I was on 2mg/day patch, but had to switch to pills because my skin hated the adhesive. For some reason the pills hit me harder so I'm on 0.5mg/2x/day at present

Strands #866
“Categorically speaking”
🟡🔵🔵🔵
🔵

That top one had me stumped for longer than I care to admit lol

I'm on clonidine because I have a multi-generational family history of aortic dissection. I was on vyvanse for about two years before my dad's aorta killed him. I've never been more on top of my life than when I was on a stimulant. But clonidine absolutely does help me focus, and it reduces the noise in my head, even if the effects are less profound than the stim.

I just added buproprion back into my daily meds, hoping that's going to help more with the executive dysfunction

GTA: San Andreas and Cyberpunk 2077 for anyone wondering (like me)

I mean, it was very performative and it felt more like a novelty with how shallow it was. That's what was weird, there wasn't respect towards the traditions or an attempt to gain an understanding of the history of the faith or closeness with god.

I suppose looking back all of the traditions we practiced felt performative lol

My family celebrated both Passover and Easter for a few years. We were not Jewish, although we do have some distant Ashkenazi ancestry.

There was a trend for a while for people to "prove" their devoutness as Christians or Catholics by celebrating Jewish traditions because they gave rise to Christianity. It was weird

It's not ridiculous to ask for outside views, I mean, there's a reason advice columns were so popular for so long. And you have a really healthy reason for doing so. You're also not a scaredy cat; there's enough history with that person for alarm bells to ring, you're looking to keep yourself safe.

I'm going through a similar situation where I realized I didn't have any good feelings or thoughts after speaking or seeing a friend, and I absolutely had to walk on eggshells around her. I can look at her life and see that it's trauma driven, but she has enough self awareness and resources to overcome it. But she won't, and I don't deserve to be the recipient of her anger at other people or her own misery. You deserve to have empathy for yourself, too

It's okay to realize your life path has diverged from these people and step out of the friendships. Even if they at one point donated you a kidney, you shouldn't stay friends only out of obligation. You don't seem to really need extra friends in your life, and if you did, you'd likely meet new potential friends through your hobbies anyway

If it were me, I'd just have a list of canned replies like "oh, hey I'm super busy right now. Maybe X can give you their opinion on that profile", or, "thanks for the invitation! But I need to run some errands and help my mom out this weekend". This way you're not really breaking up with them overtly, because honestly I'm not sure they wouldn't react in a crazy way. After a few weeks of being unavailable they'll (hopefully) slowly stop reaching out.

She says she doesn't, but I know she does

That's so fucked up I don't care if a cute cat is next to the words

Edit: didn't expect my most down voted comment to be about rape jokes, but here we are

MacKenzie strikes me as a very intelligent woman. I think at the stage of wealth Jeff is at, he doesn't want intelligent in his life