What's Bothering You?

[-Blue-]

I'm really sick with a stomach virus or something. I also twisted my foot the other day and stepping on it when I was working today was brutal lol. I have a side job that I do from home and needed to get a certain amount of work done because I was behind.

Was watching a twitch compilation, saw an ad with some guy playing a random shooter alone with his headset and covid mask on. Is that what we're expected to do?

Hey go easy on the kid. He just wants to protect himself from computer viruses.

Big UGH. Didn't see the change in speed limit driving in a new area. 60 in a 45. Officer Steiner, you are not my friend!

I particularly love the long stretches of straight road that have a speed limit of 30 or something absurd when you can safely go 40-50 as there aren't any developments. Gettysburg is notorious for this. Las time I got pulled over, I got this paranoid cop. Didn't want to admit he pulled over the wrong car, wanted to search my car and everything. And then gave me a warning lol. That sucks though. Hopefully they let you off with a warning or that it's not a huge ticket!

 

[Lady Timpani]

my gamecube's internal clock has stopped running when the console isn't turned on, guess I'll have to figure out how to replace the battery or whatever powers the clock

It looked this up as it's probably something I will have to look into soon as I never power up my gc and it's probably in the same boat. The clock is read by a CR032 battery, which are common for watches and the such. The problem though is that the battery isn't a simple replace and needs soldering skills. Which I've never done.

This happened to me last year and as TheDuke55 said, after watching some videos it seems like a pretty involved process, so I haven't been able to change mine. It's only really a big deal for me when it comes to playing AC, but it's still a bummer.

 

[rip]

i just got back from spending 12 days in another country, my first time leaving the US. it was really cool. i stupidly wondered if traveling would magically fix my depression; now i’m home and all my problems are still here, life is resuming as usual, and i just have this constant pit in my stomach and i don’t know what to do with myself. i don’t think i’ll ever be ok

 

[Alienfish]

how to draw a kacheek(neopet), more like how to draw elliptical shapes and get a bunch of potatoes from it lol

 

[Chris]

i just got back from spending 12 days in another country, my first time leaving the US. it was really cool. i stupidly wondered if traveling would magically fix my depression; now i’m home and all my problems are still here, life is resuming as usual, and i just have this constant pit in my stomach and i don’t know what to do with myself. i don’t think i’ll ever be ok

Someday things will be okay. It might seem bleak now but it will eventually get better - even if it takes years to get there. You unfortunately can't run away from your problems; they need to battled head on like that one scary boss at the end of a video game.

 

[Nefarious]

Last night there was a party for my baby niece and it was an absolute disaster. Really solidifies my hatred for huge parties and how intoxicated everyone gets at these events.

Spoiler: cw for bodily fluids

Some guy that no one knew, he was invited by an uncle from out of town, peed in my brother’s garage. My brother headbutted the guy in the mouth and was ready to fist fight when the guy denied doing it.

I also found out someone must have vomited in the backyard too, and tried hosing it off. There’s still vomit splatters on the grill covers.

During all that, I had to sit through the most uncomfortable one-sided conversation with the same uncle. He was going off on why I was depressed. I just walked into the room, it was 2am, I was tired and I’m just quiet in general, and this guy decided “You look miserable, let me drunkly diagnose you with depression real quick”.

The fact that these were all people much older, in their 40-50s getting hammered to the point of destroying someone else’s home, just bothered me more. They really need to stop drinking past their limits.

 

[-Blue-]

Ugh sorry you had to go through all of that Nef! I've had a lot of family that I just don't bother with anymore because of who they are or what they have done. That sounds horrible.

People disrespecting others and vandalizing their property always bother me. It's like it wouldn't fly if someone did it to them or their house, so why is it different when they're the ones doing it?

There's this one goofball I know that goes to parties just to talk about touchy subjects and politics and tries to start fights and make people uncomfortable all the time. They do this because they feel like they have a 'trapped' audience to pitch all their BS. Because if you leave and or fight back, now you're the one causing a scene lol.

 

[TheSillyPuppy]

@NefariousKing, I'm so sorry you had to sit through that, Nef. :/ Reading through all that made me feel sick. From my experiences in university, drinking brings out the strongest traits in people, whether good or bad ("In vino veritas," as the saying goes). Also, the audacity to assume you have depression because you look miserable... in an environment that is making you miserable... just, what in actuality is that logic?

I wish my mom would stop treating me like a kid.

 

[Toska]

This one thing has been taking over all my thoughts ever since it happened. I wish things could figure themselves out.

 

[-Lumi-]

I’m so tired of feeling sick all the time

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

There is a trend of people on tik tok using the Mr. Clean Magic eraser on their teeth. Don't do this.

 

[-Blue-]

There is a trend of people on tik tok using the Mr. Clean Magic eraser on their teeth. Don't do this.

Ugh. This is like the tide pod challenge and the hotplate challenge all over again. Apparently people were putting their arms/hands on the stove burners as a 'challenge' Why are people so stupid?

 

[ali.di.magix]

work is really dragging out today. I hope I get to do something different throughout the week otherwise I might die of boredom.

