Please listen to Dyane & Lucy explain this new contest. All will make sense to you shortly!
Thanks to my #1 favorite blog Blahpolar Diaries and to the new blog Psych Roundup for inspiration (@PsychRoundup). I also want to thank the HBO television series Silicon Valley for making me laugh.
After you watch me & Lucy, please check out the Silicon Valley clip below; the scenes made me ponder how marketing departments truly come up with such ridiculous med names. (TW for salty language and psilocybin use.)
LUCY’S MEDICATION NAME SUGGESTIONS
The following medications are not yet available to the public and are currently undergoing extensive clinical trials
Oxytocia™
This revolutionary 3-in-1 medication is an antipsychotic, mood stabilizer and benzodiazepine. To date the only drawback is one side effect: the consumer grows an additional toe and/or finger; the formula team is currently working on this issue to eradicate the digits.
Synapislaphappyquel™
This powerful antipsychotic has a threefold benefit; it not only acts as a traditional antipsychotic; Synapislaphappyquel™ increases the consumer’s intelligence by one-tenth of the previous quotient, and it specifically decreases road rage.
Californium™
An element, Cf, this medication’s classification is Rare Earth – watch out lithium, Californium™ is the groovy, hot, new mood stabilizer!
Sphincteromine™
This benzodiazepine will relax any muscle in the body 100 times faster and stronger than diazepam’s effect, especially in one’s nether regions.
Traumaloftelavilcumulonimbus™
A mood elevator also helpful for PTSD, the medication can also be used to increase the amount of eggs laid by chickens two thousand percent.
Mailittleponeeadnauseum™
A mild antidepressant targeted for parents of young children; the marketing team is designing a label geared for those wary of pharmaceuticals. Prototypes include this image:
Oblivionpionpinetinemine™
This antidepressant is even more effective than ketamine; it’s to be injected into one’s ear canal and works within two seconds.
*This is a fictitious post and is meant for humorous purposes only…because life is hard enough as it is.*
Silicon Valley Clip: “How to Come Up With a Company Name”: caution: language/psilocybin use
Dyane Leshin-Harwood’s memoir Birth of a New Brain – Healing from Postpartum Bipolar Disorder will be published by Post Hill Press next year.
Couchassitonium – my ass cannot get off the couch…but I’m alive!!
A definite frontrunner!!!!! ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!
Hello, you’re a wonderful blogger. And I am not sure if you remember but I was once ‘Your Inner Happiness’ but I’ve formed a new blog. With a new look at mental illness. I look forward to catching up on your blog and I hope to hear from you soon.
Thanks so much – I love the look of your new blog and started following it. Thanks for the follow too – I love your positive attitude and your timing is perfect! :))) We can encourage & promote one another! be well, Dyane
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I just nominated you for an award please see my posts 🙂
Thanks so much, Kerril!!!
I’ve been sick with an evil cold for 2 days, so I’m out of touch with my lovely blogs and just spotted your message. Due to time, I stopped accepting awards; I guess I should post that somewhere; my apologies. But I’m VERY honored and happy you nominated me, and I don’t mean to sound ungrateful!
I’ll happily nominate you if I see any cool awards, by the way.
Take care and hope your day is going well!
Dyane
Totally understand, I’m struggling with who to nominate as I like everyone lol so I just nominated everyone who liked the initial post. I hope you feel better soon!
Thanks, my dear – I’m a big baby today. I’m cuddling in bed with my dog Lucy and feeling a little better. I’m happy I can taste food again!
Some downtime every once and a while is ok 😉
HAHAHA these are hilarious.
I suggest: Oopsididitagainamine: The fastest acting antihistamine/sleeping pill that’s set to outsell diphenydramine (benadryl) this year.
Or how about: Havacookiedol: The painkiler for the preschool generation.
I have nominated you for the 3 days 3 quotes challenge (although it’s optional): https://invokedelight.wordpress.com/2015/09/28/3-days-3-quotes-challenge/
Hahahahahaha!!! PS Have you tried ketamine?
Hey Kerril! Nope, no ketamine milkshakes, smoothies, nor lovely sounding injections! They sound like they can be miraculous for some lucky souls!!!
I’ve heard, but how do you get your hands on it?
Gezzligopherene. A powerful anti depressant and mood stabilizer from the Netherlands. Feelings reported include calm, a feeling of zen, relaxation, social ease, and general happiness. Users report a 98% increase in ability to avoid depressive cycles. Side effects include smiling and a growing sense of socialism in action.
This entry is supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
(Hey, could that be a med name???????Julie Andrews could do a promotional commercial for it!)
No, really, it’s great – and your comment made me smile when I read it – I *love* that this med comes from the peaceful Netherlands (isn’t the Netherlands supposed to have the best quality of life on Earth or something like that?)
I especially love the side effects!
We might have a winner…..Lucy will be rather envious! 😉
have a great Sunday & thanks for stopping by!
Dy
lol! 😀 Glad you enjoyed it. The Netherlands isn’t top of the heap for quality of life; that’s Denmark, I think. But NL is pretty f***ing great, let me tell you! I am HAPPY to pay taxes here. Happy. That should say it all. 😉
Ha Lady, how am I even supposed to read or better still pronounce the names of some of those meds? especially the one which may very well do the ‘trick’? ok Lucy just has to keep helping, but from every indication, even she’s needs cuddling after this ‘exercise’. Look dear, take this inspiration and motivation into your book right? Go lady, go 🙂
Hee hee – you can do practically anything, Fairy Godmother – you could pronounce these names backwards!!!
Lucy was tired and bored and feeling the heat, but she’s doing better. Craig gives her a walk each night, which she loves, and yours truly hugs and kisses her (but not on the mouth!) all day long!
I do need to pour this energy into Ye Olde Book. Trouble is, writing this blog/doing blogs (especially for goofy posts like this one) is eeeeeeaaassssyyyyy, writing the book, not-so-much! So yeah, I’ve been cheating on my book, so to speak. I need to turn that around, like, yesterday.
I wish I was as prolific and as amazing as you! XOXOXOXOX
Ideally my pill would be taken just one time and be called, Every Problem is Now Gone Forever, Fuck Yeah Science! The CVS worker and I would share a deep moment and we would take our pills together.
Love it, Andrew! Sounds ideal to me!!! 🙂
😂😂😂
Is that xxx? Triple rated?
Supposed to be triple “laugh-cry” faces!
Ohhhhh, I get it! How funny, Vic – it looks like my Mom did the same exact thing too. As long as I didn’t offend…… 😉
I have one very funny daughter. With all due or undue modesty she is not just beautiful but highly intelligent. Hmm… The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Words spoken to me by Zubin Mehta many yrs ago when Dyane was about 6 years old!🎼🎼
Thanks Mom – your check is in the mail!!! 😉 XOXO
Hilarious! Thank you.
Lucy & I felt like goofing off in a quiet house! 😉 Thanks, my dear!
She seemed quite content to be sitting on the ground with you.
She likes to sit *on* me, my foot usually, and it’s just the sweetest thing. 🙂 I love having this beast’s trust & affection. Plus I just read in “Good Times” (the Santa Cruz Weekly that Greg Archer edited for 14 whopping years & I don’t know how he pulled that off because it would turn most people….um, I wanted to use an un-p.c. word – you get my meaning!) that if you gaze into a dog’s eyes it raises both of your oxytocin levels! Here’s the short article in case you want to breeze through it…I might share i with Blahpolar too. XOXO
http://www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-blogs-commentary/mind-body/6920-canine-cure.html
Now I have to go gaze into one of our dog’s eyes.