EponymousBosh
I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this.
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9·16 days agoJust to head this off at the pass, because someone is bound to bring up exposure therapy: hi, hello, I am someone who has been through exposure therapy (technically Exposure/Response Prevention, or ERP). Yes, it is broadly speaking true that avoiding triggers increases anxiety in the long run. However, one thing that was stressed to me over and over in ERP is that exposures have to be VOLUNTARY to be beneficial. Meaning, just hucking a tarantula at someone with arachnophobia is going to do far more harm than good. Likewise showing them a bunch of pictures of spiders with no warning. However, putting a content warning puts the decision to engage back into the hands of the person with the phobia (or trauma, eating disorder, etc), which effectively turns it into a voluntary exposure should they choose to engage.
Content/trigger warnings are not about “being shielded from hardship;” they’re about not springing trauma triggers or upsetting shit on unsuspecting people (or not causing actual physical harm to people, in the case of epilepsy warnings).
Like, OK, cool, you read Mein Kampf. I don’t think that’s a bad thing to do, for the reasons you did it. But you did that freely and knowing what you were getting into (“by Adolf Hitler” serves as an implicit content warning IMO). Suppose you were a Jewish student and your history teacher sprung a reading from Mein Kampf in the middle of a lesson with no warning. Or hell, just imagine having “Old Yeller” sprung on you the day after your dog died. I don’t think it’s babying anyone to warn them about something that could ruin their day.
Gormenghast. I got about 100 pages in, bored off my ass, saw that I still had like 1000 more pages to go, and was just like “…nah, I’m good.”
Cooking With Jack just hasn’t been the same since he had his third stroke
The game Look Outside has a bunch of fake video games in it that your character can play to get XP and learn skills, and there’s some funny character interactions with them. Likewise the Sims series has games that your sims can play.
There’s also SBURB from Homestuck (which starts as a video game at least) and the various games from Kidd Radd, which I don’t know if that’s archived anywhere but I hope it is [EDIT: It is indeed!]
The game Look Outside has a bunch of fake video games in it that your character can play to get XP and learn skills, and there’s some funny character interactions in it. Likewise the Sims series has games that your sims can play.
There’s also SBURB from Homestuck (which starts as a video game at least) and the various games from Kidd Radd, which I don’t know if that’s archived anywhere but I hope it is.
Buy me Bonestorm or go to hell!
He got sober in the 90s, but Elton John was notorious for using shit-tons of cocaine back in the day and was an alcoholic as well.
I don’t know, but apparently people had some way of managing.
the tribe will leave me behind on the next migration when I’m too old and weak to keep up.
FWIW, this part is almost certainly not true.
https://news.usask.ca/articles/research/2017/ancient-spinal-injury-a-story-of-survival.php
These are just a handful of these types of stories, there’s loads more if you want to search for them. But the upshot is: your family or tribe would have taken care of you to the best of their ability, for as long as they could, and you would have been given a decent burial when you died.
Your best bet might be to try and pivot to in-person college/university if possible. You didn’t say where you are in the world, but in the US, most schools will have on-campus housing you’d be able to stay in for most of the year. The financial part is always the limiting factor of course, but considering how violent your brother can get, it may be worth it. It’s a lot easier to recover from student loan debt than being dead.
Which version? Barrett, Waters, or Gilmour?
Really surprised no one’s mentioned Everclear, but that might just be because no one thinks about Everclear that much
It’s specifically the fact that it’s family that makes it hard for me to buy that it’s isolated (hence “in this case”). It’s possible for sure, but you don’t usually get “my dad picklocked my bedroom door to try and catch me jerking off” without a shitload of other family weirdness.
The odds of these two deeply weird incidents being isolated in a case like this is about 1%
Are you not counting “Revolution 9” as a “song”? Understandable.
My late cat (the one in my pic) REALLY wanted my grocery-store sushi one time, but I didn’t give her any, so she decided to lick a big ol’ glob of the wasabi.
She didn’t like it.
It might be another food allergy as well. I have skin reactions to dairy, and it took me years to figure it out because a) it’s a slow reaction (6ish hours after I eat it), and b) I also assumed it was something my skin was coming into contact with
And in keeping with the OP, I also still eat dairy from time to time. Not a severe reaction, it won’t become a severe reaction, and there’s still no good replacement for actual cheese, dammit. (Daiya is close enough…sometimes…)
Cognitive behavioral therapy/dialectical behavioral therapy are not the universal cure for everything and they need to stop being treated as such