u/Alsomyaccount

I'm playing through the 1980s and I've managed to have what I need each day, but today I brought a useless item and can't sabotage the rival's gift. I don't understand how I was supposed to know what to bring. Do I just restart the day somehow? Can I find everything I need around school?

So, this feels like my thousandth post about this issue, but it came around again. Long story short I went on a trip that really messed me up. I had extreme breathing problems the whole trip and when I went home, the clothes and sheets I brought continued to give me breathing problems. Being around them makes my throat feel tight and my skin feel tingly. I've washed them in every way I could think of and even took a test to see if I have allergies. I don't. So, I'm forced to conclude it's my OCD messing with me again. I have to take some of these "contaminated" clothes on a two week trip with me and the idea of gasping for air the whole time makes me really nervous. Does anyone have tips on convincing my brain to give it a rest?

It seems like every time I try to learn something, my brain is too worthless to think about it. Either I won't actually be thinking or I won't remember or I won't be able to apply it and it's incredibly frustrating. It makes me get extremely frustrated to the point I'll scream into a pillow and punch myself. It makes me feel so pathetic. I gave myself a concussion after getting frustrated on a final a few weeks ago. Does anyone have any tips on managing this? I want to focus on learning and growing, or even just relaxing and playing games, but every time I can't understand something or fail over and over, I just get so mad. I don't want to live like this.

I've been really struggling with what I've been labeling 'breaks from reality.' Where if I blink too long or get distracted by my thoughts, I'll just be somewhere different. I was walking earlier and I blinked and I was like 40 feet ahead of where I was. Or I'll blink and I won't remember where I am for a little while. It's really disorienting. It feels like a scene transition almost. I know that I moved from point A to point B, but how I did it feels lost in a way. And it keeps getting worse and worse. My memory has always been pretty rough, but this has been really messing with me. When I walked somewhere I used to when I was younger, it really messed with me, because my brain had trouble separating now from then. I was genuinely getting confused on when I was. Does anyone have any coping strategies or tips on how to deal with this?

Hi, I just started the game today and while the atmosphere is amazing and the game is definitely interesting to me, I've grown pretty frustrated trying to figure everything out. I did the tutorial twice, but I still can't understand a lot of stuff. I've read the pinned thread on this subreddit on how to do things and I've read the Help & Info tab in game, but I don't understand how I was supposed to know that in game. Did I just miss some notes? Was it supposed to be a puzzle? I really wanted to do this without outside help, but I keep having to go to the wiki or here. Is it just not in the game yet?

The last year or so has been agony and I’ve constantly been dealing with stuff. All I wanted was to relax this summer, but it’s been one thing after another. I just got a private bedroom after 2 months of having zero privacy and now I’m getting my wisdom teeth out, so I get to be in discomfort and not be able to enjoy my favorite foods for a week. After that, I’m going to England, which sounds nice and I don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but I can’t handle doing anything let alone go on a two week trip AND I’ll have to share a room. I feel like no matter what I do, I can’t have a break. I’m only up this late before my wisdom teeth thing, because my nose won’t stay clear, so I can’t breathe. I can’t handle this anymore… I just want a break. I keep hitting myself out of habit and I’m worried I’m going to give myself a concussion. I’ve been strong for so long, when do I get to relax and fall apart?

I went on an extremely stressful trip to see my boyfriend, but his dad was a hoarder and it was just a complete mess. I’m back now, but everything that I brought on the trip really stresses me out and makes my throat swell up. I’m not allergic to anything and I’ve cleaned them every way I know how. But everything from the trip seems to infect anything it touches. I have a bunch of sheets and clothes that I really love that I can’t use, because it makes it so hard to breathe and make my face unpleasantly tingly. I can only conclude that it’s a stress response. So, does anyone have any tips on dealing with this? Desensitizing myself or something?

