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Hi everyone, i never did skincare routine nor used skin care products in my life. Im 31 and about a year ago i started working at an airport with the aircraft outside and all the things it produces. The air there is very polluted there and i get direct sun aswell as heavy reflection from the ground (could be comoared kinda with snow) heavy wind with all the motor air (sorry english not my first language) so i feel my skin has been suffering all this lately and id like to start a routine based on specific cares i should have when in that environment or exposed to it. I only use sunscreen so far. I am.not allowed to wear caps/hats etc. Any help is appreciated🙏🏻
My skin type is normal

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look I just tried it today, beat Pact side first try, hard difficulty. no biggie. tried Nato, lost, lost again, lost again, lowered difficulty, lost again, lost again and now its almost 4 am. i have work in 6 hours. what the hell. Jesus help me. i can feel my heartbeat. why is the sky so dark? where does the sun sleep? mice, mice mice, peanuts, mr peanut, toasters, i can feel the taste of the toaster on my tonsils and...... i love it. dont tell the mice. they will cry for cheese, but all i have is... peanuts
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I SWEAR TO GOD EVERYTOIME I GET THIS >-< CLOSE AND EVERYT THIME! like cmon man. i own both cities. i have them both. there are almost NO east german units alive. they are traumatized. I have come down on them like the fist of God. but nooooooooooooooooooo little east german zoomie zoomies somehow can just Beep Beep and VROOOOOMMMMMMMM right around my guys, and "hehe now youre cut off mr Nato, yes you have many tanks and men, and i am but a Smol boi in a truck but i have cut off your entire spearhead and now we own whatever that northern city is called. and i lose, do i need every single nato unit to form a cohesive line to own and hold that city? im sorry our rear security cant stop Hans and his band of merry men from encircling my brigade in whatever was left of their motorifle regiment.

Hello again!
My "pen" name is Kairi Aoyama.
I'm looking for assistants to finally be able to draw the manga for a story I've been planning for a while.
First, let me tell you about the story and then the details of what I'm looking for.
The story follows Lily Valse, a young woman trying to achieve her dream of becoming a professional singer and leader of her own band. After being deceived by her previous group, Lily meets Mia Akabane, a musician trying to become a writer, and both will try to achieve their dreams together as they discuss topics like finding your place in the adult world, dreams, failure, and the daily fight to try to achieve your goals.
The story has a relaxed and joyful tone, yet it can get romantic and dramatic at some points. If you're still interested, please keep reading.
I'm looking for assistants. I can't offer any payments because I'm not in a good financial situation. Yet, as an artist myself I don't take work for granted. I'll be doing most of the work. I just need a couple of people to help me with whatever. A page, a panel, or even the script would be really helpful. Once again, I'll be doing most of it, and any revenue we make (which is the goal) will be divided proportionally.
The only requirements are the following:

1. Have some free time. Again, this is not a job and I'm not paying for your time properly (yet). But I'd require to at least have some free time. I know school or work can get heavy, but I'm looking forward to someone who has some time available. Not a lot, but like I said, if I ask you for help in a panel and you're going on a two-week vacation to Europe, then things won't work out. Just a certain amount of time a day would be fine. An hour or two would be a good place to start
2. Have Clip Studio Paint (or Photoshop). That's the tool we work with and I think it is very helpful. Other software can work well but sharing files might get tricky. If you have any experience using other programs with CSP or Photoshop files without problems, please let me know.
3. You don't need to know how to draw. If you can draw lines in different intensities naturally, then you will be my savior.
4. Be over 18+ The story won't have any NSFW content but I'd still prefer that you'd be over the age of 18 so we don't have problems with maybe discussing mature topics, anatomy or even being way too young to be on the internet and hence, putting our project in a delicate situation.
5. Speak English fluently. I also speak Spanish but I bet most people here talk in English so, it'd be preferable that we all could communicate.
6. In case it wasn't clear, the two main leads are girls and will fall in love. The story doesn't explore in-depth themes of sexual preferences as they are established as something normal. If you have any problems with said topic, I think this isn't the story for you.

If any of you are interested, I'd be thankful. I've been preparing myself to write this story for nearly two years but I know I can't do it alone. It will be a mountain to climb but I will do it cause this is what I dreamed for so long.
We are already two people in this project. You can check the prologue here https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/118120029#1 (i'll be changing the cover soon)
You can DM me here. On my discord: kairiaoyama_ or even my email: [kairiaoyama@gmail.com](mailto:kairiaoyama@gmail.com)

Hi everybody :)
I’m currently working on a show that is brilliantly written, but heavy in subject matter. My character deals with addiction, struggles with mental health and goes through a rollercoaster of emotion (hate, rage, depression, anxiety, mania, crying, etc.)
I’m honored to be part of the production; however, I am having difficulty with separating myself from the role. By this I mean being able to put these intense feelings away while I’m not rehearsing, so I can live my life anxiety free when I’m not in the studio. I’ve found that my body is frequently tense, I’m having trouble sleeping/nightmares and often think about the show in my daily life.
This may be personal to me, and I’m working through it with my therapist; however, I was wondering if anyone has experienced the same situation, and if so, I would appreciate hearing how you found peace during your rehearsal period.
Thank you <3

