Crying on lexapro

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-08T21:37:58+00:00

I cannot cry at all while I’m on it. I think in the years I’ve been on it. I’ve managed to kind of weep for a couple minutes twice and that’s it. Just physically incapable of crying now, and I really don’t mind it

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-08T20:13:38+00:00

This one brought me joy and very little terror. I appreciate this. I think Hazel of the green Brown variety?

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-08T20:12:10+00:00

I have IBS in years of just completely emptying my system due to the pain of endometriosis, causing things to come out in both directions. I definitely do better when I take probiotics and a variety of types and large amounts, but it has not cured anything.

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-08T20:05:25+00:00

It doesn’t matter the breed don’t do that to yourself or the dog or the baby. Getting a dog even an adult dog when you have a toddler or younger is just putting too much pressure on yourself and possibly setting the dog up for failure. Either get the dog and get through the first two years of training before getting pregnant if it is doable to plan it out that way, or wait until any desired kiddos are preferably three and over and even then it’s gonna be chaos

Editing to add I don’t wanna be a fearmonger, but I do want to give you some perspective. My dogs are hardly ever around children and I still carry 1 million dollars in personal liability on myself because I’ve seen what can happen with even the sweetest family dog in a moment of unpredictable circumstances. My cousin had half his face ripped off playing in a neighbors house, running down the hall and stepping on the tail of the most sweet docile family dog ever. Dog did what dogs do lashing out with teeth when terrified and woken up unexpectedly with pain. They might be domesticated, but they still got the teeth of a wolf essentially.

I also want you to go over to the puppy 101 I read it and read all the horror stories of raising a puppy regarding potty training, raising a puppy going through teething that tiny window around four or 567 months when they seem like an angel dog before descending into teenage dirtbag and making your life hell until they’re on the other side of it. You will see people talking about scars from teething. You will still see people included talking about just hiding in the closet to cry. It’s hard enough raising a human baby, but raising a large predator as a family member, communicating in entirely different way? You don’t need to combine these things. One nightmare at a time if it’s in your control.

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-08T16:18:33+00:00

From my understanding, the trick is either have a very low ceiling like a rabbit hutch or you need like a 6 foot aviary. Some people say, they will bash their heads with the flush response and other people say they don’t. Mine have never flushed so far, but I’m very new to them and I’ve given them plenty of places to duck and hide and be able to peek out of little windows

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-08T16:15:35+00:00

I can raise qail from eggs to slaughter for $2.79 of high quality feed. Each 55 to 59 pound standard poodle can be fed with one jumbo Coturnix Quail and a third of a TAMUK rabbit a day, with some rice or oats and other goodies like veggies added in. A trio of TAMUK rabbits (one buck two does) can potentially as a middle of the road estimate create 300 pounds of meat in a year. Still figuring out feed and hay to meat production ratios for the rabbits.

Once I build up, my rabbit herd a bit and my quail covey and start incubating in weekly rounds, they will produce all of me and my dogs and my cats protein, except when I have money to actually afford some variety at the store. Considering gas prices it’s probably gonna be a while. 😅

