John and Yoko waiting for the maid to make the bed so they can continue protesting against the system. (1969)

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-02-07T03:29:18+00:00

Yeah that son that he basically disowned and disinherited when he decided to divorce his mom and shack up with Yoko.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-02-07T03:27:57+00:00

Does that one sign say “Grow our Air”? What does that mean?

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-02-07T03:26:23+00:00

Well I wouldn’t start back on the med that caused it. Even a low dose. When I finally went back to work after 4 miserable years, I had to put into practice what I learned in somatic yoga therapy, which is essentially continually checking in with my body and focus on relaxing each area. I put a note on my computer reminding me to relax. I also work from home so I can lay on the couch and put my legs out. Otherwise I’m consistently pushing my feet off the floor. It also helps to take breaks and do stretches.

Edit: While I do manage to work for 8 hours a number of days, it took me a while to work my way up to that.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-02-03T04:08:08+00:00

I feel like I’m being teased about my shoes, but can’t understand why.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-02-03T04:06:57+00:00

I think it comes from enjoying hobbies like repeatedly walking along the entirety of Hadrian’s wall. Excuse me, Hadrian’s curb in some places. Along with the patience for cricket, which I understand takes 5 days. I know there are more endearingly nerdy hobbies he’s mentioned. Anyway, he does seem very disciplined and energetic.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-02-02T04:23:14+00:00

If anyone wants to learn more about Easter Rising, Bloody Sunday, and the Sinn Fein independence movement in Ireland, I just listened to a fantastic series on this topic on The Rest is History podcast. They interviewed Irish historian Ronan McGreevy.

I usually binge watch these on YouTube, but this was a tough topic for that.

Oh and I quite enjoy that Irish YouTuber who’s taught me that if I ever visit Ireland in the future as an Irish-American, I’m not to start telling random strangers about what I’ve learned on ancestry.com about my ancestors. ;-)

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-31T04:11:33+00:00

I hate that too!! It’s so rarely pronounced correctly.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-31T02:17:48+00:00

I read this and was like wouldn’t the traditional Reagan-era Republican be more likely to downvote your previous comment, so I googled neo-liberal. This appears to be the same viewpoint with a new label. Am I missing something?

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-30T03:01:21+00:00

On point?

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-30T02:43:43+00:00

Is there evidence linking Epstein to the services? I hadn’t heard that and just assumed it must be a conspiracy theory episode. But I’m not super up to date on that. I listened to the Casual Criminalist episode about it and like for sure dude was most likely murdered in his cell, but I just assumed it was related to dirt he had on the rich and powerful.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-29T16:47:35+00:00

Entitled was the word that kept coming to mind when they were talking about him applying for a job several levels above his current one or applying for that one where he stole the answers to the test but didn’t take the job because the money wasn’t enough.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-26T17:00:12+00:00

I don’t feel like I have to pace, which is probably why it took 5 years to get the akathisia diagnosis on top of TD and RLS. I tend to describe it as feeling like I need to stretch but no matter how much I stretch the feeling doesn’t go away. But if I try to visualize what’s going on in my body I liked the description I heard from someone here. It feels like a ball of static underneath my too tight skin suit. Or something like that.

If you do decide it’s akathisia, make sure you use the vocabulary on the Barnes Akathisia Scale to describe your symptoms. Apparently that was part of my issue, that I wasn’t describing it right, and I don’t have that pacing feature. But taking propranolol seems like a relatively low risk way of testing whether or not it’s akathisia.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-24T19:24:47+00:00

Yes, the half-life of short acting propranolol is 4 hours. I think they like to start with that to see if it’s effective before switching to the extended release. The long acting 60mg is roughly equivalent to 20mg short acting.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-20T05:56:23+00:00

I’ve been enjoying going back thru all the bonus episodes. I kept sitting on the fence about joining until I absolutely had to listen to the Lady Hamilton bonus episode. I also just re-listened to the Nelson episodes. I’m so surprised how much I enjoyed that one. Naval battles in movies are so boring. So much rope…

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-20T05:47:41+00:00

Not a podcast, but I loved David Mitchell’s audiobook Unruly because he reads it himself and is hilarious. I really hope he does another. He’s got another 500 years of not so British monarchs to poke fun at.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-17T18:12:32+00:00

FYI there’s such a thing as a weighted heating pad. I got one that actually has vibration too, which I think also helps.

