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I really said "it can't get worse" and then my crown fell out... 🧍‍♂️

January has been the equivalent of getting repeatedly shot for me. Watching American politics has been bad enough but I also keep sick despite masking in public and frequent hand washing. First I got the flu at my family Christmas which turned into bronchitis, a sinus infection, and an ear infection. That led to ovarian cysts bursting + eczema flare up from stress. Got better and then caught a cold from my friend. Now I have Covid from my mom who works at a school. Fell down the stairs the other day and bruised my back up so I decided to sleep in to recover. Instead I woke up feeling worse and freezing because the furnace stopped working in the middle of the night 😭 So now I've spent the whole morning trying to get that sorted out but I also have to leave for work in 30 minutes and the dude still hasn't called me back. I feel like I'm being overdramatic but at the same time what are the chances I'd speed run all my illnesses for the year in the first month.

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24 hours without heat later but the furnace guy should be here soon! Then I'm taking my ass to urgent care and hopefully getting a nap in before work.

January has been the equivalent of getting repeatedly shot for me. Watching American politics has been bad enough but I also keep sick despite masking in public and frequent hand washing. First I got the flu at my family Christmas which turned into bronchitis, a sinus infection, and an ear infection. That led to ovarian cysts bursting + eczema flare up from stress. Got better and then caught a cold from my friend. Now I have Covid from my mom who works at a school. Fell down the stairs the other day and bruised my back up so I decided to sleep in to recover. Instead I woke up feeling worse and freezing because the furnace stopped working in the middle of the night 😭 So now I've spent the whole morning trying to get that sorted out but I also have to leave for work in 30 minutes and the dude still hasn't called me back. I feel like I'm being overdramatic but at the same time what are the chances I'd speed run all my illnesses for the year in the first month.

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January has been the equivalent of getting repeatedly shot for me. Watching American politics has been bad enough but I also keep sick despite masking in public and frequent hand washing. First I got the flu at my family Christmas which turned into bronchitis, a sinus infection, and an ear infection. That led to ovarian cysts bursting + eczema flare up from stress. Got better and then caught a cold from my friend. Now I have Covid from my mom who works at a school. Fell down the stairs the other day and bruised my back up so I decided to sleep in to recover. Instead I woke up feeling worse and freezing because the furnace stopped working in the middle of the night 😭 So now I've spent the whole morning trying to get that sorted out but I also have to leave for work in 30 minutes and the dude still hasn't called me back. I feel like I'm being overdramatic but at the same time what are the chances I'd speed run all my illnesses for the year in the first month.

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Which is funnier the fact that I ruptured an ovarian cyst from all this or ruptured an eardrum lol. Today is the first day I feel mostly better though so I can't be too mad. That was the most kick me when I'm down assortment of symptoms I've ever had.

Started the year with a flu that turned into bronchitis, an ear infection, and a sinus infection so I'd like to think my year will only get better from here!

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Started the year with a flu that turned into bronchitis, an ear infection, and a sinus infection so I'd like to think my year will only get better from here!

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I think the universe is genuinely trying to take me out cause I managed to fall down the stairs, get a nail lodged in my tire, have an eczema flare up, and bleed through my pants at work in just 24 hours. I fell asleep in the shower earlier cause I was like damn this is the only place I can catch a break 😅

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Sometimes you have an OCD induced panic attack at work so bad you're shaking and almost throwing up because nothing is where it's supposed to be. Then you finally finish organizing and you still feel awful but there's the smallest bit of humor because you specifically panicked over organizing the dildos and pocket pussies...

To be fair this all started with the party/gag stuff cause that took me like 2 hours alone. I'm unfortunately not even done with stock but it's been 4 hours straight so I'm taking a break 😭 minimum wage is not enough for me to be stressing this hard.

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aromantic and interested in shipping in much the same way people are interested in superheroes. like man wouldnt it be cool if dating was real. id love to imagine what i would do if dating was real. here's my tierlist of the best kinds of dating. number 4 may surprise you.

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Nooo the worker at the store next door is flirting with me 😭 I thought he might be when we interacted before but it was way more obvious this time. I think he knows I'm trans at least cause he saw my name tag but even if I wasn't the most dating repulsed aromantic, he's way too young for me. My store checks ID so I know he's 20 from that. It sounds stupid but people being interested in me is my biggest anxiety trigger so I am not happy rn!

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Can anyone help a burnt out broke autistic. I hate asking for money but I really just need a little bit to get through until I get paid Friday. My dental appointments with the tooth extraction cost about $400 overall and I still have my actual cleaning on the 9th. I'm already putting off my oil change and getting my breaks checked until my paycheck but I don't have any grocery money either 🥲 Wish my job let me go full time cause I'm working 5 days a week but they keep me just under 40 hours and give me minimum wage and it isn't enough anymore.

