• StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Every nerve is fried. My heart is beating so fast, and the nerves in my neck twinge. I teleport around the apartment, quantum, fleeting. Electricity courses through my body in waves.

    SNRI withdrawal is wild. 3/10, do not recommend. (A 3, because sometimes it feels like my brain is in freefall and it’s almost pleasant).

    I’ll be fine, I have the meds now. The woes of executive dysfunction and supporting a local pharmacy that closes on Sundays. 🤦‍♀️

    My one last morning volunteer shift is tomorrow, so up at 4am, off at 6am, start at 8am, finish at 12pm, should be home by 2ish-pm. Rest. Cleanup Wednesday in prep for MIL visit from Perth. Then TAFE on Thursday and Friday.

    This turned into a ramble. Enjoy lol

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      SNRI withdrawal rates 0/10 in my books. I remember having constant brain zaps and feeling like a completely out of control bag of volatile emotions. Probably nothing about it felt good because it fucked up work so badly. Hope you manage to get back on track asap. I would risk going to a chain pharmacy to avoid SNRI withdrawals in the future…

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      Sorry for how you’re feeling. I’ve heard withdrawal symptoms can be awful.

      I hope you feel better soon!

      • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Ty 💜💜💜 It’s not my favourite experience, that’s for sure. Not even in my Top 50.

        But least it isn’t painful, just unpleasant as you said

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Made it in for a bit but was too much got out straight away:

    Wasn’t the size of the waves but the power in them was impressive. Zero people walking their doggos heh.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    My daily rant as an old person.

    Using the words Processing and Unpacking when speaking or writing of thoughts.

    I truly dislike these words because it turns people into machines, into objects. It’s how a psychopath wants you to think about yourself and events. They want to define how you think and feel.

    People reflect on events and feel emotions, they don’t process. When you use the wrong word/idea you distance yourself from who you are.

    People think about their lives and events, they may or may not think in an analytical way, they don’t unpack. I unpack my groceries and when I do I’m not analysing what they are, how and why I bought them, the origin of the groceries, I’m not trying to make a narrative that makes sense, I’m not relating my groceries to other groceries. I’m just picking them up and putting them away.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      I unfortunately use these kinds of words as a result of working at a community organisation that was run by an interlinking system of committees. There used to be a lot of meetings, and people padded out their conshy sounding contributions with the sort of language that adds absolutely no meaning. Honestly the joint was a bit like a cult and it took me a long time to deprogram myself.

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Agreed! So much more is involved in reflection than just “unpack/process”. I’m not “putting away” my thoughts, nor am I “processing” them like a warehouse. Sure, one can make a metaphor for how the brain stores memories (short and long-term, and how that can be disrupted, the effects of such disruption, etc) to how a warehouse stores stock or moves it. But as with all metaphors, they are lacking in a fundamental way: they discount the humanness of thinking and memories. The process of remembering and mindfulness is less a straight line of “A follows B follows C follows D…”, and more akin to “A reminds me of F, and I feel X about that, but maybe I should think about D and how it relates to L and I can use that if I encounter G…”.

      Thinking of us as machines, well, dehumanises us lol.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        I might do a little rummaging around to find out when that terminology first arose and who is responsible and why.

        I admit manipulation of language and beliefs bother me.

    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      When unpacking I usually circle back, touch base and re-process, re-pack then if the synergistic ducks are in a row it’ll be all blue skies.

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
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      2 months ago

      The only time I use process is when someone tells me some really big news and immediately wants an answer. I’ll reply with “um give me some time to process that”.

    • Elias@social.librem.one
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      2 months ago

      @Seagoon_ @briongloid

      > Using the words Processing and
      > Unpacking when speaking or
      > writing of thoughts
      >
      > I truly dislike these words
      > because it turns people into
      > machines

      I feel the same. Same thing also with the word “content”. If I write something, like an article or whatever, I did not “produce” anything, and certainly not “content”. Even this little mastodon comment here, silly as it may be, is not “content”. It’s something I’ve written where I (a human!) expressed some thoughts.

  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Through to an interview with second preference job, Friday lunchtime. I’ve already done online testing with great results and submitted a five minute video. I’m hoping this is more of a formality at this point. I am a great candidate

  • Taleya@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    w000 first of two distills done on the sugar wash. Using up the last of my kits…took a gamble on dried yeast that expired in 2021 and was not kept in a controlled environment in any way, shape nor form and it’s popped up at a respectable 50% after stripping run. A smish of soda ash, a dash of water, back into the still and then I begin the cuts

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
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        2 months ago

        Base. Probably gonna end up in the hard solo, or maybe another burbon. Last burbon I made was apparently rather good, given how quickly it went, even if I was straining the cask chips out with a tea strainer.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    Just playing some vintage LPs I got last week, one is an album of movie music by Alfred Newman ( Randy Newman’s father ) and bless me but the album starts with the fanfare of 20th Century Fox, it appears Newman wrote it!! I was not expecting to hear that .

    The album also has a booklet with “movie stills”, I like the one of swashbuckling pirate Tyrone Power. 😹

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    woke up at one point last night on my side, knees at a 90 degree angle with a pillow in between, feet resting on the spaces between the ball and heels and fingers interlocked. Ontop of this rain was pelting the brick wall behind my head and I have to say it was the most comfortable I’ve been in a LONG time.

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
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    2 months ago

    It’s bin night and there are only 2 other bins out on street. Normally 8pm would have you last bin out by a mile!