u/Accurate_Practice838

so i went to my gp to try and get a referral to some more specialist mental health services than counseling and self help because its never really worked for me. my childhood was quite abusive over a long period of time, and i have a really hard time just like... functioning? keeping friends, having secure relationships, holding a sleep schedule, going outside etc.

i get horrifically emotional very fast, and i dissociate and feel paranoid when that emotion spikes past a certain point. sometimes it gets so bad that i think im not an actual human like everyone else is. long story short, i want an evaluation for a complex mental health issue because it feels more complicated than anxiety/depression. unless thats a thing with anxiety and depression that i dont know about???

anyway, i went to the GP and they basically talked over me the whole time, diagnosed me with GAD and said i was depressed and then offered antidepressants. i dont really think im depressed, but i am a very anxious person so the GAD makes sense. but tbh the anxiety (even though its annoying and definitely has always been an issue with my life) is nowhere near the worst of my problems right now.

so now i dont really know what to do. i said no to the antidepressants, and then they booked me in again for another appointment (i think because i discussed feeling su*cidal pretty often). so i can probably ask for them again when i go back. is it worth trying anyway? im kind of scared of them so i dont know. where do i even go from here??

TL;DR: gp diagnosed me with anxiety/depression and offered me antidepressants when i went in to get a referral to specialist mental health services, but i dont think im depressed and now idk what to do or where to go.

hello everyone, been hearing some worrying stuff about subnautica 2 from steamrip. i downloaded it a few days ago, running through the linux online fix launcher. i had to manually add microsoft c++ redist to the wine config to get it to launch, but its been running fine and ive been playing quite a bit. now im hearing people are getting infected from it.

im on arch, wondering if i can do a virus scan somehow just in case? not sure the process for this on linux generally as i only switched a few months back. i havent had any weirdness or noticed any virus tells happening though. thanks in advance!

i think this is SFW, it was mostly just weird and (to me) very disturbing. heres what happened:

i got hard in my dream (which is normal for me idk if other people get that) and i grabbed my dick to You Know and i guess i accidentally pulled it clean off??? like it just popped off. didnt hurt no blood, just a slight concave where my dick was. nuts came off as well, attached to my dick. i tried to put it back on but it just kept falling off again. it freaked me out really badly! when i woke up i felt so much relief that everything was still attached.

it really disturbed me, like more than most of my nightmares even. never had a dream like that in my life either it was so weird.

hello everyone, i just had my first appointment (of potentially 6) with my local CMHT. i was open and honest and said that i think i have BPD, explaining why.

as ive heard from a lot of people, the guy was very sympathetic but said that the only thing they can offer at the moment is a referral to CBT, which has the potential to be rejected. i asked about DBT, and he said that some CBT therapists incorporate elements from DBT into their work. i think im going to pursue this, just for the sake of having tried it, but i would really like to see a psychiatrist and get diagnosed with something because 1) i dont really know for certain that its BPD and 2) even if im right and it is BPD, i think theres comorbidities complicating it as well.

ive heard some people got support through their university. i reached out to my student counselor a few months back when i was in crisis, and then ghosted the person she referred me to (she referred me for childhood trauma purposes though, not BPD specifically). so i feel kind of awkward going back. is this a viable route to get further support? like is it possible that my uni will refer me to a psychiatrist or something? or is there any other route i could take that isnt going private? i really just dont know how to find help for this.

hello everyone. i self referred to my CMHT a while back because i think i might have EUPD/BPD plus some comorbidities, and the assessment is booked in for tomorrow morning. i took some notes, but to be honest theres loads to go over and im a bit worried we wont be able to cover everything during the appointment. is it likely ill get a diagnosis at that assessment? what happens after? im nervous about not communicating my issues well enough

i think like a live USB but it also functions by itself as if it were a regular arch installation, and i just have to click one or two buttons to build a new preset arch installation on the PC.

my goal is basically:

1. plug SD card into computer (via a usb adapter if that matters)

2. boot from SD card into an arch install that i would have previously set up, logging in to my preexisting user account with a desktop environment and everything

3a) be able to use the PC as normal from the SD card, ignoring any preexisting hard drives unless i mount them manually for the purposes of file transfer

3b) have the option to install arch on the PC with all the same packages/users/config that the SD card installation has, but without any of the files specific to the SD card (like photos or whatever), obviously minus stuff that would be unique to the SD (like the fstab probably)

im sure theres issues with this, the first thing im thinking is that i would obviously need different graphics drivers for intel/amd/nvidia machines, and theres other stuff as well im sure. i just have no clue where to start lol

does anyone know the most achievable way, or can point me in the right direction? thanks!

i was on Fedora KDE before i moved to arch, much happier now with arch but im not sure KDE Plasma is the right fit for me. i like it much more than gnome, but thats the only other one ive tried and tbh i really disliked it lol. i really like a uniform look across applications and ive seen a lot of very sleek hyprland desktops shown off here. how is it compared to KDE Plasma? are there any limitations i should know about? would anyone recommend a different desktop environment? thanks in advance!

should preface this by saying im relatively new to linux and arch but i like to think im computer literate, which is why this is so infuriating.

i need to put windows back on my laptop because im giving it to a friend and they dont want linux on it (i tried to convince them otherwise but its not happening lmao they dont care enough about computers). its running arch atm, and so is my PC. im having no issues whatsoever getting other linux distros to install and boot on it.

i tried dd with a windows 11 iso, a windows 10 iso, and tiny11. i made sure to mkfs.ntfs the usb stick. and still im getting this error whenever i try to boot from the stick saying windows cant detect the SDD because im missing drivers. looked it up and i need some intel driver?? but im running AMD so i dont even understand how that makes sense. anyway i try and download this intel driver and of course its an exe installer, so that just didnt work at all because it cant detect the USB when i run it with wine.

i have no idea where im going wrong here because everywhere im looking says ive done everything correctly. does anyone have any advice?? ive tried changing the internal storage on my laptop, ive tried different USB sticks, and i just keep hitting this wall. its so frustrating!!

hey everyone! im currently on the waitlist for meta (uk), mainly chose it because ive always prioritized erectile function over appearance/size/ability to penetrate.

i have a pretty good amount of growth from T, around 3cm soft and 4.5-5cm hard. im a bit worried though because my tdick is very low down. i understand that a mons reduction(? is that what its called?) is possible but im not really sure on the downsides of that. can anyone whos had one give me some more info? im also planning on a scrotoplasty but i dont want my balls to be like, right down in between my legs lol. thanks in advance!