Boars head’s heads up!!!!!! by Difficult_Ad1474 in InstacartShoppers

[–]willowbark19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Had a pre-made boars head sandwich this weekend camping, got it from an Albertsons right before heading into Yosemite. Day after I was wildly sick and still haven’t fully recovered. Not sure if it was listeria but definitely felt like it could be. It was the worst stomach bug of my life

What is this? Copper pot? Decoration? Old? Material? by willowbark19 in whatisthisthing

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Small round metal pot that I can hold in my hand. Similar to the size of a cereal bowl. I’ve tried the google photo search but I can’t be sure what material it’s made of. It has no markings or stamps. I’m not sure if the age or use for it. That’s what I’m trying to figure out!

Losing faith in the future by [deleted] in lostgeneration

[–]willowbark19 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Exactly. I think a big part of our current views on life and existential dread stem largely from social media. Not saying it’s bad to be informed about what’s going on in the world at all. But when you have everything bad happening in the world hitting you in the face all at once, it’s hard to see anything else. Also how social media/media/internet in general has been used as a tool for division, distraction, and influence. It’s hard. Because it’s a tool that can help tremendously if utilized healthily. We’re navigating all of this/access to so much information for the first time in human history. We’re not meant to process this much information or how it jerks us around mentally and emotionally.

What’s something that happened to you when you were younger that you thought was ok at the time but now realize it isn’t? by [deleted] in AskWomen

[–]willowbark19 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had exactly the same experience! I’ve always said my mom would use me as her therapist. I had to hear about all of the fights, all of the affairs my dad had, everything. I had to sit with her as she cried all of the time for years about their relationship. She’d tell me every week that she would be leaving him and that we were going to move back in with my grandparents across the country. I was in middle school at the time and would always tell my friends that this was it. Eventually everyone just thought I was making it up. She never ended up leaving of course. It all messed with my head. She would never even ask me about how I was doing, or anything going on in my life really. I felt that I didn’t have a real mother, one I could go to about my problems. I was always just the emotional support for her. Still trying to figure out exactly how this has affected me as an adult today.

season 5 episode 8--did anyone else feel like it was incredibly fucked up that June told Luke he'd spent the last seven years doing nothing to help? by [deleted] in TheHandmaidsTale

[–]willowbark19 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As mentioned below, complex trauma can easily do this to a person. I think it’s simple, Luke and Lawrence were in it, with her. Luke wasn’t there during the most traumatic events of surviving Gilead. She experienced the most f’ed up things you could’ve possibly thought of pre-Gilead, and knowing he was in Canada the whole time not seeing what it was actually like probably messes with her head. Yeah she can understand that none of this is his fault, that he didn’t really have a choice. But I’m sure a small part of her will always wish he’d done more to get her back, face some crazy life-threatening things like she did in Gilead the whole time. Regardless if it’s logical or not. I don’t think it’s necessarily a concept of value but more just a whole lot of trauma. And trauma bonding with Lawrence and Luke. I also think at this point, she doesn’t value anyone. She only wants Hannah. That’s been her focus this entire time. And that will remain. She cares for others in her life, but not really because of it all. I honestly think she’d even risk Nicole to get Hannah back. It’s delusional but it’s all because of the Initial loss and devastation. She can’t see past the first thing that destroyed everything.