•Tayana•
A pirate ship should be pretty sturdy if it wishes to weather a storm. The infamous red oak ship that belonged to the infamous pirate who captained it, was not so easily weathered either. Josine was a tall sturdy woman, the perfect heir to the red key. The wide brimmed, red velvet hat she wore was as much a crown as it was a lion's mane. A sign to any who dare disrupt her rule that she is not to be fucked with because she had lived a long, dishonest life and she wasn’t ready to surrender it.
A queen on the raging seas and at the Elven ports up and down the continents that the Elven courts dwelled. Her ship was as large as two mansions and faster than any old war ship. The Holy Azeria had been cursed by witches and demons alike who owed her forefathers- all the previous captains of the mighty ship. They had created an amalgamation of so many different kinds and Unkinds of magic that Josine was not entirely sure of all the magic the ship wielded. The most potent seemed to be the lucky charm spell. The Red Key that could get any ship, through any storm; intact and working.
The younger cousin, Tayana, was her heir. A joke amongst the crew really. The young woman would not carry on the line. Maybe if she found the right woman… but she just couldn’t make up her mind as every port was crowded with beautiful and cunning and fascinating individuals just waiting to be Mrs. To Josines Captains title. she in fact was currently bedding two of their latest traveling companions. Two strange women who were not at all interested in the rest of the crew. They remained in the captain's cabin all the way into the western territories.
Finally the crew saw the faces behind the coin fueling this particular journey. Tayana didn’t like it one bit. She didn’t like their strange elongated ears or the way the one had wings unlike anything Taya had ever seen. Leathery like cowhide but iridescent like gemstones! Their eyes were a similar headtrip to look into. These beings had unmentionable power brewing within them. And Josine had slept with them! It horrified her to no end. These strange people who’s species could not be placed.
Taya was only slightly unnerved by the similarity in the feeling these strangers gave her and the feeling hearing about her mother’s disappearance gave her. It was just all so up in the air, so shrouded in mist, so painfully questionable.
She was wearing her usual teal half skirt and fitted cotton pants. Her knee high combat boots- worn and dusty- and her greenish blue coat which she had cropped herself with a serrated knife. The skirts billowed out behind her as she took the wheel for her captain. As her captain left the wheelhouse and descended down to the viewing deck where all their associates usually hung out during voyages. These two apparently only liked the comforts of the captain's lofty apartment under the wheelhouse though. Leaving the crew's bets unsettled… until now.
The ship was fast approaching a warmer coastline. The waters were such clear masses that the land seemed to nearly have white skirts. The sands of Ba’aeri, the most pale form of gold. Illegal to sell. Very illegal to steal. Fuckimg hell…
One of the curses on the ship allowed the captain to speak into the key as if it were every ear of the crew whenever she touched her index finger to it. “We are to drop anchor a few miles up the coast and a few hours upriver until we reach a lake. Then we are going to make land, half go and half stay- you may determine amongst yourselves who does what.” A sloppy and distracted message. She dropped the key and put her gloves back on all while keeping smiling eyes upon her two companions. Something was truly not right.
The coast was just as brutally bright as all the stories claimed. The white rock faces and neon violet flowers were nothing compared to those clear waters and the damning sun they reflected. Glasses were passed around. Slits of wood on a string that had two tiny holes where their eyes would hopefully be. Taya noticed some of the crew discarded theirs immediately, others picked those up and tucked them away for later. Something was happening but she couldn’t quite describe what exactly it was.

Steel Strikers log #73. Day 730.
I had just crested over the blackened, blood soaked soil of Sonorous Dark. With three Skin Bandits laying unconscious behind me, and a squad on the lookout at the nearby Skinhouse, I barely managed to sneak away to the border of the Ashlands.
How poetic, that the sun would rise as I came up over that hill, still struggling to stand from my injuries... To illuminate the white terrain ahead of me. Even more white than the armor of a High Paladin. It sits before me.
I must return to HQ and alert Elmer and the others. I finally found it. Now that we have our end goal in mind, we can finally plot out the path to freeing the world from the harsh grip of slavery.
I may have reached the Ashlands, the final frontier. However, the journey of us, the Steel Strikers, has only just begun.
Phoenix. Tengu. Longen. We'll be coming for you. Especially for you, Longen. You slaver bastard.
Osteen, The Steel-Boned
Real talk, this short entry in the story of the Steel Strikers was really fun. I might do more of these later on, chronicling the story of my Skeleton freedom fighters.
Also, I used this screenshot for my desktop background, lol. I'm quite proud of the angle and timing of the shot.

