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Yeah my mom has had 3 different cancer diagnosis, fortunately all very treatable and caught early. Doctors never take me seriously until I tell them but all of them do the same thing defer to blood test and never follow up. Eventually did get a doctor to do a scan for a colonoscopy but the surgeon performing it too a random biopsy just to nullify the preventative label for the procedure.

I even asked him to review the procedure either me to determine why he took the biopsy and he couldn’t find a reason. Didn’t matter though billing and insurance didn’t care. Made it 3x as expensive.

You havent event gotten to the best part, paying for it, where the prices are made up and nobody can tell you what the charges mean.

Onetime got double billed for a surgery.... hospital didn't believe me, insurance didn't believe me. Threatened to send me to collections, despite having the receipt showing I paid the exact invoice amount on the same day etc.

I called multiple times and the billing department said, there is nothing you can do to fight the charges the system is automated and no human can override it. I said what if the system makes a mistake and she said it doesn't.

Finally decided I would pay it and find a lawyer. Paid it, spoke to a lawyer who just suggested I try writing to the legal department first before wasting money suing a hospital for a few thousand dollars. Wrote to everyone who I thought could help me on the administrative side, no response.

6 months later I get a check in the mail no note no return address just a check from the hospital. Called couldnt admit that they made a mistake, just the system determining that i overpaid, not that they overcharged me. I OVERPAID, not like they didn't threaten me with collections.

Went to a small music venue in my area that hosted rock shows. The entire venue was about as big as a large bedroom or small living room. Stage took up one half and the audience could fit maybe 50 people if you squeezed in tight.

The one time I went it was a local metal band showcase. Half the crowd wanted to mosh and the other half wanted nothing to do with it.

It was too small for both. What ended up happening is the non moshers lined the wall and the moshers took up the center. This one guy who was about 5 feet tall was going absolutely crazy. Throwing elbows into stomachs flailing around hitting people indiscriminately and all around being a dick. He jumped off the stage at one point and knocked someone over into the wall where people were trying to stay safe.

At one point a girl was tired of him hitting her by accident so she tried to leave the room and he very deliberately blocked her path, swung his fist at her head and then kneed her in the face when she ducked. I’ve never seen a room of people go after someone so fast. As soon as it started my friends and I grabbed the girl and went outside to make sure she was ok. 2 minutes later he was dragged outside bloody and barely able to move and all he had to say was that was sick.

I’ve been banned multiple times on this account. Some subreddits have aggressive mods, never for anything actually ban worthy just mods abusing power. Reddit admins usually reinstate it within a few hours.

Latest one I said something against a big political power and bots started harassing me and reporting all my comments for threats of violence. After 3 bans in a week admins did something and the bots went away.

Nah I like it too. I also don’t like soda. I can have a few sips but whenever there’s a soda machine with a carbonated water spout it’s one tiny squirt of soda and a majority carbonated water.

Just stop drinking. While I did have a bit of a drinking problem I wasn’t addicted to alcohol. Just didn’t know when to stop when I did drink.

Stopping has been the best thing I’ve ever done for myself. Yeah I miss getting drunk sometimes but in retrosp I’ve saved myself so many wasted weekends being hungover.

Also i never really stopped going out with my friends while they drink and can safely say that most of the hangover symptoms are lack of sleep. My bedtime is 11am typically but if I go out until 3 am I’m waking up with a headache and most of the other symptoms of a hangover.

Think the main reason that billionaires are pushing for data centers is because now it’s possible to deploy large scale systems with relatively few people. With AI it’s now easier than ever to do all the stuff that previously was only done by government agencies. Spin the narrative, monitor the masses, and slowly replace the workforce with subservient AI/machines.

It would be extremely difficult to get a large number of people to agree to setup these types of systems. So having the means to deploy at scale without people is the perfect solution.

I can’t say the name for fear of being targeted again but I was harassed by a bot farm probably by a nation state. I posted a comment on a news story about a country nothing crazy just said my opinion.

Every comment I made for the next few weeks got downvoted to oblivion and every reply was aggressively opposed to whatever I had to say even mundane comments. The few times that my comment gained traction despite their attacks I got reported and banned for stupid things that humans reversed everytime. Reddit admins were eventually able to step in to prevent the automated systems from banning me and everything else stopped shortly after. I assume they were able to remove the bots targeting my account by just looking at who interacted with it.

