Hi everyone! That’s right, it’s time for another c/disabled megathread.
Update on the meds: they work! Quite well, actually. I feel like I’m finally functioning at a reasonable level, like I was not only getting stuff done, but I’m now able to actually effectively multitask (as much as one can lol). I’m quite happy with how it’s working, and I might not even need an SSRI at this point. If I’m getting anxiety from the meds, I’m not feeling it, because they actually reduced the amount of anxiety I have to deal with. I don’t know how (thinking ADHD-induced anxiety), but yeah, I’m a lot better than I was just last week. Quite happy for that, might actually be able to manage the end of the semester without crashing and burning this time around.
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Mask up, love one another, and stay alive for one more week.
Got prescribed ADHD meds (will get delivered tomorrow), gonna receive help finally getting my prescribed CPAP (I kinda forgot about it) on Wednesday, and uh consulting about a surgery (not bottom surgery, bariatric), honestly I guess I’m moving forward kinda/cautiously optimistic
Yay!!!
Easter once again reminding me how there’s no hate like Christian ‘love’
Hope everyone got through the weekend okayChristians are so mean. What did they do this time?
I hope you got out alright
just over a month till summer damn time sure flies when you’re dissociating
Mood tbh, also I love your username
i should probably consider talking about job stuff at all a massive trigger for me. even if im just giving advice to a comrade it causes me to spiral, what the heck
Right there with you comrade
Ooh it’s not just me? Thank God, let me in there
Fuck basketball for having those constantly flashing lights. Especially when there’s three giant sceeens of it in a restaraunt. Death to the NBA.
I also hate how all media now tries to move as much as possible nowadays, can’t enjoy treats without feeling nauseated
My school has just placed a highly punitive zero tolerance policy on attendance. My ADHD ass is looking at getting kicked out for being about three minutes late four times this month. I am going in to talk to them about how I am pretty sure ADA reasonable accommodations include letting me be <5 minutes late a few times without getting kicked out. This is gonna suck. Since I don’t think the people who would invent this policy are people who are reasonable to work with.
Are you in high school or college? There’s definitely an office to talk to in college.
Community college level kinda. It is city trade school program. So it is government and the assumption would be it is college level as any other program of this type would be at a community college.
Attendance taking post-high school is such fuckery. It’s your money you’re wasting if you don’t go to class. And it’s indicative of a shitty teacher if people don’t show up and still pass. Being late? Who gives a shit?
(You shouldn’t skip class but things happen during university).
The policy is if you are late you are sent home. If you miss enough class you are kicked out if the unit. This is upsetting to me as I am not very late. I am changing adhd meds right now so I am having a rather severe difficulty in being perfectly one time. I am getting am A in the class.
I have no idea who you’d need to talk to since it sounds like a smaller program. But generally post high school level you can get more accommodations but you need to reach out and keep contacting people.
I have a meeting with the program director about the invoking ADA right to get scheduling flexibility. I am just not optimistic about how it will go.
The important thing is to not take no for an answer. Keep pushing. You don’t need to be confrontational, but persistence works.
I feel a bit like a fraud/imposter posting here despite having Schizophrenia (since im kinda highly functional most of the time). The meds really do work for me as long as the dosage is correct. Lifes good for me atm. There are challenges for sure but compared to many im doing pretty dang good.
Glad to hear things are going well for you
Well my achilles tendons are well and truly fv(k£d. Just when I’m coming up to my final surgery and the light was at the end of the tunnel with regard to being able to go back to wearing shoes and walking fairly normally soon. Now I don’t know how long this will take - the last time it got so bad I was in a plaster cast for 10 days and couldn’t walk properly for months but that was 20 years ago! I thought this issue had gone away. I really think the Universe just can’t stand to see me catch a break. Or am I meant to be learning something from all this? I saw a youtube video of a woman who’d had a terrible life and she said she had chosen all the awful things that happened to he before she was born so she could learn from them. Is that just cope? Did I choose all this shit before I was born? Because if so I have changed my mind and would like it to end now. People always say “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” I don’t believe that. I am worn down. As soon as one problem seems close to being solved, another worse one takes its place.
chronic achilles injuries are so awful — my right one is severely fucked beyond belief and i’m in the beginning stages of issues with my left (probably from like 10 years of uneven weight distribution falling on my left leg all the time.) i feel like it’s something super overlooked/seldom spoken about in the greater spectrum of mobility issues and i never hear other people talking about it. it sucks and you aren’t alone. please try to hang in there.
