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- 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? 1 week ago:
OP, please heed this. Make an appointment with a professional ASAP. If you’re not able to do so or not able to get an appointment soon, please talk to someone you trust and ask them to keep an eye out/check in on you to make sure these feelings of depersonalization don’t spiral into something bigger and/or unsafe. If needed, please visit a psychiatric ER.
Some mental disorders that present this way are theorized to be degenerative, and prolonged/multiple episodes of psychosis make it harder to treat and manage. Ideally getting them under control before a first full psychotic episode can even come to head.
- Comment on It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down 2 weeks ago:
Very true. But, to extrapolate on Plath’s metaphor, you must select the ones that look best and harvest them, dry them to properly preserve them, and store them in a way to prolong their shelf life until you are ready to eat them. Without that planning, they’ll simply rot.
- Comment on It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down 2 weeks ago:
I’m so sorry about your friends,. How painful to lose either, let alone both in such a short time.
- Comment on It's weird looking back at life, and seeing all the paths I didn't go down 2 weeks ago:
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn’t quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
–Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, exactly. But also when I have to force quit my browser and it asks me if I want to reopen the tabs, I immediately click no. It’s like I’ve been released from an evil wizard’s curse. Then I can start a fresh tab hoard.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was thinking the 30 from your original post is rookie numbers.
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 3 months ago:
wut
- Comment on I got a VPO against me, how fucked am I? 3 months ago:
I’ve been actively suicidal before and it sucks, so I’m not gonna give you any “permanent solution to a temporary problem” bullshit. But what I learned in my extensive research is that it’s really hard to effectively kill yourself. If anything goes sideways, it’s pretty likely that you not only won’t die but your life will be way way worse. You think you’re unhirable now, just wait until you have a hypoxic brain injury.
As the kids on tiktok were saying for a bit: suicide is cringe, don’t kill yourself
Do you have anyone in your life you trust to talk to about this?
- Comment on Why are drivers for food delivery apps so often listed wrong? 3 months ago:
What kinda of things get them banned arbitrarily?
- Submitted 3 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 25 comments
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 months ago:
Did someone say it was a conspiracy?
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 months ago:
Who said that? Lead poisoning is still rampant in some communities.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 months ago:
Even though leaded gasoline and leaded paint have been outlawed for decades in the US, it’s still a big problem in poor communities. Lots of old houses still have lead paint. Lead abatement is expensive and many people may not even know it’s something you need to do.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 months ago:
and we can stop exploding nukes
We might be going backwards on this one
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 months ago:
They really aren’t power users though. Tech is a) generally more reliable and b) so locked-down that so many young people never learned how to troubleshoot
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 5 months ago:
We don’t know about the longer term consequences yet, just like we didn’t about lead.
Not saying it’s a definite but I wouldn’t be surprised.
- Submitted 5 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 140 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
This doesn’t answer your question, but I’m curious. You say your writing is good but your reading is bad. In my experience reading and writing are so intrinsically linked, and reading is the easier of the two. If it’s possible can you explain the difference for you? I just find it really interesting!
- Comment on ICE stands for Internal Combustion Engine 5 months ago:
Melt ICE, let’s fuckin go
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 5 months ago:
I feel like the problem with AI generated content is it’s so easy for anyone to generate stuff, so there can be a huge amount created with little effort. There is high quality AI-generated content, but whew there’s a lot that’s total slop.
I don’t know what the best response is, though. Requiring disclosure of AI-generated comment doesn’t seem like it would help because that’s going to be mostly honor system. User-flagged could be used to brigade/suppress posts. Really it’s probably just a matter of blocking users and communities where you see consistent slop.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I’m glad this helped you but damn it’s depressing. People should not have to resort to ChatGPT for therapy
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Have you ever been screened for bipolar disorder?
- Comment on What if the idea of “life” and “intelligent life” is all relative? 5 months ago:
The longer I live, the more I start to think that maybe the “intelligent life” are the creatures frolicking in the woods, not knowing what “fascism” or “rent money” means.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I was coming in here to respond “uhhhh no” but it being meat makes sense, because I don’t eat it
- Comment on Did the green "brat" album cover come from the hexadecimal color code for B4DD1E (BADDIE)? 5 months ago:
🤯 that is fucking incredible
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I wonder if part of it is that you get a procedure done and you love the results, and it wasn’t actually as scary as you thought it was. So then you do another, and another, and another. And then when someone goes wrong, you get caught in a trap of trying to “fix it” and it goes downhill from there.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Probably depends a fair but on what else you eat with it. Like how drinking water doesn’t help but milk does.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 7 months ago:
Or they just don’t care and think people will stay with them out of habit.
- Comment on Pico de gallo is fruit salad 7 months ago:
Error
- Comment on Pico de gallo is fruit salad 7 months ago:
I wish