u/Panic-atthepanic

Hello, I have two cats, one 15 and one 5.

My senior kitty has never changed litter his entire life. My younger girl was able to transition from wooden pellets to clay clumping at around 1/2 months (we rescued her at an extremely young age, complicated story).

I took the plunge and decided to try fit litter! It's non clumping so when we tried mixing the litters it didn't... Really work. So I went with what I did last time with the wood pellets - one tray of the clumping beside the tray of the fit litter. EDIT - To clarify, since it's been missed in the comments, they still have access to their old litter, but I have a tray of the new litter out as well. I haven't taken away the clumping litter.

Neither cat wants to use it. I'm stumped.

I have since tried moving some of their poop into the fit litter tray, but nothing yet. I'm a bit worried and stressed about it, so just wondering what else I can try?

No medical advice required!! Just suggestions for helping cats migrate to new litter.

I never used to have this problem, but recently (last few weeks or so) anytime I braid my hair, it quickly starts to lose tension at the nape of my neck. You could literally just pull it out, it's that slack

I am putting a lot of tension into it when I braid.

Could it possibly be a change in hair texture or caused by hair loss? Just kind of looking for answers. I braid my hair for work and now it doesn't stay, and it ends up snapping when it's getting caught

I've been suspicious of my part widening for years. Got told constantly it was normal by friends and family.

Had a sudden shed this week and hair feels noticeably thinner so got myself to the doctors. She had a look and effectively told me I match the profile for female pattern hair loss. We're going to do bloods to rule out anything else underlying that may have caused the shed, and try a medical shampoo just in case, but she's gently informed me I should consider minoxidil.

I've had my hair long for 16 years. To hear I'm losing hair has hurt something deep. I struggle with confidence and feeling feminine so my hair was my way of feeling that way.

Anyone else been through this struggle? Hoping especially to hear from anyone who didn't get better with minoxidil? I feel a bit hopeless and I'm a pessimist so I'm worried I just go mostly bald.

I have no one at home with me right now

I am deteriorating

Struggling to do basic tasks or function. Crying a lot and not eating

I don't know what to do, I have reached out to loved ones and they won't come back or give support right now

My usual methods of coping like exercise are unavoidable due to injury and cannot walk properly

I've been doing speedrunning lately. Spent over 3 weeks and finally got a new personal best!

Used the wrong software to clip the file, which compressed and changed the quality just enough that auto splitter doesn't work anymore on it. Didn't realise until after I deleted the original clip.

All on ps5 so I can't recover it.

Not the worst adhd tax but I worked so hard on this :')

Please tell me I'm not alone.

I literally study the thing/movement/whatever, it clicks, I understand.

I go to do it.

Why cannot I not retrieve the information I literally learned 5 minutes ago? It doesn't make sense anymore. I realise I don't actually know what I'm doing.

It's as if I learned it and promptly deleted that information, or it instantly corrupted and memorised incorrectly.

Please please tell me I'm not alone because this one of the biggest reasons I hate myself so much is because of this! I can never do anything despite thinking I've got it learned!

That's it, that's the title.

Seem to have hit a rut where I can't improve and am actually getting worse due to anxiety.

Is it common or a sign that speedrunning isn't for me?

More so wondering if it's something that will go away with time or only get worse. Have about 3/4 months experience at this point.

I REALLY love Kingdom Hearts. Like special interest level. So the last few years I've been playing progressively harder and harder, and then I discovered that you can do speedruns.

So, I decided I was gonna learn how to speedrun my favourite category - Limit Cut Level 1 All Pro Codes. Stupid hard. But rewarding.

The first few months I made some pretty rapid progress, but as the strategies get harder and more complex, I feel like I'm ruining my favourite game. I'm so frustrated by how slow my progress feels - we're talking like a month and more for any significant kind of 'reward' or dopamine hit. The novelty was worn off at this point too. I forget steps I'm meant to do in the run, thanks to adhd, then get super upset about it, thanks to autism. And of course tilting/mental health makes it so much worse when that happens.

I'm kind of starting to think I should stop, but I really love this game! But I don't know what else to do with it right now and there's no new or cool things I can try, and currently the strategies are just hard enough that I'm not feeling interested enough to keep grinding.

And it's making me super whiny about it unfortunately.

I'm not sure what the point of the post was anymore. Oops. Maybe I just want to vent about feeling slower than I want to be at this kind of stuff. A lot of times I feel like I'm doing everything right or following the processes people do but not really getting anywhere for whatever reason.

2nd post today but it's a bad day. How am I not meant to hate myself when I'm inconsistent and my best attempt always messes up?

Asked this before. Had answers before. I know I'm reposting. But I am so miserable and overwhelmed as today has gone on and no one really gets it.

I try SOOOO hard at stuff and it just... Ends up a mess. Every time. Improve your hobby? Forgets how to do stuff or can't focus. Brush teeth better? Gets worse despite following advice and looking for brushing teeth videos. Lift weights to regulate my mood? Still manages to drop the barbell on my head despite thinking literally 100% of every rep 'don't drop it. Don't drop it. Steady grip. Don't drop it'

I know that I feel so miserable over this because others made me feel that way as a kid, I get it. Trauma. But it is so debilitating. Trying your fucking best and nope, you still did it wrong! Every time. It leaves me in tears. Makes me not wanna even try because I never know when I'll be competent me or incompetent me.

I wish I had a fix for this. Something. Anything. God I wish there was a fix for feeling like an unreliable, inconsistent and unconfident failure

Asked this before. Had answers before. I know I'm reposting. But I am so miserable and overwhelmed as today has gone on and no one else really gets it apart from you guys

I try SOOOO hard at stuff and it just... Ends up a mess. Every time. Improve your hobby? Forgets how to do stuff or can't focus. Brush teeth better? Gets worse despite following advice and looking for brushing teeth videos. Lift weights to regulate my mood? Still manages to drop the barbell on my head despite thinking literally 100% of every rep 'don't drop it. Don't drop it. Steady grip. Don't drop it'

I know that I feel so miserable over this because others made me feel that way as a kid, I get it. Trauma. But it is so debilitating. Trying your fucking best and nope, you still did it wrong! Every time. It leaves me in tears. Makes me not wanna even try because I never know when I'll be competent me or incompetent me.

I wish I had a fix for this. Something. Anything. God I wish there was a fix for feeling like an unreliable, inconsistent and unconfident failure

Long term bad brusher of teeth.

Swapped into an electric toothbrush this year to try and improve that and it got WORSE. Dentist and hygienist think I'm brushing wrong.

Anyone any idea what to do? I don't know how to brush, it feels overwhelming and sensitive, I've heard so many horror stories of people brushing their gums away so I'm trying to be gentle.

Sorry if I seem dramatic or stupid, just always struggled with keeping my teeth clean and now I'm actively trying and it's not helping. Feel so ashamed and stupid

I also try and floss too