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deep dish peat moss posted:One thing I noticed is that the usual timeframe for withdrawl is 3 weeks but I took 1 adderall after 2 weeks (1/2 my daily dose) and it completely reset the clock on that, it took a full 3 weeks from then to get over the actual physical withdrawal symptoms. Ya i feel that. Therapy helped me work through a ton of that. Amphetamines def do not help with the stuff. Once i got used to it, i stopped feeling that way, though. But to reiterate your first point, gently caress withdrawal. It's why I stopped taking them. I couldn't handle the ups and downs anymore.
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Spaghett posted:Therapy helped me work through a ton of that. Therapy is good poo poo and everyone should do it.
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bought a treadmill and started jogging. upped my time from 5 minutes a day to 20 minutes a day over the course of 6 weeks. cut back on soda and sweets. i already feel less bloated and gross than i did two months ago. took in a stray dumpster cat. got him his shots and neutered and hes the sweetest orangey boy ever. he even gets along with my other cat.
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Getting off SSRI's. Turns out working out, building up a social life and spending time on general self-improvement are a better stabilizer for my brain. Definitely don't miss the general apathy and numbness that the pills gave me.
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I've started getting really loose with my working hours. If it's raining this weekend but nice on Thursday? I go mountain biking Thursday and work at the weekend. I have energy at 3-5pm, that's when I go to the gym, and I get back to work at 8-10pm. It's a bit to keep track of but the key thing is that I'm always putting what I want to do first. It's very nice, I was suffocating under trying to manage things I wanted to do in the only hours of free time I had.
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May 16, 2023 07:50
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Harry_Potato posted:I bought an electric car! I bought a gas powered sports car! Suck it, earth 2023 Subaru BRZ 🤗
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May 16, 2023 07:50
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I stopped taking life advice from Chinatown, turns out drinking butt water from public toilets is bad for you.
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May 16, 2023 10:28
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May 16, 2023 12:17
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In general, letting myself buy higher-quality stuff, even if it means spending more than the absolute minimum that I could. Quilted Northern has been a real game-changer.pencilhands posted:For me it was getting a cat. I was initially reluctant to and now I can't believe I was ever without a pet. Canine Blues Arooo posted:• Got a cat MrQwerty posted:tbh it was rescuing a feral kitten from the streets of the hood outside my apartment in October, she's been a fun addition to the family TK8325 posted:took in a stray dumpster cat. got him his shots and neutered and hes the sweetest orangey boy ever. he even gets along with my other cat. It would improve my quality of life if you all posted pictures of your kitties 
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May 16, 2023 12:26
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Deuteronomy getting high on passion fruit and catnip: Jupiter looking pretty next some drying marigolds: 
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May 16, 2023 12:56
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I also massively cut down my drinking lately.
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May 16, 2023 13:37
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i bought 100 gecs new album on cd for my car feels like the good ol days of 9/11
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May 16, 2023 13:53
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i started climbing and quit drinking (for the most part) 8 months ago and this is the best i've ever felt in my life, easily. good mood, feeling fit, etc.
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May 16, 2023 14:03
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i also quit my job yesterday after being here like 2 months and i'm already feeling better
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May 16, 2023 14:04
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I’m buying a dog. She was born last week
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May 16, 2023 14:38
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My new favorite thread:) I haven't done anything good but you all are inspiring
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May 16, 2023 15:26
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Getting a CPAP machine.
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May 16, 2023 15:31
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I've lost 60 lbs in the last year. I got off twitter, slowed my cannabis consumption, and I've been reading more books. I feel much better, look much better, and without the anxiety/despair about my weight I'm nicer to people too.
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May 16, 2023 16:07
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elmer chud posted:My new favorite thread:) I hate it, this stupid positivity sears my brain
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:i also quit my job yesterday after being here like 2 months and i'm already feeling better Good for you buddy!
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May 16, 2023 16:19
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I have recently begun using my psychic powers to see Obama's face in toast. I don't know why I waited so long to make this life hack a game changer. 
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I didn't quit my job, but I got out of the position that required me to do as much as 30 hours of unpaid overtime and left me locked in a converted warehouse with no windows for as much as 13 hours a day and moved into a position where the students are kind, I can see the sun and spend time in a garden, and I have time in the middle of the day to go to a gym. I have had time for therapy and no longer want to shoot myself!
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May 16, 2023 16:44
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I've decided to lean into hate. It's just easier to hate then to love.
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May 16, 2023 16:49
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I tell the people in my life I am doing monthly therapy but really I just gently caress off for an hour a month and go do something for myself. Last month I went to the zoo (kind of a bummer tbh, some animals seem content enough I guess)
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May 16, 2023 16:53
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Saalkin posted:I've decided to lean into hate. It's just easier to hate then to love. but doing the easy thing makes you WEAK Seth Pecksniff posted:Good for you buddy! thanks bro
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quitting drinking and finding a hobby to get absolutely absorbed into has drastically improved my life.
