celeste
@celeste@kbin.earth
- Comment on Is there a self-help way to deal with fear of germs/"contamination"? 6 days ago:
You can probably start with careful exposure therapy. I'm not sure how to do that with germ phobia. I dealt with a fear of spiders by reading about them and looking at pictures until I stopped feeling disgust/anxiety. I then just kind of noted and moved on when I saw one in real life. These days I see a spider and can even move it if it's in a bad spot without feeling anxious.
Not knowing your triggers, I can't say if that path would help or make it worse.
https://fherehab.com/learning/germophobia-treatment This could be useful for learning terms so you can look up and find reviews for self help books.
For my social anxiety, I started out getting books from the library about that specific phobia. It took a lot of time to get from there to telling my doctor I was anxious all the time, to medication, and then therapy. I doubt I'll ever be free of it, but I can do a lot of things now I once couldn't (small talk with customers? wow!)
It kind of has to be guided by you and the specifics of your phobia, unfortunately. Like, would looking at a picture of a dirty surface for five minutes a day make you anxious? Just a little, or a lot? If a little, try it. If a lot, scale it back further. Hopefully someone with a similar phobia comes around with more relevant advice. Good luck?
- Comment on Japanese woman convicted of hiding daughter’s body in freezer for 20 years 2 weeks ago:
Judge Shizuka Asakura said Mori hid the body in a closet and later moved it to a freezer after it decomposed, adding that the daughter had behavioural problems and had committed acts of domestic violence.
Are we supposed to get from this that it was an act of self defense when she was killed?
https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/japan-mother-hiding-body-freezer-jail-b2887538.html
More details are here, if you're curious.
- Comment on Disengage, Disconnect, Block, Filter 3 weeks ago:
I'm not familiar with bluesky feeds. Can someone explain in more detail the purpose of this community? It's just curiosity, so don't feel obligated.
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 4 weeks ago:
No, but it's something I've heard other people describe. I don't know if it's common, but it doesn't sound odd.
People at church when I went as a kid would talk about a sense of feeling guided. People talked about feeling "called" to something. I always felt a lot of nothing, but I don't think most of them were lying about that feeling, even if I suspect a different source than they did.
- Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 4 weeks ago:
Search on their site shows best of year lists going back to like 2011
- Comment on South Korea police say 120,000 home cameras hacked for 'sexploitation' footage 5 weeks ago:
Lots of people with the morality of a peeping tom but without the bravery to put themselves in physical danger.
- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 5 weeks ago:
It's not fast, unfortunately, but I was prescribed a high weekly dose by my doctor and it did seem to help eventually. The long time it takes means I'm left wondering if I feel better because of the vitamins, or something else, but I do feel better.
https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/long-vitamin-d-work-3555995/
Research has found that vitamin D insufficiency resolved with 12 weeks of weekly high-dose vitamin D.
Unfortunately, when your D is really low, you should up the dosage to get a noticable change, but too much vitamin D can be dangerous so I wouldn't recommend it without finding out what your levels are. When I was checked both my vitamin D and iron were low, which is why I was sleeping constantly and still feeling fatigued.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 weeks ago:
"power user" is such a kind way to describe that, thank you!
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 5 weeks ago:
Looking at what I have now, it's a mix of tasks I don't want to forget to do, a long article I was reading but felt i wasn't absorbing, some fanfic I am probably going to read in the next couple days plus the rec list I got them from, a podcast I'm still midway through for when I'm driving, an article for a work thing I'll need tomorrow, a couple dnd race pages open as I'm making a character for a new campaign, and two bsky people who post interesting articles on the daily so I read them daily. Some stuff is bookmarked, but if I'm using it in the next week, it stays in tabs.
They all get closed when I'm done with them, but new things get rotated in. I'm at my max now, but it's rare I have under five open. It's a to-do list, basically, and there are always new things to do, and read, and think about, and learn. Bookmarks are for when I want to save a link to look at much later. Like, webcomics I've caught up with, artists I like, utility pages, resources, etc.
I used to be "worse" because I had fun in the early 00s generating link lists for character fan pages. It involved opening every relevant link on an already vetted and tagged page, and then checking each one (and opening pages from their links if they turned out to be relevant). When I finished a character, I'd start on the next, so I'd have one or two hundred open most of the time. I lost interest, eventually. The impulse to link to relevant topics still exists in me, however, which is a big reason I'm on this website.
