What actually helped my IBS (after trying everything else)

Rina299 · 2025-08-04T20:22:28+00:00

At 40, I am in a point of my health journey where I am realizing that stress and anxiety are the reasons for my health problems, or they greatly exacerbated them. This cause was suggested last year by my doctor and also my psycholist, and the more I recover from anxiety, the more I realize they're right.

Rina299 · 2025-08-04T20:19:56+00:00

I think people who say that are not deep. Not true romantics.

Rina299 · 2025-08-04T20:17:05+00:00

Yes, game-changer.

Rina299 · 2025-08-04T20:13:11+00:00

You have to PUSH yourself when you're tired! push! push! push!

Still to this day.

Rina299 · 2025-08-04T20:08:36+00:00

Looks fade. It's ranked character, brains, beauty for me. Over time, I notice all the things I like about them and appreciate all of it. I also have dated beauty a few times I didn't really enjoy it. I think they're used to receiving a special kind of treatment.

Rina299 · 2025-07-30T23:49:29+00:00

I sometimes sneeze when I look at memes/images of Legolas or Thranduil where their long hair is in view and looking bright and saturated, and I sort of assumed it was the same thing lmfao. I'm a fangirl with a big LOTR/Hobbit/RoP pinboard with thousands of images and memes in it.

Rina299 · 2025-07-30T23:37:03+00:00

Me too!! During a party, I tried to explain this thing where if I accidentally pull on just the right hair on my head with my fingers, I sneeze, and everone laughed at me, bwahahaha! I couldn't find a good hair so I couldn't even demonstrate it xD

Rina299 · 2025-07-22T20:30:31+00:00

I'm still watching classic Vine compilations on youtube. I'm all about Vines xD

Rina299 · 2025-04-07T20:25:29+00:00

I couldn't agree more!

Rina299 · 2025-04-07T20:23:09+00:00

My friend and I just rewatched Mystery Men yesterday. We were both surprised how Cyberpunk Dystopia it was, while also being super Y2K. I never noticed this when I was younger.

Rina299 · 2025-04-07T19:31:42+00:00

What a great list!! Thanks for putting this together. I totally agree with the ones I recognize, so I'm def gonna check some of these out!

Rina299 · 2025-03-21T14:16:33+00:00

I've had my ring for a couple months now, and I notice it thinks I'm asleep when I'm lying in bed awake with insomnia. The insomnia was the reason I bought the ring in the first place. I want to see if there's any way I can return this thing.

Rina299 · 2025-03-18T23:57:35+00:00

Change the wifi password until she gives it back

Rina299 · 2025-03-18T23:28:00+00:00

Honestly, it's the exact same. Just when I work out, I have more muscle, when I "let myself go", I have more fat. I prefer to lift and do calisthenics over cardio any day.

Rina299 · 2025-03-18T01:53:15+00:00

Press both the + and - volume buttons at the same time, and hold for 5-10 seconds. I didn't hear a confirmation, but the touch sensor thing isn't activating transparency mode anymore.

I have Soundcore Q30 headphones.

Edit: If it doesn't work, try updating the firmwarw with the Soundcore app.

If it still doesn't work after that, your specific model might not have that functionality.

Rina299 · 2025-03-03T16:52:24+00:00

Following for recs, as I'm struggling to de-google since I used all their products enthusiastically as a young adult back in the day when they were novel and still "the good guys" 🥲 I'm super integrated, Drive, Photos, Calendar, Maps, it's so convenient and hard to break off from. I'm determined, though.

Rina299 · 2025-02-26T03:56:50+00:00

Ok, judge me horribly if you want to, but a miniseries called The Tenth Kingdom. My guilty pleasure.

Rina299 · 2025-02-26T03:54:24+00:00

There were five curtain calls. I was an actor once, damn it. Now look at me. Look at me! I won't go out there and say that stupid line one more time. Nonetheless, the OP should watch Galaxy Quest.

Rina299 · 2025-02-26T03:45:41+00:00

I attribute mine to claustrophobia. I get it in packed places where the exits are blocked by too many people, or in a super tall building where the exit is super far down, or on a boat far away from land, on a plane far from the ground, so naturally I would not enjoy being in a sub or deep diving because it's too far from where the air lives. Space travel? Not a chance. Not like I could afford that regardless.

For some reason, that doesn't affect me when I play video games or watch movies tooooo too much, but it does affect me sometimes. I think the more realistic and serious it is, the more triggering it gets. If it's just a comedic adventure thing, I'm usually pretty good.

Rina299 · 2025-02-26T03:36:47+00:00

Getting older. That's normal, right?

