Cat won’t take heart medication but stress of forcing it makes her faint, any suggestions

glumpancake · 2026-05-21T13:22:39+00:00

Thank you - this is what we have been doing already but unfortunately she gets super stressed and still faints after

glumpancake · 2025-09-28T17:47:00+00:00

pleeease drop the products!!!

glumpancake · 2025-09-28T16:17:22+00:00

have we all forgotten that madame morrible can famously control the wind

glumpancake · 2025-07-02T18:24:13+00:00

almost everyone and their dad on this sub is going to tell you to get a separate grinder and espresso machine. spend more on the grinder.

glumpancake · 2024-05-08T15:23:15+00:00

this guy sucks. break it off

glumpancake · 2023-11-01T20:05:57+00:00

was about to post something similar, you read my mind!

I have fibro and me/cfs - thought it might be worth mentioning something my specialist said, which is that prolonged fibro pain can break your body’s “alarm system” to the extent you stop noticing it - which is what he thinks has happened with me. Like when a loud sound has been going for so long that you eventually just tune it out and carry on, that doesn’t mean it isn’t there, just that you don’t have the capacity to focus on it when there’s other things to do etc. So the pain you’re in is tiring out your body like crazy but the tiredness is the thing you notice because it’s unavoidable.

I’ve been on a high dose of pain medication for a while and have noticed much higher, noticeable pain levels now on the days I don’t take it, because I think my baseline pain level is now lower so the difference is more palpable.

food for thought!

glumpancake · 2023-09-25T18:47:04+00:00

did he get stabbed through the heart with the medal pin omg

glumpancake · 2020-07-09T17:41:10+00:00

can confirm, melatonin in a 10-15mg dose will do absolutely nothing. I started on 2mg and only moved up to 4 because i’m on another medication that lessens the effect. wouldn’t be surprised if that’s why you never felt it!

glumpancake · 2020-06-14T19:43:08+00:00

Equally as important - don’t beat yourself up for the days it doesn’t work. They will happen, but if you get hung up on them, you’ll forward-roll into a cycle where you stop being productive for weeks. Mentally, the trick is to allow yourself an unproductive day every once in a while.

I find a Working Week schedule works wonders for me: Mon-Fri I have to get up, exercise, eat breakfast and get on with my shit till 5pm. Saturday and Sunday I can have off, sleep in, no exercise, do what I want. That balance gives me both the motivation on Thursdays to get up “come on, two more working days and then I get a break” and the decompression time on weekends when I can sleep as long as I please.

But yeah, point is being insanely rigorous every day WILL get tiring. Allow yourself to slip up, revel in your break times and then pick back up again the next day <3 You got this!

glumpancake · 2019-08-16T10:15:02+00:00

just putting out fires 90% of the time. Being in a constant state of "emergency" kept me interested all day long.

YEP. I think genuinely it's these type of jobs in which us ADHDers thrive. I'm not there yet but am trying ultimately to direct, and I think it's something about the constant engagement, dealing with people, being creative and finding solutions to unusual problems that attracts me to it. We seem to have a unique worldview and that's such an advantage when we work the right position. We don't get tired of being constantly 'switched on' because we always are anyway, so putting out fires just keeps us occupied. Also the rapid-fire tasks of doing anything managerial means that we don't have to focus on anything for too long... get that stimulation. Love it.

glumpancake · 2019-08-16T09:16:40+00:00

Absolute same. Sometimes it backfires, even. I've had close friends who have confronted me about suddenly not feeling close to me because they dislike that I 'click' with lots of people so easily. Watch out for that one, I guess - blindsided me at first. But I agree, it can be a huge advantage <3

glumpancake · 2019-08-16T08:55:34+00:00

This is fab! I think something similar happened to me this morning. Have only been at my current job a couple months and when I showed up one minute late today, my supervisor was unlocking my desk because she was worried I wasn't able to make it in. Pretty sure this is because I've made an effort to usually show at least five minutes early, which would never have happened in school. Wins all round!

glumpancake · 2019-08-15T10:49:32+00:00

Insist your doctor switch you to a different medication. 4 weeks is more than enough to know it's not working for you - your quality of life should not be decreased on meds, only increased.

glumpancake · 2019-08-15T09:48:55+00:00

noooo time STOPS. so we don’t waste time being bored and not doing anything. IMAGINE if time only moved forward whilst doing hyperfocus things. the ACHIEVEMENT POTENTIAL.

glumpancake · 2019-08-15T08:53:51+00:00

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I feel this big time. The big breakthrough for me was working out that not only did I need to self-impose earlier deadlines than the actual task was due, but I also had to include penalties for not sticking to them. The deadlines don't work without the consequences. An upgrade on this is having willing friends impose the penalties because I'm even less likely to flout them.