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Dismantled my desk and home PC to spend less of my free time staring at the monitor. I still have phone and laptop, but both are way less comfortable for a prolonged use. Overall this means doing more stuff around house, and finally started reading books again. Drastic, maybe, but for now it works. Started going to gym. One of the perks at work is partial refund for the gym subscription, so decided to try this. I'm trying to come there as often as possible, before work, and exercise for 30-45 minutes. I don't have much hope for losing weight right now and in the nearest future, but I'm slowly working on building my strength and endurance after years of doing Absolutely Nothing While Depressed and Tired. Worked a habit of checking food labels and ingredients, immediately putting back everything with too much sugar, wheat flour, any amount of palm oil. Sometimes I need to fight the cravings for garbage food, still. Dumped twitter and discord servers, I'm still in touch with folks and talking/meeting with them, but finally I lost the habit of opening the discord every 10-15 minutes to check for new posts. I'm also limiting the amount of bookmarks I have in the Awful app. Finally, and this might come off as corny and preachy, but I understood that I might be half-way done with my life, and the second half will be accompanied with a lot of setbacks and ailments, and for me this means finally getting my life in order. Planning my budget ahead of the payday, paying off debts, giving away/selling stuff I haven't been using for a year or longer. Stopped lying to people and myself, but also no more being a total loser and a buzzkill. There is still a lot of to do and to work on, like my horrible memory and attention span, and there are days when I don't feel like doing anything, but I finally feel like I have chance at finally having things in control, and not feeling like poo poo on a wheel.
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laserghost posted:Dismantled my desk and home PC to spend less of my free time staring at the monitor. I still have phone and laptop, but both are way less comfortable for a prolonged use. Overall this means doing more stuff around house, and finally started reading books again. Drastic, maybe, but for now it works. Enjoy the 3 months at best of this actually working 2014 reg date so youre not young either. Wee fucked around with this message at 17:14 on May 16, 2023 |
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Saalkin posted:I've decided to lean into hate. It's just easier to hate then to love. 
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Within the last year, but I've been staying on my parents' farm and they adopted a litter of kittens because our old cats are all around 17 and retired. It has been nothing but wonderful! All the old cats love them and after losing his sister last year, old man Peeps is running around like a kitten again. Our herding dogs see the kittens as their flock and are extremely happy to have full-time jobs. Now that it's spring, they're catching mice and voles daily. Plus it feels great to have gotten a bunch of sick kittens and nursed them into beautiful, healthy, happy cats. I've posted these pics a lot on these forums, but I'll always be so proud of how Wolfgang shaped up:  to 
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Wee posted:Enjoy the 3 months at best of this actually working gently caress you bitch. dont drag people down with your misery greg
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:but doing the easy thing makes you WEAK I've been doing the harder thing forever and it's been poo poo. I need a break!
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A good lesson is if you're angry at your job and work, just being openly genuinely angry at work is the best decision you can make. You're either going to get fired which is what you really want but are too scared to make the change, or HR is going to try and give you leave and/or take work off your hands. If youre not in the fired category, you are stuck in the same poo poo job but doing basically nothing all day. Enjoy.
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I have a brother who is a perpetual drag on me and has been toxic in the past. We were comfortably disassociated with each other for years but in the last few years his marriage blew up and I found myself having to manage his life for him. I got him an apartment and co-signed the lease because his ex had destroyed his credit, and the first thing he did was bring a new trashbag girlfriend in on a one-way flight to live with him off-lease. So as a co-signer I was on the hook for the rent if his landlord decided to kick him to the curb for violating the lease agreement. Then I spent 18 months driving him to/from his arranged drop-off/pick-up of his kid for shared custody because he never got a driver's license and couldn't afford a car. Eventually I demanded he get a driver's license and he acted like I was trying to betray him. I've always been the responsible one in my family and our mother immediately takes his side to imply that I am obligated to do these things for him in perpetuity. I recently made the decision that I cannot and will not manage or live his life for him and that it's fine if I put distance between him and I. His rent is getting hiked past his ability to afford the place in August so he needs to find a new apartment further from the city, and I am not helping. I'm not going to move him, and I'm not going to continue to lend a car to him (now that he finally got a license) to arrange custody drop-off/pick-up. He's 18 months older than I am and it's time he gets his poo poo figured out.
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it's been a couple years now maybe so not that recent but not drinking alcohol is by far the best decision i made in decades, if only in terms of not feeling like death most of the time. i also lost 20 pounds not doing anything else more recently i've begun weightlifting and muscles that were previously detectable only through incredibly sensitive quantum wave interferometry instruments can now be seen with the naked eye and to my everlasting shame i do occasionally flex in front of the mirror now. i'm also making progress on un-loving my Professor Farnsworth-style posture so on the off chance we all live another few decades hopefully I'll be minimally mobile and not in constant discomfort this isn't as recent but getting proficient at a musical instrument is very rewarding for many different reasons
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Mozi posted:it's been a couple years now maybe so not that recent but not drinking alcohol is by far the best decision i made in decades, if only in terms of not feeling like death most of the time. i also lost 20 pounds not doing anything else flexing in the mirror after starting to notice your muscles for the first time ftw
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TK8325 posted:Deuteronomy getting high on passion fruit and catnip: My quality of life has officially improved  Saalkin posted:I've decided to lean into hate. It's just easier to hate then to love. This seeeeems like a bit of an exaggeration, but my quality of life did improve significantly once I learned the concept of toxic positivity, realized that openly disliking things didn't automatically make me a huge bitch, and stopped beating myself up over having negative emotions.
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Started meditation and stuff. Left my boyfriend bc he wouldn't get mental help and stop doing things like driving home after drinking. I'm still really sad. But things are better than they've been.
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Getting an cheap air purifier. I never believed they did anything but my family has been killed by allergies this summer. Even leaving it on the first night it really helped our sleep. Unsubscribing from the America mass shooting thread. It was doing a real number on my mood especially as the mass shootings became a daily thing. Getting one of those nice utility wagons. It has alot of utility.
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