u/TimeAdministration78

i have a vivid memory of being 7-9 (i'm 19 now) and flipping through random channels on tv, then coming across a scene from some adult cartoon that scared me SO bad.

if i'm remembering correctly, it was two people in the back of a taxi/car sitting together. then suddenly, one person lunged over and started mauling and biting the other one. it was super bloody and disturbing and i was traumatized 😭 it definitely could have been a zombie apocalypse scenario, but i cant remember for sure. i promptly changed the channel and could never erase the scene from my mind

it very well could be from some popular adult cartoon like futurama or american dad - i think it had an art style similar to those. i don't watch adult cartoons so i have never come across the scene on my own or anything. it could be a popular scene for all i know lol just wondering if this rings a bell for anyone!

edit: the closest art style i've seen (specifically the gore parts) is mr. pickles/momma named me sheriff. the latter seems especially possible! ugly americans also looks like it could be it, but no matching scenes are coming up on google.

my health anxiety has gotten significantly worse over the course of 2026, and a huge thing i've noticed is that sleep is absolutely VITAL to me feeling like a normal, functioning person. i literally could not stay asleep last night for no identifiable reason. so today, i was constantly light headed, had blurry vision, felt anxious and "out of it," etc. i mean, i know that not getting enough sleep affects EVERYTHING negatively, but it's really aggravating to me how much it ruins my whole next day. taking naps doesn't even really improve it... i just have to wait till the next day to hopefully feel normal again. and also, anxiety can make sleeping a lot harder obviously, so it's just a vicious, unfair cycle.

and what worries me is that i didn't always experience this!!! why has my anxiety gotten so so much worse the past couple months? of course, this is where i start getting convinced something is wrong with my brain... being in a human body feels so torturous sometimes.

some really quick backstory: i developed GERD and gastritis from years of disordered eating. i got an endoscopy and prescribed pepcid and protonix short term, which helped temporarily... but then i got off those meds, and i still couldn't eat any trigger foods without immense burning and chest pain. i am a coffee addict and pasta + spicy food are my comforts, so i really have been feeling trapped with these dietary restrictions.

i got some horrific chest pain a couple weeks ago that sent me searching for ANY quick relief. i saw a couple people recommend liquid gaviscon, so i decided to try it. OH MY GOD. i can actually eat whatever i want now. it is insane. i've ate pizza and pasta with marinara sauce, and only had minimal discomfort afterwards. the gaviscon gives me immediate relief. i cannot believe how well it works for me!!!

i really highly recommend it for anyone else who is sick of the dietary restrictions. it might not be a miracle cure for everyone, but it's actually my savior right now!!!!

okay so, i had a horrific anxiety attack a couple days ago. right as i was calming down from that, my chest began hurting REAL bad. it was aching and tender, especially when i moved in specific ways. of course, my first thought was that i was going to die. but after surviving through it for a day, i was like. Hmm. maybe i should try a painkiller and see if that does anything.

lo and behold, ibuprofen made it go away. and that really baffled me. i've had anxiety all my life, but it still shocks me just how much your brain can affect your body. i'm assuming i was really tense during my anxiety episode, and that must've caused the muscles in my chest to get all tender/inflamed?? i really don't know, but i Do know that anxiety is absolutely evil. mental anguish isn't enough - you have to feel it all over your body too for days afterwards!! yay!!!

hello! i posted on this sub a couple months ago when i was struggling with horrible anxiety about my health. i've been dealing with blurry vision, chest aches, vertigo, etc. i was convinced several times there was something seriously wrong with me, and i had panic attacks thinking i was going to die imminently.

my anxiety started manifesting really bad physically, to the point that i genuinely could not function somedays. i talked to my psychiatrist and we decided to try a beta blocker, specifically propranolol, to try to stop physical anxiety symptoms from triggering my health anxiety.

let me tell you, it's only been a week on 10mg but i am already doing so, so much better. i am so much calmer, less anxious about my health, and able to actually function. my vision and vertigo is better. i can feel when the med starts wearing off (~6 hours), which indicates to me that it's really working.

i hope this can maybe inspire someone else to try out this med. i did panic the first time i took it because i thought it'd stop my heart, but now i'm doing totally fine on it :) if your physical anxiety symptoms trigger your health anxiety, i highly recommend it! (for transparency's sake, i am also on cymbalta and lamictal, so i'm sure that that's also helping LOL but i only recently added propranolol!)

i have been having debilitating health anxiety for months (well, i've had it my whole life, but it's been particularly bad recently). i am currently recovering from AN B/P which caused me to develop gastritis and GERD, which is just another beautiful example of how mental illness causes physical issues. but regardless, i believed i had an ulcer that would rupture and kill me... i got an endoscopy and was pretty much fine, lol. i had to take two medications to help heal my stomach/esophagus and i'm finally off of them!

but ever since this flareup, i have been having other really weird symptoms. primarily, blurry vision. it comes and goes throughout the day, but is especially bad at night. it's like that derealization feeling where it's like i'm in a dream and can't get back into my body. it's been a terrible experience that i just want to escape from.

i'm at a point where i'm finally starting to accept that this blurry vision may just be from my anxiety. i've gotten every blood lab done and came back pretty much fine. my EKGs and tilt-table test were fine. i didn't want to believe that my health anxiety is so powerful that it's messed with my vision this much for this long, but i think that might be the case. it's absolutely infuriating that a health issue can cause health anxiety, which then causes an entirely new health issue. how is that fair?! not to mention how my anxiety has messed with my sleep, which of course causes a million other problems :/ what's really helped me realize this is how the weird vision really only starts when i think about it, and it gets worse when i'm stressed. the issue is that i think about it right when i wake up because of my stupid OCD. ughhhhh.

anxiety is too powerful for its own good.

hi! just a bit of a rant about lamictal because ... oh boy. it's frustrating me bad right now.

i've been on 50mg of lamictal for around 5 years at this point for OCD/MDD/GAD (and suspected borderline...) and it's been amazing. literally cut my OCD symptoms in half. however, i've been having a rough time lately and decided to try upping my dosage to 75mg. i mean, so many people's bare minimum therapeutic dose is 100mg+ so i figured it'd help me a lot!

nope. immediate panic attacks and horrible anxiety. i tried splitting up the dosage and thought i might be alright for a couple days, but that horrible dread was getting worse. 6 days ago, i just went back down to 50mg because i couldn't stand it anymore.

the horrific anxiety continued for another couple days, but has mostly mellowed out. now, i just have been having horrible headaches, brain fog, fatigue, blurry vision, and dizziness. like what the hell??? my symptoms are gradually getting better, but i just don't know why it messed me up so bad. especially since i've seen people on as high as 900mg!!!!! everyone's bodies are insanely different, i guess. i'm just waiting for the weirdness to settle down and it's frustrating that time is really the only thing that can fix it. and lots of rest. which sucks since i'm in finals season rn 💀💀 ohhh medication how i love/hate you