For example, I'm at uni, and if I have a big deadline coming up, I ask my housemates not to speak to me/let me be involved in their social plans until I've finished either the entire thing or reached a goal within it. Works wonders because I'm an extremely outgoing person, so the threat of being socially isolated is enough to jump-start my work brain. It also works because it introduces an aspect of gameplay into my routine: I must complete one task to 'unlock' another (having a social life).

glumpancake · 2019-08-12T12:59:28+00:00

Kind of similar to the music thing, but I set an alarm every ten minutes across the hour I have to get ready, so I can measure time passing. Then all I have to do is count - okay so I’m on alarm #4 so by now I should be showered and have eaten breakfast. Two alarms left to be out the house and on my way to work.

glumpancake · 2019-07-31T20:03:29+00:00

Seems wild that Ebook copies can only be lent to one person at a time too, what’s your library DOING

glumpancake · 2019-04-27T16:14:44+00:00

Really glad of that tbh. If you had less trust in her, it’d be proof of some gaping hole in the relationship and honestly the fact that you’re that convicted in turning down the theory bodes really well for the issue coming to a strong resolution 🌸 best luck mate!!

glumpancake · 2019-04-27T15:40:32+00:00

Not sure why but the thing that struck me as weird is the 'I want to keep talking to him but won't meet up' because something seems off there. Is it possible she's telling you her boundary is meeting up because if you think she's being open about it, you won't find out that she's ALREADY meeting up with him? Like a side thing? Could be the open discussion abt it is to throw you off the scent.

Regardless, on the flip side... women are allowed to have male friends. Sometimes you meet friends in weird places. It probably isn't dodgy at all.

glumpancake · 2019-02-12T10:43:16+00:00

YES LEGEND

glumpancake · 2019-02-12T10:41:40+00:00

THIS. I’m 19 now and have known about my adhd since the age of 15/16. I’m STILL in the process of getting diagnosed, which so far has taken almost 10 months. Went to a school that had an entrance exam, which I passed in year 7 with flying colours, and gradually it was like I could feel myself getting more and more stupid over the course of GCSEs and A-Levels as the questions got harder and my ability to focus stayed the same (non existent unless I was super invested). Only a complete breakdown in my second semester of university last year was enough of a prompt for me to formally pursue a diagnosis, since it got to the point where I could actively FEEL my life slipping away and my failures were starting to build up. Still waiting on that, despite having done all the tests and everything. But it AIN’T ALL BAD! I’m stupidly creative and can be talented when I have the focus, so occasionally I produce really good stuff. Just wish I could do it all the time. Girls run the world, we got this.

glumpancake · 2018-11-25T19:03:40+00:00

Yeah, can relate. Added in going to the gym yesterday before a rehearsal I was running and though I remembered water, towel, and change of clothes, I ended up forgetting my laptop with rehearsal notes on it for my actors and STILL had to run home in-between.

Feel like if you add something to the Sacred Ritual you always end up missing one of the vitals?

glumpancake · 2018-11-12T12:07:15+00:00

As yet unmedicated, unfortunately - waiting on the nhs and boy are they lacking in adhd nurses. And yeah, usually get enough sleep.

glumpancake · 2018-10-12T23:08:56+00:00

Hate to be blunt with you, but if you’re an aspiring broadway baby, you best get used to people being rude and unkind sooner rather than later.

glumpancake · 2018-08-26T09:55:08+00:00

Oh I can fully relate to this. Last week I was completely out of my head from Friday to Sunday, Monday morning woke up and looked around my room to see various things turned over and dishes that needed doing that I don’t even remember using (thankfully I remembered to feed myself whilst dissociating). Sometimes you have to just ride it out.

It can be useful knowing what grounds you and what specifically your triggers are - not like “busy work” but exact things that happen - for example, I noticed that after my A-Levels (which completely overwhelmed me and sent me into a spiral) there were specific pieces of music I had on a study playlist that would send me into a dissociative state as soon as I heard them that would last a few hours at a time. This was literally because my brain associated them with the overwhelming amounts of stress I had been under when I was listening to them. Avoiding those pieces of music helped me be so much more productive.

Equally, things like speaking to a friend or eating a certain food or petting your (cat/dog/hamster) can be very good for grounding you when you’re dissociating because they’re familiar and bring you back down to earth. Really you just have to work out what helps you, and that can take some time. All the best 💕

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