#Felger

[brigitoshaughnessy]

I’ve never seen two men more into a game of Patty Cake.

[nellthefunkyhoooomosapian]

Just put it on there;like no one cares

[milquetoast-on-acid]

What the hell does Chloe see in Felger? 🤨👀

She's just over here pining away for him for some dumb reason. Don't get me wrong I love unrequited pining but he's such an asshole to her. He's obnoxious and a continuous fuck up. I get her digging his smarts and his awkwardness but he's just so unlikable.

[captain-sassy-socks]

[scifidancer]

Bonus pic from BTS:

STARGATE SG - 1 / "Avenger 2.0"

[allaboutrings]

Felger Inc 14k Yellow Gold Turquoise and Enamel Ring

[theadhddragon]

Stargate S6 E8 the other guys

IF THAT ISN'T AUTISM AND ADHD ON AN ADVENTURE THEN NOTHING EVER WILL BE

I'm so here for it

[orrsoared]

I’m watching Bob’s Burgers and Teddy’s banned from calling in to sports radio to fight with the host about hockey. That’s me and Felger (🤮)

[iamjackedwards]

gotta love 98.5

[waggle100]

Felger calling Ullmark soft for blocking the trade 😠

[agent-troi]

lol i actually thought that scene at the end was real until sam started making out with felger🤣

[captain-sassy-socks]

[deadheaddaisy]

When Phlox is in Stargate and he's basically like WHAT THE FUCK, FELGER, STOP FANBOYING OVER O'NEILL, I DON'T WANT TO DIE HERE, GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS!

Phlox as a (terrible) Jaffa cosplayer will never not be funny.

Stargate SG-1 - The Other Guys - S06E08

[babyspacebatclone]

Responding to the following note from @papyrus126 on this post:

The original post about Anxiety referred specifically to remaining in a “freeze” state, an unconscious and automatic response to perceived threats in order to protect the individual:

Fight: facing any perceived threat aggressively.

Flight: running away from danger.

Freeze: unable to move or act against a threat.

Fawn: immediately acting to try to please to avoid any conflict.

Again, when one feels threatened, the body rapidly responds to imminent danger. The underlying goal of springing into fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, is to decrease, end, or evade the danger to return to a state of calm and control. (taken from the article from “Simply Psychology” below)

In the chart’s context, it describes how the stress from being constantly anxious (or suffering from a related condition, such as PTSD, or having a disorder with high comorbidity for anxiety, such as ADHD) means that the individual feels like everything has to be perceived as a potential threat, and the only reliable coping strategy left for this omnipresent sense of danger is complete submission.

However, what you are describing with feeling “empty” can best be considered a symptom of Anhedonia:

Anhedonia is the loss or a decrease in the ability to feel pleasure from things we once enjoyed. And it's a common symptom of mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Since the onset of the pandemic, there has been a rise in these disorders, so it's likely that anhedonia is affecting more people—and to a higher degree. (taken from article from “Real Simple” linked below)

You most likely have a combination of both, because as said Anhedonia is common in the same type of disorders the chart directly relates to.

A way of contextualizing it is the term “learned helplessness” - there’s nothing you do that makes anything feel better, so there’s no reason to try, leaving you just numb.

It’s important to recognize that learned helplessness and Anhedonia have a physical component: your physical brain stops either producing or responding to important chemicals.

The brain regions use a chemical called dopamine to communicate with each other. Dopamine is used to decide what's rewarding and how you want to attain it. It's also used to decide whether something is threatening. Felger explains that these reward circuit regions may not interact as well with each other in people with anhedonia. And therefore, this weakened communication between regions suggests unbalanced levels of dopamine, says Tiffany Ho, Ph.D. (taken from article from “Real Simple” linked below)

It’s not just a case of “trying harder,” your brain has to repair itself to get out of a cycle of learned helpless, constant anxiety, or Anhedonia.

The first step, therefore, is giving your body a chance to repair, primarily with better sleep because poor sleep is so highly correlated with all the related conditions.

Now, as someone with a divergent circadian cycle (my awake cycle is approximately noon until 4am), I’m going to emphasize: You need to find a sleep routine that is healthy for you.

If this means you need to be up at a set time, due to school or work or other obligations, than this may require a very strict pre-sleep routine in order to meet these obligations.

But please, please, see this as “I need to work on my sleep schedule so I can be healthy.” And not “I need to conform to society’s expectations of my sleep.”

Because those are two very, very different things.

The second is to use cognitive behavioral psychology to train your thinking away from “helplessness” or despaired thinking.

The first step here is to replace negative self talk with neutral self talk.

That’s right, we’re not going to go straight to the “positive happy happy stuff.”

You want to focus on objective observations about yourself, the situations you find yourself in, and your reactions. It is a move away from catastrophic, all-or- nothing thinking:

Instead of “I don’t even enjoy anything, I’m not even human” it’s “My brain is not working properly; it’s not giving me the rewarding responses it should.”

As you train your thinking away from feelings of helplessness, take note of things that are currently ok or even good. We tend to remember negative experiences more than positive experiences, which makes sense from a survival perspective.

But journaling - even mentally - about good things as they happen helps to reinforce that everything isn’t bad.

That there are things to be grateful for, even if you feel numb and overwhelmed.

Then, as you have a catalog of things that do bring positives to your life, you can use them to further counteract the feelings of numbness:

“That short walk made me feel good today. I probably won’t have time to do it again this week, but it’s nice to remember how it felt to hear the birds in the sun.”

Finally, give yourself something to be successful at. Puzzle games are great for this in my experience.

If you have a hobby you used to enjoy but don’t find pleasure in, work on improving a skill within that hobby.

Look at it as an investment for the future: “If I can master this stitch pattern, when I feel motivated it will be so much fun to knit a scarf using it later.”

Take note of the things you do that do move you out of a numb, overwhelmed feeling.

Reward yourself without guilt.

“I don’t want to read right now, but having this book by my favorite author feels nice. I’m going to buy it now, without any expectation to read it, but just so it’s right at hand for when I do have the spoons that I can read it!”

This already got long, but I hope some of it is helpful. I tried to find stuff that goes beyond the usual “practice coping strategies!” which of course is helpful but been told to death.

Linked articles for further reading below the cut.

[jamesmarsdenfan]

amfAR Cannes Gala 2023. Photos by Stephane Felgere. Source: IMAGO.com and https://twitter.com/archivemarsden/status/1662576209631277057?s=20

[kroashent]

Kroa-Cent - Melusine

A Kroashent themed commission.

Markizez Melusine de Coglais, mistress of Kastell Felger, never considered magical transformative curses a particularly high worry. But as the she steps out onto her ramparts to the unfamiliar clicking of hooves on stone, she realizes she may have to adjust her outlook....

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Val's Notes: I sadly don't often have a good excuse to do much with the badass warrior Melusine, which is a real shame, as I love her design a lot. Melusine is the Markizez (Marquise) of Coglais, a loyal ally of Dugez (Duchess) Janed "ar Flamme" Monforz.

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