Ooof. That's terrible! Paxil's infamous for intense & severe withdrawal symptoms. (Spent a lot of Jr year sick b/c doc who prescribed didn't warn me & none of the docs that saw me for symptoms made the connection.) Financial incentives to prescribe specific drugs should be illegal.
Dear Pinterest,
I WANT them fat. I LIKE them fat. That's why I'm using search terms like Plus-Size Photo Refs and Fat Fashion 😂
Tangential to last night's post (but more amusing) I've been on Pinterest a lot searching for plus-size photo refs for Hunger (several of the characters are fat) & Pinterest keeps serving me Zepbound & Ozempic ads 😂
Pinterest: Did you say/think/imagine someone fat? We've got a cure for that!
Yes, last night & tonight's posts mean I am taking care of not one, but TWO stubborn little old ladies 😂
Cat tax!
OL at her chonkiest. (She never qualified as obese, but yeah, def. chonky.) Also bonus Demon Child!
I shook my head, horrified & explained it was because she isn't eating because of the kidney disease. The tech just brushed it off b/c at least she lost weight, right? Lady, I would be OVERJOYED to have my slightly chonky cat back if it meant she was eating and disease free. 😮💨
What's the opposite of fat-shaming? Skinny-cheering? My little old lady got skinny-cheered at the vet today. The tech giving her pain shot told me she'd lost 2 pounds since last month & literally clapped. Dear internet friends, that is the equivalent of a human losing 30 pounds in a month and a half
Happy belated b'day!
Funny story, I've come out to my mom 5 times now. The first was sweet, if a bit dismissive. The other 4 have...not been so sweet. I avoid the topic now 😂
remembered taking them already. I don't doubt the memory was real, but it wasn't from tonight.
3 other nights this week she's forgotten she already took her pills & woken my sister or I up angry with us for keeping them from her 🤷♀️
She remembers who I am, just nothing I've said the last 4 years.
such that memories they do have don't have a timeline anymore. They might remember something that happened years ago as if it happened yesterday, but not remember anything that actually did happen yesterday (or today, or an hour ago).
Mom didn't want to take pills tonight because she vividly-
Almost all media representation I've seen of Alzheimers shows just 1 version of 1 stage. There's a lot of things (& often years) between person you've always known & empty shell in a nursing home who can't remember your name.
Even with memory it's not just loss. They can become unmoored in time-
One of my feet has been vibrating, off and on, all morning, and I don't know what that means. 🤔
Man, I can't like this hard enough. DBT, especially distress tolerance, changed my life so much. Can't stop bad things from happening, but it's possible to keep calm & functioning in the moment & short circuit or diminish spiralling thoughts before they get too much foothold.
*Especially James riding around in the little go karts or going ham on exercise equipment
Noooooo. The day they tone it down is the day I stop watching! 😂
Gotta have Drew cracking dumb jokes & models* dorking out with the prizes & all the crazy contestants wearing absolutely bonkers shirts jumping up and down or doing cartwheels or falling over. Wouldn't be PIR without it 😆
I mean I'm not going to change the story just to assuage my anxiety, or cut and squish it till it all fits in the same box. Just gonna sit over here and sweat about it I guess for however many years it takes to finish writing it 😅
Adding to the worry is that each of the 3(?) books fall into different genres. Like...that can't be ideal can it? I mean they are all broadly Urban Fantasy I guess... Or maybe Paranormal something or other... But very different focus, conflict type and pacing.
Hunger (my story in progress) is turning 10 shortly & I still don't know what genre it is. So far as I can figure, it just doesn't fit in any existing boxes. And I don't mean that in a 😏 "my story's so unique & special" sort of way, but a 😟 "this seems like a thing to be concerned about" way.
Hey I did a fun thing with @warren.senate.gov about breaking up giant healthcare conglomerates
The oldest OC I can specifically remember creating was created in 1990. She was a govt assassin who developed a relationship with a prisoner at a reeducation camp. When the prisoner was executed, she rebelled against her programming! Yada yada yada.
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
🤣🫂🤣
Once while talking to my little sister on the phone I freaked out because I couldn't find my phone ANYWHERE. They were closing up the school! What if it got locked inside!?
"My phone's gone!"
"...The phone you're talking to me on?"
[*Pulls phone away from ear* *blinks*]
"Nevermind."
I do this too. It's like...I know you were joking, but I still thought it was interesting info to share 😅 (and depending on the joke it's sometimes hard to know how to respond otherwise.)
This one made me so sad the first time I read it too. I hope she took your advice and has had time to heal.
QRT something random from your phone gallery
Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”
As the adult child of 2 of those very people...can confirm. Mom was always fond of saying "there's no loneliness like loneliness in marriage" & "remember, unhappily single is still better than unhappily married."
I'm still open to commissions! Since I'm out of work I could use the extra help. If you're interested pls DM me. #digitalart #ghostlyfrogart
