u/https_tortured_poets

hello :) i'm very sure i have contamination ocd, but i'm not 100%. anywho, my parents are making a dinner that has shredded lettuce (not taylor farms, it's grocery store dole lettuce) and i'm very terrified about getting cyclospora because of the outbreak. my state was one that had the lettuce recalled but i'm still paranoid, considering trump laid thousands of food inspectors off of their jobs and it's the reason we haven't been able to accurately source all of the companies supplying the affected lettuce (or so i've heard). is there any information that would ease this worry?

the generalization of all radfems into terfs comes from a very antifeminist place. it comes from cis men attempting to villainize radfeminism and make it into something it's not, so more people don't follow it. radfem isn't bio essentialism. radfem isn't anti-trans beliefs. radfem is fighting for ALL womens rights, no matter what. cis, trans, outside the binary, who CARES.

it frustrates me when people assume all radfems are terfs and follow the same biological-rights spiel. the only biological rights ACTUAL radfems fight for are abortions, gender affirming care for trans women, safe spaces in hospitals with female (not just cis) doctors, etc. its ridiculous how villainous they attempt to make radfems because they hear radical and think the worst. remember folks, generalization sends us back generations.

hi, i didn't know where else to post this. i live in a village, population ~500, meaning i live directly next to a field. every year we get mice (for the past six years) but only during winter, then we are able to get rid of them. the problem is that they didn't go away last time. my family has had an infestation for probably the past year and a half. i was okay with it for the first few months, since i always am. but after a while i started to feel disgusting, when i noticed they weren't going away. now i can barely lay in my bed or be in my room without wanting to cry. i have a bed on the floor and really bad depression so i have trouble cleaning my room.

recently, it's gotten worse. just in the past two days i have had mice crawl on me three times. two days ago, a mouse ran across my bare legs and jumped off my bed. yesterday, a mouse ran across my bed. then that same day, it jumped on and off my back while i was laying on my side. this morning (yesterday morning technically since it is 3 am here), i came in my room and a mouse was on my blanket. it ran off. a few minutes ago, i was sitting up and it ran behind my back (between me and my pillows) and pressed up against my back until i turned around and said, "what the fuck?!" then it ran away. there's mouse droppings on my floor, my desk, my BED. i can't leave any food out or it WILL be chewed through and eaten. i can't even sit in my chair at my desk without being scared (once, it climbed up my leg, up my shirt, down into the back of my pants, and down the inside of my pant leg before leaving.) i have no idea what to do. i feel gross and i just want to move out, as my parents said we would soon. idk i just needed to talk about this. we have an ant infestation too which makes me feel grosser.

i'm constantly paranoid and anxious, jumping at any sort of movement and often hurting myself by doing so. it's just gotten so bad that i've started crying after getting startled by nothing. if anyone has any tips on how to get through this i'd be appreciative.

hi! this is a bit of an odd question, BUTT i was recently prescribed methylprednisolone for a flare up i had. the problem is that the doses say, "take 1 tablet before breakfast," and, "take 2 tablets at bedtime." i have a messed up sleep schedule and usually go to bed by 6 am, maybe 4 am at the earliest. i don't know if i should take the two tablets at 10 - 11 pm, then take the next at 8 am, eat breakfast, and go to sleep? then eat lunch and stuff. i'm not sure if it's significant to sleep or if the "at bedtime" just means around 10 - 11 pm? i need to take my next dose ASAP so i would appreciate if anyone could help!!

hi! this is a bit of an odd question, BUTT i was recently prescribed methylprednisolone for a flare up i had. the problem is that the doses say, "take 1 tablet before breakfast," and, "take 2 tablets at bedtime." i have a messed up sleep schedule and usually go to bed by 6 am, maybe 4 am at the earliest. i don't know if i should take the two tablets at 10 - 11 pm, then take the next at 8 am, eat breakfast, and go to sleep? then eat lunch and stuff. i'm not sure if it's significant to sleep or if the "at bedtime" just means around 10 - 11 pm? i need to take my next dose ASAP so i would appreciate if anyone could help!!

whenever it happens, i get a sort of sharp pain in the left area of my chest/breastbone that hurts worse if i twist or breathe in. it's tender if i try pressing on it. the pain goes away usually within twenty minutes. this happens sort of frequently. i'm 16, AFAB, 170 lbs and 5'5. i always get scared that something's wrong with my heart because i'm overweight and it's terrifying.

basically what the title says

i've loved horror for as long as i can remember. i love the concept, i love the plots, i love when there's new, creative psychological horror movies. but i'm so deathly afraid of them, mostly realistic >!gore!< and really unsettling things. it's so bad that i went to doctor strange: multiverse of madness and in the car, my aunt started telling me there was really graphic things and it was scary. i plugged my ears and closed my eyes the whole movie. i can't even watch a horror trailer without having to look away in fear. it's so bad. what brought this up is the fact that i want to watch Obsession, but everyone i know, knows my fear of horror and is telling me not to because i won't be able to sleep. how do i at least start getting over my paranoia?