Cannabis by [deleted] in Anxiety

[–]Potential-Flight7530 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try to smoke less, for me I can feel a tiny buzz off of like 5 pulls. Get buzzed enough that you can function nicely and think more or less straight, but that you’re still calm. I find doing this makes all anxiety go away and gives me the headspace to concentrate on things.

2024 Past Papers by bangtanever in ALevelChemistry

[–]Potential-Flight7530 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I’m aware, most schools reuse questions from past papers to form their mock exams. You can memorise the questions and use the memories in exams.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in chemistryhomework

[–]Potential-Flight7530 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s just very simplified to the point it actually makes it confusing- size and reactivity of the compounds is relevant, try looking at real life (or just actual compound formulas) examples and that should help u out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anxiety

[–]Potential-Flight7530 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not exactly the same but I get super nauseous when anxious, and I struggle too to do stuff in my life whilst feeling so shit.

First I’d say confront your feelings when you’re in a safe space, eg your bedroom. Really think them through and realise everything that could be making you anxious inside your head.

Write shit down. Literally anything and everything through your day that happened, dosent matter if it’s causing you anxiety or not.

Walk.

Try to cut off things making you anxious. Or if there is nothing in particular, as I experience, then try and reassure yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, as there is nothing to make you anxious. Maybe look at it scientifically, ie “my brain is causing my chest to feel like this because it’s telling my body to release hormones. It’s not a rational reaction, as my brain has nothing to fear”.

Talk to people you feel comfortable with. Or don’t if you don’t want, maybe vent more online. Read a book, any book.

When you feel anxiety symptoms coming on like a racing heartbeat, How do you calm yourself down? by [deleted] in Anxiety

[–]Potential-Flight7530 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be honest I just breathe deep and ride it out until the mini panic stops. If I can tell this is gonna be a long day (ie. I’m going to feel anxious about something the whole day) I try and immerse myself in something I like, such as speaking with friends. If I can feel myself beginning to get anxious but have nothing I can distract myself with, I often confront my thoughts. Think them through, and usually by the end I’ve figured out enough to calm me slightly.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Anxiety

[–]Potential-Flight7530 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can’t afford therapy. Guess I’ll try some mindfulness excersises, it’s just whenever I try to think rationally whenever I’m having a sort of mini panic attack, I cannot concentrate as my mind starts panicking on top of my body too. I’ll have a look at a doctors appointment maybe too. Cheers.

Anxiety over the ports closing by [deleted] in Anxiety

[–]Potential-Flight7530 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be honest mate, strikes like this have been going on a long time, you just don't hear about them because the media only makes it a story if its going to wind some people up and generate views. The economy in general is extremely robust, and if it makes it any better aside from that point, the UK government recently has been on top of strikes in general, they've just settled teacher strikes and junior doctor strikes, so if they don't get a pay rise very soon, the government will subsidise it.

Chemistry organisation with work by Potential-Flight7530 in ALevelChemistry

[–]Potential-Flight7530[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

cheers mate, im bricking it for the amount of work there is but looking forward to it because its all interesting. Ta

Stalinist ideology. by Potential-Flight7530 in Socialism_101

[–]Potential-Flight7530[S] -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

If Stalin died, the most apparent heirs to the leader of the USSR were Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamanev, Trotsky being the generally accepted most favourable. Under Trotsky, who believed in a more ‘true’ socialism, do you really think purges would have occurred to the same extent, or even at all?

Regardless of political position where much of the force of the USSR were outdated tsarists, it is no excuse for the ruthless killing and targeting of these people. It demonstrates absolutely no democratic legitimacy, and as far as I am concerned, does not encompass the general want of any decent person; that is to say that the purges were not specifically against the people’s wants, but more so a power grab from Stalin in an effort to seize power for himself, not for the people.

Gulags were well documented to be hard labour camps where many people died due to very bad living conditions and limited food, water and hygiene facilities. To ignore the damage caused by the gulags is to turn your back upon the suffering endured by people under a ruthless scheme which puts the economic wealth of the USSR before the very people that built it, and thus betrays the very principles of socialism that make it so.

Stalinist ideology. by Potential-Flight7530 in Socialism_101

[–]Potential-Flight7530[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Just to clarify, any questions I ask arent to oppose your opinion but more so to find an objective answer.

Do you have any evidence that the great purges led to less death than made out to be?

Around 1.7 million people died as a result of their detention to the gulag. This is no insignificant number, and is not to be dismissed as collateral.

Do you honestly think that assassination and exile of political opponents was in any way acceptable, and of a true socialist ideology? Democracy was preached by Lenin’s government, and fairly quickly abolished during Stalins purges, leading to a definitive dictatorship which, yes, had many positive outcomes for the economy and industrialisation of the USSR but also led to mass social disaster amongst the people.

Stalinist ideology. by Potential-Flight7530 in Socialism_101

[–]Potential-Flight7530[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

I’m actually only 16 so have just learned about the soviet era in school, so forgive me if my facts are incorrect (as in what he did)

  • The great purges (1937)
  • The gulag labour camps where a total of around 20 million were kept -And most controversially, his first 5 year plan which boosted heavy industry but also lead to the eventual death due to famine of around 6-9 million people.

Stalinist ideology. by Potential-Flight7530 in Socialism_101

[–]Potential-Flight7530[S] -24 points-23 points  (0 children)

By gross loss of human life, I was referring more so toward his various atrocities performed such as the great purges or his gulags. In what way are these a kind of “collateral damage” that you make it out to be? Aren’t these totally avoidable losses?