The Caring Corner :)

[Null]

If you live all alone in the wilderness with no contact with the outside world

That'd be the life for me, roaming through the woods hunting humans animals for food.

 

[FBnil]

Identity is a social construct. If you live all alone in the wilderness with no contact with the outside world, you can hardly have an identity.

Well, humans are social beings, if not other humans, they will flock to something else. For example: that boy that was raised by wolves and identifies as one. The monkey who's mom is a plastic toy. If the human identifies with void, it will create void by destroying everything with rage.

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That'd be the life for me, roaming through the woods hunting humans animals for food.

Aahh.. long pig, haven't had that in a while.

 

[Null]

 

[JDTAY]

Oh man, my sanity is about to be tested. Just had my evening meds, and the Klonopin wasn't in there. Even asked the staff to check, it wasn't in any of the night slots for the week.

Thing is, the staff that's really in charge of my meds only works five days a week, and this is their Thursday and Friday off. Won't be able to check what happened to my meds until Saturday, so I'll be missing Klonopin tomorrow too.

I mean, I think I'm still getting my morning Klonopin, but just going straight from 2mg a day to 1mg a day is even a bit dangerous. Stuff is addictive enough to make you black out when you miss it.

 

[Null]

Best of luck, and don't forget to stay away from tall dark strangers and Romans bearing gifts.

 

[JDTAY]

So, my nerve conduction test finally got scheduled. Friday morning. And I gotta bring a mask, of course.

Wanna take bets on why my left foot's toes are going numb?

 

[JDTAY]

Hmm, just looked up the place it'll be at. They only told me the doctor's name and the road, but that should be enough to get the right place, right?

It's a spine pain and rehab center. Doesn't necessary mean the problem's my spine, but I guess that's what they think.

I am tall and fat after all, those are both precursors for spine issues.

 

[Null]

Wanna take bets on why my left foot's toes are going numb?

Congratulations! Do you know if it's going to be a boy or a girl?

 

[levi]

Wanna take bets on why my left foot's toes are going numb?

Is Daniel Day Lewis sitting on it when you're not looking?

 

[Djoga'Ro]

It's a spine pain and rehab center. Doesn't necessary mean the problem's my spine, but I guess that's what they think.

Maybe they're just well equipped for doing the test.

Wanna take bets on why my left foot's toes are going numb?

Insufficient blood flow.

 

[Null]

I spent some time earlier today doing a puzzle book with Peony (she was the brain and I was the scribe). We had a thoroughly enjoyable time of it. #heartwarmingmoment

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

So, continuing from what I was saying in the COVID-19 thread, I talked to a doctor about the numbness in my left foot, and they decided to schedule a nerve induction test.

Without even googling that, it sounds painful.

I hope it's not diabetes.

Identity is a social construct. If you live all alone in the wilderness with no contact with the outside world, you can hardly have an identity.

I think that's more because you need contrast in order to discriminate. If you're the only person then there's no other person to contrast yourself to. But that has nothing to do with it being a social construct; it works like tha for everything. E.g. if you would only have experienced 1 single temperature then the concept of temperature would also not exist for you.

 

[JDTAY]

Hey, um, if anyone's listening, I want to apologize for what I said in Discord earlier, but without actually getting back on Discord. I should just stay away for a while.

That's the thing about psych meds, sometimes they're with you, sometimes they're not. I think the body just has trouble keeping up with metabolizing everything.

Edit: Part of it could be my varying diet too. It's better to have food with your meds, but I've been running low on it lately, which is a regular pattern. At least I lose some weight while I'm going crazy.

 

[FBnil]

Insufficient blood flow.

Then I'll go for asymmetrical seat where you do not lift your left foot often enough because it supports your whole weight, for too many hours seated

 

[JDTAY]

Then I'll go for asymmetrical seat where you do not lift your left foot often enough because it supports your whole weight, for too many hours seated

I gotta admit, I do tend to put my left foot down more often than my right while I'm in my computer chair. Not sure whether to blame the guy who assembled it, or myself, for ordering one that needed assembly.

Not sure how to fix though. Chairs are pretty expensive. And the wooden ones at my kitchen table don't even support my weight. I cracked one of them at a lesser weight than what I am now.

 

[Null]

Hey, um, if anyone's listening, I want to apologize for what I said in Discord earlier, but without actually getting back on Discord. I should just stay away for a while.

I wouldn't worry about it, it'll have been forgotten about by tomorrow. People these days have bigger things to worry about, like fighting over toilet paper, and trying to stop kids escaping from their basements and alerting the police.

 

[JDTAY]

I think even before seeing the doctor Friday, I'll order a new chair. Now that FBnil pointed out that I sit in it wrong, it's really bothering me. It would be funny if I did permanent damage to my foot or spine just by having a bad chair. Isn't that how life goes?

It reminds of a story I think I read back when I was on GameFAQs. A guy and his friends were on a small cliff above a lake, talking about how cool it would be to jump. He decided to go first. Turns out the lake was more shallow than they thought, and he jacked up his legs permanently. We make multiple bad decisions every day, but it kinda takes you by surprise when one destroys your life.

 

[Null]

Ableism: A Mental Health Rant

My experiences: I probably should've included the insane waiting times for mental health treatment compared to physical health, but I'll save that one for the Therapy Rant, since it's not even just the waiting times, it's the dark irony of what happens when you finally reach the top of that...

invidious.snopyta.org

 

[λ the β-Redex Reducer]

A lot of mental diseases have a physical cause. Likewise, there are physical diseases that have a mental cause.

 

[Null]

I've found as I've gotten older i've grown to love the simpler things in life, such as brain surgery and rocket science.