Yeah cops don’t like when you do their job for them. Had my storage unit get robbed. What was in the unit was a bunch of peripheral equipment for even more expensive equipment that was at my house. I suspected the manager of the storage place was the culprit because they were being really nosey when I was loading the unit and my unit was the only one that got robbed and a slew of other oddities that made it pretty clear she at least helped pull off the heist.

Police refused to come take a report said it didn’t investigate theft under $10k it was way more than $10k in equipment and the guy audibly sighed and said ok a detective will call you. Never did.

A week later I’m walking my dog back to my house and a strange car with two guys slowly pulls up to my house and stops. I was already on high alert so I pulled out my phone and started recording before they could realize it was my house.

They are so busy looking at my house they don’t realize me walking up the street so when I get right up next to them I ask whatcha looking at and they just laugh and slowly start to move. Once the driver realizes I’m filming he sped off.

I forget what led me down this path but i eventually figured out this guy was related to the manager and that basically confirmed to me they had robbed the storage unit. I called the detectives office once a month for 6 months. Eventually he put a note on the report that they were not going to investigate.

Was at this job I hated that paid $25 an hour to deal with meth heads and assholes. It wasn’t a lot of money but at the time it was the best paying job I could find.

Found a job in my actual field that was probably paying less but way less stress. Went through 3 rounds of interviews and in the last interview they looked at each other and said I think we are all in agreement that you are the one.

Said my start date said to look out for some paperwork. I emailed them the next day asking when the paperwork was in so I could sign it and put in my two weeks. They responded said the paperwork was going to be late due to HR being out but start date still stands.

Boss at the current job was a huge cunt and I couldn’t wait to quit so I put in my two weeks anyways.

Week before I’m supposed to start still no paperwork. I emailed them no response, finally I called the hiring manager but got a secretary. She went to go talk to him and came back and said “I’m so sorry but they decided to go with someone else, another candidate we interviewed after you had more experience and I can’t believe nobody told you.

My cunt boss didn’t even notice when I kept showing up for work after my two weeks was up anyways so I lucked out there.

Yeah I have a few theories some wilder than others but there’s no doubt it’s foreign meddling at the very least. When he first got elected I had just watched a conspiracy “documentary” that claimed in 2025 all the world superpowers would collude with sophisticated false flag operations to change the world order. Something I watched while baked for enjoyment not to learn or believe anything.

It was more of a fun watch because they claimed that alien invaders would be the catalyst, but more and more things in the documentary became true as Trump took office. Then when we started getting all those reports of UAPs I kind of freaked out that maybe it wasn’t a fun documentary I had watched.

What people don’t tell you is it takes little steps to get out of the hole. Lots and lots of little steps. I’ve been depressed on and off since 13. I also have ADHD so it might be different for me.

Never medicated for personal reasons. So when I first realized I was depressed I did everything I could think of to find my way out of it.

A combination of therapy, exercise, meditation, self care, helping others, trying new things, making big changes, making small changes. Anything I thought would help I did. It doesn’t always happen quickly but I have had some breakthroughs in the past that happened in a matter of months not years.

The first time I dug myself out of the hole I remember thinking back like I had spent the last 3 years walking out of a sand pit that was sucking me into a hole. The single most important thing I had done is just kept trying. It’s fine to take breaks when frustrated but believe in yourself.

Might sound weird but if you have trouble believing in yourself sometimes believing in something else is helpful. Most people call on religion but I am not religious and I typically fall back to a loose concept of consciousness being a unique experience we must cherish every moment of, good and bad.

I’m a little bit older than you and I’m back in the hole due to having a few losses chained together.
As I write this I can’t sleep because my mind is in turmoil. My depression is moderate to severe and the only thing stopping me from being severely depressed is believing I can get better despite the fact that over the last 12 weeks my therapist thinks I’m getting worse and need medication.

Yeah sleep is the hardest one. I can go a few weeks but the slightest disruption to the pattern throws me off then it takes 2-3 days of suck to get back into it.

Basically just aim for 8 hours, set an alarm for a specific time every morning and set an alarm for an hour before bed to start a winddown routine. The first few nights are a struggle so I usually take a combination of melatonin, magnesium, and sometimes a chamomile extract when that alarm goes off. In the morning wake up and get light and light exercise preferably a walk if the sun is up.

