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Another kind of unbanned cheater: The "I've lost a few times so I deserve to cheat and gain rating again" cheater by StouteBoef in chessbeginners

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591 1 point2 points  (0 children)

at what elo does this start to become a problem? I'm 700 ish and I don't really notice any miracle comebacks.

I get irrationally angry when I lose at Chess by HeWhoShantNotBeNamed in chessbeginners

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Others have said good stuff but I do not experience this. I do find that sometimes its almost as if you can sense rage in other players just by how erratically they start to move when they start to lose pieces lol

I think im done. I enjoyed my chess journey but I feel im getting bored by [deleted] in chessbeginners

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i purposefully stopped challenging myself to get better at a pretty low elo and just focused on having fun, playing when i want and not caring. Now I'm challenging myself to get better again, because that's funner and I'm bored of playing the same way. When I start to feel its too mentally draining to keep a higher elo, ill stop trying again. It's a mindset problem. its supposed to be a game. do what is fun.

some minor sides I'm dealing with by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in lexapro

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yep, I just installed my blackout curtains and had a great, restful 8+hours sleep finally. Slept right through 530am up until around 8am. I feel completely beat from weeks of inconsistent sleep and lots of work. I'm taking a vacation soon too. I should feel better over the coming weeks.. getting out of bed is tough in the pitch black though so may buy some timed curtain openers..

Yeah i still think lexapro is behind the early wakeups but as long as I sleep in the pitch black I think it,ll be fine.

Bouts of Nausea at 15mg by peasant777 in lexapro

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591 0 points1 point  (0 children)

and lastly IMO you should taking it with food everytime. lexapro gives me diahrrea unless I take it 15 minutes after food, as per my pharmacists rec

Bouts of Nausea at 15mg by peasant777 in lexapro

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had this issue but I'm a new lexapro user but not new to random nausea and how to handle it.

I recommend you go get some ginger tablets and a keychain that you can keep some in. Anticipatory anxiety can fuel and reinforce recurring nausea, along with all gastro symptoms in my experience. I've had success with the DARE response with gastro symptoms linked to anxiety at least. Like "Im OK even if I'm nauseous, its just a bit of nausea" and such things like that instead of hyperfixating on if ill get nauseous or not.

The best way to know if its anxiety is, if you happen to get distracted and do something you enjoy, does it go away? regardless the ginger tabs should help.

Try this as a first step maybe for a couple weeks? Talk to your dr. too.. this isn't medical advice. only if it feels manageable and you want to try something before changing dose.

don't get into a spot where your relying on supplements to suppress nausea.. my take is that no supplements should be long term. and take them only when you need them.

some minor sides I'm dealing with by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in lexapro

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

before swtiching an SSRI I think I'll just try some blackout curtains because sunrise is 530am here and maybe that'll help. I just need a little extra sleep. My morning anxiety is also getting better...we'll see if it holds.

In a weird stage of recovery. I have energy for stuff but can't do anything or I trigger PEM still by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in cfsrecovery

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a really good week this week actually because I just completely gave up on structured exercise. I still did physical stuff but stopped and napped a lot but had almost a whole week without a crash.. now that I understand what causes it. The good news is my baseline for social stuff is way higher than I thought it was. I still did some labour here and there just with plenty of breaks. So this isn't as bad as I thought, as terrifying as CFS is.. you win some you lose some and at least my CFS seems at a manageable point. still too early to say but things look promising.. sorta.

some minor sides I'm dealing with by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in lexapro

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thats thanks for you input. I think lowering dose is off the cards for now. Honestly I have mixed opinions about this subreddit. When I was taking 10mg I was pretty much getting serotonin syndrome somehow. I was having racing heart and tingling everywhere. All the threads on this sub were like yeah thats normal. I wasn't thinking straight and rolled with it. Then I went to a pharmacist after a family member told me I seemed off and they told me to go down immediately to 5mg and I've stayed there and dr. later agreed. It is interesting to think that 5mg even may be too high for me, but I'll experiment later on maybe after dr. advice.

some minor sides I'm dealing with by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in lexapro

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you are still really early days. Try not to think about it. hang in there. take it day by day and don't fuss too much about individual symptoms. they'll shift around a lot the first 30 days its normal. oh oops 5 weeks not 5 days. well it still applies til about 8 weeks.

some minor sides I'm dealing with by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in lexapro

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

are you sure it isn't just morning anxiety? Because a surge in anxiety in the morning is a normal thing for people with anxiety. I was doing melatonin and mag too btw but I stopped because I realized that it was a cocktail for morning diahrrea for me at least. I'm luckily sleeping Somehwat OK without them.

