever they're out!! He is supposed to have access to them and is able to know when they're out himself. He asked me for the reminder again the day RIGHT AFTER they were out.....should that mean anything? Is he pointing my attention to the terrible mark i got? and all this aside, should I still ask him for the recommendation letter ? I kind of feel too embarrassed to...

Any advice will be highly appreciated.

Does it specifically check for mutations at the CFTR gene? or is at for a different gene? or is it many genes? or is it a whole different story?

Thanks in advance.

i am prescribed 15mg morning + 10mg evening.

I made a mistake today and took 15mg morning + 15mg evening

am guessing its not much to worry about??

I am mainly asking about the doctor's integrity more than the risk of the actual medication

I was just diagnosed with adult ADD so my doctor said we will most likely have to experiment with different medication to find what is right for me.

At one point we switched to whole different drug. I thought it was wonderful for the first few days and then by the end of the month i told him it doesnt work as good as it did at first, its like it got less effective by time . so he DOUBLED the dose !!!

i just looked up this drug's factsheet and this caught my eye:

'Dependence: *drug name* have been subject to extensive abuse. Tolerance, extreme psychological dependence, and severe social disability can occur with abuse of this medication. Some people have been reported to have increased their dosage to many times the recommended level.'

and: 'If you habitually take Dexedrine in doses higher than recommended, or if you take it over a long period of time, you may eventually become dependent on the drug and suffer from withdrawal symptoms if you abruptly stop it. '

I am starting to doubt my doctor because he never mentioned this !!! shouldn't he have told me what i might risk getting myself into? and the fact that i thought it worked wonderfuly at first but gradually became useless isnt that a sign of dependancy? was doubling the dose really a wise thing to do especially when I had no idea of these dependancy risks?

reminder: I am mainly asking about the doctor's integrity more than the risk of the actual medication

I have clinical depression and there are a few circumstances that are keeping me from reaching out for a doctor this moment.

I used to be a very cheerful person in the past. The thing is that now I still am that cheerful person on the outside. but i dont feel like so on the inside anymore.

So yes I am feel sad and down all the time but i also get these 'episodes' where i just dont want to do anything except sit in my room in the dark and think about how much i hate everyone and everything in life all while listening to very depressing music (more angry than sad) and spend a few hours dancing all the anger away and i can keep going for up to 4 or 5 hours with no breaks despite the muscle pains that i start to get and the dizziness (dehydration i guess..i cant make myself stop for a few minutes to drink) . i dont know how exactly to explain the feeling but i guess i could say that these episodes 'feed' something inside me...its like am HUNGRY for those dark moods and for all this physical suffering.

so i am asking if anyone has any advice about what to do DURING these episodes. not long term advice i already follow lots of those :)

or is it good to just let it 'take what it wants'. I do wake up the next day very refreshed and feel like i regained my energy to some extent.

but i believe i read somewhere that even though it feels very comfortable to give in it is not healthy at all and will make things worse.

so just thought i would ask

How do you say Attention deficit disorder (ADD/ADHD) in arabic ??

I used google translate and it said: اضطراب نقص الانتباه

and it doesn't sound right...

I am supposed to look up the etymology of the word 'truth'.

this is what i got from the oxford english dictionary:

The beta-forms perh. show a different ablaut grade, u beside eu, eo, whence OE. trúwa, trúa, faith, good faith (see TRUCE), trúwian to TROW, trust, confide, and ON. trúr true; but, as trup does not appear before the 13th c., when u and eu (ew) in other words had phonetically fallen together, it is possible that ME. truthe really comes from OE. treowe. See also TROTH.]

1- i don't understand what is a beta-form?

2- is it saying that :

OE= trúwa, trúa, faith, good faith (see TRUCE), trúwian to TROW, trust, confide

ON= trúr true

3- I don't understand the rest... how did 'trup' get in there?and just everything else..

I was thinking to myself that i am not happy with anything in my life...am jst not happy. i make jokes and laugh alot around people even though i feel so angry . am jst not a happy person on the inside. i dont know who or what i am angry at. so i decided to grab a piece of paper and list everything that is bothering me one by one starting from the smallest. and after i finished that piece of paper...i am doubting my mental stability. am gonna type everything i wrote on that list. at first i thought its just uni and student stress...but at some point during my writing...my thoughts took a weird turn

and plz i wanna hear opinions...does this sound like someone who needs help? or is that how a teenagerz brains supposed to work? (might be helpful to know that i am 19) :

- i lose my motive when it comes to study most of the time because i forget my goals

-i get exam stress: i suffer alot from this for many reasons:

-I get hit a mind block! I cant think and I cant even understand what i am reading. I get stuck at easy questions even though I was perfectly prepared for much harder ones.

- when i am not stressed, i lose focus. i daydream alot. (lose focus frequently)

- while i am studying for the exams, i think about how i get exam stress andi start getting exam stress without even being in the exam.

- I am scared of doing bad, especially that i did do bad most of the time.

- i am unsure of myself. i doubt alot of my work and the way i think. I believe i have much less abilities than everyone else. therefore, i always have to work harder than everyone else.

-i dont know what kind of help i need. because i dont know what is wrong with me.

-my mind z not clear

-PARENTS: I always have to justify things. i cant tell them what went wrong because i dont know whta went wrong. I think it is not something going wrong. it is ME thats jst wrong.

-its not the way i study. its me. its my brain. my brain is faulty.

-like anyone in the world ive been told am pretty several times through out life and when i look into the mirror i dont see myself as ugly. but i FEEL ugly. will i function better if i felt pretty?

-am i trying to be myself...or am i trying to be someone else?

-I only feel pretty when am naked...

- i hate my possessions. i never have the right things...wrong bag...wrong sweater...wrong shoes... i jst never have what i need.

-i am not afraid of dying. i wudnt avoid it. am not the kind of person who would kill herself...but i wudnt mind not existing

does anyone know a support-group-like-chat relating to sex addiction anywhere on the web?