Exorcistbreakdancing [she/her]

My friend just quit ssris and they described a similar experience to yours. In my experience tapering off a drug can be as helpful as starting it, because it’s what your brain needs right now? If that makes sense. Always a lot of unknown factors with meds, even doctors are just giving it their best guess

You’re right that we can’t know anything about anyone online 100%. But it’s kind of an unnecessary existential crisis to say we can never know if someone is guilty or innocent. I think in order to function we have to assume 99% innocence, if that makes sense. Emotionally speaking it’s difficult, especially if you know what it’s like to not be taken seriously, but I think it’s important to not let that cloud empathy for the wrongly accused. Consider all the innocent people thrown in jail because of false accusations, almost always through racist and classist narratives. (West Memphis Three, Central Park Five) Take everything with a grain of salt, not a 100 kg of salt. If evidence leans in one direction (even though it is ultimately unverifiable either way) it makes the most sense to treat it as the truth.

No problem! And I haven’t tried the elimination diet for the same reason lol

I second the person who said elimination diet in case you’re allergic to something common. Also raw ginger, turmeric, and kombucha are my go-to for stomach issues/nausea. Turmeric is magic. Raw ginger and saltines go well together. Also peppermint oil (a drop in some olive oil in your palm, lick palm), or a spoonful of apple cider vinegar (which I hate the taste so only when I’m desperate.) Sorry if you’ve heard this all before! I also deal with a lot of nausea and not wanting to eat because of it, which makes it worse etc

Edit: Also, maybe weed?

I can’t believe how often I’ve been in the car with someone and they have commented on the body of a STRANGER walking by. Like how do they not realize how weird that is?

Oh man cooking was such a daunting task for me for so long. (Sometimes it still is and my roommates are like ???? ) I’m pretty annoyed that cooking wasn’t a regular part of life growing up.

If we’re really talking convenience, I used to always get Gardein-brand frozen things, like vegan meatballs, plus a side of preseasoned microwaveable frozen veggies. About the same amount of work as a frozen pizza. I still love Gardein

The morbid curiosity always gets me

Cool cool. I’m looking forward to reading more of her stuff

EQUUS. Let’s see what happens with this horse

I looove Lathe of Heaven. About to start Left Hand of Darkness. Is the anthology her work or edited/selected by her?

Gloominess is in the air for real. I recommend Over the Garden Wall

Highly damned

Oh daft punk made a whole movie out of this album! The plot is pretty basic, vaguely interesting sci fi/anime ideas. It’s worth watching if you like the album

Love this song and the whole movie. Major nostalgia

I swear by melatonin! But it only works if I take a tiny amount, like literally 1/2 of a 5mg pill. Counterintuitive dose strategy

I find this hard too. It’s much easier to let something go if you don’t put pressure on yourself to let it go. My normal state is “Why did I think that? I sure wish I wasn’t thinking it.” Which of course makes it worse. So I focus on not beating myself up basically; I remind myself it’s natural for brains to have thoughts. Look at all those crazy thoughts, aren’t they interesting. No point worrying about them

Ghibli movies! Grew up with them and saw them all a million times

It’s true some of the biggest lit magazines tend to publish already famous writers. On the other hand, plenty of them read blind. Self-distribution is awesome because it can potentially reach a bigger audience, you have total control, and there’s no barriers, but you have to do all the work of getting people’s eyes on it.

Getting in a magazine is great, but you have to do research to find a good fit and you might get a lot of rejection letters before you get published. If you start a poetry blog, you don’t have to wait, you can make it exactly how you want it, have your own little ecosystem.

They are both potentially fun and fulfilling so I say go for either!

More fair warning, this time about international adoption: A staggering number of international adoptions are corrupt. Adoption agencies worldwide are constantly shut down as scandals come out that the agencies separate children from their families under false pretenses, then profiteer by selling them to unaware families in the U.S. The children are often not orphans; they have families and homes, but because of the wealth inequality between the nations involved, poor families don’t have a voice and their children are taken from them. Then the family’s poverty is used as justification while tens of thousands of dollars go to the adoption agency.

These kids may also have been through significant trauma (beyond being taken from their families which is trauma enough) and need a more specialized care than a biological kid.

It’s the story of my adopted siblings so I feel the need to warn people about it when adoption comes up.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_international_adoption_scandals