some antipsychotics can make you more susceptible to heat exhaustion because they make it so your body cannot regulate your body temperature correctly. I learned this the hard way last summer, I got really nasty heat exhaustion while on a high dose of quetiapine. so check if your meds react badly to heat, and if they do, please be sure to wear your sunscreen, have light cover ups on or with you, wear a hat, and stay hydrated! be safe
especially duloxetine and clozapine, know the signs of dehydration, take cooling breaks if you have to be in the sun
duloxetine is commonly branded in the USA as Cymbalta.
Note: many anti-bipolar meds are also antipsychotics. I found a list of psychotropic meds that can increase risk of heat exhaustion here:
Can personally confirm that Latuda/Lurasidone can also mess with your heat response and lead to heat exhaustion if you aren’t careful, like I wasn’t.
Some of these are also prescribed for chronic pain. Duloxetine (Cymbalta) and Amitriptyline (sold as Endep in Australia) are both prescribed for fibromyalgia.
So don’t forget to check lists like this if you take regular meds, even if your condition isn’t what you might think of as a ‘psychiatric’ one.
You cannot convince me that the translator didn’t know exactly what they were doing here.
It turns out I’m wildly underleveled for this fight and I had to safeword X out of the game twice before deciding to just return for the optional bosses later
how you program your mind when you’re at a low point is so impactful. resorting back to toxic patterns when you’re low is only strengthening those neural pathways and programming your mind to make those unhealthy choices or think those unhealthy thoughts every time you’re not feeling well. alternatively, trying your hardest to cope in a healthier way every time you’re feeling bad will strengthen those positive neural pathways, and as time goes on, it will become easier to make healthy choices and say no to toxic patterns. this of course isn’t to say that you should feel guilty if you relapse, it is not by any means easy to reprogram your brain and sometimes we relapse and that’s okay, so long as we’re trying our best to treat ourselves better.
The first “positive neural pathway” I developed was learning the importance of ‘be patient with yourself’. Within that concept I include being kind to yourself as part of that patience, as well to have something, some task/goal/aim, to be patient about. It is pretty much the foundation of how I am much less of a mess than I could be.
The first one I’m conscious of learning is this one: don’t argue with people who want to pay you a compliment. Even if it doesn’t feel true to you, say “thank you” and move on, rather than trying to prove to them (and yourself) why their words aren’t ACTUALLY true.
Second thing: make self-aggrandizing jokes instead of self-deprecating. It’s a tiny change, but saying “I am beauty, I am grace” when you stumble, rather than “ugh, I’m such a klutz” really does make a difference over time. 🙂
It’s hard to leave toxic habits, thoughts, people, etc when you’ve been living with them for such a long time that, as harmful as they are, they are familiar and part of your routine and anything different from it feels unknown, scary, or too much of a hassle to try.
The brain will often become attached to what is familiar, even if the familiar thing is bad for you.
But I beg you: take that leap of faith. Make a change, however small, for the better. Slowly - and with small stumbles and relapses because recovery is not a linear pattern - soon you will see how much better your life has become.
Just because you have gotten used to the darkness, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to find yourself some light.
whenever I’m clumsy and fumble something, I say “good job,” and it’s sarcastic but it works. I don’t stress out about dropping things anymore
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I see a lot of talk about how neurodivergence evolved and stayed in the gene pool because it was somehow ‘useful’ to our ancient ancestors. While I don’t necessarily disagree with this theory, I would like to propose an alternative. A theory that we already have physical evidence for. Humans just love each other and care for each other. Don’t you think that a species that cared for it’s people while they recovered from broken bones, or nursed their elderly well beyond their ‘usefulness’ would leave a member out because they didn’t make eye contact, or couldn’t stay focused on a particular task, or whatever other trait you associate with neurodivergence? I really don’t.
Sure, maybe it was useful to have someone around who didn’t mind making arrowheads all day, or who knew absolutely everything about all of the local flora and fauna, or who keyed in on every little distraction. At the end of the day, though, these people weren’t kept around because they were useful, they were cared for because they were loved.
This. This. This.
Now that I'm finished with that latest ridiculously long post (sorry, @legsdemandias, I could not resist using that person as an exemplar) I feel like I should reiterate something I've said in the past.
I don't think arguing with people is useful. Debate doesn't really change anyone's mind. It just broadcasts the discussion to a wider audience and makes people dig in their heels and reinforce their position even harder.
Instead, I prefer to explain. Take what someone's saying and translate it so that anyone can see what they're saying and how they are saying it. That way, if I do my job right, you (the audience) comes out learning more about how people articulate their ideas and why exactly I think some of those ideas are raging trash fires of bad reasoning and inhumane attitudes.
So, that's my strategy. Explaining is far better than arguing.
Explain for the audience that may not be aware of the nuances of the discussion, don't try to argue in the hopes that you'll change the mind of your opponent or their supporters, because you almost certainly won't.
You'll help people to become better informed about sensitive topics and you'll also help inoculate them against the kind of manipulations that shitty people engage in on the regular.
You’re absolutely fine, barely even noticed it, but I did get a continual chuckle out of it.
Corporate media fabricates a 'surge' of 'crime', yet fails to mention surge in police violence.
“The U.S. cages Black people at 6 times the rate of South Africa at the height of Apartheid.”
Let that sink in, and then don’t even come trying to say there’s no systemic racism.
Slavery is still legal in the US. It’s just called “prison labor” now.
mummies? genus of the zombie family. the two are not taxonomically exclusive groups, educate yourself
Also skeletons by that logic.
A lot of people make this mistake actually! ‘Skeleton’ can refer to any individual member of the family Zombie that has shed its fleshy exoskeleton. It’s just an unlife cycle stage, but because of its distinct appearance we refer to it by a separate common name (similar to how a ‘black panther’ is just a colour variant of leopards and jaguars, not a separate species).
Okay, so I think this is a point of confusion.
The term “zombie” is both a technical term, referring to a family, and a common name, referring to a genus.
The family Zombie is a broad, overarching group that includes the genus that many people call zombie (Ghoulus, not to be confused with Ghouli, the unrelated genus of the Ghala family which also includes bogeymen and some ghosts*) as well as the Mummy genus (Pyrima), the spore-zombie genus (Fungan) and a few others.
The colloquial term “Zombie” is the common term for the genus Ghoulus, which is in the family Zombie and includes Ghoulus romero (the walking zombie), Ghoulus snydera (the running zombie), and Ghoulus smithi (the vampiric zombie, also called the legendary zombie).
Interestingly, there are several things called “zombies” that are neither Ghoulus nor Zombie, including the dancing zombie (Jacksoni thrillera), which is more closely related to (although not currently actually in the same family as) clowns.
*Note: the ghosts in the Ghala family are not true ghosts. True ghosts are in the order Spectere, which is entirely unrelated to Ghouli, Ghoulus, Pyrima, and Fungan. Ghala “ghosts” are given the common name ghost because of their superficial similarity to true ghosts.
Important note: sometimes you’ll see people claiming that zombies are domesticated! They are not! Some zombies can be tamed (like Ghoulus romero), but zombies are wild animals and might hurt you if you approach them! Leave them alone and don’t feed them!
Basic principles of cloth texture from observation.
Typed up my notes in case they might prove useful to someone
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