u/kanedekuki

Hi, today I woke up to physically the worst flare up I have had in years. I have had a really good time with my EDS recently, feeling almost completely able bodied and free. Then today I woke up with my shoulder completely subluxed and numb and a horrible pain in my sternum. I stretched, my sternum CRUNCHED and my shoulder went back to normal. My day was relatively okay until about 6 hours ago. I started to have this aching, sharp pain in my right side of my chest and that horrible pain in my sternum again. I tried to draw to distract myself but the pen just kept making my fingers dislocate. I gave up on that. I had so much housework to do and I can't do any of it and I just feel lazy and everything. I'm in so much pain with my chest, my shoulder, I physically cannot move my back at all, my knee has this horrible pinching pain, my thumbs feel like they're constantly on the edge of dislocating as I'm typing this, I feel sick and have stomach ache, I'm gassy, everything feels off, I'm tired, this is just awful and I want it to stop. I forgot how bad my EDS can be during my high spell and now I've fallen back down I feel useless and horrible. My partner is also disabled so over the last while I've been holding most of the fort. But I can't today and I feel horrible for it. Ugh. I wish I wasn't chronically ill. I have such bad imposter syndrome and even now I feel like I'm doing it for attention. I have a professional diagnosis but I still feel like I'm faking everything.

Every second I keep seeming to have a new worse symptom.

Please let me know anything I can do to make this feel a bit better as I'm losing my mind...

Sorry for the rant, just a rough day...

Hi, today I woke up to physically the worst flare up I have had in years. I have had a really good time with my EDS recently, feeling almost completely able bodied and free. Then today I woke up with my shoulder completely subluxed and numb and a horrible pain in my sternum. I stretched, my sternum CRUNCHED and my shoulder went back to normal. My day was relatively okay until about 6 hours ago. I started to have this aching, sharp pain in my right side of my chest and that horrible pain in my sternum again. I tried to draw to distract myself but the pen just kept making my fingers dislocate. I gave up on that. I had so much housework to do and I can't do any of it and I just feel lazy and everything. I'm in so much pain with my chest, my shoulder, I physically cannot move my back at all, my knee has this horrible pinching pain, my thumbs feel like they're constantly on the edge of dislocating as I'm typing this, I feel sick and have stomach ache, I'm gassy, everything feels off, I'm tired, this is just awful and I want it to stop. I forgot how bad my EDS can be during my high spell and now I've fallen back down I feel useless and horrible. My partner is also disabled so over the last while I've been holding most of the fort. But I can't today and I feel horrible for it. Ugh. I wish I wasn't chronically ill. I have such bad imposter syndrome and even now I feel like I'm doing it for attention. I have a professional diagnosis but I still feel like I'm faking everything.

Every second I keep seeming to have a new worse symptom.

Please let me know anything I can do to make this feel a bit better as I'm losing my mind...

Sorry for the rant, just a rough day...

Hi, today I woke up to physically the worst flare up I have had in years. I have had a really good time with my EDS recently, feeling almost completely able bodied and free. Then today I woke up with my shoulder completely subluxed and numb and a horrible pain in my sternum. I stretched, my sternum CRUNCHED and my shoulder went back to normal. My day was relatively okay until about 6 hours ago. I started to have this aching, sharp pain in my right side of my chest and that horrible pain in my sternum again. I tried to draw to distract myself but the pen just kept making my fingers dislocate. I gave up on that. I had so much housework to do and I can't do any of it and I just feel lazy and everything. I'm in so much pain with my chest, my shoulder, I physically cannot move my back at all, my knee has this horrible pinching pain, my thumbs feel like they're constantly on the edge of dislocating as I'm typing this, I feel sick and have stomach ache, I'm gassy, everything feels off, I'm tired, this is just awful and I want it to stop. I forgot how bad my EDS can be during my high spell and now I've fallen back down I feel useless and horrible. My partner is also disabled so over the last while I've been holding most of the fort. But I can't today and I feel horrible for it. Ugh. I wish I wasn't chronically ill. I have such bad imposter syndrome and even now I feel like I'm doing it for attention. I have a professional diagnosis but I still feel like I'm faking everything.

Please let me know anything I can do to make this feel a bit better as I'm losing my mind...

Sorry for the rant, just a rough day...

Hello, my fiance is tapering off mirtazapine to start Sertraline but the tapering advice didn't seem right to me.

She has been on 30mg of mirt for a while, and has been recommended to go down to 15mg for 4 weeks and then stop taking it completely. The taper seems a bit too fast in my experience.

I have been thinking, would it be better to do 15mg for 2 weeks, then 7.5mg for 2 weeks, then stop? I feel that would be less intense/drastic. Thoughts?

Hello. Me (22M) and my partner (22F) have been together 6 years. We split up today after a lot of arguing and problems. I've been kicked out and staying with my mum tonight. I still love her so much and I don't want this to end but unfortunately it has to. We both have our own issues and they clash drastically.

