u/driedredorange

Hello, I have been practicing on the low for some years and I am starting to be a bit serious about it in recent years. I am devoted to Aphrodite and Hermes, mainly worshipping Aphrodite at my altar and Hermes when I am out and about.

Last year I bought a statuette of Aphrodite which is cute but lately I've been thinking about getting another one if I find it/can afford it.

Is there some sort of etiquette for swapping a statuette for another?

One of my main concerns is also space, my altar is a nook above my nightstand, so getting a new statue would mean getting rid of the previous as there is not much space.

Can anybody give me any advice? Thanks!

Hello, I have been practicing Hellenic polytheism on the low for some years and I am starting to be a bit serious about it in recent years. I am devoted to Aphrodite and Hermes, mainly worshipping Aphrodite at my altar and Hermes when I am out and about.

Last year I bought a statuette of Aphrodite which is cute but lately I've been thinking about getting another one if I find it/can afford it.

Is there some sort of etiquette for swapping a statuette for another?

One of my main concerns is also space, my altar is a nook above my nightstand, so getting a new statue would mean getting rid of the previous as there is not much space.

Can anybody give me any advice? Thanks!

Sorry I'm posting this here but there's no subreddit for bipolar friends... I figured you could help me anyway.

Hello, I don't mean no harm, I'm just asking questions. I preface this saying that english is not my first language so there may be some mistakes.

I (23 F) and my cousin best friend (24 AFAB) are really close and we share a close knit group of friends, mainly consisting of us, my younger sister (18) and our mutual friend (24 AFAB).

My cousin is notorious for having kind of cyclic outbursts of either inconsolable sorrow or terrifying rage, mostly during periods but they can occur randomly. In a normal day they're not a bad person, or a bad friend, but in a bad day they may do or say vicious things.

Yesterday was one of these days, the trigger was a stupid discussion about me being upset I had to do something and freaking out at a mistake I was making. At that point they started attacking me verbally, as our friend and my sister both watched unsure on what to do. Only my aunt, their mom, tried to tell them to calm down, only to receive a "go fuck yourself" in return.

I tried immediately to take accountability and apologize for the scene I caused, but they sent me away stating they didn't care about it. When this happens I give them space.

(Just to give some context: me, my sister and the friend were staying over because in the weekends public transport is kind of lacking so we couldn't just take up and leave.)

The afternoon passed, and still they did not want to talk. They instead started to ignore even my sister and friend, which were not involved in the fight.

Then they got ready and left the house.

My sister said she had enough and restorted to calling a car to go and get us, but as we were going home, my cousin started to text me, saying I needed to kill myself.

It was devastatingly hurtful because usually they just don't text me and kind of ignore me, but this time they were actively trying to get a reaction by continuously telling me to kill myself, that I was a burden to everybody, especially my family and the worst: that if I don't kill myself they are gonna kill themselves, so because they don't want to die I should just hurry up and get it done.

I was very hurt, but I tried up until this point to be neutral and say everything as it was: I didn't mean for things to escalate this was, that I was sorry about making them angry, but that this conversation wasn't going anywhere so it would be best to talk once the atmosphere was calmer.

They responded again with hurrying me to choose between my life and theirs and I said wouldn't entertain this conversation and stopped reading their texts altogether.

On a side note, since I value their wellbeing, I asked their mother for updates, but they stole her phone and insulted me there too. So there's that.

I saw they taunted me, I currently have unread messages calling me the scum of the earth.

How do I respond to this? I've never experienced this level of hurt or rather, they never called me all of this, they never said they hated me with such passion.

I know it's a manic episode and they probably didn't mean it, but it hurts nonetheless and I don't know how to move on from this.

An important thing is: they usually don't remember the manic episodes once they stop, so they never told their psychiatrist about them, so their just being medicated for depression, which is good but these episodes still happen and they're still really bad and the only persone that could eventually report that is their mom so... I don't have any options.

Thank you for reading.