I’m sober for 9 months.

When I did drink it was to escape, which is the real reason most alcoholics become alcoholics

Took me D_C’s comment to get it and even then it took me a minute to find the marshmallow and realize it wasn’t on the plate anymore 🤦🏻

I’m an alcoholic, definitely makes me more depressed.

Me: Doc, I’m in constant pain, my lower back is killing me, my hips are killing me, and random parts of my body go numb or twitch and randomly hurt for no rhyme or reason.

Doc: You need to lose weight and see a therapist, this is most likely depression and anxiety.

Therapist: Yes, you have depression and anxiety, but the 7 years of therapy you’ve had shows it’s not just anxiety or depression causing this, advocate for yourself.

Friend: Have you tried yoga?

I once worked at a retail job where at one time I had to work the 7AM shift. I get there and I’m the only male and all three of the female coworkers were pregnant.

I learned more about the female body than any single man should ever know.

Stairway to Heaven / Highway to Hell

I agree with your version of entering hell being a trap door. Heaven would look like an alien abduction.

I think that’s very subjective to each person doing the recommending and also the person wanting said recommendations preferences.

Song; Hunger Strike by Temple Of The Dog

Bands: Linkin Park and Soundgarden

Kurt Cobain was the first death that really freaking hit me as a teenager, but I am not bothered by Nirvana.

When Dime got killed it took me a while to be able to listen to Pantera again. That was a damn gut punch.

Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington still haunt me to this day because I felt like I was seen when I listened to their music — especially Chester. I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety my whole life and have attempted 3 times (along with being an alcoholic). Those two bands just remind me of the dark times and I never want to go back.

Hunger Strike just because Cornell was part of that band and I loved the hell out of that song.

Bonus song: Bother by Stone Sour

Take everything I said above and multiply it by 100 with this song. Every word feels like a mirror on my soul and things get ugly

Ben Stiller

I just can’t. He makes me anxious just seeing him on screen. I so want to watch Meet the Fockers because DeNiro is one of my faves, I just can’t do it.

I dunno, I enjoyed the hell out of his acting in Sons of Anarchy

I’m driving. I lose my brakes and can’t slow down as if my gas pedal is stuck (unstoppable force). I’m on a road that stops at a T intersection and there’s a concrete wall to keep people from going straight when they are moving vertically towards the T intersection (immovable object).

The car just goes right through the concrete wall with no damage?

Replace the concrete wall with a wooden fence. Technically the fence is immovable, but the car is going to smash right through that thing.

So is this about clarifying what exactly the objects are? I’m not smart enough for this one and am so confused…

When you break the egg an ad jingle plays for Eggbeaters

8 currently in my 40’s. When I’m 70 I can’t even imagine

Agreed.

says the adult who enjoys Looney Toons, LEGO, and finger paints due to hand pain

Well that 2 hours flew by without me realizing it. Thanks! 😆

No “average” person is aware because they are too busy trying to just survive. Nobody wants to chance losing what they’ve worked so hard for. The only people who watch the news are seniors and disabled people, and they’re being misled if they just watch TV news.

People who call themselves Republicans are happy with what’s going on. People who call themselves Democrat are not happy but think they need to work within the system to solve the issues and wait until the next election. Libertarians have sided with the Republicans. Socialism is still a taboo way of thinking for the most part here.

Then you have disabled people (like me) who are watching what is happening in horror and have sky high anxiety wondering if they’re next to be disappeared or homeless. I can stand for maybe 30 minutes at most, holding a sign maybe 15 minutes at most. So I’m doing what I can and that is trying to live as if things are “normal” to continue on my mental health recovery and sobriety journey at the same time being horrified and terrified of what’s to come. It’s a weird duality that I don’t like. I told my therapist the other day that I have hope for the future for my recovery but I have lost all hope in what is going on politically and in the news.

A lot of this I also blame on false American beliefs fed to us in school that we were safe from all of this nonsense because of our constitution. The American Dream and all that B.S. They sugar-coat our history as a country in schools – at least they did when I went to school in the 80’s/90’s, I don’t know about now. It’s as if America only has a rosy history, even the Civil War is glorified in false narratives.

It’s easy to see how we got to this point as a country. The question is, how do we get ourselves out of it?

Thanks!

I am an idiot. Show Bot Accounts was checked. At some point I blocked rss.ponder.cat for some reason that I don’t remember 🤦🏻 I can see the posts now.

I’d like to have https://github.com/EFForg/rayhunter/releases.atom post to !Rayhunter@lemm.ee

But I also see an issue with being logged into my lemm.ee account that none of those communities linked show any posts unless I view them on rss.ponder.cat. That concerns me. Has lemm.ee blocked you? I checked my settings and I’m allowing bots to be seen on my end.

Herbalife

Gen X here, I only use unscented dryer sheets because if I don’t I will get shocked a lot. My apartment is great because the humidity is super low in the winter, but clothing hurts. Humidifier doesn’t work because if I don’t use distilled water everything gets a rust color on it. Also I’d be going through a gallon of distilled water a day. I can’t afford that, but I sure as heck can afford a big box of unscented dryer sheets that solves my problem.