 

[TillyGoesMeow]

I cleaned the entire house finally, and now I’m nauseous from the fatigue. I feel like I have such a limited amount of energy I can exert a day otherwise I feel ill. Idk how to deal w it.

 

[Reginald Fairfield]

Ugh. This is like the tide pod challenge and the hotplate challenge all over again. Apparently people were putting their arms/hands on the stove burners as a 'challenge' Why are people so stupid?

Didn't see the burner thing. I would prefer not to.

 

[-Blue-]

I cleaned the entire house finally, and now I’m nauseous from the fatigue. I feel like I have such a limited amount of energy I can exert a day otherwise I feel ill. Idk how to deal w it.

Is this something that happens a lot? I used to have that a lot when I went to someone's house near a beach and it turned out it was because they had mold in their house. Probably not, but figured I would mention it. Sorry you're feeling sick. Hopefully it passes quickly.

Didn't see the burner thing. I would prefer not to.

Yeah I came across it by mistake. Wasn't even searching anything remotely close to it. Never bothered looking into it after that lol.

 

[TillyGoesMeow]

Is this something that happens a lot? I used to have that a lot when I went to someone's house near a beach and it turned out it was because they had mold in their house. Probably not, but figured I would mention it. Sorry you're feeling sick. Hopefully it passes quickly.

I really appreciate the advice. I’ll look into that. Its been a thing for a while now haha. I really need to talk to my doctor about it. Later though my gp is 2 hours away ugh

 

[Dunquixote]

Spoiler: personal

Depression. I am at a loss at so many things right now. I was going to try posting here less but I really am struggling. I don’t need pity since part of what I’m dealing with with is partially my fault. I should have talked to my counselor about this but I was totally out of it then and I am struggling to come to terms. I am disappointed and feel frustrated. Don’t want to talk to her this week though; her questions irritate the **** out of me. Nothing she says helps. Would love to find some peace of mind.

Honestly, I hate myself for being this way and letting it trap me and paralyze me from moving forward with my life, though honestly am not sure if I’d still have any luck finding a job since jobs hate even natural anxiety at interviews.

Coming here has become extremely painful for months but taking a break doesn’t solve anything.

Small teeth/jaw pain. I’m hoping it is just from clenching my jaw or grinding my teeth when I sleep. I do not want a root canal or go through the last couple of weeks of little to too much sleep due to pain.

Edit:

Spoiler: personal

I’m having trouble sleeping because of racing thoughts.

 

[DaCoSim]

Ok, I’ve been on the fence about posting about this. Some of u know, my 2020 was TERRIBLE. Not going to go into details about that but 2021 is not panning out to be much better.

So back in March, I woke up one morning in a lot of pain in my left shoulder. I just assumed I slept on it funny or maybe carried too much at work the day before but knew I was off for the next couple of days so I figured ice, heating pad, Ibuprofen etc. and I’d be good to go by the time I had to go to work on Saturday. Well by Saturday morning I barely gotten any sleep the night before because every time I moved even an inch in the bed I would cry out from the pain. I ended up going into urgent care on that Saturday Since my doctors office was not open and they did a couple of physical tests But when they couldn’t really figure out the trigger point they gave me a shot in the butt and sent me home with muscle relaxers and steroids. A few days later it wasn’t any better and so I called back and they suggested I go get an MRI. I went and got the MRI and found out I have 3 herniated discs in my neck with severe spinal stenosis on the c7 disc.
They suggested for me to go see neuro.
I went and saw the neurosurgeon and he had a couple of possibilities, one of them being surgery to replace the disc And the other suggestion was epidural cervical spinal steroid injections To possibly postpone the eventual surgery. As I really was hoping to keep my job because it’s the majority of our income I went with injections to try first. So at the end of May, they put me under to do the injection which was a little scary but after The first injection, I had all hope that it would help quite a bit as it took away alot of the nerve pain and allowed me to still be able to work. Well, a few weeks ago I woke up in the same kind of pain that started this whole mess. I called into my dr that did the injection And found out he was out of town on vacation, so they suggested I go see my regular doctor in the meantime until they could fit me in the next week so I did. This time around, the pain definitely got a lot worse. It started off with pain behind the shoulder now also includes my neck some, and a burning pain that goes through my arm from shoulder to elbow with numbness in three fingers and topical numbness on my arms as well that feels like someone sprayed a topical number on it. I went in this past Thursday and got put back under for a second steroid injection. Unfortunately, this one has not worked as well and I’m still in an extreme amount of pain, so I’m going back to see The neurosurgeon on August 11 to talk about disc replacement surgery.

I miss animal crossing more than I can say as I’ve not been able to play it in over two weeks because of everything going on. I also miss sleep as I have not had more than about a three hour stretch of sleep at a time in the last three weeks or so. Sorry this was so much of a novel I just really kind of needed to put it down.

 

[Midoriya]

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Hey there, DaCoSim. I know we haven’t interacted much on the site before, but I just wanted to say I’m sorry that you’re having to deal with this. It sounds awful, really annoying, and painful to deal with. 2020 was terrible for me too, and 2021 hasn’t been anything great so far. All I can really say is that I hope you get some relief from this soon, and that your next visit goes well (I also hope you don’t mind that I replied to you).