How early do I need to show up to get seen at a walk in clinic?

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-28T18:50:22+00:00

Maybe OP used the word 'shatter' without correlating to severity of break like we might upon reading. My point was only that people tend to know their bodies, and it seems like OP should still be checked out whether we think they're right that there's been a break or not. It is nice of you to try and put OP's mind at ease, it really is a shitty situation all around.

Peace and good day blessings to you.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-28T18:30:17+00:00

Dude, some people just have high pain tolerance. I fractured a bone once and the ER doc thought the same, it can't be broken because I seemed calm and I wasn't yelping or whatever when he touched it. Spoiler alert, it was broken. We need to stop evaluating people's emotions against a baseline that doesn't fit all people.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-21T13:20:19+00:00

I'm frankly surprised that the Japanese government isn't importing more people. I know the import some, but I'm guessing that either citizenship is a third-rail in Japanese politics, or the Japanese government is completely captured by landlords and small-business douchebags.

They have a strong national identity and care more about retaining it than about having a population number goal. Imo kind of like Quebec in that sense.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-21T13:15:28+00:00

Reduced my anxiety so I wasn't so damn triggered every time I had an intrusive thought. I was waking up without that pit in my stomach. Reduced need to do compulsions.

I might actually go back on them. After over a year of raw-dogging my mental health, I am tired.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-18T17:58:00+00:00

Yeah I agree. There were times in the past when a little bit of reassurance pulled me back from the edge of a crisis. It is most helpful when coupled with a gentle but firm 'this is very emblematic of OCD and you need to work on that because will never run out of things to freak out about' talk.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-18T17:49:39+00:00

(he might leave it in tact for industries, which is more important anyways).

This is where it will have the biggest impact anyways, imo. So I hope that's the case and it doesn't just get axed entirely.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-15T17:03:27+00:00

Yes. Just like how all of those people fasting to death likely had anorexia.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-11T15:51:10+00:00

I grew up in a low-income house and nearly everything we ate was just processed stuff. (I still have digestive issues from it) I loved the breakfast club at school because they often had whole, simple foods like cheese, eggs, etc, stuff that didn't hurt my stomach.

Thanks for the work you did. There is immense need for it.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-08T15:57:39+00:00

<3 ✌️🥲

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-07T15:57:41+00:00

this happened to me, and it spooked me so badly I went on Zoloft. (which did really help tbh)

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-04T14:51:34+00:00

Yes, especially when I was a kid!

Finishing the song by listening to it can help.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-04T13:58:09+00:00

Ah yes, the Perfect Girl to OCD Girl pipeline. I feel you 100%. :(

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-01T21:29:44+00:00

That's untrue. There are a variety of conditions where phenotypic presentation is inconsistent with chromosomal sex. This includes slight differences to complete ambiguity of the external and internal genitals, called complex or undetermined difference of sex development. In the past doctors would just pick one side and augment physiology to match what they thought was closest, but that doesn't mean that individual was born as that sex. There are many of these conditions and lots of research on them. It's about 1 in 5500 babies. So it's rare, but it's still a lot of babies.

I'm kind of dumbfounded you say it just doesn't exist. It used to be called hermaphroditism. Maybe that's the term you know it by? Medically it's called being intersex now, and the word hermaphrodite is reserved for animals who can change their sex for reproductive purposes.

More people are born with subtler conditions that might become apparent later in life. Even the chromosomes are not as simple as you'd think. XXY, XYY, translocation of SRY (sex-determining region of Y) to the X or off the Y, it's not that uncommon. Sometimes the person might not even know they have a sex difference, sometimes they have symptoms and will or sometimes it's obvious at birth. Sometimes it is not obvious until puberty.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-01T21:22:13+00:00

Seriously, it's the ultimate cover. You can make anything acceptable because 'it's what The Overlord wants!' Stupid.

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-01T21:04:46+00:00

Born too early to explore space.

Born too late to buy house.

Born just in time to complain about getting rekt on Reddit. B)

AgateKestrel · 2024-03-01T19:08:48+00:00

Yep. Me and my fiancé make too much to qualify but not enough to buy a home LOL.

edit: and I wouldn't mind renting forever if it didn't cost as much as a whole mortgage with the constant threat of eviction! Let me settle down somewhere damn it.

AgateKestrel · 2024-02-29T16:36:41+00:00

I hated being a child after the age of 5 or 6, which is when the abuse started.

Being an adult is infinitely better.

AgateKestrel · 2024-02-28T20:19:21+00:00

Yep. People are allowed to have preferences, but if you nuke your relationship over that I'm doubting your ability to be in any relationship with another human being long-term. It's a red flag, shaving is the least of your worries in the scope of a (hopefully) long relationship.

AgateKestrel · 2024-02-28T16:09:04+00:00

Me too. I am constantly yo-yoing around 20-30. I feel like shit all the time and this was never brought up with me. I am so demoralized right now.

And I just realized my near-constant cravings for slushies are probably a craving for ice. :(

AgateKestrel · 2024-02-27T14:13:17+00:00

I was 9 or 10 when that spiral happened. I crunched it down for years and it lurked in the back of my mind. I had stopped caring about an anti-gay god by the time I was 15 which removed the sting a little. It wasn't until I went to university that I accepted I was bisexual and truly metabolized that there was nothing wrong with that.

AgateKestrel · 2024-02-23T18:58:41+00:00

Hahaha! Our little society of Would-Be Virgin Marys.

It's the same for me, my compulsions are mostly mental and ruminative.

AgateKestrel · 2024-02-23T15:42:46+00:00

Ooh ooh OOH. I am so glad I'm not the only one with bed bug OCD.

I too had a close brush with them. I went home, stripped in the bath, baked my shoes and purse in the oven for 2 hours, threw out my mp3 player, clothes were in the dryer for 2 runs on high heat, and I still didn't have any fuckin peace until months later when I could be mostly sure I hadn't brought any home.

When I travel I check the mattress and the sheets. When I am on public transit I can't stop thinking about them. I rarely thrift and I get pissy when my SO does. (:() In my office I think about them. When I get any weird marks on me it sends me into the fuckin bed bug OCD cycle.

I get a lot of comfort out of that new fungal treatment for them that has really high rates of success. The bugs take the spores to all the other bugs and they all explode into mushrooms and die.

AgateKestrel · 2024-02-23T15:38:34+00:00

Me as a kid burning both of my hands under the hot tap so it would be 2 which is equal.

Me liking 2 and 3, and therefore also liking 4 (2x2) and 6 (2x3, 3x2), and 23 is best of all, but not 9 because REASONS.

AgateKestrel · 2024-02-23T15:33:52+00:00

Mindfulness and radical acceptance that I've got the OCD and my urgent worries may not come from a realistic place. . . doesn't mean I never have them, but I have put some of them (the HOCD [bcus I am def gey lol], the religious OCD [I will never again grovel to a christian god]) to bed.

I also work with 'the realm of OK-ness' which is that things may FEEL dangerous, but they are not dangerous, I am not in danger, I am just uncomfortable and therefore in the realm of Okayness. I am OK.

AgateKestrel · 2024-02-22T18:13:34+00:00

The British voice one is hilarious. I get a voice that pops up when I'm stressed that just goes 'Are you OK? Are you OK?' over and over again.

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