Some background, like the title says 27M and have been in relationship with my girlfriend with suspected BPD for a little over 2 years. We moved in together fast about 4 months in, I know don’t come at me, but she seemed solid. Had a job and owns the house we live in. She’s slightly older than me, 28. She had a really rough childhood, trauma, moving all the time, a lot of poverty and abuse (she doesn’t say much what happened to her but talks about her siblings and it’s implied that things were so bad they are unspeakable and she’s very damaged from it). Her biological father is in prison but she didn’t have any contact with him growing up yet she is still very affected by this fact. She has received large sums of money from him prior to his prison sentence. She is, I feel, intentionally vague about the details of all of that (except for when she’s angry and venting where the details change to serve her victim narrative).
I’m exhausted by how different my relationship is from the healthy relationships of my friends. My friends who can go to a concert with their friends and without their girlfriends obsessively checking up on them, or guilting them for going in the first place. My friends who can have lunch with their girlfriends without an abrupt cessation of eating because she’s suddenly triggered and is going to go throw up her food (or covertly threaten to). My friends whose girlfriends can show up to a hangout without having 5 layers of video-game-girl makeup and a wig styled to “perfection”. I’m tired of playing dad, therapist, boyfriend, and bestie to an adult woman with such a weak core sense of who she is that she bends and warps her body and her mind into what she *thinks* I want when what I *actually want* is to be with someone who can simply exist in her own skin and see the world as it really is. See past her own insecurity to actually see me and not whatever projection her trauma is informing her worldview with at the moment.
She can’t be alone. She is insufferable if I do something for myself, without her. She believes she needs to supervise me and make her presence known so that other girls (threats) don’t come onto me. She “knows” that I think other women are cute or beautiful and that I’m “only with her because I know her”. As if this pathologically insecure personality of hers is her winning asset. She’s plenty pretty, and the sex is amazing as you all already know, but even that appeal is lessening due to her intense neediness. She takes my not being in the mood as rejection. She wants sex because she feels bad about herself and needs to feel wanted, regardless of what I want or need. It’s all a reflection of HER. HER needs. HER insecurities. I’m suffocating like there’s no room for me to exist in this relationship. She sucks up all the air in any given room.
She’s obsessed with “thinspo,” body modification, and plastic surgery. I have tattoos myself and do find them attractive on a woman, but I believe she is using tattoos and piercings as self-harm. I hate to say it but I’m starting to question the legitimacy of her eating disorder as she is the attention-seeking type. The attention seeking didn’t used to bother me and I used to be ok with caring for hesoothing her, but she’s just getting worse over time and needing more.
Her spending is out of control and she can’t keep a job. She got herself fired from her job this year because she couldn’t keep her head down enough to keep a paycheck. At a job she was lucky to have (not technically qualified for) and exaggerated to the point of lying on her resume to get into. She now has her own business, which despite my own job is “our” gig in an attempt to future-fake and keep me stuck with her. I can’t say much about the business without giving away too much indentifying information. But there is a lot of frustration here. I am expected to do so much for this business and while I support her, I don’t want this for myself and I do have my own work. She spends so much money she doesn’t have on “the business”. She asks me for money for “business things” which also happen to be expensive hobby gear or the newest iphone, making a case for needing it for social media promotion or whatever else excuse. She can’t tolerate due to her childhood poverty being “without” anything she wants. She has thousands in debt which she finds a way to blame on her parents too (she is estranged from them).
I believed the lies and exaggerations that she was better off than this and more capable than this. But she’s coming apart and I’m not enough to hold her – or us – together. If I stay, I’ll continue to be miserable. If I leave, I’ll be just another asshole who abandons her. And that’s how every story ever ends, she says. Everyone always abandons her. She doesn’t get that she’s the reason. She really believes in her victimhood. She lost a significant friendship last year and I was fully on her side, convinced she was wronged. Now that I’m feeling the weight of knowing her long-term, I honestly kind of get it.
There’s so much more I wanted to write but I’m exhausted. I’m angry. I’m thinking about my future, and I don’t think I want one with her. This has been fun (well it was...) and I care about her, I really do, but I don’t think I can keep doing this.

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So I live in Ireland and my wife and I made friends with a girl from New York through work.
She stayed with us for a few days when stopping off in Ireland on 2 occasions and we got on like a house on fire. We talked about wanting to go to New York some day and she was adamant about getting us over to stay with her and her BF and she would show us the best of new york.
My Wife and I saw this as a motivator get the ball rolling and finally visit new york for 7 days. Nearly 2 years later, we flew over the new york and our friend picked us up from the airport to go to her apartment in Brooklyn. We were so excited.
We finally met the boyfriend who was a bit aloof and smoked alot of weed. On the first day, she said she was tired so we thought that's fine as we just flew 7 hours too.
The bed we stayed on was actually a pull out couch that was so uncomfortable that we slept on the mattress on the floor.
On the next morning, I got up and asked for some toast and she said there was no bread, so I had to find something down in the corner store that looked somwhat nice for my wife and I.
The friend knew how much we wanted to see new york (all the tourist sights too) but only decided to get moving into the city in the evening around 5pm on day 2 for a show downtown that I had booked and paid for the week before.
Once the show was over ($260 in total including food and tip) the friend couple looked to go back home but I suggested a stroll toward midtown. They agreed if we stopped for drinks on the way. The whole thing felt a bit off but we tried to make conversation and was excited by the city around us.
On day 3 my wife and I decided to take the same route to the city as our friend's were not making an effort to get ready, even though she was talking about the different places we could see together across the week to come the nights before.
I suggested a last minute hotel in the city in private to my wife to be closer but she thought that was a bit disrespectful to our New York friends.
When our friend was with us in Ireland she was cooked a breakfast everyday, food deliveries were made every evening and her clothes were washed, all at our expense.
When we were in the apartment in Brooklyn she would come in with snacks and not offer us anything and we were using the same towel in the shower since we arrived (3 days) also. The vibes were strange.
My wife had enough of sleeping on the floor among the several cats and agreed we should move into the city. We packed up on morning of the 4th day and broke the news to them.
For the rest of that day after we left and checked into the hotel ($700 lighter) my anger towards them had ramped up and I was stewing with resentment but the problem was that we had paid plans with them the following evening (the only plans they kept)
As soon as I saw them the following evening my blood was boiling and I didn't speak to them for the whole evening, not one word.
My Wife was making conversation as she noticed my silence and was giving me secret looks.
I felt bad but I literally couldn't think of a single thing to say and felt I owed them nothing at the same time to make things more comfortable.
I felt like a child but I really couldn't snap out of it. They suggested a late cabaret show, I bowed out to stay back at the hotel and my wife went for a few hours and got a cab back to the hotel.
The rest of our time was amazing but the holiday was tainted as we had to cram everything in that we originally wanted to do. We were meant to see them on the last day but were so tired from catching up that we cancelled and never saw them again. The friend was meant to bring us to JFK bit was mot bringing it up in the messages to my wife so I figured out the route by train.
I kinda wish I had faked the effort but at the same time wanted them to feel awkward as they seemed so oblivious overall.
Sorry for the long post but going to New York was always a dream of ours and feel a little cheated out of what should have been a completely positive experience in an amazing city and it cost around 5k in total too.
I would love to hear some thoughts if you made it this far. Thanks for your time.

