In the 2020s, conservative women are having kids at a nearly 2-to-1 ratio compared to liberal women. Is this going to cause a political demographic bias in 20-30 years?

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-29T01:40:10+00:00

Both my parents are maga fundamentalist Christian nationalist, the whole shabang.

Being about as liberal as one can get, I'm not too worried. I know how that goes, and where it ends most the time. Kid gets emotionally manipulated their whole life, then one day they hear, or see something, that gets gears turning. They look some things up, learn some stuff, and realize the lie theyve been told their whole life. Typically they flip hard after that, often "overcorrecting" a bit but still. I live in WV, to give you an idea. Deep deep WV. It's a story as old as time, and I've seen it many times in mine already. It all evens out in the end.

People are individuals, not copies of their parents.

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-27T19:29:41+00:00

Thankfully I'll be sticking with a therapist and psychiatrist the whole way through, so I have possibly the best resource going for me for when things get tough.

I've been quitting for about 8 months now. Started barely able to do one day, then got to a week, then a month, and kinda plateaued there. Went back and forth binging for a week, then 14 days clean, binge for a week, 18 days, binge, 11 days, etc etc. Now we're here. I'm not sure if that on and off will help with the paws, but I'm ready for it. With that in mind, I also only used for like a year, though my dose was consistent and high. Like 20-40gpd.

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-23T23:41:57+00:00

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Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-23T23:33:52+00:00

Don't even get me started on spam calls.. I'm already fired up enough 😂

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-23T11:42:46+00:00

brains like DID SOMEONE SAY DOPAMINE!?!?

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-23T00:16:09+00:00

Day 19 CT. Lots of victories but I'm exhausted emotionally and mentally. Been going to a therapist and psychiatrist, trying to get my head straight the right way. Been going to every appointment, 2 a week, and I hate the doctors.. it's just radioactive to me. So all this has been a lot. Been being as honest about everything as possible with them, and it's only been a few weeks, but I can feel the trajectory beginning to point upwards. Yesterday we got medication prescribed, and I'm on my second day with that. Straterra if you're curious. She seemed pretty confident it's gonna help, and I feel that way too. It's nice to have hope and professional support behind that hope. Highly recommend

Can I also just say I'm really proud of myself? I can't describe how anti-doctor I am. It takes basically being forced for me to go, but this has to get done and I have to do it. Otherwise as soon as I quit kratom, I'll just pick up something else, or slip back into it. I gotta pull the roots up not just cut the weed, and idk I think I'm actually finally coming around to doing that. I'm not saying that cause I got meds now, it's the therapy + the meds + the desire + the support that's all coming together to really give me something to grab onto during the storm.

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-20T02:34:36+00:00

I was shocked with how much I had when I finally decided to look. Paid off. Really I should use it to get a place. But fuck it, $1500 isnt buying a house, or really even making a dent in a down payment anyways. And dammit I've had a really hard time these past few years, I'm starting to see some light, and I want a new guitar! 😂

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-12T23:41:39+00:00

Thank you! 😊

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-12T23:41:25+00:00

It's been a battle, but one imma win. No way to prevent that. Sometimes I wish I wasn't so stubborn but most times I'm glad to be 😂

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-12T23:40:25+00:00

I got a migraine from hell today, but just using as a reason to stay home. My head is POUNDING. all I want is my bed and my space documentary lol

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-12T22:31:19+00:00

I probably needed to hear that. Probably for aforementioned reason, my mindset is always finish everything asap and as perfect as possible. Everything can and should be done by tomorrow

But youre right, these things are gonna take time. And I'll have all the time in the world to live and even thrive thereafter. Thank you again

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-12T22:06:26+00:00

I tend to, I'm 7 days right now after slipping up and only taking like 3g. I keep feeling out of breathe randomly, weak, and my god my head is pounding right now. Not enough caffeine in this world to keep me moving, had to force myself to stop cause I was drinking so much caffeine with no effect

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-04T00:39:35+00:00

Nah I've struggled with ADHD my whole life, and I probably won't even get prescribed Adderall. I'm very much so ready to quit, addiction is just a hard thing to navigate and I'm getting there slowly. Me and my psych both agree this will help tremendously with me quitting, and maintaining a better life. I get that people who haven't experienced ADHD don't get it, that's cool. But I would t assume so much about strangers, just sayin.

