u/Ok-Swim2827

Currently really stuck in a mental debate about this. I’m personally so ready to make that leap just so our lives get easier, which yes, it shouldn’t be a “bandaid”… but they aren’t there at all, which is super frustrating.

Specifically, was it something you guys built up to over months of conversation and planning or more of a spur of the moment thing? (I’m a planner, personally!) What were your main fears/hesitations? Was there anything that made you the reluctant partner?

Especially if you guys were already spending every single day/night together. I think most couples just see each other 2-3 times a week.

Genuinely just curious. When my sister was 16, she took a bad edible while with friends. She ended up in the ER and ever since, she hasn’t been the same person. I always assumed the edible was laced until today. I saw a video from a mom talking about her son’s experience with this. I didn’t know it was a thing.

But looking into it, all the threads & studies say the effects aren’t permanent. While I know my sister may have other underlying issues, she’s an entirely different person that isn’t recognizable anymore.

Following the episode, she started breaking into hives every time she ate. She went through various rounds of testing for food allergies, all inconclusive. Her allergist eventually put her on two different anxiety medications and the hives mostly stopped.

She developed insomnia, severe social anxiety, paranoia (which we don’t know the full extent of as my parents are not good people), depersonalization (believes she/reality isn’t real), is extremely quick to anger. None of these symptoms have gone away since the episode (roughly 3 years now).

I know she drinks and smokes nicotine, but I really don’t believe she she’s touched weed again because of how bad it was.

Perhaps the most interesting (or disturbing) development is her personality changes. Some of it could be environmental, but it’s deeply troubling to watch.

She has become obsessed with family (which she had a very strained relationship with prior) to the degree she’s getting large tattoos of portraits/dates/memorial-type tats. Very disturbingly into black culture/“black fishing” (which has strained her friendships). VERY obsessed with our youngest sister, who she posts about as if it’s her own kid (and got a LARGE tattoo for, almost a “job stopper”)

She also, according to our mom so I don’t know how true it is, harassed her high school boyfriend so bad after they broke up he threatened to get a PFA.

We’ve not spoken in a few months since she was planning on getting a family portrait tattoo I highly discouraged her from doing. She’s only 19. I’m really worried she’s going to wreck her life if she doesn’t actually get mental health help (my parents did not put her in therapy despite everything).

As for the paranoia comment, they put a tracker on her car without her knowing and it fell off at some point. My mom’s husband threatened to go to her college because she “wasn’t where she was supposed to be”. So they’re just making the situation worse.

Our mom is also not at all disturbed with her obsession with our younger sister (who’s 3, mom had her while menopausal, she’s a “miracle baby”). My sister will beg to FaceTime with the baby, sobbing about how much she misses her. I genuinely wonder sometimes if she somehow believes the baby is hers (she’ll refer to God about her “the best gift he ever gave me”)

Gonna be honest, this is not my thing. I see you guys have a flair for “debate”, so I’m guessing this is okay. But here’s the thing…

I’ve somehow heavily ended up on the side of TikTok talking about how something shifted in 2022 and for the last few weeks, time has sped up. A minute is now really only 45 seconds.

I don’t believe this. I don’t know how anyone would prove this. But then I got to thinking.

A LOT of the comments were from women. Makes sense, I think women in general are more geared to be interested in this kind of content. They’re all saying “I’ve been having two periods a month.”

Now. I’m on the mini pill. It’s great! (For me.) But the thing is, you have to take it at the SAME time every day to not have side effects. Since March, no matter how hard I remember to pop that sucker, I’ve been irregular. A “baby period” about a week after my regular period. A “baby period” about a week before my real period.

Doing the math, a normal cycle is about 25-28 days. If you account for lost time, women would be having 1.3 periods a month. Or a cycle length around 20 days.

Moving on.

There’s ONE thing I’ve always been really, really good at. And that’s making really jammy eggs for ramen. That means whites fully cooked, yolk fully runny.

I’ve damn near perfected it over the last few years. You boil for 5 mins. 30 secs. Cool off. Lately, no dice. My eggs are coming out super undercooked.

