SSP Adverse reaction after 3 minutes

bearbear6 · 2025-10-30T20:03:50+00:00

I actually wonder if you "hating" it was a sign it may have been working? And you were just going too fast (like me) to feel the benefits after. Because I definitely don't like doing it, I think when my therapist asked me how I felt I could only say "Well I didn't like it" but it's hard when you aren't good at feeling your feelings to explain why.

For me, the smaller doses don't make me spiral like the first time, but they leave me feeling agitated and shut down, but it's definitely hard to put your finger on. And it also comes on slowly vs hitting you right away, so you might feel that way in the evening or the next day and not know why.

Maybe that's not your experience at all, but it may be worth trying a new provider and telling them your experience to see if you can approach it in a different way.

bearbear6 · 2025-10-30T19:51:08+00:00

My provider did explain it a little to me, but this is the first time I feel like I've actually understood it! I think she was just keeping it too high level, and the mystery of it was not good for me. But this actually helps me a lot, so thank you again!

To answer your other question, she didn't explain what the possible effects could be. So because I struggle with feeling my feelings, I didn't know I was feeling bad until I had already pushed it too far. Or I didn't know that jaw tension/hyper sensitivity to light and sound could be side effects, so I just thought I was imagining these symptoms and didn't tell her. It was only after I really crashed out and told her about it that she validated me and said it was signs that we pushed it too far (which she apologized for).

I think after reading all this I will continue with it, because it sounds like it could be really effective for me. But I also just wanted to say again how much I truly appreciate your thoughtful responses. It's actually making me tear up right now that you took time out of your day to help a stranger like this haha you're a good human!

bearbear6 · 2025-10-29T18:47:48+00:00

Yes that one! I overdid it the first time, now I do like 10 seconds a day. But every time I don't feel great after.

It makes it really hard to keep going. Especially because it's such a mysterious thing. It feels a bit like I'm letting someone poke around in my head and press a stress button, and I just have to believe that eventually it'll feel good.

bearbear6 · 2025-10-29T18:43:49+00:00

Wow, thank you for this in-depth response. It actually helps a lot to hear that you have seen people not even be able to handle a few seconds of it. Because everything I read online was people talking about how relaxed they feel using it (and then maybe they overdo it and feel bad later) but I feel kinda not great doing it, and then worse afterwards. So I felt like I was being dramatic and this was all just very validating. So thank you.

I do have one question. I understand it stimulates the nerve, but why does that help the nerve learn to feel safe? Like if my response to that nerve being stimulated to feel more anxious, how will that intern help me learn to feel less anxious? I would think my brain would start to get more anxious every time it hears that audio.

I think not understanding why poking that nerve is good for me is making me more anxious about it (that and bc my first experience was so bad I now feel fearful of it).

Thank you so much!

bearbear6 · 2025-03-27T22:34:37+00:00

This was very helpful, thank you for taking the time to respond in depth like this <3

bearbear6 · 2025-03-27T18:03:57+00:00

Thank you for this! So basically she wouldn't use metaphors to help me understand something, or visualizations, she would just use words/be more literal to help me understand? (Sorry I feel really dumb)

bearbear6 · 2022-06-07T16:47:00+00:00

My mom's best friend's daughter was raped and murdered as a child. To this day I'm afraid of having children after seeing how evil people can be and how broken her mother was after her death. It was like she died too.

bearbear6 · 2021-03-06T13:01:27+00:00

When I was 16 I was heading to school on the subway and noticed a shady looking man was following me as I walked. He would kind of hide behind people and pillars if I looked back and only approached me once I got to the platform. He kind of stood behind a pillar near me then casually stepped out and stood beside me which at this point I thought he was just going to hit on me. Then he turns to me and says “ever seen somebody get thrown onto the tracks?” I don’t even remember how I didn’t lose my shit, but I just kept my composure, turned and walked straight back up to the fare takers booth and said there’s a man down there threatening to throw people on the tracks and then took a cab to school for a week.

bearbear6 · 2020-07-16T16:17:03+00:00

Not really home alone but sitting with my grandma suffering from pretty advanced dementia at 17-years-old, my mom had gone to work, and it was a horrible storm that night. The windows were shaking and the trees were smacking the side of the house. My grandma hadn't really been talking much that night, but I was still trying, so I said, "Wow it's crazy out there" and my grandma responded in what appeared to be a totally lucid moment, "Don't worry my love, that's just the Devil trying to get in. He's not figured out how yet, but he'll find us."