To make sure there's no point missed: the Man Vs. Bear is an argument to established that women feel more safer amongst wild animals then a man found in a forest, it exists as a hypothetical question, due to the around 8 billion worldwide population, thousands of cultures with varying degrees of trafficking, sexual assault and rape with the average making the choice of a wild animal that's a fractured of the human population more "safer" choice
This is where I believe this mindset is designed to lead a pipeline.
First of all, the individuality that it invalidates:
To me, the OP, is a rape victim. I was molested by a women around the age of 5-6, I was also Sexually assaulted by a few women, and due to my mother who was single and always moving she ended up being an abusive mother.
Unfortunately, I have never gotten much empathy, I was told to shut up when I vocalise it or told the very thing that comes off dehumanizing.
"Rape is a men's problem, therefore still yours"
"Blah, blah, blah. Shut up."
"You probably enjoyed it."
"Your probably faking it for validation"
And the sad part to that, is I'm not alone: https://twitter.com/ultr69violence/status/1786487182514901029?t=WG7fmzDijgjwPwcZWst0qA&s=19
This Tweet resorts back to the Man vs. Bear debate and this guy is dismissed.
And an often trope I see by the Bear choosers is "Men always find a way to make this about themselves"
That's like "We're talking about you, not to you"
Which essentially justifying mean spirited demeanor.
Check the replies to this one:
https://twitter.com/StarrtoonArt/status/1786565963107664286?t=F5lbkVMddJnpVvhRwvHaMA&s=19
When there's some who decides Man, she's labelled as a "pick me" which is the only time individuality is used, but is often used in poor faith and ad hominem attacks
Passion can never make someone toxic, but passion can make someone toxic.
And in my argument that I want to be challenged, is that passion has lead down the pipeline where male rape victims have been bullied and dehumanized by this debate.
And these have been actively ignored or targetted for dismissal and collectivism has been prioritised over the life's that are being standardized as the "us vs them" rhetoric.
Individuality has been bastardized, and ruined because of debates that are too surface level.

Everything in my inventory is up for trade. The most valuable items are listed here, the rest you can find in My Inventory

Feel free to Add Me or even better send a Trade Offer. Open for any suggestions: upgrades, downgrades / knives, gloves, skins / stickers, patterns, floats.

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KNIVES

★ Butterfly Knife Lore (Factory New), B/O: $7194.77

★ Butterfly Knife Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2025.74

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★ M9 Bayonet Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $557.87

★ M9 Bayonet Stained (Well-Worn), B/O: $529.41

★ M9 Bayonet Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $465.39

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★ Talon Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $1295.27

★ Bayonet Tiger Tooth (Minimal Wear), B/O: $746.28

★ Karambit Bright Water (Field-Tested), B/O: $688.15

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★ Flip Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $547.93

★ Flip Knife Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $476.69

★ Flip Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $278.18

★ Flip Knife Black Laminate (Well-Worn), B/O: $258.83

★ Flip Knife Urban Masked (Field-Tested), B/O: $181.64

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★ Stiletto Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $686.04

★ Stiletto Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $665.41

★ Stiletto Knife, B/O: $601.39

★ Stiletto Knife Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $418.25

★ Stiletto Knife Night Stripe (Field-Tested), B/O: $227.80

★ Stiletto Knife Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $194.96

★ Stiletto Knife Safari Mesh (Field-Tested), B/O: $192.79

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★ Nomad Knife Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $518.11

★ Nomad Knife Scorched (Field-Tested), B/O: $169.78

★ Nomad Knife Forest DDPAT (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $166.88

★ StatTrak™ Nomad Knife Blue Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $335.79

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★ Skeleton Knife Stained (Well-Worn), B/O: $442.05

★ Skeleton Knife Urban Masked (Minimal Wear), B/O: $426.24

★ Skeleton Knife Boreal Forest (Field-Tested), B/O: $314.03

★ StatTrak™ Skeleton Knife Fade (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2361.28

★ StatTrak™ Skeleton Knife Urban Masked (Field-Tested), B/O: $376.53

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★ Ursus Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $557.12

★ Ursus Knife, B/O: $471.42

★ Ursus Knife Blue Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $212.37

★ Ursus Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $187.66

★ Ursus Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $178.18

★ Ursus Knife Ultraviolet (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $155.13

★ Ursus Knife Boreal Forest (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $124.26

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★ Huntsman Knife Black Laminate (Minimal Wear), B/O: $204.83

