I recently dipped my toes back into the THC scene. I cant tell if im having normal experience or adverse reactions. Preface, i smoked quite a bit in high-school(early 2000s). Ive also done quite a bit recreationally. X, molly, coke, pills. Even tried meth once. So i am not a novice at being high.
After my time in service i tried smoking again and it made me extremely paranoid and i was like gk that.
Now 20 years after smoking regularly i wanted to see how it would effect me now. Im current on a 3 pill combo for PTSD, anxiety, etc.
First i tried a 100mg Delta8 gummy( about half) and it put me into a state i never want to be in again. So bad i called my father to come sit with me because i couldnt tell reality.
On advice from others i was told to try micro doses of natural weed. First time(week later) i took 1 hit(blunt) and everything got tingly and was a nice calm buzz for maybe an hour. A week later i tried 2 hits and it spiked like 20% of the gummy for a 10-30min and then evened out for a few hours. I thought i was on to something, but last night proved im out of my depth.
I took 2 good soft hits on a friends blunt and chaos ensued lol.
My go to thing is to take a dump, take a good long shower, and go to bed.
Last night i was playing music in the shower and my brain was listening in clips. It was like an old scratched CD skipping. It was the gummy all over again. I when to bed finally and slept till 12 which isnt unheard of.
My question is- -did i just get hit with some dank? -is weed just that much stronger these days? -Are my meds throwing off my body chemistry or causing a reaction to the weed? -did i hit something laced?
I dont remember EVER having time and hearing clip out like that. I normal used music to give be a baseline on time when high, so the fact it was not processing music smoothly spoils my high and brings on the paranoia..
Thanks for the help yall.

I've been following the Danny Masterson trial very closely through the great Tony Ortega and so when I saw this recent Ireland Baldwin tiktok reaction posted here, it made me think about Ireland's situation growing up in the Baldwin family. Then I remembered that Alec's brother Billy is married to Chynna Phillips, from the 80s group Wilson Phillips. Chynna is Bijou Phillips' half-sister and Bijou is married to Danny fricken Masterson the now convicted rapist.
Tony Ortega, who broke the Danny Masterson story all the way back in 2017 and covered every day of both trials, explains more in a 2022 story here:
https://tonyortega.org/2022/11/08/danny-mastersons-sis-in-law-chynna-phillips-after-watching-trial-seeing-the-light/
Chynna is described as "a classic social media oversharer" in Tony's article and Tony has been keeping tabs on Chynna's feeds because she has occassionally interacted with Bijou and Danny in the past. Chynna did a cringey interview with Bijou a few years back that Tony did an article on where Bijou described Danny as "macho" and a "Strong Island type". It was pretty insightful and didn't look good for Danny, a guy on trial for three counts of rape at the time, so Chynna deleted the video but Tony has the transcript still up.
Can you imagine all the garbage in Ireland's extended family? The whole incent deal with Mackenzie Phillips and just endless drama and really crazy family dynamics that Ireland has to deal with is so overwhelming even as a total outsider.
Also the whole cat poop storyline makes me think that Hilaria and the fam might have some sort of toxoplasmosis infection. This virus transmits through cat poop through handling or close contact. It's known to be a big issue especially for pregnant women which is why it's suggested to not have cats around. There are some interesting studies out there that suggest that the toxoplasmosis virus can alter human behavior very radically. There's a study that shows that it can manifest in risk taking behaviors, so it can effect the executive function of the brain:

The difference in seroprevalence of toxoplasmosis in these 2 samples suggests that Toxoplasma-infected subjects have a 2.65 times higher risk of traffic accidents than Toxoplasma-free subjects

So what this is saying is that people involved in traffic accidents in the study were much more likely to have been infected by toxoplasma. Just saying. Hillary seems like she's got some sort of parasite controlling her brain so maybe it's from the cat poop.
Also, whoever came up with the nickname Larry is amazing. Is there an origin story there?

