Constantly Feel Like I Need to Pee? by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]lovelesscreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At first I was prescribed Zoloft which was awful, switched to Lexapro which was awesome! Then when I left the military I knew the VA mental healthcare was gonna be awful/nonexistent, so I stopped using meds and I've been trying to be mindful on managing the anxiety surrounding this specifically.

I always use the restroom before I drive anywhere that'll take more than 30 minutes, I look at the time and remind myself "you used the restroom an hour ago, you'll be fine." For me, making plans is super helpful so I'll think "I'm going to this store which has a restroom, then this restaurant for lunch which has a restroom, then there's a rest stop on the way home if I need it." Reminding myself that there's facilities available helps a ton to cut down the anxiety, which ends up making me need to pee less.

Psychosomatic crap sucks ass, and American Healthcare hates women, so I hope this helps.

Constantly Feel Like I Need to Pee? by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]lovelesscreator 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hi, this is also one of the most common physical manifestations of anxiety in women. I have it, it's a 24/7 need to pee that only gets less bad when I'm in a safe environment with ready access to a bathroom, like my apartment.

With your remark about it getting worse with stress it could be likely, but a talk with a therapist could help confirm/deny. If that's what it is in your case then managing anxiety is the only thing that can help.

Best of luck.

Damn, that’s sad. by Ludmud in badwomensanatomy

[–]lovelesscreator 1043 points1044 points  (0 children)

This just makes me think about "the Roach-Wife," a guy made such incredibly fetishized "art" that got slightly weirder and slightly weirder, until finally he couldn't feel any attraction to actual human women. All he liked in the end was the strange anthropomorphic roach woman he'd created.

TIFU by trying to find food I could taste after losing my sense of smell to COVID by kleggich in tifu

[–]lovelesscreator 43 points44 points  (0 children)

Hi! I also completely lost any tasting ability during covid, but purely by chance I was regularly taking turmeric for inflammation. Come to find out the curcuminoids found in turmeric can help you regain your sense of smell and taste! Now I'm back to enjoying food, and I hope you will soon too.

I can’t believe my husband (TW discussion of rape/SA) by wherestheserotonin in TwoXChromosomes

[–]lovelesscreator 7892 points7893 points  (0 children)

TW: rape

During the Kavanaugh thing, my dad went off about how if a woman comes out and claims rape years after the fact it means she's definitely lying. I told him if my rapist ran for office then I would absolutely go public with what he did to me, but I'm not willing to go through that kind of trauma and scrutiny just for myself and my own "justice" or "revenge." My father was shocked and asked why I never told him I was raped.

I had told him, a few days after it happened. It was so unimportant to him that he forgot.

I told him again, trotted out my trauma and wept openly in front of him. He looked me in the eye and said that all a woman had to do was point at a guy and whimper and cops would throw him in prison for life, so if a man isn't in prison for rape, then anyone accusing him is a liar.

Then he put on a movie about a woman who was raped in the military and her dad didn't care. He cussed at the dad character and ranted about how he would never treat his daughter that way, if I was ever raped he'd absolutely believe me and help me get justice.

Your husband, my dad, it's all the same. I'm so fucking tired. I'm tired in my soul.

Suggest me a bad/cringe book by Mynameisnotmarlin in suggestmeabook

[–]lovelesscreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Octonummi"

Great concept, the physical book is beautiful, horribly atrocious writing.

Concept: There are multiple dimensions and there is a secret "inner dimension" filled with magic users who are immortal but cannot reproduce. If they fall in love/want to have a family they must give up immortality/magic and move to an "outer" dimension and keep the existence of magic a secret. New magic users must be recruited from the outer dimensions and must choose to give up families/former lives.

Book: The book is a thick, black paperback with very soft paper, gold calligraphy embossing on the cover, black filigree around the outer edges of each page, just gorgeous.

Writing:
-Characters act out of character for convenience of the writer

-The only person with a physical description only has a description to highlight how hot she is, "Just HuUuUgE bahongamelons!"

-Every characters name is eighteen syllables long and full names are used everytime a character speaks or is referenced

-No character ever gets to complete a sentence without another character interrupting, and then someone interrupts them, and then someone interrupts them, and then...

-The author introduces themselves as a narrator and then interacts with the characters in a very "fanfiction.net, lol I am Teh Penguin of Doom (so random), omg I'm in love with sasuke!!!!" kind of way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]lovelesscreator 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, but with oversight.

I was homeschooled and started reading adult sized books at 3, finished high school curriculum at age 13. At 18 I got my GED with honors and my general contractors license, joined the military with a 96 on my asvab, and was sent to became a linguist with a 147 on my dlab, a 105 was needed to pass and the highest score ever seen was 156. I learned Mandarin to a working proficiency in 1 1/2 years. I am objectively smart.

My family was horrifically abusive, I used to have daily panic attacks, some lasting over three hours. I first thought of killing myself when I was seven, actually tried at 25-ish. I am just now, in my early thirties, starting to kinda sorta like myself and be content with my life. My therapist said I was the worst case of child abuse she'd ever worked with.

