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What POSITIVE CHANGES are you making in your life?
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Mad Dog wrote:
cranberries wrote:
SuperflyTNT wrote:
)stormseeker75 wrote: This little victory today showed me that I can absolutely get my weight back down and I don't have to suffer to do it.
Mindfullness is the real deal.
Cranberries, your post was one of the funniest things ever on this site. You shouldn't have deleted it.
I don't trust anything I write after waking up at 4:00 a.m. due to anxiety.
There's not a silver bullet for depression, but working on your gut microbiome might help with serotonin regulation and production. And there are lots of other benefits to keeping your gut healthy. My gut is relapsing right now due to stress and some poor eating choices, but I'm trying to get back on track.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166223613000088
www.nature.com/mp/journal/v21/n6/abs/mp201646a.html
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I feel like kids could be a whole other topic. Maybe put it in bitchfest or create a new subform to avoid non-members seeing it.
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cranberries wrote: I think our brain chemistry must change when we get older.
I don't know if it's physiological or environmental, but I pretty much agree with this. I feel like most people I know go deeper down whatever path of mental/emotional trouble they started lightly on in their teens and 20s.
After I saw Fight Club for the first time in high school, I woke up in the middle of the night and thought, "once I take a bath, everything will be set in motion." And I did it. Not sure if whatever dream I was having had to do with being part of project mayhem or what, but 5 minutes into the bath, my next thought was, "Holy shit, is this what I'm gonna be like when I'm 80?"
In general, I need to exercise more. I think i was doing better when I was lifting and doing Judo, at least physically and energy wise. I also slept a lot more then, and I was younger... so who knows.
Edit: this is a group of those aphorisms that I posted to FB.
Don't be nice; be helpful.
If you remove the bottom level of a building, the whole thing collapses.
If you "might as well," you probably shouldn't.
If you want a dog, you have to clean up its poop.
You've got time; it's your most valuable resource.
Clean up after others.
If something's broken, fix it right away, or find someone who can.
You gotta do what you don't wanna do before you can do what you wanna do.
Enjoy now, but plan for later.
When you go uphill, you have to pedal harder.
Sorry, I don't speak Whinese.
Neither does Mom. We're a team. And we love you.
Don't fire your NERF gun at someone who is unarmed.
When you take off your shoes, put them on the rack.
Where does that go?
When I ask you to do something, there's a reason.
We like going for walks.
Dab when you sneeze.
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boothwah wrote: /On CC's point - before going through this, I think I would have been as tone deaf as anyone, in regards to depression and mental health - "Have you tried focusing on all the blessings in your life." "Just focus on the positive." "You should avoid situations that make you stressed then." "Maybe you need another line of work."
//Can you imagine if we talked about physical aliments that way? "Have you tried focusing on the good leg that isn't broken?" "Have you tried just walking it off while focusing on the parts that don't hurt?"
///For good goshin' sakes, if you have someone that says they are struggling with depression or feelings of hopelessness don't tell them to look at the positive, count their blessings, or chin up. That something you say to make yourself feel better about not really wanting to get into it with them. Truth be told, they have probably been sitting at the bottom of a dark hole, staring at all the light coming in, but that doesn't help them get out of the hole.
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Actually, the desire to choke a fucker to death daily has gone away. Mostly because I’ve become a massive proponent of apathy. I simply accept that there’s a lot of truly stupid, and I mean stupid to the cellular level, people on the planet. No amount of education or coaching can fix that.
The only thing that fucks me off now, and I mean truly fucks me off to the point of veins in my neck popping out, are bigots and when my wife does something deeply irritating or ridiculously stupid. And I’m then only mad at myself for not seeing 23 years ago that she would not be the person I could have many deep meaningful conversations on various subjects with because she lacks the capacity to do so and hasn’t got an ounce of forgiveness or compassion for her fellow man in her.
You really do follow in your parents’ footsteps.
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Like all good changes this had a domino effect that forced me to examine why I was continuing to buy more games that I didn't need. When I got into board gaming back around 2000/2001 it was more about socializing with friends and making new ones. At least 90% of my friends I have I met through playing CCG/RPG/BG's and they are all great people to know. But as my various game groups spread out in life over the years I'd see them less and less. I'd also gotten jaded about going to random game nights anymore because I was meeting mainly hardcore gamers (particularly cult of the new and euro-snobs) where I used to meet a lot more casual gamers or people just looking to socialize. So I would interact with people online for the past decade more than I would with many of my local friends. This led to me spending more time reading about games online and talking about them online than I would spend playing them offline. Which somehow led to me trying to fill a growing hole in my life with more games that I'd only play a few times to keep up with the online part of the hobby when I should have been filling it with more local friends even if they didn't play games. You can't change to a new path until you realize the one you've been on isn't going anywhere anymore.
Not sure if this even makes sense to anyone else. Honestly not sure that I care if it doesn't or more likely makes me look like an idiot. I'm not after some kind of validation. I'm someone who fixes their personal problems on the rare circumstance I actually notice one. That's good enough for me.
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Despite all that, I broke a tooth last night while eating a cookie. It was a molar that got an excessively large filling many years ago, and so the tooth only broke off on the outside side, leaving a gnarly-looking metal filling and some tooth left on the inside side. There is no pain, but some temperature sensitivity conducting through the exposed metal of the filling. I already had a six-month cleaning scheduled for next week, so I will call the dentist today and see if I can get a longer appointment.
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Black Barney wrote: hard cookies serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever in life.
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Oh, those awful biscuit things the brits try to pass as cookies. Hard tack with sugar.
My mom used to make those Nestle Toll House bar cookies. Now they call them blondies. That is what a cookie should be.
/My wife and I got into our first argument when I asked her if we (meaning she) could make peanut butter cookies. She said she didn't know how. I thought she was putting me off and just didn't want to.
//I thereby cursed the marriage, and every cookie she makes except for a specialty xmas cookie comes out thin, crispy, or inedible. She is a wonderful cook. She just can't do cookies.
///Daughters are bakers. Praise be!
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Black Barney wrote: hard cookies serve absolutely no purpose whatsoever in life.
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My cookie was store-bought, not fresh out of the oven, but of only normal hardness. As I think back on it, the damage might have happened a week ago, when I bit into a bit of hard sediment on the carrot that I didn't bother to peel while packing my lunch. I remember now that I was surprised that I didn't lose a tooth when I heard that sound. The same sound that I heard yesterday when my tooth finally broke.
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Flossing very overrated. Definitely no need to do it multiple times a day or anything like that.
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Gary Sax wrote: www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sc...0802-snap-story.html
Flossing very overrated. Definitely no need to do it multiple times a day or anything like that.
I think it depends on the structure of your teeth and body chemistry (some people just have a more acidic pH, I think). To be anecdotal, my dentist always seemed to find cavities during my visits, or at least once a year, until I started flossing once a day. I was a regular brusher, occasional flosser, and decided to just pick up the habit & see. I haven't had any problems since then, going on 20 years now.
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