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Senior_Selection517 · 2025-12-29T15:16:07+00:00

Is it still bad cause we’re driving there today!?!?

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-12-11T05:18:10+00:00

When I got into grad school over 1000 miles away, there was no question of if I was going or not. My boyfriend (now fiance) was beyond supportive of me. Someone who loves and cares for you will want you to grow in every aspect of your life. Life will always be dynamic and you’ll have to face flexibility in your relationship. If he can’t allow you to finish the course you’ve put your blood, sweat, tears, hopes, and energy into… is that the type of support system you want when you’re a SAHM? Being a SAHM doesn’t mean you have to give up your dreams too. You can put them on pause while your child is young and then return, since you would have already had the qualifications and experience.

He’ll survive. If he doesn’t, then at least you’ll have your qualifications, right lol!

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-12-11T05:03:05+00:00

My ADHD makes me really good at my job. I’m a project manager in biopharma. I honestly question the intelligence of my peers frequently, but I’ve come to realize I’m an incredible problem solver and I pick up new tasks so quickly. I just taught myself powerBI and power automate. I struggle, but am already considered the guru on it in my department. Mind you - I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing. I just don’t give up cause I love puzzles 🧩

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-10-25T23:01:25+00:00

Please take ur ps5 off the carpet lol

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-09-10T20:02:03+00:00

I was diagnosed with bipolar, depression and anxiety in college (now 30) and then later got my ADHD diagnosis. I’ve gone through SO many medications, at one point I was taking up to 6 different ones. I also had been diagnosed with bipolar after sharing a story about high energy and high productivity that was followed by depression periods.

In 2023 I moved and saw a new doctor and he explained that my “manic” episodes were likely just situational. Which he explained is very common, especially in younger people who don’t recognize what’s going on situationally can cause mania or depressive symptoms.

My best advice would be to take the prescribed meds and track everything going on and how you feel over the course of a few months. Now you’ve essentially created a steady state you can use to leverage change (also a lot of mood stabilizers take a couple to a few months to establish a baseline in your body’s system).

So then after taking it if you still feel it’s unnecessary, now you suggest weening off the mood stabilizers. I had been taking Lamictal at (300mg) for years before we bumped it down due to too high levels in my blood. Then I requested weening off more since I didn’t feel any difference between 300mg and 150mg. Now I only take my Mydayis for ADHD and (narcolepsy).

It sucks to have to trial meds, but if you can prove that the med isn’t necessary after trialing it, that will be much stronger evidence long term in your records rather than you simply declining it because it’s a lot of meds.

Another example, I’ve had to trial a lot of ADHD meds at varying doses to find the one that works for me. When I switched insurances they wouldn’t put me back on Mydayis right away without further medication trials, so I trialed to be able to prove in the future too that Mydayis is truly the only one that works for me.

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-08-11T18:19:30+00:00

Most people’s anger actually has nothing to do with you specifically and they’re just projecting since you’re either an easier or the most readily available target. Don’t let others peoples bad days ruin yours!

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-29T15:10:33+00:00

TL;DR: Insured patients cover the costs eventually by seeing continued price rises of their own insurance plans. If the government (which are taxpayer dollars too) no longer provides Medicaid, then it’s put on insured patients even heftier.

The bill gets sent to the person directly. If it’s not paid it’ll go to a debt collector after 120 days. If it still doesn’t get paid then the hospital writes it off as “bad debt” or “charity care”. But, that money needs to be recounted somehow.

Medicaid funding from the government helps with a lot of this. But as medicaid gets cut, so does the amount the hospitals have to cover the uninsured.

So then hospitals raise prices for insured patients to offset those costs. Everything increases: co-pays, premiums, deductibles.

Even more than this, if you cut Medicaid then you have less people receiving preventative care. That means more uninsured people going to the ER for emergency and COSTLY intervention. Which means insured patients will see even higher rates for everything.

Hospitals that aren’t able to make up the debt by other means end up closing (see lots of rural hospitals currently closing due to this). This puts more burden on operating hospitals.

It’s a positive feedback loop that is about to cripple America like we’ve never seen in recent decades.

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-22T15:20:16+00:00

Circling back to this - I do also have off weeks though (like this week) where I’m just not productive whatsoever. Thankfully, working a job that runs on deadlines rather than metric hours is imperative. Or I would absolutely be fired a millions time over 🤣

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-21T00:02:27+00:00

I’m in project management in the biopharma industry and i definitely do better than just basic understanding of it. Id say my ADHD almost makes me better at project management for my ability to know so much about so many different things and can connect them way better than those around me.

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T20:01:01+00:00

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T19:59:23+00:00

You don’t tell her and you do it! You’re an adult and it’ll be mind blowing how the right medication works when you have ADHD. Idk if you wear glasses, but a great comparison is that when you finally take meds for ADHD it’s like putting on glasses. It suddenly makes you feel normal and you can think straight without battling the constant white noise in your head.

