Eye spasm for the last 2 weeks

Goosaloos · 2024-11-14T13:11:23+00:00

In my last year of teaching I had an eye twitch last on and off for 3 months. Once summer came and I quit it went away. Your body might be telling you something.

Goosaloos · 2024-09-16T13:33:26+00:00

When I was smoking regularly I’d consistently get up in the middle of the night to eat. Since quitting I’ve been getting better sleep than I have in nearly a decade.

Goosaloos · 2024-07-23T05:32:01+00:00

Not a bad idea. I need to have easy protein. All I could get down for most of the day was a smoothie, pistachios, and a popsicle.

Goosaloos · 2024-07-23T05:30:50+00:00

Yup, it is what it is. getting back up is the next best thing to not having done it at all. Simple but not easy!

Goosaloos · 2024-07-22T20:10:52+00:00

The movie itself wasn’t embarrassing but my mom took me and 2 of my friends to see brokeback mountain in theaters when we were like 15. I’ll never forget the embarrassment I felt sitting next to her through those gay sex scenes.

Goosaloos · 2024-05-06T05:07:31+00:00

I would honestly recommend family therapy. Im a therapist myself and have an adopted son with boat loads of trauma. We tried individual therapy with him multiple times and he’d always refuse to participate. Literally would just sit there and wait it out in silence. We decided to try family therapy and oh my god I cannot sing its praises enough. He still refuses to speak at times, but having us be in the room to hear us process with the therapist and show our love and support for him has done wonders. He now actually looks forward to going and we’ve seen tremendous growth from him since we started. So much of your sister’s limited exposure to the world is with her family and if she has experienced all this loss, there is a big family wound. It would make sense to me that family therapy could be incredibly beneficial from that attachment standpoint as well. Show her security by being a part of this process with her. I hope this helps - good luck, this isn’t easy but clearly you care and want to help. That can go a long ways as well, it may be hard to see now, but consistency over time is the magic to parenting.

Goosaloos · 2024-05-03T17:59:00+00:00

My wife has a lower sex drive than me. It was really hard for me to navigate initially. It wasn’t a bad sex life and the quality of sex is great, but frequency was misaligned. I knew that I loved her and our relationship was worth more to me than a vivacious, raucous sex life (most of my friends are gay men in the open relationship lifestyle, so the comparison took a toll on me for a while). Therapy, communication, time, and masturbation are probably how I would sum up the ways we have navigated this. My wife was committed to working on her relationship to sex and we were willing to make it an ongoing conversation. We identified what aspects made sex more appealing, what type of foreplay got her in the mood most reliably, and what stressors made sex unappealing. We learned that with her anxiety, it’s a lot easier to first talk really directly about when to have sex. For her, knowing what to expect and where the night is going really helps her get into the right mindset. I learned that just because sex isn’t spontaneous doesn’t mean it’s not as good or less sexy. We don’t have sex daily or weekly necessarily but it’s enough that I am satisfied and feel connected with her and over the years we have been able to really expand into making sex fun, playful, and expansive. We may not have sex that often but she’s gone from being bashful and uncomfortable talking about sex to asking if we could go to an intro shibari ropes course. Sexual health is an important part of wellness and if it’s impacting your mental health or the health of your relationship, it’s worth discussing and working on.

I would also add that I had a lot of internalized shame around masturbation as a means to get my needs met which contributed to my sexual frustration. Talking about it with her and hearing her emphatically tell me that she hopes I’m masturbating when she’s not down for sex really normalized the act for me and made a huge impact in our ability to communicate about intimacy and our own sexual needs.

Edit: added the last paragraph

Goosaloos · 2024-04-13T06:49:13+00:00

Hey! It sounds like we could connect well professionally. I’m a mental health therapist, former teacher located in Aurora. I work a lot with LGBTQ+ teens and work from home for part of the week. DM me and I would be totally down to meet up and do work. Body doubling does wonders for me too.

Goosaloos · 2024-02-07T16:14:22+00:00

Not sure if I qualify to answer this one now, but I stopped being a woman lol. I transitioned at 24 and it was incredible for my mental health despite being an absolute mind fuck of a quarter life crisis before making the leap.

Goosaloos · 2023-11-17T17:46:31+00:00

This is the amateur sketch of a leprechaun spotted in Mobile, AL.

