u/awildjord

(Kind of)

Basically, I've tested this a bit to figure it out but, when my alarm goes off it's REALLY loud, and I never have my ringer volume high, it's less than halfway, and my normal volume is always off unless I'm actively watching or listening to something. This only happens with my alarm and when it goes off, along with startling me at 5am Imao, the ringer volume actually stays stuck there

From the interaction menu anyway (or whatever it's called) so after the alarm if I tried to drag the ringer volume down it would just go back up (though again even 'up' is still way too low to sound as loud as it is imo - since it makes my ringer volume in general significantly louder) and the buttons change how the volume appears but it doesn't change the actual volume itself

The only thing that fixes it is actively going into sound and haptics settings and dragging the bar from there but I don't wanna have to do that every damn time I set an alarm Imao.. and it doesn't stop it from startling me awake with how loud it is

Is this some sort of setting I can fix or is it just an annoying bug I'm gonna have to live with :/ It's driving me insane tbh

iPhone 14
iOS 26.5

Okay, I'm somewhat sure this is a software issue and not a hardware issue simply because the actual volume bar stays the same, it's actually always low when this happens.

Basically, sometimes (but especially in the morning when my alarm goes off), my ringer volume is super loud and I can't seem to change it? I'll put the volume down with the buttons and it shows it already low but going down and yet the sound is just as loud. I'll then drag it down from the volume slider on the screen and it'll just go back up to where it was on its own - which, again, isn't even that high tbh..

Only thing that seems to fix it immediately is restarting my phone, otherwise I think it sometimes stops on its own? But it's still irritating, especially because it's been happening more often

Does anyone know if there's some sort of setting I need to fix??? Or something idk

iPhone 14, iOS 26.5

Okay, I'm somewhat sure this is a software issue and not a hardware issue simply because the actual volume bar stays the same, it's actually always low when this happens.

Basically, sometimes (but especially in the morning when my alarm goes off), my ringer volume is super loud and I can't seem to change it? I'll put the volume down with the buttons and it shows it already low but going down and yet the sound is just as loud. I'll then drag it down from the volume slider on the screen and it'll just go back up to where it was on its own - which, again, isn't even that high tbh..

Only thing that seems to fix it immediately is restarting my phone, otherwise I think it sometimes stops on its own? But it's still irritating, especially because it's been happening more often

Does anyone know if there's some sort of setting I need to fix??? Or something idk

So I used to get prescribed Reandron by my GP at Alice Street until they left, and it was reduced on the PBS to about $30 whenever I got it.

This time though I’ve gone with Kaleido Health Centre as recommended and the GP there told me it would end up being full price but I’m kind of confused on why?

How do I get it on the PBS again? Ik I can ask him but I always forget to ask GP’s important stuff when I’m there because I’m so anxious lol

i’ve been better than i was in the last few years when i’d vent about feeling lonely, but idk maybe i just got better at suppressing it… i thought it was okay bc i wasn’t feeling it as strongly but perhaps i just got too busy to feel it

i just… feel alone

i have a couple friends i talk to sometimes but yk they have lives, uni, jobs, and sometimes they just don’t have the energy (and honestly neither do i)

but i spend like 99% of my time alone (not including time i have no control over bc of work and living with my family) and i think i crave connection a lot more than i thought i did

it sorta feels like that’s been my whole life, even when i had lots of friends who ik cared about me, but especially my adult life

and i feel like i just can’t connect with anyone? idek how at this point… im just so socially inept… i never know what to say, how to respond to people, i feel like im just too boring… i never have anything to talk about and have nothing in common with my coworkers for example even tho they can all talk to eachother easily… the difference between when it’s just me and one other coworker in the kitchen and then when someone else clocks on always feels like a punch to the gut… its so silent and then nothing but talking (between them of course)

occasionally people initiate conversation with me but it’s obviously small talk and i don’t have anything worthwhile to say even then so why continue.. and like i said, nothing in common anyway

i sorta feel like im just gonna be stuck like this forever

my birthdays tomorrow and i want nothing more than for it to just not happen this year.. i can’t handle the conflicting feelings .. i simultaneously feel so lonely on it but want nothing to do with anyone.. or at least my family… they try to get me excited i think, asking me what i want, if i wanna go out for dinner, for them to cook something specific that night.. but i just can’t answer?? idk.. and then that makes me feel bad bc i can tell they get frustrated by it

why is existing so exhausting

haha FUCK

GOD i just can’t even exist without somehow seeing my side profile in a reflection somewhere by mistake and then wanting to die

and my minds always going insane “everyone knows, everyone can see it so clearly” as if i don’t pass consistently everywhere

but man fucking binders don’t feel like they do shit