u/Glittering_Tank9208

I have a fear of needles. It's not HUGE, but it made me hyperventilate before and i tend to get dizzy and nauseous during and after injections and stuff like that, and unfortunately it also makes me try to avoid getting them.

I thought about getting therapy to deal with it, but as I said, it's not a HUGE deal, like no full blown panic attacks or anything and i don't really have time for therapy to be honest.

So I was wondering if exposure therapy is something you can kinda do yourself? I mean I wouldn't poke myself with syringes of course, but yk, starting with imagines of just the syringe and then moving on to videos of people getting vaccinated up to actually buying a syringe.

So is that something that can help or can it end up being counterproductive?

I took a higher dose of my adhd meds today and suddenly got the urge to put away my phone an just sit there and think. About anything. It was so strange. I mean I do like to sit on the bus listening to music and thinking but that's a bit different. This time i wanted no imput, just thoughts.

I didn't know where to ask this so i thought I'd come here, although it really doesn't make a lot of sense.

Edit: I meant this as in "whoa that's a cool thing that my meds allowed me to do, do "normal" people do this regularly?" And not as in "is this an adhd thing or do "normal" people do this as well?" If that makes any sense at all. Like my meds caused this and not my adhd.

Basically my (16F) little sister (13F) is genuinely awful. Like not "she doesn't share the remote" awful but like "in a bad mood LITERALLY 75% of the time and lets it out on me" awful. And alright, i admit, now that I'm writing it it doesn't sound that bad, especially compared to other stuff people post on here, but it's genuinely burdening me.

Like today it was her turn to feed the dog and when i reminded her to do so she (as always) was very annoyed.

When feeding the dog she was still visibility pissed off, and i was annoyed by that, so i asked why she was angry all the time (i know, not necessarily smart but at some point everyone snaps). She answered that she wasn't... which left me very confused.

So after both of us had a bit of time to cool down i asked her to talk. Surprisingly she agreed. I asked her if she knew what the problem with her body language and her tone was. She said she didn't. To sum up the conversation i was trying to explain to her what was wrong with her tone and body language and why it isn't okay to treat people like that all the time, even if they are "just" your family. She was semi-understanding. but imagine *the most* (and I'm sorry to use that word-) *bitchy* look possible, because that was her face during the entire conversation. I tried to point that out to her (in a nice way with lots of awkward atemptted humour) but she kept looking at me that way.

Anyway the conversation ended with her at least pretending to be willing to try and be nicer to each other. But if I'm honest i doubt it'll hold. Speaking from prior experience.

I don't really know what's right in this situation. If she's in a bad mood then i don't want to tell her to pretend not to be, but at the same time she can't walk around spreading bad mood ALL THE TIME, can she? And she CAN be a sweet person, but for some reason she decided that she can treat me badly just because we are family or because there are no consequences or i don't even know.

I feel incredibly silly getting so worked up over a 13 year old but i am certain that this is not a normal sibling relationship. Because i TRY to be nice to her and she just doesn't give a single fuck about our relationship while being a great friend to her friends and mostly trying to be sweet to our parents.

TL;DR: My little sister is walking around spreading bad mood and doesn't get what the problem is.

Advice is very much appreciated, I'd also appreciate it if instead of jumping to conclusions about either one of us you'd ask first (just saying cause some redditors love jumping to conclusions) :)

I mean the tiny little pieces of hair that you can't get out by just washing your clothes. I thought this is the subreddit where I'm most likely to get the solution.

Thanks in advance :)

I recently started adding a tablespoon of chia seeds to my breakfast, and i feel like it makes my meds less effective or kick in later than usual. Can the chia seeds actually have something to do with it or is it probably caused by something else?