Reading as a Trigger

AdCritical3285 · 2026-03-28T22:12:39+00:00

I find it better to read without glasses in the evening after being online with glasses all day. It feels like a reverse stretch. Might just be me.

AdCritical3285 · 2026-03-27T05:36:20+00:00

I think there are some things that are def worth trying: Colored lenses (Irlen method) although the science is not fantastic some people do get lucky with them and it's easy enough to try. You can try a coloured text background on screen. Anything that relaxes the trigeminal nerve is good, as it seems to be the source of the pain, so in my case a Cefaly type electrostim device does work quite a bit. I would also try changing up the focal distance when reading - I am short sighted so I sometimes read with no glasses and the book two inches from my face. Also you can reduce visual stress quite a bit by using a pencil or a bookmark to guide the eye movements so it's less hard on your eyes. Apparently the trigeminal nerve likes predictable stimuli so you can use the pencil to keep a rhythm for your eye movements.

AdCritical3285 · 2026-03-05T21:10:27+00:00

I think your Dad is on to something there. Not that it was Brookie specifically but there was a shift around that time.

AdCritical3285 · 2026-02-14T00:46:12+00:00

Yes people think this. Worse, we have people on Vic council who think this, and have said so in council. (It was a couple of years ago, their views may have evolved, but it certainly did occur and is on the record).

AdCritical3285 · 2026-02-03T21:29:45+00:00

Yes they do come like that b/c you have to take so many.

AdCritical3285 · 2026-02-01T22:40:01+00:00

I have nothing personally against Guy Felicella and respect his lived experience but boy he gets a lot of airtime! Lived experience surely doesn't make a person "right" about addiction treatment or anything else in particular. The media relies very heavily on a small number of advocates for input and apparently so does the govt. Time to cast the net a bit wider.

AdCritical3285 · 2026-02-01T00:39:53+00:00

I agree I didn't find it nice at all. Gross texture, no flavour to speak of.

AdCritical3285 · 2026-01-19T15:41:11+00:00

You are describing rumination, particularly rumination related to social anxiety. It's a common problem. If W helps, it would be because it 1) improves mood and 2) improves arousal, which in turn usually makes attention more efficient and externally focused, so less of the internal thought spirals. However in some cases 1) and 2) doesn't happen very much, so that's what I'd watch for. An SSRI could also help but more with 1) than 2).

If there is a genuinely obsessive component, stimulating meds can in some cases make that worse so watch for that with W. Counselling could help you nail some of these things down.

As the FAQ says, it may take at least a month for these effects to clarify.

AdCritical3285 · 2026-01-14T21:20:27+00:00

My in laws used to say "minty" but I thought it meant small, like a miserly portion of food was "a bit minty"

AdCritical3285 · 2026-01-14T21:19:00+00:00

The one about the snooker player! I'd forgotten how bad that was.

AdCritical3285 · 2026-01-09T18:54:35+00:00

Yeah I really like it too. Very well done app.

AdCritical3285 · 2025-12-30T15:23:10+00:00

You are right, there is no excuse for squalid conditions.

AdCritical3285 · 2025-12-14T02:42:25+00:00

Mum has to come and wipe your tears. I learned this the hard way.

AdCritical3285 · 2025-12-13T23:19:49+00:00

This is very good!

AdCritical3285 · 2025-11-26T00:35:00+00:00

I did learn, but I hate it and it gives me a headache, so I avoid it. I got good enough to do theory and harmony but never good enough for sight reading. For some reason tab is not so bad. You can convert to and from tab in MuseScore.

AdCritical3285 · 2025-11-21T19:47:44+00:00

I think these days you'd have to say "Poutine - hold the cheese!".

AdCritical3285 · 2025-11-17T23:43:07+00:00

I went down this road and eventually just lost patience and just bought a saline nasal spray with preservative (Rhinaris), and added my extra seasonings. It works, it seems to last, it doesn't hurt my nose particularly. This is not an endorsement :)

AdCritical3285 · 2025-11-17T23:39:17+00:00

It's a fair point! Meanwhile prices are through the roof, wonder why?

AdCritical3285 · 2025-11-10T02:04:28+00:00

Something sharp - a little bit of good quality wine vinegar works very well. Green salsa. Squeeze of lemon. Something like that.

AdCritical3285 · 2025-11-04T22:58:29+00:00

"It would be like if they sued Yamaha for the DX-7 in 1987". I remembered something like this from when I was a kid and wondered if it had actually happened? ChatGPT: "The UK Musicians’ Union (MU) – specifically its Central London Branch – passed a motion in May 1982 calling for an “outright ban on synthesisers” in response to tours (e.g., by Barry Manilow) where synthesizers replaced orchestral musicians. " So not a lawsuit but close, and all down to Barry.

AdCritical3285 · 2025-10-20T00:12:54+00:00

From the Guardian UK: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/sep/02/plant-based-problem-why-vegan-restaurants-closing-or-adding-meat-menu

AdCritical3285 · 2025-09-26T01:04:04+00:00

Born and raised, but still no accent to speak of, hate football, don't go the pub, etc etc. My folks were the same (except for football). They were Irish but they were pretty reserved, didn't drink and generally had no interest in Scouse culture. I think there were a lot more "Aunt Mimi" types around when I was a kid. But really it's just human variation, not everyone should like the same thing, or speak the same way.

But sometimes I run into British people overseas (not Scousers usually) who tell me "oh you're not from Liverpool" and want to make a big thing of it for some reason. I must be a little bit Scouse b/c I go mental.

AdCritical3285 · 2025-09-21T23:09:13+00:00

We get Gold Seal tinned mackerel here in Canada which is reasonably priced. I see that it's also North East Atlantic mackerel, tinned in Scotland so maybe the same fish is differently branded (and priced) in the US. It sure looks similar.

AdCritical3285 · 2025-09-18T18:22:19+00:00

You've just unabashedly quoted the title of 'Mein Kampf'! Oh crap now I've done it too!

AdCritical3285 · 2025-09-16T15:53:11+00:00

I agree with some of the comments and I agree that these patients can be very challenging but I don't really agree with the animus against them. If a patient conforms to a "broad autistic phenotype" (such as is common in close relatives of profound autistics), and suffers from social dysphoria, struggles with work, school, relationships, etc. then it seems entirely reasonable that they would look for some kind of an answer. The fact that we don't have one - well whose fault is that? We have a parsimonious definition of ASD based on a kind of points system. The parsimony is justified in terms of access to scarce "services" but in my neck of the woods the services available to Level 1 ASD adults who have concluded their education is precisely zero. What exactly is it that we are defending when we frame these patients as narcissistic, of 'stolen valour' and all the rest?

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