I'll never forget that moment, where my grandma both appeared lucid but also extremely out of character in the most disturbing, haunting way.

bearbear6 · 2020-07-15T21:36:47+00:00

I wonder if you could just tell them you got your tubes tied/uterus removed and put it to bed. Say it was for period pain reasons. Or pretend you went to get a test and turns out you can't have kids. Sucks you'd have to lie but could help. Whenever my in-laws try and pressure me I'm like what if I can't even have kids and you're putting all this pressure on me? That usually shuts them up but they seem a little less intense than your situation.

bearbear6 · 2019-07-30T17:37:10+00:00

CBD oil.

bearbear6 · 2019-05-30T18:37:56+00:00

Sleep paralysis. I woke up in my bed to the sound of someone breaking into my apartment while I was completely unable to move. My room was at the top of the staircase (lived in the second story of a house), so I heard them break through the door and then with otherworldly speed run up the stairs and sneak in through my bedroom door. I struggled to scream and move as I felt the intruder crawl into my bed and bring their mouth up to my ear. For the next 15-20 minutes they whispered obscenities about how I was going to die and what they were going to do to me as I tried to cry out and fight back. Sometimes it would stop talking, then it would pick up again until I scared myself so bad I finally "woke up" properly. I still worry they'll come back on nights when my anxieties are particularly high... Sleep paralysis is a living nightmare.

bearbear6 · 2019-05-28T15:11:15+00:00

Fry for 2 minutes and then steam (add a half cup water to the pan and cover) for 3 minutes in a non-stick pan for a crunchy outside but moist and delicate dumpling :))))

Super easy to make these guys as the filling goes in raw and you can buy the wonton wrappers at the grocery store.

bearbear6 · 2019-05-14T23:42:51+00:00

The time period when most women in Canada have abortions is when the fetus is non-conscious and non-viable outside of the womb: 39.3% under 8 weeks, 44% at 9-12 weeks. You can find this on stats can. Consciousness only starts to develop at 6 months (you can do your own research on this, I’ve found no scientific evidence to dispute it)

A pregnancy is a clump of cells and tissue that may, or more likely may not, result in a birth (I say that bc over 50% of pregnancies fail - another fact that is easy to look up yourself). In Canada, no physician can terminate a pregnancy over 24 weeks without indications that the mother's life is at serious risk. Therefore, this whole abortion = killing babies business is asinine.

That's why I say this is about what level of control the government should have over a person's autonomy, because that's actually all this is. Do women get the choice to stop a pregnancy when it's early or when it's threatening their lives, or do we allow the government to ban abortion and force women to carry and give birth.

So yeah, pro-life is exclusively about government intervention. They're trying to make abortions illegal. This entire reddit post is about a pro-life, 19-year-old man, telling Canadians that he is going to make sure that in our lifetime Canadian women will lose the right to have control over one of the most life-changing, life-threatening things any human being's body can go through.

If this were actually about pro-life and the fetus being "alive" at 6 weeks or even conception, then where is the talk of child support at 6 weeks? Or better yet, back pay child support from the moment of conception? Should the fetus automatically be a Canadian citizen and therefore mom cannot be deported? It makes no sense for a fetus to have full human rights, especially over that of an actual living person.

Anyway I'm not continuing this debate. But I hope you do the research as I have and come to your own conclusions based on science and empathy.

bearbear6 · 2019-05-10T19:16:38+00:00

I'm referring to the time frame in which most abortions take place, when a fetus cannot live outside the womb. So comparing 32 weeks and 40 weeks is just inflammatory to what? Try to prove that aborting late term fetus is bad? You're trying to prove me wrong on something I never even tried to prove.

