USSMillicentKent [any]

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Cake day: July 27th, 2020

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  • I've always understood it as a seasonal thing, like it's much easier and more pleasant to get cardio outdoors in the spring and summer, while a regular weightlifting routine in a well-lit gym keeps you sane in the darker, colder winter months, when you're gonna be all bundled up and no one can see your physique anyway. A yearly cycle between look-good-feel-good and fat-and-happy. I've never heard of on a week-to-week scale, that just sounds like a yo-yo diet.







  • USSMillicentKent [any]toaskchapo*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    I've only listened to a couple of episodes, I feel like they sometimes make salient points about how leftist tactics can wind up being ineffective, but you have to sift through a lot of reactionary bullshit to get to it. It seems like they're afraid of being too genuine so they hide behind this ironic contrarian slur-filled facade which feels forced






  • USSMillicentKent [any]toaskchapo*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    For me the answer was cognitive behavioral therapy. I read the book Feeling Good by David Burns, which is basically a field manual for CBT, and it pulled me out of a spiral I had been in for years.

    DM me if you want a PDF, I know I've posted it on this site before somewhere. Come hang out in /c/mentalhealth if you don't already. Love yourself& know that you are loved comrade :meow-hug:



  • USSMillicentKent [any]toaskchapo*Permanently Deleted*
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    3 years ago

    As I have gotten older I seem to have alienated everyone in my life who doesn't have socialist sympathies. I see leftism as an expression of human empathy, and I just have no time anymore for people who don't exude empathy.

    I don't pretend to be perfectly empathetic and I know I fuck up and can be selfish or a jerk at times. It's exactly for those moments that I want to be surrounded by people who I trust to push me in the right direction.

    My "apolitical" friends I try to give the leftist perspective on stuff and they're generally pretty accepting. My left-leaning/soc dem friends I'm willing to engage in conversations with because I think they are coming from the right place.

    Anyone centrist or right I pretty much openly declare to be my enemy, and I take them to task over every expression of their ideology. If you see the moral stain of capitalism and are genuinely comfortable with it, you are not my friend and I see it as my job to make the world uncomfortable for you.

    It's very annoying, and I have lost friends, relationships, and professional opportunities over it, but fuck it. I think it's worth it.



  • That sucks but sometimes you need to detox from someone and the way they make you feel. This might not be a bad thing for you in the long run. Maybe a weird take but it sounds like she cared about you a lot if she felt that was necessary lol, which you'll always have whether you talk again or not.

    I still don't really know how to handle these situations either and it makes me sad to think of my exes and just how cool they were as people -- but life is long, and full of wonderful people, and you never know what will happen in the future with this person.

    Love yourself comrade & know that you are loved :meow-hug: :Care-Comrade: