u/regrettablyAnnoying

I’ve worked at 2 community theaters and have 3 years of experience. I left both discouraged. This last time I was doing ME, TD and LD and was shaken while on a perfectly stable A frame by someone who decided to hold it without warning and wouldn’t let go until I used very forceful words. It was as I was finishing up a $25k lighting upgrade and a $5k curtain overhaul. The first-time director called a board member in because he said I was “mean” as I tried to save my life. Not only did the board not care that I almost fell, they then told me to my face directors were more important. I quit. Never got to use the upgrades.

I want out of that environment. I designed and hung their whole theater and would prefer not to do that again due to age, but wouldn’t mind assisting others. I love LD work, understand splitters, gateways, multi-universe setups, relays, fixture, angles, plots, magic sheets, busking, DMX troubleshooting, etc. I’m a stylized immersive atmospheric designer with concert, musicals and play experience on EOS and Hog4.

How realistic is it that I could get a paid gig at a much bigger venue? There’s a place about 45 minutes from me that says 2 years of experience, and is 2000 seats as opposed to the small venues I’ve worked at. How hard is it to jump up in venue size?

Recently retried, always want to do metal detecting. In southeast where the gold rush started. What detector would be best?

I had Akathisia from 2011-2024 and then relapsed after incorrectly dosing DHEA (hormone supplement) over the last 6 - 8 months.

One of the things I did in Jan 2024 was start DID therapy (a specialist in dissociation). All my symptoms of Akathisia and movements subsided. An added benefit was my mental health drastically improved and I’ll never need psych meds again. When I relapsed, the Akathisia was mild and only when I felt it everyday did I realize what it was. When I went off the hormone it was gone in days.

If you aren’t aware, most people with Akathisia get DPDR. It can also trigger a more severe dissociative response which involves neurological symptoms, such as tremors, unwanted movements, visual and taste sensitivity, paradoxical responses, electrical zaps, varying degrees of cognitive dysfunction, fibromyalgia, and so on.

DID therapy is hard to find (unless you live in Utah), but it’s available all over the world. These therapists do a combination of modalities:

1. EMDR/Brainspotting modified for DID (the modification is critical)—the therapist generally has you tap and will start and stop every few minutes. This builds new neuro pathways and calms the fight fright freeze fawn response in the lymbic system.

Another similar therapy is Deep Brain Reorienting, which works on the brain stem, and would be a replacement for modified EMDR if you had issues with it in the past. It is very difficult to find someone who offers it because it’s fairly new.

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2. Parts work—this helps locate areas in the mind to work on. These are Ego State, IFS and Schema.

I’m not posting this to start arguments. All of it is documented and I’m not forcing anyone into it. It’s a viable and legitimate and treatment you may want consider.

I got Akathisia in 2011 and it finally subsided in 2022. I’ve been taking Ozempic since 2019 and recently I feel my Akathisia coming back. I also take 10mg DHEA supplement and increased it to 25mg, and Pepcid AC.

Anyone on DHEA or Ozempic and issues with Akathisia? I saw only 2 posts for it.