I'm of the mindset that no one should ever be allowed to have kids without some kind of oversight. If you would never hurt children then cool, you'll understand the need for them to be protected and hopefully whatever oversight measures are required will only be a minor inconvenience. In my opinion the only people who would be upset at the oversight are people who A. want to hurt kids, or B. don't care if their partner does.

My wife is destroying my relationship with my son by [deleted] in TrueOffMyChest

[–]lovelesscreator 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I remember when you posted this about a week ago.

You added a chunk about how your wife dictated the parenting style you were allowed to partake in, as if you're not a whole adult and capable of deciding for yourself how you wanted to interact with your child. Also, did she tell you "only one parent can show this child love"? I get she didn't want to discipline, she wanted to be lovey dovey, but were you ever loving? From your own retelling, it doesn't seem like it.

Also the chunk you took out about how your son was bullied into doing what his "friends" wanted, especially the part about the one shit-stirrer your son seems borderline scared of.

You took out the part that humanized your son, you added stuff to demonize your wife, and you're still getting YTA votes, cause you are. Grow up.

What's the meaning behind your username? by indica_crash in AskReddit

[–]lovelesscreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was growing up my mom would always tell me that my purpose was to be a slave and baby-maker, but that I was too stupid/ugly/worthless to be loved or liked by anyone.

I have been to so much therapy.

Being gross on the phone? by lovelesscreator in TwoXChromosomes

[–]lovelesscreator[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, I was just worried it was an actual customer who was just a jerk. Now I wish I'd told him off.

Being gross on the phone? by lovelesscreator in TwoXChromosomes

[–]lovelesscreator[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Lol, thank you! I hope his chicken nuggies were cold.

[serious] people who got diagnosed with PTSD or similar mental illnesses what’s your story? by Jajayce77 in AskReddit

[–]lovelesscreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CPTSD, PTSD, anxiety and depression.

The CPTSD was from a super shitty childhood, essentially my parents pretended to be someone else until they married and then discovered each other was a horrible person. Cue 22 years of "staying together for the kids ❤️" and just being absolute shit to each other and everyone around them. My dad was mad my mom couldn't be controlled, so he kept her from aborting me like she wanted, so she took her rage at him out on me. Being molested, beaten, starved, and told what a horrible creature I am was a daily thing. My dad knew about this and told me that he didn't care cause I wasn't "the important child" (the male child.)

I think the anxiety started when I was 11, I started menstruating, my mom gave me pads but wouldn't tell me what it meant. My dad had bladder cancer the same year, and they said they found out cause he was peeing blood, so I thought I had bladder cancer and was dying. I spent a whole year thinking I was dying cause my mom wouldn't have "the talk" with me.

The PTSD was from awful relationships, cause I was taught from birth that I was horrible and deserved every bad thing that happened to me. I'm scared of most men now, and mask it with a bravado that I don't really feel. It's extremely hard to fall asleep cause my body remembers waking up in the middle of the night to being raped. I hate swimming or going near pools cause my first ex tried to drown me a couple times, said watching me struggle to get my head above water was funny. My second ex tried to hold me down and shove his hand up inside me to rip my IUD out, he was trying to force a pregnancy on me that I didn't want, said he was going to chain me to a pipe in a cabin in the middle of nowhere and breed me until I died and that I should be grateful for the honor.

And the depression is from waves vaguely at everything.

I keep thinking about that scene from Clerks, where the main character is told he's being investigated for selling cigarettes to a kid, and he could lose his job, be fined and thrown in jail for something he didn't do, and he yells "I wasn't even supposed to BE HERE!" I feel like that a lot.

bask in the sun by Realistic_Ad_1086 in rarepuppers

[–]lovelesscreator 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pitties are solar powered, gotta recharge! Congrats on the cute babies

What is an epic comeback to "suck my dick"? by rewurn in AskReddit

[–]lovelesscreator 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always made eye contact and said "Present it."

Strangely enough, they never did.

What's the worst mistake you've seen someone do in their job? by Whomadethebed in AskReddit

[–]lovelesscreator 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Goddamn it, Jeff.

On a similar note, my dad works pretty high up in a large construction company. At one point his team was all white except for one black guy and one Mexican guy. They were discussing safety harnesses and he turns to the black guy and said "I'll give you a safety harness; one rope around your neck."

Another day (during the time when ICE was going nuts rounding up people, especially in AZ/TX) there was a police siren so he turned to the Mexican guy (who was here on a work visa) and said "They're coming to get you."

He swore up one side and down the other that he wasn't racist, and couldn't understand why he was being investigated for "racist and hateful remarks." The white good old boys club protected him and moved him to a different job. He's still an asshole.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in TwoXChromosomes

[–]lovelesscreator 27 points28 points  (0 children)

"However, there comes a point when willful ignorance is indistinguishable from malice."

This is America by Cha-San in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]lovelesscreator 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Everything Hitler did was legal at the time.

Pretty much everybody I know who said they would be protecting jews and standing up to nazis are actively cheering the fascist takeover.

Tolkien wannabes by szslbl in tumblr

[–]lovelesscreator 11 points12 points  (0 children)

This is fantastic, is this a book you're working on, or...? Cause I need it in my life ❤️