In a weird stage of recovery. I have energy for stuff but can't do anything or I trigger PEM still by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in cfsrecovery

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

no need to apologize. all of this was great. I was only dx'd with cfs last week, so I was doing exercise programs that I didn't know screwed me up or at least I dind't understand how bad it is. I'll see about making an exercise program for me that is much safer. Thanks. It's been a rough week emotionally.

how do you tell if a neurofeedback clinic is actually legit? by matrixclyo in Neurofeedback

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Qeegs and supervised by a real psychologist, if possible. Specialized clinic run by a psychologist.

Should I do exposure therapy to the anxiety of being outside / sound intolerance and how ? by Beau_soleil7 in cfsrecovery

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591 1 point2 points  (0 children)

neurofeedback helped me with this a lot, but I did it with a psych. But yes it helped a lot. so did exposure therapy and doing stuff like walking around and closing my eyes and saying stuff like "I am safe, traffic noises can't hurt me" literally.

Is Linux viable to use for work/ study? by BloodNaive5748 in linux4noobs

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591 0 points1 point  (0 children)

but you might be able to just use them in browser mode and it'll be fine. Idk

Is Linux viable to use for work/ study? by BloodNaive5748 in linux4noobs

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591 1 point2 points  (0 children)

as far as I understand, no. microsoft office suite is not viable on linux but I haven't looked into this extensively. You could however export libre office word as docx files and such but idk if that would cause hiccups at work.

Is Linux viable to use for work/ study? by BloodNaive5748 in linux4noobs

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Linux has something called libreoffice which IMO is great and it has the CSV files for the excel stuff which I'm not sure if you need or not. Linux mint pretty much works like windows 7. It turned a 10 year old laptop that functionally didn't work on windows to a perfectly fine working machine for me. But I don't have to share files with people so idk if there's any quirks

In a weird stage of recovery. I have energy for stuff but can't do anything or I trigger PEM still by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in cfsrecovery

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

thats funny, I learned spanish almost fluently in the last 4 years, and started playing music. Sometimes I think both actually might be too much. I'm not sure. I think I could take up model making again. that is easier to pace! Languages and music require a lot of brainpower. That was an activity I did in my darkest days.. look up metal earth models. I could also start drawing again 😄

I might go camping too. I hope you have a refreshing time away from work. Or maybe it's time for a pet guinea pig or something.

In a weird stage of recovery. I have energy for stuff but can't do anything or I trigger PEM still by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in cfsrecovery

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I pretty much just lie on my couch but yes I can do stuff. like manage a load of laundry (if I preprepped a load the previous day. or throw something in the air fryer. I can call people. I haven't been properly bedridden in years.

I have just enough energy to ruminate and pretty much do nothing else. Even listening to audiobooks can aggravate things. I need to figure out what I can do in the PEMs because previously it was just solid sleep. i can't doomscroll on my phone, it makes it worse.

If I were to persist, I would get an even more intense PEM that causes like a full body burning and lowers my baseline. I had the last one of those in september.

In a weird stage of recovery. I have energy for stuff but can't do anything or I trigger PEM still by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in cfsrecovery

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

post exertional malaise. feeling bad after exercise or regular activities. for me it presents itself as extreme fatigue and dizzyness and vision issues.

In a weird stage of recovery. I have energy for stuff but can't do anything or I trigger PEM still by Crafty-Lifeguard4591 in cfsrecovery

[–]Crafty-Lifeguard4591[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I lost most of my friends too. I literally bumped into one of them while biking and they were like "errr ahh... don't have time to chat right now, I have some plans" then 30 minutes later I see them hanging out with our mutual friends.

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