I know this person for over 10 years now. One day he called me and told me he is not in a good mental state, something that is very unusual of him to do. In the time I've known him, he's been a very private person that barely ever talks about personal stuff, feelings, family etc. The very few other times that he has called me to tell me the same thing, it was just daily life anxiety, so I just assumed the same for this case.
He started by saying that he does not feel he can share exactly what it is. But he proceeded to remind me that he's doing this because he knows I'm not a curious person, and I will not make him reveal something that he doesn't want. He told me that "he has done something bad to someone" and while it belongs to the past, it keeps coming back to him under random circumstances like "when reading the news".
The last bit of info, while he tried to pretend it was just an example, I believe it slipped him, judging by his phrasing. Knowing this person for so long and trying - unavoidably - to draw a conclusion, I cannot think of anything other than some kind of sexual harassment or abuse. He's told me some random make out stories lately, something that he has never done before, which made me connect the dots. I think that he cannot share it with me because he knows I'm very ethical when it comes to this kind of stuff and that it might affect the way that I feel about him. And judging by his mental state at the time, I think it's a pretty serious one and not something I could just forget about.
To further explain my conclusion: I would not care if it was "something bad" that's not extremely illegal and/or reprehensible (for example stealing money from his parents, or shoplifting, saying something really offensive to a loved one etc). Therefore, him - knowing me - would not mind sharing it, despite how shameful it is from his point of view, because I would help by underlining that it is not such a big deal.
Anyway, I am left with this information, thinking the worst kind of scenario and not knowing what to do. I wish he never told me any of this, but he did, and know I carry part of the weight. I have not spoken with him since, and I do not want to, unless I know what I want to do with this matter. Asking/forcing him to tell me is very unlike me, and it would barely make any difference unless I can fully trust him telling the truth. Not doing anything will only damage our relationship from my side, and I cannot predict in what ways I will react in the future while carrying that burden and continuing to interact with him.
If it is what I think it is, I don't think I want to be related to this person anymore. Should I confront him and explain that I need to know? What if he refuses to say? What if he lies? Should I use a more sly approach to make him reveal at least part of the nature of the "bad thing"? Should I just try to deal with the way that I think about it instead of saying something? Should I wait a bit, doing my best to handle it, and bring it up at a later time? What if I am overthinking this and it's nothing like that, but I damage the relationship by confronting him and revealing what I thought about him?
TL;DR: Friend of 10+ years confesses to "doing something bad to someone" that he cannot recover from. I'm thinking of the worst case of sexual abuse, and I do not know how to deal with the matter.

My SD, 10, just came back from her visit with her BM. She was there for two weeks and had contracted scabies, BM didn’t tell us until the actual exchange at the end of her visit so we did our best to scramble to get her treatment etc., BM is expecting her back next month but there is no clear way to know that she has completely eradicated the scabies and husband and I are obligated to give her a minimum of 3-5 days per month via our court agreement. However, we are worried that she may catch them again and she starts school the first week of august. (Scabies can last for months if not properly treated) My question is, how could we go about this without violating our court agreement? We don’t want to send her back just for the safety of her and our whole house hold. There must be someway to get a court to agree but how? Is an emergency order the only way? Unfortunately, there is no rationalizing with BM and doesn’t understand this is what we feel best for SD. What would you do? TIA

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I have a coworker that i cant stand and maybe starting to bully her a bit. She gets on my last nerves and i cant help it. I wanna be nicer to her and i wanna have more patience with her. Back story is: we are drivers, we do paperwork and im the team lead so at the end of the shift i have to close down the business. I dont check paper work cuz i dont deal with the money n stuff but now my boss wants me to check her paperwork because she hasnt been completing it and when they open in the morning its not done so they have to do it. Ive told my coworker, im the one who deals with the boss, and i get in trouble when her paper work isn’t complete, despite this she wont have her papers in order 10 mins before her shift ends so i have to take those 10 mins to check, and go to the office and move cars and double check my own papers. This is very frustrating because i feel like im baby sitting and its burning me out. Everytime i see i have a shift with her, it ruins my day. The nature of our work is that we have to constantly communicate, we talk on the phone about 30 times during our 8hour shift so hearing her voice, while expecting that shes about to ruin my day is awful lol. I can admit ive been condescending and rude to her and at times very bitchy. What can i say to myself or how can i take time to regroup before i make the poor girl quit.

