We have a cadult (our child who is now an adult) who suffered from clinically diagnosed depression from about the age of 12. The one advice I would give to anyone is, before taking any antidepressants, take the screening test first. It will tell which antidepressants the body will metabolize. Then go forward. What’s the gain? Time on the right meds. I takes the body 4-6 weeks for antidepressants to start working. And a lot can happen in 4-6 weeks if on the wrong antidepressants.
I just noticed that for the last three days the panels have been identical except for the word balloons. Not complaining, just noting the fact. Probably not the first time…
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
Sorry, Rat. The making people depressed market is saturated right now.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 1 year ago
Depression hotline is when someone watch the news on TV.
BasilBruce over 1 year ago
Don’t believe everything you read; no one wants to hear a hot line from a rat.
ronaldspence over 1 year ago
truth in advertising, eh Rat?
Wilde Bill over 1 year ago
Lucky me. I can have pull up the latest PBS and bypass the hotline altogether.
Partyalldatyme over 1 year ago
Could be worse. Could be a suicide hotline.
Zykoic over 1 year ago
“Call volumes are very high right now. Please try again later. "
Bilan over 1 year ago
Your call is very important to us . . . NOT!
blunebottle over 1 year ago
And Rat is an expert.
Doug K over 1 year ago
… and often times angry too.
unfair.de over 1 year ago
Where there’s demand there’s a provider.
iggyman over 1 year ago
The way things are we do not need your hotline to be depressed, Rat!
iggyman over 1 year ago
As Cagney would say “You Dirty Rat”!
blackman2732 over 1 year ago
Sum people don’t reed gooder.
monya_43 over 1 year ago
Rat has found his calling. Depressing others makes him happy.
Goat from PBS over 1 year ago
I’m thankful the suicide hotline is not like this.
SALUDADOG over 1 year ago
My parents lived through the Great Depression, but it really didn’t sound so great.
Ellis97 over 1 year ago
Rat is a sleazy, petty little rodent, but we love him just the same.
Aladar30 Premium Member over 1 year ago
HEY! THAT’S MY JOB!!!
mrwiskers over 1 year ago
We have a cadult (our child who is now an adult) who suffered from clinically diagnosed depression from about the age of 12. The one advice I would give to anyone is, before taking any antidepressants, take the screening test first. It will tell which antidepressants the body will metabolize. Then go forward. What’s the gain? Time on the right meds. I takes the body 4-6 weeks for antidepressants to start working. And a lot can happen in 4-6 weeks if on the wrong antidepressants.
richdell over 1 year ago
Incontinence hotline. Can you hold?
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Sometime there are some who are so deep in depression they can’t see a solution and or the light at the end of the tunnel…..Stay away from RATs booth!
gingerspike88 Premium Member over 1 year ago
They call, Rat listens, Rat feels better about himself …
raybarb44 over 1 year ago
What’s in a name? Now to know….
Imagine over 1 year ago
Drove past an adult store the other day. I was wondering if they’re used or new. Then drove past a family store. Hmm.
Carl Rennhack Premium Member over 1 year ago
Is this the same Depression Hotline that was used by “Hoobert Heever”?!?
198.23.5.11 over 1 year ago
First Rat peps t hem u p with coffee.Then he makes them feel downer depressed so they’ll have to come back for more coffee.
Buckeye67 over 1 year ago
Rat might be on to something. All those people who are feeling great all the time need somewhere to turn to in order find the solace of reality.
Buoy over 1 year ago
That’s a bad business model, Rat. There is already WAY to much competition out there already.
Walter Kocker Premium Member over 1 year ago
Want something to depress ya?
The charge nurse at the Emergency Room of the ONLY Hospital in our area had to call 911 for help from the Fire Department.
https://www.kitsapsun.com/story/news/2022/10/12/overwhelmed-st-michael-medical-center-nurse-called-911-help/10472123002/
I imagine she’ll be fired.
(But don’t worry. It’s a Catholic hospital. Two or three hundred years from now, she’ll be declared a saint.)
I’m amazed at the incompetant management’s various creative excuses for this happening . . . it reminds me of Thomas Nast’s Tweed ring cartoon:
https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MbLm_80tvFA/T2glv77q4hI/AAAAAAAAq0o/4GtWKovpw14/s1600/USAnast3.jpg
I used to wonder why my grandfather left Northern Ireland . . .
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 1 year ago
Remember that strip a VERY long time ago where Pig suggested we send all the angry nutjobs in the world to an island? Rat would be first to go.
Sisyphos over 1 year ago
Yeah, Goat! Whatsamatta for you, you don’t read the English? Rat provides an honest, vital service.
FireAnt_Hater over 1 year ago
I just noticed that for the last three days the panels have been identical except for the word balloons. Not complaining, just noting the fact. Probably not the first time…
cs2854900 over 1 year ago
Why not make them read Funky Winkerbean instead?
WendesdayGirl over 1 year ago
i need this