i attempted my first driving test today but i literally don't think i have the processing speed to do all the things they want you to do at once 
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Food bank haul was cool. I got a bunch of berries and fresh fruit, a lot of veggies and bean sprouts. Yum yum. Also they wanted to give me a quite large amount of mussels. I feel bad for turning down food at the food bank, but "luckily" someone is always willing to poach anything not vegan you put in the trade pile. I am going to make a salad tomorrow.
I haven't been active the past couple of days as I haven't been feeling well. I was diagnosed with a vitamin D deficiency ages ago but stopped taking the pills as they were giving me headaches. I realised the other day this vitamin D deficiency could be contributing to my numbness and tingling, so i took a dose. It has given me the migraine from hell for the past couple of days. No migraine meds work on it. It dies down briefly then comes back. The universe hates me, I can't even do anything to help myself.
That sounds awful, I'm so sorry it's been such a battle. It would be nice if there were an easier way to get the things you need without all the compounded side effects. Sending hugs, comrade. Hope you're able to recover from the migraine quickly.
Thank you. Honestly everything is really getting on top of me right now. It's just never ending, worsening problems. I'm so worried about the tingling in my hands, legs and feet, it's now constant, really bad and I have no idea if it's the deficiency or something else and the GPs aren't interested in trying to find any other cause. All the supplements I'm given make me sick as a dog, the endless stress of the benefit appeal and having to beg for food, and now a really badly blocked drain which we can't afford to fix and is preventing me from showering and washing my hair. Honestly if I could just press a button to instantly end my existence I would.
It really is piling on, goodness. Not being able to bathe is awful. How bad is the expected bill, do you think mutual aid might be able to help like with the car?
We've been quoted £150. I did make a mutual aid post but there is a problem. I'm now within the 6 months before they check my accounts (assuming I win my appeal). That means I will have to explain anything going into my accounts now. It will look more suspicious having lots of small donations. If I could get one person to donate the full amount I could pass it off as an early xmas/bday present from a relative. But I guess I'm unlikely to get the full amount from one person.
That does make it more complicated. The last thing you need is any issues with the benefits. Maybe someone will come through, whether it’s with funds or a way to DIY the drain.
Have you tried D2? It doesn't raise vitamin D levels as fast as D3, but it still works to treat deficiency. It might be worth a try!
Thanks for the tip. I'm due to have a vitamin D injection to see if thats any better but if that's awful too I will consider trying D2.
I used to get so angry when people falsely accused my text of being AI-generated, but at this point, I really don't care. It doesn't help that I use em dashes a good deal—nothing wrong with that!
I am also a big fan of the em dash as one of those dreadful book-readers. Don't let them shame you out of something that was around before they knew what words were.
only open if you're ok with a joke about the subject.
How you write is not only fine — it's none of their business.
I wish people would realise that ai writes like that because people already wrote like that
Em dashes are cool. I wish I knew how to use them; though I suppose I could just misuse them like I misuse semicolons
Exactly, LLMs are fed human data and give you the statistically most likely output based on that.
I don't understand how people think that the use of one textual sign could be indication for an AI text. I'm sorry people accused you of that. Em dashes are amazingly helpful for writing well structured texts and I'm happy to see someone uses them correctly! Most people don't (and AI doesn't either).
people don't care about that structuring when writing emails or text messages so it's a signifier of high-effort or formality and they're harder to type unless you have the automatic override on double hyphens.
if someone is using emdashes outside of a textbook or institutional report it's unusual and most people (including me) aren't writing enthusiasts to pick up on weird grammar or style besides the obvious punctuation mark they usually don't use.
Using one in an email is strange enough, I agree, but it does get used in creative literature too.
Eating yummy broccoli. No one at the food bank wanted their broccoli so I got 7 heads of broccoli. People at the food bank are such picky eaters I swear.
Broccoli is so good!!
It is so good, and there's basically no way to do it wrong. You can bake it, you can sauté it, you can steam it, you can boil it, it's all gonna come out nice and delicious.
You can even make soup out of it, and it tastes so delicious 
Nice haul, broccoli is probably 30% of my diet and makes any meal better
I love broccoli but more than a handful and I get gastric disturbances.
Oh no :(
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Well except desserts.
Was cleaning the park yesterday for some exercise post Halloween and yeah almost fell on my butt, got into a swing of picking up wrappers when I had to go up a little pool. Used my hurt ankle to get up without thinking, had to switch feet and step up with my good one.
More time passes and that fall I had keeps coming back from time to time. Shit sucks I do hope my full mobility returns back to me, I wanna work a job that will probably have me going up and down ladders one day.
Appreciate your service to the park, that's awesome and I hope you can heal up and get that job you want sooner than later. Sounds like you really have an interest in something specific which is a cool thing to have and strive for!
Ty I find cleaning up an area I'm at helps with my nerves since being outside so much is tough (not to mention it keeps the cops away from me) I still got HVAC dreams and while I dread getting on a roof I would ideally love to work in restaurants or commercial things
I hope you'll get our full mobility back soon. Do you have any exercises that can help with that? If not, I hope enough rest will do the trick for you.
Ladders are amazing tools, you should be able to climb them again 
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all i get is bad news. I am just so ready to be done with this motherfucker. I am only alive for the people i fear will come to resent me. my therapist is leaving at the end of the month for maternity leave. I am entering a perfect storm of a bad time.
I'm sorry your therapist is leaving on top of all that. If the situation is this dire, could you get a fill in therapist while she's gone? In the US, even if you're getting a rarer kind of therapy, Psychology Today's website has therapists you can filter down to exact kind of therapists and therapy and coverage for you needs.
My psychiatry office said they couldn't hook me up to exact therapy resources I need unless they picked a general therapist that, by chance, just happened to be what I want. So I asked around, and turns out my rare kind of therapist are on the website under my insurance.
Aside from that resource, here's a Covid-Concious Therapist Directory for both, in and outside of the US and Canada, plus "Brazil - Colombia - France - India - Australia Italy - Ireland - Japan - Malaysia - Mexico - New Zealand - Northern Mariana Islands - Singapore - United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom - Trinidad"
Certain therapists on there can seem pretty leftist. What i don't like about this website is that I can't find a way to filter it down to what Psychology Today's website lets me filter options down to. Filters seem to only ask what state I'm in.
Thank you for those resources. I've been debating trying to find a temp, i just work so well with my current therapist and I've had such a difficult time finding people I can feel comfortable working with in that capacity. my current plan was to disconnect from reality as much and as often as possible lol
If you've got a lot of trauma, repressed rage, anger, depression, etc... I know a person who says they know multiple people that say EMDR changed their life forever. If you've got those things, I truly reccomend trying EMDR. People can literally get diseases from not processing grief and more issues from all of these things.
Imo EMDR is far better than checking out. I can also see it being good for people who think about treating complex trauma through psychedelics, but can't/don't want to trip.
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Sorry it's all piling on at once. Hexasnoot already gave some great advice, so I won't add on too much. Hopefully you can find some shelter from the storm soon, and things even out a little bit. Sending positivity your way, comrade, you deserve a good rest.
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