My boyfriend and I signed the lease on an apartment the other day. The property manager accepted an offer $400 below listing price pretty quickly, which was the first red flag. We dropped off the deposit at the realtors office. The realtor called the receptionist while we were in the office and told her not to give us the keys to the apartment because he had to go back and make repairs. After insisting we would be given the keys before we left, the realtor informed us he had to go back to the apartment and repair some "holes in the wall." We hadn't noticed any holes in the walls and didn't see any when we went back to the apartment again to check. We also noticed that the front door doesn't open and the handle is broken. Only the back door opens (when we toured the realtor had already opened the front door prior to us arriving). When we asked the realtor about it, he said "I can show you a trick to open the front door" and didn't agree to fixing the issue. The following day, the realtor asked when he could stop over to make repairs. We called and said we would meet him there and he said "well, I'll only be here 5-10 minutes" and insisted we didn't come meet him. Note -- he also still has a key to the apartment. My boyfriend and I made a list of questions we want to ask the property manager. The lease only has his phone number, which is a business number for a flooring company. I asked the realtor for his email and he said he doesn't know what it is. I called the given phone number and no one picked up. We sent a text, and we received no text back. The realtor informed us the property manager is "on a trip" and we can leave a message. Concerned we are actively being scammed.

Name youself Scamprotein
So i ordered three impact whey isolate 1kg for me and my friends and i received them with so much delay the delivery hub was not even were trying to deliver it and after few days they called me and said to come and pick up like wtf, so i went and picked it up and i smell a strong chocolate scent from package and i arrive home and check and my all 3 packs are damaged and infested with full of ants 😪then i contacted support through chat was my refund was issued and i received a confirmation mail and told me to wait 10-15days for refund , so 16th day still no update contacted them they said we raised the issue and lets wait for an update from indian finance team and same message for next 15days after 30days they now suddenly deleted my account like wtf ??? Is it scam or what ?? I again created account and contacted and now they sau its under investigation , classic way to scam people ,🙏👌 never gonna order again , Even ai responds better than these customer support chat assistants excepts Lucy tho , she is best, always tried to help, but at last still no update and account cancelled . Thats pathetic tbh

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Beer Money	Earnings
Bank Switch	£230
Matched Betting	£120
GPT	£57.75 & £3 Tesco gift card
Surveys	£19.50 & £20 Zizzi gift card
Market Research	£1.80
Sign up Offer	£6.20
Interest	£2

Bank Switch = £230

Another month and another bank switch completed, I've started to do one of these per month. In May I did the RBS switch for £200 & I also received a £30 bonus from Quidco from when I did the First Direct switch. For Junes switch I've started the Lloyds one, I already got their last bonus from Feb so I'm not sure I'll get this one but from what other people have said I think it will go through still.

Matched Betting = £120

This total comes from doing the weekly bet clubs, reload offers, daily free spins, and odds boosts. If you're thinking about starting matched betting have a read through some of the posts in here & I'd definitely suggest signing up to the free trial of OddsMonkey or OutPlayed to show you the ropes.

Get Paid To Offers = £57.75 & a £3 Tesco gift card

Inbox Pounds = £30 Sign up & get a £1 sign up bonus non-ref
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Cashback Earners = £15 Sign up & receive a £6.50 sign up bonus non-ref
Cashback Earners is a GPT site that has lots of casino offers where all you have to do is sign up & deposit to the casino via their site, wait for it to track on Cashback Earners and then you can withdraw from the casino again. I've had £15 in there for awhile from a casino offer and was able to withdraw it this month as I had one successful referral.Each casino offer ranges from £10-£17.50 per one!
TopCashBack = £12.75 Sign up to TopCashBack non-ref
Topcashback seems to be the site with the best cashback offers out there! In May I withdrew £12.75 from signing up to BetUK.
Unbanx = £3 Tesco gift card Sign up & receive 150 bonus points non-ref
Unbanx is an app that allows you to earn points each month by sharing your spending data through open banking. Once you reach 492 points you can cash out a £3 gift card.

Surveys = £19.50 & a £20 Zizzi gift card

OnePulse = £15.50 non-ref
OnePulse is an app that has surveys in the form of polls, which are all 5 slides or less so they only take a few seconds to complete each one. You work your way up to earning more for each 'Pulse', atm in at 21 cents per pulse.You can cash out once you reach $20 (£15) which I hit each month now.
Consumer Pulse = £20 Zizzi gift card non-ref
On Consumer Pulse you take a weekly survey about your shopping habits. Each item you enter gives you 500 points. You can cashout a £10 gift card at 10,000 or a £20 one at 20,000. They also sometimes email out other surveys to fill in for extra points. I think it took me about 2 to build up enough points for a £20 gift card.
Testing Time = £4 Sign up with my ref link non-ref
Testing Time is a site to sign up for if you want to start doing more market research as it offers tasks to give feedback on things like apps, websites, physical products, gadgets & food. In May I completed 2 quick surveys, each for £2.

