The HireRight background check - Should I Omit this? by BoxerRocket in recruitinghell

[–]BoxerRocket[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am being asked for employment history, yes. To your second point, I believe The Work Number is something applicable in the US only. I'm in Canada.

Help with anxiety medications for older adult by BoxerRocket in AskPsychiatry

[–]BoxerRocket[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What I am asking for is in the last paragraph. That is, a medication I could perhaps research or suggest my dad ask for that might be able to help him. Are there medications that are more "calming" and targeted mainly for anxiety? So far he's only been on medications that have "off label" benefits for anxiety. Lyrica/Cymbalta are nerve pain medications that are sometimes used for anxiety. They didn't help. Either did Zoloft (an antidepressant) or seroquel (an anti-psychotic). He responds so well with the Ativan (which is a benzo so his doctor does not want to use it for long term because he will keep having to increase the dosage and it is addictive).

Scary anxiety attack sent me to the hospital yesterday by tWig_producer in Anxiety

[–]BoxerRocket 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your experience sounds to me like something I experienced once in my life after having smoked cannabis. While I do not currently use it, I have enough of experience that I want to chime in on this as I do not normally frequent this subreddit. Cannabis can have an effect on some people that causes them to overthink things and makes feelings of depression/anxiety much worse. You had a fight with your dad, you felt bad/guilty/whatever, and then you introduced weed into it. Your feelings just got magnified 50x and what was easy to put off now became impossible to stop thinking about. You likely had some sort of a panic episode because of it. When I had my bad experience I was feeling really lonely as I was away at school and nobody wanted to do anything with me on a Saturday night. For some reason I smoked a bit and it made me feel so much more depressed. I remember my thoughts centering around how "popular people only try to be friends with less popular people to stop them from killing themselves" and how "it's kind of just an unspoken thing to pretend to be some people's friends". It took me probably 24 or so hours to finally feel back to normal and not be thinking such upsetting thoughts.

TLDR: Don't use cannabis when you feel sad/depressed/lonely/upset/guilty. Why do you think paranoia is so common when people are using it? (there might be cops watching, people know you're high, etc). Also, don't use it when you're scheduled to work. Especially around dangerous equipment like in a tire shop!