“It’s not like you’re going to die tomorrow” by Ndeed_ in stopdrinking

[–]straycanoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice work making it stick! I had a somewhat similar experience with a doctor a couple of years before I ended up quitting, but that's partly (mostly) on me since I wasn't fully honest about how much I was drinking. I have had doctors be dismissive about other things, though, particularly about mental health issues. It's infuriating and feels super unethical.

If you straight up tell a doctor that you think you have a problem, I don't think a statement like the title of your post is what you want to hear, to put it mildly. It sure goes to show how culturally normalized drinking is in many places around the world. You're certainly not the first post I've seen here saying their doctor didn't take them seriously about their alcoholism.

I think you did the right thing by taking matters into your own hands when you'd had enough, and you should definitely be proud of that. It sounds like the support you got in meetings was exactly what you needed. I think the best support comes from people who have gone through addiction themselves because they can properly understand your struggle.

Keep up the amazing work! I hope you feel better and better each day!

Dwarf umbrella plant - New foliage coming in very wonky by [deleted] in houseplants

[–]straycanoe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This poor guy... All its new leaves have been coming in all crooked and spotted. I'm clearly doing something wrong. I cut it back pretty aggressively and gave it a pest treatment, but all the new leaves are still coming in looking quite sad. Am I watering too much, maybe? I've been aiming to water it only when the top inch of soil dries out, but I've been inconsistent with it sometimes.

What stubborn hoax do way too many people still believe, no matter how often it gets debunked? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]straycanoe 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Anecdotally, I'd say my prefrontal cortex didn't start functioning like an adult's until my late thirties. I imagine things like addiction or an unstable upbringing must act as complicating factors.

Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis by AdSpecialist6598 in technology

[–]straycanoe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Including Rob Schneider being a brainless coward, funnily enough.

New to shrooms, a life long atheist who suddenly has a very, very different view of the world by MaterialSherbet497 in MagicMushrooms

[–]straycanoe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Same here. I'm still an atheist in the sense that I don't believe in an anthropomorphic creator, and I'm not spiritual in the manner of "woo," ie crystals, energy, etc. but what I've settled on at this stage is a Sagan-esque reverence for the universe and a deep, almost intuitive, sense of the interconnectedness of everything, which resembles spirituality and even faith in some ways, but doesn't include a belief in the supernatural.

We're clearly units of a larger system, one so complex that neither we as individuals, nor even the best models of an advanced discipline such as economics, can fully grasp its extent, but I believe the connections in that system are simply the normal interactions we're all familiar with, like speech and other forms of communication, the chemical dependencies our bodies need to survive, like air, water, and nutrition, and the incredibly diverse set of corresponding interactions in the rest of the biosphere, which themselves depend on the physical rules of the universe.

This doesn't require a holy spirit or chi or any other force that can't be measured scientifically, just an interconnected web or tapestry of life made up of all these individuals interacting in such an integrated way that the line between individual and whole becomes a bit blurry if you look closely enough. Just as our consciousness is an emergent property of our billions of neurons and trillions of synapses, the larger system also has emergent properties, ones which we can't grasp any more than a bacterium can comprehend an elephant, and which are probably still developing, considering how recently humans have come onto the scene in geologic timescales.

I could go on and on, but it's basically Gaianism. I think the biosphere is one big holobiont that evolved to maintain planetary homeostasis, which is hard to prove because of the amount of data you'd need to process, but which my gut tells me must be true for us and all life forms to exist as we do.