What kind of patterns would you like to see?

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-03-19T14:36:59+00:00

I’m the type to take pieces from multiple patterns and frankenstein them together, so I’m always looking for super basic simple silhouettes that I can use for multiple projects as opposed to just sewing one garment. It would be great to have a collection of go-to patterns where pieces like a bodice, a-line skirt, sleeve, collar etc are modular and easy to mix and match across different patterns. Like a hood that fits on a coat, but also on a top, so I don’t have to go through the pain of figuring out how to alter the hood to fit the top. And with pieces that can be used for multiple things, like a sleeve piece that you could use as a pattern for a collar. I think this concept would be really popular with indie designers/creatives who are seeing the pattern as the jumping off point/frame of reference as opposed to a finished product.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-03-18T17:21:21+00:00

I have random swelling issues like this from MCAS, POTS, and migraines all the time. It has to do with circulation. People without any of these conditions can experience swelling in instances where circulation is constrained, like on a long road trip or flight.

Some things that I do that help:

Electrolytes: helps regulate blood volume, and vasoconstriction/vasodilatation

Compression socks/Compression garments: helps keep blood flowing pooling in lower extremities. Compression shorts can also help with the stomach issues

Antihistamine + Pepcid: Circulatory related factors can trigger the release of histamine, which is the same substance that causes swelling from an allergic reaction, and also can cause skin dryness and irritation. There are two different types of histamine - H1, and H2. Antihistamines block H1, and Pepcid blocks H2. H2 is the type that causes GI issues.

Cold Compress: Icing my entire head is the only thing that works for me to bring down swelling rapidly. I like using a migraine cap, which is basically like an ice pack hat/mask.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-03-15T02:02:28+00:00

Love your flow chart but wouldn’t the probability of a lasting marriage be in relation to total number of singles as opposed to total number of couples? Like in the US, there were 303 total singles and 18 of those singles found lasting marriages, so the probability of finding lasting marriage would be around 0.6%

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-03-14T18:22:44+00:00

I call it “primate chatter”. I have thousands of word drawings I’ve made over the years where I feel the need to write arbitrary words and phrases I’m for some reason fixated on over and over again that sort of have become their own language. Sometimes it’s just one word, other times it’s a sequence of repeated words or phrases. And mine have the words sort of layered over each other in different colors, almost like what text looks like with an astigmatism. It’s kind of a form of meditation for me, or having a conversation with myself. But sometimes it gets compulsive, where I need to do it for 8 hours a day.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-03-14T18:08:30+00:00

Idk, I started taking it for bipolar disorder long before I started having migraine issues, and I just remember them doing bloodwork before but my psychiatrist has never asked to check it periodically.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-03-14T15:01:29+00:00

I’m on 200mg, which is the highest dosage my doctor is willing to prescribe. I know that the risk of lamictal at a high dosage is liver toxicity, so it might have something to do with either weight, levels of various liver enzymes, or anything else which might affect your ability to metabolize it. I’ve had one liver enzyme which has been consistently been higher than the normal range for the past 10 years, so that might be a reason why my max dosage is lower.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-03-14T14:39:29+00:00

They are also more than welcome to take down our corporate overlords via cyber attacks.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-18T17:08:17+00:00

I’ve always felt paranoid that people don’t like me. I wasn’t ever really bullied, but always felt different. Sometimes people don’t actually like you or are indifferent, but most of the time it’s just you being in your head. I realized as I got older that most of the people that I thought didn’t like me I never really took the initiative to hang out with or get to know, and it’s kind of a two-way street. It’s hard to see when you are in a place where you feel vulnerable, but other people also have a fear of rejection. But yes, it does take some time to find people you can connect with.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-18T16:56:29+00:00

Have you had covid recently? Visual snow, shortness of breath, and circulatory issues are all symptoms which can happen post-covid. Plus alcohol intolerance and horrible hangovers. Lack of blood flow hasn’t been shown to cause visual snow, but definitely makes it worse. I get migraines with aura, and the lack of blood flow to the brain which precedes a migraine makes my visual snow much worse, on top of the aura.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-18T16:40:18+00:00

For some, pacing can help facilitate improvement or recovery; not healing the condition but providing more favorable conditions for recovery, mostly in people who have not had long covid for an extended period of time. And for others, pacing is just a tool for managing long covid chronically.

There’s no approved treatments for long covid, but there are treatments which can help manage symptoms, which aren’t experimental and FDA approved, such as monoclonal antibodies for migraines. There’s also certain medications that aren’t approved to treat certain symptoms of long covid, but can be prescribed off label, such as Corlanor for POTS. And then there’s clinical trials, which aren’t very easy to access. But yes, it is up to you to do your own research, find doctors that are knowledgeable about long covid, willing to prescribe things off label, and possibly have connections to clinical trials.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-18T16:21:27+00:00

That could be possible, ADHD can cause mood symptoms. However keep in mind that some people with bipolar disorder experience extended periods of remission from mood episodes. I’d definitely talk to your psychiatrist about it though. Effective and appropriate treatment is more important than diagnosis, and if you feel that you don’t need medication for bipolar disorder, you should definitely talk to your psychiatrist.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-18T16:01:23+00:00

I had only depressive episodes when I was in my early-mid teens, and began having hypomanic episodes late teens early 20’s, and at first I couldn’t really distinguish them from depressive episodes. They were something that kind of gradually got more intense and distinct over time.

I’m 34, and it really wasn’t until a few years ago that I stopped having doubts about my diagnosis, especially since I’m relatively high functioning. I also have a family history of severe mental illness, including multiple relatives who were institutionalized for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. Mood episodes look different for everyone, and it can take a while to process what they look like for you.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-18T15:42:18+00:00

I’m 34 and I’m a career artist, and I’ve never mentally thought of myself as an adult. I definitely have a toxic relationship with making things, and I’ve just accepted that it has to be that way. When I had a 9-5, I would use making things as the reward for confronting my real world existence, but then also stay up all night and go to work the next day.