I've struggled with reality my whole life ( I doubt there are any, who haven't, but regardless... ). I'm obsessed with being a character. That character changes often, because I can't make up my mind, but I've rarely felt like a person. I've always distracted myself with fantasies, daydreams, or media ( video games, books, music etc. ). It's to the point that no one feels real a lot of the time. Everyone feels like filler and fluff until they become plot relevant ( and even then, they still feel like other characters. ) It's to the point that if I start feeling bad enough, my brain autofills people with cardboard cutouts. Like, if I look away, my brain tells me they're gone and just cutouts or over the phone they'll be a tape recording. It's really fucking with me. I've been really trying to accept things. I've tried to make a difference in my reality. I got great grades in all my classes, even getting on the Dean's list and I signed up for summer classes even though I've been really stressed out. It got better for a while, but then bad things just kept happening and now I'm stuck in a miserable, tiny basement with no furniture except a bed and a desk. No place for clothes, trash, or any of my stuff. It's really stressing me out and it's all coming back. I spend my days entrancing myself in games, books, and shows to the point I forget I'm not actually a character in them and I spend every night walking around my neighborhood listening to music and going through my imaginary scenarios. They're so consistent now I've started mapping them out in my head. It's the only time I can actually think without being overtaken by static. I don't understand how I can just accept reality and start making positive changes for myself like this. I'm desperately trying, but just thinking feels impossible, when I can't even remember that I'm not thinking. Does anyone have any tips?

I have gotten back into Starbound recently and immediately remember why I always fall out of it. Fall being the keyword. It feels almost impossible to stay in one place. Every jump, move forward or back, or ability is so agonizingly floaty that it's almost intolerable. I'm trying to do a Floran Dungeon on a random planet and there's this horrible set of corridors that I just cannot get through. It's alternating buzz saws on the ceilings and floors with an energy blast shooting down the middle. It's simply impossible to walk through it, my character flies too far in one direction and gets obliterated on the saws or takes the blast to his face. I tried the sphere, but it keeps moving on its own and kills me on the saws again. I keep dying to fall damage over and over and over and I don't understand how it's still an issue after so many years. The movement just isn't fun. How am I expected to land on platforms or dodge things if I have no idea where I'll end up when I land. Every button press either has me standing still or sends me flying. It's infuriating... Sorry to just rant, but I got all my Durasteel stuck in that saw corridor and I'm about to break my keyboard.

The first time I saw it was a team I joined when I was in Elementary School. Team 426. The group was nice, but soon became kinda hostile and/or distant. I left, not feeling connected anymore. Now, I see that number all the time. It feels like every time I check the time, look at a timer, notice a random number, and look at someone's username I see it. I'm sure that it's just a memorable number to me, so I notice it over other numbers, but I hovered over a timer and the number it was one was 4:26, so it brought it back into my thoughts.

I’m really struggling to figure out what I’m allergic to. I went to an allergist, but they said they couldn’t help me. I just moved back home after college and whatever I’m allergic to is everywhere. I can barely breathe, my legs are weak, and my head and neck and throbbing. I have no where else to go. I was supposed to be in the basement, but it’s absolutely toxic. It was fine for a few hours, but got progressively worse. What can I do? I’m on the couch and even the blanket I’m using makes it hard to breathe. I can’t live like this.

Edit: I got a nose opening thingy, nasal spray, and tums. I’m able to breathe through my nose and it lessens the allergies by a lot, but it also makes my lungs and neck really sore. I got an allergy test done, but I won’t know the results until tomorrow.

So, long story short, I hit myself in the back of the head pretty hard and stained my pillow with blood a bit. I am not bleeding. I’m not asking to be diagnosed, I’ve already contacted my doctor. My question is, I have finals today and tomorrow. What do I do? I can’t ask for any other time and I don’t have time for a doctors visit. How can I avoid making this worse during the final?

Edit: So I took the final and did way better than I normally do on tests. Like, a lot better. I feel very clear. My head is still kinda throbbing though. Weird.