[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 3 points 16 hours ago

Thats still so weird, psychologists and even LCSW's can diagnose ADHD... But they may have to have specific training in that. It might vary state to state, maybe. Thats hella frustrating though I'm sorry.

I DO know that for insurance, practitioners need to give you a specific diagnosis and then create goals and plans to reach those goals based off of those diagnoses. I have had therapists who will diagnose me with something else but work on the ADHD/autism symptoms under the guise of the other DX... So idk if you trust your psych enough to pass that by them?

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 2 points 19 hours ago

Listen to 24 Hour Revenge Therapy by Jawbreaker, best album imo

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 2 points 19 hours ago

Fuck I havent listened to Lifetime in so long, just put them on and they're still sooo good

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 5 points 20 hours ago

Why the fuck does a psychologist need you to get an ADHD diagnosis? Its not like they are prescribing medication. That makes me very angry on your behalf I'm sorry

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 3 points 20 hours ago

Damn thats so cool! I never got the chance, baby ratboy would've been stoked

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 3 points 21 hours ago

Did you see them when they were touring too?

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 3 points 21 hours ago

Ahhh I really should've gone to that! Did they play with Rhododendron at the show you went to? They fucking rule as well

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thrice, Finch, Poison the Well, Fall of Troy, The Used, and These Arms Are Snakes were bands I listened to a lot when I was in my Warped Tour era lol. Botch is a bit older but I think they kinda fit. I think Hot Water Music was one too. I don't really qualify that era as emo but I guess that's kinda the closest genre.

Glassjaw fucking slaps they were my faaaavorite for a long time

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago

Thats a good point, hopefully they keep going mask off in that way but after Bernie getting totally fucked over it felt like a lot of people maintained the "vote blue no matter who!" mentality, so I feel like this is just going to be a repeat. I am being hella doomer though, I know.

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 15 points 1 day ago

This may be super obvious to everyone but me, but I feel like the shock and awe of the Trump administration (and the controlled op of the Dems) is intentionally done to break leftist unity and cement peoples positions as liberals to scare them away from communism/anarchism. Cuz with how things are going, I do not know what I would really say to a top-cop stan right now. Like, the "they were doing things to set this up for the Republicans" or "it would've been the same shit but slower" do not seem to hold up in the moment.

I am hopeful that more people are turning left but yikes. I know people that work at Planned Parenthood and they are so fucked. Not by December 2026, they are fucked RIGHT NOW, and there is nothing we can do about it. I'm terrified to go back to school for an MSW right now because who knows if I'll have a job by the end.

I know that during the first Russian Revolution there were still people who has faith in electoralism even though the Tsarist regime had been torturing people and using live ammunition to kill dissidents and yet the revolution still happened, it's still terrifying that it's going probably going to come down to that

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

Hexbear convinced me to get a bidet and it was the best decision of my life

[-] ratboy@hexbear.net 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Had to leave a movie theater for the first time and ask for my money back because the people behind us were being so fucking obnoxious. I don't mind people whispering here and there, or even talking quietly during loud parts of the film to their friends or whatever I do that, but this shit was outta control. Kicking my seat, partner got hit in the head with someone's backpack as they walked to their seat, had popcorn thrown on him (not purposefully but still), talking at regular volume during the quiet parts. These were grown ass adults too. Fucking absurd behavior

I'm finally turning into an old person. not-listening

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I am FINALLY going to be able to trial Adderall after taking a long break from meds and want to track how I'm doing daily. What do you do so that you can know the meds are having a positive/negative effect? What are the indicators you track?

Worksheets, your own indicators, apps, etc. would by great. I'm leaning towards making my own worksheet but idk what some of the most important things would be to keep track of.

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It would appear that the moniker was first unveiled by former Fox News star Tucker Carlson weeks before the presidential election, in an off-the-rails speech at a TPUSA event in October.

“Yeah, that’s right. Dad comes home. And he’s pissed. Dad is pissed,” the far-right podcaster blared at the time. “And when dad gets home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl.’ And it has to be this way.”

thicc-trump panting

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Since Linux does not seem to work on my laptop (I have spent hours trying to find a fully functioning distro, it doesn't exist yet for Snapdragon), I am curious if there are different things I can do to keep Windows from tracking all of my shit.

I know that's impossible but minimizing it is desirable for me, at least. I don't want CoPilot, I don't want advertisement pop ups, anything like bloatware I fucking hate it, as we all do.

