u/man_onion_

For those who don't know, it's a Cars Toon series where Mater describes having formerly been an astronaut, a stuntman, a firefighter, all kinds of ridiculous stuff. Naturally, based on the title, he's lying right? No. At the end of every episode, everything he said is proven to be true. Every time.

Not only that, but McQueen is always confirmed to have also been there as an active participant of the scenario, despite having zero memory of it. Did McQueen receive an off-screen car TBI? Why doesn't he remember a single part of any of these events, even when other characters do? Is this McQueen actually an impostor who replaced the McQueen that was involved in all of these anecdotes? What happened to the original McQueen?

The theory potentials here are off the charts.

Not getting into the backstory here, I guess if you search my username on the subreddit you should be able to find it?

In very short, I've not spoken to my bio dad in about 5 years. He's tried a couple schemes every year or so throughout that time to get me to speak to him and I never took the bait, but in recent months he's really ramped up the efforts, texting my parents and turning up at their house, posting notes through their door, asking the neighbours about me etc.

A few days ago he told my stepdad that unless he hears it from me, he won't believe that I don't want to speak to him, basically implying he wasn't going to stop no matter what my parents told him. For whatever reason the constant fear I had of him just evaporated and I decided fuck it, if I text him and he starts going crazy, I'll just block his number.

So I did. I kept it extremely brief - "I don't want to talk to you. Leave my family alone." At least I now have evidence that I have told him in no uncertain terms that I don't want any interaction from him. His response? "Who the fuck are you?"

So this guy that was seemingly so desperate to find me has deleted my number, and he did so sometime long after our initial falling out in 2021, since he still had my number in 2023. Cool. Even more, this was basically immediately after specifically requesting that I contact him, who else was it going to be? Who else's family has he been bothering?

Wow.

Anyway, I reply "(my name), obviously." Surely now he's going to fall over himself apologising and spam me with calls, begging me to be back in his life, or even blow up at me and tell me I'm the worst daughter in the world, right? Hahaha, no.

He just says he's been so busy (he hasn't) and he assumed I was a spam caller. Weird thing to assume based on context clues, but he's pretty tech illiterate so God knows what he thinks spam callers do. He then asks that I please don't delete his number (rich, right?) as I'm going to need it in the future. For what, he doesn’t say.

Then that's it. That was last week and I haven't heard another peep out of him. For 5 years he has been constantly hovering around the edge my life, popping up out of the blue once every 18 months or so then going dark again, then the last few months escalating that behaviour, claiming he has something really important to tell me, dragging himself off the couch for probably the first time in years, all the way to my old house, for this super important reason, and he FINALLY wears me down enough to give in, to give him direct access to me for the first time in 5 years, and its a whole lot of nothing.

I don't know what I was expecting, honestly. I don't want him in my life whatsoever, but I'm just so pissed off that this whole wild goose chase led to nothing. I don't miss him but I'm so fucking mad that he clearly doesn't even miss me, he's just been bothering my family for absolutely nothing.

Let this be a lesson to you if you're in a similar position. No answer you ever get from an EP is ever going to be a satisfying conclusion. It's just more headache.

I've been taking various antidepressants and propranolol for about 3 years now for severe anxiety/agoraphobia. Nothing is helping. I've had one course of CBT over the phone, seemed like it was helping at first, was no better by the end of my allotted sessions. I've had a volunteer peer support service via Homestart for about 18 months, as I had a child under 2, but he's now aged out so that support is just gone.

My doctors will not do anything for me from home except blood tests I had to get my CBT therapist to battle them for weeks to get. Rang them begging for a home visit at my lowest and got told because I'm not a pensioner. I'm debating with the idea of filing a complaint because of their constant failure to provide me adequate care but what's even the point? Nothing is going to change.

I would genuinely take anything at this point. Nothing is working. At my best I can go 2 streets away from home. At my worst I can't even walk out of my front door. I have a whole host of other health and dental concerns I can't get addressed until I can go in person but it's impossible. Anything experimental or suggested for treatment-resistant issues that I can access from home is private and I can't afford it.

Is anyone getting any mental health help through the NHS that I haven't mentioned that has worked for them? I'm located near Manchester if that helps. I've lost all motivation to keep fighting this because I'm just hitting brick walls every time I ask for help.

I know that's very vague, so an example would be a scenario where characters are sheltering from a nuclear apocalypse that never actually happened, an island tribe that thinks they're the only people on Earth, etc.

Basically anything where the characters entire worldview ends up being shaken up by a huge revelation about the nature of their reality.

Just uploaded the sick note they requested and put a note on my journal to ask them to send the form, and they replied saying IF they approve the sick note (which they probs wont because the doctors never include any detail on sick notes 🙄), they'll send me the application form by late July, early August!

Why on earth does it take that long to just SEND the application form, not even to review and approve it?

Has anyone else had this when applying for LCWRA? How long did the entire process take for you? When, if at all, should I expect it to be backdated to, the date on the sicknote or the date I submit the application?

Putting in an application for LWCRA. I am fully unemployed, partner works fulltime. We're on a joint claim as we live together so his wage is deducted from our joint entitlement.

With the higher work allowance, will that apply to his wage since it's a joint claim, or only any potential wage I would get since I'm the one with LCW?

