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Cake day: December 24th, 2025

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  • I get this for sure… getting annoyed at not being annoyed enough. Two questions I workshopped with my then therapist for similar situations:

    1. What do I want/hope/expect staying in this mood/feeling to accomplish?
    2. If this is something worthwhile (helpful, not harmful), how can I accomplish it without clinging to the feeling?

    Like for example missing an appointment, I expect being annoyed at myself or in a bad mood to punish me into re-booking the appointment or not miss it the next time. I can accomplish this without the punishment-part by re-booking it Right Now (including sending an email or leaving a voice mail asking them to get back to me if they’re unavailable), and mark the next appointment time in my calendar+alarm system for 7 minutes earlier before I need to leave so I have time to find my keys, pee, and go back in for my phone.

    Bonus question:

    1. This mood of mine, who is it affecting aside from myself? Is it worth punishing the people around me at the same time, for my mistake?


  • What worked for me was to make sure to eat while taking it (within a 20 min window - could do 40 but that was pushing it), and go for a short run a 40-60 min after taking it.

    Having my heart rate already up when it kicked in made the heartrate spike barely noticeable, and it felt like I burned through the side effects just by suffering through a run for 15-20 min. I guess biking or any cardio training could have the same effect, but running was easiest for me to fit into my schedule.




  • I fully relate to being uncomfortable when others use my name. I dont hate it anymore, but people using it when talking to me weirds me out. I know who I am so you don’t have to remind me, and you know who I am because you’re currently talking to me!

    It just feels like constantly being poked with something sharp when someone overuses my name, or I get on edge like I expect them to try pickpocket me at any moment, or I get tense and feel my fuse shortening like they’re being condescending and sort of explaining my own name to me?

    I don’t know, it’s just really grinding my gears. Dont know if it’s adhd though, or having overactive walls and defenses, or something else.