★ Huntsman Knife Black Laminate (Field-Tested), B/O: $184.50

★ StatTrak™ Huntsman Knife Lore (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $224.11

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★ Bowie Knife Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $2142.02

★ Bowie Knife, B/O: $230.44

★ Bowie Knife Damascus Steel (Factory New), B/O: $209.20

★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet (Minimal Wear), B/O: $180.51

★ Bowie Knife Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $131.03

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★ Falchion Knife Night (Field-Tested), B/O: $132.54

★ Falchion Knife Urban Masked (Well-Worn), B/O: $112.81

★ Falchion Knife Scorched (Field-Tested), B/O: $108.81

★ Falchion Knife Forest DDPAT (Field-Tested), B/O: $107.82

★ Falchion Knife Safari Mesh (Field-Tested), B/O: $107.46

★ StatTrak™ Falchion Knife Ultraviolet (Field-Tested), B/O: $143.08

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★ Paracord Knife Crimson Web (Minimal Wear), B/O: $486.48

★ Paracord Knife Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $163.12

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★ Survival Knife Blue Steel (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $138.26

★ Survival Knife Night Stripe (Field-Tested), B/O: $131.03

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★ Gut Knife Sapphire (Minimal Wear), B/O: $1127.79

★ Gut Knife Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $286.17

★ Gut Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $246.55

★ Gut Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $240.77

★ Gut Knife, B/O: $210.49

★ Gut Knife Lore (Field-Tested), B/O: $194.22

★ Gut Knife Case Hardened (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $151.51

★ Gut Knife Blue Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $124.94

★ Gut Knife Rust Coat (Well-Worn), B/O: $118.99

★ Gut Knife Boreal Forest (Minimal Wear), B/O: $109.80

★ StatTrak™ Gut Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $237.96

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★ Shadow Daggers Gamma Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $264.92

★ Shadow Daggers Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $253.03

★ Shadow Daggers Tiger Tooth (Factory New), B/O: $237.22

★ Shadow Daggers Crimson Web (Field-Tested), B/O: $153.40

★ Shadow Daggers Autotronic (Minimal Wear), B/O: $144.42

★ Shadow Daggers Blue Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $105.20

★ StatTrak™ Shadow Daggers Damascus Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $150.46

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★ Navaja Knife Fade (Factory New), B/O: $365.99

★ Navaja Knife Doppler (Factory New), B/O: $228.93

★ Navaja Knife Marble Fade (Factory New), B/O: $227.43

★ Navaja Knife Slaughter (Factory New), B/O: $209.06

★ Navaja Knife, B/O: $203.16

★ Navaja Knife Case Hardened (Well-Worn), B/O: $132.57

★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Factory New), B/O: $121.69

★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Minimal Wear), B/O: $109.95

★ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $100.41

★ StatTrak™ Navaja Knife Fade (Factory New), B/O: $369.01

★ StatTrak™ Navaja Knife Damascus Steel (Field-Tested), B/O: $109.95

GLOVES

★ Sport Gloves Amphibious (Minimal Wear), B/O: $2394.67

★ Sport Gloves Omega (Well-Worn), B/O: $572.33

★ Sport Gloves Bronze Morph (Minimal Wear), B/O: $338.88

★ Sport Gloves Big Game (Field-Tested), B/O: $323.66

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★ Specialist Gloves Marble Fade (Minimal Wear), B/O: $1652.07

★ Specialist Gloves Tiger Strike (Field-Tested), B/O: $599.14

★ Specialist Gloves Crimson Web (Well-Worn), B/O: $231.57

★ Specialist Gloves Buckshot (Minimal Wear), B/O: $126.21

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★ Moto Gloves POW! (Minimal Wear), B/O: $996.99

★ Moto Gloves POW! (Field-Tested), B/O: $383.31

★ Moto Gloves POW! (Well-Worn), B/O: $276.00

★ Moto Gloves Turtle (Field-Tested), B/O: $180.28

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★ Hand Wraps CAUTION! (Minimal Wear), B/O: $502.29

★ Hand Wraps Giraffe (Minimal Wear), B/O: $180.73

★ Hand Wraps CAUTION! (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $178.32

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★ Driver Gloves Queen Jaguar (Minimal Wear), B/O: $181.01

★ Driver Gloves Rezan the Red (Field-Tested), B/O: $101.66

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★ Broken Fang Gloves Jade (Field-Tested), B/O: $127.88

★ Broken Fang Gloves Needle Point (Minimal Wear), B/O: $124.55

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★ Bloodhound Gloves Guerrilla (Minimal Wear), B/O: $127.94

★ Hydra Gloves Case Hardened (Field-Tested), B/O: $102.55

WEAPONS

AK-47 X-Ray (Well-Worn), B/O: $478.95

AUG Hot Rod (Factory New), B/O: $425.83

StatTrak™ M4A1-S Hyper Beast (Factory New), B/O: $413.95

M4A4 Daybreak (Factory New), B/O: $309.51

StatTrak™ AK-47 Aquamarine Revenge (Factory New), B/O: $305.43

AK-47 Case Hardened (Well-Worn), B/O: $196.38

StatTrak™ M4A4 Temukau (Minimal Wear), B/O: $174.64

P90 Run and Hide (Field-Tested), B/O: $167.03

AWP Asiimov (Field-Tested), B/O: $153.33

Souvenir SSG 08 Death Strike (Minimal Wear), B/O: $140.00

M4A1-S Printstream (Battle-Scarred), B/O: $124.70

StatTrak™ M4A1-S Golden Coil (Field-Tested), B/O: $117.48

AWP Asiimov (Well-Worn), B/O: $115.97

StatTrak™ Desert Eagle Printstream (Minimal Wear), B/O: $112.96

StatTrak™ AK-47 Asiimov (Minimal Wear), B/O: $110.85

Souvenir M4A1-S Master Piece (Well-Worn), B/O: $102.42

AK-47 Bloodsport (Minimal Wear), B/O: $100.53

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My wife and I are visiting Las Vegas (from AZ) next week and staying until after Memorial weekend. Any ideas for sexy things we can do together? So far we will be doing the following:

• Moorea Beach Club - Top-optional and one of our favorite pools. Are there any other pools (Besides Wynn) that are top-optional? Bare is closed, the only other one we visited was Sapphire pool on a Sunday and was pretty lame. Wynn pool was pretty lame last time too, hardly any women took their tops off and couples were playing cards...lol
• Probably see a few shows, we've seen almost all of the adult shows. Any new ones this year?
• We've been to Palomino a couple times, but we sort of prefer women with bigger boobs like my wife. Don't care if they are fake or real...can't be picky since my wife is all implants. Any other place better than this club?

