celeste
@celeste@kbin.earth
- Comment on HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE AND WHICH COMMUNITY TO POST IN.....????? 2 days ago:
There are a bunch of different kinds of places that all link together! Lemmy is a bit like reddit, Mastodon is like twitter, Mbin does the twitter and reddit thing mashed together, pixelfed is like instagram, friendica is like facebook- and so on.
https://jointhefediverse.net/join?lang=en-us
Maybe this will help?
- Comment on What is up with the trend of naming pets after food? 2 days ago:
I think it's an easy naming scheme when you have a litter of puppies to try and adopt out.
- Comment on HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE AND WHICH COMMUNITY TO POST IN.....????? 2 days ago:
What are you interested in? I bet people can link you to some communities you might like, if you can't find some just browsing.
Mastodon has microblogging, like twitter/x and bluesky, if you're interested on that! Lemmy is more about finding communities on topics and posting in them.
- Comment on If a person assassinates a king or queen its called Regicide. What is the killing of a leader/president/head of state etc? Why is it called that way? 1 week ago:
Magnicide, maybe?
- Comment on What It’s Like to Live With One of Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Diagnoses 1 week ago:
Interesting article about dissociative identity disorder. Thanks for sharing!
- Comment on Resources for small community resistance? 1 week ago:
https://commonslibrary.org/ I think a first step might be searching here for "toolkit" or specific topics. I remember seeing a lot of useful zines and posters and guides around the internet, and if you're interested I can try to track them down, but this site might have what you need.
This can also be a useful resource:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/special/index - Comment on This Common Infection Was Thought to Affect Only Women. Now Doctors Know Better. 2 weeks ago:
Bacterial vaginosis can be sexually transmitted. It's worth reading the article and getting the details. The headline is just really annoying.
- Comment on Do old people still remember their childhood? Do people just start losing their memories and their sense of self as they get older? 3 weeks ago:
I have an earliest memory that I wonder if it's just my memory of me recounting it at this point. And another memory of being attacked by a dog that I believe was a dream that got mixed up with reality because the neighbor's dog scared me. 'Memories of memories' seems accurate the further back I try to remember.
- Comment on Is there a self-help way to deal with fear of germs/"contamination"? 5 weeks ago:
You can probably start with careful exposure therapy. I'm not sure how to do that with germ phobia. I dealt with a fear of spiders by reading about them and looking at pictures until I stopped feeling disgust/anxiety. I then just kind of noted and moved on when I saw one in real life. These days I see a spider and can even move it if it's in a bad spot without feeling anxious.
Not knowing your triggers, I can't say if that path would help or make it worse.
https://fherehab.com/learning/germophobia-treatment This could be useful for learning terms so you can look up and find reviews for self help books.
For my social anxiety, I started out getting books from the library about that specific phobia. It took a lot of time to get from there to telling my doctor I was anxious all the time, to medication, and then therapy. I doubt I'll ever be free of it, but I can do a lot of things now I once couldn't (small talk with customers? wow!)
It kind of has to be guided by you and the specifics of your phobia, unfortunately. Like, would looking at a picture of a dirty surface for five minutes a day make you anxious? Just a little, or a lot? If a little, try it. If a lot, scale it back further. Hopefully someone with a similar phobia comes around with more relevant advice. Good luck?
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 2 months ago:
No, but it's something I've heard other people describe. I don't know if it's common, but it doesn't sound odd.
People at church when I went as a kid would talk about a sense of feeling guided. People talked about feeling "called" to something. I always felt a lot of nothing, but I don't think most of them were lying about that feeling, even if I suspect a different source than they did.
- Comment on The best games of 2025, picked by NPR's staff 2 months ago:
Search on their site shows best of year lists going back to like 2011
- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 2 months ago:
It's not fast, unfortunately, but I was prescribed a high weekly dose by my doctor and it did seem to help eventually. The long time it takes means I'm left wondering if I feel better because of the vitamins, or something else, but I do feel better.
https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/long-vitamin-d-work-3555995/
Research has found that vitamin D insufficiency resolved with 12 weeks of weekly high-dose vitamin D.
Unfortunately, when your D is really low, you should up the dosage to get a noticable change, but too much vitamin D can be dangerous so I wouldn't recommend it without finding out what your levels are. When I was checked both my vitamin D and iron were low, which is why I was sleeping constantly and still feeling fatigued.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
"power user" is such a kind way to describe that, thank you!
