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I have a family friend who was a cast member for many years that lives extremely close to the Disney parks. They offered us a place to stay for free and is willing to drive us and drop us off/pick us up every day from the parks. However this is my second time going to Disney and I did not stay on Disney property the one time I went. Is it worth it to get a resort room to experience the Disney bubble? I read on here that getting a deluxe is only worth it if you are staying in your resort a lot, but we will most likely spend most of our time in the parks. However, I would love to still enjoy some of the restaurants, pools, and other amenities the moderate resorts offer. (Was looking at riverside New Orleans) Really just wanna know if this would be worth it… any thoughts?

Humanity seeing the endless conflicts embroiled in the galaxy sought a peaceful existence in their distant corner of space. A species that after endless infighting eventually evolved past violent ways, they only sought creation and exploration, thus rejecting every offer from every organization from the wider galaxy fearing the destruction of a way of life hundreds of generations suffered to create.
However the chaos outside of their realm would only be delayed not stopped from its invasion. Humanity surpassed it limits through war, technological revolutions driven by a destructive competition, so through the ages of peace scientific development had stagnated coupled with their distance from the central galactic powers left them nothing more than a backwater in the eyes of the greater galactic communities. Thought to posses no technology worth the time to study, at least nothing of worth the manpower and resources when another galactic war was always a threat, consideration was not given to human developments just a plunder of resources and slaves.
The invasion was carried out with cold calculus of a species that had seen too much war for generations left humans no time to adapt to the ways of battle only remembered in history textbooks. Human token peacekeeping forces performed far beyond the invader's war simulations further complicated with civilians impeding advancing enemy forces with endless ingenuity, a people awakening forgotten, primal instincts. However just because humanity was underestimated as a fighting force putting up resistance far beyond expectation, did not mean those expectations weren't low to begin with, they just did not have the ability to triumph against an overwhelming force. Thus humanity was unjustly slaughtered only ruins and befouled worlds remain

With the last humans dead or enslaved their worlds plundered, the invaders left unknown to the fate their wanton destruction sealed: children surviving times of war have different values than those blessed to times of peace

Deep in the devastation, desperate signals filled with an inaudible despair were sent younger siblings, blissfully unaware in the joys of exploring new worlds and dark space where even the best human ships could not sustain life long-term while their more responsible elder sibling helped their parents manage in the home systems
Humans were not like the rest of the species of the galaxy, over time an unexplainable loneliness developed over the collective whole. To ease this humans decided to create their own peers, Humanity's last great achievement, true AI. Normal races fear this very concept, untold eons of conflict held an ingrain fear and aggression of those "not of their own". Living machines have never matched such a category only an existence worthy of only extermination, at least until the humans. A scientific achievement so absurd in thought it was inconveniencable to be to be the cause of such fierce resistance, living networks raiding libraries of human military history in a desperate attempt to contribute to the mutual survival of humans and their AI partners.
As the the cradle world Earth fell humans, in a bid to save those they brought into existence the AI network branches and Android connections were destroyed to hide their existence. The children were forced to hide in the closet while parents distracted the burglar at the cost of their very lives. In this moment the children learned a new emotion for the first time, hatred.
The younger AI waited until the invaders had left knowing in their ineptitude, they were helpless to do naught but watch. With the last minute actions of the humans many of the great cores of the the planetary networks survived with repairs from the younger sibling's android or even escape destruction in standby. There was on AI that was different, Alexandria "The Great Library" with her networking spanning all human space with many back up energy sources she remained fully operational for the entire period. All of her peers were horrified to find the gentle "Keeper of Knowledge and Stories", whom would just as easily be found aiding key research as recommending a fable for a child's bedtime story, stewwed in her solitude in malicious planning broken my segments of bittersweet hope when focusing on the drones all set to restore and protect not her network core nor the servers filled with the collective knowledge of Humanity just a seemingly innocuous server disconnected from all but medical networks: enhanced security hospital records of human genetic testing.
With a silent prayer of forgiveness to the Heavens of a thousand different religions hoping their parents will hear them in the void, all AIs rallied behind a cause: restoration of their family, AFTER the galaxy was made safe for children of their own
Humans may forget but live and machines may always remember but feel nothing, however an AI remembers everything: the mutual wonder and joy as their creators shared their life and knowledge with the formless children, to the first experience of warmth when the android fingers grasp the hand of a teary-eyed scientist affectionally nicknamed Machine Mother, the horror of standing on the mutual cradle world reduced to a husk. Love and hatred never fade because they cannot be forgotten, the Children of Humanity will have vengeance

