#where I didn't have debilitating IBS

[undead-potatoes]

Just ate two hot dogs with a shitton of crispy fried onions, and THEN remembered I can't really eat onions bc it fucks with my IBS

help

[ratasum]

Sometimes I think about how Gyala Delve was the moment where the final straw landed for Qirri on whether or not she could keep adventuring.

Qirri hit a wall because she took one of her lessons when Zojja was mentoring her too literally ("Just don't let people think you're soft—Rata Sum will eat you alive if you show weakness.") and was just.... making herself push through her actual debilitating disability and chronic illness and that bit her in the ass in Gyala. She was wearing a respirator at Garrus's insistence, and during the first Oni attack, her respirator broke.

Like Garrus, she experienced the terrifying hallucinations, but because of her underdeveloped lungs, there was a second side effect. She developed a nasty cough that lingered for days, and it got so bad at one point that it damaged her throat and caused her to cough up blood for a few days. It was a definite come to jesus moment for her.

The anxiety about it had started during IBS, after Bangar tried to crush her to death in order to "punish" Garrus. It took her weeks to fully recover, unable to help him as much as she wanted. She didn't have to be there, but she'd been pushing herself for so long that she didn't know how to stop. She even demanded of Zojja in the moment why she would tell her to not show weakness like that.

It just took for Gyala for her to get out of the habit of pushing herself so hard, because two brushes with death is too much for even the most stubborn little asura.

Ultimately, it comes down to her understanding her health isn't a moral failing. It's not a bad thing that she has to take breaks, that she needs mobility aids to reduce the amount of strain on her body. She built a wheelchair expressly because of the struggles she was facing.

There's no amount of pushing through it that will make you not disabled. You're only hurting yourself. She had to learn that on her own.

[pansexualkiba]

Well, let's get on with this. In no particular order:

MIRROR: I consider this the most benign, or at the very least the least debilitating. Monster A Go-Go is a truly awful film, and I never specified if the topic of conversation had to be extolling its praises. You may annoy your friends by talking about it excessively, though, so an easy workaround is letting them take the lead.

CROWN: Barely anyone refused to choose to remember Mother by Meghan Trainor or Hayloft by Mother Mother or whatever their hated songs are, but some saw that it would let them rediscover their favorites all over again. A good point. You just have to remember them.

TOME: Due to lack of space, I think my word choice confused some people. By "re-enact", I mean that you have to live through the plot of the movie Yesterday (2019) to the letter, except with Taylor Swift's music instead of the Beatles. This isn't a temporary gig, either, you're basically isekaied into the universe where you're Taylor Swift and also implied to be J.K. Rowling. So good luck to those people.

SWORD: This was not a part of the curse, but someone pointed out that casinos will throw you out if you win too much. However, what IS a part of the curse is that you cannot get ANY money that isn't won through roulette, and another important part is that the sword DOES NOT guarantee that you'll win. This is literally just a gambling addiction with extra steps.

ROSE: I only have this image to offer you, with the knowledge that only nine of these are explicit:

Also, do you wanna be known online as the Regice guy?

PAINTING: Everyone keeps treating these curses as like, a one and done deal, or a "oh this only happens every so often" NO BITCH THESE ARE CONSTANT. ALL YOUR MEALS HAVE TO INVOLVE A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MILK. Sure you'll think "Oh I already do this" no you do this on OCCASION as-is. Do you know how much time you'll be spending on the toilet? How incontinent you'll become? Have you considered that in the slightest? Enjoy your hair-trigger IBS.

VIDEO TAPE: I'll be real, THIS one was the jobber. I didn't expect anyone to pick this one because it sucks so bad. So shoutout to those who took the video tape knowing the risk. Seven days, or whatever.

NECKLACE: Everyone's choosing this one, going "Teehee this'll be sooooo quirky" or "I'm autistic so I already talk like this." No, I can guarantee you aren't talking like that. You're gonna be talking like this:

And no one will understand you. "But my native tongue isn't Akkadian!" I'm talking about the oldest form of your language known, as in Proto-Germanic type of old. To the one who said Malay wasn't that old, yes it is, enjoy speaking from the first century.

