So, as it turns out... I'm not as crazy as I thought. I was in my first aid class and we went over carbon monoxide poisoning. As we were going over the symptoms, I was like "I have that... and that... and that, too!!" And then I realized that our apartment's carbon monoxide detector has been going off every day for like a month and a half or so. We all thought that the detector was scitzo, so we always ignored it.
After my class, I went to the doctors because I can't get over this stupid cold cough thing I have and my mom thought it might be pneumonia (which it isn't... its just a new strain of some a-something-a-rather virus) and while I was there, I decided to ask about carbon monoxide poisoning. I told the doctor that I have been fatigued and dizzy and generally just icky before I even got sick. He said that sounded exactly like carbon monoxide poisoning, and put together with my detector going off, all signs pointed to me having a minor case of poisoning. Then he told me that if I took 4 ib profien three times a day for four days, it should take care of any symptoms I have from poisoning (assuming the leak gets fixed). Then he listed all the symptoms so I would know what to expect. One of them was... you guessed it: depression!!!
So, I may be crazy, but soon I should be back to my normal crazy and not my extreme state of unhappy craziness. I can't even describe how happy I am to find out there is a reason that I've been feeling how I have. Apparently, my brain is inflamed (according to my long-winded doctor) and I can actually feel normal again with a handful of pills.
I'm so happy!
