quailman's comments

Note that these regexes aren't even matching the same thing, so who knows what these things are matching. Whatever it is, it's probably not 99.99% of the world's emails, and either way nobody is going to check that. Especially nobody is going to parse that Perl beast.

As a tangential anecdote, I always thought it would be interesting to drop a backdoor into some canonical piece of code like this that noobs are bound to copy-paste. It might be the most efficient way to worm your way into the largest number of computers worldwide.

I'm not suicial now, but I have seen doctors about this in the past.

I was suicidal because I felt like my life had no control. The way this has was treated is to have me committed, where I have to spend the little energy I have convincing people I'm normal and sane so they'll let me go, and I will regain the control of being at least capable in theory to take my life. I come out of it much worse than how I came in.

I would love a good doctor, or even an understanding person to talk to. It's easy to snap your fingers and prescribe that, but for some people it feels hopeless to realize you may never get it.

It's called a downward spiral for a reason. One of my life goals, if I can get to it, would be to dismantle the terrible mental health infrastructure of the Western world and replace it with science and compassion.

Medication is a luxury some people literally can't afford. I'm one of them.

This sounds exactly like my situation to a T.

I'll be straightforward: I'd love to chat -- anonymously of course -- in the hope that we both might benefit. I cooked up a GMail account just for that reason, which you can find in my profile.

I'll monitor it for the next day or so if you'd accept the offer.