u/Accomplished_Oil4163

What do you think theses elastics are for ?
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What do you think theses elastics are for ?

I hate my teeth so I won’t show a pic but it goes from the top canine towards the inferior jaw and last molar. Symmetrical. I haven’t been told when to wear them or change them so I wear them all the time even at night. I change them twice a day for now but I can go up to 3.

Also I need to bitch a bit about these because FUCK how it hurts. I was just getting used to braces pain and eating whatever it feels like I’m back to day one with braces lmao.

How did you stop being the therapist friend ? I want to stop having so little boundaries.

Hello, lifetime people pleaser and therapist friend. Everyone benefits from my limitless (not really) energy and advices but I’ve found myself to give away of myself way too much. I get burned out and used.

I can sense what people want from me and give it to them. But often that results in others coming only for this and not wanting to be my equal but have me give them help all the time. I remember speaking up to 5h in text not even eating anything to help out a friend. Guess what? The next days she wouldn’t even text me. I feel only useful for that and I want it to change.

I’m considering therapy but first I want to try to work on it by myself. Am I too one dimensional that people think there’s nothing more about me? I really want to develop more friendships, ideally groups. But I find myself very isolated due to this as I don’t feel like anyone usually talks to me unless it’s for therapy (or making fun of me on the pretence of joking, and this is a pattern it happened three times both irl and online).

Thank you for any input.

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I got elastic but when am I supposed to change them ?

She forgot to tell me and I forgot to tell her. Every time I eat ? Every morning and night ? Once a day ? Depends ?

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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 3 days ago

Pour la formation de mon DSE on me demande ma formation (seuls des lycées sont donnés) mais je suis à l’université, c’est normal ?

désolé si je me trouve à l’ouest mais je suis en train de faire mon DSE et à l’étape 5 on me demande ma formation et seuls les lycées sont proposés. Même quand je clique sur mon ancien lycée c’est un BTS qui est proposé (car mon lycée proposait un BTS). Je me suis trompé quelque part ? Je suis en L2.

On me demande ça dans la case “vœux”. Est ce que ça ne compte pas parceque je n’ai pas encore validé et je peux mettre n’importe quoi tant que c’est le bon crous ?

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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 5 days ago

Pourquoi est ce que je devrais faire autant d’efforts pour ne pas risquer l’OQTF ? Je suis français comme tout le monde bon sang!

Je trouve ça dingue quand même! Je suis arrivé en France à 1 an et demi, j’ai bientôt VINGT ET UN ANS! J’ai eu 16 à mon bac de français! Je fais des études de droit FRANÇAIS! Et pourtant, chaque décennie (avant tous les 5 ans) c’est le même stress.

On doit courir partout en préfecture pour récupérer un titre. Une attente qui peut parfois aller jusqu’à 5h! Et gare à toi si y’a le moindre petit papier manquant, “non monsieur vous devez aller chercher le papier xyz” “non monsieur vous pouvez pas partir et revenir le même jour pour ce papier vous devez attendre pour récupérer un rendez vous qui viendra peut être dans plusieurs mois!”

Sachez même que certains se font un business sur les rendez vous à la préfecture, y’en a tellement peu..tu paie qlqn dans un commerce qui va ruiner et il surveille pour toi le site pour te trouver un rdv. Ya même des sites internets maintenant!

Je sais pas si les gens qui ont la nationalité se rendent compte d’à quel point c’est difficile de se maintenir en France. Tout est fait pour vous décourager. Le nombre de documents à fournir sur ANEF et gare à vous si vous êtes dans une situation particulière parce que le formulaire bah lui il peut pas vous répondre.

Donc quand vous cherchez à être naturalisé et que vous avez pas le parcours lisse (moi par example j’étais SDF hébergé par le 115 donc évidemment pas de justificatif de domicile alors que j’étais..en France.)..bah c’est au revoir.

Sachez également qu’il faut au moins 2 ans avant de recevoir la nationalité française si vous entamez les démarches (les mots d’une assistante sociale).

Et si vous avez le malheur de ne pas réussir à vous plier à toutes les exigences de l’administration..un jour vous recevrez une OQTF. Donc on veut me renvoyer dans un pays où je n’ai jamais vécu, où je ne connais presque pas la langue et où je n’ai rien. Ah bah merci.

Je n’en ai encore jamais reçue mais à chaque fois que je renouvelle je panique un peu parceque je sais que la prochaine fois ça pourrait être moi.

J’espère que dans 5 ans je pourrais l’avoir ce serait mon rêve. Je cherche à droite à gauche pour trouver une solution pour l’instant je pense que ça peut se faire même si ça prendra du temps. D’ailleurs je tiens à préciser que j’aime la France, je n’ai rien contre le pays et je ne me sens pas extérieur/ étranger sauf si on me le fais ressentir. Je râle sur l’administration. Je suis sûr que même les français en ont connues des vertes et des pas mûres.

