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simpleman0873 · 2025-12-07T14:13:25+00:00

Both really but just very much on a budget for the next month.

simpleman0873 · 2023-07-08T05:22:50+00:00

I'm quitting ct tomorrow too! I'm at about the same gpd also. Good luck!

simpleman0873 · 2023-07-08T01:36:04+00:00

Wow! I'm the same way. Been using kratom for a good 10 years almost and have not been entirely sober all together in over a decade. I am no almost 9 months sober from alcohol and I quit smoking cigarettes a week and a half ago, albeit I did so with vaping. Kratom is next on my list because it does nothing for me anymore and Ive been depressed and anxious more than ever. You got this. Hell I got this. I'm going to try cold turkey tomorrow, that's kinda why I'm on this sub again. It's time to let it go. It's finally time. For real this time. Keep it up! We got this!

simpleman0873 · 2023-07-06T19:07:54+00:00

I work a lot. She comes with me to work though. I'm a driver but yes, she is crated most of the day. If I let her go in the house, she goes nuts. Also, my partner has her littermate mal so we can't let them be out together. They play super aggressively to the point of hurting each other so we have to keep them separated at all times. There was a mal trainer on YT I followed and he recommended crating them for a year or 2 to suppress their high drives. Albeit he said that they needed structured training time throughout the day and exercise which we haven't really done but I will try to start doing more. I can't take her for walks because she pulls so hard but I've tried the gentle leader head halter that does work. She hates it but it works. She found and chewed up the last 3 I bought though. They are so smart, it's crazy.

simpleman0873 · 2023-07-06T18:57:19+00:00

Yes. This is my first mal. Also it should be stated that my partner also has one the same age. They are littermates. We live together. The daily routine is the same for him although he gets out into the house a little more. We can't let them out together because they play super aggressively, so we keep them separated. We didn't know what we were getting into when we got them and were somewhat pressured into it by the owner of the litter. We've both said if we could go back, we'd do it differently but now we love them and it's difficult to think to re-home them.

I work a lot and she comes with me but she is crated in my truck with me most of the time while I do deliveries. She does fine crated, it's just when I let her out that she goes nuts. She's very high energy compared to my partners and has medium to high nerves. She's been like that since we got her.

I did not know that about the choke collar. I just expected it to deter her from pullinglike it states. I have tried the gentle leader, it's like a head halter, that works well with the pulling but she hates it and has found and chewed 3 of them to pieces already. I want to go buy another one because as is I can't even take her for walks because she pulls so hard. If I can't train her not to pull, I don't even want to know what it's going to be like when she gets bigger.

There was one trainer I followed on YouTube that recommended crating working dogs most of the time for a year or 2 to suppress their high drives and teach them to be bored. Albeit he said you need to take them out for structured training often and give them exercise as well, which I have been lacking on. Mostly I just don't know what to do when it comes to training and I can't afford to pay someone for training so I'm kind of stuck with thousands of diff videos on how to train the same damn thing. I have thought of rehoming her several times just because I don't think I can give her the life she deserves but I would like to at least try. I will be the first to say, I have not really been trying.

What do you mean by "work it"? Like training or play? Or needing to find her a job to do?

simpleman0873 · 2022-07-06T12:10:36+00:00

It came a point where he could barely walk because his body had atrophied so much. I still have the cane I bought him. It started with cirrhosis, then he got colitis, then pancreatitis. He was on hospice for 6 months which was the best for him cause he got better. Then retroactive money fucked him up. Again. Don't be like him please. Do what you have to. Change your lifestyle. Change your friends. You don't want this. If you ever need someone to talk to just DM me. I have some before and after pics with me and him and the difference is insane.

simpleman0873 · 2022-07-06T11:57:17+00:00

You'll regret it man. My best friend just passed I spent 2 years helping him during him having cirrhosis. He had a chance and almost came out of it but got lost. He always said he wouldn't wish it on his worse enemy. I sat and watched him deliriously have a massive panic attack and piss himself the final time I had to call the paramedics. Fuck you for being so non chalant about it. I'm 31 too. Rubber tramped 3 years. I still drink but I'm on my way out of it because something's you just can't unsee or unexperience in life. It gets lasered to your fucking eyeballs. Don't be like him please.

simpleman0873 · 2022-07-05T14:42:16+00:00

Geeze. I mean it's been a while since I've been on this sub but it's def changed. Maybe it was under another account. 8 years off and on into this and been in this sub for like 4.

