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submitted 9 months ago by zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works to c/cptsd@lemmy.ml

On Thursday, I met with a therapist who ran through the ACES inventory with me during our session.

It’s been a wild ride since then. Never have I felt so much validation and relief, and never have I wanted to get started with the healing process so much. At long last, there’s a name for what I’ve felt over the past 36 years, and more importantly there’s a treatment protocol.

I truly thought I was alone, especially after my encounter with a different therapist some 20 years ago. No one was talking about c-PTSD back then.

Yesterday I could hardly sleep, as it often happens. I let my emotional dysregulation (learned that has a name too!) run wild, intentionally, to pull together a list of all the traumas I faced. I could scarcely sleep until I had written everything down.

Just sharing my joy at being understood.

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 53 points 9 months ago

Tools you’re not sure you’ll need. Harbor Freight tools are super cheap and flimsy, but may be the right choice if you’re not using them often.

If you find yourself using a cheap tool all the time and hating the quality of it, then it’s time to buy something better.

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 28 points 9 months ago

This is the biggest waste of words next to a “Trump-said” article.

Laptop makers once put pop-out mice on laptops. They were horrible. Toting a wired mouse around was a pain in the ass too. There’s a reason touchpads took over. It doesn’t mean people don’t know how to work a computer.

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 82 points 10 months ago

For most games, the real consequence of failure in a game is being forced to repeat what just happened. And getting caught in a Groundhog Day-esque situation that repeats once every few minutes suuuuucks.

It’s even worse when a failure causes your character to lose stuff. That’s even more time wasted, in that the time and effort taken to get the thing is gone.

Paint the rainbow on my proud carebear chest if you must. I just want a place to escape to for a little while, a place that doesn’t frustrate the shit out of me.

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 31 points 10 months ago

Anything that maximizes embarrassment or cringe. Can’t watch most Will Ferrell or Borat. Ugh, it makes me so uncomfortable.

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 60 points 11 months ago

Tried submitting a relatively simple change to the Ansible code base once. Added an option to the telnet module to support different ports. Submitted a pull request. Was told I needed to change and update the documentation. Didn’t know how to do that, and I didn’t get any guidance, so I abandoned the pull request. Kept on using my own hack until someone else added the option.

Make contributing easy, and more people will contribute.

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Inspired by Sailor Mustache, who was a local Sailor Moon cosplayer with severe five o'clock shadow and cigar. He was huge in Japan.

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An offering to Them against router issues this Turkey Week.

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago

John Wick and James Bond and superheroes and supervillains are not realistically possible. Otherwise we would have them.

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GET YOUR ASS CRANKIN TO SPOOKY GOODNESS SO YA FIT IN THEM BONDAGE PANTS AGAIN

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 year ago

TIHI. Childhood memories of ashtrays left out in the rain are flooding back.

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

Should they? Yes.

Would they? Ahhhahahaha

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 year ago

Are bananas next? 0.1 µSv/banana is way higher than 3.9 µSv/yr 😱

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 year ago

Sudden? That’s been declining for years my dude.

I’m lucky if people understand the first bullet point in my emails. I’m luckier still if they keep reading, never mind understand my next point.

[-] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago
  • 50% raise
  • Private 12x15 office
  • Free pot gummies (for Fridays, of course;)
  • Free transportation to/from office
  • Every day is Bring Your Dogs To Work Day
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