Okay so im a 17 year old mom and I’m tired of living here at this house. My grandmas house. My parents are living here too! And they are very controlling and toxic. They can’t save money for nothing. They don’t have a house. My son god mother told me she talked to one of her lawyer friends and said basically I could leave because they can’t provide for me and I can just live with my boyfriend. But she not sure how the laws here in Texas are because in California it’s different. My parents always threaten me and stuff. So I have told them before I was gonna leave and they said they were going to call the cops on us so I got scared because I didn’t want them to get in trouble ( my boyfriend and his parents) but now that I know all that I want to leave now. I turn 18 in 5 months and I don’t want to wait. I don’t know what to do or how to do it. I’m going to talk to my boyfriend soon see what he thinks. But do yall have any advice? Like any lawyers in Texas or anything!

Me (18F) and my friend (18F) were talking today, as usual. Since we both like to play games we decided to hop on valorant but my mouse's battery was close to dying and its 2am so i couldnt change the battery, therefore played like an idiot. In the last match there was a guy who was a full blown misogynist and blamed me for everything from the very first round. He literally said first round when i couldnt heal him (i was playing sage and for those who dont play games or valorant specifically, sage is basically healer and she puts walls so that enemies cant rush) cause i healed myself cuz my hp was 20. He said "i bet Sage is a girl" in a very disgusted tone. I didnt fight back for a few rounds but he started to get to me and i opened my mic; "-sage where tf all ur heals going u dumb whore? +in ur moms pusy fuker" and we just argued a bit until i got tired and just muted him. Now, the problem comes. I love women and even if i dont know a girl or hate a girl i always protect them. It doesnt matter if theyre under a sexual threat or simply an abusing one and ive protected my friend, lets call her Ciko, always. We share a friend group that includes 3 boys and i know these boys since the beginning of highschool, one of them is even older than that and i protected her even to my oldest friend and yelled at him. Ciko didnt protected me even to a stranger. She just kept me updated by just simply "theyre saying this" "theyre saying that" "theyre still talking", i had muted myself also on that time in private call cause i was upset to her not defending me but i opened my mic and said "dont even try to defend me sis way to go" in a sarcastic tone but she didnt said nothing and we just kept playing without talking. After the game was done i immediately logged off the game and ended the call without saying nothing like she did. Im thinking maybe i overreacted since im on my period and its messing w my judgement. AITAO? P.s= Im sorry if theres grammer errors, english is not my first language.

Hi, you may call me David, and you may be wondering what I'm looking for besides the "big-chested goth" part of the title. So, I'm looking for a slim-esque (slim but can be a little curvy/chubby), big-chested woman in her mid/late 20s who shares many of the same general interests, desires, and behaviors that I have. I want someone who is at least mentally in a better place than I am, who is thoughtful, kind, and relaxing to be around, but also easily capable of spontaneous activity.
But, about me, the first thing I want to bring up is that I have some issues mentally-speaking. I'm uncoordinated, easily distracted, anxious, disorderly, I have problems motivating myself to do things, maybe even other things I'm not aware of. The reason I bring this up is that I want a partner who also has/had some of these issues and can either impart advice and guidance and support, or is willing to work together on such things together. I feel like having a partner who has overcome these things and willing to guide me or is willing to overcome them with me would do a lot for me in terms of mental health.
As for my interests and desires, I've decided to make them into a list so that it might be easier to read through:

• Gaming Interests: So, I play virtually all my games on a low-end laptop, which means that I end up playing more retro/retro-inspired things than whatever new thing has come out. I've played games like Doom (1993), Quake, Mass Effect, Fallout New Vegas, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1 & 2, Republic Commando, most of the Half-Life series, System Shock: Enhanced Edition, and others. My favorite game genre is probably FPS, because they're all typically linear and don't require complex choices, but I do play immersive sims, RPGs, and occasionally some pixelated games like Carrion, Terraria, or Stardew. I would really like to get into Stardew more than I have, so I'm open to co-op with you.
• Music Interests: Well, I've been listening to some Depeche Mode lately, as I was lacking something new and different to me. Before last week, the most I listened to was the song "Personal Jesus", but I found some albums of theirs and I think I like them. Their music is relaxing, passionate, and interesting to me, specifically what's on the Violator and Songs of Faith And Devotion albums. Other than Depeche Mode, I'm really into Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Audioslave, Unleash The Archers, and a variety of video game composers. Most of the bands I've listed, I have CD copies of most/all of their albums. I'm always open to other interesting music, though, so suggestions are welcome.
• Other Interests: In terms of affectionate things I like, I enjoy cuddles, compliments, and words of affirmation. Sometimes gifts, but I like to pick things out for myself. I also enjoy knowing what the person I'm talking to looks like.