Chapter 1: the event
It was the fall of my intern year as I bean my off service trauma rotation. This month was ubiquitously notorious for being the most labor intrusive and least productive rotaion of our emergency medicine program. Knowing this I entered with the intention of simply surviving the month.
Another intern and I let’s call them A for sake of ambiguity, we’re the first emergency medicine residents to roste on the trauma services that year. A shaky start would be an understatement. In the words of chance the raper “like my grama with the Parkinson’s playing operation.” Would better describe it. Medically we did well. We were very competent and completed our work daily, but communication and coordination was non existent. Our Cheifs had informed us that Tuesday was our day of and the Trauma cheif residents had minimum communication with us, or our Cheifs as it seams when A and I did not report on Tuesday they sternly made their dissatisfaction known.
I have struggled with insomnia sense the age of 10. Had 2 sleep studies by this point in my life and been prescribed nearly every sleeping aid on the market. The 80-94 hr work weeks of our trauma rotaion only worsened my insomnia. My lack of sleep likely contributed to a less than prime adaptive immune system and 2 days out of my trauma rotaion I contracted strep like symptoms with associated nausea, requiring me to call for a sick day the next day. No the first day that I felt too ill to work. I was not fully aware of the reporting process. I reported to my Chiefs, but I did not believe I could come to work tomorrow with amble time and notice, however I was somewhat delayed in letting their Cheifs know, because the surgical chiefs rotated every few days and I did not know who my was going to be the next day. The second day which I had to call out sick I was able to locate the cheif for the next day and reprot according to our university’s protocol, which requires that if a resident feels they are not fit for work they must not come in and the university must have staff coverage without any fear or implementation of punitive actions.
I had finally survived to the last week of my trauma rotaion and I could see the light at the end of the tunnel. What I could not see was the pile of stress, shitty diet, lack of mental well ness and sleep deprivation which I was pushing down to reach the light. By this time I had seen a psychiatrist regularly for sleep medication. I had mentioned to him that I had been experiencing more stressed lately and feel that I might be depressed. he reassured me that it was likely only due to my circumstances, given the difficulty of the trauma rotation and wish to reassess once the rotation was over. Looking back I had to fill the habit of drinking more than I usually do. My only on nights before I have days off became 1-2 beers every other night. All of this repressed unhealthy shit finally pushed bad on September 23rd. That night I was at work even later than usual, I stayed up later than usual and couldn’t seem to fall asleep. With the stress of only having minimal sleep and knowing I only had 2 more days of trauma left, I took an extra dose of my sleeping medication.
I opened my eyes to the fighting sight of sun beaming in my window and I instantly knew I was late. (Sense I hadn’t seen the sun in a month) . Due to my need for scrupulous sleep hygiene I have been sleeping with my phone of and away for me. I rushed to grab it and watched as the little Apple logo seamed to glow on the screen for an eternity. Then in conjunction with its fading I saw 3 missed calls from my director, a text from college A and 2 missed calls from the surgical director. Still, I was able to calm myself, knowing that resident A had been late to this rotation by a few hours 2 other days and nothing came of it. I called my director back and he asked me to report to his office where I was greeted by my director, my coordinator and another emergency medicine facility.
With the only explanation of: “we just want you to get better”, I was handed a letter, to my relief it did not entail my termination, but a declaration of administrative leave and a requirement to undergo an evaluation at a well known university in Florida.
Lake any other savvy millennial, I did my research. By research I mean numerous google searches and screeches thru the depts of redit. To my dismay I discovered that in order for a residency program to fire you, they must first initiate an administrative suspension. I would soon find out however, being terminated would have been a delightful outcome compared to what ensued.
I spend the next few weeks in the wallos of regret and depression. I indulged in higher qualities of alchohol then I ever have before. I all but ceased communing with peers, and abruptly stoped any physical activity I had once enjoyed. Frightened as I was I was ensured, it will be ok “we just want you to get better”
Chapter 2 The evaluation : guilty until proven innocent I did exactly as instructed and scheduled an evaluation, I supposed that this was either a mental evaluation to assess if I’m fit for work with plans of termination or it actually was an evaluation to better treat my insomnia. To this day I regret my ignorance, and wish I had researched the process more. The Hindi / sand-skrt idea of Hamsa 🪬 is that in order to do any good you must have full knowledge or else good intentions can result in harm. I truely believe my director had good intentions, however but him and I did not have full knowledge of the nature of this evaluation.
Looking back see how easily I could have avoided my troubles by asserting legal aid at this point or even by researching this evaluation process more in depth. If one searches impaired practitioner program which I now know this evaluator works for, the search entire will populate 5 or 6 layferms along side their home website and there is a valid reason for this.
If one every finds themself in this process I employ you to bring a DSM to your evaluation or at least be familiar with the most common use disorders in the DSM-5, because your evaluation will turn into a dance of questions where the evaluator attempts to trap you in a round about way to stating something that may qualify for one of the diagnosis. I have provided an image from the DSM-5 below outlining AUD, which the evaluator concluded that I had the most severe from:
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Example***** Here are 10 examples of how he fraudulently assessed me taken directly from his assessment note.

1. Evaluator: Have you ever stoped drinking in the last year.

Me: yes I stoped every week day, I was only drinking on the weekends, until two weeks ago.
-Evaluator uses stoping and starting every week to qualify for 2 or more unsuccessful attempts to stop in the last year “There is a persistent desire or unsuccessful efforts to cut down or control alcohol use.”

1. Evaluator Have you ever had withdrawal symptoms

Me no
Evaluator Well Have you ever had a hangover? You know that’s a from of acute withdrawal
Me: yes in college, I had a few but that was years ago and I’m pretty sure the pathophysiology is different.
Evaluator uses this to count for withdrawal symptoms even tho is was more than a year ago

1. Evaluator: Have you even taken your sleeping medication on a day or night which you drank? Me: Yes, I took my prescriptions are prescribed but I never drank close to bed

Evaluator: qualified this as dangerous behavior with alcohol (where the DSM gives examples such as unprotected sex and drunk driving). The sleeping medication I was on is not a benzodiazepine therefore it is not deadly with alcohol. I personally have seen many patients in the ED who have taken their entire bottle of the medication and drank copious amounts, we just monitor them over night and rehydrate them

1. Evaluator Has anyone told you you drink to much or been worried about you Me: No I drink much less than my friends

Evaluator what about your girlfriend? Me: well she actually doesn’t drink at all she doesn’t like it. She often buys me beer for The Weeknd’s tho. One time we went to a movie and she got a little irritated because I waited for beer then complained about them not having any craft beer. So she said, “you couldn’t have just said no” and drank something else. However, she apologized after and said it’s worth waiting if it’s my only day off.
Evaluator said this qualifies for continued drinking despite causing significant relation consequences, ie divorce.

1. Evaluator : you have sleep issues I hear, and your chart says you’ve had depression in the past, don’t you know that alcohol can effect your sleep and mood Me: yes that’s why I never drink within 3 hours of sleep.

Evaluator but you knew this and still drank
Evaluator: qualifies for drinking despite unwanted physical or psychological effects (this should be recurring to effects the alcohol is causing, I have had insomnia sense the age of 10 long before I took my first sip)
7 evaluator you were late for work and told my you had a drink the day before
Me: Yes but I was late because I didn’t sleep and took double my sleeping meds, I will never do that again
Qualifies for 2 significant work or school issues in the past year ( a therapist and other psychologist ensured me that being late on or a few days doesn’t count they typically are getting fired or failing) ( moreover, this would assume I was late do to drinking it’s self and also assume if happened more than once)

1. • Alcohol is often taken in larger amounts or over a longer period than was intended

He never once asked anything related to this question yet said I qualified in his final report 9. A great deal of time is spent in activities necessary to obtain alcohol, use alcohol, or recover from its effects. The evaluators logic here was sense I was late for work and I had 2 beers the day before I must be taking long to recover from it (this is assuming I missed due to alcohol)

1. Tolerance drinking more to require the same effect: this he checked as true in his final note however it was never even discussed in our evaluation. I did mention to him that I’ve been drinking more than I had earlier in the year frequency wise, but they said nothing to do with quantity or needing more.
   