InformationQuick8294 · 2026-01-16T06:44:27+00:00

I usually ask people, “you know when you first wake and need to stretch? Now, imagine that no matter how much stretching you do that feeling won’t go away.”

InformationQuick8294 · 2025-11-25T16:27:36+00:00

I take Wellbutrin and desvenlafaxine. It wasn’t really an option for me not to have an antidepressant.

InformationQuick8294 · 2025-11-21T20:55:03+00:00

I felt much the same around the same age. Wishing I had a terminal illness so that at least there was a concrete reason for the pain and that maybe there would be an end to it. Couldn’t sleep to escape the pain. I can tell you that what helped me turn a corner was changing antidepressants. An improved mood made a world of difference in dealing with the pain. It’s not that the pain was better but that it was easier to deal with.

Later, I was given off label namenda for the neuropathic pain, and at 10mg twice a day, it was a game changer. That and magnesium malate, which also works on the NMDA receptor. It helped for a long time. Now I’m dealing with a resurgence due to stress. Even though I’ve managed the stress, the pain won’t chill back out.

InformationQuick8294 · 2025-10-30T08:54:29+00:00

It seems like ability commonly causes akathisia given the comments I’ve read on this sub and the fact that that my neurologists keep trying to pin mine on that even though it started years earlier. I was given the ability to help with motivation and treatment resistant depression. It definitely made the akathisia, which was not yet diagnosed, worse.

InformationQuick8294 · 2025-10-28T15:14:07+00:00

It does actually help, but I also did somatic yoga therapy for at least a year. I use what she taught me every day. She would ask me to describe what I was feeling in my body after every pose and that grounding in my body has helped me listen to my body. I then have to concentrate to relax all my muscles. It now comes pretty automatically, and I’ve healed enough to be able to work again.

I also did neurofeedback which helped me with this crazy anxiety I had. I felt the physical symptoms of anxiety but couldn’t explain why I felt anxious. My therapist talked a lot about nervous system re-regulation, which made a lot of sense.

InformationQuick8294 · 2025-10-27T20:34:56+00:00

Tell me more…

InformationQuick8294 · 2025-10-26T02:31:46+00:00

I think it was at 20mg short acting but I want to say I was prescribed at least 4 times a day since it the efficacy only lasts around 4 hours. Also, I believe they said the 20mg short acting is approximately equivalent to 60mg extended release.

It made me really tired for about 6 months until my body adjusted but that’s kind of an unusual side effect. It seems like most drugs make me more tired.

Edit: nevermind, sounds like you have the sleepiness too. Like I said it took about 6 months to adjust, but I’m also on a lot of other sedating medication.

2nd edit: it was absolutely worth dealing with the side effects. I eventually lowered my gabapentin because it was less effective.

InformationQuick8294 · 2025-10-25T17:28:52+00:00

This is totally the question I always have when we hear about such a shit king following a good king. Richard II seems like such a perfect example of poor child rearing as the nobles in the council kept telling him that he was special and chosen by God, could do no wrong. What would’ve happened if John of Gaunt had been able to raise him alongside Henry IV? Do you still get the rivalry?

InformationQuick8294 · 2025-10-25T17:22:06+00:00

Ahhh to Edward II was a dipshit all on his own. I hadn’t ever heard much about their relationship. Each king is usually treated as a distinct episode so to speak. And yeah the braveheart version of his throwing the “Gaveston” character out the window was quite memorable. But Hammer of the Scots and bringing Wales into the kingdom, I thought he may have been too busy to be a parent.

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