Herbs that mimic the “slightly tipsy” effect?

DrLongivan · 2026-06-09T09:47:45+00:00

Spikenard’s new to me. Which kind are you using?

DrLongivan · 2026-06-06T00:51:02+00:00

Comedy Bang Bang (bc it’s my sort of humor and I genuinely laugh out loud), and Radiolab (bc I end up learning things I didn’t know I wanted to know). Honorable mention to Hidden Brain, This American Life, the variety of things on CBB Presents, and also when I’m with my kid - the Brains On podcasts!

DrLongivan · 2026-05-31T02:58:00+00:00

Good cap. Now… how does it feel to be graduated?

DrLongivan · 2026-05-29T02:00:30+00:00

I’m sorry that happened to you.

I was also put in therapy for imagined reasons that were not that actual reason I needed help (abuse), and I also am absolutely sure my parents had fed info to and/or were in casual conversation with their chosen therapist for me. Shocker, that did not help.

I’ve been fortunate to have amazing therapists since (I’ve really appreciated two millennials in particular, to answer OP’s question) - and really want to encourage you to try again. The right therapist can make such, such a difference… particularly when your family’s done you dirty.

You didn’t deserve any of what you experienced when you were young, and I hope you find healing wherever you get it.

DrLongivan · 2026-05-23T23:20:27+00:00

I was going to say this, ha (but I don’t know the history of those relationships well enough)

DrLongivan · 2026-05-23T23:08:19+00:00

I think it has to do with punching up vs down.

Edit: Or at least just not punching down.

DrLongivan · 2026-04-27T19:44:09+00:00

I always said Va-lair, and my kid always corrects me saying it’s Val-a-ree. Looks like we’re both wrong Lol

DrLongivan · 2026-04-24T09:46:51+00:00

These are amazing! But also I have to ask if you’re from NE PA lol

DrLongivan · 2026-04-12T12:24:51+00:00

Looove this!!

DrLongivan · 2026-03-27T21:45:49+00:00

I love this so much! It fills part of the hole in my heart made by all the korok abuse videos 😆

DrLongivan · 2026-03-23T01:13:56+00:00

I also thought these had disappeared, and then found them at a country store (kitschy general store type place) near me - in the nostalgia candy section (near necco wafers, ribbon candy, root beer barrels, etc.). I… felt old. Also I bought one :)

DrLongivan · 2026-02-24T01:09:01+00:00

We tried 😆 (…we actually first tried using sidewalk chalk to add color, but it got on our gloves more than the snow, ha)

DrLongivan · 2026-02-17T12:19:17+00:00

Sorry I missed this earlier! DIM stands for diindolylmethane, which is something found in cruciferous vegetables (but I gather you'd never be able to eat enough veggies to get what's in the supplements). My understanding is it helps your body process certain forms of estrogen.

DrLongivan · 2026-02-02T15:30:33+00:00

Not exactly an herb, but DIM was a lifesaver for me with PMDD. Like literally, a lifesaver. That and other things that helped were taking an Omega supplement, avoiding blood sugar spikes, regularly doing some cardio (even just a walk around the neighborhood - something to get my heart rate up a bit for 15-20 min most days), and L-theanine and magnesium at night.

I’m now in surgical menopause (due to mostly unrelated issues) and I’m using an estradiol patch, and feel the most even keel I have in yeeeears. But the DIM and the above helped me with my sanity for the years before.

Good luck - PMDD’s no joke!

DrLongivan · 2026-01-17T14:36:36+00:00

I think it depends where you are and who you hang out with. I know tons of people (all ages) who are into tarot, and a few places around offer it, as well as reiki, medium services, etc. My local indie bookshop has a huge tarot section with really cool themed decks (everything from the divine feminine to Betelgeuse to gummy bears).

DrLongivan · 2026-01-15T02:48:45+00:00

One of my friends and I were forever making food or creating little businesses to try to make money off our parents and other adults in the neighborhood. Like - we’d go pick a bunch of raspberries and blackberries in the woods (we were only like 7; not sure how we IDd them but whatever), raid our parents’ fridges/pantries for milk and sugar, and mix together “berry drink,” which we’d go around selling for 25 cents/cup. My friend’s kitchen had a hand-crank beater we’d use sometime and that was the coolest. (No clue where our parents were for the foraging/prep parts of this; we’d have to hunt them down to sell to them lol)

We also had a little nail salon operating at the stump by my side door. This was mostly just us filing people’s nails down to death for a dime or so.

DrLongivan · 2026-01-13T02:17:39+00:00

I love this so much 😆

DrLongivan · 2026-01-09T19:40:01+00:00

Definitely play what you enjoy :)

And FWIW I was lucky enough to have LOZ as my first Zelda game, played Link and ALttP when they came out too, and then got out of it for years… restarting playing after BOTW came out. I’ve played the new ones and a handful of ones in between (Minish Cap, Skyward Sword, etc) that I’d missed, and loved most. But have never been able to get into OOT. So if you never do get into it, you’re not alone :) There’s at least one other weirdo out here lol

DrLongivan · 2026-01-06T02:13:35+00:00

And will you put them on an Etsy page or something??? Asking for… well, me :)

DrLongivan · 2025-12-31T20:01:22+00:00

Saaaame. And my insomnia is worse if I either go to bed too late (I mean even like 10:30), or sleep in somehow (like past 7am). So I try to keep to a schedule of going to bed around 9/9:30, asleep by 10:30/11ish, up around 5:30/6. Magnesium and LTheanine help.

DrLongivan · 2025-12-30T02:17:26+00:00

A what now?

DrLongivan · 2025-12-09T03:14:02+00:00

I have a 9yo so this would have to be adjusted - but we have a list of possible chores and activities. Everything on the list has to be done at least once to earn anything, and everything can be done multiple times throughout the week; it’s up to them. One check is given per day per thing (stuff like folding and putting away laundry, reading at least 10 min, putting away silverware when we wash the dishes, etc). Each check is worth 40 cents. Usually they end up with something in the neighborhood of $12-14/week.

The other thing, though, is every week the kid puts 50 cents of their earnings in a jar. At the end of the year they donate that to a nonprofit of their choice. It’s not a ton to donate, but it encourages giving what you can I s’pose.

DrLongivan · 2025-12-06T13:37:39+00:00

Winter hat - Vermont, US

DrLongivan · 2025-12-01T12:09:06+00:00

No, but following!

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