I've been applying oil for skincare reasons on my body and spilled some accidentally. Seeped through my bedsheet onto the mattress. Luckily it doesn't smell and it wasn't a lot, but it's a bit stained. My main issue is the cleanliness portion of it, because now my mattress just has a small blotch where oil seamed in. Is there any good way to clean it?
I'm someone who has a good amount of money for my age, but I have no idea what to do with it. I didn't grow up with a lot of money nor do I grow up spending a lot of money, so I don't really ever think about what I need or want to buy. It's to where I don't even have an Amazon Prime account because I rarely need to buy things. The last few things I bought were just standard maintenance stuff: new electric razors after 2 years, new facial cleanser since mine ran out, some healthy snacks.
Looking for some suggestions.
Edit: All my money is in investments right now. I literally just dump 80% of my net income mindlessly every month into my brokerage/investments. Not looking for financial advice. Just nice things for fun or comfort :) I'm not a very material person as is so splurging on "luxury goods" like expensive accessories or name brand clothing isn't something I enjoy.
I'm also moving out of my parents' soon so new apartment stuff would be cool as well. I'm already thinking of some nice lamps and light bulbs, that sort of stuff, for a warm atmosphere unlike my parents' white ceiling lights lol
Context: Taking it for chronic pain, relaxation, minor anxiety, and nervous system downregulation. Doing this in conjunction with cognitive behavioral therapy and physical therapy. My chronic pain is resolving as I'm doing therapy (both) so I want to add this in conjunction.
There are two shops near my house and I just plan on going to the closer one and getting whatever seems fine after asking the workers some questions.
Looking for relaxation first and foremost. Not on any other medications besides like antacid every so often.
My physical therapist is a chronic pain specialist so he's been giving me some context, suggestions, etc. and told me to basically ask the owner, but of course start with gummies that contain CBD only as those are non-addictive and fairly weak (and then explained to me the chemical and neurological stuff about it and with like receptors and stuff but I didn't understand it all that well).
I'm thinking of just getting anything that's a low dose, and 50mg gummy seems to be the smallest, CBD only, THC-free, and just taking it in some evening to test it out, and change the dose from there. I see they're often tagged with effects so I'll just ask for one that's for relaxation. Is that a good place to start? Should I take into account different brands, or non-gummies, or anything else?
I'm doing it because my physical therapist is recommending it for me because my thoughts manifest in physical tension.
I think it will be good for me because my anxiety does stem from irrational thoughts, negative thinking, worst case scenario preparation, etc. This takes many forms:
Health anxiety: when I start to feel weird, I overthink and overfeel it. It disregulates my nervous system greatly and I've been suffering from chronic pain and tension because of it.
Social anxiety: I generally am very negative so I always assume and default to worst case scenarios unless otherwise given concrete evidence. That the person I'm interacting with doesn't like me, and I need to convince them that I'm someone worth liking. Or that they think I'm annoying, etc. This doesn't stem as much from low self esteem as it does from negative thinking. For example, I don't like receiving attention, because in the worst case, it's negative attention.
Work: Some of my work is pretty important so a healthy amount of paranoia is good, but I tend to become pretty fucking paranoid which ruins my trust in my own work and others' trust in my work as well.
I hear that since I'm quite a logical person all things considered and I just need to reframe my thinking, CBT is good for me. What are your experiences and timelines with it?
Note, I'm not medicated.
Mostly regarding anxiety: social and health anxiety. In-person preferable. CBT probably, never done therapy before but my Physical therapist recommends CBT for patients with health anxiety like me.
Looking through different options on PsychologyToday.com and there are like hundreds that fit my criteria, which admittedly is quite broad. Not sure how to narrow it down because every bio is a similar type of generic thing, and as I've learned with shopping around for physical therapy, people can just broadly cover different bases as they advertise their medical services, despite not being super knowledgeable in all that they say they can help with.
Also I wish they'd let you search keyterms on the site instead of broad filters...
If you have recommendations: Preferring someone near Midtown, LIC, or Astoria.
Been having this for about a week now, for most of the day (sometimes it goes away in the afternoon/evening). Feels like I'm constantly being strangled, which also constantly triggers my extremely bad gag reflex which I've always had
I don't have heartburn, or a sore throat, and it doesn't seem to impact my swallowing much if at all, and certainly doesn't impact my breathing. My diet has been fairly consistent week-to-week for the last few years probably. Voice is fine too. Never had a GERD diagnosis or any thought that I'd have it. No sourness or burning feeling anywhere.
The only other thing that it could be is perhaps my muscles in my anterior neck are just very tight, which could be the case as I've been having neck issues for months, so I've been going to physical therapy for it, some of the exercises specifically targeting the muscles in the front of the neck. I don't have my next appointment until next week.
The most relief I have is popping a cough drop which is my go-to- method for handling my gag reflex. But I'm basically popping one every hour at this point.
I feel it the best after lying down for a long period of time, like in the morning...so it could be the neck muscles issue. But I don't want to just next my PT my throat feels tight is this because of the exercises, because that sounds silly and I've been doing them for weeks already with no issue. So I want to check here before asking my PT and then booking ENT if necessary.