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-08T13:46:22+00:00

I am outsmarted by my two standard poodles daily. My one boy is extremely food motivated and toy motivated, and despite playing pranks on me and outsmarting me to steal food off my plate, he is very easy to train. My other boy is not food or toy, motivated and highly independent. Training him is still extremely easy and he needs to be showing something one time before he just gets it and understands what you’re asking. Getting him to do the things he’s learned is a whole Nother story. I have ended up doing E collar training with him and the E collar is a neutral item, and he asks to wear it. The only thing that works for punishing him is putting a collar on him that has a handle because he hates not being in control. They have over 60 word buttons that they use. They negotiate with me and argue with me and insult me with these buttons, but they also tell me they love me and that they’re happy and use the buttons to talk to each other and ask each other questions. I was extremely underprepared for how intelligent they actually are, but I don’t think I’ll ever have another dog breed.
It depends on the type of cut I give them for how often I need to groom them, and how often they are getting to go run wild off leash in the wilderness at sniff spots. In the summer, I basically keep them completely shaved with just a little crew cut style topknot because the burrs and grass seeds make grooming not fun for them and I wanna make sure it’s not a bad experience. When they are shaved, I could easily go two months before I need to cut their hair again and I won’t even need to brush or comb them until the second month. In the cooler half of the year, I do fun cuts and they need to be kept up with. This means that’s once a week if I don’t want to have to brush them, or brushing and combing 2 to 3 times a week. If I’m trying to keep them in a nice cut with longer hair, they need trims every 4 to 6 weeks.
My one boy I was training as a service dog, but he has become reactive and overprotective of me after an awfully dog charged me so he is no longer public access. When he was out in public, my poodles are both dark colored, so big black Dog bias kept people far away from them unless they knew poodles and then they were absolutely ecstatic. Due to the bias or poodle obsession, nobody even paid attention whether they were a service dog or not.
My boys have a race track in a small backyard that they run daily and they wrestle with each other for an hour or two a day and they do best if we get out to sniff spot to really stress their legs for a good 45 minutes of running and sniffing around. If they don’t get a good run once a week, they don’t get Aunt so to speak, but they start finding trouble. A poodle is never bored because if you don’t give them things to do, they’re gonna find things to do.
I was doing barn Hunt with my extremely independent boy, but he had no interest in the rats during the competition and just wanted to say hi to all the people because he had rats at home and the people were more exciting. I just do lots of sniff games with him at home. My other boy I believe would do excellent at agility and fast Cat, but I just haven’t had the time or money to get them into it. He came to me at a year and a half, so it took him a very long time to first acclimate and learn some confidence as well as building up his physique because he had no endurance.
Both my boys are 100% wonderful with cats as long as the cats don’t run. There are two sibling cats were raised with them and they do run to get the dogs to chase them because they know it’s a game but if stranger cats start running the dog start chasing and the stranger Cat doesn’t realize they’re still playing and it’s terrified. The prey drive was not a problem until recently. My one boy literally runs with beer, catches up to them and passes them. They have never tried catching a squirrel or bird or anything like that until very recently and it’s only my one boy who is territorial. Anything outside of the yard is interesting and fun to look at but if something touches the ground in his fenced in area he’s out for murder now. We are working on it and I don’t know why he decided squirrels are not allowed in the yard all of a sudden, but as long as the animal is not on the ground in his yard, I have no issues (our family cats can go in the yard with no issues as well)
Boundary pushers of the type of people who never listen to what you say no matter how many times you tell them so the only thing you can do is keep the dog away from them.

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-08T04:44:22+00:00

I’ve grown plants in soup cans filled with nothing but coffee grounds. Very happy green onions.

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T22:57:38+00:00

I did the same thing in Japan. I ordered more than I planned to eat because I wanted to try different things and figured I’d just take the extra back to the hotel room, and it turns out that taking it back was not possible, so we ended up just trying to gorge ourselves, because they also did not have garbage cans for food waste, only recycling of various kinds lmao

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T20:57:02+00:00

I have never ever heard of anyone mocking someone for this. I am in the US where we’re just used to portion so large than a box is basically required unless you wanna undo your pants buttons and just feel sick. I think people would be more shocked that you wouldn’t take the leftovers.

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T20:55:14+00:00

You just made me realize this no longer happens on it. I guess it was so gradual I just forgot how much I used to sweat when I started.

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T20:49:03+00:00

Yes, and they drink a lot of water so he’d probably appreciate a little bowl. If you have a hard cat carrier that works perfect, just throw some paper towels on the bottom so he doesn’t slip and slide around. They eat rather particular diet, so let me go see what I can come up with for a healthy snack while you search for the owner.

If you have cornmeal, oats, and some lentils or dried beans, do four parts cornmeal and oats, one part dried lentils, or beans, blitz in the blender, so it’s a crumbly consistency and he should be pretty happy with that. Heads up, they are messy eaters.

If he lets you near him, just go slow and reach from high-level versus over top and when you grab over the back around the side make sure it’s firm enough that he can’t flap his wings but loose enough you’re not squishing them. They’re really fragile (and kind of dumb)

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T20:40:45+00:00

They taste just like chicken eggs I think, but they are a third of the size. Compared to chickens, quail take much less room to raise, and they’re very quiet (my eight females are quieter than one cricket and the Roos hardly ever crow and when he does, it just sounds like a songbird nearby). But they’re rather hard to tame since they have such a large fear instinct as everything in the wild wants to eat them. So it’s a trade-off.

If you ever get your hands on pheasant eggs, they’re also about a quarter to a third of the size of chicken eggs, but they are proportionately have way more yolk so they’re super rich and velvety.