Just looking for sexy things we can do together. Right now we just plan on dressing sexy 24/7 and checking each other out! Not interested in Green Door or whatever that place is. My wife rather see naked women than a bunch of dudes.
EDIT: We aren't swingers.

Hello everyone! My girlfriend and I recently made a 4x5 camera (3D printed) and today we finally gave it a try. We took a picture of a tree as the first one, using Fomapan 100 to test the camera. However as you can see, that thing doesn’t look much like a tree. There are many variables involved in this that could have been responsible:
1) The camera may have light leaks: Unlikely because I checked the bellows with the film holder in and it showed no leaks. 2) The film holder may not be perfectly opaque: The film holder is also 3D printed (Vega 4x5 on Etsy), so it may not be as good at shielding light. However I checked this with my phone flash and it showed no visible leaks. Also, the holder has great reviews and people have been using it without issues. 3) The chemicals I used were bad: I used D76 developer by Adox, 1 bag dissolved in 1 liter of water, according to instructions. After, a stop bath and then Adox Adofix P II as a fixer. The chemicals were fresh and just mixed and at room temperature. 4) I messed up the development: Could be possible, considering it is the first time, but I have experience with C-41 which is more complex, and I didn’t do any glamorous mistake with the times (at least according to videos I saw). 6 minutes develop, quick water rinse, stop bath 1 minute and 4 minutes fixer. 5) The developing tank I used is not good: To spare time and money, I 3D printed a single-sheet developing tank from Printables (see attached pictures). The design is not great because the film tends to stick to the wall of the tube it is in. Maybe this prevented the chemicals from properly acting on the film, ruining my film when I turned on the lights eventually.
What do you think? I know it’s hard to identify the problematic variable, but do you have any idea?
Thank you!

My wife and I are visiting Las Vegas (from AZ) next week and staying until after Memorial weekend. Any ideas for sexy things we can do together? So far we will be doing the following:

• Moorea Beach Club - Top-optional and one of our favorite pools. Are there any other pools (Besides Wynn) that are top-optional? Bare is closed, the only other one we visited was Sapphire pool on a Sunday and was pretty lame. Wynn pool was pretty lame last time too, hardly any women took their tops off and couples were playing cards...lol
• Probably see a few shows, we've seen almost all of the adult shows. Any new ones this year?
• We've been to Palomino a couple times, but we sort of prefer women with bigger boobs like my wife. Don't care if they are fake or real...can't be picky since my wife is all implants. Any other place better than this club?

Just looking for sexy things we can do together. Right now we just plan on dressing sexy 24/7 and checking each other out! Not interested in Green Door or whatever that place is. My wife rather see naked women than a bunch of dudes.
EDIT: We aren't swingers.

WTF?? So why even apply if you have to decide whether you want to go or not?? Plus that stupid fake reaction to Jordy reading off her acceptance letter…cringe!! Lastly, she was the first person to apply and first person to be accepted?? Just admit your tuition check cleared the bank so you were admitted.

Hi everyone,
I used to frequently lurk on this reddit looking for some ways to deal with my case of anxiety induced OAB. I thought I’d chime and share a success story that had with my battle with overactive bladder. I just want to start with some background I’m 29m with not major medical or health complications, I’m healthy and physically active (at the time that my symptoms really cracked off I was probably the fittest I had been in my life).
My symptoms all started in August of 2022 and they came on suddenly. To set the scene it was a beautiful sunny Saturday and I had some plans to go surfing with some mates latter in the afternoon. There was some pretty good swell due at one of my favourite beaches in town and I was super exited (maybe a little nervous because it was going to be kind of larger surf that I was used to. In the morning I had breakie and a cup of coffee. I was really excited about this new coffee that I had got from the store. Immediately after the coffee I was a little anxious but nothing out of the ordinary, I thought it was nervous jitters for the surf session. Anyways my mated pick me up and we head to the beach (it was about an hour drive away). On the car trip I remember having to pee but again nothing out of the ordinary. We go surfing for about 2-3 hours, and I didn’t have to go once the entire time I was out. I get out of the water and change, and that when it all started. I went to use the bathroom and immediately afterwards had to go again (I thought it was weird and tried to go again but there was nothing…okay…). pack up the car and start driving, and the urge was strong again, stoped to go again still not much again. So I suffered for the rest of the car ride home feeling like I was going to go in my pants the whole time. It was at this point my anxiety shot through the roof and I felt like a panic attack was coming on (I had one earlier in the year so I kind of recognized the symptoms of it). I get home and try everything I can to get myself to calm down and nothing worked. The plan was to go home and then meet my friend for homemade pizza at their house (20 minute drive away). I get ready and use the bathroom and get halfway to my friends house only to have to stop and go again. I struggle through the dinner have to excuse myself once or twice to go again still there was not too much. By the end of the day I had burned 3500 calories of stress. I figured it was anxiety at the time and I hoped that it would get better in the morning.
But that urge became something I constantly had to deal with, and when I say constant I mean like I’d go and immediately feel like I needed to go again (maybe 5 minutes of relief between visits). This would lead to me having to go to the bathroom maybe 20 times a day or so. I missed out on movies, shows, drinking with my mates, had to start planning my life around bathroom access, and coffee. (At the time I would have done anything to be able to have a pint or a cup of coffee with my mated and not have to worry about my symptoms getting worse). All this worry was starting consume a large part of my day to day thinking. I mean it’s not like it a symptom that you can just ignore. Fomos and the general anxiety around whether was was going to get better This really stressed me out and made the problem much worse as time went on.
I figured I’d wait and see before going to the doctor see what was going on. After about a week with nothing getting better I decided to go see a doctor. They did some test which all came back negative, I had an ultrasound and everything was clear. At the ultrasound appointment with less than 100ml of liquid in my bladder the feeling was so intense the lady even showed me that there was nothing there on her screen (again this clued me into thinking maybe this was a physiological issue rather than physical one). They said there was nothing that they could find that was medically wrong with me but they would refer me to a urologist to give me the all clear. At this point in my mind there were not major medical issues with me, so there were two potential causes (1) anxiety and (2) a nagging injury. Re (2) I had a nagging groin injury that I sustained at the beginning of the year. I was going to pt for it and thought I could have been surfing from a hypertonic pelvic floor and that was causing the oab symptoms. I couldn’t get an appointment for several months so there was a long period of just waiting while still battling with this constant urge to use the bathroom.
After that appointment I figured I’m dealing with the injury with pt already so maybe I should try to focus on the anxiety aspect. So I tired everything that I could do to reduce my symptoms, drink less coffee, meditate (headspace), saw a therapist, stepped back my work as much as I could to get some time to relax, kept physically active (surfing running climbing multiple times a week), spent time with friends and still nothing made me feel better.
I think this was a period where I was the most stressed that I had ever been. Lets just say 2022 was a year I would not want to repeat anytime soon. To list all that I had going on (tw: cancer, suicide(friend), family member death ) :