Market Research = £1.80

Testable Minds = £1.80 Sign up with my ref link non-ref
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Sign Up Offer = £6.20

Lightyear = £6.20
Lightyear currently has an offer to deposit £50 and receive a $10 share, you then have to wait 30 days & can withdraw it all. I ended up with £6.20 at the end of the 30 days. I don't have a referral link as only certain people receive one so search the sub if you'd like to take advantage of this offer.

Interest = £2

I know this one isn't really beer money but it's because of this sub that I decided to try out some new savings accounts. I'd had my savings in the same TSB account my whole life at a horrifically low interest rate which I've not really thought anything of until I started hearing about banks with interest rates around the 3.3%-3.8% mark. The thing I love about them is they pay monthly too and not yearly like my old one. In May I tried out Chip but didn't really like the app & also found it annoying how you can only deposit & withdraw through one account through open banking. So now I'm trying out Chase & I love it so much more already!

CashBack

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Hello guys,
I found this subreddit and assumed this would probably a good place to post this and seek advice. Sorry for the long post!
TL;DR: Been diagnosed with POTS and have a lot of POTS symptoms but my heart rate is inconsistent and I have imposter syndrome.
I've recently been diagnosed with POTS, but I am very confused about whether I really have POTS or if something else might be going on.
Earlier this year I most likely had covid and just felt really shitty during and after. I thought I recovered and then suddenly while sitting in the office my whole body started going numb and I felt like I was going to pass out. I left the room I was in and my heart was racing, whether that was because of the shock or POTS related I don't know. This body numbness didn't relieve for another 2 weeks, but then settled at a baseline that's tolerable (It's not gone though unfortunately).
Alongside this numbness I've been plagued by several other symptoms, I've just been feeling really unwell when standing or active, sweat quicker, have become quite intolerant to heat and generally just became very anxious (Partly because of the symptoms and when standing in particular the anxiety makes everything even worse). On top of that brain fog and fatigue which I've never had before.
I've been spending most of my time in bed since then, but try my best to get out as much as I can. My partner and I started to notice that when I get out of bed my heart rate will spike up to >120 initially and then settle somewhere between 90-110, but after standing for a while it becomes intelorable to stand and I get more and more anxious and more numbness in my body, particularly my hands.
I saw a neurologist and cardiologist, the neurologist found a radiculopathy affecting my right arm which seems to explain why my numbness is worse on my right arm but doesn't seem to explain the symptoms and the cardiologist found nothing abnormal with my heart and on examination he had me lie down with a resting heart rate of around 75 and on standing it spiked to 130. He then did some additional checks and then diagnosed me with POTS.
That's my journey so far, but reading more about it and trying to make sense of my symptoms im starting to get imposter syndrome. I have a general unwelness, brain fog when sitting for a long time and fatigue, my heart rate goes up and stays up but normally not more than 30 BPM. On sitting it rests at 80 and standing at 100. But multiple times a week it just randomly goes up to 130 or even higher and I get palpitations when I get up, but it settles down a bit shortly after, again 100-110. I have these episodes a lot, but it doesn't usually stay consistently more than 30 BPM of my laying down resting heart rate. Some days I meet the criteria for diagnosis but a lot of days it wouldn't meet the criteria for pots. On these days the symptoms are better but never gone. Whatever I do I always have lingering symptoms like fatigue and brain fog. I am worried that it is just anxiety but I never had anxiety before and it seems just so random which freaks me out that I could just randomly be anxious and have my ability to do things be so impacted. And this numbness just doesn't really seem to be explained by anxiety, because it has been constantly there for the past 4 months.
Sitting for a long time becomes really difficult and my numbness and vision and fatigue gets worse and standing longer than 10 minutes is unbearable. I can't really go outside either because I just feel so unwell or get really anxious. I sit 8 hours a day for work and I need breaks in between because my brain doesn't work properly anymore and I get really tired.
I've been following some advice from an aquaintance who has severe POTS, like showering cold instead of hot which is allowing me to be able to shower without feeling horribly unwell, which I am not able to do with hot water which further makes me believe it is actually POTS.
But I am very confused about it and don't want to be diagnosed with something I don't have and I am scared of getting checked by another doctor saying I don't have POTS because my heart rate spike is less severe on a particular day when it was really bad just yesterday for example.
Thank you so much for reading and any advice is more than welcome ❤️
Hope everyone has a lovely day!