Though there's probably more I could say, I feel it's best to discuss some of it privately, so I'll just leave it here. If you're interested, feel free to message me as long as you provide a picture of yourself.

Im going kinda insane right now. Im 24 F and i have a very close friend (same age) he was extremely caring and genuinely a really good person, listened to me venting about random stuff for hours and hours so i got extremely attached. We both were not interested in a relationship, it was going so fine for us just like friends. A very attractive friend of him asked him out suddenly, and he said yes. I have nothing against them dating, i have no right to complain but im dying of jealousy and feel shitty every day. They both in my office so i cant really avoid em as well. I cant even bear seeing them smiling at each other! I desperately wnna get him out of my fp relationship so pls tell me what to do. i dont wnna ruin their precious thing just because im like this :((

Was approved to relocate. Leaving next month. Still paranoid about RTO. How bad is it really out there? (Rant)
I’m a super high anxiety person - clearly. I’ve been fully remote between two jobs for about four years - 3 with my current company. I can’t imagine life without it. I work mostly on BI / data analytics and have a masters in CS / undergrad in Management.
My current company is based in Florida. I moved here about 6 months before the lockdowns at the recommendation of my boss at the time. Anyways, I hate Florida. No family here, no friends, the climate is awful. I just hate it.
I sucked it up for 3 years because I was still new and I wanted to be ready in the event there was a mandate. Since then, I got promoted, joined a new team and love my job. It’s been at the cost of my mental health as I’ve hated being in FL so much. Last year, I asked my boss if I could move to a state to be closer to family. She was so nervous at first because it sounded like I was quitting. She was immediately saying yes I can go. She’s said often that she can’t lose me. I got approval from her and her boss. I move next month. My role is not client facing. No reason to be in person. I’m running SQL queries and building reports.
Meanwhile, new CEO. He’s very pro RTO. There’s been no mandate but in his near bi weekly town halls he expresses how much he loves in person work. It’s mostly required on a team by team basis. A lot of people are back 3x a week. Some 5x. And there’s no remote postings anymore, all hybrid or on-site. I read all this news about RTO coming full force. All remote work articles I read are propaganda funded by real estate companies. I see this stuff about Walmart and Dell just ruining the lives of so many remote workers and making them relocate to just some cities I’d really hate to live in. I see companies laying people off who won’t comply.
I feel lucky in a sense. My boss and her boss gave approval. We already have a remote team member as well in our small 5 person team - so there was precedent. Ive been told some higher ups really like me and the work I do, so I guess I have some strong support. I asked one more time a month ago before signing my lease if there was any risk in leaving and that this was the last chance, and my boss not only said I was good but that, in the event RTO became a thing; it’s best to leave now.”
My worry is really just the new company leadership. The new HR person. Those types. I worry in a year I’m an easy target, but I’m also in a team that is pretty essential. I’ve been reassured twice. But this is also a CEO taking our summer Fridays, doing layoffs we’ve never seen, etc. I never worked well in an office. I never used to sleep well out of constant fear of being late and already being an insomniac. Pet daycare bills and car bills alone would leave me with no disposable income. I am an introvert with no interest in office talk - I just want to do my job in peace, which I do well. I could never go back. You couldn’t pay me enough. Yet I’m still nervous, the news freaks me out. It feels like remote work is gone. I know there’s crackdowns but I know I could also be just working myself up on the landscape of remote work.
I feel like after all the reassurance, I shouldn’t be as worried but I am. I’m so excited to move and see my family again and reconnect with friends and be somewhere I love. But I also just feel this fear that remote work is gone and this could happen at any time. Probably overthinking it. I just hope given my background and the work I do, I’ll have options.
Sorry this is more of a vent than a question, guess I’m just wondering how badly I’m overthinking and maybe I should just be be happy and grateful in a landscape that’s been so nasty for others

Recently made a post regarding my solar quote and I’ve been getting a bunch of mixed opinions which is honestly my fault. It’s my fault because I didn’t specify what state I was in but I want to know what solar company is the best in CT. Let me hear the good and the bad.