2. Wanting to drink so bad you can not think of anything else: this is the only qualification of SAUD my evaluator said I did not have.
   

Moreover, without legal help I was not aware that I could obtain a second evaluation or even oppose going to get evaluated at all, but that wouldn’t have mattered seeing I still thought this was for my health and wellbeing as seen when I was asked why do you think you are here to today, to which I replayed “so that I can be evaluated to see what is needed to get back to work”.
To maks the ordeal more infuriating the evaluator continues to ingratiate himself and lie through the process telling you, “it will be fine as long as you are 100% honest”, “anything you say in here is between you and me” or “you slipped up once with your meds, I know your residnecy program they will probably just want a few more out patient tests”
Two weeks later I received a phone call right before I left for an out of state vacation to visit my nice for her birthday. During the call I was informed that I would be required to complete a partial hospitalization program (PHP) lasting “6-10 weeks” which would coast from 15-50 grand not including doctor visits or housing which is billed separately. I suppressed this inconvenience, enjoyed my vocation and reported when I returned, knowing that I must complete this soon so I may return to work with due to the fact that my payed time off would soon be diminished. At this time I had not yet heard of the organization PRN.
Chapter 3 Guilty till proven innocent: The diagnosis
Shell shocked I arrived to a in patient psychiatric unit and was rapidly cleared to progress to treatment without detoxification. During my 90 day of forced rehabilitation I met a few other individuals who were unjustly and fraudulently forced into treatment. I began to look up to one of these such members of the men’s community, who I will refer to as patient X for ambiguity sake.
Unlike me patient X did have alcohol use disorder. He spent many clinic days drinking to avoid alcoholic withdraws. The curious component of his story is that he admitted his depravity, saught help and through his own journey became sober. The bodies at be, namely his local physician, Health monitoring program, rejected his personal path to sobriety and forced him to undergo 90 days of in patient treatment before he could practice medicine again. When he checked in to rehab he had been sober for over a year.
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As for me I spend many sleepless nights pondering how consuming a legal substance in a moderate amount could throw me into significant legal financial issues. My labs my toxicology, my story and my collateral from colleagues from colleagues all indicated light to moderate alcohol use but my evaluators word stood as the word of God.
More frightening was the director of this rehabs acknowledgment of this. The director who happens to also coincidentally be the evaluator, stated to me as well as to staff on multiple occasions: “ I suggest inpatient treatment for everyone who is reported”. “This is safer for me not to miss anyone who could harm patients, and I figure there must be a reason someone reported them.”
I am still elucidating the reason why I was determined guilty and proven innocent, however I can say from my 90 day stent that the majority of the patients at this rehab needed to be there. This program is saving lives of both providers and patients, however it is destroying the lives of those wrongfully accused.
Chapter 4 your lisense rehab or jail : Upon arivil I was sent to a detox hospital underwent a medical examination and was “one of the lucky ones” who required no detoxification and could report directly to PHP. Like everyone else, I spent 90 days in a PHP, being as 6-10 weeks is simply a lie they tell patients to decrease the change of resisting the treatment. When discussing the topic one therapist sated “if we told patients 90 days they would never come.” She then attempted to justify the treatment by outlining the story of a patient she had called who “didn’t make it to treatment” and killed themselves”. It is my belief that it is not the lack of PHP which impelled such professionals to take their life, but them realizing that they now will be obliged to undergo 90 days of PHP, 5 years of PRN monitoring with a loss of autonomy and hundreds of thousands of dollars taken from them that induced their hopelessness. For even if these professionals were truly mentally unstable in their addictions, in every case it was only following a phone call where they were informed they must undergo treatment that they took their life’s. By this time I still haven’t the slightest clue what PRN was.
Despite the security these programs provide for many my 6 main issues with them can be summarized in : 1. Kick backs: evaluators are directors of treatment clinics 2. The reported are guilty till proven innocent 3. The price, the overflow of money these places drag in from both patients and state universities is appalling, they charge separately for every visit and test 4. Although they make the claim that they are individualized, they are anything but. Every patient gets the same stay and treatment from the doctor drunk on the job and the one who was late to a shift 5. They force voluntary treatment. remember that friendly evaluator who promised he had your best interest at heart, so you opened up and told him everything about your substance use/ developmental / family history, well if you don’t stay for 90 days he will be “normally obliged” to tip the board of medical off to you.

1. The programs have overstepped their intended jurisdiction. -these programs work well if they function how they were intended at their inception. Cite original purpose. Originally these programs were designed to protect physicians and civilians from impaired practitioners; being healthcare workers who were impaired at work. Over the years, these organizations have extended their authority to encompass individuals with substance use disorders When not at work and also those who are in training to become healthcare professionals. Take for example myself compared to a physician who is impaired at work. A doctor who arrived for duty under the influence would surely benifit from the extensive testing, therapy and accountability enforced via these programs. In accordance the 20,000$ per year cost is appropriate when only making up roughly 7% of their yearly salary vs nearly half of a residents. In my case with my loss of income from employment, coast of treatment and monitoring, this year I will be required to pay 20,000$ to work. Yes, I will be losing money to work. Even if did indeed have a substance use disorder this level of monitoring wouldn’t not be considered appropriate.