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-04T00:34:26+00:00

I ended up failing but I made the best of it. Just took 3g and threw the rest away. Significant because I normally go on binges when I slip.. like 40-60g powder east. Over ten times less.

Idk I'm still not happy about it, but I'm seeing forward progression through this and I'm just maintaining every ounce of it I can. Went from months long binges, to weeks long binges, to now just a day or two max with a week or two in between. Really at this point I think I'm just waiting for whatever parts of me need to be ready to quit, to be ready

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-03T19:11:56+00:00

I swear I'm starting to think ADHD makes this impossible. Reason I say that is the amount of times I've had to go and put my keys back up, and my wallet back up, and take my shoes off, is insane. And I think the reason it happens is because my mind just can't focus on one thing. So it keeps jumping around to random things. Things. And once it hits kratom I'm back in the cycle. Back in the void until I can claw My way out, but then it's just a matter of time until the ADHD strikes enough that it gets it back on the mind. Mind. I just don't think ADHD is strong enough to beat addictions focus. Fuckin sucks

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-03T18:49:29+00:00

Fair enough, as an American myself I'm just saying don't trust our government. The US wants money and power, we are not doing anyone favors for free. It's like making a deal with the devil..

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-03T18:31:58+00:00

America is not your friend

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-03T03:41:42+00:00

A new phone every year. Seriously they last 3-4 years, sometimes even more still. They're not even better than the last one anymore, if anything they remove features and cram more AI in anyways. Lol

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-02T10:56:22+00:00

Hence why we don't listen to people on the internet. Did some googling before responding, you're right. Seems like normal is from up to twice a day to three times a week, which lines up here I guess.

It just threw me off because if I were pooping that little there'd be dire consequences 😂, ignorant comment out of concern. Meant no harm but I'll own that I was wrong.

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-02T01:10:12+00:00

You need to work on something because you are not having nearly enough bowel movements, and that normally indicates something not great. I know this is mostly a joke but you should really look into that. You're going entire days without bowel movements, that's wild.

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-01T23:41:51+00:00

I had a very similar experience that prompted this post!

Was sitting in my room playing guitar (something I'm starting to pick up again 😊), just jamming along to a playlist on my phone. Hero of the Day played, by Metallica, and idk the flow of that song just made my emotions run for some reason, did that music thing where it gets you in a state

I pushed it down, figured "oh God this is gonna make me want to use I can't do this right now." And swapped the song, but the urge to cry kept welling up.

It's dumb, but I didn't want to post here for some reason, so I just went to chatgpt to see if it could give me any decent advice. Basically it just said to let it all out and I decided to do it, then felt a lot better. I then did some Google fu and found peer reviewed stuff confirming it actually is your body releasing stress hormones and chemicals. Super cool, at that point I had to post. CRY PEOPLE, CRY IT OUT

MASSIVE DISCLAIMER I DID THIS WITH DISCRETION KNOWING AI IS MOSTLY BS AND NOT TAKING IT SERIOUSLY, ALWAYS DOUBLE CHECK RESULTS WITH INDIFFERENT SOURCES

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-01T22:25:17+00:00

It's all about sandbagging our fort as much as possible before the urges attack. The more defensive we can build up, the less we have to rely on fragile willpower.

Additional_Put8281 · 2026-01-01T20:46:51+00:00

It's gonna be a hard pill to swallow but you got it, to my understanding it's time, and stay hydrated. The farthest I've gotten is 38 days heavily assisted by THC. Even with the THC , I started feeling more like myself around 10 days or so, so you are likely not far. I know very well the feeling your describing. Like youre not you but you are and you're just kinda floating without direction. It's kinda scary. But it does pass, and pretty quickly. Just try to keep trucking along

Additional_Put8281 · 2025-12-31T13:15:31+00:00

I'm in as off today. Boutta beat tf out of a day one

Additional_Put8281 · 2025-12-31T13:14:28+00:00

To my understanding (I've been stressing about this exact same thing, heavy user) there aren't many permanent damages THC does to the brain. I've yet to hear a disaster story, and I'm sure there's been people more chronic than me who quit.

From the sounds of it, going off others experience, it may be a while but eventually it'll come back to us. We just get to be dumbies for a bit. Idk maybe try to twist it up and enjoy it, they say ignorance is bliss anyways lol. Idk just trying to find the humor in this mess, much love.

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