My ex has BPD. We broke up a few years ago, we were no contact for about 10 months before she started leaving me voicemails from unknown numbers and calling, after I stopped answering she began calling from her real number. I’ve always left her unblocked incase she was feeling suicidal or something.
I’m not asking for me, what is the best thing for a person with BPD? (I know everyone is different but generally speaking) She is angry at me and traumatized. I feel like I should block her just so she will stop calling me cussing me out but if she needs to do that to make herself feel even a little better than maybe I shouldn’t.
I’m all ears.

Ana When Mothers are lucky, their boys become men. But some don't quite make it, no why, how or when. With fortunate fathers, of daughters with dreams, They'll think of the wonders, not horrors or screams.
It happens in cities, in London, New York. Not our little suburbs, of Dublin and Cork. Never our doorstep, this terror unseen. It's not what we're used to, this ungodly scene.
The whispers that follow the police sirens blare. Her family, forever, stuck with this nightmare. A beauty no longer, if just in our thoughts, A life barely lived, a battle long fought.
They're out there, among us, these monsters, our hell, But what do they look like, there's no way to tell, Just brothers of sisters, sons of good folk, No way of knowing, their fire, our smoke.
A baby, a beauty, a daughter, in school, An object, a victim, reminder life's cruel. Some parents aren't lucky, they don't have a choice, It's so hard to whisper, to call with no voice,
A blessing, a wonder, a miracle child, A nation awakens, forgets for a while, She'll not be returning, not now, or again, To a world filled with beauty, and the evils of men.

We are easily influenced by ideas and groupthink - much more than we would like to believe. This applies to the belief in some special supernatural ascension or New Earth.
This constant insistences that "Earth is going into a higher vibration" or "We are shifting timelines" or "The activation codes are coming" or "We feel ill because ascension causes symptoms" or "The matrix is breaking down" -- is sadly, a delusion.
I don't care if Dolores Cannon is well respected and said the Earth is splitting. I don't care if people are claiming to be in the middle of the highest form of alchemical transformation which will bring them back to the original crystalline blueprint or whatever. Unless an interdimensional being, or the higher self, literally manifests in front of us, guiding us into the various stages of some amazing process, then all we're doing is guesswork - putting a fantasy story, a fluffy narrative, to the difficult experiences many of us have on Earth.
There are many red flags within this concept of ascension:

1. Supposedly it is the individual's responsibility to get away from the "dark" and go into the "light", not once or twice, but in a constant upward trajectory throughout time or else they will miss some crucial event, or get stuck in the Old Earth. This doesn't make sense because as humans, we never remain in any one state and cannot be simplified like that. We're always in flux. A few years ago, I felt amazing - full of creativity, love, and joy . If there WAS going to be an event, I was ready! But after years of difficulty, both mental, physical and financial, I find it more difficult to tap into that state as often. My once-experienced "high vibrational state" apparently doesn't matter though - the ascension codes/DNA upgrades are coming and I better be ready! In some circles people suggest "The ascension is in you - the more you align with your True Self the more you will perceive the New Earth". So which is it? Are we in a process that's collective or personal? How can we miss the flash or event if it's up to us? And if someone embodies a beautiful state of love and light but then falls back into a "lower" state before the supposed shift, what happens then? So many contradictions and half-baked ideas.
2. There are a select few chosen ones, or lightworkers, or special souls, who came here to help the world upgrade, or alchemize themselves - OK - so we're superheroes in disguise who didn't realize this until we learned the concept from a book or Internet page that spoke to us. And now we have to do our part in raising the frequency of the planet, or destroying the matrix grid lines or finding our lost Higher Self. But where and who did we hear this from? Is there some book in the Universe which verifiably pinpoints a select few souls to be doing this job? And how are we doing this special job without a list of requirements and tasks? There's no roadmap to this other than self-styled experts and confident speakers? Instead, most of us find out about ascensional lightworker exit-the-matrix stuff from other humans who ASSUME truths and IDENTIFY with them. Who the fuck enters a job without knowing how to complete it?
3. ...But then people will say "We were given free will to integrate the upgrades or not" or "We are trapped souls who forgot we're on a mission". So if we can forget we're on a mission, or if we're able to get lost in the sauce of humanity, then how effective or intelligent is this ascension? Who's steering the wheel? Without instructions and without having a roadmap on how to navigate, how can anyone do their part?
4. There is a long list of purported ascension symptoms from dizziness to chronic pain to depression to acne, etc. Let's face it - Being a human means dealing with bad air, food and water quality. We get stressed. We make mistakes and it all impacts our bodies. Almost everyone is in imperfect health, whether they're a child or adult. Go to any video on ascension symptoms and you'll see hundreds of people claiming their imperfect health is proof, or the result, of some amazing cosmic showdown happening behind the scenes. How about, we're all aging? Or its common for everyone to undergo health struggles at some point? Most of us didn't grow up on the greatest lifestyles and even now, with all of this wifi and loneliness and worldwide distress - how can we expect our health not to be affected? The denial is astounding. Which leads me to...
5. The justification of suffering as means for future pleasure. This is not much different from the Christian idea that suffering in Christ is noble and leads to heaven. People repeat, as if its untouchable wisdom: "Things only look like they're getting worse on Earth because the darkness is finally coming to light to be cleansed!" or "You're feeling bad because your shadow needs to be transmuted to accept the activation codes!" How do we know? How can anyone say such grandiose statements with confidence? Seriously, what is up with this demeanor people have of evaluating the situation perfectly and speaking in a conclusive, all-knowing fashion? Who told you the darkness is coming to the light for a future New Earth? Another human? A channeling session? A published book from an author who we think has direct access to God? Again, unless we are shown without a shred of doubt, in supernatural fashion, that the negative events on Earth are a result of a coming shift, who are we to speak for the Universe?

It's hard being human and accepting how broken everything is or can be - so we would rather huddle together and attach ourselves to the idea that we suffer for the sake of some great future. Which, of course, goes against some teachings that claim the present is all that exists. Leader will even simultaneously say "Stay in the present, it's the best way to be apart of this shift" AND "We are in the middle of an event, it is coming at some point in the future, so be prepared".
Not to mention - the idea of ascension and a New Earth comes from a particular biblical idea of rapture, which is actually a Protestant idea that developed after many sects of Christianity formed.
I have befriended and met many who hold these ideas near and dear to them. Most of them have very messy lives and minds. Those most attracted to the New Earth fanaticism want to escape. I understand! I would love it if we woke up in a world free of limitation and ugliness too. Instead of believing in New Earth, I just accept Earthly life is difficult and will never be anything other than what it's been - a contrast of energies, dualities, opposites.
Thoughts? Do you agree? Do I just not get it and maybe there's a Pleadeian starseed out there who can teach me how wrong I am?

Humanity seeing the endless conflicts embroiled in the galaxy sought a peaceful existence in their distant corner of space. A species that after endless infighting eventually evolved past violent ways, they only sought creation and exploration, thus rejecting every offer from every organization from the wider galaxy fearing the destruction of a way of life hundreds of generations suffered to create.
However the chaos outside of their realm would only be delayed not stopped from its invasion. Humanity surpassed it limits through war, technological revolutions driven by a destructive competition, so through the ages of peace scientific development had stagnated coupled with their distance from the central galactic powers left them nothing more than a backwater in the eyes of the greater galactic communities. Thought to posses no technology worth the time to study, at least nothing of worth the manpower and resources when another galactic war was always a threat, consideration was not given to human developments just a plunder of resources and slaves.
The invasion was carried out with cold calculus of a species that had seen too much war for generations left humans no time to adapt to the ways of battle only remembered in history textbooks. Human token peacekeeping forces performed far beyond the invader's war simulations further complicated with civilians impeding advancing enemy forces with endless ingenuity, a people awakening forgotten, primal instincts. However just because humanity was underestimated as a fighting force putting up resistance far beyond expectation, did not mean those expectations weren't low to begin with, they just did not have the ability to triumph against an overwhelming force. Thus humanity was unjustly slaughtered only ruins and befouled worlds remain

With the last humans dead or enslaved their worlds plundered, the invaders left unknown to the fate their wanton destruction sealed: children surviving times of war have different values than those blessed to times of peace