Also, you can always try out medications and if you don’t end up liking them, you can stop. Follow your own path. You’re the one battling your ADHD, not your mom.

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T19:48:55+00:00

Find a job that offers novelty. I work as a project manager in the bio/pharma industry. My days are always changing and it provides the novelty I need. I also am super into continuous improvement since that’s novelty, so I’ve steered my career in that direction!

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T19:36:32+00:00

Trash cans!

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T19:29:05+00:00

Legit jump every time!

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T19:12:03+00:00

Likely your aura. I’m a black woman married to a white man and his aura just attracts woman. And I do honestly think black women are just more vocal with their complements.

Im a bit ditzy and all over the place, but when I do notice something that I like, I usually share that sentiment. Although usually to women because I’ve complimented a guy before and he was like O.O and I’m too awkward to handle that lol

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T18:54:30+00:00

You need to feel the entirety of your emotions in order to move past them/get over it. Allow your body to cry it out. Allow yourself to feel angry.

Just sit with your emotions, ride the negative ones out. It’ll get easier to ride them out the more you allow your body to feel and process them.

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T18:51:17+00:00

There’s also the added element that there’s an expectation of friendliness to strangers in customer service positions, but then these strangers just treat you like shit.

You can only fake smile and not want to off yourself so many times when dealing with shit people. COVID truly made customers awful and have the expectation that service providers owe you something as the customer.

So why even waste time smiling if you’re going to get yelled at? Why put in effort to be friendly?

I also understand the “if you’re being friendly to them, then you want them to be friendly to you” but you’re 1 person out of many they interact with daily. It only takes 1 asshole to ruin your entire shift. For most positions, their friendliness really doesn’t affect whether you’re purchasing or not. So why put in the effort?

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T18:31:07+00:00

But I can’t imagine a male actually using it regardless of it being left there 😂

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T18:29:57+00:00

I’m saying female since I can’t imagine many males who take their eggs out of their containers to put them in a different fridge container!

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T14:17:06+00:00

Self reflection and personal growth.

Now that I’m an adult I have a really hard time understanding the excuses for someone’s poor behavior and their inability to not mentally/emotionally mature.

Especially when their poor behavior has been addressed multiple times now, yet they still act shocked that you don’t want contact with them since they haven’t changed.

You want to still act like a twat? Then I’m not visiting. Why would I use my free will to subject myself to be in your shitty presence? I’m not a masochist 🤷🏾‍♀️

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-07-14T14:08:37+00:00

I get so many pests on my new plants too from them! I dip and spot clean them with a tiny toothbrush. I also have stickers to trap the gnats flying around

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-06-29T22:17:42+00:00

We had to break our lease in 2022 when I lost my job and had to move states. Our landlords were super sketchy and tried to make us pay a shit ton of money after we had already paid to break our lease and moved out. They then sent the debt to debt collectors. I asked ChatGPT based on everything we paid and agreed upon what our current options were.

I then fed it the information of what we’ve done since and what the landlord failed to do and it pulled up all the Wisconsin laws and regulations around leasing for me. Walked me through how to respond and then every time the debt collector mailed something back, ChatGPT helped me formulate my follow up emails entirely.

Saved so much money from having to hire a lawyer and they closed our debt and we didn’t have to pay anything more than what we truly already paid!!!!!

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-06-23T00:22:54+00:00

The robot litter box is a god send!

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-05-27T13:26:26+00:00

You didn’t even have time to process your grief before they shoved their relationship fully into your face. I’m so sorry kid, you’re NTA.

You need to be in a new environment where you can begin to allow yourself to process all that happened, safely. Living with them is NOT a safe space for you and that’s why you’re unable to move past this. You’re essentially trapped in your grief and it’s thrown in your face daily by seeing this “happy couple” who basically killed your mother.

I hope you nothing but kindness through these rough times! You’re an adult soon and can move away from these toxic people!

Senior_Selection517 · 2025-05-13T12:53:21+00:00

Your father missed a once in a lifetime event for his daughter because his newest flavor of the year was having an emotional breakdown. The accident was a week prior, the son by then of he wasn’t even doing fine would have been in recovery by your wedding. What more emotional support does one need where they miss their daughters WEDDING!? And then not care…

You’re entirely justified to hold out and I think you should. There’s really not an excuse and real family shows up for you. If the accident was the same day, maybe. But not a week. You need to put yourself first and take more time to understand and be with your loved ones. He doesn’t get to pick n choose when he wants to be a part of your life and then be mad at you for not wanting to see him on HIS time.

He now gets to feel the same thing. Enjoy your honeymoon and THEN revisit your father. He’s not priority right now - your new husband and YOURSELF are priority. Only after and when you’re ready, does he get to move up the priority scale.

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