u/TraurigKartoffel

Can’t post. Can’t look at notifications. It says I have no internet connection. I can scroll. But other parts of the app won’t work for me anymore. What’s the deal? I tried clearing the cache and my draft storage. Kind of useless now. Anyone else?

Posting on behalf of my best friend. She is diagnosed with social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, and OCD. She has been in pretty intense therapy for almost 7 years, seeing a team of different providers. One main therapist, one psychiatrist, one OCD specialist, and one food therapist because she is very scared of food contamination. She is on 5 different psych. meds, one of them being 200mg of Zoloft, and a few others that I can’t remember the names of. But literally nothing has improved for her and she is barely functioning and is about to get fired from her job because she keeps leaving to see her numerous therapists. Her main therapist is pushing her to take FMLA or even an inpatient stay. It’s been 7 years and everything they’ve tried has failed for her.

As her best friend it’s becoming increasingly more and more difficult to be there for her. I feel more like another therapist than a friend. I don’t know what to say/do anymore and am becoming burnt out with compassion fatigue.

I’m just curious, is this an example of true treatment resistance? Is there any hope for her?

For more context she is 36, single, works as a librarian.

1. Isaac Ambrose

2. Isaac Emmanuel

3. Isaac Gabriel

4. Isaac Xavier

My son is 8.

He is the most bored child on the planet. And when he isn’t constantly entertained, he is very destructive. He will break toys/household items. Get in to things he shouldn’t. He will also harass the dog and his younger brother for fun, poking them, yelling, flicking, pinching.

He can’t/won’t play and has no interest in toys. It seems like he doesn’t have an imagination and can’t maybe? The only thing he finds entertaining his being destructive or someone playing WITH him, but his brother doesn’t want to play with him because he’s too rough and ends up breaking things or hurting him.

So he wanders around the house whining and moaning about being bored, which makes him angry, which makes him spiral in to a destructive antagonistic attitude where he is harassing the entire house and making everyone miserable.

His teachers have said the same things that he just doesn’t play nice with others and seems to enjoy bothering people or antagonizing them, and always when he is asked WHY, he says it’s because he is bored.

His birthday is coming up and I have family asking what to get him and I’m like ??? I don’t know, because he doesn’t have interest in anything. He doesn’t play with toys.

Anyone have a child like this? It’s the most frustrating thing.

A rainy day comes along and my 6 year old is fine, he plays Minecraft, magnatiles, superheroes, builds a train track, colors, etc.

My 8 year old acts like he is being tortured with boredom and just wanders around the house seriously HARASSING everyone.

If you live in or are a frequent visitor of Hawaii, then you’re probably aware that a lot of Hawaiian natives very much resent and reject the tourism to Hawaii. On the more reasonable side, they claim that heavy tourism strains limited resources, drives up the cost of living, and puts the ecosystem at risk. On the more extreme side, some claim Hawaii should be fully given back to the Native population, that it doesn’t recognize its statehood in the US, and that tourists, primarily white people, have turned their sacred homeland in to a vacation playground. All real arguments I’ve heard over the past few years. From what I understand, Liberals in particular support this.

Thoughts from the conservative side?

I consider myself a very sensitive and empathetic person. I can watch a sweet video of an animal and just bawl. I love kids and animas and I love to participate in food drives/lunch drives with my church. I’m genuinely always so confused when I see liberals say that conservatives are low empathy. How does it make you feel and why do you think this is such a common thought amongst the left?

Every 2 hours, a Christian is killed for their faith in subsaharan African.

Nigeria remains the most hostile towards Christians where christians are targeted by African Islamists and beheaded or burned alive.

Ethiopia is another country where orthodox Christians in particular are being persecuted and their churches burned down.

In the Cabo Delgado province of Mozambique, ISIS-affiliated militants have continually raided Christian villages, beheaded residents, and burned homes and churches.

For whatever reason, I don’t see this being talked about enough.

How on earth can we highlight this more in first world media and attention?

… makes me think that societally we are really close to accepting or normalizing infanticide.

Every time I see this story posted, there are countless comments feeling sorry for the woman. NOTHING about the baby left to die in human feces.

“This wouldn’t have happened if she had an abortion”, mind you, this happened in Michigan where abortion is fully legal.

It makes me feel so sickened that I wish ill and harm on these people making these comments.

I’m pregnant (don’t know the gender quite yet), and the two boy names we both really like are Thaddeus and Gabriel. Which do you like more?

And do you have any middle name suggestions?

Our last name is one syllable and starts with R!

Sorry if that sounds harsh 😂 Just being blunt. But it’s like every time I look over at him he’s doing something that’s just… stupid.

Like I came out of the bathroom just now and he was licking the wall. I asked him why. He laughed and said “I don’t know.” I’ll catch him breaking toys on purpose, smearing lotion in his hair, coloring his entire leg with marker, pouring water on his chicken nuggets, just dumb shit 😩 Rolling around on the carpet making siren noises, sneaking in to the backyard to bring a bucket of sand back in to pour on the kitchen floor.

Like bro what is your problem? 😭

We are pregnant with #3 and are really thinking we like Trinity for a girl.

I’ve always wanted to use Abigail as a middle name. Do you think it sounds like too much of a mouthful with Trinity? I also like Trinity Violet.

Our last name is one syllable and fairly common.

Open to suggestions!

My almost 8 year old did two years of kindergarten and then just completed 1st grade in May (public school with IEP and related services). However, he’s still scoring around PreK level, and so they recommended the summer school program. We signed him up for it and he’s been going since the beginning of June. Problem after problem. Today they called me and told me they don’t have the resources to accommodate him and he can’t come back. I’m just… at a loss. He’s not hurting people or anyone or being mean, he’s just… how do I put it… annoying. He makes noise constantly, stims constantly, moves constantly. And he distracts other kids. The summer school teacher couldn’t handle him and they don’t have the same amount of resource aids over the summer. I’m just bummed. Really bummed. I try to do everything I can for my child but what can I do if even public school cannot handle him?

Simply put, because he will be a seemingly great guy. He will unify all countries. He will end poverty. He will stop all wars. He will criminalize oppression. He will speak on equality. No more racism, homophobia, transphobia, all of that will be criminalized. He will be the progressive’s dream. Universal income, free housing, free food. People will worship him.

The catch? You have to renounce your faith. No more churches. No more religion. Religion will be criminalized. Churches demolished. Priests and pastors imprisoned. Bibles burned.

They will say, this has to be the right way! Because look at the world! The world is finally at peace! No more religion! Religion was always the problem!

That’s how they’ll deceive so many.

And then it will become more harsh. People will start being killed for faith. Pastors publicly executed. People once again martyred for their belief in God. The mark of the beast will be a declaration against God.

And the most terrifying thing is, this path has already began.

Just curious about the political demographics here. I’m largely very independent when it comes to politics but I consider myself more socially conservative. I’ve never met a prolife liberal, curious if there are any of you here?