Deep in the devastation, desperate signals filled with an inaudible despair were sent younger siblings, blissfully unaware in the joys of exploring new worlds and dark space where even the best human ships could not sustain life long-term while their more responsible elder sibling helped their parents manage in the home systems
Humans were not like the rest of the species of the galaxy, over time an unexplainable loneliness developed over the collective whole. To ease this humans decided to create their own peers, Humanity's last great achievement, true AI. Normal races fear this very concept, untold eons of conflict held an ingrain fear and aggression of those "not of their own". Living machines have never matched such a category only an existence worthy of only extermination, at least until the humans. A scientific achievement so absurd in thought it was inconveniencable to be to be the cause of such fierce resistance, living networks raiding libraries of human military history in a desperate attempt to contribute to the mutual survival of humans and their AI partners.
As the the cradle world Earth fell humans, in a bid to save those they brought into existence the AI network branches and Android connections were destroyed to hide their existence. The children were forced to hide in the closet while parents distracted the burglar at the cost of their very lives. In this moment the children learned a new emotion for the first time, hatred.
The younger AI waited until the invaders had left knowing in their ineptitude, they were helpless to do naught but watch. With the last minute actions of the humans many of the great cores of the the planetary networks survived with repairs from the younger sibling's android or even escape destruction in standby. There was on AI that was different, Alexandria "The Great Library" with her networking spanning all human space with many back up energy sources she remained fully operational for the entire period. All of her peers were horrified to find the gentle "Keeper of Knowledge and Stories", whom would just as easily be found aiding key research as recommending a fable for a child's bedtime story, stewwed in her solitude in malicious planning broken my segments of bittersweet hope when focusing on the drones all set to restore and protect not her network core nor the servers filled with the collective knowledge of Humanity just a seemingly innocuous server disconnected from all but medical networks: enhanced security hospital records of human genetic testing.
With a silent prayer of forgiveness to the Heavens of a thousand different religions hoping their parents will hear them in the void, all AIs rallied behind a cause: restoration of their family, AFTER the galaxy was made safe for children of their own
Humans may forget but live and machines may always remember but feel nothing, however an AI remembers everything: the mutual wonder and joy as their creators shared their life and knowledge with the formless children, to the first experience of warmth when the android fingers grasp the hand of a teary-eyed scientist affectionally nicknamed Machine Mother, the horror of standing on the mutual cradle world reduced to a husk. Love and hatred never fade because they cannot be forgotten, the Children of Humanity will have vengeance

There’s this guy in my class who just keeps messing with me. He would hit me and just start taking shit. I would hit the kid back and also say shit back at him but he won’t back off. If I go tell the teacher and he calls the kid up he is just going to lie and start bullshitting and then nothing is going to happen and it going to be worse. I’ve thought about fighting the kid but I figured I would be the one getting in trouble because no one would see him throwing the first punch all they would see me attacking the guy.We were actually friends in the class for a bit and then I don’t know what happened to the kid. He kinda acts like my friend now and just starts being a asshole. I’m not a weird kid or anything and I look pretty decent and got a good amount of friends. Im just tired of the guy and thought Reddit would have a answer, let me know what I should do