1. I was living abroad in nz and was far from family, and my partner. My dad earlier in the year had been diagnosed with cancer and was going through treatments.
2. My really good friend attempted suicide twice (The first time I was the closest person to him and he confided in me with his intentions and everything. Probably the most stressful we ek of my life)
3. My friends mental health emergency lead to me having to move flats on short notice because I didn’t feel safe where I lived because I was threatened by my friend after calling the cops on him to do a wellness check. I went from living in boarding situation with 12 really good friends to living in a studio which was super isolating.
4. I felt afraid around the town because of these treats and made it harder to relax. Plus running which was my biggest outlet for stress and the thing that I did with my friend became to hard for me to do. It kept giving my ptsd flashbacks of the event.
5. my grandfather passed away shortly after my father was diagnosed with cancer.

(tw:end)

1. I was in the process of writing my thesis at the time and had my defence deadline approaching nearer and nearer.
2. I was planning on moving back to my home country at the end of the year which meant that I was going to loose my whole support system and have to start fresh again. I had to worry about selling most of the stuff I own (car, furniture, clothes, surfboards etc.)
3. I was also planning a carrier change from one research to a completely different field of study. I’m an academic and I wanted try something new. You either get to pick where you live or the research you do.
4. worried about jobs I was going to get when I moved back and how I was going to support myself. This is related to 8)

I feel like any one of these events would be a lot to deal with on its own. This was all coming off the tail end of covid as well, thing were starting to get back to normal but there were still periodic lock downs. I feel like it had been a year of very high constant stress and everything together overloaded me. It hasn’t been uncommon for anxiety to manifest as physical symptoms for me before. I remember earlier in the year before the oab really kicked off that I couldn’t eat food without it making me feel sick. it turns out that anxiety cracks up stomach acid and that can make you feel nauseous. The doctor was able to help me out with.
Well to continue the story I went and saw urologist and he said that everything was clear and there was nothing to worry about. Just have to wait for things to calm down, he did give me some oxybutynin that didn’t really help. Then shorty after that I had to sell everything I owned and I flew back home. I remember that flight being kind of hard, I was sad to leave the country and anxious for the new life I was about to begin. It really enhanced the symptoms that I was experiencing.
I moved back to the USA at the end of 2023 and that is when I began trying to tackle this problem in earnest. The urologist recommended that I tried bladder retraining while it was helpful to see progress it still didn’t help with the symptoms that much. I tired cbd for my anxiety and had some success. It seemed to help manage my symptoms. I moved from summer in the southern hemisphere, to the middle of the winter in the northern hemisphere and the lack of sun didn’t help my mental health.
At this point I could go maybe 30 minutes between trips to the bathroom. I didn’t have coffee, or alcohol (didn’t even dream of it). Car trips were miserable, would spend most of them stressed I wouldn’t find a bathroom. Still had the constant urge to use the bathroom. Things were not fun. Luckily I had a decent amount of money in savings so I took some time to relax while I was waiting to defend my thesis. (I think I took about 6-7 months to myself)
Okay I’m sure you all know all that symptoms and how miserable they can be. Here’s what worked for me:
First thing I’d say is go see a doctor. Reddit is great but a doctor will be able to tell if there is anything physically wrong with you. Then trust what they say. When are you a dealing with a health related thing that is related to anxiety the most important thing is to make sure that you have a clean bill of health.
Once you know nothing is wrong physically here are some ways of dealing with oab caused my anxiety:

1. Talk: Talk to your love ones about what you are dealing with. Tell them you are struggling with this medical issue and you may need to pull over and use the bathroom or disappear for a couple minutes. They will understand if they love you. I waited a long time to open up to my partner about this, and I felt a lot better after I told her what I was struggling with.
2. Face this head on: Don’t retreat still do things go outside got to shows bars the store. You will be able to find a bathroom you don’t need to worry. Remember that stuff that you love to do don’t let oab rule your life. Its going to be scary but its good to face these anxieties head on. If you start canceling events because you are afraid of bathroom access will lead to further isolation, and eventually agoraphobia (not a good place to end up)
3. Bladder retraining: This gives you a way to track progress and play chicken with your bladder in a controlled manner. You are trying to teach your brain the difference between really and fake signals. This will help you gain trust in yourself again. Remember this is gradual process.
4. Professional help. Shortly after getting back to the states I started getting professional help to deal with all the stress I had in my life. I needed somewhere where I could process everything I was going through. I got the quickest appointment I could and took the first one I could get. By involving doctors and therapist and even your loved ones you are not tackling this problem alone anymore you have a team of people helping you. Plus they can give you ideas on how to manage your stress and anxiety.
5. Headspace: In a similar vein headspace and mindfulness will help with learning how to acknowledge how we are feeling and move on. We are always going to need to use the bathroom there is no way around it and we sometimes will have the feeling that we need to go when we don’t need to. In the same way there is no getting rid of anxiety, what mindfulness does is help change our relationship with these feelings. You could try the session on chronic pain because what we are experiencing is a persistent unwanted sensation from out body like a form of pain. There is also more general ones about anxiety. I think we can borrow some of the ideas that people dealing with chronic pain use to to deal with the urges that we experience ( I don’t know how much there is to this though).
6. (a) side tangent: I saw this guy in nz who said that when people are dealing with heartache sometimes taking a painkiller (like Tylenol or ibuprofen) can help deal with the pain. Even though the pain is psychosomatic the feeling is still real, and the painkiller can actually help with managing the heartbreak. (see)
7. Medication: Trying anti anxiety meds was the biggest thing for me. What I really needed after all the stress was some mental space. For me lexapro gave me this space. I know that finding the right medication to be on can be hard and its a long process to find the one that is right for you. I’m currently on the lowest dose (5mg) and I have been taking it for about 1.5 years with little side effects (only if I miss a dose I feel a little dizzy in the evening). I know anti-anxiety meds get a bad wrap these days and I feel like there is a lot of misinformation about them. People worry that it is going numb them that they are going to feel like themselves, or that people are going to judge them for taking it, but in my case that hasn’t been my experience. If you are at a high level of stress it can help bring you back down to baseline, it can give you the space to acknowledge the things that make you feel anxious and move on. I highly recommend trying this out. I should also say here that it does take 1.5-2 months for the meds to really start working, and during that time your anxiety can increase (but its worth it!!!)
8. CBD: if you don’t want to try an anti anxiety med try CBD, it really helps with stress and I found that it was pretty good at helping with some OAB symptoms at first but you build up a tolerance to it when you are taking it daily, and it can become expensive. What I found that worked for me was around 10-15mg 3 times a day (breakfast lunch and dinner). This helped me be less stressed in the car our when I was out walking places and there was no bathroom nearby.

When this all started I didn’t ever think I was going to be able to enjoy a cup of coffee again or go to a bar and have a pint and drive home with out a worry. After working at this for the last 2 years I’ve been able to get to a place where I can have a coffee and then go for a long car ride and have no symptoms. I’m able to go to a triva night and enjoy a beer without having to get up every 10 minutes to use the bathroom. I’m able to sit through meeting without having to leave 3-4. I’ve been able to give a 1 hr long talk to a large group of people (something I wouldn’t have been able to do because oab at the beginning of all this) with no issues. In my experience there is no instant cure for this, don’t say this to be negative but more so to say that its going to take hard work, and there is hope. I was able to overcome this thing and so can you! I hope this helps and thanks for taking the time to read my post.

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HEY DON'T ACTUALLY LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN BRO I'M JUST LIKE YOU I GOT NO REASON
I GOT NO REASON TO DO ANYTHING WITH MY SHIT
GET OUT OF HERE, FUCK YOU, WORTHLESS SCUM, let me drop a racial slur but first lets check the list, ah you're white/white-enough so this one here fits.
I wish you could be born like me, I wish I was a real cockroach that lives on the streets, imagine the fun we would have, burying eggs in your brain like my dialect has.
 
It's okay to murder you if you tried to murder me first, so because you tried and it hurt I will hurt you back,
I'll sneak around the outside and twist my wicked knife deep inside.
Because it's not about reciprocation it's about what I can get away with, it's all OPTICS BABY THAT'S ALL IT IS, I'm just a WORM(GUSANO) THAT LIVES IN YOUR TITS
 
Imagine the real me behind the eyes, the narcissitic pessimistic pest that rests and wriggles in doubt, clouded by clout,
blinded by the dollars of your endless gaze, the haze, the miasma that sneers behind my $15000 veneers.
"I'm fake, it's okay," I tell myself when I look in the mirror, "everyone else is too. I wish I could reach inside and touch you, like how I touch myself at night." and imagine my surprise when my inner voice whispers from behind my eyes and tells truth that it knows that they know and I know that they know oh no it's a spiral,
why did I ever want to go viral?
 
What did I ever want in the first place? I'm a schizophrenic armchair delusionist rapid heartbeats bare my breast constitutionalist. I wish I had more than words. I wish I had more than what I see. I wish I was free from this limited eternity.
 
t. Dust

Hope ya'll are doing well. Just wanted to make a post to see if anyone has every been involved with Validus or knows about it. Mid 2023, I was recruited to what I feel is an MLM scheme called Validus by 4 people I knew. I was invited to a meetup about it. They talked about the opportunities of a 3x return and sold that whole typical lifestyle garbage. I cringe so hard when I look back at this but I invested a decent amount of money into it. They even pulled up the ASIC page and said "see this is what others do because they don't wanna see you succeed" I know I know I'm so embarrassed to have fallen for it. But they showed a lot of their meetups in Dubai and all the wealth surrounding the team (Saudi crown family, etc, which I'm pretty sure was faked) For a couple weeks, the payouts were as promised weekly. Getting a "membership" reward as well as a "loyalty bonus" for not withdrawing. On paper it was accumulating nicely, and after a few months I stopped checking and honestly forgot about it. Fast forward to 1 week ago, where I have around 10 weeks left of 60 weeks. I was going through my notes and came across it, so decided to login and see how it was doing. On paper, I stopped being paid weekly since January 2024, but the amount that had accumulated so far has been just a bit higher than my initial investment. However I did a bit of digging around and see that there's no option to withdraw and upon further research found out the company essentially went dark. Tried contacting the people that had got me in to no avail. I graduated end of last year and now luckily have a high paying job, so I'm not too concerned about the loss of money. It was a lesson learnt due to my own faults. But I'm writing this up to see if anyone else had any experience with them.

