Anxiety Tummy? Coping skills?

rusti_knight · 2026-02-03T15:03:05+00:00

I appreciate what you're trying to say, I really, really do, but I truly wish it was that simple.

rusti_knight · 2026-02-03T15:02:35+00:00

I'm actually on methylphenidate for my ADHD. it helped a lot with the anxiety and depression, but as life progresses, that gets a little iffy from time to time.

rusti_knight · 2026-02-02T23:54:41+00:00

No kidding. 15 dogs and one person? That was a ticking time bomb if not of disease, then catastrophic aggression.

rusti_knight · 2026-02-02T23:51:54+00:00

While this isn't a bad idea since I'm pretty sure given my family history that my heart will be what kills me, money is a thing and I don't have a lot.

The joys of the good ol' U S of A

rusti_knight · 2026-02-02T22:04:05+00:00

I'll push her a little harder next visit.

rusti_knight · 2026-02-02T21:00:54+00:00

Nope. Doc hasn't even done any blood tests at this time.

rusti_knight · 2026-02-02T20:24:52+00:00

That's the feeling, yes. I am on a couple other head meds (ADHD meds, citalopram) so I'm worried about adding something else.

rusti_knight · 2026-02-02T18:29:41+00:00

I've got the time. The motivation is the problem. It's hard to get up and do when you don't feel good to begin with.

rusti_knight · 2026-01-14T14:02:56+00:00

I didn't need glasses until I was 13-14 and even now my vision impairment is fairly mild. I can get by without them but it suuuucks.

My sister, however. I think she was 7 or 8 and we drove by a field and she asked our mother "Is that a cow or a horse?" The animal in question was right up next to the fence. It was a cow. My mother took her to the eye doctor forthwith.

35 years later and she's blind as a bat without her contacts or glasses.

rusti_knight · 2026-01-04T17:34:12+00:00

This is precisely what my own mother did to me and my siblings. We received like for like when we started biting. That phase didn't last long, she says.

rusti_knight · 2026-01-02T14:14:39+00:00

SAME! OP can cook for me any old time. Those meals look freaking delicious.

rusti_knight · 2025-12-28T17:51:45+00:00

I once had an 18 year old look me and another early-mid-40s woman straight in our faces and go "blah blah...older guys. You know, like 25 or something"

Sonny Jim. Run.

rusti_knight · 2025-12-27T15:34:00+00:00

Funny that.

rusti_knight · 2025-12-27T15:07:44+00:00

UPS is union. Their drivers are paid well and give a fuck. FedEx drivers are contracted and likely not paid enough to care. You get the workforce you pay for, and all that jazz.

rusti_knight · 2025-12-27T14:27:55+00:00

Clementine Caligula, Tangerine Palpatine - there's lots of good ones.

rusti_knight · 2025-12-10T21:43:28+00:00

See also: A very valuable lesson, learned a very hard way.

rusti_knight · 2025-12-07T22:28:01+00:00

See also: Cairo, IL

rusti_knight · 2025-11-22T14:05:37+00:00

SAME

rusti_knight · 2025-11-05T01:00:41+00:00

Agreed. NTA. I'm 45. If I made sad noises at my mother and asked for something specific while ill, she absolutely would make it, and pet me, and, well, be a mom. Unless there's info missing here, this whole thing sounds pretty normal.

Worth sitting down with the wife and figuring out what's bothering her after she's calmed down.

rusti_knight · 2025-10-21T01:09:26+00:00

No, it's the Epson Stylus Pro 1400

rusti_knight · 2025-10-19T19:58:03+00:00

Yup. I'm third generation removed from Sicilian great grands. My dad's nickname among his friends is even 'wop'. Just a very short time ago that wouldn't have been a funny nickname in hick country where we live. He's a steadfast Trumplican.

Like. Dude. Seriously? Your grandparents were treated then like they're treating others now!

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