I think more than directly chemical, a lot of my depression and anxiety symptoms were due to not knowing what to do about constantly feeling a little physiologically bad at all times.

My ADHD gives me this like, in the same way sadness can hurt physically, physical sense of not being stimulated enough. But I don’t really find like stimming helps it so I used to just kinda feel, as I would describe it, that every passing second was like a grinding stone(from like a mill) was turning right between my eyes and on my center forehead. Not painful as that would be, but just a negative and constant awareness of time passing.

So between RSD, emotional dysregulation and whatever that sympyom would be called, I think I was basically just using anxiety/sadness as a more pleasant place to be than that and an explanation for why I felt bad and eventually it became habit/engrained.

Between cognitive behavioral therapy and then the meds, I think I just stabilized enough to realize I was kinda helping rather than fighting the depression/anxiety.

I still have depressed periods of a few days to a few weeks, but they’re mild and I notice as I am going through them and when I am out.

And I still catch myself thinking anxious thoughts or worrying about how I am perceived or misunderstandings, but it’s possible, even easy often, for me to simply realize I’m having more anxiety that day, and write it all off/stop focusing on it.

I was started on 30mg Vyvanse because I basically went to my doctor and said: “I need meds so I can work again like now or I’m gonna be homeless my guy” and it’s been wonderful for me. I take a 10mg booster mid-day also.

It lets me do the house tasks and work 25 hours a week without falling apart. It reduced my anxiety and depression sympyoms to the point I don’t feel held back by them. It used to help make it easier to think and make my hobbies enjoyable again as well but now less so.

I asked to go to 40mg in the morning so we’ll see how that goes. Hoping it improves my enjoyment of things I wanna do.

As far as side effects it’s just a bit hard to empty my bladder at times.

Lithium ion batteries cannot super accurately report their own charge so the percentage isn’t necessarily digit accurate.

I am also usually just making sure it’ll get me to a place I can charge it when I actually need to worry about charge. That doesn’t usually require like the difference between say 33% and 26% for me.

I just need to be able to see if I’ve got like a fifth of battery left or less / more.

Admitedly also with the ADHD if there’s a percentage I fixate on it for no reason so it’s less annoying for me to have it off.

Same with the battery level in my e-bike. 👀 I know it’ll get me to work and back as it always does but not constantly fixating on the remaining battery is impossible.

Pepperidge Farms about to start needing regular colonoscopies. 👀

He clearly has not accepted that in-group/out-group dynamics always leave potential for you to become part of the out-group, or to have only assumed you’d be in the in-group in the first place. Just thinks Trump messed up by taking HIS partner instead of someone else’s.

“go after criminals” he continues to say, failing to realize that especially in the most heavily incarcerated country on the planet, criminals are actually also largely moms and pops and kids with families that are torn apart by agents of state violence over incredibly minor or intentionally targeted laws.

My experience with so many people is that even when solidly proven to have held a belief they no longer find suits them, they do not look for a systematic fault in their mental processing models or a larger misunderstanding in their base assumptions of reality to find how it was they were led into false belief. They simply assume it was either a fluke, or that reality does indeed conform to their ideas and just made a mistake this time.

Your Honor, there’s no evidence from the provided panels that my client did not in fact open the bag and have a single chip then put the bag away before feeling content in his accomplishments.

So thankful the internet still says infinitely more hilarious and baffling things on a daily basis than AI could ever manage.

Isn’t this just the CEO of sex putting his own access behind a paywall?

I feel like this makes cyberpunk clothing a lot closer to reality.

hopital

I’m largely inattentive-type with some of the socially oriented hyperactivity issues. I can sit still but boy do I love to interrupt and finish peoples sentences. 😅

I wish it had “Always Remember” in yellow comic sans over the ass

Nah, sinus infection just started today. And the feeling better when sick is also a trend I’ve noticed for a long long time.

I do think it would probably be reasonable to charge for neglect / abuse depending on circumstance in atleast cases where the child is severely physically disabled from their weight and there is no underlying illness in the child to cause such a desire to eat. Or maybe even further to if there is an underlying illness causing it and they refused to acknowledge such or seek help if acknowledged.

I’ve got a (very old) Logitech G602, and you don’t even need to cross the battery in that. It will work with a battery in either slot or both. Always thought that was nice because before rechargables where it doesn’t matter, usually if you used each battery separately after they stopped working together, you’d get a bit more use from them.

I do think no matter what reforms we do in schools, the subject being the most interesting / stimulating thing currently available must help a lot.

Also wonder if this means people are passing notes around again!

USPS is one of the many things that still makes me feel a large rush of civic pride in these dark times, among museums and libraries, firefighters, and good community spaces(parks, bike trails, hiking areas, etc).

How’d they choose which color the text would be? Niether the red or white parts make sense alone.

lil scorpion got a family 😭💜

Atomos is a simple game about combining atoms to make higher value atoms, a bit like 2048 but in a circle. Very easy to pick up and put down, have kept it on my phone for years and years.