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Anything would help and I can doodle something for you or make you a themed movie recommendation board in exchange. Examples attached below, doodles would be more on simplistic side of my style.

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Hold on I can make this post even funnier now. THIS is the ace rep I want in the world ✊😔

I love how the only canonically confirmed asexual and/or aromantic characters are such a bizarre but also extremely based bunch. Like yeah we barely have any representation but those we do get are the cream of the crop. A sentient sponge? A platypus? I love how batshit it is.

I know there are a few characters I didn’t include but they’re mostly from media I haven’t consumed. Also if you aren’t reading Rodney R Rodney on webtoon you’re missing out.

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Wearing bracelets so I'm more aware of my arms because for some reason I've developed a compulsion this manic episode where I just slap my eye without meaning to. I've done it 3 times and one I had to check I wasn't gonna get a black eye cause I hit myself so hard (rip left eye cause it's only that one)✌️ I think I burnt myself out so bad all October that it just exploded into the most distressing manic episode. Staying up until 4am every morning, accidentally skipping meals, insane vocal stimming, spending money I don't have, etc. Not to mention the typical horrific sex drive. So extremely dysphoric and sex/romance repulsed. Had a meltdown because a worker from the store next to mine flirted with me the other night.

On a positive note Halloween marked me being officially a year clean of cutting.

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The almost $200 of taxes taken out of my not even $1000 paycheck is about to push me over the edge

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Going to the dentist in the morning but pretty sure I have a tooth infection/need an extraction and it hurts so bad 😭

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Looking back on this post things seemed 100% worse than they probably were from my developing sinus infection and how jam packed my schedule was while fighting off being sick. I worked almost every day, had 4 events, and then tried to completely drop an addiction on top of that. Like I really picked the worst week to add another big stressor to my plate!

Tw: hypersexuality vent + minor self harm behaviors

In trying to manage my hypersexuality and porn/sex addiction I got the great idea to completely go cold turkey on engaging in any sexual media or stimulation. Did not take into account the fact that I suffer from persistent genital arousal disorder and that removing any outlets would be extremely painful both physically and mentally because my body is still aroused almost 24/7 even without stimuli. Now I'm just embarrassed by the fact that I barely made it 5 days before breaking down mentally. The urge to do something was so bad this morning that I spent an hour picking the skin on my face and proceeded to binge eat through my entire shift. I still haven't done anything but I was so distressed by the time I got home from work that I fainted and now I'm just laying in bed crying feeling like a fucking mistake.

Throwback to the post I made about how embarrassing it feels to have meltdowns simply from being too horny. Yesterday night wasn't quite as bad but I kept hitting myself and screaming and I just feel so out of control. The only thing that has ever managed my PGAD is antidepressants but I'm not allowed to go on them anymore because I'm bipolar and they send me into the worst manic episodes! I don't know what to fucking do anymore. If anyone else with PGAD has advice I'm desperate because counseling and doctors have yet to help and it's ruining my life.

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So I have the lovely trauma of dealing with a chronic case of sinusitis that lasted over 8 months straight and had me journaling about how scared I was that I would die in my sleep because I couldn't breathe and how humiliating it was to be in public while so sick. This was also during the very stressful time where I was doing a 22 credit hour semester and a paid internship (my first job ever). The whole thing ended in me having to get surgery and I've been scared of getting sinus infections ever since.

Well back when I got a concussion in July and got a CT scan they could also see I had a sinus infection. I didn't treat it properly because I didn't have the money but it stayed mild and seemed to go away. Started feeling sick this last Friday, stayed in denial about it being a sinus infection until Monday, and have been aggressively treating it in the hopes to keep it mild. Just woke up at 12:30am and was sent into a full blown panic attack because I couldn't breathe or stop coughing. Between that and the exhausting/pain/lightheadedness I'm having a hard time calming down. Logically know all my symptoms are normal and I'm not dying but I'm so scared to go back to sleep.

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I love my counselor (been seeing her for over 5 years!) but I feel like I'm not getting what I should be out of sessions time-wise. She's always had to end a few minutes early which never bothered me much since insurance completely covers my sessions and I know they book her appointments back to back on the hour so she needs a bit to prepare for the next person. But now these last couple months she always starts the call late too! Started out maybe 2-3 minutes late which, once again, didn't care much. Then it went to 5. Now it's consistently 10 plus. She called 15 minutes late today and I missed it because I got distracted waiting for the call after the first 10 mins. Now she hasn't even responded to my texts sent literally 2 minutes after her call asking if we could still do our appointment. So guess I'm just not having one today 🤷‍♂️