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Disclaimer. This is a genuine question - I am not seeking attention nor sympathy for the things mentioned in this post. I am entering this post with a level head and seeking genuine advice from compassionate people. In keeping with rules, I am NOT asking for therapist for counselling advice. I’m asking if these are things I should mention to my therapist at all. I am not currently suicidal, at risk of self harm, or under the influence of alcohol.

TRIGGER WARNINGS: rape, suicide, self harm.

I ask because I worry these sort of thoughts are hidden from me or somehow dishonest, as they only arise when I’m drunk, I therefore I distrust these thoughts and don’t know if they’re worth entertaining - though I know they’re real thoughts I have. I am an alcoholic and diagnosed as such. Also, I have an amazing relationship with my therapist. She is intelligent, kind, and knows how to communicate with me as someone who is autistic and struggles hugely with social things.

• Should I tell my therapist that I’ve been raped twice and that deep down, I believe these instances of rape are entirely my fault, as I sought it out when I was drunk?
• That the abuse I experienced as a teenager is so hard to accept that I feel incapable of accepting it?
• Should I tell her that despite loving life, my passions, my area of study (animal care - hopefully moving on to veterinary disease research and parasitology), how excited I am for my future and my goals, that I hate being alive, because living under capitalism and barely affording to live is killing me anyway?
• Should I tell her that I feel such profound hopelessness in life that no amount of therapy can fix it? That I can develop coping strategies to bring me down from overstimulated and rage induced meltdowns, but I will always feel hopeless at the end of the day. Killing my self would be so much easier.
• should I confide in her that I worry, in certain contexts, that I may be a compulsive liar and (1) am only just (within the last 6 months or so) realising it. (2) want to severely harm or even kill myself because of it/ having extremely traumatic experiences in being victimised by other compulsive liars in the past.

I’m a new vegan. Officially made the change (with my consumption) in May (but held the values of veganism for about a year). As I’m becoming more vocal and unapologetic in my ‘unconventional’ beliefs, I find myself struggling with friendships more and more.

I recently cut off a newly found friend, because he refused to acknowledge that pigs are slaughtered in gas chambers as he found it offensive as a Jewish person, then went on a rant of excuses about being anaemic and needing red meat and blah blah blah.
Now today, I happened across a comment thread on instagram of another somewhat new friend (met through a close friend of ~3 years). This was on a vegan influencers post about how those complaining about the heatwave while still contributing to animal ag have no right to complain (damn straight) and this friend saying, roughly, “I will never be able to go vegan because I’m autistic and need my safe foods, and I’m complain about whatever the fuck I want!” . The comment thread beneath theirs was rightfully flaming them for their hypocrisy, selfishness, and factual inaccuracy. I then discovered a comment where they validated the dog meat market in Asia, as an attempt at a “gotcha” to demonstrate they weren’t a hypocrite.

This infuriated me. I always tell my friends and family that I do not care what they eat or wear, they at least need to acknowledge to even the tiniest extent, the damage they cause.
I mentally played through ways to handle it all day. Do nothing and silently unfollow, try talk to them either in DMs or in the comments, talk to the mutual friend we met through. After 8 hours + a stress nap, I decided to just DM them and ask straight up if they were being fr. They said they were ‘just trolling’ and will go and delete their comments because ‘no one was understanding them.’

I just don’t know how to move forward. With this friend or with any future friends similar things happen with. I truly don’t care if my friends and family are vegan. It took me 21 years to go vegan and break my cognitive dissonance so it would be hypocritical of me to flame anyone for being exactly where I was not too long ago. I’m just struggling. I can’t see people the same way anymore. The learned helplessness I see in so many other disabled people, when I could overcome it with autism, starve/binge eating disorder, ulcerative colitis, interstitial cystitis, fibromyalgia, and chronic malabsorption, is devastating to me. I want to help people have the same epiphany I did. But no one cares to.

Hi everyone. I’m wondering how you guys have managed recovery after getting injured?

I’m a very cautious person. I practically never get injured and when I’m doing physical work or at the gym, I am always mindful of my capabilities, my movements, etc. But the heat today has frazzled my brain and when I was rushing to catch the bus, I ended up having quite a dramatic fall by tripping over my laces.
I hit the ground super hard and cut up my knees, scraped my hands, broke my shoes, tore my shorts. I was shaken up but otherwise okay. Went home and fixed up my cuts. Went for a 1.5 hour walk afterwards - probably a poor choice.

I’ve been home for 3 hours now and the pain is extending through my whole body and getting worse and worse. Like the feeling where simple movements are like pushing through super thick gelatine. My right hand is killing me, my back is awful, my knees and feet and terrible.
Pain flares like this are very rare for me, and I’m panicking because last time I had one this bad I ended up with shingles and that was the most extreme pain I’ve ever experienced.

So, what are your guys’ advice? I really don’t want to cancel my plans tomorrow (beach with friends) but I also don’t want to end up in extreme pain.

Hi all! Title says it all really. I am a beginner hobbyist who has recently bought P. polycephalum (will be shipped to me after the current UK heatwave) and am looking for some good pointers on keeping this species.

I am a qualification in veterinary parasitology, but my knowledge on keeping protists (and especially non-parasitic protists) at home (thriving) is very limited. I have done a decent chunk of reading surrounding the keeping of this spp at home and have a basic plan for when my cultures arrive, where I’ll be housing them, their diet. However, I’d like some advice, pointers, recommended reading material from some experienced folks before my cultures arrive. I also have a few questions.

The following is my plan for when they arrive. Please advise me if this does not sound ideal.

1. Prepare a Petri dish with an appropriate agar base, one oat for food, and an appropriate barrier on the lip to prevent escape.
2. Use a scalpel to remove the largest, fanning areas of the sclerotia and gently transfer to new Petri dish.
3. Rehydrate sclerotia and observe for reanimation over 24 hours.
4. Once established, regularly (every few days) reapply barrier on the Petri dish lip. Provide 1-3 oats (depending on culture size) every 2 days.
5. Enjoy owning these sick little dudes. Be observant of life cycles, rehouse when necessary.
   They’ll be housed at room temperature in a dark, somewhat humid area of my home.

Now some questions…

A. Once I have moved the largest part of the sclerotia into a new Petri dish, what do I do with the old one/ unused culture? Do I just… throw it away? Do I need to take any special precautions?
B. Do I need to keep my cultures moist via misting or pipetting of water?
C. What in general should I avoid, the big ‘no’s of slime mould keeping? Food items to avoid, bad barrier techniques, proper disposal, etc.

Thank you in advance!🧫🦠

Hey everyone, I’m looking for recommendations for high quality, high powered (ideally 400x) microscopes with a screen display. This will be for recreational use as a student of parasitology.

Screen display is important to me as a person with chronic migraines.

Yo everyone!

I (from the UK) was just chatting about edibles with some (American) friends and came across something fascinating that none of us know the answer to.

My American friends were chatting amongst themselves about edibles and the strengths of various edibles they’ve consumed. That ranging from 5mg to 50mg. One friend said 5mg is their max dose, another described an experience with a 10mg tea as leaving them super high all through to the next day, and one noted that a friend of theirs does 100mg a day as an extremely high dose.

This was absolutely perplexing and insane to me, because I’ve never even heard of edibles being under 250mg. When I used to partake, my typical edibles were 500-750mg for an average-strong high, but never crazy.

So I’m wondering, what the hell is the difference and why is it so extreme lol. Thanks in advance for any answers!