1. If I could withdraw whatever it shows on my account, it'd be nice, if not, it is what it is. Is there any way to get the investment back?
2. Are there any repercussions for companies like that?

Any thoughts would be appreciated if shared, I'm quite invested in this whole topic now after this experience. It's less about the money and more about the fact that the people who got me in pretty much deleted everything; mutual friends also said they haven't heard from them in a while. Quite interested to know other experiences about this.

Hope ya'll are doing well. Just wanted to make a post to see if anyone has every been involved with Validus or knows about it. Mid 2023, I was recruited to what I feel is an MLM scheme called Validus by 4 people I knew. I was invited to a meetup about it. They talked about the opportunities of a 3x return and sold that whole typical lifestyle garbage. I cringe so hard when I look back at this but I invested a decent amount of money into it. They even pulled up the ASIC page and said "see this is what others do because they don't wanna see you succeed" I know I know I'm so embarrassed to have fallen for it. But they showed a lot of their meetups in Dubai and all the wealth surrounding the team (Saudi crown family, etc, which I'm pretty sure was faked) For a couple weeks, the payouts were as promised weekly. Getting a "membership" reward as well as a "loyalty bonus" for not withdrawing. On paper it was accumulating nicely, and after a few months I stopped checking and honestly forgot about it. Fast forward to 1 week ago, where I have around 10 weeks left of 60 weeks. I was going through my notes and came across it, so decided to login and see how it was doing. On paper, I stopped being paid weekly since January 2024, but the amount that had accumulated so far has been just a bit higher than my initial investment. However I did a bit of digging around and see that there's no option to withdraw and upon further research found out the company essentially went dark. Tried contacting the people that had got me in to no avail. I graduated end of last year and now luckily have a high paying job, so I'm not too concerned about the loss of money. It was a lesson learnt due to my own faults. But I'm writing this up to see if anyone else had any experience with them.

1. If I could withdraw whatever it shows on my account, it'd be nice, if not, it is what it is. Is there any way to get the investment back?
2. Are there any repercussions for companies like that?

Any thoughts would be appreciated if shared, I'm quite invested in this whole topic now after this experience. It's less about the money and more about the fact that the people who got me in pretty much deleted everything; mutual friends also said they haven't heard from them in a while. Quite interested to know other experiences about this.

Hope ya'll are doing well. Just wanted to make a post to see if anyone has every been involved with Validus or knows about it. Mid 2023, I was recruited to what I feel is an MLM scheme called Validus by 4 people I knew. I was invited to a meetup about it. They talked about the opportunities of a 3x return and sold that whole typical lifestyle garbage. I cringe so hard when I look back at this but I invested a decent amount of money into it. They even pulled up the ASIC page and said "see this is what others do because they don't wanna see you succeed" I know I know I'm so embarrassed to have fallen for it. But they showed a lot of their meetups in Dubai and all the wealth surrounding the team (Saudi crown family, etc, which I'm pretty sure was faked) For a couple weeks, the payouts were as promised weekly. Getting a "membership" reward as well as a "loyalty bonus" for not withdrawing. On paper it was accumulating nicely, and after a few months I stopped checking and honestly forgot about it. Fast forward to 1 week ago, where I have around 10 weeks left of 60 weeks. I was going through my notes and came across it, so decided to login and see how it was doing. On paper, I stopped being paid weekly since January 2024, but the amount that had accumulated so far has been just a bit higher than my initial investment. However I did a bit of digging around and see that there's no option to withdraw and upon further research found out the company essentially went dark. Tried contacting the people that had got me in to no avail. I graduated end of last year and now luckily have a high paying job, so I'm not too concerned about the loss of money. It was a lesson learnt due to my own faults. But I'm writing this up to see if anyone else had any experience with them.

1. If I could withdraw whatever it shows on my account, it'd be nice, if not, it is what it is. Is there any way to get the investment back?
2. Are there any repercussions for companies like that?

Any thoughts would be appreciated if shared, I'm quite invested in this whole topic now after this experience. It's less about the money and more about the fact that the people who got me in pretty much deleted everything; mutual friends also said they haven't heard from them in a while. Quite interested to know other experiences about this.

Hope ya'll are doing well. Just wanted to make a post to see if anyone has every been involved with Validus or knows about it. Mid 2023, I was recruited to what I feel is an MLM scheme called Validus by 4 people I knew. I was invited to a meetup about it. They talked about the opportunities of a 3x return and sold that whole typical lifestyle garbage. I cringe so hard when I look back at this but I invested a decent amount of money into it. They even pulled up the ASIC page and said "see this is what others do because they don't wanna see you succeed" I know I know I'm so embarrassed to have fallen for it. But they showed a lot of their meetups in Dubai and all the wealth surrounding the team (Saudi crown family, etc, which I'm pretty sure was faked) For a couple weeks, the payouts were as promised weekly. Getting a "membership" reward as well as a "loyalty bonus" for not withdrawing. On paper it was accumulating nicely, and after a few months I stopped checking and honestly forgot about it. Fast forward to 1 week ago, where I have around 10 weeks left of 60 weeks. I was going through my notes and came across it, so decided to login and see how it was doing. On paper, I stopped being paid weekly since January 2024, but the amount that had accumulated so far has been just a bit higher than my initial investment. However I did a bit of digging around and see that there's no option to withdraw and upon further research found out the company essentially went dark. Tried contacting the people that had got me in to no avail. I graduated end of last year and now luckily have a high paying job, so I'm not too concerned about the loss of money. It was a lesson learnt due to my own faults. But I'm writing this up to see if anyone else had any experience with them.

