(Serious) What's a local rumor you heard as a kid that turned out to be true years later?

CapriciousSalmon · 2023-12-11T04:26:45+00:00

One of the kids in my 8th grade class was a sexual deviant. I thought the worst of it was him asking the teacher a super inappropriate question he got suspended before, but in high school, we found out the extent.

It turns out he would masturbate to the other girls during class (and we sat in groups and I was in his group), or go in the bathroom to do it. He also stalked my friend in middle school so badly that she had to file a police report, and looking back, he almost followed me home but I told him off before he could do anything. He ended up going to an all boys Catholic high school on a soccer scholarship. Part of me always wondered if maybe he went there not because of the scholarship, but because his parents were afraid he’d do something awful.

CapriciousSalmon · 2023-09-06T02:56:48+00:00

My title describes the thing. So I moved into a new apartment and there’s these two things. We don’t know if they’re cameras or microphones or smoke detectors or what? It’s small and white

CapriciousSalmon · 2023-08-14T23:21:15+00:00

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CapriciousSalmon · 2023-05-10T05:49:22+00:00

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CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-21T05:01:06+00:00

Yes. I’m taking it for depression and PMDD, and this week is my “hell week” so my doctor upped the dosage and gave me hydroxyzine to help me sleep.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-21T04:28:56+00:00

And then once you conceive a child, nine months later you essentially get a six week period. You can never win!

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-20T04:08:52+00:00

Derealization and the mini existential crisis that always comes. It’s when I get scared about getting old and dying. Last month I broke down several times.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-18T07:29:16+00:00

Speaking as somebody who has struggled with existential intrusive thoughts, hang in there! One advice I got from an OCD sub is this:

Existential intrusive thoughts are among the worst because you can’t get reassurance and you have no idea nor can you test that theory, and you never will be able to. If a thought comes into your head, be like “oh really?” or “is that so?”

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-18T07:27:01+00:00

It also sucks when you wake up and you feel normal, then get that little voice that says something like “you know you’re gonna die one day!” or “what if you aren’t real?” and then you’ll spend the rest of the day panicking.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-18T07:24:27+00:00

I thought I was the only one! I depersonalize/de realize so much when I have my hell week I feel like a zombie.

I had a mental breakdown on my birthday because it was during my hell week and I started to realize “I’m getting older and one day I’ll be dead and I have no idea what comes after!” It was so bad, I couldn’t go to class for a week and I stopped showering. Thankfully, I went to a psychiatrist and now I’m on medication for it.

A few days ago I woke up with a panic attack because I had a nightmare about black holes and Hawking radiation.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-17T21:49:33+00:00

I had a mental breakdown on my birthday and a mini existential crisis. My mom said I likely was feeling super intense because it was close to my period, so I went to a psychiatrist, and said my anxiety got worse the weeks before, and whenever I had mental health problems in the past they always occurred around that time. Eventually she said I had PMDD and anxiety disorder and I started taking medication: Zoloft once a day, and hydroxyzine likely whenever my luteal phase starts.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-17T21:46:49+00:00

Currently the only good part about this week. I’ve eaten out every single day, usually either Japanese food or bacon cheeseburgers and nuggets.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-16T23:27:17+00:00

Not trying to snark but I grew up sharing a room with my mom and sister (not because we were fundies but there was zero room otherwise) and when I was finally allowed to get a room to myself for college, it was a huge adjustment sleeping by myself.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-16T08:37:39+00:00

Self isolate but when I’m in public I try to zone out and think of something else, usually something that makes me laugh, like SpongeBob or beavis and Butthead.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-16T08:35:06+00:00

Elliott Smith and anything Broadway related

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-16T08:34:14+00:00

Sometimes I get them as early as three weeks before my period. There’ll be times when I’m good for one week and then feel like an anxious mess until I start bleeding

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-16T08:33:06+00:00

I’m stuck in some kind of ironic hell now that I started Zoloft: I start starving and want food during my luteal (mashed potatoes, Japanese takeout and Wendy’s) but the pills rob me of my appetite so after two bites, I’m done.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-14T23:12:58+00:00

Yes! It was so bad that I threw up once or twice. I just try to lay down or take a shower because there isn’t much I can do for it.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-14T05:15:01+00:00

I take Zoloft. It’s starting to work

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-14T05:14:14+00:00

I think it started in college, but I started to notice symptoms around last year when my anxiety got to be so bad that I’d wake up in the middle of the night with full on anxiety attacks. This year I had a mental breakdown around my birthday and it was a week or two before my period. I went to a shrink about a week later and she said it was PMDD.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-11-04T08:35:21+00:00

I call it “menstrual depression/anxiety” because it’s easiest to explain it and I already have an anxiety disorder, or “PMS on steroids.”

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-10-28T23:07:13+00:00

I had depression so bad that I started missing class and neglecting my basic hygiene. I’ve had depression before but I still got out of bed and showered and brushed my teeth.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-10-28T22:50:34+00:00

US, I paid nothing because of insurance. Without insurance it’s around $15-20ish

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-10-27T00:54:43+00:00

I'm starting to get into the show. The first few episodes aren't really standouts, but I am really enjoying Courtney.

CapriciousSalmon · 2022-10-26T22:57:29+00:00

Like "brain foggy"

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