Edit : J’avoue que je me sens un peu touché par les commentaires qui me traitent d’ingrat et qui me disent de rentrer dans mon pays et qu’on me doit rien. On ne nous doit pas la nationalité mais je pense qu’on nous doit un peu moins de lourdeur administrative. J’espère avoir été plus clair.

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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 8 days ago
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No, xyz age is NOT too late to start your treatment.

If you’re able to type this and understand what I’m saying there still time for you to enjoy straight teeth.

Sure, if you’re above 16 unfortunately jaw changes won’t be major because you finished your growth. But the rest ? Will change. Whatever age you are. It can be slower but unless you have no teeth left I don’t think any ortho will tell you it’s too late.

Most of us want braces for aesthetic purposes. But it’s also beneficial for you at any age. I wanted to get braces because 1. I want straight teeth and more confidence. 2. Because crowding = more cavities = more money long term. That’s all.

So at whatever age you’re reading this, considering new braces or Invisalign it’s not too late. Most of us are adults anyways. I started at 19 I’m 20 and 11month in. I’ll finish when I’ll be 22 ( 2 years in braces + retainers for the last year) I’m happy with my decision. Yeah sure, like everyone else I wish I had done this much younger.

BUT this will be rewarding over time. Go for it. Book that appointment. Tho please for the love of god take care of the health of your teeth and any remaining cavities before that. If you have ANY other issue (pain, sensitivity) do it before the braces. I wish I had because now unless I slow down the treatment I can’t do much. Also, not because it doesn’t show on xray that there’s nothing going on. Check with dentists, endo..nothing worst than to start on unhealthy teeth.

FINALLY! Last PSA : if you have any mental disorder, you will need to think hard about this. Depending on which one it is, you might be struggling with hygiene. Then I don’t recommend braces. You’ll worsen the state of your teeth. Practice good hygiene before because once the braces are on, if you can’t maintain it, you’re in for a long ride.

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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 11 days ago

I feel like I’m gonna end up in the news some days.

I don’t know which tag to use. Sorry.

To this day I miss the guy who was grooming me. I was 12 he was 20. There has been worse like blackmail and sextorsion but I don’t need to get into details.

Thing is, I’ve been actually homicidal twice in my life. On the first occasion (17yo) I was in psychosis and had to restrain myself during two hours as I had visions, to not try to kill my parents in their sleep. On another instance (19yo) I even took a knife to go to their room. I was manic. For some reason I didn’t follow through as I was distracted and didn’t even notice what I was about to do.

When I was 16-17 I was so much into psychosis that I developed an alter ego. It was just someone who topped me in every aspects and dealt with everything while I was kinda in between there or “sitting in the back”. He had a name and sometimes I couldn’t tell if it was me or him. The dissociation was so severe. I miss him. I wish he’d come back save me from this hell. He was like a big brother to me.

It’s a weird mix between having actual pulsions I can’t resist and sometimes, well, I don’t like to admit it but there has been times I enjoyed what I was thinking about and was more conscious about it. it’s not one of these two times that I talked about tho. But I won’t describe it as there’s no point.

There’s so much more I’d like to say but a whole book would be needed. Life goes on ig. I don’t feel anything.

I wish I was a “good victim”. All the things I describe just make me look like I’m a lunatic.

u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 12 days ago

Granted I said hey if there’s an emergency and you need me you can count on me but if you actually want us to be friends you need to give some time away from you. So he didn’t reply to my last message saying I wouldn’t be fine gaming with him like we planned to prior to the breakup because I can’t think of him as a friend just yet. So I was like, great! We’re doing this, it’ll be fun when I forget and we become friends again (we were before getting together and he’s like my best friend).

But tell me why he texted me AGAIN with something that’s not an emergency. I didn’t wanna block or whatever because I have no hard feelings and all but still! He even asked me TWICE before that one day period if we could talk still and I told him we couldn’t just yet.

Why am I the only one respecting our arrangement ? I wanted to be friends after this, we had agreed on it before breakup that I’d def want to stay friends but that I’ll need time to put him back in friend category.

I don’t want to be harsh but I have been pretty clear about everything. I fear if I’m being more assertive I’ll ruin our chances to remain friends post breakup. What do I do?

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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 14 days ago

Woke up like this. It’s curved. 7month old. No pain. Dry to the touch (of tissue, I didn’t wanna touch this myself). Barely any after care, I’d just use eyedrops when it was itchy or hurting a bit. I guess I gotta remove it but how do I go about it? What products as an aftercare ? Kinda sad.

u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 15 days ago

7 month old, woke up like this, everything is dry I tried touching it with a tissue nothing stained. I guess I’ll have to remove the piercing but how do I do it properly? What aftercare ? Thanks.

u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 15 days ago

Bon j’ai déjà été redoublant une fois (L1) si possible j’aimerais éviter une deuxième (L2). J’attribue mon échec à une santé mentale désastreuse et une organisation toujours pas au point (ça c’est honteux je vous le concède). Séjour à l’hôpital psy, tentatives enfin tout y est passé cette année.

