u/sock_poppeter

I had a very PASSIONATE and long make-out session with my partner last Saturday night. Obviously, the following day my jaw, tongue, and teeth hurt. I woke up on Tuesday morning with a sharp pain in my neck and a sore feeling in my throat, it was difficult to move my tongue.

It's been a week since I made out with them and still having the neck pain and sore throat.

I read these can be symptoms of mono, but I have no fever or muscle aches aside from my throat/neck and the tongue soreness. (That could be chalked up to them pretty much shoving their tongue down my throat, so I was gagging every so often?) Haven't really had any appetite the past week, but I am supplements to help with metabolism/glucose.

Currently taking Vitamin C, zinc tablets, and honey lozenges.

I've recently started going out pretty much every weekend to the club and started the habit of dancing with strangers (in groups or one-on-one). Literally nothing overtly sexual, just swaying together or being goofy. Some people are chill, hug me, and then move on. But there's been a lot of people trying to give me their number or invite me to their place after five minutes of dancing.

HIGH-KEY, it's flattering, but I also feel like awkward cause while they're really nice and respectful about me saying no, I lowkey feel guilty for saying 'no'. It's not like I intended to lead them on or anything, I'm just trying to dance and have fun!

The club's mostly Goth/Alt. folks so they never do anything without consent first, but I get people gonna be drunk and sometimes horny. I'm just not trying to take anyone home!

Almost my ENTIRE workplace has had on-going issues with a verbally abusive, toxic manager for almost a year now. I was one of the only people willing to step up and say something to HR, I was told that they'd take my claims very seriously as this manager has been slowly but surely getting rid of good employees due to their preference in gender (They hate men and women who have a back-bone) and tried to humiliate staff by putting them in ill-fitting uniforms or straight up sexually harassing customers/staff.

Today I was informed after almost a month of investigation that HR decided to close my case. They cited that there was "no conclusive evidence" and that my manager's "communication and management style were misinterpreted". To add insult to injury, HR asked if my complaint had anything to do with prejudice against LGBTQ+ individuals...

I literally made sure to state I am a bisexual woman myself and have no issues with any other LGBTQ+ individuals. Not to mention I am a protected racial minority too, which has been a "laughing point" for this manager too. Apparently, I'm a homophobe now..

I'm more worried than ever that this manager's gonna retaliate against me, but all I have are all verbal interactions or things not video/email documented. Not sure the EOOC can do anything with that. Currently looking at other jobs right now, but in the meantime I need this one..

They're being "nice" now, trying so hard to act like they're interested but being passive aggressive about it. How do you work with a manager who's super toxic, especially after they know you reported them?

I'm a writer working on a story that involves a character who's very mentally unstable, but I'm unsure how to categorize his disorder. Most sources say either BPD, Attachment Disorder, or Psychopathy, obviously I wanna make sure whatever's being portrayed is done tastefully.

If anyone can put a name to the disorder that best fits my character, that'd be most appreciated!

The character (Jesse) was heavily neglected as an infant then spent the rest of his childhood moving from foster home to foster home. He had a hard time forming emotional bonds, rarely talked, accepted that 'everything is his fault' without question, was desensitized to violence/death, and often disassociated into a his own dream world.

It's only when he made friends with another kid, the only person he's ever felt a connection to, that he opened up. Jesse started talking more and felt protective over his new friend, who he promised that they'll be together forever. However, his friend was adopted out.

Jesse ended being groomed before he aged out of the system. He became more calloused, self-loathing, and increasingly disillusioned with the world around him. Eventually, he adopted this brash, destructive, impulsive, and manipulative persona.

As an adult, Jesse acts like he's large and in charge, but always finds himself under the thumb of someone with more power than him. However, he rationalizes it at him being the one in control and that he's really "using" them rather than the reverse. He can't differentiate violence from affection or intimacy.

He's used to disassociating into a fantasy where he's a kid with his friend again whenever under extreme duress. This fantasy quickly becomes an alarming obsession as he makes it his goal to find the other man, going on to hold his long-lost friend hostage. Jesse declares himself the other man's protector, alternating between playing out his innocent fantasies and enraged outbursts when his friend is fearfully hesitant.

The more time passes, the more Jesse begins to realize he's more jealous than in love or obsessed with his friend; someone who's had everything handed to them and is unbroken by the world. But he's so far gone into the fantasy, he can't even decipher what's reality or realize his friend's terrified of playing pretend.

I've been hitting The Caste in Ybor every other weekend and the first few weeks it was super chill since early March. The past two-three visits the vibes have been straight up trash and the club's WAY over crowded. Fridays used to be mostly teenagers, but now Saturdays so crowded you can't even get down the stairs.

Two weekends ago, this super drunk lady kept physically grabbing me, pushing me onto random men, and pulling me around the dance floor despite me asking her to stop. I told the bouncers, she was asked to leave me alone, but she kept following me around the club. There was a guy who was absolutely manhandling everyone he was dancing with, it was so not it.

Yesterday the mood was just weird, not a lot of regular people I usually see, but a bunch of "omigod eeeeee" teenagers and an overly drunk couple who kept trying to dance up on me. I ended up leaving super early cause this guy kept trying to hug me and touch my hair without asking.

TLDR: What's the best night to go to Castle that has minimal "tourists" and is more chill? I just wanna dance and have a drink, not get absolutely man-handled and harassed by bad mannered randos.

Also, the Centro Garage staff needs to stop saying the parking lot is full when there's two floors open :/

I've always had episodes of just zoning out, but it's mostly I just find something to look at and just LOCK-IN. Sometimes it's easy to snap out off, sometimes it takes a few tries for someone to snap me out of it. A few people have suggested I might have ADHD or something, but I hate taking medication so I don't see a point in getting tested.

Probably like 4-5 months ago, I started getting this super weird sensation. I'll be going about my day, usually talking to a coworker, then all of a sudden I'm kind of in 3rd person view or everything gets kinda fuzzy for a second. Then BAM. I get sucked back into my POV again, everything goes sideways for a moment. It feels like someone just shook the room up.

I'm not short of breath or anything, but it's really scary and confusing. Literally feels like I was "somewhere else" for a moment. Nobody in my family that I've talked to has experienced this and I was told it might be a "spiritual" thing.

EITHER WAY, I'm super curious if anyone else has experienced something like this before and when (if it does) stop?