Apytele
@Apytele@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Prescription 8 hours ago:
so I looked into this because your comment sparked some curiosity and from what I can tell it’s less about the chemical itself and more about how your brain regulates and uses it. There’s also limited evidence as to whether GABA as a dietary supplement is even crossing the blood-brain barrier (where it would cause these effects). The other thing you need to keep in mind with most “natural” supplements is that the FDA regulates them under the F, not the D! Things like melatonin (which I even take personally) are regulated as FOOD, not DRUGS. Drugs have to
- be exactly the chemical they say they are
- in exactly the amounts they say they are per. pill.
- and as over the counter medications have to have approved safe dosages and frequencies on the packaging
- and all pills prescription or not have to have a unique alphanumeric imprint on each pill that can be used to identify it if it is separated from its packaging. Even different doses need unique imprints.
Food needs to:
- mostly probably be the thing it says it is. If it’s a plant it might be a different strain between different manufacturers.
- that plant also might have a variety of other chemical structures in it that aren’t advertised on the bottle.
- say almost whatever the manufacturer slaps on it in terms of dosage or frequency.
- have no imprint whatsoever to identify it if it’s not in the original packaging.
Like I said I use several supplements myself that even have good evidence behind them in terms of safety and efficacy. But you need to be aware of the ways in which they’re regulated differently than drugs and know that you’re gonna have to do a little more research for yourself to really find what’s going to be safe and effective for you. Finding a physician who’s educated in holistic and integrative therapies can be super helpful for something like this.
- Comment on Prescription 11 hours ago:
tbh I’m not on the research end I’m on the butt end with the people experiencing it directly (which is where I wanna be the most I wanna do is maybe teach someday) so I have empirical backup but most of my knowledge is experiential.
- Comment on The Art of Surrender 11 hours ago:
it’s wild to me that they’re considered progressive when like. my aunt is literally an old white bitch that romanticizes the kennedys as “american royalty.” Like don’t get me wrong they’re way better but like in the sense that they don’t want to just like. Shoot me. They still want me to know my place as a peasant. They’re not gonna do anything that’s going to risk them actively losing any power in the normal electional way. They’re just crossing their fingers that the other guys won’t just like. Start shooting. We’re reaching the point where it’s the dems that are regressive in that they want everything to stay the same and it’s the alt right that’s pushing for change. It’s terrifying genocidal change but it’s attractive to a certain segment of the population on the sole merit that at least it’s technically change.
- Comment on Prescription 12 hours ago:
fun fact; drugs that act on your GABA nervous system (benzodiazepines such as xanax, also barbiturates and alcohol) are the only drugs that will kill you outright on withdrawal.
Stimulant withdrawal (amphetamines, cocaine, caffeine, nicotine) causes headache, confusion, fatigue, and occasionally suicidal ideation. Opiate withdrawal (oxycodone, heroin, fentanyl), causes flu-like symptoms that can be fatal if severe enough (dehydration, GI complications) but do not kill you outright. (THC / marijuana withdrawal is the chillest, usually only causing mild irritability and appetite loss, which the others do to a much greater extent).
Benzo (and other GABA active withdrawals) causes a rebound of your nervous system’s stress and fight or flight system that cascades from extreme anxiety, then into vivid hallucinations and paranoid delusions, and finally into back-to-back seizures that eventually result in nervous system failure, hypoxia, and death.
If you begin using them at an unsustainable dose (which can cause respiratory depression and weakness of gait / traumatic head injury) you will need to be withdrawn in a either a specialized rehab with medical capabilities or if the addiction is severe enough a hospital or even specifically an intensive care unit.
This has been a PSA.
- Comment on Wacky 13 hours ago:
One of my points of pride is actually using my teeth. A light scrape or nibble dramatically increases tactile sensitivity and emotional intensity. If you know how to simultaneously integrate the tongue and lips properly you can really leverage that “crazy girl sex” that drives dudes fucking nuts. I may have had years of therapy but there’s a few holdovers just because crazy girls do it better. The other big thing is gregariousness because once you learn to use it with real day-to-day support and respect for people it just magnifies it.