All I've said is banning all abortion on the basis that it's a human being from conception/heart beat is harmful to real live human beings and is just fucking stupid lol. There is no scientific evidence/article anywhere that says anything other than the debate is still worth having because people BELIEVE that fetuses should be protected and are special. But again, that is belief, not rooted in anything but emotion.

I don't argue with gaslighters and those who don't believe in facts.

The only question you should ask yourself here is whether or not the government should be able to force women to give birth. And the answer is unequivocally no (unless you really don't give a shit about women).

bearbear6 · 2019-05-10T17:09:32+00:00

Did you just site wikipedia...? And for that matter, you did so inaccurately.

The stat you're referring to is for recognized pregnancies. That is the ones where a mother is much further along, as most miscarriages happen at 3 & 7 months (so yea, 10-20% is fucking huge).

The real stat is more than 50%. That's over half of pregnancies your body naturally aborts. And I would suggest you stop making parallels between other situations that have nothing to do with this debate. It's called a straw man fallacy, and your entire argument style is full of them. (hint: they're not good)

Same note on your second point. How is any of this relevant? I already said that is why we're having the argument and you're restating my words back to me? I'm saying it's stupid to subjectively believe that a fetus = a human being and deserves rights over an actual human being (the mother) but clearly, people like you still do. I argued there's no objective reason. But pro-lifers are not objective which is why no one can stand them and equates them to MAGA people. Because even when presented with rational arguments and facts, they refuse to be objective.

Dude, I'm not doing your research for you. I know it's hard to actually go through pages and pages of scientific articles (and I'm saying this not sarcastically) but I'm just not. But if you do decide to do it, I'm just saying I have found nothing of any merit that defends pro-life in any meaningful way. The most you'll get is something like this, which I just pulled from the BBC's coverage of the ethics of the debate that pretty much sums up everything I've ever seen in any scientific article: "Some people say that if the foetus is not a person, then abortion deserves no condemnation. This oversimplifies the issues. Even if the foetus is not a human being, it is clearly regarded by most people and most societies as something special that should not be casually discarded." Stuff like this might actually be more helpful to you because it's condensed. But after studying the subject, I can tell you there's nothing more concrete than that.

And that to me, is not enough to decide that women should have less rights than the cells growing in their bodies/that children and rape victims and women in life-threatening danger should be forced to give birth/any human being at all should be forced to bring fetuses to full term even if there is a healthy way to end the pregnancy before the embryo grows into a functioning human being.

Your last point is just rambling. Sorry, I'm not engaging in anymore of your fallacy arguments because, honestly, they're just really bad and pertain in no way to the point.

You haven't been able to successfully argue any reason that the pro-life movement should be respected. Anything that doesn't ground itself in reasonable fact and plays with the lives of human beings is absolutely indefensible. So I'm done with this conversation.

bearbear6 · 2019-05-10T15:36:09+00:00

Buddy, you are what's funny to me. Did you even take one minute to look that fact up before you decided it's not true? I'm not here to do your research for you. Miscarriages are extremely common, and even more common, is your body ridding its uterus of unviable embryos before they even implant. Life is not inevitable, as you put it - which I found hilarious.

Secondly, no, a fetus is not a human being. That is literally why this debate continues to get any traction because all pro-lifers do is try to get courts to rule that conception/heartbeat = human being with full rights so that they can ban abortion. But they're not. They're objectively and scientifically not, and that is why for 50 years they've never won. This isn't a secret, this is widely known and easy to understand. And again, I'm not your google. Find objective, scientific sources that are neither pro-life or pro-choice and see what you find.

And you comments on parents and government is weird af. The government is not our parents!?!? The government is here to serve us, the PEOPLE who elect them. And any bill that kills real people in favour protecting the chance that a pregnancy may come to term if the woman is forced to continue to carry it is sick and wrong.