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 2 months ago:
Looking at what I have now, it's a mix of tasks I don't want to forget to do, a long article I was reading but felt i wasn't absorbing, some fanfic I am probably going to read in the next couple days plus the rec list I got them from, a podcast I'm still midway through for when I'm driving, an article for a work thing I'll need tomorrow, a couple dnd race pages open as I'm making a character for a new campaign, and two bsky people who post interesting articles on the daily so I read them daily. Some stuff is bookmarked, but if I'm using it in the next week, it stays in tabs.
They all get closed when I'm done with them, but new things get rotated in. I'm at my max now, but it's rare I have under five open. It's a to-do list, basically, and there are always new things to do, and read, and think about, and learn. Bookmarks are for when I want to save a link to look at much later. Like, webcomics I've caught up with, artists I like, utility pages, resources, etc.
I used to be "worse" because I had fun in the early 00s generating link lists for character fan pages. It involved opening every relevant link on an already vetted and tagged page, and then checking each one (and opening pages from their links if they turned out to be relevant). When I finished a character, I'd start on the next, so I'd have one or two hundred open most of the time. I lost interest, eventually. The impulse to link to relevant topics still exists in me, however, which is a big reason I'm on this website.
- Comment on Why is ethanol so tasty? 2 months ago:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/why-do-humans-have-a-taste-for-alcohol-43579
The theory in this article is that ethanol indicates a higher caloric density in fruit, which makes that fruit more desirable when you're struggling to get enough to eat. I have no idea if this is true, but it's one possible reason I guess.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
The first sleep paralysis episode I had I was convinced the whole time I had died and was in this weird ghost zone where I could hear people and see a bit, but couldn't move. Fucked me up, too, though in my case I was scared of sleeping for a while. It doesn't sound as bad as your experience, though, damn.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
I think it's an NSAID? That's a "use with caution" situation, then. The salt water gargle is something I forgot about. I'm glad I posted this question. It's reminding me of all the stuff that's helped before in case the coughing gets worse.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
Yeah, I know any sleep I get with the booze, it won't really help. I wish I didn't know that, though. A hot toddy sounds nice, but...ah, well.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
Oh, pineapple! Whew. I was like "i don't think pine and orange would mesh well...but if I feel really sick..."
Spicy food does sound like a good idea!
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
Oh, duh, I even have an electric kettle and I've just been staring into space and sipping soda. I must be really out of it.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
I should keep a pack of weed gummies on hand and keep them in a nyquil box for times like these
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
That sounds amazing
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
I remember reading an article years ago about how little good cold medicines actually do against the illness, so I'd already been mostly avoiding them. Except when I'm too congested or coughing too much to sleep. Then I miss them SO much.
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
They might distract me!
- Comment on What do you do when you have a cold and can't take medicine? 2 months ago:
Cough suppressants and nasal decongestants, apparently? I can take antihistamines but I try to avoid them.
Hm, I do have whiskey, but I wonder if I still have honey left?
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- Comment on Did y'all ever felt curious about your parent's past? If your relationship with parents isn't close, how does one get their parent's story without making the interaction awkward? 2 months ago:
My family's always been pretty open about answering family history questions. Even delighted I took an interest. The times when I was hesitant to ask it involved "scandals" like why a cousin is so much older than the rest of us. But when I asked, they'd just tell me. So I don't have any suggestions if they're always hesitant or angry about answering.
We used to look through old pictures when I was young. That was a good time to ask questions. Do they have any old photos you can ask about? You can say you want to copy some into a family album for yourself or future kids.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 2 months ago:
If there's nothing interesting to look at, I just continue the plot of the story I'm telling myself. Some people just enjoy a meditative silence, but I'm not one of them, either. I might look like it though.
- Comment on Has anyone here ever doubted if your parents were your "real" parents? Is it normal to have these weird thoughts? 3 months ago:
I always looked too much like my parents, but your concern sounds like something worth addressing. Would a dna test help?
- Comment on If someone evil want to murder a lot of people, couldn't they just add prions to meat and slowly infect everyone with Prion Diseases? 3 months ago:
No, I'm fairly certain the few dementia cases were Alzheimer's. Anxiety disorders do run in my family, though! On both sides.
Thank you for the reassurance.