I know very little about the constellations, but I want to know what constellations are visible from Point Nemo for a book I'm writing. I know there are mobile apps that will tell you what you can see that night from your current location, but I don't think they'd work for this specific query.

Do you have a preferred POV/person that you never deviate from, no matter what? Do certain genres feel like they 'should' be first or third person? Does split POV immediately put you off a story? Let's discuss!

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Sorry if I'm not using the correct terminology, I'm very new and would appreciate if someone could let me know what word I'm looking for lmao.

I feel pretty out of it all the time. I don't think I've felt normal since I started having panic attacks about 5 years ago and developed agoraphobia which dramatically worsened in the last 1.5 years. Because my days are the exact same and all I do is stare at a screen I barely feel like a person at the best of times.

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During all of this, though, I've noticed a feeling that maybe I've had for a while and never paid much attention to until things got this bad. I feel like my eyes are wrong. They're too zoomed in. It's like tunnel vision, I guess. I feel claustrophobic but from my own field of vision

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I feel like I should be able to see near 360° like a prey animal or something, or I should be able to manually zoom out and see myself in third person like in a video game.

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I've had frequent eye tests all my life due to needing glasses but there isnt anything actually too wrong with my vision, I'm confident this is purely a mental block. If I could just borrow someone else's eyes and see how things look from their perspective I would be fine, whether my POV is normal or not, but until the day science makes that possible I feel like I'm going to feel disoriented and trapped forever.

It keeps prompting me to verify my identity on the app, it then opens a Web page and says I need to allow it access to my camera, but theres no option to do that. Support aren't helping either.

TW: ARACHNOPHOBIA/SPIDER MENTION

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In reference to the title, to be clear, I've been being treated for anxiety/panic attacks/agoraphobia for 4 years, I haven't just drank too much coffee today and the idea of having anxiety has just occurred to me right now. But I am really starting to wonder if this is even what I'm experiencing. I'm really starting to wonder if me and my doctors are even approaching this from the right angle.

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Like, for example, I'm terrified of spiders. If there's a spider near me or potentially near me, I am going to be 110% freaking out. But when there's no spider in the room, I'm not thinking about spiders 24/7. Occasionally I might see a dark shape on the wall and have that spike of panic, but spiders don't consume my every waking thought.

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This is pretty much how anxiety feels for me at the minute. I am extremely anxious to the point of panic attacks when I'm out of the house, or when I'm home alone. When I am home with my partner, I very seldom feel that kind of "background anxiety".

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Obviously given I'm anxious being out and being in, that covers pretty much all of my day-to-day life, so you would say I have a large amount of anxiety in an average week. Does anyone else with anxiety have a particular situation where the anxiety 100% goes away, or is it always there for you?

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I still need help to get my life back given I'm basically housebound and can't work and need to be babysat by a friend when my partner is working, this isn't a "oh I was fine the whole time actually lol" thing. The panic attacks have totally wrecked my whole life. But is this actually something else entirely?

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I don't know, I know I should be directing this to my doctors, but they are genuinely awful and I have no idea when I'll next be lucky enough to get an appointment with the one doctor that day who decides to actually listen to me, so I'm asking/venting here.

I feel like it's so difficult to subtly describe a character physically without it feeling like the classic cringe fanfiction, like "i tied my long chestnut brown hair up into a messy bun" followed by a full paragraph describing an outfit. Or "his silver orbs gazed piercingly".

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No shade if you've ever used either of the above, this is just one opinion and maybe it can be done well, but it's the style of writing I see getting clowned on the most online and a trap I'm trying not to fall into.

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Do you have any "hacks" to sneak physical attributes into description or dialogues without it sounding forced? The piece I'm working on is going to have a lot of characters, many in the same families that will all look fairly similar, so I'm going to have to do a lot more character description than I'm used to.

Not looking for medical advice, I've known I wanted to try either this or pregabalin (advice also welcome on this too) for a long time and finally got my doctors to prescribe it today instead of throwing propranolol and Living Well at me.

Should arrive in the next couple of days and I'm curious to hear other people's experiences with the first few weeks in particular. I've read it can take a few weeks to kick in, but should I be expecting to feel nothing at all for those weeks, any side effects etc?

Its late and I should be asleep so I'll keep it brief and expand where necessary tomorrow.

Basically for the millionth time my doctors have put my phone appt down as a face to face. I am totally housebound due to panic attacks and agoraphobia. They keep withholding my medication apparently because I need a review (though obvs nobody bothered telling me) and then they fuck me around trying to get a review. I now have to wait til the 17th for one that'll "definitely" be booked correctly, which always leaves me to scramble for emergency prescriptions to stop me going cold turkey on my high dose of antidepressants and overpaying because I have to order it once a week instead of once a month.

There's a lot more as well but my memory is awful due to my mental health but im trying to get as much evidence as I can together to submit a formal written complaint and was hoping people here would have experience in what buzzwords I should include to get them to actually listen to me for the first time in 4 years, and an idea of how the whole thing will go.

I'm also going to speak to citizens advice and Mind tomorrow for their input but thought id try here first.

I'm not a professional seller by any means and my listings aren't perfectly staged and photographed etc, but I usually still get at least 20 views in the first couple of hours after posting. The last 5 items I uploaded, including some proper branded stuff in very good condition, are ALL still at 0 after 24-48 hours. Have I been shadowbanned or something?