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  1. 7 hours ago, idigTexas said:

    Do not underestimate anxiety.  For the past two+ months, I've been dealing with an assortment of symptoms that had me seeing my PCP and multiple neurologists to diagnose the cause of what was thought to be some extreme form of neuropathy with other abnormal nerve behaviors.  

    Severity varied from day-to-day, but during the worst flare ups, I had tingling and numbness to some extent from head to toe, chills, frequent urination, lightheadedness, twitching, unsteadiness while on my feet, hunger, nausea, tiredness, general malaise, and at the worst of times, suicidal thoughts (because who wants to live with all of that).  Exercise or even common household activities seemed to exacerbate my symptoms.  The only time I felt somewhat normal was while sleeping, and I probably spent at least 50% of my time in bed.  I had several blood tests, brain MRI, ultrasounds, and physical examinations.  Everything has been coming back as normal.  

    While researching some meds that had been prescribed, I came to the conclusion that we were chasing the wrong cause, and started looking into anxiety.  Once I was able to plausibly associate all of my symptoms with anxiety, I immediately felt better.  I still have a few lingering symptoms that are obviously caused by poor posture and too much time on the PC, but I have experienced those before, and will address them with massage and PT.  

    It blows my mind how debilitating anxiety can be.  Looking back, I can clearly see that I was having panic attacks caused by snowmageddon PTSD, COVID, work stuff, relationship drama, and a host of other "between the ears" baggage.  I intend to get some professional help with dealing with anxiety in general, but just recognizing it is a huge part of the battle. 

    I'm more than a bit concerned that none of the professionals in my healthcare circle even suggested it.  If my sister hadn't mentioned it to me as something I might want to address at some point, who knows how long I would have gone down the wrong path, continuing a life with no quality whatsoever.

    Don't live with constant doom and gloom thoughts.  It will eat you up eventually.   

    Hey, good post, and I’m glad you were able to figure out the cause. Over the years I have grown increasingly disenchanted with the medical profession, particularly mental health. The “Dr House” type of medical detective is a fantasy.

  2. It was kind of a letdown. The production quality was high, like everything that Matthew Vaughn does, but the bad guy was lame. Rasputin was the only remotely interesting character.

    KM1: Samuel Jackson

    KM2: Julianne Moore

    KM3: who the fuck is that guy?

  3. I’d like to think that in a country like the USA the president doesn’t just call for a nuclear strike against some target and it happens. That there are senior military brass that would get the chance to say “mr. president, we need to talk” before the birds are in the air. Anyway, I hope that Russia has some checks and balances, too.

  4. 7 minutes ago, SL Xpress said:

    We’re still human. I think this is my biggest problem with idealists. The ones who want to end racism, or bullying, or misogyny, or a variety of characteristics they’ve deemed unfit. It doesn’t work that way. We are tribal at our core. Tribalism at its heart requires an other. The existence of the tribe will always be under threat from other tribes. We’re never getting around this fundamental aspect of human nature. While our brains are absolutely magical mechanisms, and we do have the ability to reprogram ourselves in ways no other species capable of doing, to try to reprogram id level wiring - which is what tribalism is - requires such a level of wholesale repression as a society you’d have to become the monster you’re trying to eradicate. 
     

    If you study the history of mankind, or even just the relatively recent history of homo sapient, the number of genocidal events is astonishing. There’s a movement to vilify White males specifically, but this cuts across all boundaries of the species. Plenty of evidence of genocide in North, Central, and South America. Asia. The Polynesian Islands, particularly originating from New Zealand. Africa. And of course Europe, where one of the first round of settlers practiced widespread cannibalism, the Romans were famous for ruthlessly executing whole towns that held uprisings, and then plenty of others way more famous. 
     

    There is an element in many of us that seeks power. One of the most compelling ways to gain that power is at the head of a tribe, appealing to the specialness of the tribe, while decrying enemies as lesser. When such a leader gains enough power, an inevitable conclusion is to wipe out the other in some way. History is a rinse and repeat of that. We’re not ever getting away from it. 
     

    Now, I don’t think there’s any chance Ukraine becomes a genocide, mind you. Putin sees Ukrainians as full on Russian stock. But this idea we’re ever getting away from mortal combat in deciding which tribes get to continue to exist and which ones get wiped from history is a special kind of innocence a society can never afford to indulge. 

    Never is a very long time.

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