I’ve adjusted to them to 6 minutes now. Still slightly under, but better. And I don’t cool them now (meaning they’re still cooking in the shell)

Here’s the thing: 5:30 is 330 secs in regular time. 6 minutes at 45 secs is 270 secs. I’d need to cook them for 7 mins 15 seconds to be perfect in this supposed “new time”.

Over 7 mins in the past would be near hard boiled.
Now I feel I have to test this.

Like I said, this isn’t my thing. But these are two situations that are heavily dependent on following a time based routine that has been “off” for me lately.

And without sounding like I’m experiencing psychosis, I’ve noticed a few other things lately as well. My devices aren’t holding charge for as long. My hair is getting greasy faster. I’ve been losing weight without changing anything about my routine. I’m not keeping food down the same, it’s “passing through me” really badly. Etc.

Hi all. So I do tarot readings and am naturally very good at it! I felt a calling to do it at a younger age, followed by some strange sleep experiences as a kid (I had a lot of premonitions in my early to late teen years that stopped for some reason)

When I go to read people, I often “physically tap into their spirit guides”… IDK what else to call it. Or how to describe it really.

Usually, it is always warm, glowing presences. Sometimes I can even make out specific details (how many, who they are, things they’d say, reactions to what I’m saying, etc)

But a few times, once quite recently, there have been “dark” presences. Once was because of an unresolved issue, which the guy was upset I called out, but it wasn’t anything serious.

But the most recent was quite different. It was massive, overshadowed the warm presences. It caused physical pain to the shoulder it was attached to on myself (guides are almost always behind me when I read). The weird thing is that I gave this person two back-to-back readings, but the presence only stayed for the first.

I know the two readings were related to love and career, but I don’t know the order they asked. I suspect the 1st was about their career, which was a positive outcome, despite the dark presence. The 2nd was most likely about love, which was negative (but no dark presence).

Their other “guides” were quite active. Very giggly? They weren’t receptive to the dark presence. This feels insane trying to explain it. Is it possible they “banished” it? Or the dark presence was specifically only interested in the question being asked?

What do you think this is? Am I medium or something else? I am almost always with this person. Is it something I can cleanse for them?

I never fight tapping in. If anything, I’m perplexed when I’m not able to. I can always feel when it starts, it’s similar to an ASMR response. TBH, I never cleanse myself or anything. When I’m done with the cards, it just stops.

Edit: I’ve been to a psychic once (it’s expensive). She told me I was a healer, which I thought was strange. I’ve tried stuff like reiki before, but didn’t feel good at it. Tarot and manifestation has really been my thing. But I want to learn more about the “tapping in” part.

Hopefully allowed, not trying to argue. I was born in 2000 and was a part of GATE/TAG throughout elementary school, I think until 4th Grade (2009?)

I remember the tests. And the lady who ran my tests. I don’t remember anything weird happening. Or it effecting any other part of my schooling or adulthood.

I’d meet her in the library. I’d be given tests on the earliest known models of Kindles, and that was it. Most of the time I found it annoying. Like a “Remember this word, then read this passage and recall the word” or “Read as much as you can in __ seconds and relay it back”.

Definitely wore headphones during the tests, but nothing played from them that I can remember, it was just to block out sound during my tests.

I just don’t see why people are so freaked out about it? It was clearly testing to see how/why some students excelled over others. I think the testing started because my reading level in 2nd grade was near collegiate.

When the testing stopped, I was literally just encouraged to be placed in proper classes afterwards, which started me in honors courses in middle school, then college classes in high school.

Edit to add: I did have a near death experience at 5 (car accident), paired with a traumatic upbringing because of that and have been told by people who claim they are psychic that I am gifted in that way (but I don’t practice anything outside of tarot)

Last edit: My legal guardian never signed off on me doing this and has clue what I’m talking about. I remember taking tachioscope red/green dot tests, along with other machine-based hearing & sight tests, but everyone in school was tested (along with tests for stuff like scoliosis). The Zener card test shapes are familiar to me, but I don’t recall cards ever being used.