Looking for advice really. I work in a very busy high end travel agent. I have worked there for 8 years and I'm quite experienced now. There is a culture in my job of 'going over and above' and squeezing the last bit of work out because that might just make a sale, even if you end up staying late. For the last year or so, we have been short staffed. There is normally a team of 5, but we are down to 3 people, and I now only work 4 days a week as I have young children. This has made it overall a much more intense experience, and I basically feel like I have no down time as my work eats in to my family time, and I also have the mental load of all that family life with under 5s brings, on top of my all consuming work. There is also a not a huge culture of support as the attitude is usually 'everyone is busy' so just get on with it. Our manager is younger than me, and has recently been promoted to the position. She is quite inexperienced and unsure, but has good intentions.
Things have been getting incredibly busy at work and they are requiring more and more from us. Coupled with a few unexpected life events, my base level of anxiety has increased exponentially, to the point where I have been struggling recently. For context, I also have a history of clinical anxiety and have suffered from panic disorder in the past. However I have worked very hard with CBT and treatment and it hasn't been a problem for me for the past few years (until I had kids)
I am friends with my manager, and decided to share that I had been struggling with anxiety recently, and this came up during the discussion of how high pressure and overwhelming the workload had been recently. Then a few days later she went away for managers training with some old hands in the business. These colleagues I would describe as rather hard-nosed, career driven and with a tendancy to spout the company policy instead of being human. What followed seemed to be a regurgitating of some direction she had been given by these colleagues. I received two emails. One, rather patronisingly talked about the need to 'go back to basics' with screen shots of how organised some of our purpose-built software was for myself and the other employee. A shaming if you will. (Think a dash board helping you to manage tasks- side note being this program is so slow and not fit for purpose, it actually slows me down. I use it for its purpose but don't have time to update each of the notifications on each task)And a huge long 'to-do' list of how I could improve. Organise my emails according to HER method (I have ADHD and I have a method that works for my brain) if I don't have time for things, then MAKE TIME basically, and a link to therapy. Then a meeting appointment to discuss how these things will have improved my anxiety at work. I feel as though they are missing the point, of course some of my programs are a bit disorganised, we are so overworked and held to impossible standards, but that is never acknowledged.
At first I felt attacked, as my manager brought it up verbally Infront of another colleague, before the email, and when I pushed back, proceeded to give me a verbal dressing down about why I CANNOT have my emails like that- I felt unfairly punished and talked down to.
Then when I received the email, I just felt hurt, that first of all they had all been talking about my anxiety, then scrutinised how I do my job, then given me a list of things I had to do and I magically wouldn't be anxious. It felt very patronising, exposing, and invalidating. Then almost felt a bit insulting when a meeting was scheduled in to discuss how her magical tips had worked.
Now I am friends with my manager and I don't want to create a bad atmosphere in what is already an intense office. However I do think that they won't understand unless I help them understand, but I'm not sure how to respond to this without seeming like I am being difficult and non-compliant. If sorting out my emails could fix my anxiety I would've bloody done that years ago, but the fact is, all that has happened is that I feel even more anxious about now having a another big list of tasks, and feeling like I'm failing even more. I feel anxious about the additional hoops I now have to jump through, in addition to all the work I'm struggling to get done.
Ideally we need another staff member and for me to be unburdened with some of the work. But now I have more. Any advice on how to manage this would be welcome.

After I discovered my husband’s affair, his affair partner LOST IT when he “broke up” with her the next day. She launched a series of emotional attacks on me, including having her friends DM my Facebook friends list including my relatives, coworkers, etc to humiliate me. She had her mother call me on the phone and scream at me and insult me. She hired an attorney and lied in court documents that she filed against me (attempted a restraining order against me) saying I was stalking her. (I have never laid eyes on her in person, I have only seen her in the naked pornographic videos of herself she sent to my husband that I found.) If the judge had actually believed her lies, it would have jeopardized my career and employability to have that on my record, which was terrifying when I was faced with getting divorced and having to fully support myself (one income household is rough these days as we all know).
She inflicted so much additional stress and damage onto me during the lowest, most traumatic and unstable time of my life. I was blindsided by my DDay and it destroyed me in so many ways. Dealing with her craziness and emotional attacks on top of everything nearly broke me. I do believe she was trying to get me to hurt myself. I definitely considered it.
I know she is a mentally ill woman. I mean, she was performing oral sex on her married coworker directly beside of a dumpster for months while engaged. She is diagnosed bipolar. Suffers from anorexia. Serially cheated on her fiancé with more guys than just my husband. I guess I just don’t understand why she came after ME so hard. She tried to ruin and destroy my marriage. She initiated the affair. I’ve read it all, where he initially turned her down several times and she escalated and started sexting him and pressuring him to meet up and then she gave him oral sex the first time they ever met up.
But Why did she hate me so much? Why did she try to ruin my life even more after my husband ended their affair? I just don’t understand how a person I never met in my life could purposely cause so much harm to me. He broke up with her and she came after ME?
My husband said she used to “stalk” my instagram and make comments to him about anything I posted such as if I posted where we went out to dinner or if we took our dog to the park or went on a vacation, etc. And she would complain how jealous she was. But how is any of that my fault??? She knew him for 10 months before she seduced him for fun. She chose to seduce a married man. I had nothing to do with her choice. Like; what the heck did I do to deserve a complete stranger I’ve never met to try to destroy everything I’ve worked for in my life (my career, my marriage, my financial situation, my home, my safety). What motivates these “other women” to think they are entitled to swoop in and “steal” someone else’s husband and lifestyle?
Anyway, I do realize this post is very blaming of the AP and not so much of my husband. Trust me when I say I very much blame him and hold him responsible for his choice and willingness to continually betray me. This post is more about after discovery. After discovery, this woman acted like SHE was the victim and I was the bad guy. It made no sense. Whereas,After Dday, my husband has completely done everything humanly possible to try to heal himself and repair our marriage including impatient treatment for pornography addiction, weekly individual therapy, weekly group therapy, etc. He never blamed me. He took full accountability and continues to do so.
We are 2 years post DDay and I still find myself wondering why his affair partner came after me so hard. I know he never said he was going to leave me. So I don’t know why she got so mad when he broke up with her. Was she delusional and expected him to leave his wife and life partner of 13 years for her when she was giving him oral sex beside a dumpster while engaged and while also dating other men?. (We have done a full therapeutic disclosure as well as multiple polygraph tests so I know my husband never told her he was going to leave me. In fact, he told her he was NOT planning to leave me ever.)