- Comment on it's gonna take lots of chain falls and smooshed fingers 13 hours ago:
One of my coworkers said she loves working with me because she’s not scared of running into problems because I have the solution to 90% of what she runs into. I was like bitch. what. but then I remembered she doesn’t fight me on having to take charge nurse all the time and like. A few weeks ago she got in trouble for something one of the junior nurses didn’t handle quite right (tbh none of us would though that pt should not have been on our unit) and getting in trouble for shit other people do is exactly why I fight like hell not to be charge nurse all like. Just for you. None of you other people. If you’ve ever asked "well why can’t Apy be charge she has the most experience!??!???! Exactly. Y’all stupid and idw be on the hook for your shit. I’d rather just solve the problem on the sidelines and you can take all the credit for whether it works or not (and like 90% of the time it will so 🫅)
- Comment on Flippin' 4 days ago:
One of the interesting things I’ve found while reading through is that while there’s a lot of minor sins mentioned once each in the old testament (like mixed fiber clothing) the one commandment that is mentioned more than any other, like almost word for word with every repeat is keeping the Sabbath. And many of those repeat mentions also specify that it applies to your workers / servants as well. Even if they’re not also Jewish, it’s a sin for you as the Jewish person to not give them their rest day. Idk I just found that super interesting especially in this modern context of modern US Christianity flavored capitalism.
- Comment on How do you feel about a 25 year old dating a 46 year old? 6 days ago:
I’ve seen it before. Never seen it work out, but I have seen it.
It’s also almost universally something that the people involved cannot take outside advice on. It seems to be one of those things that must be experienced personally.
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 6 days ago:
Yeah the industry has just kinda accepted that surgeons are just like that lol.
- Comment on We're living in a comedy skit 6 days ago:
I forgot to buy a tiny dollhouse stool to put in a specimen cup and send down to the lab anyway. No one has time for the old traditions in this economy…
- Comment on Anon wonders what went wrong 1 week ago:
Not even just visual stimuli. It can be visual, sound, a vagina not gripping as hard as his hand, the fact that he always uses the exact same coconut scented nivea lotion vs finding out what actual girl sweat smells like, or even the proprioceptive difference between getting off leaning back in a computer chair supported semi-fowlers position vs actually prone on top of a partner–there are many more sensory inputs at play than one might think.
- Comment on The original Lemmy shitpost 1 week ago:
have had IBS my whole life. hearing people say this is like hearing people say they only breathe at home. they just. hold their breath. until they get back.
- Comment on It's not coming back. 2 weeks ago:
From another comment of mine on a similar post:
ADHD protip: commit to only setting up the digital workspace as soon as you get the assignment. Set up a cloud storage folder with google drive or one drive or whatever you use with:
- a copy of the assignment outline
- an empty document in the paper format, complete with title and reference pages
- a folder for reference PDFs or diagrams or quotes or whatever
Not only have I written numerous fabulously scoring assignments on my phone while taking horrifying IBS shits but also–
–one time I set this up for a group project and sent the folder out to the members. A few days later I logged in and one of the other members who also had ADHD had basically completed the entire assignment. Cannot say whether she was shitting while writing it but it’s certainly not impossible. A day after that another group member edited it and it was ready for submission five days ahead of schedule.
The neurochemistry isn’t actually averse to work, you just gotta catch it at the right angle.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Hubs gets annoyed sometimes by my attention seeking hypersexuality. He’s fond of this bit:
spoiler
- Comment on Anon makes some changes 2 weeks ago:
You can do it too much. Had an ex fuck up his nerve endings bad enough he couldn’t get off in me. Nobody’s had trouble before or after so. ¯ _(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Sitting in traffic 2 weeks ago:
The world would be a better place if people spent more time recognizing admiring skilled labor. Like even people who mostly just move and make things. The level dexterity alone is just 👨🍳🤌💋
- Comment on Sitting in traffic 2 weeks ago:
People ask me all the time if taking the bus is stressful but like. bruh I’m zoned out scrolling social media the entire time at the bus stop and on the bus. Or I’m just straight up zoned out. I don’t have to pay attention even to my own driving let alone the rest of these people. And also once in a blue moon the bus driver does something utterly wild like execute a perfect K-turn on a crowded city street in the ice without touching a single car to route around a detour (my mind was blown).
