As a former Christian, it was sickening to see how women/ girls are treated like second-hand human beings. Always expected to sacrifice their dreams and needs in favor of men, and to be permanently "ashamed". "Why should I be ashamed, I didn't do anything wrong?" "Because you are a woman, and a woman led Adam into temptation." Wtf?!

Also dental procedures are crazy expensive so it's best to maintain healthy teeth.

The pain is real, but so is the love. It will take time, but eventually you will remember the love first.

If today's regulations had been applied in my childhood, my parents had been arrested and sent to psychiatric wards, and I had been placed in foster care.

While this is true, people also shouldn't assume that because symptoms APPEAR mild, that the person DOESN'T have OCD, ADHD or ASD. I have all of these, and you probably wouldn't know it because I'm VERY good ... okay, pretty good ... okay, marginally acceptable ... at covering it up. For example: OCD? I use routines. Zen philosophy helps! I balance. Besides, it doesn't matter to me, and is really none of my business whether or not someone else is "allowed" to use a psychiatric term. I'm not a psychiatrist, and even if I were, I'm not EVERYBODY'S psychiatrist. Point is: I would just let it go.

I posted this below as a comment but have really strong feelings about it so am posting it again separately. Self diagnosis is not enough to claim you have an illness. You wouldn't claim to have breast cancer if you found a lump, you'd go to a doctor for a diagnosis and treatment. Symptoms in and of themselves do not equate to a medical diagnosis. It's hugely frustrating to try and explain that having something like bipolar disorder doesn't make you crazy or violent, or that depression is more than just having a few bad days. I can't emphasis it enough, please don't self diagnose, go see a doctor. If you think the diagnosis they give you is wrong, get a second opinion. But don't let the web and your own opinions tell you what (if anything) you have.

As someone who didn't realize she had C-PTSD and Bipolar disorder until my 30s... I have complicated feelings about this. It is important for people to know that (for instance) OCD is a lot more difficult for sufferers than just being particular is. But at the same time, a lot of people seem to want to make the bar for having a disorder so high that people who are suffering a lot from it think that their symptoms aren't "bad enough" to count, so they never look into getting a diagnosis.

As someone who have struggled with depression and anxiety for the last ten years; this speaks to me. The last three years especially have been the worst years of my life, and it’s a struggle trying to explain my situation to other people. If you’ve never been diagnosed with any of these things you really can’t know what it’s like, and saying stuff like “I know how you feel, I had a really depressing day yesterday.” can’t really compare. Depression is not just having a bad day every now and then. It’s a constant struggle and it’s exhausting just trying to get out of bed in the morning. Same with anxiety; it’s not just being shy or awkward. It feels more like a physical inability to talk to people. And when people use those words without an actual diagnosis it really undermines the seriousness of it.

This fets on my nerves honestly- don't use it to undermine people with actual disorders.

My ex-wife once told my current wife via text message that I was a psychopath because I didn't spread mulch on her flowers when she asked me to. When my wife showed the message to me, I just said, "Yep! That sounds like something I wouldn't do!"😝

I also want to add -... Just because we have been diagnosed with a mental health condition such as PTSD or Acute Anxiety, Depression etc etc etc? It in NO WAY means that we are "dangerous" or "crazy", the stereotype of "mentally ill"... We may have been through something or various things that were so traumatic that's it's left a mark on our psyche and psychological makeup. With help, therapy, sometimes, yes, medication? We will work towards getting through it as best we can.

I was diagnosed ADHD, Dyslexic, OCD, and something referred to as a "working memory disorder" which is that thing where you can't remember a common word/phrase. Nowadays they might even throw in some autism for my extreme human contact avoidence. But I was always forced to be around people and be social in a huge family, and found it all physically painful. As an adult I learned all kinds of tricks to hide or cover up my mistakes, but it eaks through and some days my Brian is turned off and I can't rememebr for longer than ten seconds, and other days I can calculate the time, distance, and location of a half dozen drivers across the city for 12 hours.

I find it astonishing the number of people who drive, whilst knowing they are neither not safe drivers, or have a condition that means they don't meet the health requirements. Driving is a privilege, not a right.

I thought this was gonna be about microplastics not inadvertently sparkly toes.

Don't tolerate that. The level of "family love" is not measured by how much b******t you are able to absorb. If you are scapegoated by your family, go low contact and get therapy. You'll discover it affected you in unimaginable ways.

From discrimination, to apartheid, to ethnic cleansing, to genocide. And it doesn't have to be a particular creed, race, etc. - the ones being dehumanized all too often are the homeless, whom far too many of us dismiss as "winos and junkies."

And the school/parents/whoever is responsible letting it happen.

My exhusband didn't think therapy would help me or our marriage. He had a brother with schizophrenia who wouldn't take his meds. Not taking your meds meant therapy didn't help. So, they all just assumed therapy was useless. Yeah, tell that to someone who is severly depressed.

And a lot of people don't realize that in countries like the USA and Japan, slavery is alive and well. It exists in literally every country in the world.

Yep. Had shin-deep water nearly take me out to sea. It's THAT violent

They problem is I like to stay up and wake up late, but society makes me wake up early and I can't fall asleep early enough to get enough sleep

I'm just learning now as an adult in my 50s how much different my life could have been had I been brought up in a different environment and not gone through many of the things I went through. The worst is just a general inability to trust other people.