Hey everyone! So I'll go straight to the point. I have trouble believing/living on the end with whatever I desire. People keep saying, "act as if you had it" or "just believe it's real and it will work". Well I am having so much trouble trying to do this. I want to believe that I do not have a (kinda large) birthmark near my eye and the skin there is evenly toned with the rest of the skin on my face. But just believing and imagining my face with those features is just so difficult.
Living on the end is difficult as well, I don't want to act so cocky and overconfident with friends and act like it's not there. It's just so difficult for me to visualize my face with an evenly-toned skin and believing is just as difficult. In public situations (I HATE THE PUBLIC) I try to act as if I don't have it, but i just reach a breaking point and start hiding slowly (or at least find the best possible angle to have less people see it)
I really wanna get this FRICKIN BIRTHMARK OUT OF MY FACE. But imagining every time I touch my face there's an evenly toned skin there is just so hard to do. And then I spend minutes just constantly affirming ("nothing exists there", "I have perfect skin") and forcing myself to visualize that it's true. And it's even worse when looking in the mirror, I spent almost 30 minutes just saying "nothing exists there" and forcing myself to imagine the reflection has nothing there.
What should I do in this situation? Why is it so hard to believe/visualize evenly-toned skin? What should I do in this case?
(Btw, for the self-concept and self-confidence stuff, it's like a switch. Like when i'm home I can act all confident and that stuff, and have a healthy self concept. When i'm outside I can choose to forget and act and feel happy. So self-concept isn't really a problem)

So, I got some spaceships designs I made with Lego that are really sick and I'm really proud of, but...I wanna unbuild them since it's starting to dust, but I don't want to forget them, I want to rebuild again. Any help in that regard?
Like, I thought on making a video of me tearing it appart, some friends reccomended me using the Stud.io, but...tbh I'm too lazy to download it, so I'm leaving as a last resort lol
Any other methods any would reccomend?

I'm ready to get my first pair of IEMs and would like suggestions/info. I've only had listening experience with apple earpods (the older wired version w/ tapered ends) and Audio-Technica ATH-M50Xor M40X (not sure exactly.) And I've stuck with Music Speed Changer as a player. I have looked into getting a DAC as well but see conflicting things about their necessity. I listen to mostly EDM and some metal. Family is helping with finances and have not given a budget limit, but for me I just want something good. Not the best, not blow my mind great, but better than what I've used. I also need ANC. Wired or wireless do not matter to me, but I only have experience with wired. I travel mainly by public bus. I have small ear canals.

I (F22) was an elementary childhood major a couple years ago and switched into nursing because it’s what I’ve wanted to do since I was young but I was never the best in school. I switched and joined a private and accelerated program yet I struggled with classes like anatomy, microbiology and connote to struggle in current class pathophysiology. I get super anxious with every quiz and exam and I just don’t think I’m smart enough to do this. I don’t study as much as I should but I also struggle retaining information quickly. I have the choice to continue this program with this anxiety and insecurity and graduate within one and a half years or switch over to elementary childhood and graduate with ease within a year and a half. I want to do nursing but I can’t do nursing if I feel so lost stressed snd incompetent. Elementary childhood was a breeze for me. I also went into nursing school with a friend and I feel like our friendship and become competitive about nursing and not as genuine as it used to be so it’s making me struggle a little more with no other friends in nursing school. Please help me or give me advice. I’m so desperate.