Basically, we can't afford to split our living situation and she has said we can live together as roommates and stay friends. I'm not sure if it's a good idea or not. I don't know if i can cope with not being able to hug or kiss her anymore etc but still being around her.

I'm curious if anyone else has done this, what were your experiences? Is it a bad idea? What can we do to survive like this?? Please advise. I really don't know what to do.

Hi! I'm 22, from the UK and I had a very spooky personal experience when I was 14.

I was visiting a friend's house and we were walking to a shop. It was about 9pm in winter so it was very dark. In her town it has a church/cemetery which is lit by streetlights. We were just walking down the street, minding our own business when something pulled us to look into the cemetery. We **never** took any notice to the cemetery before.

We both glanced over at the same time and saw a man just standing there. He was tall, wearing a long trench coat with a boater top hat styled hat and holding a large a suitcase, but he was a silhouette just standing looking our way. We thought nothing of it until we both glanced away for no more than a second and looked back. He was gone. Disappeared.

What makes this weird is there was absolutely no turnings he could've taken, just a straight, perfectly lit path. There is absolutely no logical way he could've just disappeared like that. We both turned to eachother like "that was really weird, anyways" but I remember it so clearly. I don't remember a lot of the ghosts I've seen in clear appearance but this one has stuck with me.

He also looked way too "old-timey" to be out and about in this day and age. It was a really freaky experience and the one that made me fully believe in ghosts. I have a drawing I did of him but unfortunately can't link it here.

Let me know what you all think of this experience! I'd love to hear your thoughts.

Hey! Me and my best friend are beginner sketch comedians. We've made a few videos together over the last few years and plan to start posting our videos to the public finally and we need a jail cell setting for a part of our upcoming sketch. We're just college students so we're on a low budget. We also don't have access to a jail (pretty obviously). I have a decent amount of DIY experience and we have a green screen but we wanted to avoid green screening if possible due to it looking a bit choppy/lazy. How can I replicate a jail cell look for this? Thank you.

Hey it's currently 4:30am. I forgot to take my mirtazapine tonight and I just can't sleep. I'm wide awake as anything. I'm curious, if I take it now is that a bad idea?? I need to drop off to sleep. The insomnia I get when I forget my meds is insane.

Hello. I have had porn addiction since I was 16 and have recently discovered the fact that I am addicted. I'm in my 20s now. I have ADHD and I'm aware that porn is a dopamine seeking behaviour for me. I went on ADHD medication to see if that would help but porn is so ingrained into my routine that I can't do anything without it. It's an itch. The reason I want to stop watching porn is because I have noticed I've been getting "desensitized" to what I'm used to. I keep seeking out more dangerous and risky genres of porn and I hate it as I feel like I need it to get off. I even started watching horrible stuff. Incest, rape roleplay, scat, the works. I never ever thought of myself getting horny over that stuff. It's not good. I feel disgusted, guilty, shameful. It is worse because I'm in a long term, committed relationship and she has no idea that I'm addicted like this. I sneak off into the bedroom and watch it. Its not that I don't find her attractive, quite the opposite. It's just ingrained into my brain to watch porn every second I can get my hands on it.

I don't even know if I could tell her I'm addicted as i have lied for so long about how I don't watch porn (due to the shame). I feel stuck, powerless, lost. I feel like I'm at a dead end and I don't know what to do. Please help.

Edit to add: by the way, distractions are nearly impossible for me. I'm disabled so I don't work, I stay at home all day doing nothing. I stay in all the time too as I'm agoraphobic.

Hey! I've been smoking/vaping for at least 6 years. I started off on cigs and moved to vapes after 2 years smoking. I still have the occasional cigarette but it's only 1-2 per week. I've had absolutely nothing of concern in all this time but as of recent I've started having a persistent phlegmy cough and brown phlegm coming up. I vape constantly (I know it's bad) and I'm just curious if this is something I should potentially see a doctor about or just not worry about it for now?

I am 22, I'm 5'4, male

I take mirtazapine, elvanse, propranolol, methenamine hippurate, aripiprazole and pizotifen

I have POTS, H-EDS, mental health disorders, autism, ADHD, chronic migraines

This cough has been persisting for 3-4 weeks now.

Hey! I need 4 sheets of cardboard, all of them being 274x274cm for a film set, but I can't seem to find anywhere where does cardboard sheets that big? Does anyone have any ideas where I can acquire those please? On a bit of a budget so cheaper is better. Ty

Hey! My partner is currently trying to lose a decent amount of weight with PCOS (she has been experiencing severe health issues due to weight) and has chosen to do the anti-inflammatory diet. However, she is autistic and has very picky eating habits. She doesn't like fish (apart from tuna), she enjoys most fruit/vegetables, she doesn't like beans either, which fish & beans are the main sources of protein in this diet.

I'm curious if there's any workarounds for these things as she really wants to lose this weight but doesn't want to be eating solely vegetables and fruit for all meals. Ty.