my entire family got sick so i have been in the unenviable position of suddenly being load-bearing, and i’d greatly appreciate if that was not the case
I am trying desperately to help my 13 year old the importance of how to understand their worth, to only change for self betterment ( not for others), and that being in a relationship is not required, especially if they don’t actually want to be in one.
Parenting is quite difficult, y’all.
I have deleted every single social media account I had with the sole exception of Reddit (and Beehaw of course) in the past few years as part of my deciding-to-be-better clean-up act.
Even after blocking and removing a metric fuck ton of toxic subs I always still feel worse than when I start casually browsing it. Something about confidently incorrect people, trolls, assholes, bots and AI slop get under my skin no matter how much I try to ignore them.
So I’m going to reduce my Reddit activity even further.
The world is probably always on fire right now and life is always hard. But I empathize with all of you that haven’t had things go your way this week, and I celebrate all your little small wins and victories.
My week was pretty good, thank you for asking! On Monday, I went to group therapy for the first time. I liked it, but let’s see how things progress. Watched the new Bridget Jones film in the evening. Wednesday, I went to our local modern art museum with my fiancée. I watched the new White Lotus and the new Paddington. Thursday, breakfast at the café I work at, later studying. Five-hour, homemade chicken soup made by my dearest for dinner. On Friday, my fiancée and I went for a visit to the local government, in order to submit all the necessary paperwork for our upcoming civil partnership (marriage lite). We got a date: July 19th! Friends came over in the evening to watch Irma Vep (1996).
First post on here! Thank you for having me :)
It’s nice to be back (even if I had to make a new account), but I think I still need to take a break from online communication.
Have had too many toxic encounters lately, so probably need to chill.
At least I’m not back on fucking reddit anymore. The only reason I made another account there about a year ago was for NSFW stuff (but even those subs still haven’t totally recovered from the API event), yet I still ended up being an idiot and going into /r/popular out of boredom. Lack of third party filtering made it Hell. Muting subs isn’t enough when you’re trying to avoid entire topics.
Don’t really know why I deleted my old account here. I think I was just going through some shit and deleted all my accounts and related apps.
The weird thing about federation is that I can see my old posts and comments on my old account here from Fedia (joined there as well because I was curious about mbin), but they’ve disappeared in this instance. To be honest, that’s something I really don’t like. If someone wants to delete their stuff en masse (account, all posts and comments, etc.), it’s still cached on another instance unless they manually delete every post/comment one by one. Not exactly the best for privacy.
Anyway, whatever. This was an unnecessarily long comment, apologies. Life’s weird. I’m tired. Nothing new, I guess.
Not great. I’m really lethargic lately. I don’t think I’ve done one thing for leisure, it’s all just cook/gym/work/sleep. Any second I’m not doing what’s necessary to maintain my body or my paycheck, I’m out cold.
My therapist had an emergency so we’ve had to delay the session by quite a bit. I have some social engagements coming up and I wanted to talk with her before canceling them. I think I’ll just do it, I don’t think I feel like meeting people.
It’s the fourth anniversary of my dad’s death. I think this one’s been the easiest so far. There are moments here and there when it really hurts. I feel pretty drained but also weirdly at peace. I drove up to a mountain peak earlier. It was nice to listen to some of his favorite music on the way and feel the cold air on my face when I got there.
Hope y’all feel better soon!
Had a lovely anxiety spell take over me the past couple of days, but I’m working on solving the issues that are causing said anxieties, bit by bit. At least the weekend will start, though my internship now seeps into my weekends… Don’t look forward to Saturdays as much as I used to. But Sunday, I’ll be hanging out with a friend. And then I’ll be hanging out with someone I really like. ⌯’▾’⌯ Trying to be optimistic and get work done so that the anxiety lessens.
Moderate. I’m angry with the U.S., but music and rhythm games help my mood.
I had a thought that if enough people coordinated to play a particular music or chant at a certain time, you would hear it for miles, much like people did with clapping for medical workers during the heights of lockdown. I think it’d be a powerful message if enough people joined in.
For a bit I thought my new prescription of lexapro was going to carry me through this year but the week of feeling joyful has leveled out and I am just as grumpy and annoyed as before. Just less sad. I want the joy part, though.
Been on Lexapro a while myself, and one of the most interesting effects about it for me is instead of being exceptionally depressed, I now get angry, which comes with the bonus addition of ✨energy ✨. It’s not joy, but it’s much more useful than depression! If I can get myself to direct the energy to exercise or angrily harping on a task I get to trade it for a little accomplishment and positive feelings. I just got done playing Ragnarok for a half hour after falling off the exercise wagon and it definitely put me in a better mood.
Lol ugh. My baseline was grumpy and extremely sad 80% of my week. They started me in Lexapro last November… week of election. Terrible idea. I wasn’t sure if I was experiencing pill side effects or dealing with the election results. After two months it was clear it wasn’t helping so we upped my dosage right in time for the fires that burnt my city down. I didn’t think it was going to help at all but by mid January I was starting to experience little moments of joy. Initially, those bursts scared me. I was like what even is this emotion? My doctor was like, its normal as you adjust. It only lasted about two weeks. Now I am emotionally leveled out but back to the baseline of grump, but at least I’m not disabling levels sad. 😅
Individual acts of kindness are keeping me going through the late Weimar. I’m writing this from the garage of a friend who offered to let me stay with him while we deal with “not going to get above freezing for a few days.”
Got like 3 feet of snow in 3 or 4 days, I stayed at home, good :)