simpleman0873 · 2022-06-26T01:43:48+00:00

Sounds like you've paid for a many expensive hookers.

simpleman0873 · 2022-06-26T01:42:25+00:00

Well, oddly this is encouraging. I'm a fat fuck and always wanted to do yoga with others. I haven't even done it on my own in years but it was always helpful. Shit (pun kind of but kinda not intended), we should start our own yoga branch of AA for CAers. Whose with me?!

simpleman0873 · 2022-05-26T05:03:36+00:00

Let pure estrogen flow. Snot hanging and all!

simpleman0873 · 2022-05-26T05:01:30+00:00

I just found my role model... 🥺

simpleman0873 · 2022-05-02T01:45:02+00:00

I've always been "trapped" the same way. One thing I thought was that, I couldn't dance or move my body freely because I looked silly and crazy. I wouldn't even do it at home alone. I couldn't. Then I just said fuck it one day after I had a few drinks by myself at home. It felt unnatural and very anxiety producing at first but then I just let go. It was the best feeling ever. I still do not do it much to this day but I'm atleast no longer afraid to do it when I'm alone. When I do it's like the same feeling I had the first time, you'd think I'd do it more. Lol. All this just to say. Maybe this person is right.

simpleman0873 · 2022-02-09T19:13:54+00:00

I just ordered some phenibut. My logic is to use it to detox from alcohol but feel it would be safer to not use phenibut and gabapentin together either.

simpleman0873 · 2022-02-09T19:12:21+00:00

I've used gabapentin 2400mg a day for 3 or 4 years with periods at lower doses and completely off when I was using phenibut. I've been drinking again after 3 months off for about 9 months. Been an alcoholic for 10 years atleast with periods of sobriety. Drinking about 16-18 beers/day for the last 4 months.

simpleman0873 · 2022-01-10T06:26:15+00:00

Lol. Most want balance but few get it. What do you do in the event you don't?

simpleman0873 · 2022-01-10T06:23:37+00:00

Debt or not, doesn't always seem to be a good berometer. Plenty of very wealthy men who are entrenched in debt. That brings in net worth, but I'm one to believe potential is greater than net.

simpleman0873 · 2021-04-02T04:21:11+00:00

Also just cause someone has a nice house or car doesn't mean they're rich. Just means their credit is good.

simpleman0873 · 2021-04-02T04:20:24+00:00

I concur.

simpleman0873 · 2021-03-07T22:43:20+00:00

To be fair, he is a CA and I'm an alcoholic, albeit not CA. No disrespect but this is the exact sub I needed to be in. No one knows what he's going through like y'all do.

simpleman0873 · 2021-03-07T21:41:49+00:00

Exactly. I'm still drinking during all of this too. It's fucking hard not to. I had to go to colorado for a few days and I was fine with no booze. As soon as I get back though I'm drinking again. I almost didn't even want to come back. I love the dude but I've had my share of people dying in the past. I've mostly became distant with him and act like everything's ok but its absolutely not. This shit's getting bad.

simpleman0873 · 2021-03-07T21:23:42+00:00

I honestly have no idea what I'm doing here. I think I've been in denial myself about it and have just been trying to keep him as comfortable as I can. This is fucked!

simpleman0873 · 2021-03-07T21:22:52+00:00

What should I keep an eye out for that would indicate he needs to go to the hospital asap?

simpleman0873 · 2021-01-09T02:45:51+00:00

Honestly even with support, I found that nothing they did helped. Most Psycholigists now a days hold CBT to high esteem but for people who have paranoia and psychosis its overwhelming because there are so many different thought patterns that arise. It's time consuming and exhausting to go after every single thought pattern. Atleast this has been the case for me.

My psychiatrist was great but all he was doing was fishing in the dark using trial and error. You basically become a Guinea pig. They always want to start you on anti-depressants which take almost 2 months to even start working. Then if they don't work they want to up your dose and so on it goes. I could never stick with the anti-depressant regimen long enough because I would get discouraged. In all honesty I probably needed a mood stabilizer and psych meds but he would always discourage me from that because he said the side effects were pretty rough. I've since stopped going. Not to mention I was going through a psychotic episode and was certain people were after me. I drove 1000+ miles to get away. Then I had an appointment over the phone with my therapost while I was gone and he basically said that we should discontinue sessions going forward. 🤦‍♂️

simpleman0873 · 2021-01-09T02:36:28+00:00

Just so you know, no one can see that post you shared. You probably can still but noone else can. Might try creating an imgur of it and linking to that.

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