I have my daughter and my son in the NICU currently. They are 10 and 9 day old (our girl was born 2 minutes before midnight)
Brother is going home tomorrow and unfortunately sister just isn't ready yet. They told me if I didn't come in on Tuesday because he is home, they would understand.
I have never spent a day away from them. I would feel horrible if I didn't see sister.
But also leaving the house with a newborn to drive 30 minutes into the city also worries me.
What did you end up doing? This guilt is killing me

I unfollowed this sub years ago because I let myself be convinced that my mom was trying her best and I am to blame. After getting a very illuminating autism diagnosis a few months ago (+ ADHD at 14 - 34f), I’m feeling pretty good about not doubting myself anymore, but narc moms gonna narc. Super long rant ahead TW: for childhood and financial abuse and questionable animal care
For context, I’m the middle of three girls, and the only one to move out, and my dx explained the lifetime of shame from my toxic family. Like when I was 10, I remember saying how excited I was to move out and be an adult when I graduated high school, and the following trademark twist-pinch my mom is known for, when she told me I made my dad sad for wanting to ever move out. Like fuck stupid ass 10yo me, right?
I’m working through shaking off the 34 years trauma. My parents haven’t always been well off, but probably have been since my teens. My mom works hard as a breadwinner, and never lets me forget how hard I need to work to have even half what she’s been able to provide for us…or that I’m bad with money.
I’ve done ok for myself, and things were good enough with her that when I needed to move back home last year after a nasty (police involved) breakup and living alone during most of the pandemic, they let me. I offered rent, they promised they just wanted me to be safe and refused. I said only 1 year max, but delayed moving out to find the right place. I moved last month. My younger sister (29) though, left her 2 dogs to go abroad to finish her bachelor’s last August and my autistic ass couldn’t let her old dog die in my parents care. They spend $1k on bed sheets, but think it’s idiotic to pay a vet more than $50.
She’s back at the end of the month, and holy hell if keeping her old dog alive (“Methuselah” as he’s well past life expectancy), while having to ignore big younger dog (“Pepper” too much shedding, poor training, parents keep her exclusively outdoors even in rain and yell at me for bringing her in), hasn’t been the most stressful thing on top of working full time. Methuselah sleeps 20 hrs a day and is pretty healthy, but prone to bladder stones I’ve found out 2000 stressful dollars later.
I wanted to take Pepper with me too when I moved, but Lil Sis saw an ig post I made with Pepper (I tagged her) while I was taking measurements and ratted on me to mom saying Pepper is too stressed out, so I can’t take her for 6 weeks. Why? Pepper’s tail was down in the picture. Who cares I got everything I’d need for an at-home grooming salon to deshed her that same day or that she hasn’t had a bath in 3 months? Apparently I sure as fuck shouldn’t because I “act like I know everything” too much.
I haven’t asked for a dime until yesterday because I’m now financially bruised from spending ~$2500 on the two dogs that aren’t mine over the past 10 months (I added up the “pet” and “vet” charges because my budget was wonky, so that’s an estimate).
Yesterday, I asked my mom for only $1000 to help split the care costs with my folks because of course, Lil Sis is broke and I finally realized how fucked up it is for them to expect me to eat all those costs and delay my life plans for someone else’s dogs.
Mom gave it to me immediately, while arguing that I moved in with my bf so I shouldn’t need to be reimbursed if he’s pulling his weight and I chose to take care of Methuselah because no one asked. She and Lil Sis literally cornered me and Big Sis (blocking hallway path) about dog care two days before Lil Sis left, but she somehow doesn’t remember. How convenient.
I thanked her and left, but she called me a couple hours later to keep up the barrage of insults.
I hung up on her because when I answered, she opened with “how dare you…”
It was the first time and fuck did it feel good. Even if she called me r-word for autistics in text after because I asked to be partially reimbursed. Not to be paid a fee for sitting, not for the cats I want to get, but to be partially reimbursed for keeping Methuselah alive.
I finally told her she needs a better therapist and to read up on financial abuse.
Family should be expected to take care of their siblings pets for free my ass. Fuck that noise. I do want any feedback because I’m struggling with the guilt: I did volunteer to take care of the dog, but am I wrong for asking to split the cost?
Thanks for letting me vent, apologies if this is the wrong place, but I tried to do a throwaway AITA post and am done feeling shame, so if Lil Sis sees this - sup?

Any ideas during the day between a range of 10 am to 2 pm between provo and slc? Wanting to do something different for a field trip for high schoolers. There will only be about 15-18 folks total in the group. Just want to see if there is something we haven’t done or experienced yet.

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