- Comment on Manga challenge: drawing a female character without a visible thigh gap (difficulty level: impossible, apparently) 1 month ago:
Always clenching the muscle! In a few chapters, there'll be no gap because that one thigh will be huge.
Seriously, though, I now also have the same question.
- Comment on Why is ethanol so tasty? 1 month ago:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/why-do-humans-have-a-taste-for-alcohol-43579
The theory in this article is that ethanol indicates a higher caloric density in fruit, which makes that fruit more desirable when you're struggling to get enough to eat. I have no idea if this is true, but it's one possible reason I guess.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 1 month ago:
The first sleep paralysis episode I had I was convinced the whole time I had died and was in this weird ghost zone where I could hear people and see a bit, but couldn't move. Fucked me up, too, though in my case I was scared of sleeping for a while. It doesn't sound as bad as your experience, though, damn.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 1 month ago:
I think it's an NSAID? That's a "use with caution" situation, then. The salt water gargle is something I forgot about. I'm glad I posted this question. It's reminding me of all the stuff that's helped before in case the coughing gets worse.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I know any sleep I get with the booze, it won't really help. I wish I didn't know that, though. A hot toddy sounds nice, but...ah, well.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 1 month ago:
Oh, pineapple! Whew. I was like "i don't think pine and orange would mesh well...but if I feel really sick..."
Spicy food does sound like a good idea!
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 1 month ago:
Oh, duh, I even have an electric kettle and I've just been staring into space and sipping soda. I must be really out of it.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 1 month ago:
I should keep a pack of weed gummies on hand and keep them in a nyquil box for times like these
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 1 month ago:
That sounds amazing
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 1 month ago:
I remember reading an article years ago about how little good cold medicines actually do against the illness, so I'd already been mostly avoiding them. Except when I'm too congested or coughing too much to sleep. Then I miss them SO much.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 1 month ago:
They might distract me!
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 1 month ago:
Cough suppressants and nasal decongestants, apparently? I can take antihistamines but I try to avoid them.
Hm, I do have whiskey, but I wonder if I still have honey left?
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- Comment on Did y'all ever felt curious about your parent's past? If your relationship with parents isn't close, how does one get their parent's story without making the interaction awkward? 1 month ago:
My family's always been pretty open about answering family history questions. Even delighted I took an interest. The times when I was hesitant to ask it involved "scandals" like why a cousin is so much older than the rest of us. But when I asked, they'd just tell me. So I don't have any suggestions if they're always hesitant or angry about answering.
We used to look through old pictures when I was young. That was a good time to ask questions. Do they have any old photos you can ask about? You can say you want to copy some into a family album for yourself or future kids.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 1 month ago:
If there's nothing interesting to look at, I just continue the plot of the story I'm telling myself. Some people just enjoy a meditative silence, but I'm not one of them, either. I might look like it though.
- Comment on Banners coming to Mbin 1.8.5 2 months ago:
Personalization and identification, usually.
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 2 months ago:
I always looked too much like my parents, but your concern sounds like something worth addressing. Would a dna test help?
- Comment on If someone evil want to murder a lot of people, couldn't they just add prions to meat and slowly infect everyone with Prion Diseases? 2 months ago:
No, I'm fairly certain the few dementia cases were Alzheimer's. Anxiety disorders do run in my family, though! On both sides.
Thank you for the reassurance.
- Comment on If someone evil want to murder a lot of people, couldn't they just add prions to meat and slowly infect everyone with Prion Diseases? 2 months ago:
Just spent my dinner reading about prion diseases. Huh turns out if I had the genetic fatal insomnia, it'd start showing signs in the next few years.
Might get off the Internet for a while.
- Comment on Calling all Otaku! Help me find a License Plate Number 2 months ago:
I'm kind of assuming you already went through the entire gundam wiki, since that would be my first attempt after Eva. Escaflowne's mechs are like designed to not work for your format.
Are there non-mech anime series you're fond of?
- Comment on OneShot, a game where the 4th wall isn't broken but simply doesn't exist 2 months ago:
I got pretty far in it and then got distracted and never finished it. One of these days...