Dispite all of the miscomings of this System My time spend in PHP was indeed helpful, as I believe it would be for anyone. Time for exercise, a reprieve from work and weekly counseling. A sample structure of my day to day schedule is provided below for insight:
Structure The general structure of these rehabitation centers is as follows: 1. One week of orientation phase, where you are not allowed in electronics or contact with the outside world world. Therefore, if you’re going, bring some things you would like to read or study. 2. In phase 2, you can use your phone however you cannot leave campus. You must stay in the dorm on campus. These shitty 1 room run down apartments with two other roommates will cost you about $1000 a week, they are required for at least four weeks and they are billed separately, no insurance will help you out here. 3. In phase 3 you can commute to campus if you beg your therapist and live very close. Whether you’re on campus or living off-campus, you are allowed to leave up to four hours per day. If you commute, you’ll be required to take a sober link decide you must Breath, alcohol test into every 6 hours. Like everything else in this program you must pay for this separately, a few hundred dollars a week. You advanced to other phases by completing assignments, however, assignments are limited by required built-in time, intrusive, scheduling, and reviewing. Therefore, if you do everything as rapidly as possible phase 1 will take one week phase 2 will take three weeks.
Every day schedule:
7:30: wake up, report to the front desk to inform them that you haven’t ran away yet and take and prescribed medications. They keep all your medications and require that you report to take them; for me this was antidepressants in an attempt to dispel the depression I contracted from being forced into treatment and whatever off label medication they were attempting to treat my ADHD with, since control medications were forbidden.
8 am: community group assessments This consisted of other patients presenting their assignments amongst the large group, on the weekends this was often an hour later and 12 study regularly took the place of assignment presentation.
10 am: process group. This was a two hour group therapy session with 6 to 12 other professionals in a therapist and training or occasionally a licensed mental health therapist.
1 pm: recreation This was generally about an hour of some sober themed craft or activity. Once a week this time slot was used for yoga.
2 pm: this was another time slot used for patients to present assignments as well as for individual therapy sessions. Each patient had one individual therapy session lasting 30 minutes per week.
3pm: This was time allotted to work on assignments or go to the gym on your sex specific scheduled gym day.
5pm: this time was used for guest speakers or another 12 step study group.
6 pm : this was generally an off-campus 12 step group
10 pm: report to the front desk and let them know you still haven’t ran away and take and Medication which are prescribed to take at night, then return to your cot bed in your room with 1-2 other roommates.
I found the community to be one of the most beneficial aspects of the PHP program. I was in a cohort of chill ass professionals of the same occupation who were always there to help each other.
Assignments The curriculum of the PHP consisted of assignment based on every step of the 12th step program. Generally, a patient would be required to complete an assignment on their own, review it with other patients, then faculty and finally present the assignment in front of the whole treatment group. You’re only given one assignment at a time and there are multiple steps to each which all requires scheduling this ensures that no matter how determined a patient is a full 90 days of treatment is required to complete all the assignments.
AA structure -the obsolete nature of AA has been verified in numbers studies, but I will refrain from divulging here and lend that endeavor to Dr. Lance Dodes very thorough discussion on the subject,in “the sober truth “
In all sincerity, if I truely did have a severe use disorder this experience could have been life saving. I only wish I could have used my 50 grand for someone who has spent their life time In addictive without reprieve. My first conversation when I was given my phone back was how I wish my father could be able to attend this PHP.
Chapter 5 reporting and PRN Self reporting What they ask you What you should tell them
There’s a third-party agency called professional resource network. Every state has their own. This agency works as a liaison between you and whatever credentialing service your occupation requires. Essentially they ensure your monitoring after treatment. Stake governments and licensing boards trust them, mainly because they monitor with the highest level of intrusiveness. This alleviates much work for state governments and licensing boards because once an individual is being monitored by a professional resource network, then they are deemed appropriate for duty and no further investigation/litigation needs to occur, as long as the monitored individual completely complies.
Because I was never impaired at work I was never reported to this agency. The general workflow of things someone would report you to professional resource network, then the resource network would contact you, and then you would be required to report for an evaluation at a treatment center, which would inevitably result in a suggestion I’ve treatment at that given treatment center. In my case I was sent to the treatment center without PRN being involved. Thus, two weeks into treatment. I was notified by my therapist that I needed to call PRN and self report. I attempted to resistance given that I did not have a problem and was not individually seeking help. I asked what happened if I didn’t self report. I was told that in order to stay in the treatment program I had to report to PRN. This meant either I report to PRN or I get kicked out of the treatment program and lose my job.
When you report to PRN they will ask you why you are in treatment. They will then list off every substance imaginable, asking you if you have ever tried the substance and when your last use was. Ultimately, they will obtain your discharge information from your treatment center, so it is in your best interest to report only what was found in your biochemical testing. If it wasn’t in your hair, I would argue that you don’t have a use disorder regarding that substance and it’s not relevant. I don’t believe it’s important for them to know that you smoked weed when you were 12.
Chapter 6 The contract:
Before being discharged from a treatment facility, a professional resource network will have you sign a contract. A little known fact which I was oblivious to is that contracts can be negotiated. Though this isn’t it possible, it is highly improbable that you can negotiate your contract since PRN has a power to delay your clearance to return to work.
Contractor almost never personalized, and I have not heard of a contract which is not a five-year agreement. You will sign releases of information so that PRN has access to all of your information which was gathered at the treatment facility. You must have a therapist, psychiatrist, primary care, doctor, and a addiction, medicine psychiatrist. You assign releases of information for all of them. You will be required To commit to: 1. three mutual aid meetings a week which you must log. I log smart recovery meetings. 2. Weekly therapy sessions with an approved mental health therapist from their list 3. Monthly doctors appointments with an addiction medicine psychiatrist 4. Yearly appointments with a primary care physician 5. Monthly appointments with a psychiatrist 6. Daily check-ins on a random drug testing app ( you will agree to weekly urine tests, a peth test 4 times a year, a hair test twice a year and a little caveat that says anything else they deem, clinically reasonable) 7. Quarterly update reports which you are required to obtain from a workplace monitor, therapist, addiction, medicine, psychiatrist, primary care physician and any other doctor you are seeing. 8. You must upload all of your prescriptions into a mobile application every single time you get them refilled and are not allowed to take them until they are approved. 9. Attendance of a PRN group via zoom. This is a local group you are assigned along with other monitored practitioners. There is a fee of roughly 130$ a month to attend this required group. For me all of these requirements coast around 20,000 a year. If you ever have a positive test even if it is the result of contamination from rubbing alcohol or unintentional ingestion of alcohol/ allergy medication your contract will rest to 5 years from the time of positive test. Once your five year contract is completed, you must ask to be released from monitoring. At that point they will search for any reason to keep you under monitoring. This could be dilute urines, daily check ins or a week where you did not attend mutual aid meetings. Every certification and license which you apply for will likely ask you if you were under a monitoring program/ have been treated for substance use. You must give an explanation and check yes. As far as licensing programs are concerned, if you were under the monitoring of PRN, you are safe, however they group practitioners who have had behavioral issues with practitioners who were diverting drugs from work. Therefore, keep in mind that you will be labeled as a sever addict.
7 Back to work and only work. During treatment your only goal is to return to work, however when you return your experience will be drastically distinct from what you remember. For me, I was now working in isolation. Missing six months of my training meant that no other Resident was on the same rotation as me. My coworkers at all formed friend groups. When I returned I was greeted with much concern for my well being. No one would speak to be about my absence, however everyone knew there is only one reason a resident would leave for 6 months then return. My Accdeemic meetings were consisting of attending telling me “I have a target on my back now” and “ I have to preform even better than others” in the light of my time missed. If this wasn’t alienating enough, the majority of Resident events, sponsored by recruiters and my university revolved around alcohol to which I had to give some excuse to why I can not partake with others. I’m fortunate that I do not have an addiction, because these stressful conditions along with the daunting amount of dead and requirements imposed by PRN are enough to make any addict relapse. While I was at treatment, I was in the dative with Samyr stories a physicians whose addictions got the best of them. Physicians who did not make it to treatment, often taking their own life. These stories were presented as a warning. Your addictions will kill you without our treatment was the message. When, in reality I did not hear one story in which the addiction killed physician. Every physician who didn’t make it to treatment took their life after being told they must report to a treatment facility. Perhaps they knew what this entailed and it was not their addiction or getting caught which caused them to end their lives, but the unmanageable and often unreasonable burden that treatment would put on their lives.
9 How to escape So your fucked your in PRN and should be or you should and now your recovered and want to terminated your contract.