DONC! Je me retrouve évidemment ajourné au S1 et très probablement au S2. Je ne souhaite pas de commentaires qui me demandent d’arrêter les études ou changer de voie, j’aime ce que je fais même si ça me stresse et puis je sais qu’avec mes circonstances j’ai déjà - de chance que les autres de réussir (pauvre, santé mentale déplorable, parents sans éducation secondaire ou supérieure). Je serais jamais le plus intelligent mais je réussirais bien un jour à force de rater.

C’est là où vous entrez en jeu : qu’est ce qui a été déterminant pour vous et qui vous a fait valider au rattrapage ? J’ai une idée de ce que je compte faire, une où je sais que je vais très probablement valider, d’autres où je suis déjà très peu confiant et certaines où il me faut juste un peu plus de travail et d’organisation (en fait plusieurs me sont accessibles avec une meilleure organisation). J’en ai beaucoup donc je suis censé la jouer stratégique? Ou bien m’éparpiller pour grappiller quelques demi points partout ?

Si je ne reçois aucune réponse je vais probablement me concentrer sur celles qui peuvent me rapporter le + de point rapidement. Quitte à ne pas valider je souhaite avoir le + de temps libre possible l’année prochaine afin de trouver un stage et améliorer mon dossier franchement désastreux avant mon master.

Merci à tous.

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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 15 days ago

This has been a pattern since I was 13.

I’d be first going through depression, 2 week to 4, quite sad. Then very suddenly get all kind of ideas of what to do (usually dangerous for myself or illegal). And go back to a baseline of depressed, but not deeply enough to be impaired in my daily life.

This actually is a whole cycle I go through. Some phases shorter than others sometimes. At 16 it got more intense. I can’t describe the ideas here due to the rules but it was pure bliss. It doesn’t last all that long though, a few hours to few days at most.

I have been through psychosis (clinician words) and prone to it due to stress. I have been on quetiapine (seroquel) as antidepressants make me go manic (psychiatrist words) but I stopped them because tired of side effects.

Sometimes I’ll just cry because of how good it feels, I get this tingling feeling in my cheeks. I can’t identify a proper trigger but the guess I made as a kid was that my brain tried to balance all that sadness. I would like to know if someone feels like that or what could be going on.

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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 19 days ago
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Story of my life. I bring up tooth aches and they just all seem to think it’s either in my mind (dentist, who says I’m overthinking) or that we should wait up to see (ortho).

I’m genuinely hurting. When we got xray nothing showed up but I kept hurting. I have a few sensitive tooth to sugar, hurting more at night (I know it doesn’t I just have more time to focus on it at night) this is definitely a sign of cavities. I’m not sure what to do. Do I have to pause braces ? We can’t afford a second round of braces.

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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 20 days ago

I guess people with a social life don’t post here but I’m not giving in the doom there’s still time for this experience as a twentyager.

Edit: I’ve seen some people wanting to dm and befriend each other. Seems wholesome. Hopefully you guys all become good friends.

Top reasons of why twentyagers didn’t have a fulfilling social life based on comments :

  1. Untreated mental issues making them unable to create fulfilling relationships

(suicidal, depressed, anxious)

  1. ghosting the said relationships because they didn’t feel authentic

  2. Personal circumstances or life choices making

(moving out, video games use, abuse)

  1. COVID
u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 22 days ago

The scene often starts with me outside of the campus. It’s not even my actual campus but it bears some resemblance as it has doors where you can see your reflection. But the rest of the campus is just very similar to a closed labyrinth, it doesn’t make much sense.

I’m walking and there’s this gorilla. I’m never facing the gorilla, I always see it through the reflection of the windows as I walk and it’s behind me. I try to make myself as small as possible so he doesn’t do anything to me and at this moment in the dream logic the gorilla isn’t a scary element it’s supposed to be at this campus. I’m also always outside alone. Whenever I move a direction it’s like the gorilla chooses to move too there. Not like a mirror but it’s always a close call. I change my trajectory a couple times and it’s always close.

The dream always ends abruptly when I open the door to enter college. The gorilla finds out how to enter after seeing me doing it and either causes chaos inside as I’m nearby or I’m away and all I can hear is some noise.

If you have any idea, I’m open.

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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 24 days ago
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I’m not out of my treatment yet (barely 1/3 in) but i was curious. My two incisors aren’t even (one has a bit that’s a little missing, nothing too noticeable but still when they’ll be aligned it’ll be obvious) and when my teeth will get more straight I’m pretty sure this won’t change much.

Teeth are a little wavy on the end like a lot of people so I wonder if it’s the way to go or not. I fear for my enamel too. Should I settle for uglier teeth and have more of them or should I take the risk of the ortho shaving down a bit too much ?

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u/Accomplished_Oil4163 — 25 days ago