I am worried about it. But there’s nothing I can do, really. It’s scary. That’s ok. People telling you to not be concerned with death or that they are glad they will return to the earth or some bullshit can continue to eat their false hope. I’m not interested.

It’s a valid fear and worry.

Everyone should fear death. It’s what keeps us doing smart things like looking both ways before crossing the street or not drinking random containers of suspicious liquid. It’s healthy to fear death to a degree.

The question is that is this impacting your life in a significantly negative way? Is it causing daily intense distress? Is it causing you to become a shut in and not leave your home? Then it’s worth addressing.

If it’s not significantly negatively impacting your quality of life, then there’s nothing that needs to be changed about your viewpoint.

I started fearing death more than ever a few months ago. I chose to do maybe what the opposite of what my fear told me and I learned to ride a motorcycle. So I’m still out here living life.

Only on very very very rare occasions. Typically from watching sex scenes on TV and in movies. And I only very rarely watch shows with sex scenes anyway (not because I’m trying to avoid them…just because they don’t tend to show up in most media I consume). Tried porn but it doesn’t do it for me. When I’ve tried to do something about the feeling to see where it takes me, it unfortunately has just never led anywhere. I don’t generally view people that way outsode of TV/film. I guess my brain doesn’t spontaneously come up with themes like that outside of TV and film. I’ve always been curious to see how MDMA might affect someone like me.

I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily totally unhelpful. I have extreme emotions and would get frustrated about it, but I recently learned to look at them a bit differently. Emotions are like data. They are signaling something to us. In this case, they signaled something that OP analyzed and then wanted to talk about. Negative emotions tell us that something doesn’t line up right and we need to look at why.

Some of us unfortunately just have the intensity of that dial turned up to 11. Makes for some hairy scenarios sometimes lol.

If you just randomly wanted to know everyone, I’m also an outlier from the opposite pole of the spectrum lol.

For my it’s maybe several times a year when I get curious enough to try. Never has worked out tho. I always compare it to that to me it probably feels like what touching your elbow is like. It just feels like my body and nothing “good” or interesting happens when I try. It’s like someone forgot to hook up my wiring or something. Always been this way.

I will say that I tried an SSRI once before (but not Prozac), and honestly I don’t know that I would have done it again if I knew the withdrawal gets that frustrating. I even went off the way my provider told me (and even a tad slower), so it wasn’t like I went cold turkey or anything. Luckily on my worst day it was a weekend so I had off of work but goddamn.

I don’t understand why Prozac seems to have fallen out of favor. Significantly reduced withdrawal symptoms seems fantastic.

I agree with the other person… medication isn’t one size fits all. I’m taking a medication for reasons that seem to be “off-label” usage after trying several different ones. If you feel like your medications aren’t helping to tackle the main issue, then it’s best to talk to your provider(s) about it.

That being said, mental health medications aren’t magic. And there’s never going to be something out there that solves everything. The right kind of therapy modalities with the right type of therapist(s) can take you further in particular areas that you’re struggling with.

Like with anxiety, for example. It’s such a broad as fuck category. You can try throwing meds at it, sure. And they may help to a degree. But do said person’s anxieties typical revolve around particular themes? In that case, targeting these themes with therapy is going to be helpful and is not necessarily treated the way as someone with other types of anxieties.

Someone with trauma based anxieties/reactions may respond to different types of medications and treatments versus someone with performance based anxieties for example.

Neither of the ones you mentioned are ones that I’ve tried so I can’t unfortunately give my experience with them. Have you been on them long?

Such is the struggle of being hydrated. Tbh it’s one of the reasons I can never see myself become a “hydro homie”.

You know another big thing I learned that a lot of people probably don’t know is that a lot of cats just like flat out…don’t drink water for some reason? Most of us are used to any given animal drinking water when thirsty. But a lot of cats just like… don’t. I guess a wet food diet helps a lot with this because it’s got water in it. Sure it’s a little bit more hassle and expense over dry food, but not that much. Def gonna keep my guy on wet food for the rest of his life.

Ok. Your experience is valid. But you have to admit that what happened to your cat was an uncommon scenario and it is flat out just not going to happen like that a majority of the time. The person you responded to was not calling you out directly for speaking on your experience.

I did not know that about benzene.

What I will say though is that sunlight is carcinogenic. Cancer of all types has always existed, but we’re better about detecting it and treating it nowadays.

The reason why skin cancer is so much more prevalent now is because things like tanning and spending time in the sun are more popular in the western world than they were ages ago. People long ago used to physically shield themselves from it (before sunscreen). Asian cultures actually retained the desire to shield themselves from the sun. Whiter skin is more desirable in these countries, so people avoid tanning.

Long ago in the western world, whiter skin used to signify wealth. Farmers and day laborers would get tan tending the fields and such. So if your skin was whiter, it meant you could afford to be inside while people were doing physical labor for you.

Now in the western world, it’s the opposite. Since most jobs nowadays are in the office, having tanner skin signifies having more wealth as you have more free time away from the office to sit in the sun.

In very ancient hunter gatherer times, I’m not sure that recreation was much of a thing. People likely tried to shield themselves from burns and such, but who knows. In ancient hunter gatherer times, you’d likely die of infection or malnutrition before cancer anyway.

Edit: Altho to be clear, I’m not saying that no sun is good either lol. Sun is actually super important for certain things like vitamin D! It’s just that it’s also carcinogenic!

I really should get back into doing this, but I live in such a hot and humid climate that this means death unless I get my ass up before dawn lol

That sounds like a blast, but you really should put on sun screen!!

I was going to attend my weekly dance class, but it looks like it got too popular and the class is full!!! So I’m not really sure!!

Really? This is wild. I’m in a hot part of the US and it’s 95F/35C and humid daily here. I’m honestly really surprised with how much AC blasts here that heating still takes up the majority of nationwide energy consumption.

How in the world does such a comprehensive article not include JIS? It looks like it was once included but then it was removed due to poor citations. Wtf why was it not added back? It is very distinct from Philips and if you use a Philips driver on a JIS screw, it strips the shit out of it.

JIS screws are denoted by a small dimple in one of the corners of the + on the screw.

I learned about JIS this year when I got my first motorcycle. Honestly maddening how similar they look.

Screws were stripped into fucking circles by the person who tried to fuck with one part before me.

I’ve not tried to use a JIS screwdriver on a Philips head, but thanks for the tip!

This isn’t what you asked exactly, but I know they can externally disable a pacemaker once the patient is determined to be deceased so it will stop trying to shock the heart back. Otherwise it will continue to try to save the person.

DBT techniques are great to read about on this. It teaches not only emotional regulation, but also tackles impulses with “distress tolerance” skills.

Check out DBT skills. I like them. Plus in a DBT book that I read, they teach you that some of us just seem to feel things more intensely than others. I always felt different that way and it was nice to hear that it was ok and “normal” for me to feel so overwhelmed all the time. You accept that that’s who you are and it’s ok. Just have to try to work with it.

Damn that’s hardcore AF! Honestly, good for you! Takes some balls to do something like that when your caveman brain is going off with alarm bells.