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Coming up with projects and completing 80% of them really fast.

I have a cat, two dogs, married, high paying 30 hour a week job, no debt, several good friends, tight family. Still net negative.

My experience has been a net negative and I don’t event have it that bad.

Go outside. Pet an animal. Play in the snow if you have any. Get coffee with a friend. Etc.

I have pretty bad insomnia and have tried a lot. Several things have worked.

Meditation…with lots of practice. Trazodone And my current favorite…zero caffeine all day and 5mg melatonin with 2 mg of THC/20mg CBD oil at bedtime.

Lots of other things can get me to sleep but nothing works as well as melatonin and some thc to keep me asleep.

I’ve read some recent reviews on doc martens being total garbage now.

I’ve done no alcohol, no social media, and no overtime. All separate years. The motivation was to prove I could.

Alcohol was made easy because I started taking an SSRI at the same time. Kinda filled the same hole.

Cutting social media was harder than alcohol I think. This was years ago but I had a pretty solid addiction to Reddit. I had to break the checking Reddit every second of downtime…I swapped it out with texting friends and family.

Cutting worked overtime was great. I worked at a place that required it but only as a yearly average. And at the time they allowed you to bank the OT and use it as PTO or take some extra money. I didn’t get in trouble for it but it probably hurt my next raise.

I enjoy the challenge of doing something new for a full year but some are too much and need a different approach. For me to change a diet I can’t just do it. I need cycles on and off to show my lizard brain what’s good for me. Then it can stick long term.

I talk about it to friends and family. Most things have happened to people you already know.

The south.

I can see a PA same day at a urgent care but not a doctor. So I can get meds for common things. But no ongoing care.

USA. Others have covered cost but I’d like to add how long it takes to see a doctor.

I have an established primary care physician that I’ve seen for years. Now though if I want an appointment I have to wait at least two months. So I have a membership with an urgent care near me that puts a $180 cap on visits to their chain of urgent cares. There is obviously no on going care with them but most of the time that’s okay.

A friend of mine doesn’t have an established PCP and to get one he must wait at least a calendar year….

My father used to tell me sister he was going to paint “Goodyear” on the side of her and float her out the back door. Like a blimp. She turned out fine I think.

You tell your kids their ugly?

A wannabe manager / story teller type.

He couldn’t tell the truth to save his life. He would tell stories all day within earshot and you could hear the story morph through the day.

He’s a director of IT now I think. I can’t be sure because he never told the truth.

I hate concerts. I don’t want to be hard of hearing later in life. Drinks cost too much. Bathrooms have a line and smell awful. Thousands of people.

I’ve been to 5 or so in my life and each time I regret it and hate the whole experience. Even artists I really like. They just sound better in a quiet studio.

I don’t understand the appeal. Can someone explain it to me please?

One without designer suffering.

You need help stopping and there is help available. I quit drinking a few years ago after realizing I was an alcoholic. You need to stop before you body forces you to stop.

With some effort, support, and planning I was able to not drink for a year straight. And have since been able to have a drink without having too much or wanting more.

It isn’t easy but neither is liver issues.

Figure out what drives you to drink and avoid it. I cut friends that I liked to drink around. Quit a well paying job because it stressed me out. I took a few weeks off after I quit and kinda reset and finally had found my major trigger.

Anyway you can get a handle on it.