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  • dingus@lemmy.worldtome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    27 days ago

    Yes exactly lol! I have my watch set to go off but then I don’t remember if I did it or forgot to check off the list!

    Thankfully I take two pills per day rn and have a two well pill cutter. So I put a pill on each side. In the morning, there are two pills in the well. I take one pill from one well. In the evening, if I remembered to take the morning one, there is one pill left in the second well.

    Then, at night, I fill up both wells so I start over with them full in the morning.

    Sometimes I forget if I took the morning pill or the evening pill, but I never forget if I took both pills thankfully.

    My goal is to move down to one pill though and that’s going to be a lot trickier for me to remember. I don’t want to go full old people with a weekly pill box, so I’m going to have to figure something out.

    I’m thinking something like starting with two pills (one per well) on even days and starting with one pill on odd days. I’d just have to make sure I’d keep track of the end of the month. Idk.


  • It’s difficult, man. It will probably make you happier if you could just forget about it, but brains don’t work that way. Plus some people just seem to be way better at it than others.

    A mildly traumatic thing happened in my workplace. I have plenty of functional days, but other days things return to my brain without my inviting them and it makes it more difficult to function. Sometimes I get transported back into time like I’m there.

    One thing I read about is the concept of mental “time traveling”. When we remember these things, it’s like we are literally back in that very moment. But that is not what is happening right at this very moment. You are “safe”. You are not back in time being harmed right now.

    Is it wise to not trust her anymore if she has proven herself to be untrustworthy? Absolutely.

    But in order to free yourself better, you have to first notice that you are time traveling. Then look at things in your environment. Not her, but try to take in all of the sensory input around you. Remind yourself that you are here, not there. Recognize that the only time that exists is right now. Even one second in the past no longer exists and even one second in the future doesn’t exist yet. Work with what is around you now.

    Idk if that is at all helpful, just something that I have read about lately. Way fucking easier said than done because I still struggle.

    Wishing you well.





  • Call me a shill, but that’s why I always used Google Docs when I was in school. Things are instantly saved and I can easily access them on other devices. It was also always how we collaborated on group projects with the ability of multiple people to simultaneously edit power points in a collaborative project.

    I don’t have use for word processing anymore, but I used Google Docs from like 2012-2020.

    Definitely helped a ton because my laptop in grad school would randomly blue screen a lot for no discernible reason. Did that when it was new too and Dell support was no help. I have a suspicion that the processor was actually faulty on a hardware level straight from the factory…as it would have problems both in Windows AND Linux that were “fixed” by dramatically underclocking the CPU. All hardware stress tests would always pass. :/

    Anyway, sorry for the random tangent lol.




  • You know what I’m going to say something different and I hope it’s not too inappropriate.

    The other commenters have done well so far. But have you considered using some of your money for therapy? I see you said you’re on antidepressants, but I wasn’t sure if you were already in therapy or not.

    I don’t mean this as a cop out answer and I don’t mean that they will directly help you with your finances. But it might be a good idea to talk to someone about the “nothing matters because the world is going to shit” mentality. Even if there is merit to what you say, it isn’t exactly helping you feel happy or satisfied with your life. If you can learn to cope with this particular thought, you might find the rest falling into place a little easier.