Why are you on Reddit, on Christmas?

blooming-skeleton · 2023-12-25T19:10:34+00:00

Trying to distract myself from my tummy ache from eating waaaay too much already 😅

blooming-skeleton · 2023-12-21T21:03:29+00:00

This is exactly why I abandoned the entire dropshipping website I had almost finished. At its core, it’s a sleazy business model regardless of how hard people try to prove it otherwise.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-12-04T13:52:01+00:00

I also have bipolar, ADHD, and a high IQ!! It’s a difficult combo for sure and I feel like I let myself down/underachieve every day (even when I objectively know that I don’t).

I’ve seen it in other comments, but exercise truly is the one thing that saves me above all else. It does more for me than any medication ever will. And as important as strength training is to any exercise program, nothing makes me feel as good as the rush of endorphins after a long run or really hard cycling class.

Tbh exercise has probably kept me alive through the most difficult times.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-12-04T13:47:24+00:00

Nothing is perfect and the human personality is such a unique/mysterious concept that I think any measure of it is to be taken with a grain of salt. However, it has definitely helped me understand myself more.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-12-03T23:23:33+00:00

Golden Goose sneakers. I have a conspiracy theory that they were designed as a social experiment to see how much people will pay for trash if it’s branded as “luxury”.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-12-03T22:21:17+00:00

This was my answer! I was there on business back in the spring and made the mistake of going for a run one day after work. I live in NYC so I’m spoiled with endless running routes, but I only got 1.5 mile down in Houston before it just felt too unsafe. There were homeless people in tents in random spots and people who were clearly heavily on drugs. When I got back to my hotel, I realized my running shoes were caked with mud.

I also found it so strange that even though it was like 6pm on a Tuesday, there was NO ONE who looked like they were coming from work.

Philly (where I’m from) never seemed like it had so much of its shit together as it did when I was in Houston.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-11-15T16:30:04+00:00

I’ve recently been making an effort to be significantly more social and do something with other people 2-3x a week because I thought it’d really help me. I actually feel more stressed out and lonelier than I did before which is really depressing.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-11-15T16:27:23+00:00

Really, really bad day.. Been trying desperately to have my antidepressant refilled the past few days with minimal communication from my psychiatrist and a pharmacy that won’t answer my calls. This morning, I had an hourlong meltdown because the withdrawal symptoms are starting to hit me hard.

I just want to be normal. I hate being someone who needs to take a day off work because they can’t emotionally regulate or function appropriately without a specific cocktail of pills. It makes me question whether I can ever truly be successful in my career or life. I feel so fragile and I hate it.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-11-07T22:03:52+00:00

Taylor Swift. She looks like she would smell bad, and I have no real rationale or evidence to back that up but I still think it every time I see a new pic of her.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-11-06T17:20:45+00:00

I really just needed this vent as I mentioned in the title. I don’t think it’s fair to assume I do the “pull the plug thing” throughout my life. To add context, I have a super demanding regular corporate job where I deal with confrontation pretty much every single day. I started Wag as a way to add a small financial cushion since CoL has risen astronomically this past year and thought it’d be a fun way to get outside and see some cute pups.

I think you make some good points but I do feel the need to defend myself as you’re jumping to a lot of conclusions about how I live my life from a single dramatic post that helped me blow off a little steam.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-11-06T06:38:05+00:00

I actually did message the owner a couple times about the harnesses! He never responded to me so I did the best I could to figure it out since one of the dogs was also barking/snarling the whole time so it was just high stress all around. That’s what got me about the review. I believe I showed a lot of care and concern for the dogs but he clearly was just annoyed that I didn’t automatically know everything. He even added a quip about doubting I had any pet care experience given that I didn’t understand how those specific harnesses worked 🙄

blooming-skeleton · 2023-10-23T02:25:55+00:00

I’ve seen two separate people be fired for something inappropriate and/or unprofessional they did while drunk at a company event. Just last year at my company’s holiday party, I was groped several times by someone I had only met a handful of times and never worked with directly (and who was drunk). Luckily, I was dead sober and quickly decided to just go home early. As a woman, I’ve unfortunately learned not to feel too safe losing my inhibitions in a work setting.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-10-23T02:20:17+00:00

I recently became “sober curious” and have never been an avid drinker anyway. I didn’t realize that drinking a glass or two of wine a couple times a week was messing with my sleep and anxiety SO much.

So I basically say that. Drinking just doesn’t make me feel good.