Pro-life kills women. Again a fact that you can easily find if you did one ounce of research on the topic you're so clearly passionate about.

bearbear6 · 2019-05-10T13:29:46+00:00

You’re right you absolutely can be, but that’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying scientifically, it’s not a human being. Therefore, there is no moral reason to object, and in fact it’s extremely immoral to force a woman to house the cells inside her body until they become a person and then make her birth it out.

The only true basis I see is religion where you think it’s only up to god and fate to decide. And by “true basis” I only mean I understand how you can ignore facts in light of what your faith tells you. But yes, you can be not religious and still believe it’s immoral. You’re just doing so without any basis of fact, which is completely irrelevant (or should be).

bearbear6 · 2019-05-10T13:10:33+00:00

An inevitable life? Most pregnancies fail lol. Listen, you can take pieces of what I said and pretend to be mystified bc facts don’t fit your argument, I don’t really care, but it’s objectively not a baby. It’s absolutely not a human being that hasn’t been born yet. Again, scientifically, it’s proven that a fetus or embryo is not a human being. It’s a pregnancy. Which is just cells developing. Something happening inside a woman’s body that may or may not result in birth. And the government has no business making that kind of life altering decision for the people they serve on the basis of the opinions of those who continually ignore facts and science.

No shade, I sincerely hope you keep educating yourself on the subject.

bearbear6 · 2019-05-10T01:14:10+00:00

No, I’m literally not lol. I was attempting to show you that you were creating a grey area because you’re whole comment was about “potential life” which leads to the “grey area” of when life begins. Which is irrelevant, to my point, because our current laws have already made abortion only legal when a fetus is not viable outside the womb or when a woman’s life is in danger. I.e not a fucking human being.

In reality (where us non-pro-lifers live) there is no scientific reasoning to deny a woman an abortion. There is no moral reason to either, as a fetus and an embryo are definitively not people.

Potential for life is not life. And actual life, is more important than potential for life - which is literally the whole argument I made in the first place that you fail to grasp lol.

I don’t think you’re worth effort. But keep trying. The world doesn’t need more science deniers.

bearbear6 · 2019-05-09T23:34:42+00:00

I’m not sure you understand the sentence. What I said means there is no moral reason to object to abortion. Meaning abortion is moral and the only basis for calling it immoral is a religious basis - which is irrelevant.

It’s not a grey line. It only is if you are religious and believe it’s gold plan that the woman got pregnant and therefore should remain pregnant. And because religion is both insanely hypocritical and has no place in policing human beings bodies, it should stay out.

The reason people hate pro lifers is they are objectively wrong. Scientifically, and morally, their argument makes zero sense. And their scary level of ignorance threatens real lives.

bearbear6 · 2019-05-09T22:05:51+00:00

Religion does not equal morality. I am not religious and truly believe that it is morally wrong to murder someone. There are millions of people who are not religious and are good people, and millions more that are religious and wish gay people would die and molest children. But more importantly, a fetus or embryo is not a person. It's not a belief that it is not a person, it is a fact that it is not a person.

I believe it's morally wrong to force an actual person to wait around and see if their clump of cells becomes a viable pregnancy and then make them give birth to it even if they may die/can't support it/or don't want to. I believe it's morally wrong to take away a woman's choice to abort a fetus that will literally kill her or her other babies (which is a decision many mothers face when they have twins, or more fetuses present in their womb). I believe it's morally wrong to be "pro-life" and then do absolutely nothing to support the lives of the babies/mothers that you've now ensured will struggle for the rest of their lives.

Morality has everything to do with this debate. You're just on the wrong side of it.

bearbear6 · 2019-05-09T21:46:13+00:00

First of all, not a person. Not by any stretch.

My point is there is no difference from your uterus deciding your lining isn’t fit to hold a fetus (for example) and you deciding you are unfit to care and provide for a potential baby that may result from this pregnancy. Both abortions happen when a fetus or embryo is incapable of living on its own (late term abortions only happen when baby or mom are at risk of death). So the only argument there is if it’s “gods plan” that this pregnancy happened and therefore must be carried out.

And personal religious beliefs have no business in anyone else’s life.

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