1. You ask to be released early done at 1/2 time ( good luck)
2. You have “good reason” (no one has ever been let out of contract because of this reason, the verbiage is far too vague)
3. You serve all your time and they let you out(maybe, as discussed earlier, they would do everything they can to keep you in your contract as long as your practicing)
4. You can’t practice medicine anymore

10 Layer up butter cup : I cannot emphasize the extent to which legal help is required in this process. You much seek it and seek it early. Lawyers can provide many avenues to you early in the process. Once you have committed to treatment, gone for evaluation or are in a PRN contract , this is very little that you or legal help can do. Spend a few thousand dollars when you are accused and save the 20-30,000 later.
After you have been evaluated if you disagree as I did, then this is the process you must undergo. 1. Hire a occupation, defense, lawyer 2. Prove you don’t have an addiction, this is done by having an alternative evaluator with similar credentials state that either you don’t have an addiction or that PRN’s level of monitoring is not medically appropriate ( this will need to be a multi day neuropsychological evaluation, which will cost about $5000). 3. Your lawyer must draft in writing that the medical level of monitoring is not required such as another medical professional and send this to PRN 4. PRN will tattle on you to the board of medicine. 5. The board of medicine will conduct an investigation. 6. At the end or when they believe they have enough reasonable evidence to the board of medicine will suspend your license or claim, you must comply with the PRN contract to practice. 7. At this time your lawyer will defend you in the state court against the board. This is costly but much less than the coast of a 5 year PRN contract 8. If you win you will likely suggest an alternative level of care such as gonna get therapy every week. If you lose, than you wasted a fuck ton of money and are still bound by your PRN contract.
Overall this entire process has coast me Over all coast:
My finances for this year only including PRN and rent are as follows:
120-200$ every week for testing 480-800/ month
65 every week for therapy 195/month
125 every month for PRN group
About 50-69 every month for 2 doctor apts
So at least 745$/month at the lowest
Treatment at the recovery center coast 20,000 for me out of pocket and
I wasn’t payed for 6 months with no FMLA because I am a first year. At the 1 year mark I will have made 26,000 this year after taxes And payed About 29,000 on PRN alone
Rent is 1,000 so that’s 12,000 a year
Just in rent and PRN alone I will be at 26,000- 41,600 -15,600.
I will be in debt by at least 18,000 at the 1 year mark
Coast of treatment center 20,000 (with insurance) For each year of PRN roughly 20,000 Add that to 6 months of attending salary which was delayed due to my treatment time: at least 150,000 Layer coasts along with other evaluations 25,000 Missing 6 months of residency pay 30,000 Coast of 1 year in monitoring: 245,000 Coast of 5 years 325,000
If my case progress to a trail I will require an extra 20,000 in court coasts
Chapter 11 My secondary eval: Dr sushi After I arrived at my treatment center I challenge my evaluation multiple times. Each and every time I was discharged and often accused of alternate mental health/ substance abuse issues to discourage my advances. I was never given the opportunity to undergo alternative assessment, however PRN guidelines state that you can obtain a second option within 7 days of your first. This is a mute point, however, because you will not receive the results of your evaluation until over a week after it is conducted and the second evaluation must be conducted by another PRN hired evaluator of their choosing. During my stay in rehab I contacted PRN multiple times to attempt another evaluation/ legal help. They warned against both stating they were a “waste of money” and “pointless”.
After completing my treatment with the guidance of many addiction, experienced physicians, mental health counselors and psychiatrists recommendations I sought in a secondary evaluation. I chose a highly qualified professional with over 30 years of experience to conduct an extensive neuo psycho social evaluation of me. One that I was sure would be more extensive than the evaluation I received at treatment and more importantly an unbiased evaluation.
The results from my evaluation not only showed that I did not have a substance abuse problem warranting PRN level monitoring, but also that PRN was falling to allow adequate treatment of other conditions such as my ADHD. My evaluation showed my ADHD was not only untreated by PRNs attempt at using non controlled medication, but also in the top 3% most severe presentations of ADHD. My evaluator went on to explain my results by questioning why my treatment center even mandated I undergo neuro cognitive evaluation. The only neurodiverse findings were my IQ, my dyslexia and my ADHD. However, a neuo cognitive examination can be billed separately by treatment centers, therefore they always recommend one.
Chapter 12 Amongst its greed, intrusive nature and faulty accusations, professional recourse network function highly proficiently at the task they were designed to; protective physicians and patients from physicians who are impaired at work. In this domain they save lives, offer second changes and protect the public. When they act beyond their intended jurisdiction by imposing unnecessary monetary demands on practitionersin training, accuse practitioners without proof or act on behavior exemplified outside of a work setting they unjustly and inappropriately attack the week and innocent.
Proposed reform: As a trainee my universities malpractice insurance covers me for mistakes made at work. If a learner mistakenly harms a patient, then the university stands on their behalf. If the learner does something wrong under a teachers direct guidance, then the teacher is at fault. This makes sense logically as well as pragmatically. The state entrusts large amounts of money to hospital systems and universities to train resident physicians. A portion of this money is allocated to malpractice insurance. This should extend to accused impairment.
Suppose a training university was required to cover rehabilitation and monitoring of a resident of whom they claim is impaired. Alternatively they have the option of firing the trainee. This would reduce the number of innocent trainees being accused of impairment, make the process of rehabilitation more fair and provide a better use for tax payer derived dollars, which hospital systems are given to train residents. The truly impaired could still seek help, less false accusations would be made and with the employers having the ability to fire at the moment of impairment, there would be less chance of impairment at work.