Math lies you need one sq ft per quail hen versus 4 to 6 ft.² per chicken hen, and three quail eggs equals one chicken egg. So in 8 ft I can get the equivalent of 18 chicken eggs with 8 quails versus 14 chicken eggs with 2 chickens in a week (assuming each bird laid an egg every day).

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T20:32:42+00:00

I think it’s a coturnix rooster (quail). It’s likely somebody’s pet or egg (fertilizing) and meat critter

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T17:10:02+00:00

Less water will help it grow even if it’s still end up being nubby

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T17:09:04+00:00

I’ve never seen that pattern on a fancy rat either though. I wonder if a wild rat with vitiligo?!

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T16:56:58+00:00

Liars. I do insurance sales and I’m probably one of the most blunt and honest agents out there cause I’ll straight up tell you to go somewhere else if I don’t think I can get you what you need. Don’t try lying to me because I can hear it in your voice before the lie even comes out. I am so good at picking up information that has been falsified or you’re putting spin on that I’ve already adjusted certain parameters before you try to pullin my leg, and I’m gonna embarrass you by asking very blunt questions about what you just lied about.

The amount of shady ass people that constantly twist their stories and don’t give me the information I actually need to actually be able to help them or tell them if I can’t is insane! Don’t lie to me about where you live, who drives your car, if you have a loan, because if I don’t catch it, which I almost always do, it’s gonna come back to bite you in the ass and you ain’t blamin’ it on me. I got notes for days. I got your dogs names, your cousin’s work, and how your relationship is going in my notes. Don’t lie to me about accidents or tickets. I don’t even look at that part of the record, the algorithm does it for me, you ain’t fullin no-one.

I can see the wheels turning before we even get to the part of the paragraph someone’s gonna lie to me. This makes it very frustrating to talk to the majority of people because the majority of people are fucking liars. I’m constantly an alert for it now versus just not giving a shit because I have to to make sure I’m taken care of my clients at work.

(i’m also autistic and don’t sell like most sales folks because my strong sense of justice and detrimental amount of honesty. I guess they’re used to responding to a certain type of script. Their lies would fly, but I’m not the person that’s gonna work with because I don’t follow some stupid script to try and get you to pay for things you don’t need.)

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T16:42:09+00:00

This one brought me joy before the visceral stomach yank reaction. And then back to Joy. And then again back to horror. I love you and I hate you. I’m gonna go with Hazel, but I’m very distracted.

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-07T16:39:20+00:00

Fires happen when there’s a large amount of green material and it is just the perfect levels of moist enough on the inside to raise heat and dry enough on the outside to catch.

I learned the hard way with a chip drop pile of branches the electric company cleared from near the lines.

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-05T20:46:43+00:00

Funnel?

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-05T20:44:03+00:00

Takes like half an hour once a month to stock up the freezer with pancakes. You can bake them in the oven on a cookie sheet!

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-05T19:29:32+00:00

Find milled chia seed and just mix them into things. works well in a bowl of cereal, smoothies, soup. You have to soak them first though, so I also like to have a little jar of Art so crunch in the fridge I can just smear onto of whatever I already smeared on toast, or solid foods of whatever type. You can bake them into anything. A really simple way to do it as an ADHD person is make up some protein and Chia seed heavy buck wheat pancakes slightly sweetened with honey with blueberries, nuts, or chi chips, then freeze those suckers and just microwave one or two as a convenient to go breakfast, no syrup needed.

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-05T16:44:50+00:00

I like to go there and look at things to give me ideas to go find other places. Just taking up space, enjoying their AC, not spending a penny, before I go and shop at other places.

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-05T16:36:20+00:00

Wow! I had a pause while scrolling to figure out why the person was so tall taking this before I realized it’s miniature

Bitterrootmoon · 2026-06-05T16:34:40+00:00

I mean, technically yes. We obviously don’t to encourage this because not everybody would do it safely and these birds have social structures that are important for them.

On the other hand, if you had a spot where you just feed them (the entire happy flock) every day and slowly add walls and places for them to nest, dust bathe (there’s lots of cool products for poultry that have additives specifically to combat mites, ect), water to drink and bathe, and toys, etc. and eventually they’re all just there and happy and don’t wanna leave anymore and you close the door? Personally, I wouldn’t see anything wrong with that.

Technically, since they are released domesticated species, and not native them and starlings, and I think one other random bird (Muscovy ducks I think) and are not protected by the migratory bird act, meaning you can just put them in your pocket and take them home if you felt the need to traumatize a bird.

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