If you for some reason don’t get enough sleep creatine at higher doses works well for energy and mental focus.

As someone who has seen a family struggling with this I understand where they are coming from. The family I know the grandmother took custody of the kid through the courts and threatened to go no contact unless they split up and both sobered up. It was pretty bad and she bought a gun to keep at home and was ready for the day either of them showed up. It has a somewhat happy ending where the father sobered up and regained custody and the mother somewhat got her act together a few years later but only has visitation.

Talk about ride or die.

The way the system works now is broken it has nothing to do with what career someone chooses. I know a lawyer in so much student debt that even with a decent salary he feels it’s hopeless. The reality is income is more about connections, luck and what you’re willing to sacrifice to make it.

Quitting drinking made my life so much better.

My friend had a spinal cord injury from a bad fall. He was in a special rehab for that and he said more than half the people in there were as a result of diving into water. Think the doctor told him that the only reason the percentage wasn’t higher is because a good number of them drown.

My strength training plan is 5 reps of 5 with 3-5 minutes of rest between sets. My entire workout is over an hour. I don’t use my phone except to track the sets, don’t even listen to music. Just sit there staring at the mirror like a psycho inbetween sets so that people leave me alone.

If I’m almost done and someone walks in I’ll let them know to wait for my power rack but otherwise I tend to make it clear I’m actively doing my routine and not fucking around.

As someone with GAD it’s a constant struggle I know this is a rant but just figured I’d pass on some things that have helped me recently. There are ways to manage it and be less affected by the physical/emotional effects of anxiety but it’s always there lurking waiting for a stressor to trigger a crack in the amor.

Recently got a new therapist who has been pushing HRV breathing exercises and meditation and my stress scores have halved. Definitely not fixed but way more manageable. From there the next things she wants me to work on is good sleep and better self-talk.

A good tip I saw on YouTube was to pick a thing you want to remember to do each day and draw a dot on your dominant hand then write a sticky note of the goal. Everytime you see the dot do the thing if the moment is right. So for example I want to remember to do regular breathing exercises I draw a dot and everytime I’m stressed and see the dot I take a second to do a short breathing exercise. The next day I might want to remember to not get sucked into social media.

I have really bad social anxiety too and the idea of going out for something like a concert stresses me out. Sometimes even going to the store can trigger it if it’s busy. Don’t have a method to tackle that yet and it drives my partner bonkers.

I’m sorry this shit is so funny. 🤣

Everyone is different. Personally I think it’s mostly in your head but don’t mean that in a mean it’s in YOUR head way just a our brain tells that there is an imbalance when it’s used to being high 24/7.

I quit for 3 years and now I can smoke on and off ok. Sure there are times I do it everyday but I never have a problem stopping when I need to and I attribute that to making a point to not smoke 24/7 like I only smoke at night one weekdays.

Need to have sober time.

How long have you been taking them? And since what age? I think there’s been some studies that show lasting impact of stimulants and no longer needing them after a while because it reprograms your brain.

Not agreeing with the app just playing devils advocate.. but my partner works at a school and every year she’s worked there a kid has damaged the plumbing so badly that classrooms had to be shut down and evacuated due to sewage.

The school doesn’t use an app to track students bathroom usage but they are going to probably require teachers to keep logs of who has a hall pass now.

They think that a student is purposely doing it to get out of school.

I was at in n out eating and a gang rolled through and broke into every single car in front of us while we ate. It was so sneaky we didn’t even notice until they were getting back into their cars. It was two cars with 4-5 people in each. They all got out picked a car broke the windows popped the trunks and grabbed every bag they could find. They broke into like 7-8 cars and right as the drove away the almost hit a cop who did nothing.

I’m sorry for having to go through this but it’s not the weed causing your issues. Your brother has other issues the weed is just masking. Trust me I know plenty of people who have mental health issues that family blamed on drugs. In most cases it’s self medicating for deeper issues.

He needs to go to a facility and get proper help there’s nothing you or your family can do to help him other than get professional help. Too many times I see families try to “figure it out” and only end up hurting everyone even more.

I even know a guy who had serious violent outbursts when smoking weed. Ended up having a form of bipolar disorder and after being sober and on medication for several years he’s a new person. Apprently he smokes weed without incident now too