As someone who recently weaned off of SSRIs after several years on them, I found that thre worked quite well for managing my (at the time I was prescribed) debilitating OCD. That combined with occasional weed edibles (1-4 times a month) seems to have permanently decreased my symptoms, to the point where I no longer need SSRIs. I’ve generally heard that they work much better when applied to anxiety disorders than for depression, which makes me wonder why they’re still prescribed so often for that. My guess is some combination of institutional inertia + minor symtom improvement + profit incentive.

As someone with a semi-permanent farmers tan, usually the answer is getting sunburnt once with a sleeved shirt on.

Usually violence from other men

AMERICAN MADE

Noooooo my white flight suburb

At least you’ll never aggro endermen

There are studded tires you can get for ice but I’m not certain about their application on electric bikes.

Me too thanks

I believe it’s from the mod “The Bumblezone” https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/the-bumblezone-forge/screenshots

Dopamine go brrr

Downwell

All 2 SSRIs I’ve been on have given me nervous system zaps as well, with any level of tapering.

Yeah I’m also multiracial but white passing, so I couldn’t really answer that question at all.

As someone who was indoctrinated into islam as a child, I cannot recommend. 0/10 stars. Or any of the abrahamic religions imo. Way too dogmatic and patriarchal. While the culture and ritual is interesting from an anthropological point of view, you’d likely have a better time hanging out with people you care about, instead of prostrating yourself to a god who thinks anyone with a uterus is subhuman.

No, I’m too gay lmao.

My “spirituality” is more just driven by my experiences with living, psychedelics, art, and science. Which is to say, I see myself as the atoms which comprise me, which will and actively are becoming other lifeforms (and viruses/prions) when my homeostasis is thrown off hard enough (cell death and the big death). I feel less like a “person” and more like a meat computer. Could be because I’m autistic and dissociate a lot from trauma/undiagnosed ADHD, but like, I do like the feeling of just “existing”. I feel like one of countless experiences of the universe experiencing itself. I try to do what makes me happy, (art, gardening, video games, programming) which includes helping my community and surroundings to be healthy, happy, and free, as one person can manage to make it.

I can’t always meet my own standards because I’m only one person. I still try to strive to do what I can.

Is anarchism a religion? Or is it faith in the inherent interconnectedness of nature? I think all creatures are better than we (human society) give them credit for. I don’t feel anthropocentrism will get us anywhere. I believe we’re more than the systems that control us (capitalist megamachine, fascism, racism, sexism, colonialism, ableism, speciesism, etc.). We, creatures of the earth, are no better or worse than anything or anyone else. And these specific bodies make us able to discuss and address inequality and injustice, and try to get as close to planetwide systemic homeostasis as possible. You are me are nature are gods are the universe. We’ll meet again in a different context, as different creatures, as not quite the same set of atoms. But some of what comprises “us” (myself and anyone reading this) will be there, in the future, perhaps even in the same creature. I don’t think there’s an “afterlife” just a different ongoing thread of “life”. I’m still terrified of dying of course, I’d like to keep this “system”, this “body”, alive as long as possible. But I’m a bit more ok with it than I used to be. And mourning my own death after being zooted out of my mind helped a bit.

TLDR “Ego death^TM” to sound even more like a stereotypical stoner/psychedelics user lmao.