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I know all men can be like this at any age, but I just thought he was like a father figure. He has been my coworker for several years. But he tried to make sexual advances on our hike. Thankfully nothing physical. I just greyrocked it and let him talk. It is sad because I moved back to where I'm from and he lives here, hence why we met up for a hike. But wow, more than anything, more than how creepy and cohersive and unethical his behavior was, I'm just shocked at the audacity. Because don't get me wrong some men look great at 60, but he smokes and drinks regularly and has temporal wasting. Why did he think I would want him sexually, even if I was a hypersexual man-attracted woman???

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This is not me seeking medical advice, I am just curious about the science and health aspect..

Please understand I was vegan as a teenager for four years and I was very dedicated but had health issues

What made me want to ask this is because I met a senior citizen who has been vegan since the 80s and he looked so weak and terrible. He has temporal wasting. So I am asking for science based impact on our adult bodies. I do agree with vegan being more moral even though I am no longer vegan

Not wanting to go to Portland and deal with the traffic and chaos, but maybe something near downtown Vancouver

I'm 5'7 145 lbs female on 70mg. I only get about 6-7 hours of sleep and it is terrible but I'm stuck in this cycle of needing it to function

I am scared of the mania that could take me over again but I have had binge eating disorder for a long, long time. Not sure what to do. I also have zero energy whenever I try to quit Vyvanse cold turkey. Like I can't even get out of bed.

What is the point?

It made the bipolar manic episodes once I was free so much worse cause I was so abused mentally and confused for such a prolonged period

We have a very good balance of honesty, snark, and levelheadedness. That's all

Is this tall to you? (Location: North America)

I had this old man coworker who has been a vegan since the 80s make a joke at my expense when the topic of a specific local farm was brought up, and how the chickens there have a lot of personality. It is a "sanctuary" animal farm. He then interjected into the conversation "yes they are living those great lives so that they can be slaughtered for [my name] to eat"

This man has to be almost 70, he smokes cigarettes and drinks beer daily, and seems to be a regular stoner. He has temporal wasting (sign of being emaciated) and has drooping skin from no muscle tone to keep him together

He is literally EMACIATED and had the nerve to fix his lips about the fact I'm not vegan. It is funny cause I was a hardcore vegan for four years and it caused me major health problems and weight gain. I got my health back by eating animal products again. I'm sorry that I wanted to live a normal, healthy life and not be consumed with health problems and anemia.

I know healthy vegan diet is possible, but it is so, so difficult if you are not a specialist or rich.

Sigh. He really pissed me off. I didn't engage with his weird comment though. Also in general, why do vegan men think they are socially acceptable to comment on a woman's diet when no other respectable mature men do that?

Are there any hospitals that allow non-medical volunteers? Maybe with transportation volunteering or administrative. I want to volunteer and learn more about hospitals. Thanks

This sounds very random but I'm 26F and I moved to a new city and a remote coworker who works for the same wfh department lives here. He is at least 60M and we have a similar heritage so we hung out now that I moved here.

He made at least two or three dozen creepy comments that started after we got lunch, once we started hiking, which was the second part of our itinerary while we caught up. I think he even purposefully got us lost on the hiking trail. Thankfully it turned out okay and he was smaller than me and weaker than me. And because I moved here without a car the car ride home was so uncomfortable.

I take full responsibility for spending time alone with an older man and I should have known, but at the same time I had no idea he'd be this way. I saw him as a father figure.

My point is, imagine if I was manic. Imagine if I had not learned I have BP1 with manic episodes and I did let him talk me into smoking weed or drinking with him. Or even smoking cigarettes. He brought up all three of these things in addition to the creepy sexual comments and innuendos. It felt like his maturity level was 50 years delayed lol.

Anyway, I'm so glad to be medicated and aware. Because I am, this situation didn't phase me at all and I stuck to my boundaries and kept saying no. I hate that I had such longstanding manic episodes in my 20s previously but now I can live knowing good versus bad decisions and also, the main point of this post and something I'm still working on clearly, is finding "safe" people to be friends with that won't disrespect me and dehumanize me or try to use me. That would cause mania for me.

Again, I'm also very grateful to be strength training as my current hobby cause it protected me if I needed to use it, but also just visually I think it deterred him from touching me at all. Because I could have overpowered him to defend myself

Thanks for reading my long ramble

She's basically killing herself and working herself to death. She inherited some money from my grandpa but refuses to buy a double wide trailer and rent a lot on a senior community. Instead she rents a very expensive apartment in her city. She killed someone in a car accident before I was born and has refused to drive the freeway since. So she won't live in a rural area where there's no back roads. She also doesn't want to buy a double wide because my dad is on SSI and is disabled from dementia and everything would fall on her. She is so selfish and afraid of commitment. She neglects my dad too but even with calling the local lines they did nothing after checking on him. Idk. She is so self destructive and stubborn. She has lost so much personality too. It's like any of her redeeming qualities are gone

This is not meant to be a judgemental post although I know how it comes across

I'm just kind of floored by the ways Tana neglects her oral and physical health. If she was truly healing, she would realize those things go hand in hand with mental health, which she is now an advocate and proponent and master of

In my opinion, no one who has the means to be healthy and address health issues money wise neglects it unless they are dealing with some mental illness or addiction

I hope this makes sense. But basically why would you neglect your fitness and hygiene for example when you have all that money and your appearance is your business?

I'm from Portland originally but moved back to the area and it's impossible to make friends it seems

It was good practice, even though I don't plan on regularly hitting on men

I have always had the feeling that although Lilah is Satan incarnate, tana made everything so much worse. She was able to see lilah's weaknesses and shortcomings and capitalize on it and then it got to be even too much for Tana. I hope my vague question makes sense. Basically, if you were Lilah and actually did get clean, do you think you would feel exploited or taken advantage of by Tana? We don't know all of the things Lilah may have done to Tana and Brooke behind closed doors that they are being nice enough to not air out, so please take everything I'm saying with a grain of salt.

Like with Trisha now being sponsored in a big way by a GLP-1 / weight loss drug... Trisha's plan has worked so well even though she hasn't changed at all and she's really reaping the rewards

I get an icky feeling from Tana ever since brand safe. It feels so contrived.

Lastly, this part I wanted to add might be an unpopular opinion, but I really think Tana is a narcissist and essentially will traffick her "friends" like Lilah for content. And the fact she discarded Lilah in order to kickstart and lay the ground work for brand safe was really disgusting to me (((and for the smoking in the air bad PR that Lilah created too)))

Is Lilah a completely terrible person? Yes

Is Lilah basically everything wrong with LA influencers and rape culture personified? Yes

But tana literally discarded her to keep playing "the game" and it just always bothered me how easy it was for her to remove lilah's friend group and community but still call Lilah from time to time for content, after enabling the drug addiction and partying for YEARS. I feel like tana pimped out Lilah, truly. This is not me saying Lilah is a good or redeemable person. I think Lilah is basically a rapist. My point still stands

I hope this question makes sense. Do people from West Asia that can identify these phenotypes more accurately than others tend to group Americans with an Iranic pheonotype as Persian only?

I am loving it but when I do a thorough exfoliation of my whole body with a scrub and net sponge will it become splotchy like regular self tan, or does it come off much easier because it's a lower concentration?

Also, can I use real self tanner over the Jergen's lotion buildup, or only vice versa?