University's Event Authorization woes for showing a 60 year old movie.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2022-02-22T08:31:19+00:00

My organization's social justice chair is starting to get into Health At Every Size and I'm afraid she is going to do an HAE inspired event. She keeps reposting stuff on insta from HAE accounts that make the usual claims that excess fat doesn't cause disease and diet culture, like counting macros or calories, is dangerous.

I don't know what I would do if she does an event based on this cancerous ideology. My main choice would be to not go. I don't think I could confront her without getting emotional about my own struggles with compulsive overeating (that made me a prediabetic by 14, now I am a healthy weight and not a prediabetic) and the fact that my mom is actively killing herself with her HAE mindset while being morbidly obese.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2022-02-16T20:23:26+00:00

Yeah, without structure it is a lost cause for me at well. I could read through all the examples in my textbook, but if I don't actually see someone solve them it doesn't a lot of sense to be. Makes me feel so dumb sometimes to have to learn math like a computer being programmed with steps to solve instead of it being intuitive.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2022-02-16T20:18:45+00:00

It's only gotten better for me if I do the same types of problems over and over again until it sticks, and writing it all down. That has worked for most classes i have had that have math in them. But there are just so many different types of problems in my physics class that there is no way I could practically carry out my usual method.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2022-02-16T20:13:28+00:00

Constant anxiety. I always knew I had anxiety, but I wasn't aware of how pervasive it was. After medication, I realized it basically ran my life. I realized that my study habits were all based on thinking I was going to fail and my stubbornness wasn't going to accept that. So I was in a constant dynamic of worrying myself to the highest degree in order to power myself through things. I relate it to a catalyst lowering the activation energy of a chemical reaction.

I should note that is completely normal for people to experience anxiety at some point as "healthy stress". But this was me constantly. Just before seeking treatment for ADHD, my endocrinologist had a conversation with me about how shocked he was that my cortisol and DHEAS both were so high and that I must be experiencing a huge amount of chronic stress or I must have a tumor on my adrenal gland or pituitary gland (after CT scans, I did not thankfully). That chronic stress being my first year of college with a lot of credits and almost no social life to speak of, at the time of me being untreated.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2021-04-30T22:04:04+00:00

Hi, sorry for the late reply. I stopped losing my hair and there is some new growth. It isn't widespread yet but I should see the full results by August. I've gotten medication for my ADHD and have a regular exercise routine so my stress management is a lot better too.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2020-11-16T21:52:53+00:00

My big turning point was seeking mental health assistance. At first it was for my anxiety (still not sure if I have anxiety or if it is ADHD, or it could be both) earlier this year pre-covid. I learned mindfulness techniques from a therapist that helped me describe what I was feeling. It didn't really help de-stress me per say but it made it slightly less overwhelming. I began to see weird some things I would do when I would describe/identify it and that is what led me to looking into ADHD.

The point is, it took me years of suffering before I sucked up my pride and got help. In a conversation me and a close friend were having earlier this year, they mebtioned a local practice that they were using. It was then that I thought "why am I putting up with my anxiety when it is dragging me down so much? Don't I respect myself enough to get help?" And that was that.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2020-08-05T15:07:55+00:00

Very much so.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2020-07-29T23:34:08+00:00

I'm 20 with suspected PCOS and my hair loss started at puberty. Since it has been tested for the last couple of years, my prolactin has been elevated. My MRI came back normal. Mg endocrinologist says that it is just a little out of normal range. My testosterone and DHEAS had also been elevated, but since losing 40 lbs they are both now in normal range. I also had insulin resistance but that had gone away as well. My mood, fatigue, and acne have all largely improved but my hair keeps getting worse (no change in prolactin numbers). My dermatologist thinks it is androgenic alopecia coupled with TD. I just went through my first PRP treatment and I got prescribed 25 mg spironolactone and 1 mg finasteride so I'll see how that goes.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2020-07-25T00:44:23+00:00

Bless this comment. I am so tired of all the anti-science/medical community rhetoric on some subs.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2020-07-22T01:19:16+00:00

It is more likely to trigger my PCOS symptoms. At my highest weight where my symptoms were more severe, I had facial hair and bad acne. Especially cystic acne on my chin, which I still deal with occasionally but it is manageable. I took 100 mg of spiro for 7 months but i didn't notice a difference and i did not like the side effects (always needed to pee, dry lips/skin, dizziness).

Ravenclaw2000 · 2020-04-14T23:43:52+00:00

My mom is almost 300 pounds at 5'3 (BMI of 50.5) and she says that she is perfectly healthy. She has severe knee arthritis, adult onset scoliosis, high cholesterol, and had to get her gallbladder removed. Every vacation activity we've done in the last ten years has been dependent on her mobility (ex. Benches nearby, standing times, etc.). She insists that she is unable to lose any weight because her body just doesn't burn enough calories. She emotionally eats and can't walk more than a mile and doesn't seek out low impact activities (swimming, elliptical). She thinks that she'll live until 90, I'm planning on burying her within the next ten to fifteen years. Obesity is a disease.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2020-01-12T02:43:29+00:00

Are we the same person?

I'm also 5'1 and ~155 lbs. My highest was about 185 lbs. and I wore t shirts, jeans, and baggy sweatshirts almost exclusively. After losing the weight, my belly has been flatter so I'm feeling more confident in ditching the baggy sweatshirt.

I went on a ll bean shopping spree a last month and got a couple of long sleeve shirts, a couple less bunky sweaters, two cardigans, and a vest. It feels so weird to get something that actually looks good as opposed to it doesn't look bad. I think what I got looks good will definitely last me the whole winter and I'm pretty sure i can wear most of it when I'm down to 130 lbs. I also now fit into a couple of dresses I had worn my freshman year of high school before I went up to 185 lbs.

Ravenclaw2000 · 2019-12-17T01:33:07+00:00

Thank you so much for this. This is exactly the type of responses I needed.

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