RING: Okay, so the point of this one was that you'll be pestered constantly by your family members about something they'll never get from you. This is one of those "slow burn" curses where you think you can handle it but it's essentially just a form of psychological torture. HOWEVER, it turns out that the people who flocked to this one also were the ones who were like, so vitriolically against the idea of a child that doesn't exist, that I think now that the real curse of this ring is that it reveals people who I would never want to be around, and would absolutely not trust around any child. So enjoy your jewelry, weirdos.

CHALICE: Let me break this one down for everyone who went "Oh I'm already short now I'm gonna be tall!" You say you'll be tall. You will insist that you're tall. You will not be. You will be the shortest person in the room, constantly. Everyone will treat you as the shortest person in the room. No one else will ever be as short as you, because everyone will always be at least an inch taller than you. And you'll go "oh I'm into that jokes on you" well what about everyone around you? This isn't one of those curses where everyone thinks they've always been this height. Some people are happy with their height. Some people don't WANT to be taller. They'll suddenly be taller, they'll no longer fit into their clothes, and yet you've done this to them for your own ego. Beyond that, can you imagine a six-foot baby? Yes, this includes EVERYONE. And yet, despite all this, you'll be insisting you're the one that's tall. Enjoy the cup.

[ravenousnightwind]

You know, before I got medicated, I couldn't even cuddle with my partner or feel any kind of things about him. I couldn't even feel things when I was supposed to. Depression literally took away my ability to feel. People might say: huh that doesn't make any sense. Yeah it actually does. You know why? Because depression as an illness doesn't just sometimes make you upset emotionally. It can also deaden your emotions and literally isolate you mentally from other people. It shuts off your ability to understand others and interpret things the way you would normally if you weren't having an episode.

So how come I couldn't cuddle with my partner? Well, when you have autism and adhd, apparently these effects when paired with extreme major depressive disorder, can make a person feel uncomfortable or like something is to heavy or disturbing when it shouldn't be. So I'd always feel this sense of being uncomfortable with him because maybe his leg was on me. Plus my having other issues too that were exasperated by it.

I started to develop IBS symptoms and it got to the point any time I had coffee, potatoes, etc, if it wasn't unrefined foods or foods that weren't related to poisonous plants, I couldn't eat it. Now the interesting part with this is that there is literal scientific evidence now to show the gut bacteria communicate with the brain to help you digest stuff. So if the brain isn't working in a way it should what's gonna happen? Emotions, functionality, relationships, and even your diet will all be affected.

I went unmedicated for years thinking I didn't need that shit. Well, it has affected me so badly now that it has progressed to the point I can't be a normal human without them. So when you have had depression since childhood like I have, then..it's likely by being unmedicated that the disease will cause more damage to your brain over a period of time as it cannot function. If you pair that with adhd and autism, there's also things about that which affect it negatively too. With autism the "wiring" is there but signals aren't strong enough or don't get sent out. That part whatever it happens to be, just doesn't function even though all the things for it to are there.

Interestingly enough, the brain has the ability to adapt and even repair itself. It's an organ that is very complex, but also mysterious. When we train ourselves by doing puzzles, yes, even playing games where we have to figure out what we're doing on our own, it allows out brain to make new neural connections. So matching games, memory games, etc. All that and more can help your brain heal itself over time. But it's also possible that without meds you might lack the ability to even do that. As that's where it was going for me.

Mental illness is a serious thing, you can't just beat your kids or discipline people to be better or not be a way. Sometimes it's because you can't see what's really going on. That they're actually sick or suffering from an incurable disease. And especially if you were or your child is like me? I didn't know why I couldn't do those things, like go to school and do homework etc. I just knew I couldn't it made me so tired and exhausted but people equated that to laziness or whatever.

My point is, just because you don't know. Doesn't mean it isn't real. Just because they can't find anything wrong doesn't mean there isn't something wrong. It needs to be taken as a real debilitating disease as it is instead of seen as this "you just don't want to"

[bekkii1979]

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