I have dehydrated and dry skin. Im new to skincare too and I’m trying to fix/change up my routine now that I’ve gotten a new job. I’m out in the sun all day and JUST started wearing sunscreen (oops), and bought the MURAD one in a panic at target one day. Unfortunately my moisturizer isn’t cutting it. It’s the CERAVE AM MOISTURIZER WITH SPF. It’s greasy and heavy and causing me to break out.
I just REALLY NEED a daily moisturizer that is lightweight, that’s good for being in the sun all day and getting sweaty, and for dehydrated/dry skin. (Maybe a good sunscreen too?)
thank you everyone <3

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Let me introduce myself first. I'm from the Philippines. A 20 year old male who are taking Bachelor of Business Administration Major in Marketing. I'm already 2nd year student. I have been working with my instructor at my university for a year now as their Assistant. I know how to organize specially when it comes using G-drive. Additionally, I know how to use video editing with capcut, photo editing with picsart or other photo editing application, Good at using CHAT GPT to make my work faster and be more productive but still I didn't let my critical thinking to be rusty, Writing, gptzero to identify if a work is made by an AI, Canva, and Wix Studio (but I still need to pay to use that application same as Shopify).
I love reading Business Books (you can ask me if you want recommendations to read) and watching Mobster movies just like the God Father.
I'm not telling you boss to hire me quickly, I want to know also, about the business that you are in. Seems it might open me with new opportunities in my life.

So i plan a visit later in the year to NY with my partner and just want some guidance.
Firstly - tipping for me personally is a show of excellent service or quality. No set amount or calculation.
I dont agree with it but I do feel I understand how it works for wait staff in the US and am happy to do as you do while I visit.
What calculation do you use to tip? Is it a percentage of the cost of the meal? If so, is it expected yo continually rise? Let's say it's 10%. If I spend $500 is $50 expected as a tip and if I spend $1000 is $100 expected?
Hotel staff. Do you tip them? If so, what expected?
Who doesn't automatically "need" a tip? I have read some horror stories. Like today I read about a guy getting a 4k tattoo and tipping $200. A family member thought that wasn't enough. Now while he may want to tip because he's so happy with the work, should one be expected? The tattoo artist makes his own prices and obviously charges what he thinks is the correct price for his work. Shouldn't he be happy with that? Is a tip necessary? I should mention, in the post I read there was no mention of the tattoo artists feelings on the matter and my question is based on the mentality around the tip. I did read a story a while ago about a (self employed)masseuse who was not happy about no tip. But she makes her own prices so I don't understand.
Hopefully you can understand my confusion. In short. Who gets tipped and who doesn't?
It's a cost I'm going to have to account for so any help I'd appreciate.
Thanks for reading

Link May 16, 2024 – Welcome to another Safe Withdrawal Rate Series installment. Please see the landing page of the series for a guide to all parts so far. In Part 60, dealing with the “Die With Zero” idea, I mentioned working on an upcoming post about the “Safety First” approach, and I finally got around to writing that post. What is Safety First? It involves using asset allocations different from those in the Trinity Study or my SWR Toolbox (see Part 28). For example, we could use Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) as a default-free and CPI-hedged investment option. However, TIPS are no hedge against longevity risk. An annuity hedges against longevity risk; though the most common annuity option, a single premium immediate annuity (SPIA), is usually not CPI-adjusted. Also, for the longest time, low interest rates rendered the Safety First approach all but useless because neither TIPS ladders nor annuities generated enough income for a comfortable retirement. You would have been better off taking your chances with the volatility of a 60/40 portfolio.
In other words, there is no free lunch. You don’t get peace of mind for free. Rather, you likely pay a steep price for that safety by giving up most, if not all, of your portfolio upside and/or bequest potential. However, since interest rates started rising again in 2022, the entire fixed-income interest rate landscape looks more attractive now. Could this be the time to reconsider Safety First? Let’s take a look…

