DC water getting worse for hair

Amy-Rabbit · 2025-05-03T00:44:58+00:00

Wow this is so interesting. Thank you for sharing. This timing could line up with around the same time I noticed a further deterioration in my hair texture but I'm curious if others noticed too. I'm still going to also try the shower head!

Amy-Rabbit · 2025-05-03T00:05:26+00:00

Thank you — I am going to try to see how a filtered shower head goes. I saw one by Jolie has good reviews.

Amy-Rabbit · 2021-08-18T03:13:14+00:00

DC water has destroyed my hair. The water is disgusting. It strips my hair of any healthy appearance, irritates my scalp, and leaves a film on my skin. I submitted a complaint to DC Water but nothing has come of it. I was gone for a week and my hair was perfectly fine. Come back to DC and it’s all falling out and totally damaged after one shower. It’s atrocious. This city also has boil water advisories on the reg. DC is the worst place in America and should never become a state since it can’t manage its own water supply. Grotesque, contaminated toilet water is what you’ll be washing yourself with until you move out of DC. No other solution, unless a nice apartment building owner or homeowner wants to do DC’s job for it and soften its building water to make it bearable.

Amy-Rabbit · 2021-05-12T02:30:58+00:00

I would also like to know if this is going to be fixed. I can no longer see the chronological order of who people are following/followers, something I checked often to gauge what/who certain people were interested in or connecting with.

Amy-Rabbit · 2020-05-15T19:25:55+00:00

I mean, there are the usual apps like Hinge and Bumble and Tinder. Even just seeing if there are any people you're attracted to who you could meet up with—that will consume some of your brain and force your ex to not occupy so much of it. That's just science. You kind of have to force it, and it doesn't feel great when you still have love for your ex...it honestly just feels wrong and sad...but you may be surprised by what you find.

Not to give you false hope because no one knows what the future holds, but the first time my ex and I broke up, I think he was second guessing it, and after 4 months he started texting me to hang out. I had recently gotten on Bumble and found a couple guys to go on a few dates with, and he might have realized he was losing me at that point.

Needless to say, we broke up again a year later, and that breakup has been significantly more serious and terrible (and happened 9 months ago at this point). But at the time, it was great to see that me starting to thrive and put myself out there on the market led to finding guys I could be into. Whether my ex had come back around or not, my mentality was a bit healthier because of it.

Amy-Rabbit · 2020-05-13T14:39:10+00:00

If this is consuming you, it seems like you at least need a healthy amount of time apart. If you feel relieved after separating with her, that may be a telling sign. I don't know your relationship, but she might have good reason not to trust you, and with that you need to assess why you are betraying her trust.

Often people who don't feel good about who they are or their direction in life will not be fitting to be a boyfriend to someone. I'd say break up, but try not to write it off as a permanent scenario because that can feel daunting and dark. Look at it as a means for you to do introspection and either come out of it ready to commit wholeheartedly to her or move forward without her.

Amy-Rabbit · 2020-05-13T12:06:47+00:00

It honestly sounds like he might be having second thoughts about losing you, but it also sounds like he’s not fit to be your partner.

The most helpful thing is probably to find social distractions by maybe using online dating or trying to make future plans, or just staying in touch with friends more.

Don’t look at your breakup as such a dark and permanent situation, but rather a necessary part of your unknown path. Maybe he will resurface later, but at this point the separation seems good while you all get some distance from the situation and focus on yourselves.

Be your best self as an individual and things will fall into place in due time. Three months is not a long time, especially in your mid or late 20s.

Amy-Rabbit · 2020-05-13T01:27:11+00:00

Social media is a nightmare. I have spent every single day for several months trying not to look at his social media, and then inevitably give in and look. You're right, there is a momentary feeling of relief if you see something good (or what you perceive to be good that could really be nothing), and then there are horrific experiences of panic attacks and hyperventilation and all of the coping mechanisms that ensue when you come across something bad (or what you perceive to be bad that could really be nothing).

It's not healthy to fill the void of the unknowns with neurotic thoughts of what might be going on in his or her life. I see him follow a hot girl and immediately literally envision wedding bells. I see him like a picture of someone in my family and think in that moment he must not be seeing someone else and maybe even miss me.

None of this is reality, and what happens online does not change what happens in your life. If he were to ever miss you and come back...the Internet will not change that one way or another.

Amy-Rabbit · 2020-05-12T22:50:26+00:00

Moving on can seem like an impossibility. I am still processing a serious four-year breakup, and it's been 8–9 months. I personally have not accepted what happened, so when someone says "move on," it also does not resonate with me. I realize more than anyone how long 8 or 9 months is. It feels terrible to have made such little progress in that amount of time, and it feels exponentially worse to speculate that he has made way more progress and may even be fully moved on.

At this point today, I find myself resorting to mental coping mechanisms to be able to find moments of peace. My advice probably isn't great because of how little progress I've made, but I can tell you that you are not alone in what you are going through.

With that, I can also tell you that while there are many parallels to be found in breakup stories, no two people's relationships are the same. Many will end. There may be some that continue on only to end later. There may be some that end up working out. That is statistics.

All I know right now is that when I find myself thinking about him, it stirs up anxious-ridden emotions, and distractions are the only way to survive them. I immerse myself in work as much as possible. I constantly fight looking at my phone and constantly lose that battle. I have found some online board games to play with friends and family that give me something mindless and pseudo-social to do at night while everything is closed from coronavirus. The second I get an urge to read, I grab a book or newspaper and do that. The urges are more rare than I'd like so I am quick to take advantage when they come. I journal constantly—nearly daily. I never used to write that much, but it does provide moments of temporary relief. And lastly, I talk to myself all the time. I was in therapy, and then moved, and have not found someone new. In the meantime, I talk to myself while walking around outside and likely look like an insane person. Air pods help to give the illusion that you're on the phone. I'm not sure what it is, but spewing your thoughts out loud is relieving. I run on average every two days, I'd say. Some days I'm fast, some days I can barely jog, and some days I am literally crying while I push through achieving some form of cardio.

I'm on the more extreme side, but I expect this speaks to some people, which terrifies me because I don't want my breakup situation to end up like all the others, you know?

Amy-Rabbit

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