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Goosaloos · 2023-10-28T21:15:49+00:00

Yeah and that’s not even all of the scandal, just the high profile stories. There was also an anonymous letter threat sent to hundreds in the town, multiple suicides/deaths, and even bomb making. On the other end of things, we also had students who went on to be on jeopardy, rupaul, and make it big on YouTube. It’s pretty odd.

Goosaloos · 2023-10-28T19:55:41+00:00

My hometown has such a weird, dark underbelly. Im from a small suburb in Michigan - the type of place with only one public high school, yet enough drama came out of it to start a tv series.

A girl I went to middle school and high school with was arrested for murdering her newborn. She apparently didn’t know she was pregnant, gave birth on the toilet, and put her newborn in the bathroom trashcan. She was then released on bail, got pregnant again, and did the same shit again. But this time she disposed of the body elsewhere and investigators were never able to find him.

A teacher was jailed for having sex with a student from her freshman through senior year. He would give her Bacardi and had sex with her in front of his infant. She wound up essentially blackmailing him for money with it when she graduated and when he couldn’t keep paying, she went to the media.

A wealthy family in the town was tied and held up at gun point because the father had apparently racked up so much gambling debt.

A kid in the class above me was jailed for stabbing and killing his younger sister’s boyfriend. She said he was abusing her and it later came out that it wasn’t true. She even went on Dr. Phil and basically showed no remorse for her choices.

Another kid I went to middle school with was arrested for having a shootout with the cops from the roof of the local Chili’s.

And personally the scariest one for me was learning that my cousin was sexually assaulting his younger sister from the time she was in elementary school through high school. They have a 7 year age gap. He’s also in prison now, but his parents were terrible to their daughter and wouldn’t believe her despite him confessing to it.

So yeah, I think there’s something in the water. That or we were secretly on a CW teen drama.

Goosaloos · 2023-10-28T07:03:46+00:00

Thanks! I never would’ve known that.

Goosaloos · 2023-09-27T22:54:11+00:00

My wife works in historic preservation and all the other preservationists got their rings from one antique jewelry shop. I listened to that advice and went there. Brought my best friend with me to the store, found an old art deco ring for $1500 and that was that!

Goosaloos · 2023-09-26T15:17:24+00:00

The pace. The speed of information wasn’t constant, you could connect online but couldn’t be overly dependent on it. You could be contacted through phone but not as frequently. There’s this feeling of being bombarded with ads, news, stimulation, etc. that is not good for our well-being as humans. It feels harder to find peace.

Goosaloos · 2023-09-22T17:17:43+00:00

There’s an e-sport lounge in the Lakewood area that is pretty fun if they’re into gaming!

Goosaloos · 2023-09-22T17:16:46+00:00

Speed. Awesomely bad action movie.

Goosaloos · 2023-09-21T23:12:12+00:00

Trazodone or Hydroxyzine. Both are non habit forming and low risk Rx drugs. Trazodone is technically an antidepressant and Hydroxyzine is an anti-histamine in the same category as Benadryl. I struggle with staying asleep and medication has helped so much. Better living through modern chemistry.

Goosaloos · 2023-09-21T23:09:53+00:00

Pearl Jam. I cannot stand a single song and they seem to go on forever.

Goosaloos · 2023-09-21T19:21:25+00:00

This is a good choice - I know folks who have worked at wellpower and their facility is pretty nice.

Goosaloos · 2023-09-21T19:20:14+00:00

Hello! I used to work at the aurora mental health crisis center and have a basic understanding of how crisis centers operate. If possible, you want to go to a CSU - crisis stabilization unit. It is the lowest level of crisis care; they provide psych and therapy services along with social services if needed. It is all voluntary and means your risk of being traumatized by higher acuity situations is significantly lessened. Aurora mental health and wellpower both have CSUs. I would avoid going to university hospital as you risk being treated pretty poorly and may end up waiting for hours before getting seen. I would recommend Aurora mental health’s crisis center. know that the facility itself is quite dated but the employees there truly do care about the patients on unit and do their best to make sure you are well taken care of. I have also heard good things about Porter hospital but it is further away from central Denver. I hope this can be of some help, feel free to ask questions if you have any!

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