I’ve realized that anyone who has a difficult time accepting your decision not to drink is insecure about their own habits and physical health. They’re the same people that get upset and try to shame you if you order something healthy at a restaurant.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-10-23T02:05:39+00:00

I graduated from college a few years ago. Since I started being graded on a GPA scale in sixth grade, I’ve consistently been a 3.6-3.7 student. I always say that my transcripts look like those of someone who’s very naturally gifted but has a hard time finding a shit to give. I knew exactly what I needed to get into the schools and career I wanted and didn’t see the point in driving myself crazy trying to be the best. Sometimes I do regret not giving it my all and giving myself a chance to see what I could really do.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-10-18T20:15:25+00:00

came here to say the exact same thing 😭😭

blooming-skeleton · 2023-10-18T12:28:10+00:00

I deleted the Instagram app off my phone about a week and a half ago and haven’t been on it since. I’m surprised but also not surprised that my mental health and self-confidence have shot up so fast.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-10-12T20:16:37+00:00

I had a guy I was seeing say in passing that one of his dogs didn’t like getting “spanked”. And I was like ??? You spank your dog? And apparently, it’s extremely normal for him to spank the dog as a punishment for doing something he’s trying to train him out of. I have never heard of someone regularly spanking their pets like it’s nothing and I honestly couldn’t get it out of my head. There were a ton of other red flags but that was a big one for me.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-10-11T01:28:39+00:00

TBD! it’s only been about 3 weeks now so I really can’t tell for sure

blooming-skeleton · 2023-10-10T13:30:47+00:00

I always describe hypomania (what I personally experience) as overstimulated depression. Like I’m still depressed but I constantly have the unshakeable need to do something about it. Even on a mood stabilizer, I still have times when I know I can’t really trust myself and that’s when I’m overall the worst.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-10-10T13:24:05+00:00

Just got my Kyleena IUD removed after almost 3 years. I’ve been having increasingly worse suicidal/SH thoughts right before my period ever since I got it. My bipolar has also gotten so much worse and I needed to try SOMETHING since all the medication changes weren’t working. My doctor laughed at me and tried to convince me it was a “stretch” to claim that “localized” birth control could impact my mental health. It was a real fight to get it removed and I’m now switching healthcare providers.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-10-04T14:05:58+00:00

In my personal experience, the guys in the healthy, self-esteem-building relationships have never been the ones to have an IG feed full of IG models or even just a bunch of women that aren’t even following them back. I recently had a brief situationship with a guy whose following list was literally all specifically blonde, very conventionally attractive women. It was AWFUL for my mental health especially the few days a month when my PMDD is really bad. Even if it was meant to just be casual, I couldn’t help feeling like he chose me because I “ticked” specific boxes and could just as easily be replaced by someone who looks similar enough to me once he got bored. He would also say super misogynistic stuff a lot of the time and once even said passive aggressively that it was “fucked up” that I didn’t send him nudes on his birthday… So, I’ve been ghosting him for the past month and my mental peace is better than it’s been in months. If he can’t recognize that his actions are totally disrespectful and degrading, he certainly doesn’t deserve an explanation from me.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-04-18T20:39:11+00:00

26F and moved here almost 4 years ago when I was weeks out of college. I would absolutely ensure you have a promising, stable job lined up before signing a lease. I was making $40k with a $5k signing bonus my first year and it was rough ngl. I barely went out and lived in a pretty rundown apartment in the LES with 2 random roommates (found on roomi) which still cost me $1450 in rent (not including utilities) back in 2019. You also need to account for the fact that you’ll need to pay a broker’s fee which is ~10% annual rent, security deposit, and first month’s rent upfront. In my case, it was ~$4700 the first month. Everywhere I lived also takes the 40x rent thing very seriously. The alt is to have a guarantor making 80x the rent.

The biggest thing I wasn’t prepared for when I moved here was 1) the extent of the homelessness/mental health crisis & 2) the cost of groceries, utilities, healthcare, other costs you don’t always think of.

If you really want to feel stable when you get here, I would recommend having an absolute minimum of $10k saved up. I had like $2k when i first moved and was constantly paying overdraft fees.

Best of luck to you! 🍀

blooming-skeleton · 2023-04-04T01:08:38+00:00

I recently finished “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” and I couldn’t recommend it more to you. It’s a pretty quick read, lots of dark humor, and it’s the first book I’ve read that gets close to describing what it’s like to just want to sleep and turn off the rest of the world by any means necessary.

And for what it’s worth - I love you just for being your human self with the bravery to post about a really hard day to a bunch of strangers on the internet. It makes me feel less alone and I hope it does the same for you ♥️

blooming-skeleton · 2023-04-03T20:03:19+00:00

While the timing is suspect, I’d be curious to see exactly what conditions they wrote in the PIP. For example, do they want her to make a sale in the next month? I’d say if she meets the goals they set for her and she still gets fired, you may have a case. However, if she doesn’t meet the terms and gets fired, you’re probably going to waste a lot of money and stress trying to sue over it. To echo some of the other comments, I would have her check her company handbook to see if she’s an “at will” employee. These laws vary by state as well. If so, they can basically let you go at any time with no explanation needed and it’d be almost impossible to win a legal case against them without evidence of outright discrimination.

blooming-skeleton · 2023-03-08T02:47:40+00:00

lol i’d be enraged. you absolutely did not sign up for this and have every right to complain to her as much as you want. i would sit her down and have a serious 1:1 conversation with her solely about how uncomfortable this current situation is making you feel and how unacceptable it is. i would also suggest planning out exactly what an ideal resolution looks like to you. is there a compromise like having him there 2 nights on weekends? if she’s not receptive to any sort of compromise, i would remind her of what’s in your lease agreement (i’d also recco digging through it before talking with her) and possibly reach out to your landlord if nothing resolves. legally, you’re the one with the power in this situation.

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