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2019-05-19 at 3:41 AM UTC in GADZOOSKS!
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2019-05-19 at 3:39 AM UTC in I think I'm gonna just get a parking ticket a couple times this week.If you accumulate sufficient points, you evolve into a more superior form.
Or so I've heard.
I'm just a lowly pedestrian and all. -
2019-05-19 at 3:38 AM UTC in I think I'm gonna just get a parking ticket a couple times this week.
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2019-05-19 at 3:33 AM UTC in Your fav Non-Alcoholic BevIf it contains neither alcohol nor caffeine, then I'll pass. I'll take water.
Now, that being said, I do enjoy the taste of root beer. I also like Pepsi (and for some reason really dislike Coke).
Once every so often I'll indulge in one of the two.
But 99% of the time, whatever liquids I ingest serve a purpose (besides taste):
1. Inducing drunkenness.
2. Inducing stimulation.
3. Hydration. -
2019-05-19 at 3:23 AM UTC in Anyone here have OCD?I was diagnosed with OCD about ~15 years ago.
The thing about my particular case is that it is primarily "O" in relative comparison to the "C".
Intrusive thoughts are the most devastating symptom in my case. I have contemplated suicide numerous times, and have even gotten as close as having the noose around my neck, ready to kick the stool out from beneath me. But, as bad as having your internal periphery forcibly bombarded with the most horrific shit imaginable, I remain perpetually resilient for some reason.
I'm not going to go into any detail regarding the specific content of these thoughts, because that would completely diverge from the central point.
I do have some compulsive behaviour(s). Contrary to popular belief, though, I don't keep everything in my surroundings spotlessly clean. I also don't have many of the popular "counting behaviours" (although I do turn door knobs three times after locking them, and sometimes perform other actions in three's... but it's a rather negligible symptom compared to the aforementioned intrusive thoughts).
I am also ridiculously routine-oriented. That could be explained by OCD symptoms, but I'm not entirely convinced that OCD is the only source of mental issue I deal with.
As some of you may know, I have a bachelor's degree in psychology. Now, my main areas of focus were neuroscience and cognition. Clinical psychology is almost entirely separate (for all intents and purposes). But I did have at least some interest in clinical psychology because, well, I've always known I had a fucked up brain/mind.
I have tried a vast plethora of things to manage any and all mental health symptoms, from psychiatrist-prescribed drugs, to personal experimentation with drugs (both prescription and scheduled/illegal), to cognitive-behavioral therapies (either via one on one sessions, in group therapy sessions, or just applying principals and tactics on my own), all the way to direct electrical stimulation of the brain via electrodes (tDCS).
I consider it a life-long journey, and with each passing day, I discover new things that either work, don't work, or even downright set me back.
But I keep at it. -
2019-05-19 at 3 AM UTC in Why is Bill Krozby such a fucking douchebag?
Originally posted by WellHung Folks, this dweeb has even got his own terminology….and its really lame, just like him.
your just a frothy weak whyte. your just mad you dont got any chickens to fuck.
failed gont.
*For the record, this post was meant in jest, not animosity towards either WellHung or kr0z. -
2019-05-19 at 2:35 AM UTC in GADZOOSKS!Nobody makes me change my avatar!
Not nobody. Not no how. -
2019-05-19 at 2:34 AM UTC in Becoming a (Secular) BedouinNo goat havin' ass bitches up in here.
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2019-05-18 at 8 PM UTC in Who here has been to a psychiatric ward or facility?I've been in twice...
2005 (Voluntary self-admission): I was having a bit of a mental break down and just couldn't handle life and genuinely thought I was losing it. I just went into the E.R. and said I needed help.
2014 (Involuntary hold): I told my family I was going to kill myself, and I went a bit crazy and grabbed a kitchen knife and started ranting about how I just couldn't go on anymore. A major factor here was that I was rapidly tapering off methadone, and truly felt like life without opiates was just plain not worth it. A cop came and he tazed me and cuffed me and brought me into the ER.
I was only in for ~5 days. For the first night, I was strapped to a bed, but told one of the nurses that I have a ritual and need to jerk off every night before I go to sleep. I started to pretend to do it (as best as I could given how restrained I was). They told me I could, alternatively, sleep alone in a super high security cell (it was identical to the drunk tank cell at any local police precinct).
Then the next day they moved me into the 3rd wing with all the really mentally ill folks - either experiencing full on psychotic breaks, or expressing serious danger to themselves or others, or just plain non-responsive. It was pretty brutal, but I think I was only in there for one night.
The next night they moved me to the 2nd wing. It's still on lock down, but the people in there are more calm, lucid, and you can actually converse with them.
One of the psychiatrists in the wing was actually one I had seen before separately, and we got along well. I was also really cooperative because it's not a very pleasant place to be (and the boredom drove me pretty crazy). Combine all that with the fact I have a degree in psychology (yes, just a bachelor's degree, but you still have to take a handful of clinical psych classes to graduate - so I kinda had a pre-existing understanding of how the whole process works), and so I was able to get myself released pretty promptly, relatively speaking. -
2019-05-18 at 2:51 AM UTC in ROSHAMBO, AGE 20, THINKING ABOUT GETTING A CHECKING ACCOUNT!Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son! -
2019-05-18 at 2:49 AM UTC in Mexico wants to decriminalize all drugsThe biggest advantage to LEGALIZING drugs (simply DECRIMINALIZING them might not be as effective for this, though), is that it takes drugs off the black market and thus reduces the potential profit margin incentive that cartels and criminals capitalize on.
There are like a million good arguments for decriminalizing or even legalizing ALL drugs, but the most practical one, IMO at least, is that it would completely eliminate the existence of cartel enterprises, as well as most sectors of organized crime throughout the world.
And then a secondary benefit from the exact same policy change would be a MAJOR decrease in government spending on investigating, arresting, and detaining drug users and dealers. -
2019-05-18 at 2:32 AM UTC in Becoming a (Secular) BedouinI look white as fuck, so there's always going to be the issue of blending in despite my physical appearance. I'm also irreligious, and so that might be a point of contention among the locals as well. (I imagine all middle eastern desert dwelling folk are Muslim. Maybe I'm wrong?).
I know that not all of them live in caves - some live in self-built rock huts. But when it comes to the cave-dwellers, how do you go about staking a claim on a particular cave? Is it basically "finder's keepers"? You see an empty one and just move in?
I seek the tutelage of someone who grew up in the Bedouin life but left it behind one day, or someone who has a scholarly interest in Bedouin cultures, OR, someone who snuck their own satellite dish based Internet transceiver, along with a computer and a powerful generator, into a cave somewhere and is actually simultaneously a poster on NiS and a Bedouin.
I don't expect a particularly high turn out around here that fall into any of the above categories, but, hey, why not give it a shot? -
2019-05-18 at 2:14 AM UTC in need artist help for new avatar
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2019-05-17 at 8:33 PM UTC in Anyone here ever been to Coachella ? The gay one?
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2019-05-17 at 8:24 PM UTC in Anyone here ever been to Coachella ? The gay one?I've been to some local raves... And I saw both The Backstreet Boys and Alice Cooper live (when I was much, much younger).
I'm not all that into live music events, tbh. -
2019-05-17 at 8:23 PM UTC in I've only fucked 12 broads.
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2019-05-17 at 8:07 PM UTC in Hey GADZOOKSSelfish homos.
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2019-05-17 at 7:56 PM UTC in Hey GADZOOKS
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2019-05-17 at 7:47 PM UTC in Hey GADZOOKS
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2019-05-17 at 7:37 PM UTC in NiS Word Clouds Thread