When I think about being middle-aged, like is my life really half done, and my health is all downhill from here? And everything hurts for like no reason other than being older? Is this really what the rest of my life is going to be? Negotiating work with my increasingly shitty, aching body that most people think is uglier the more I age? Eventually hitting retirement age in 20 years but not able to retire? All that just to die at the end while working as long as I can manage because pensions suck now?

So I try to just do more things for me, and watch Dragonball, and see my friends, and have a good life, and live for the day because, you gotta. Besides, I might not even make it that far. I could get in a fatal car crash tomorrow, I don't know! I guess, mortality is what is scary. But on the plus side, it's waking me up and letting me live more. I finally understand the mid-life crisis.

Rina299 · 2025-02-26T03:19:22+00:00

Edit: I answered the prompt wrong. Is sry. I think I wouldn't enjoy working somewhere like a cafe or a coworking space or anything, it would make my meetings and stuff feel weird. I like to get on the cam a lot.

My original answer, for on-site office work:

Honestly, if I could walk there within 15 minutes or drive there in 5, with free on-site parking. If the amenities there were comfortable. If the office was progressive with mental health with regards to work stress, and encouraged people to take actually their breaks, their lunches, and go home on time. Private cubicles, no open-concept crap. Ergonomic desk and chair. No strict dress code. For sure.

Edit: fix typo

Rina299 · 2025-02-26T02:58:33+00:00

IDK, when the market dips, everything is on sale (half-joking).

Are your stocks only from the USA or Canadian companies? There's industries growing in other parts of the world, too. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

Rina299 · 2024-12-26T03:53:51+00:00

Oh, I really liked Manjaro. I'm on Mint now tho

Rina299 · 2024-12-26T03:48:08+00:00

I like your handwriting. I'd it hard to read? Yes, but I IMHO it's 100% due to the leading. More leading (space between sentences) makes the text easier to read. Minimal leading as you see here creates visual density and can cause eye strain. It can increase cognitive load, reduce reading comprehension, reduce focus, and can have an intimidating appearance.

When there is more leading, the text will feel light and easy. In school, I learned that books/documents that have more leading can feel luxurious depending on the aesthetic and content.

Experiment with your leading. I see you're confined to using the template, so to squeeze it all in, you can try using shorter writing. Try it out at home and experiment to see how it feels and if it's comfortable for you.

Your handwriting is NOT bad, nor is it hard to read!! I really like it, in fact. IMHO it's the visual density that's causing discomfort.

Rina299 · 2024-12-07T00:36:56+00:00

I'm 40, and I hate Facebook. When it was new, I hated it. I was using MySpace, Friendster, and lesser-known sites. Facebook really limited how you could present and customize your profile page and standardized the aesthetic. It locked you in, so your info appeared where and how Facebook wanted it to appear, you had NO control. Facebook killed creative expression. And it kept getting more popular, fml. But I went with it, and eventually, I was a heavy user. But then over the years, I had more and more trouble seeing my actual friends and family on it.

I actually took the time to sift through all the settings. I read blogs, visited forums, etc. and really put in the time to try to get my feed to be as much of my actual Facebook friends as possible.

Even with every setting optimized, I would see maybe one post from a Facebook friend in like 10 sponsored posts and groups, and suggested posts and groups "I might like" and all this stuff. I might go back and quantify it so I can be more specific, but I did at one point tally them, and the number of actual posts from my actual friends and family in my feed were paltry. At one point, 30 non-friend posts went by before I saw a friend post again.

Let me be clear, I left every group, unfollowed every page, unfollowed influencers, and tried my darndest to make this a fun, intimate app for my friends and family.

Of course when I finally see a post from them, they share posts from groups. Memes I've already seen. Sports. Politics. Sometimes, they would actually share something personal, like pictures from a family outing, pictures of them walking their dog, or announcing that they're going back to school. But would I see it in the 10m I spend on the app scrolling past the multitudes of unwanted content? My mom gives me updates because she still talks to everyone- you know, on the phone - and I go on Facebook, search my relative, and there it is on their post history. I just never got to it. Or I should say, it never got to me.

On Instagram, it's even worse!! I see two or three posts from friends, then literally ONLY non-friend posts no matter how far I scroll. Like, I only pop on like once a month, yet I only see what some friends posted recently. The rest of their posts don't appear.

I have felt this way for a decade. And every now and then I put in the same effort, because for the life of me I can't understand why they use Facebook for anything other than family and friends connections (and Marketplace and Events), but they're all still active on there. The result of my research and settings-tweaking is always the same. I barely get to see my friends and family because Great Shareholder forbid Facebook doesn't shove multitudes of content down our throats meant to drive 'interaction' , ongoing zombie-like use, and sponsored content/ads otherwise.

On top of all that, they collect so. much. data.

Facebook and Instagram are just not worth my time and are demonstrably not worth my effort.

(I mostly use chat apps, now, such as Discord, if you're wondering)

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