u/passionfruit62022

I've (M23) noticed that I've started overeating to cope with chronic anxiety, plus OCD. When I'm eating I don't worry about anything, but I don't even enjoy or want what I'm eating. It feels like I'm just doing it because I know when I'm eating I don't feel so bad.

I was coping better before and would get myself an occasional sweet treat to boost my mood, but then it became one a day, then two or three a day, and now I feel like I can't stop with my overeating because I need it to distract myself from my poor mood.

People around me are telling me to just not have sweet foods in the house, as a sort of deterrent, but when I'm stressed and struggling mentally the urge to go and buy more is too strong to resist.

I feel scared and uncertain and I don't know whether I need to seek support specifically for this eating/to know whether it technically meets the diagnostic criteria for BED, or whether it's enough to focus on getting better from the OCD and other issues which seem to be driving it.

I just want to know how you as shaktas keep faith in difficult (and good) times. I keep on having the thought that there's so many thousands of forms of the Goddess with their own iconographies and details, is it just too good to be true? Didn't the Romans and Greeks also have many Goddesses? If we say they don't exist why would Adi Shakti? Are all these forms projections of human uncertainty, a deification of human experiences of life, however up and down they may be? Is the question of existence vs non-existence a futile one?

Please be compassionate in your replies, I'm writing this from a place of spiritual uncertainty and curiosity and not to be critical for the sake of it.

I know its usage is optional and only following a few specific verbs and constructions (like éviter, craindre, empêcher, avant que, à moins que and so on), but I'm wondering if native speakers would be surprised by its usage in an everyday spoken register, versus written French or like a formal speech where it undoubtedly makes the sentence sound more elegant.

This bhajan from the vaishno Devi Bhawan is just so beautiful, I felt a longing to share it with you all

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=CXOg6l7Qy\_g&si=AvQO-E0Sa\_jAy1JB

Indeed, is it not by her Shakti that I write this very post?

I recently learnt some idiomatic expressions to use in my French oral exam but I was talking with a native speaker who told me they sound really outdated. I think I knew they were old expressions but thought it'd still be okay to use them in a registre soutenu without sounding pretentious. But I'm having second thoughts now, as some of them are indicated as 'littéraire' when I look them up.

Sans bourse délier pour dire gratuitement

Sans coup férir pour dire sans lutte

Fourbir ses armes pour dire préparer à une guerre ou au sens figuré un combat politique ou autre.

Trancher le nœud gordien (and similar idioms drawing on Greek mythology - like de Charybde en Scylla, un rocher de Sisyphe)

Is it okay to chant the 'om jayanti mangala Kali bhadrakali kapalini' in a spirit of bhakti?

Je me demande si l'on doit écrire XXe ou XXè ou même XXème siècle. J'ai l'impression d'avoir vu toutes ces variations mais je ne sais pas laquelle est la plus correcte !

Peut-on aussi écrire les siècles en chiffres ex. 20e au lieu d'utiliser les chiffres romains ?