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Hi all. Been taking lamotrigine off label from my psych provider. Intended to help with emotional instability.

I have been slowly titrating up. Had some ups and downs but now I feel like I'm nearly at the worst I've ever been.

I have been on 200 for the past 3 weeks. My mood has not stabilized in that time and I am getting much worse.

A few days after the increase to 200 my coworker noticed an immediate and dramatic negative shift in mood and appearance. Prior to that, I was on 150 for 5 weeks. Initially I was doing pretty good but I had a steady decline for the entirety of the 5th week before I was upped to 200.

My bros please help. This is destroying my career and relationships. It has immediate and significant impacts on my life.

I sent my provider an urgent message in her portal but yeah I need to figure out this shit asap.

Not sure if I am having a paradoxical reaction to every psych med I am trying or what??? Also yes I am in therapy but in the process of changing to one who is a lot more strucutred in her approach and less of a talk therapist.

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At least four people were killed and dozens of others were injured in a series of airstrikes carried out by Thailand inside Cambodia on Monday, December 8. The airstrikes, which started in the early morning, continued throughout the day causing massive displacement of civilians and destruction of civilian infrastructure.

Thailand claimed its military actions were in response to Cambodian air strikes a day earlier, in which two of its soldiers were killed and several others were injured. The Thai army called the attacks a threat to its national security.

According to Reuters, over 350,000 people were evacuated from the border districts of Thailand following Cambodian strikes on Sunday.

Cambodia has denied Thai claims, instead accusing it of violating the ceasefire agreement signed between the two countries under the mediation of US President Donald Trump in October. It also accused the Thai forces of deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure and UNESCO heritage sites.

In turn, Thailand denied allegations of targeting civilians, claiming that its airstrikes were only focused on eliminating military threats inside Cambodia.

Neth Pheaktra, information minister of Cambodia, confirmed the death of citizens in a social media post on Monday. He also announced the shutdown of all schools and other educational institutions near the bordering regions, and the evacuation of civilians.

Hun Manet, Cambodian prime minister, called for respect of the ceasefire agreement and denied Thai claims of military preparations, appealing for national unity to protect the country’s sovereignty.

Cambodia has also claimed that Thai aggressions are unilateral and it has not responded to any of its military provocations yet, expressing hope for peace.

Call for peace

Meanwhile, Thailand’s prime minister, Anutin Charnvirakul, claimed Thai forces are doing what is necessary in self defense and warned of more such strikes, accusing Cambodia of initiating the attacks on Thai sovereignty and territorial integrity in a press conference on Monday.

Meanwhile, some regional leaders called for the cessation of hostilities and offered mediation. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim called for restraint and the opening of dialogue between the two countries.

“Thailand and Cambodia are close partners of Malaysia and key members of ASEAN. We urge both sides to exercise maximum restraint, maintain open channels of communication and make full use of the mechanisms in place,” Ibrahim urged.

Ibrahim was one of the key persons involved in the ceasefire agreement, which was announced following days of similar clashes between the two countries in July. At that time, Thailand recalled its ambassador from Phnom Penh following a mine blast on its border that injured one of its soldiers.

This triggered a deadly fight involving F-16 jets between the two countries. At least 48 people, mostly civilians, and over 300,000 were displaced.

A temporary ceasefire was called on July 28 following interventions from China, Malaysia, and the US.

Both countries had similar clashes in 2011 as well. The recurring clashes are reportedly related to a prolonged dispute over the demarcation of borders between them.

The 817 kilometer-long borders between the two South-East Asian nations were drawn by the French in 1907, when it ruled Cambodia as a colony.

The ceasefire agreement signed between the two countries in October in Kuala Lumpur under Trump’s mediation called on both sides to withdraw their troops from the border areas and start confidence-building measures, including direct negotiations.

However, it has been pointed out that the pact did nothing to address the long-standing issues related to the boundary dispute. This was reflected in the eruption of fresh clashes and disputes within weeks of signing of the agreement.

Clashes broke out despite Cambodia denying that Thailand suspended talks in November, this time accusing it of laying new landmines on the border, Reuters reported.

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Cyril Ramaphosa says theories, promoted by Donald Trump, ‘conveniently align with wider notions of white supremacy’

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Opinion piece by Bonnie Girard, President of China Channel Ltd., who has lived and worked in China for half of her adult life.

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For decades, modern China watchers, and certainly some large number of Chinese citizens themselves, hoped against hope that the economic transformation created by China’s industrial, manufacturing, and technological development would create the conditions for significant, representative political reform.

By the early 2000s, many Chinese, even CCP members, were optimistic. “We can’t go back” is a phrase that was often heard in those days when referring to the political and economic changes and advances underway in China. As [Dr. Minxin Pei, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College in California] wrote, “Given the transformative socioeconomic changes China had experienced in the post-Mao era, such a scenario [going back] was simply unthinkable.”

But now it seems clear that the only thing needed to drag China back to the dark age of totalitarian rule was the will. And Xi provided that.

“Motives alone, however, could not explain the ease with which he [Xi] dismantled the post-Tiananmen order and reestablished a form of neo-Stalinist rule,” Pei noted. “He needed enablers – not just shrewd and ruthless henchmen, but also institutional tools – to bring back totalitarian rule.”

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"Urgent | Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced that 100 Israeli doctors have confirmed their readiness to inject Palestinian prisoners with poison in the event that death sentences are issued against them. ...."

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Is there is any active fork or repo containing info about how to deCloudflare?

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"In a year when Syria says it is reclaiming the breaths of its first freedom… a lump remains in the heart like no other. ...."

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❝ Several German correspondents have described "an atmosphere of intimidation" over their reporting on Israel & Palestine, as a campaign led by the Israeli Embassy in Berlin and its allies in Germany peaked over the past two weeks against Sophie von der Tann ❞

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The KDE team has announced Plasma 6.5.4, the fourth bugfix update to the major 6.5 series, which follows three weeks after the previous 6.5.3 release. While no new features are introduced, Plasma 6.5.4 focuses on refinement and reliability.

The release adds updated translations and a long list of targeted fixes. Discover receives several corrections to its Flatpak handling, improving installation management, notifier behavior, and support on aarch64 systems. Headless update scenarios are also addressed, and UI actions now behave consistently across desktop and mobile interfaces.

KWin, the window manager, includes numerous improvements. These range from better handling of input methods and tablet devices to corrections for HiDPI rendering and transformed item painting.

"AI brainrot is bad for our souls" An interesting article that explores why games are increasingly finding themselves in situations where AI art was used, ether intentional or not.

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Brian May has said that the song was not an autobiographical portrait of Mercury and that Mercury did not particularly enjoy bicycling, also noting that despite the lyric "I don't like Star Wars", Mercury was a Star Wars fan.

The song references the band's song "Fat Bottomed Girls" with the line "fat bottomed girls, they'll be riding today". "Fat Bottomed Girls" reciprocates with "Get on your bikes and ride!" The two songs were released together as a double A-sided single.