Skin type - Combination skin with PIH
Weather - Extremely hot and a bit humid
Concerns - Acne marks (PIH) which are old and dehydrated skin too.
AM skincare routine-
Cleanser - COSRX Low pH Good Morning Gel Cleanser (using it currently)
Toner - Ultra-Low Molecular Hyaluronic Acid Toner (ordered new)
Essence - Cosrx Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence (using it currently)
Serum - Goodal Green Tangerine Vita C Dark Spot Care Serum (ordered new) OR Beauty of Joseon Glow Serum : Propolis+Niacinamide
( Maybe I’ll alternate them can they be used together?)
Moisturiser - Beauty of Joseon Red Bean Water Gel (using it currently)
Sunscreen - ISNTREE Hyaluronic Acid Watery Sun Gel SPF 50+ PA++++ (using it currently)
PM routine -
Cleanser - Simple Kind To Skin Refreshing Facial Wash (using it currently)
Toner - Corsx AHA/BHA Clarifying Treatment Facial Toner (ordered new)
Essence - Cosrx Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence (using it currently)
Serum- Layering both is a good option?
Numbuzin No.5 Goodbye Blemish Serum And AXIS-Y Dark Spot Correcting Glow Serum
(ordered new- both serums)
Moisturiser- if it doesn’t get too heavy then the same one - Beauty of Joseon Red Bean Water Gel
Okay so I’ve ordered these Korean products and could you tell me if my order of layering them is correct or not. As far as I understand the ingredients won’t work against each other.
I’ll add these products one by one to my routine. Any advice would be appreciated.

Here's my situation: 36yo, British citizen but spent much of my life overseas in various places. Returned to the UK in 2018 for the first time as a working adult. Subsequently, I only have 6 fully paid up years in my national insurance record and I'll need to contribute for another 29 years to receive the full state pension. That doesn't give me a lot of wiggle room, and means I would need to work every single year bar three up until state pension age to receive the full benefit, which I guess can't be guaranteed if you factor in possible unexpected illness, caring duties, moving overseas for a couple of years, etc..
I know I can buy previous missing years for around £824 each, but the deadline for that is fast approaching: from April 2025, the 13 'gap' years I have between 2006-2018 I will no longer have the option of buying.
I'm also looking to buy my first house with my partner early next year. All going to plan it would probably be just before the NI buy back deadline kicks in (and ideally before the stamp duty threshold reverts back up to the lower level...)
I'm trying to weigh up what the smartest thing to do long term/what would give the best return:

• Option1: Take ~£4000 and buy 5 missing years before I lose the option to, giving me more breathing room with the number of remaining years required to contribute (as wouldn't be constrained to working 29 of the next 32 years in the UK and would reach the 35 year NI threshold earlier). That £4000 would then be worth more in retirement than the intial 'investment', assuming I live at least 5 years past 68 which of course is not guaranteed. I also don't really believe that by the time I am of govt sanctioned "retirement age" somewhere around 2056, that the state pension will even exist, or exist in its current form. For my generation, it feels like it will be a fraction of what retirees today enjoy.
  
• Option2: Keep the £4000 in my house deposit fund. Higher deposit = better LTV = better interest rate and lower repayments. That £4000 larger deposit would save me about £7500 in total paid over the life of a 30yr loan by rough calculations and current interest rates. Also, on the ladder a bit sooner, mortgage free sooner maybe... Lower repayments mean more of my income available to invest in other things.
  
• Option3: Take the £4000 and add it to my SIPP, or some other long term S&S ISA, S&P500... let the market do the growing, hope to get 8% returns? That £4k could be £40k over 30 years.
  

Other relevant factors:

• Decent income £90kpa but self employed in semi-volatile industry (Partner has similar income but is salaried.)
• We're hoping to have a combined £85-95k deposit (exclusing fees etc) by beginning of next year, for a ~550k property. My portion of the deposit will be around £60k. I will have more to cover fees, plus an emergency savings fund.
• My current pension situation is not great for my age: £8k in a SIPP I just started 6mo ago, and about £20k in other pension pots in other countries I've lived in. I'm aggresively contributing to SIPP now and plan to continue.
• No health concerns
• No kids
• I love where I live now, but I've always enjoyed living in other countries and I can't imagine myself exlusively living/working in the UK for the next 30+ years. This is kind of the only thing that makes buying missing NI years make any sense to me - to 'buy' myself more opportunities outside of the UK during my working years.

Am I missing something really obvious? If I moved overseas for 5 years at some point in the next couple of decades, could I just voluntarily contribute NI each of those years to keep myself on track to reach the 35 year threshold? Is state pension kind of a waste of time and I'd be better investing my money/time into the sharemarket? Should I not worry about increasing my deposit by such a small amount cos inflation and property price increase eats the 'real' cost of the mortgage in the long run? Will the sun blow up before any of this is relevant and I should just enjoy my life?! Help!

That’s what it feels like to me. Because it’s obvious the Lakers aren’t in a position to get a Giannis type player that could get them back into true championship contention. Suns aren’t trading BookeDurant to a west rival. Warriors aren’t blowing it up they are trying like the Lakers in vain to make it work. But it’s all about the young teams. Next year the Spurs will be the young team that blows up like the Twolves did this year.
The west will be owned by Nuggets/Spurs/Wolves/OKC for next 5 years. Lakers/Warriors/Clippers/Suns all aging and declining and in bad salary cap positions.
It feels like Lebron wants to stay in LA because the Lakers have biggest fan base. He needs Laker fans to support him in conversations of greatest ever.
I do think he wants to play with Bronny. But I think he wants to have the all time record as his thing against Jordan. And he learned from Kareem.
Kareem should have played another 3-5 seasons and locked it down more. But Kareem retired to early wrongfully thinking the record would never be touched.
If Lebron retires right now the record will probably be broken as NBA has seen an offensive explosion in modern times Kareem never envisioned happening. It could be Wemby who does it. Wemby is a lot like Kareem and Wilt in that he’s a very athletic big man who can pivot to a shooter when he gets older and loses that athleticism.
I think if Lebron really wanted more championships he would have left the Lakers 2 years ago.