Thanks. It’s just I’ve been trapped indoors for months since my last foot surgery and finally it healed enough to go out and now this. I feel like a prisoner, I can never go out. I’m so frustrated and it’s doing my head in. At least with my foot surgeries I know it will heal after a time but this? No idea if or when it will be better.
i’m so sorry that all of this has been so hard on you. healing from this type of stuff is so excruciatingly slow and being trapped inside is absolutely a nightmare scenario. i hope that, at least, the time at home has been beneficial to your healing process with the surgery. taking care of yourself right now is the highest priority.
if you haven’t tried already and if you have the means and funds to do so, a physical therapy program might be able to help you build strength/alleviate pain. if it’s too much for right now its definitely something to consider in the future. if you’re unable to drive or walk to public transport and if you live in the US, i know that it isn’t too uncommon for PT places to arrange transport to/from the program for you using insurance or medicaid if you have it (i would see this at the one i went to but didn’t need it myself so i unfortunately don’t have personal experience in trying to arrange it all.)
I live in the UK. I have appointments with the NHS physiotherpaist about 2 or three times a year. I have another one in 2 weeks. But they’re completely useless. And I can’t afford private.
i’m not super familiar with services in the UK but i know that things like this aren’t an uncommon occurrence there. i hope that all of this becomes more manageable for you soon and that you’re eventually pain free. if you have the ability to do small exercises at home there’s a ton of online resources for ones that would benefit the achilles/whatever would work for you the most that might be helpful in between those physiotherapy appointments.
Thanks. I won’t ever be pain free because of issues caused by a stroke, the physio even said I have to learn to live with it. But that’s tolerable, I could cope with that level of pain and disability if that’s all it was. But this achilles issue is really getting me down. I’m so frustrated trapped indoors immobile. Especially after months of being virtually housebound due to my foot surgery. And now I’ve got another foot surgery coming up on Thursday. I feel like a prisoner. I so badly want to walk for miles and miles. When I was able bodied I used to walk along the coast path for 10 miles, from my town, through another town and on to a third town, then get the bus back. I want to be able to do that again. But the state I’m in now I don’t know if it will ever be possible. I feel like I might just be staring at 4 walls for years until I die.
Help the dog is back and it fell asleep.
Help I’m trapped under a tiny dog that wants cuddles.
pay the dog tax.
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Idk if anyone was concerned about me at all or anything, but I’m alive and decently well! My housing situation is a bit unstable though.
Good to have you back, comrade. Hope you find some stability soon
good to hear you’re OK. Sorry about the housing situation.
Hey, putting a link here too for visibility, we’ve added a set of extra-readable/low-vision themes for the Hexbear UI!
kinda convinced that the ai therapist is better than my actual therapist. like they both just give platitudes but at least i don’t have to explain the concept of autism to the ai
IME banging my head against a brick wall would be better than any human therapist.
one time my therapist recommended i stick my head in my freezer during a panic attack so u might be onto something
My last one told me to write daily timetables for myself and stick to them. That’s it. That was meant to be a cure for su1c1d@l depression and anxiety. And when it didn’t work she said blamed me for not trying hard enough. If a cancer treatment didn’t work would they blame the patient for not trying hard enough to be cured? Actually yes they probably would.
The one before that told me to write lists of why I shouldn’t feel depressed or anxious and look at them every time I feel depressed or anxious. That will make the bad feelings go away! Needless to say, it didn’t work. Therapy is nothing but a scam.
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So my hoodie has been hot for me for THREE years.
I was on lotsa xanax the first time we fooled around and did not form a memory of it. Cue three years of awkwardly trying to woo over my current girlfriend.
Kid just threw his sippy cup at the tv and broke it and now I’m having a really hard time regulating because it was really fucking expensive and we can’t afford a new one because I need to get my teeth fixed and get my car fixed and get my car fixed again. I’m having a really fucking hard time about it.
Can you get a shite 720p stopgap used?
I’ve been shopping around. The thing is that I have a soundbar and sub that is specific to this brand and, to the best of my knowledge only works with Roku. So I’m trying to find a TCL Roku specific TV. They have some on FB marketplace for $150-200 but Walmart is selling basically the same model for $360 right now.
Hy partner’s bougie ass parents that were able to retire like to throw their money around sometimes and said they might get us one for our upcoming anniversary. If that is the route we go, I’m gonna try to milk them for a nicer one.
I don’t suppose the tv just went dark did it? is the lcd panel itself cracked and bleeding or is it just flickering or dark?
It’s bleeding. The right side is almost all black with the red, green, and blue lines, then virtually where he hit it, it’s got another thinner black bar and bottom half has lines going across. It’s fucked for sure.
Boo, id hoped to share my victory experience replacing my borked backlights on my tcl tv. Sorry friend
Aw that sucks…you wanna scream into the void with me?
I couldn’t think of a response but this works too lol.
Ha, sorry, I can see how that didn’t make sense in hindsight. My thought process was emotional dysregulation>no outlet>scream it out might help
I figured it caused a bunch of emotions with no place to put them, so my knee-jerk reaction was to try and give you a space to get them out. Hope you’re doin better today comrade.
