cowpewter

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by cowpewter 5y ago
SSRIs are notoriously NOT safe. In younger people, they often increase suicidal ideation. Even in adults, there is a very dangerous period when you first start taking them where suddenly you have more energy, but you are still massively dep
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by cowpewter 7y ago
I love this idea, but I think it needs a little work... maybe something that helps it avoid combining foods that are too similar into the same meal? For breakfast, it keeps suggesting I eat a "high protein omelet" and 4 hard boile
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by cowpewter 7y ago
Coating regular gum would probably not work. The nicotine is embedded in the gum base itself. That's why the instructions for using nicotine gum say to chew just long enough for you to feel the tingle that nicotine creates against your
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by cowpewter 7y ago
It does. A very fun hobby, with lots of cool toys. I already mix my own juice. Originally that was just to save money, but now mixing is its own hobby. What do I feel like this week? My usual apple-flavored juice? Do I want to throw a littl
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by cowpewter 7y ago
I mix my own juice. I did the math a few months ago, and I can make 60ml of juice (which lasts me about a week) for about $1.50. Coils usually last me about a month to a month and a half, and I usually pay $5ish a piece. So yeah... my month
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by cowpewter 7y ago
Oh geez, yeah, I'm definitely not endorsing self-medicating with nicotine, just saying, that I did, and that if nicotine helps you concentrate, you might wanna get evaluated for ADHD. I was never a smoker, and I vape the lightest d
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by cowpewter 7y ago
Do you have (or suspect you might have, but be undiagnosed) ADHD? Nicotine is a stimulant. It improves concentration for individuals with ADHD, for much the same reasons that prescription stimulant drugs do. I picked up nicotine gum, and ev
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by cowpewter 7y ago
"Dip" is chewing tobacco. You put it between your cheek and gums, and the nicotine is absorbed through your oral mucosa.
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by cowpewter 7y ago
Yeah, I make my own juice as well, though I do flavor mine, usually with fruit or mint flavors. A 60ml bottle of commercial juice easily costs $15-20. I buy my nic, PG, and VG from Liquid Barn and my flavors from a variety of sources (thoug
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by cowpewter 7y ago
When I bought an Instant Pot from Amazon, the first one I got was obviously used (it smelled of food, and some of the accessories were missing). I had to exchange it for an actually new one.
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by cowpewter 7y ago
Yes, I coasted through school until college. Never studied, never had to, even in the gifted, honors, and AP classes. I especially did well on tests. Graduated 3rd in my class, only .001 GPA points from 2nd, with a handful of 5s (and a coup
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by cowpewter 7y ago
It really is! There's so much I couldn't do without her. We both have our own mental and physical health struggles (Me: depression, ADHD, fibromylgia, and T2 diabetes, Her: Sensory Processing Disorder, anxiety, and bipolar 2), and
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by cowpewter 7y ago
Well, true. I have not disclosed to my job that I was diagnosed with ADHD, and I don't particularly plan to (I wouldn't deny it if it came up, but I'm not going to volunteer the information either). There are more downsides t
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by cowpewter 7y ago
I don't think that you can or should try to armchair-diagnose or armchair-undiagnose someone with from a single blog post. You can't know what the author has struggled with in their life.
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by cowpewter 7y ago
Don't consider it an incurable mental illness. It's not a sickness, it's just a genetic variation in how the brain is wired. Having a certain percentage of the population with ADHD was probably an advantage in our evolutionar
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by cowpewter 7y ago
One of the ways that stimulants treat ADHD is by raising dopamine and norepinephrine levels. Also, one of the big problems with ADHD is time-blindness. Basically, to the ADHD person, there are only two times: Now and Not Now. Video games ar
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by cowpewter 7y ago
After my diagnosis with ADHD, we wondered if my wife might also have it, albeit milder than mine, as she struggled with a lot of the same things I do. She went for the full neuropsych eval, and was actually diagnosed with Sensory Processing
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by cowpewter 7y ago
Interestingly, I find that medication does not affect my hyperfocus in a negative way. If anything, it's even easier for me to achieve hyperfocus on a task when my Adderall is "on". I find that what medication helps me most w
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by cowpewter 7y ago
I was just diagnosed about a year ago, at age 38. I'd suspected for years, but was mired too deep in depression to do anything about it. Finally I had my depression under control, and with the help of my wife (I'm terrible at maki
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by cowpewter 7y ago
Water tanks filled from outside and a composting toilet maybe?
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by cowpewter 7y ago
Probably about as legal as setting up office in a street-side parking space...
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by cowpewter 7y ago
That makes me wonder what else you could repurpose as an office in places where offices are disproportionally expensive. What about a climate-controlled storage unit? A quick Googling tells me you can get a small (but large enough for a des
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Yeah, eating less carbs is great for T2s like me (I don't take insulin, I control my blood sugar with a keto diet and metformin). For T1s, eating less carbs might reduce the amount of insulin they need, and make swings in blood sugar l
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by cowpewter 8y ago
I've always loved Gorey's art style, ever since I was introduced to it as a little girl, watching Mystery on PBS with my mom.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Very nice. I had fun with it. Maybe a little description of the goals on the page underneath the play area would be good? Took me a while to realize picking up the red squares was actually reducing my score. I initially thought they were ju
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by cowpewter 8y ago
IIRC, Dreamwidth was forked off LJ after one of LJ's great fandom purges (probably either Strikethrough or Boldthrough). Basically, they cracked down on ton of fandom communities for adult content, and the fandom communities said, fine
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by cowpewter 8y ago
You should go get screened! I just finally got diagnosed at age 38, and it's shed so much insight into my life. Plus, medication can really make a real difference.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Do you have ADHD? I do, and I can drink caffeine and go straight to bed, and it does help a little bit with focus (Adderall helps a lot more, of course). Stimulants tend to calm the ADHD mind, and can stop racing thoughts that make it harde
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by cowpewter 8y ago
The salts are to reduce irritation. Plain water is extremely uncomfortable in your sinuses, but saline is fine. As far as I know they do nothing to reduce contaminants in your water or harm bacteria.
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by cowpewter 8y ago
Whenever I use a neti pot, I use distilled water and heat it for a brief time in the microwave, adding additional room temp distilled afterward if it comes out too hot.

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