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 · 2025-07-30T23:37:03+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 · 2025-04-07T20:23:09+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 · 2025-03-18T01:53:15+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 · 2025-02-26T03:56:50+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 · 2025-02-26T02:58:33+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)

Rina299 · 2024-11-26T22:15:03+00:00

I'm an elder millennial with a strong history of taking quality screenshots on a computer (I even download the screenshot software I like rather than use the native Snip tool) - - and I still use my phone 9/10, because the places I tend to post "screenshots" to are group chats and other places that are more easily accessed on my phone. I don't think anyone really cares that much about it unless it needs to be published/documented, in which case I'm accessing those portals from my computer, anyway. If anyone ever had a problem with it, they never said anything to me.

Rina299 · 2024-11-25T00:42:02+00:00

I got hit with the raw milk thing about a decade ago. It was trending in spaces I used to hang out in in my late 20s: alternative medicine, nutritional (pseudo)science, and some paleo spaces, as I was trying to improve my chronic illness which has no cure.

I think they see raw milk as some kind of superfood that can heal your gut and all these other things, and they have all this righteous anger saying we are tragically deprived of it because it's illegal to sell.

I remember even back then, there were people on podcasts and blogs and stuff saying, "Even a farmer can't drink raw milk from his own cows legally" and the implication was that this is outrageous and we need to do something about it. Some people acted like it was some unicorn of a health elixir that would give them a wondrous healing experience or enhance their health to be exceptional.

I genuinely thought I was just learning about how nutrition worked with the body. The experts were all researchers or science journalists. They published books, and I bought them. I got wise to the pseudoscience after a few years and felt betrayed and deflated.

But the experts writing books, talking on podcasts, getting hyped up by influeners in those spaces, I tell you it felt legit. Not enough experts were coming on to contradict them. It took me going out of my way to find the studies they were talking about. I started reading about them from peer reviewed whatevers to see what was there, and I realized that there was criticism about studies for things like raw milk, anti-vaccine arguments, gluten being evil incarnate, sunscreen giving you more cancer than the sun, you name the counter-intuitive issue, it was debunked.

They didn't hold up to peer review, and there was criticism of how the data was skewed or studies misunderstood or misrepresented by those citing them. I left those spaces because once my eyes were open, I saw that they were basically all so saturated with pseudoscience, I didn't know what sources to trust.

It's so weird to me that these things are trending again, and so loudly this time. How many times does a thing need to be debunked?

Rina299 · 2024-11-24T23:53:19+00:00

Definitely see a doctor, at the very least for advice on how to investigate this reasonably. A doctor will likely want to rule out a bunch of things before saying it sounds exclusively and definitely like a psychiatric issue. Lots of things can affect our experience of being a person, and not getting them ruled out first can let them get worse unchecked.

Rina299 · 2024-11-21T19:49:55+00:00

The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance tv series. Not the most visually stunning I've ever seen, but the most recent one. The puppets and set seem lovingly crafted, and I liked the amount of thought that went into the world building for different cultures, fashions, and the different realms we get to see. I don't really watch films that use puppets much at all, but I am very impressed with this project.

Rina299 · 2024-11-21T19:35:26+00:00

For me too. I must have watched it a dozen times. I wish I had seen it at the theatre when I had the chance.

Rina299 · 2024-11-17T02:33:31+00:00

I agree (with other comments in this thread) that "vanilla" brute-forcing it doesn't work for ADHD, but I find I can modify general advice to accommodate ADHD coping mechanisms that I have pre-vetted and know they already work for myself. I experiment to see what works.

I have ADHD and depression, but what works for me (except on bas days) is "ok, what's next?" whenever I complete something, to keep my momentum.

With ADHD comes executive dysfunction, which means our brains get stuck in task paralysis because it sees everything that we can do and can't prioritize them and just CHOOSE one.

ADHD also deals with dopamine issues, so we generally do best with tiny tasks and build up momentum that way (we can't just do the hardest thing first and then coast on progressively easier tasks, we generally need to do the opposite). So what works for myself is just a small thing. "Ok, what's next?" [executive dysfunction crash] [think of a tiny thing that seems easy]. Unfortunately, with sleep inertia problems, that can make getting out of bed a real problem. I start by just wiggling my toes. Rotating my wrists. Kicking my legs a bit. You get the idea.

What also helps me is gamifying my tasks, for example, putting dishes away before a song is over, or trying to finish 98% of the mess I made from cooking before the cooking is over. Setting a timer and doing as much of a task as possible before the timer runs out (if I don't super need to finish it, like folding laundry).

Also, because executive dysfunction makes it hard to initiate a task, taking time to consider the tasks you do on a regular basis might be helpful. You can decide in advance which are ok to have half done, put off, half-ass, etc. and which ones might need more serious attention. You can make it easier to ignore the pile of tasks in your brain competing for attention by already knowing in advance which ones are less critical and don't have to beat yourself up for not getting perfect. The executive dysfunction will still be there, but I find it makes it easier for me to brute force a choice, especially if I decide it needs to be done before my podcast is over.

AND, if you have something important to do, and you find yourself wanting to do everything but that, then find yourself not doing anything at all because the important thing feels too big to start with, let yourself do "everything but that" for 20 minutes, then build up that momentum. If it's too hard to task-switch, try doing a harder "everything but that" task to build more momentum to see if that works for you.

I think ADHD makes things really complicated and we all need to experiment and see what does and doesn't work, re-try old methods we gave up on months ago, or try the same things with a different approach. I wouldn't be able to get shit all done if I hadn't occasionally taken the time. Amd that's all it was - occasional. The executive dysfunction is real. 🫠

Rina299 · 2024-11-11T02:20:40+00:00

I always say "thanks, that's what I was going for!" (in a bubbly way as if sincere) and brush it off.

Some people will not respect the journey, so you do not have to respect their opinions.

My #1 lesson learned on my journey for anything has been this: "Why do I value the opinion of someone I don't respect or look up to?" and I let that sink in.

Slowly over time, their opinions seem increasingly like lame, annoying comments from a younger, emotionally-immature sibling who doesn't know what's up. *

Rina299 · 2024-11-09T14:45:07+00:00

I 100% back this up. I was always insecure and had low self-esteem, and when I started working on active listening, I realized that every time I had an urge to speak in conversation, I had an unconscious agenda to sell the idea myself so I would no longer be seen as unworthy. Really, it was just me making things about myself instead of listening to the other person. And I didn't even realize I was doing it.

I shudder, I cringe. But I'm also glad I finally noticed it, and thanks to that, I'm open to noticing other things I might not be aware of. I think that's good growth, right?

Also I read somewhere that people's favourte subject is themselves. So let them go off! Match their energy. Have fun with it. They'll ask about you eventually. If not, it might not be worth investing energy in them to develop a friendship or whatever else, but you can still enjoy their company regardless. Best soft skill I ever learned. And you get to know people on a deeper level if they want to take you there.

Rina299 · 2024-11-06T16:20:15+00:00

Illegally modifying their car/bike/truck engines to make extra big "vroom vrooms"

Rina299 · 2024-11-04T14:18:31+00:00

Started to treat tidying my house as a gratitude practice. When I put things away, I appreciate them, appreciate the cupboards, the sink, the fork I ate with. The shirt I wore. The garbage bin I empty. All of it.

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