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[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

does the guy you like recognize you as a guy?

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

this is so real. dresses looked alright on me and then i became much closer to a bear and it's. less good.

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 week ago

which is even more incredibly fucked when you consider the illusory truth effect, or the effect of something seeming more truthful by the mere repeated exposure to it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect)

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

i've found that therapy is good for practicing social skills, and explaining your feelings to other people. these are generally valuable skills, but they lack in what you're looking for - trying to get yourself to a less reactive state

have you read a book called "the body keeps the score"? it talks a lot about PTSD/CPTSD, the causes, and, most relevantly, the treatments. if you want to stick to therapy, i would suggest EMDR, it seems to have better outcomes for people dealing with trauma. for stuff you can do today, i would practice 4-7-8 breathing and yoga. down the line, i would recommend looking into neurofeedback. it helped me a ton. but i think breathing + yoga are sort of the slow, manual path that neurofeedback takes you down, and are worthwhile in their own respect

good luck in your journey, i hope you find this helpful. one day, may trauma be as easy to treat as any other condition humans can be afflicted with

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

(the headline) by that you mean, senate republicans are ransoming americans' healthcare for discrimination

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

(real question) is there a non-carb grain? is there a grain that's mostly protein? (a lot of keto stuff has pea protein...) (i'm almost certain there's no FAT based grain 😭)

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago

yeah it seems a lot trickier to discuss the HRT relevant to us. i don't think it's necessarily invalid to have linked it here, but...

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago

people don't just "wake up". a movement is built, one conversation, one comrade at a time; it doesn't just magically happen in the minds of the people. i don't think you're necessarily badly intentioned, but you aren't even giving any compelling stories from your "firsthand experience over the past two decades". your post amounts to "society is FUBAR'd because trust me bro," and frankly, none of us have any reason to trust you, brand new account will no posts

you also don't really talk like someone who has twenty years of organizing experience. there are methodologies to this, one can be trained in these ways if one really wants to be

also, how exactly do you expect to survive the MAGApocalypse without community? who do you expect to turn to in times of crisis if not the people around you? or are you just going to isolate yourself from society and go off the grid? do you think people make it through these sorts of crises alone?

if you are tired of society being built on a foundation of fear, you can begin your journey to building collective power and hope with this page and this site, it's an excellent resource: https://www.labornotes.org/sites/default/files/22AnOrganizingConversation_0.pdf

finally, reminder that ayn rand ended her life benefiting from the same systems she had decried: social security and medicare

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 weeks ago

feel like you could do some really interesting things with model trains and like... model-train-track-restraints 🤔

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago

the shit cherry on top is that he was awarded that pride flag by the FBI for his efforts to support diversity!!

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

apparently the acquaintance of a friend of mine made this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo2sbIg-bLU

[–] fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

you can get headaches plenty with topical minox lol

i don't have an answer for your question, tho

 

asking for the boy i'm in love with... he's been enjoying the CCTV view of four ambient / background yt vids at once, but tonight yt started asking him to sign in to confirm he's not a bot and effectively blocking him from using them (it works for him on yt proper bc he's signed in, but not through the sites that allow. multiple vids)

i'm not sure an alternative frontend would help, but i figured i'd ask if any of them had support for multiple videos? i think the proper solution will just to get him on a VPN but i figured i'd ask

asked here because i wasn't sure where else would be appropriate 😅 thanks in advance

 
 

wasn't sure where else to put this, since, while chronic, this definitely doesn't qualify for /c/chronicillness LOL (idk how to link communities sorry)

(post tone: lightly frustrated, somewhat comedic description of problems and viewpoints; i swear a lot in my normal speech, but i'm not pissed or anything)

i've been dealing with nasal/sinus issues for over a decade: i've had a couple surgeries for it, i'm currently doing braces, which is fixing the underbite situation and helps with nasal drainage, and i'm on a good amount of allergy meds to mitigate the situation

the doc i had ten years ago and the doc i just saw today told me the same thing: rinse my nose with saline twice a day

now, if i was willing to do that, i wouldn't be seeing a doctor. i know that i can simply waterboard myself persistently enough and the problem will go away

my issue is that i need to flush my sinuses at all to be a functional person (thankfully, on the current routine, it's maybe a few times a week, vs twice a day)

i should have talked about this in more detail with the doc, and i'll see him again after some allergy testing and talk about it more then (i needed a minute to compose myself 💀); but i mostly wanted to get a survey of other folks with these issues: do y'all just fuckin live with rinsing your nose out twice a day?? i been doing it for a decade, i know how to do it correctly, i just HATE DOING IT, i cannot imagine doing it 2x a day willingly

(if you're wondering what part of the process i hate, it's all of it; having to bank distilled water, dealing with either cold water in your congested nose (shitty) or having to heat up the water to the right temp to be warm but also not burn the shit out of your nasal passages (pain in the ass), and then having to clean a shitload of salt water out of your face because why the fuck would it drain out cleanly)

 

got my consult for FMS recently and i was told something interesting: apparently, if i hadn't used braces to straighten my bite, we could have done surgery to bring the jaw forward (and improve my jaw/chin), instead of doing an implant (which i will now have to do)

kind of hit me like a "how the fuck was i supposed to know", but maybe this advice will come in handy for one of y'all

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