Although some people think it's the worst thing ever - in Australia voting is compulsory. It makes it much fairer, though. EVERYBODY gets to vote, and there are steep fines for any employer who doesn't allow employees time to vote. Polling places are everywhere, and most will have a sausage sizzle and/or cake stand. it becomes an almost festive occasion. Honestly, it's a much better system.

This comes from living in a toxic, abusive and highly critical environment during childhood. Therapy helps, but it takes years and a lot of personal effort to change limitative beliefs and self-sabotage. But it's doable, and it's worth it.

...and a sturdy pair of boots, reinforced pants and jacket. I cringe every time I see a video of someone in sneakers, shorts and a t-shirt on a powerful bike. In the event of an impact, you end up at best with fractures everywhere, in the event of a slip like a piece of grated cheese.

Rap music in general is repulsive to me because most of it is about bragging and disrespecting other people. INB4 - no, not all, and there are a few rap songs I like. But if you just have a bunch of rap on shuffle and listen to one at random - usually bragging and disrespect and gratuitous swear words.

Get a high protection sunscreen. And you might want to reduce sun exposure. You don't have to look like you live at the tropics.

Which is absolutely ridiculous.

I live in western USA and I still see a lot of this common kindness. Yes there are exceptions and those probably stand out more in our minds. You remember the 'rude a-hole' longer. But holding doors, or one car at a four way stop waving the other car through when you both arrive about the same time. Stopping for the person trying to cross the road. Things like that - I've seen in the past week. I'm not in elevators a lot but on my trip in January I routinely saw people waiting for others when using elevators. (that was some in US but more in Korea / PI).

Work won’t love you back

And a selfie stick!

Yes. The Soviets drained the Aral Sea to grow cotton. https://www.columbia.edu/~tmt2120/introduction.htm

Your car is designed as a complete, integrated safety system, from crumple zones to anti-submarine seatbelts and airbags to soft interior fittings they are all working in conjunction to save your stupid, squidgy organic mass from getting pulverised. If you remove an element by not wearing a seatbelt or bodging the welding on your sills then you weaken the system significantly, why would you do that? It’s there, use it and save your own life. PS I got t-boned by a big Merc, my tiny Honda took it like a champ, written off but side airbags and decent design meant I climbed out of the window and was well enough to be pissed off at the guy who hit me instead of needing an ambulance.

I went to see a lot of live music in the late 80s and early 90s. I have pretty significant industrial deafness now - my hearing is still really good when it's relatively quiet, but if there's a lot of background noise (pubs, bars, restaurants, etc) everything becomes white noise. Still worth it - I had a lot of fun seeing all that live music!

And women hitting women. Lesbian relationships are not immune to domestic violence. As my daughter found out.

The trouble with hypertension is that it's often completely asymptomatic. I had alarmingly high BP and felt absolutely fine. I went to the Dr, though, and it's under control now.

"You made me scream and swear! You made me hit you!" - um, no. It was your own decision, and your own lack of anger management. Your close ones are not your emotional garbage basket. Get help.

Kids are such a huge investment in life. I really wish more people who consider it before just having kids just because.

Heat exhaustion can be easily treated if you spot it early enough to prevent it developing into heat stroke. Fluids and salt. Oh, and get out of the sun if possible.

I’ve been lucky to avoid serious infections and only had antibiotics as a child, this year I got a very painful infection in my testicles that scared the living daylights out of me, one ultrasound later (and yes that was an experience I don’t wish to repeat) and a short course of antibiotics and it was dealt with very swiftly. I implore people to ONLY use antibiotics when they are essential, we have good immune systems, keep them in tip top condition by ensuring you are filling up on decent vitamins and minerals! Be kind to your body and it’ll be kind back!

The number of women AND men who were sexually abused as kids is absolutely horrifying. The statistics that are known are scary, plus I definitely believe the majority of victims never say a word so the true numbers must be much higher.

I'm starting to see companies talking about subscriptions for physical items, with logicool talking about a "subscription super mouse" and a housing director talking about "subscriptions" for ceiling fans.

Maybe we should stop putting corn syrup, and gross amounts of it, in all manufactured food.

Road rage needs to be aggressively addressed. The roads are the new wild wesr.

All governments lie. Over and over

She's an idiot

This song agrees with you 😄https://www.google.com/search?q=baz+luhrmann+always+wear+sunscreen+lyrics

I was late to therapy one time because I helped a trucker find where he was supposed to go. A county road was closed, with no nearby detour route. The trucker was new to the area, so wasn't sure how to get to their destination. I told him to follow me, and I would get him there. I got to therapy late, and apologized for being late. I told my therapist why I was late, he said "you didn't have to do that". Well, why wouldn't I help someone that was easy enough to help, and that wouldn't take me too much time.

I had two colleagues who got enough speeding tickets each they had to go to remedial drivers’ training and would bìtch about it. Well, if you don’t speed, that won’t happen. The time you “saved” speeding likely doesn’t add up to the time you spent in remedial training either!

I find it really difficult to maintain any kind of posture these days without some or the other support. I do try but it’s hard

I've met a few who do it precisely BECAUSE the know it has impact. A couple of them did it for attention and power. A third one actively enjoyed it like a zingy topping to food that was otherwise flavourless.

Just drink some bleach and don't worry about it. /s