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I think I know the answer! Because I’m on the brink of one!<\/p>\n
Haven’t you always wondered what people meant by the outmoded term “nervous breakdown”? I used to picture someone in a padded cell, just lying on a bed, maybe trembling, probably unable to speak, disheveled, with vacant eyes.<\/p>\n
I’ve even wished I could have a nervous breakdown, because then someone would take care of everything while I just drooled quietly in a nice sanitarium somewhere.<\/p>\n
And then at some point in my life, I decided that I was out of luck, I just couldn’t break down even if I longed for it, it just wasn’t in the cards for me. I’m not the type, I would explain bitterly when discussing someone else’s mental hospital experience.<\/p>\n
Well, I have news to report. After enough days of struggling with my website and talking to IT guys who all sound slightly stoned and none too bright, after listening to all these Richards and Darrens and Ethans giving conflicting theories and reasons why things should be working now or not working now, I am a mess.<\/p>\n
The sense of powerless multiplied by anxiety and frustration is truly debilitating.<\/p>\n
The only relief came in the form of Lauren<\/strong><\/a>, an angel who knows all about WordPress blogs and so much more I can’t begin to tell you. She knows about Juggalos<\/a>, for fucksake. She knows about everything, believe me.<\/p>\n So she agreed to bring my blog back from the Invisible White Screen of Death.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, perhaps sniffing out my anxiety all the way from Arizona\u00a0 (or tipped off by the IT guys at Bluehost) my web security service, SiteLock<\/strong><\/a>, alerts me that I have some malware<\/a> that urgently needs to be removed. If I don’t remove it, Google will hate me, everyone will hate me and my whole world will end.<\/p>\n However, despite having paid $500 for a year of their security service, they want $300 to remove the malware.<\/p>\n Now, the best\/worst part of this is a person names “Sean<\/strong>” at SiteLock. Sean will come out of the gate yelling at you like an angry husband you dared to question about his poker buddies.<\/p>\n Sean seethes with contempt for your ignorance and rage for your audacity in bringing up that $500. He compares the extraction of malware to surgery. Actual surgery. He tells you how careless you’ve been in using plug-ins.\u00a0 And Sean never backs down. He is aggression personified.<\/p>\n Sean seems like the devil Himself.<\/p>\n But that’s because you have yet to encounter STEVEN<\/strong>, in billing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I think I know the answer! Because I’m on the brink of one! Haven’t you always wondered what people meant by the outmoded term “nervous breakdown”? I used to picture someone in a padded cell, just lying on a bed, … Continue reading