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I work in environmental consulting so I spend a lot of time away from home travelling to different field sites and staying in random towns. For those in similar situations who struggle with serious mental health problems, how do you manage? Have you ever needed to be sent home over it? If so, what did you do- just say you’re sick?

I used to do alright but I have PMDD and had to change the medication setup that kept me stable for years. I’m experiencing pretty serious mental health episodes sometimes when I’m away from home and it’s a struggle. I’m just totally removed from the supports I need. I’m the type to push through with work when I’m not feeling well but this is a pretty different ballpark than just feeling crappy or a bit under the weather. I’d really like to know what it’s been like for other people with similar issues and how they have handled it.

It’s pretty common where when I get home after a fun social outing around friends I feel like cutting when I get back home. I’m having a hard time processing the feeling and why it’s happening, I’m not even feeling necessarily sad or upset. Does this happen to others?

Dying to complete the Trials of the Realm for completionist sake. I’m still relatively new and I cannot fathom how to achieve 25k+ damage in 30 seconds. Wiping the enemy team off the point usually doesn’t even hit close to 15k damage. Would love to know other players tips on how they achieved it or which characters are best to use.

I did a custom bioactive tank for my crested gecko about 2 and a half years ago. It’s a glass IKEA cabinet with a spray foam/ eco earth back wall. Honestly the setup has held up well so far but there’s a few areas where I feel they could use improvement and a bit of maintenance. A few sections the eco earth has mostly scraped off from the back wall, I would like to add more larger planting areas higher up as the small ones haven’t been able to support very resilient live plants, some aesthetic improvements could be made, etc. There’s lots of resources for starting a setup from scratch but not so much on renovating things later on. Is it possible? I had considered swapping my gecko into a temporary tank for a few weeks so I can let the current tank fully dry, remove the drainage and soil, and work on making some changes and additions. Not sure if people have done this or if it is strictly recommended against.

I’ve been having a pretty severe decline in mental health for a few months. It’s resulted in having suicidal ideation and daydreaming about experiencing violence or getting hurt almost every day, and I’m having a lot of episodes of intense crying and emotional distress where I’ll hit myself. I’ve been doing a lot to hide it from my partner, she has sensed I’m off but hasn’t really seen the full of it. I have a long background of mental health struggles but it had been quite a few years since I’d really felt bad and I thought it was all behind me now. Honestly none of my friends or family really know the extent of it or how I feel.
I’m almost 30 now and I don’t really know what to do about it. I was seeing a therapist but I can’t really afford to keep up with it which I think hasn’t helped. Do these episodes constitute an emergency? Like what am I supposed to do when it happens?

My mental health has been declining over the last two years, particularly the last six months. Over the last six months nearly I have had a pretty intense escalation in suicidal ideation and violent daydreaming about scenarios where I get hurt or hurt myself. Before I’d occasionally fantasize about it like 2-4 times a year for a day or so, now it’s almost daily. I’m very quick to anger lately and very sensitive. I cry a lot at little things. Anytime I have a bad day or something goes wrong I daydream about being hurt. Lately it’s often what I think of to fall asleep. I feel like I am working constantly to keep myself regulated. My partner is really noticing it lately.

All of the advice you hear usually includes reaching out to loved ones for support. I do not know how to go about this. I can’t imagine explaining how I feel, and I know it would break the hearts of my loved ones. My partner is very sweet and loving but anytime I’m sad she cries and she can’t even imagine something bad happening to me. It makes her cry if it ever comes up. I hate seeing her be sad. It would devastate her if I told her about my thoughts. We also have just had a lot going on and I don’t want to add to her plate. I don’t feel like she’d handle it well. I’m also scared she would tell her family about it and I feel embarrassed. I am lucky to have some very loving friends who are amazing and often tell me they’re here for me but I wouldn’t even know how to begin telling them what I think of. It also feels kind of pointless because at the end of the day no one can really do anything but say “it’s ok, it’ll get better” or suggest I talk to a therapist. I had been seeing a therapist for years and I had a trusting relationship with her but a few months ago I stopped going. My insurance is not very good and only covers a few hundred dollars annually. I have been struggling financially and can’t afford to see her. We also had a few poor sessions in a row where I felt she wasn’t understanding me or very present and I feel like it shook my trust in my therapist and made me feel like therapy hasn’t helped me at all, especially because this was around the time this mental health spiral really escalated. I bumped into her in public and for some reason this really shook me. It’s made me scared to go back to therapy, even if I could afford it. I’m also scared that if I disclose my feelings to a friend or partner and their reactions let me down that it will make me feel a thousand times worse. At least now I can pretend they’ll comfort and support me, what if they don’t?

I’ve always felt Korra would not settle well with the idea that the next incarnation of the Avatar line will be without the guidance of their past lives. Even though Korra was resilient and able to find guidance and support among her peers and the spirits, it absolutely was a struggle for her to become disconnected.

While we know very little now about Seven Havens, overall the setting involves some sort of cataclysm drastically altering the world we knew from Legend of Korra, although the details are slim and there’s a lot left to speculation. The only characters we know about are Pavi and one other adult with her. So far I assume that Pavi does not have much of a community around her and the world will not offer the same support or knowledge of the Avatar. I believe it was also confirmed that the cataclysm is what results in Korra’s death. Perhaps with this cataclysm approaching, Korra realized there may not be anyone around to guide the next Avatar- likely no White Lotus, possibly no one left from her friends and family, and possibly no spirits either. Will the next Avatar even know she’s the Avatar or what that is? With that, Korra would likely be a lot more concerned about reconnecting the link to the past lives so the next Avatar isn’t left in the dark. I can only assume this won’t happen in between seasons as it’s a big juicy meaty plot to include in the next series, so what are people’s thoughts on how that might happen? Or if it would happen at all? What would you prefer? Does anyone feel there’s hints or evidence so far between ATLA and LOK on how it can be done? I have seen a lot of argument that the somewhat vague wording in LOK implies that only Korra has lost the connection and theoretically the next Avatar will have it, but I’m not so sure. For the sake of discussion, let’s go with that not being the case.

Personally, I like both routes: either the next Avatar reconnects to all the past lives or it’s gone forever. I utterly love LoK and I personally very much support the writing decision to sever the connection to the past lives. But obviously it results in consequence to the following Avatars- good, as it should from a writing standpoint. I like the idea of having this sort of second generation of Avatara starting from scratch, with Korra as the only past life they can connect to. The writers promised Seven Havens would be quite different which I find refreshing, having an Avatar building the history anew is interesting. Yet, I also love the idea of the next Avatar trying to establish the connection again. It opens up a lot of interesting lore exploration into the spirit world and the Avatar history, which I think fans will for sure appreciate. It also offers a sort of redemption and healing for Korra which makes me emotional, plus major aura points for Pavi if she’s the one to do it.