1. If I could withdraw whatever it shows on my account, it'd be nice, if not, it is what it is. Is there any way to get the investment back?
2. Are there any repercussions for companies like that?

Any thoughts would be appreciated if shared, I'm quite invested in this whole topic now after this experience. It's less about the money and more about the fact that the people who got me in pretty much deleted everything; mutual friends also said they haven't heard from them in a while. Quite interested to know other experiences about this.

Hello /AnimeFigures, and welcome again to the Bootleg Megathread!
Please use this thread to post any and all questions you might have regarding counterfeit figures. This includes questions such as “Is my figure a bootleg?” and “Can I trust this seller?”.
Remember to be as detailed as possible when asking for help. Provide clear pictures (ideally, multiple) or a link to the item you’re looking to buy, depending on what you’re asking. Let us know why you think this might be a bootleg, or why you don’t trust this seller. Also keep in mind that different types of figures vary in quality. For example, a prize figure won't have the same level of detail or quality as a scaled figure.
As bootlegs are a serious problem for anyone who enjoys collecting, we are also happy to provide you with a few tips to spotting them yourselves. We encourage you guys to practice these tips before posting here.

For figures you already have:

• Examine your retailer. Are they known to sell counterfeits? Keep in mind that all retailers on the sidebar are approved by /AnimeFigures, and do not sell bootlegs.
  
• Was the price far lower then the current average?
  
• Check MFC for known counterfeits. If a figure has any there will be red text indicating so on that figure’s listing. Click on the red text to see pictures of the bootleg.
  
• Compare yours to the counterfeit and the user pictures- Do not compare yours to the prototype. (Comparison tip: Start with the hair. I usually find that the be the easiest place to spot differences!)
  
• Look for poor quality paint jobs, materials, or sculpt work (lots of "coloring outside the lines", shiny skin, missing textures or gradients, ect).
  
• Examine the box. Some bootleg boxes are very easy to spot, and some- not so much. Look for a holo sticker of authenticity.
  

Past Bootleg Megathreads can be found here, for reference only. Please be sure to only post in the current one.

For figures you're looking to buy:

General Tips:

• Examine your retailer. Are they known to sell counterfeits? Keep in mind that all retailers on the sidebar are approved by /AnimeFigures, and do not sell bootlegs.
  
• Is the price far lower then the current average?
  
• Check item descriptions carefully. Bootlegs may be listed under fake brands rather than the known manufacturer. They may also contain descriptions like "China version" to avoid admitting that they are fake; similar weasel-word terms include "hand-made" (and its often-associated "item size may vary") and "colors may differ on your screen".
  
• Check MFC for a shop review listing.
  

Ebay Checklist:

1. Price.

• Again. Seriously, have I mentioned that yet? Insanely low prices should be throwing up some serious alert signals.

2. Look for pictures of the actual product, that the seller took.

• A lot of sellers like to list their items with the official photos put out by the manufacturer. Check MFC if you're unsure of what you’re looking at. If the pictures under "official" on MFC are the same as the ones on eBay, then they were not taken by the seller. Some sellers are just lazy and don't want to take pictures for every listing, but some use that as a trick to make you think you're getting an official item, when you're really going to get a bootleg.
• When in doubt, ask the seller for pictures of the actual product. If they ignore you, or say they can't do that, move on to a different listing.

3. Check their feedback.

• Look specifically for feedback where the buyer received a bootleg. This is usually going to be in the "negative feedback" section.

4. Check where it ships from.

• eBay is really good about letting you know where an item is shipping from. If it ships from China, that's a bad sign.

Frequently Asked Bootleg Questions:

1. Is AliExpress a good website to buy from?

• No, stay away from AliExpress. As far as figures are concerned, they only sell bootlegs.

2. How about Wish? And Mercari?

• Wish appears to be nearly as bad as AliExpress in terms of bootleg frequency. User reports from Mercari depict a wide range of scenarios, with good sellers mixed in with people egregiously marking up their merchandise and more than a few bootlegs. Use with caution.

3. Is Amazon.com a good source for figures?

• The increased use of the practice of commingling inventory has led to an increase in the amount of counterfeit merchandise appearing on Amazon. This increases the possibility of receiving a bootleg from them even if the seller appears to be otherwise trustworthy (even for "shipped and sold by Amazon.com"), and should be considered a reason to avoid them if possible. If one does choose to buy figures on Amazon, particularly with third-party sellers, apply the same criteria for price, seller photos, and deceptive descriptions as one would for a seller anywhere else, though the commingling issue will remain unless the item's path to the buyer is specified. Amazon listings may copy images and descriptive text from other sites. Be particularly careful to check that the company in the "Brand" line matches the item's official producer, and watch for questionable text as mentioned above.

4. My Nintendo nendoroid/Figma has a white, square sticker, rather then the shiny oval one that can be found in the official pictures on MFC. Does that mean I have a bootleg?

• No, the square sticker is also legitimate.

A Related Topic:

• People often ask about the legitimacy and/or safety of a number of websites which sell large resin statues. The more commonly-asked of those deal primarily in resins from studios which do not have a license from the Japanese IP holders to produce merchandise. Therefore links to those sites are not permitted here. Another indicator is if MyFigureCollection doesn't list the either the statue, its manufacturer, or the shop it's being sold on. While MFC does not list every legitimate item for various reasons, it does reject unlicensed ones. __________________________

Past Bootleg Megathreads can be found here, for reference only. Please be sure to only post in the current one.
Thanks TychoRC for creating this guide and helping answer questions!