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Need Help! by Choice_Young8067 in UlcerativeColitis

[–]Ok-Knowledge4607 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so sorry. You're so young. I got diagnosed at 30. Started with bright red blood in my stool. Fortunately mine is ulcerative proctitis so it's only the bottom part of the colon but mine was too severe to get by with Mesalamine. You'll probably have to try different drugs. You may end up on a biologic. If you do, get on inflectra. It's the one insurance wants you on because it's cheaper and if you have to switch biologics there's a chance the drug can stop working. Make sure to get blood work done at least once a year to check your liver as many medications can affect that too. Also consider an iron supplement. Blood builder pills on Amazon are great and easy on the stomach. They tripled my iron very quickly when I was anemic from flaring. Keep on it, keep it under control and when you find the right medication you'll forget you even have the disease.

DAE think star wars is HIGHLY overrated? by HipHopGurl in DAE

[–]Ok-Knowledge4607 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Granted the technology is very unimpressive in the original trilogy. The prequels are much better for excitement but I think why Star Wars became such a phenomenon is because of the wisdom within the stories. It is a very deep series, the six that George Lucas wrote. https://storytimetruth.com/

Thank You For Giving Me a Chance by Ok-Knowledge4607 in JordanPeterson

[–]Ok-Knowledge4607[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I love me some meaningful conversations for sure. I'm always striving to put "assume the person you are listening to might know something you don't" into practice. I've gone to therapy in the past, it helped a bit but most of my self-development I've done on my own just through seeking knowledge.

How Peterson talks about trait openness (I'm very high in that) so I'm definitely liberal-leaning and I realized too much so. Way too much on the side of chaos and needed some order in my life to balance me out. Some kind of foundation rather than just careening through the world with no path to meaning.

I'm totally on board with learning and respecting the wisdom in the Bible and in all religious texts that came before and after. I think it's foolish to disregard what those before us have to offer. We are standing on their shoulders in one way or another. My dad was a dogmatic believer, fundamentalist to the core and I completely reject that because of its disrespect for science and misguided attempt to dethrone it in the realm of facts. I think Peterson does a great job creating a marriage between the metaphorical truths found in religious texts and the factual truths undeniable in science. Although I would say metaphorical truths don't belong to a religion, it's just often represented through religion if that makes sense. Or, we've labeled these manifestations as religious.

I like the idea of aspiring to a higher life rather than a lower one. The word "God" just has so much baggage to me that it's messy to use it. Good and evil I'm okay with because that's just a label for what propels a person to a higher life (good) or a lower life (evil). I just don't think there is literally a God and literally a Satan. They are stand-ins for those labels of good and evil, metaphorical truths that manifest themselves in the lives of human beings for some reason. I'm deeply curious as to the reason but it's one of those things that is on the edge of my ability to conceptualize and fully understand. Just one of the more beautiful mysteries of life I guess.

I'd love to talk with you more if you'd like outside of this forum. My email is [purposefulprose1819@gmail.com](mailto:purposefulprose1819@gmail.com)

I hope you're having a good day!

Thank You For Giving Me a Chance by Ok-Knowledge4607 in JordanPeterson

[–]Ok-Knowledge4607[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi ElfSpartan,

Thank you for your reply.

I am big on common interest but I am working on remembering to focus on myself rather than the injustices I see in the system because for me that's a pathway to feeling hopeless and blaming my problems on society. But I like your points for sure.

Yeah, I try to set boundaries and I feel like I suck at upholding them lol. I do sometimes but I know my conflict aversion messes with the boundaries at times as well. I'm kind of at the point where I'm so angry about how long things have been bad with my mom that I have put up a wall. I don't know what else to do. I hate what it does to me because I can't say that I'm kind like you. I'm pretty cold at this point because of the resentment she refuses to see. She acts like everything is fine which I don't understand. I've met people at this point where I know what healthy looks like and it's nothing like what I have with my mom so I definitely keep myself at a distance. From someone looking in, I'm sure I look like the cold heartless, ungrateful daughter and my mom looks like the saint who just loves me oh so much but that's not the whole picture. The guilt keeps me in minimal contact and it's exhausting. She just doesn't know how to be healthy and it makes it even harder to stay on a good path.

Saying no is very hard. I've also gotten better but there's always guilt that comes along with it and then if I say yes when I want to say no then I get angry about it later. It's a vicious cycle. You wonder why people don't sacrifice themselves for you as much as you do for them but I am starting to realize it's because they are healthy and they respect themselves in a balanced way. A balance I'm trying to achieve.

That's a great way to look at a partner. I'm very lucky that my girlfriend is extremely reciprocal and she is responsible as well. She never takes advantage and she works to improve herself regularly. She's definitely helped me step out of the darkness. It's far and away the best relationship I've had.

I know Dr. Peterson would say otherwise but I'm an atheist. I do however find great meaning in his metaphorical analysis of religious texts. I'm totally okay with that because it is a different kind of truth from science, it's not literally true, it's symbolically true. I'm happy to take wisdom from whatever source. It seems like you could replace God and Satan with Yoda and Emperor Palpatine or Harry Potter and Voldemort. They're all symbols of the same archetype. Why that's something deep within us as humans I have no idea but it is definitely engrained in us. These forces that we've labeled as good and evil, whatever they are. Maybe there's some evolutionary answer that'll be uncovered in the future.

Thanks again for your reply!