- Comment on Anon has a hobby 2 weeks ago:
Depends. The reflex can get fucked up in certain long term lung disorders or some people intentionally fuck theirs up for freediving. It’s a contraindication to gaseous nitrogen for death with dignity / MAID.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 2 weeks ago:
I agree. You gotta look at it like when a love theater actor starts pulling red scarves outta their shirt when their character gets stabbed. Obviously it looks nothing like real blood but bruh. Pipe down and enjoy the play, OK? For a while I followed somebody on tumblr who did art of what each species might look like if star trek had way more sfx resources. They were also a massive scaly LOL a looot of the art was garak/bashir
- Comment on Giving out addiction for Halloween 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on somehow i don't make any progress 3 weeks ago:
ADHD protip: commit to only setting up the digital workspace as soon as you get the assignment. Set up a cloud storage folder with google drive or one drive or whatever you use with:
- a copy of the assignment outline
- a document in the paper format, complete with title and reference pages
- a folder for reference PDFs or diagrams or quotes or whatever
Not only have I written numerous fabulously scoring assignments on my phone while taking horrifying IBS shits but also–
–one time I set this up for a group project and sent the folder out to the members. A few days later I logged in and one of the other members who also had ADHD had basically completed the entire assignment. Cannot say whether she was shitting while writing it but it’s certainly not impossible. A day after that another group member edited it and it was ready for submission five days ahead of schedule.
The neurochemistry isn’t actually averse to work, you just gotta catch it at the right angle.
- Comment on Is it weird for parents to keep saying "I love you", then asks "Do you love me?" 3 weeks ago:
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I’m not done with it but…
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 3 weeks ago:
is this? (is it just psych?)
Not at all, it originated in medical iirc
- Comment on Cursed image thread 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 3 weeks ago:
System for writing thank you notes to a nurse. They give you a little enamel pin to put on your badge that I’m not comfortable possibly accidentally losing on an acute psych unit. Then about every quarter each hospital gives an award to one of the nominations. So like, objectively, at least a few of my patients feel cared for. It’s just hard to feel that way sometimes.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 3 weeks ago:
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Yeah 10 years and a dozen Daisy noms in and I still feel like my foot is constantly in my mouth. You have to walk this horrible tightrope of remembering this is the worst day of someone’s life then emotionally file it under your 400th Tuesday. The cognitive dissonance of that alone is enough to drive you bonkers.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I feel like it’s one of those things that sounds completely insane unless you’ve been through it. A lot of it was learning how to respond to crazy but I did actually learn a few positive behaviors directly from them. You’d be surprised how much please / thank you and sir / ma’am they use. I also learned to stand a lot taller, swagger a little, and speak from my chest. Like people will comment on how much confidence I display which is wild to me being actually in my own head.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 3 weeks ago:
You know I heard a quote one time that said if you’re the smartest person in the room you’re in the wrong room. But at the same time my parents always told me whatever I did I needed to be the best at it. Like they put me in tutoring because my math skills were only one year ahead. My family is all engineers, computer scientists etc. Everybody’s a bachelor’s or above except my one sister who’s specifically disabled.
When I decided on nursing school I was like OK I’m just going to aim for something achievable for me. The content should be right at my level, at least I’ll be able to excel at that like they’re expecting. And the coursework itself was super easy. I had all the chem physics and bio I needed for the conceptual groundwork. I had all the Greek and Latin roots I needed for the terminology. Even the math was actually right on my level (basic algebra, ratio and proportion, PEMDAS equations), I just needed to up my accuracy when I had previously optimized for speed.
But they absolutely humbled me in people skills and emotional resiliency. I actually flunked out the first time for being too emotionally immature. They made me cry on the regular and I just couldn’t get a grip on what they wanted from me interaction wise. It was actually my first shitty job at a psych hospital + going through therapy simultaneously that fixed me. It’s wild to say but I feel like the literally criminally insane men I was working with taught me better people skills than my parents did. I learned so much about respect and what it really meant to uphold a promise through adversity and how to keep my stupid mouth shut.
So. I thought I was aiming low, and I still wound up being the dumbest person in the room.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Dr. Marijuana Pepsi Vandyck
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Was just talking about something very similar in another community LOL
