things are (maybe) starting to look better

It's Friday!! In the not-so-long-ago world of Pauly, I'd be drinking, smoking pot and probably doing some speed. In today's world, I'm eating Weinershnitzel chili dogs and drinking Cherry RC! I saw a new psychiatrist yesterday, and spoke at length with him. We're changing my medication radically. I'm gonna stop smoking pot, for a while at least, start an antidepressant with pain-blocking properties and a muscle relaxer that specifically targets spinal cord injuries, and up my dosage of Ativan to try and stabilize my sleep patterns. Then, for the FIRST time in my life, we're going to treat my ADHD, which no one else has even mentioned. The doc says that my past involvement with amphetamines probably made other clinicians shy away from stimulant medications, but we talked about it, and he thinks that it'll be fine. Of course, a urinalysis came first, to make sure I wasn't still self medicating. I feel better about this diagnosis than any previous one, and am cautiously optimistic about the future. ADHD explains so many of my problems! So, we shall proceed from here, as the song says, scarred, but (hopefully) smarter.....