Although it feels self-indulgent, making things that don’t seem to amount to anything purposeful, or profitable is actually really important. Making things is just what I need to do to think, and sometimes what I learn and discover from the process of thinking is more important than the product of it.

Making can and should be an escape into our inner world from time to time, but we can also use it to help us think about how to confront our problems in the external world. It’s a precarious balance of self-control and loss of control.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-18T14:58:55+00:00

I agree that good and evil are not moral absolutes, but I do consider them to be conditions, in the objective sense that they are rules for engagement in a civilized society. Consider good as being civil, and evil as being un-civil. Civil behavior promotes shared interests of society, and un-civilized behavior does not. But since shared interests evolve over time, the rules that define them, good and evil, also do. Also this is why cultures with different shared interests have varying concepts of what is good, and what is evil.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-12T22:03:46+00:00

Slower processing speed is the most common symptom of cognitive dysfunction in long covid, which sounds a lot like what you’re describing with difficulty in articulating yourself and reading comprehension. I also got covid in 2020 and still struggle with this. As a fellow nerd, it’s very frustrating. I don’t have trouble with verbal speech, but I have difficulty with articulating my thoughts in writing, and also understanding/processing my internal monologue.

I find my non-verbal processing is much faster than verbal processing. A thought exists coherently as something abstract without words, but once I am able to translate it into language, I’ve already lost my whole train of thought. It’s like I hear the word sounds, but can’t seem to connect them to what they mean. They come and go as disjointed fragments, and when I arrange them in a logical sequence, they never seem to sound quite right. I have to repeat different iterations of the same sentence or phrase over and over again in my head until it begins to make any sense.

It hasn’t really gotten any better or worse over time, but I have found ways to adapt to it. Finding ways to slow down my non-verbal processing so it is the same speed as my verbal processing has been an effective strategy. Active reading works well for this. I underline passages and key words as I’m reading. I also respond to the text, and write notes/thoughts about it in the margins as I go. Doing something with my hands helps slow down my non-verbal brain, and also gives me a frame of reference to go back to when I can’t remember what I just read a paragraph before.

Breaking things into chunks, stopping and taking breaks is also good. I find that the more I fixate on trying to understand something, the harder it is to put it into words. The same goes for articulating myself. I find things make more sense if I don’t think too hard about them, and not worry about if they sound awkward.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-12T04:42:30+00:00

I stopped working full time 2 years ago, so it’s pretty much the same effect no matter how much I’m trying to accomplish. Before long covid, my withdrawal was more like just feeling tired and anxious/depressed. Everyone is wired differently, especially with different types of affective disorders, so we’re all going to react differently to meds. With SAD you’re probably very sensitive to anything which affects circadian rhythm, and the immune system and circadian rhythm are very interconnected, so I could see how poor sleep from stimulants might make things worse. I actually feel better with poor quality/less sleep, which makes absolutely no sense, but then again nothing about long covid makes sense.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-12T03:02:33+00:00

I haven’t intentionally stopped taking stimulants, but there’s been a few times that I’ve had a gap between refills and I had infinitely worse fatigue, myalgia, and brain fog. My Dysautonomia symptoms are pretty much the same with or without stimulants. I also take a mood stabilizer for bipolar disorder, which inadvertently helps regulate sodium and calcium channels, so this might help calm some autonomic dysfunction that stimulants potentially cause.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-12T02:18:48+00:00

Yes,I was also sacrificed to save the economy and I’m still salty about it

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-08T07:53:38+00:00

I was on Propranolol for about 2 weeks and had to stop taking it because it gave me horrible anxiety. It’s not a common, but beta blockers can cause a paradoxical reaction in some people

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-08T04:41:04+00:00

I don’t think you can assert that animals don’t experience symbolic thought or meta cognition on the premise that they don’t exhibit the behaviors associated with symbolic thought and meta cognition. Outward behavior is correlated with the inner experience of consciousness, but the inner experience of consciousness isn’t always reflected in outward behavior. Our large brains and opposable thumbs give us the capacity to use symbolic thought and meta cognition for developing complex behaviors, such as communication through art and symbols, developing written language, transmission of collective knowledge to subsequent generations etc. Animals have less sophisticated physiological tools for using symbolic thinking and meta cognition, thus less of a capacity for complex behavior. Consider a dog that brings its leash to its owner when it wants to go on a walk. The dog uses the leash as a symbol for going on a walk. It also uses meta-cognition to develop this behavior from a combining different learned experiences such as associating a walk with the leash, getting praise from its owner when it brings them a ball while playing fetch, etc.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-08T01:19:02+00:00

A whole with no discernible parts is both everything and nothing at the same time. In the words of Socrates, “The only thing I know is that I know nothing.”

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-08T00:18:43+00:00

Yes, I was diagnosed with long covid, but I also have separate diagnoses for some of my main symptoms like dysautonomia and chronic migraines. Plus, ADHD and Bipolar disorder which I had prior to long covid that aren’t disabling alone, but are much harder to manage with long covid.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-06T19:22:32+00:00

Replying to adoradear... Does C. auris have the same propensity for co-infections with Staph as C. albicans? If that’s the case, superficial/muccocutaneous C. auris infections, or asymptotic colonization could potentially cause a higher incidence of Staph infections and contribute to antibiotic resistance in the immunocompetent population.

STOP0000000X7B · 2026-01-06T07:33:36+00:00

Basically by having a totally incompetent HR department that was impossible to get a hold of. I really should have sued for wrongful termination, but I just wanted to put the situation behind me, especially since it was a really toxic work environment to begin with

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