So pls let me know what you do to minimize this shit. Apps, things I should uninstall, settings I should change. If I have step by step instructions I'm not afraid to use command prompts since I got a little bit of experience with that while trying to install Linux.

Thank you all in advance for helping this luddite

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I have been having a really tough time with emotional regulation for several months. Every slight irritation feels like fucking nails on chalkboard, where something like buying the wrong thing at the store and not noticing until I get home might make me want to scream and throw things. I don't, but a lot of the time with annoyances I just loudly swear as kind of a pressure release and when it's really bad Ive been white knuckling it so as not to hit myself or throw shit. Normally I just let out a loud "FUCK" or "GOD DAMNIT". Not screaming, but much louder than I talk

My partner is from a normal healthy family so me raising my voice or just exasperatedly saying "fuck", not at him, but at the thing, is really upsetting to him. I don't see the big deal because my mother is a fucking cyclone of screaming and chaos so I'm very tame in comparison. But, I know it's something I need to try to control, I guess, but I feel like I can't. It's just an instinctive reaction, especially when there are a couple mistakes/annoyances stacked on eachother.

Any advice if you struggle with this? I go to therapy and my therapist sucks so thats not helpful right now

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So I don't know shit about Crypto, but someone I know may have had their stuff hacked recently (sounds like there was a breach a week ago). They haven't been able to get back into their account and the whole thing sounds fishy from an outsider perspective so I wanna get someone else's thoughts on how to approach this because I think they are being seriously hacked and that someone might possibly be trying to steal their identity.

This person reached out to customer support and provided the appropriate documentation after locking their account, but this person said that they submitted the docs over and over, and for whatever reason the person they have been in contact with has not yet verified that the documentation is sufficient. This supposed customer service rep sounds like they, for whatever reason, have access to this person's entire browsing history and told them the last time that they logged on to their email account, social media, etc. This person also told me that at some point since this all began, that the cursor on the desktop started moving independently, and that some weird shit started updating or downloading. They are totally distraught so that's pretty much the only information I have...And I don't know what to do with it but I want to help. So if anyone has any info/advice on the coinbase issue, or someone possibly having hacked the desktop I would super appreciate it

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From the Lenin biography by Robert Service

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I hereby decree that Tuesday and Wednesday are to be renamed Beansday

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I wish I could figure it what's wrong with me. Am I rapid-cycling bipolar? Is it ADHD? Is it autism? I'll go days, maybe even a week or more feeling like I have barely any energy at all, it'll be hard to do much more than a quick chore or two. Fatigued, unmotivated, energy drinks don't really work. And then all if a sudden boom, awake at 7am, energy drinks kick my ass. Yesterday I was doing chores/projects from 11am to 1am. Couldn't fall asleep til around 3am, and now I'm up naturally at 8am, with energy to go. Towards the end of the night I got hyperfixated on making pretty excel spreadsheet templates so that might be why I was up so late. I'm also spending hundreds of dollars on things all at once which I normally never do... But they are all practical and I'm tired of not having things that make my life nicer/easier.

I was way more scattered than usual yesterday, bouncing around like a pinball, but my baseline is pretty forgetful/ scattered, it was just on overdrive yesterday. I wish I could harness this energy all the time for things like work, socializing, or hobbies so that I could make them a normal part of my life. I've even been able to/WANT to play video games! I can never get myself to do that even, which is relatively low effort so I feel like thats a decent marker of a shift in baseline. This nay be hypomania, but I'm not getting the confidence/inflated sense of self esteem which I need so badly.

What fucking gives? thurston

PS here are some examples from my mood tracker of where I'm normally at, first graph from 2023 (i stopped tracking for a long time)and third is from this month(the green lines to the right are just the past couple of days that I'm talking about:

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submitted 5 months ago by ratboy@hexbear.net to c/technology@hexbear.net

I am not a nerd(respectful), but I would like to know how you'd set up your phone. I'd like to start leaning into more opensource/privacy minded apps and such to avoid having as much of my data harvested. I'm still going to use apps like Instagram which are obviously horrible but I figure trying to do better in other areas is better than nothing.

  • what to delete
  • what apps are a must (calendar, maps, app store etc)
  • vpns?
  • keyboards?
  • email besides proton? Is there a way to have my emails from Google forward to this address?
  • everything needs to connect to Google accounts is there a way around this?

And yes any other advice on making your phone functional/fast/anonymous/aesthetically pleasing is welcomed thankkkkks

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Lol. Lmao even

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"This is a farewell kiss from the Iraqi people, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans, and those who were killed in Iraq"

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