u/RandomLifeUnit-05

My QC earbuds stopped being able to pair with my Pixel 9 phone. I googled all the options I could to try to fix it.

When I went to the Bose support page, I entered the serial number and put in a description of the problem, thinking I'd hear back from customer service and have them tell me all the troubleshooting options (that I probably already tried). But nope, just straight to replacing them. Okay?? I guess that's cool, but what if they had some advice on how to fix the problem without replacing them? Seems expensive and inefficient to automatically send more earbuds out anytime someone just has a random complaint about the product.

Sometimes I think the things my mother said to me are just normal things other people heard growing up, and that it's just me that couldn't handle it. I'm autistic also and a Pisces so I'm sensitive (and was also told I was too sensitive growing up).

I don't even remember most of the things my mother said to me. But I have echoes of them in my mind that go something like this. Are these mildly bad? Not too bad? Pretty bad? I don't know. I've seen so much worse.

Being called stupid, crybaby, rebellious, stubborn, willful

"I will beat it out of you" as to the rebellion

(I was only spanked, I was warned the spanking was coming. I was not hit with hands or a belt, and it didn't leave bruises)

Phrases like:

What's wrong with you?

Answer me!

Look at me when I'm talking to you!

You're smarter than this.

I raised you to be better than this!

I brought you into this world, and I can take you back out again. (This one I may have taken more literally because of the autism)

There was extreme control on her part. Sit up straight, make eye contact, no mumbling, enunciate. She policed my body, to where I feel watched even now. I also police myself now and all my responses.

I also get extremely triggered when I feel stupid -- it was the worst thing ever growing up because intellect and being capable seemed the only things she valued.

I get the feeling I'm still blocking out a fair bit-- I do have a lot of amnesia from childhood.

I just got commercial insurance. It's through a new second job my husband is working.

I don't feel that him working two jobs is sustainable. He works a 24 hour shift every other day. (First job, then the 2nd one)

So I got prescribed Trintellix. It has no generic and likely won't until 2027. I'm scared to start it because out of pocket price is $200-$300. The manufacturer's coupon online is only for those who have commercial insurance.

I don't know how long I'll have insurance for, so I'm scared to start it.

I set up a payment plan via a chat bot in Verizon. I should have realized the problem when I didn't get an email confirming it :/

But I assumed it was all set up, only to have my phone shut off today. The first payment on the installment wasn't due till the 19th.

When it costs $10 to talk to a person, it sucks that their chat customer service isn't a valid option.

I'm in the US, fwiw, and have basically been without insurance for 5 years. I've been seeing my doc once a year for physicals and med refills.

I just got insurance, and will be seeing my doc in a couple weeks to talk about all the things I couldn't afford to talk about before.

I already am diagnosed with adrenal insufficiency, hypothyroidism, migraines, tachycardia and hypopituitarism. I had autoimmune ruled out on several occasions but it's been years since I've had proper blood tests for anything.

I'm wondering if there are any suggestions of what I should ask my doc about or get tested for.

The issues I have are:

I feel like I'm slowly dying in some ways. The migraines are frequent and debilitating. I'll be speaking to her about meds for them.

Exercise intolerance, sleep is unrefreshing, body aches, shortness of breath on exertion, "paying for" outings for days. Waking up feeling hungover even though I didn't drink anything. Low immunity. Brain fog, word hunting, using the wrong word that is unrelated to the word I'm looking for.

Just generally I feel like I'm near the end of life even though I'm 44.

I'm in the state of NC and so far have just had "family planning" Medicaid. Only benefit was one well woman checkup a year and birth control. Nothing else.

I just got Blue Cross through my husband's new job.

My therapist suggested I may be able to stay on Medicaid also due to being diagnosed as autistic (level 1) last year? But I don't have the disability Medicaid.

Can I even apply for that anymore? We won't financially qualify for Medicaid anymore now.

I'm in the state of NC and so far have just had "family planning" Medicaid. Only benefit was one well woman checkup a year and birth control. Nothing else.

I just got Blue Cross through my husband's new job.

My therapist suggested I may be able to stay on Medicaid also due to being diagnosed as autistic (level 1) last year? But I don't have the disability Medicaid.

Can I even apply for that anymore? We won't financially qualify for Medicaid anymore now.

My youngest son has Medicaid and also is autistic and ADHD. My husband just started a new job that will make us too much to qualify for Medicaid anymore based on income, and we added insurance for myself and the kids through his Blue Cross.

How do I go about making this switch. Do I call DSS to let them know about the income and new insurance?

It's been suggested that the kids that have disabilities could stay on their Medicaid insurance. Is that true?

My son has a very expensive med for ulcerative colitis that would cost us $30K a month out of pocket so I don't want to mess this up.

Edited to add: state is North Carolina

I've been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder.

I've learned a lot about it, such as, it occurs with more frequency than things like bipolar and schizophrenia. Globally it's seen in 1%-3% of the population.

I am curious what kind of reception the topic has among therapists in general. One therapist I had got nervous and redirected the conversation when I tried to talk about alters. The next one said it was so rare that a therapist was unlikely to encounter even one patient with the disorder in the therapist's entire career, which is false statistically. But, I hear this mantra is frequently taught in school for y'all.

Just wondering what kind of opinions y'all have.

I have DID, and so far have responded badly to EMDR.

I've read that it needs modified for DID, but not found what ways it needs modified.

How can I know I'm getting the "right" kind of EMDR for my condition if I don't know what the "right" kind is?

Also, will I need EMDR modified in other ways for my autism or c-PTSD?

Basically there was severe and long term trauma and whenever we work on something in session, it ends up disturbing other traumas, and I get destabilized for like a month and a half until my system can figure out how to put the trauma back away.

Twice now in the past month, in the physical store after grocery shopping, I've had my debit card show declined at the terminal. But when I check my bank account, it's gone through, placing a hold on the funds. So now I am less the money in my bank but my groceries have not been paid for.

The temporary hold can take a day or so to drop off. This time, I only had enough in my account to run it through once. I almost had to walk out of the store without my groceries yesterday. I was nearly in tears.

Luckily the reversal for the hold went through after about half an hour and I was able to go back in and pay for my groceries.

Anyone else????

They told me this has been an issue over the past year since their terminals got replaced. Is this nationwide for the US? I'm in North Carolina.

Apparently there is no fix incoming for this. I'm going to have to carry cash, I guess!!