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I like my therapist and don't plan to walk away because we really fit well, so I am not leaving. I'm writing this to understand if I am reading into things and should adjust my understanding, or if it is really confusing what she is saying.
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4 years ago I got out of a sexually ( and otherwise) absive relationship. Needless to say rape was a part of that sadly. I have since struggled to engage with anyone in a that way or accept physical compliments because they make me feel like a piece of meat, and I would rather not be in that position. I have a lot of boundaries regarding physical things, including being touched, physical compliments etc.
Only recently did my brain allow me to start processing this (disassociation did its job to help me function at work). So we are now working through in therapy regarding sexuality, gender, etc. I understand we have to explaore it, but even before the abuse I was never into physical stuff, I have never felt physical attraction towards anyone. Maybe once for like 5 minutes only after the person had shown me respect and made me feel absolutely safe and like I know that they will respect my "no", that was after 6 months of dating and was after the abuse. I prefer to be liked for being smart, claver, having a ton of interests and just a good person.
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However, the way my therapist speaks of this is "I don't like to put labels, there are asexual tendencies in you, BUT we all are suxual and biological being and being asexual is just a very repressed sexuality" and I don't know how to understand this. Because I don't believe that asexuality is repressed anything. Same as being gay isn't "a hate towards women". I don't look when people in movies are kissing because I feel like I am invading their privacy, I can't watch Amrican TV shows because of the obscene amounts of nudity.
I understand that sexuality is important and trauma is influencing it, but I was never into this stuff even bore the sexual abuse.
The first part about how I have "tendencies towards asexuality" makes me feel validated but in the same breath I get so invalidated? It's hard for me to open up to someone if they can just tell me that I am "repressing" things when I have always been this way. Her words make me feel like I am not allowed to be asexual or demisexual, like I am supposed to be sexual, which makes me think I should be putting myself in situations to "overcome asexuality" and as such put myself in harm's way against my will.
I would like to ask her to explain, but how would I go about asking this in a professional manner to receive the best answer? I dont'even know what answer I would want at this point.

My 19 year old is expecting to get fired from his job today - it's day 2 and he missed the lift in and still wouldn't get out of bed when I called him. Took an hour after I went in, he set 13 alarms and reminders on Alexa. He was diagnosed almost 3 years.
He said when he's in bed his brain is like "f*ck it, I don't care", but as soon as he's out of bed he's really stressed and wants to get to work.
He won't help himself and hates his life right now. He also doesn't want medication as has decided he'd forget anyway and doesn't want side effects (he won't get help, support, listen to me). He is often very angry at me and swears/shouts a lot, plus doesn't help with anything in the house. It's really overwhelming me to be around him but I just want to help.
Anyone else come through similar? I'm so worried about him. He owes money to the few friends he has (and to me) and is getting stoned 4ish nights a week. He earns a decent wage and has been given some really great opportunities, but still can't get through the fog and paralysis. He dropped out of school and then college and also out of an apprenticeship, but has been labouring pretty consistently for the last year, so I know he does really want to work. My heart break for him at times.

Hello! I’m a total beginner, just done a couple of day courses. I absolutely love stained glass and glass art in general. I’m at a point in my life (I’m in my 30’s) where my youngest is about to start school, and I want to learn something new. I work part time. I’m a professional in my regular career which is utterly unrelated to art. I’ll have 3 school length (9:30-2:30) days a week, term time, to do something for myself. I’ve always wanted to do something creative but life’s practicalities got in the way.
There are no more advanced courses near me. I can’t really justify the cost to set up at home at this point as I don’t have the skills but I’m desperate to learn more. I’ve done textile art on a commission basis to pay my way through my undergraduate degree many years ago. So I can draw ok, and use photoshop etc. I’ve got a fair sense of general composition and colour. I’m generally handy, can follow instructions, and am patient with small and fiddly work.
There are a fair few stained glass studios around me, but none do courses or anything. Some are more modern, some focus on ecclesiastical work, some more on repairs. I’m in the UK if it matters. I’m wondering how it would be taken if I offered to work for free doing any odd jobs, running errands, cleaning, organising, taking calls, or whatever was needed in exchange for being taught the craft? Would this been seen as really cheeky? I’m not really sure if having someone around would be helpful or not so I’ve no idea if I’m offering something that would be a fair exchange.
Thanks for any advice!

I’ve never met a cop unless it’s through my job (unless you include being breathoed). Admittedly I have negative perceptions of the police, but I’m curious to hear from someone on the inside what the job is like day-to-day, what the main challenges you face are, and the impact the job has had on you.

Hey Courtney!! Hope you are doing well. I have been watching your videos for years toghther now and you do an amazing job!!. I never thought ill be sending this out. Bur here we go To fully understand the story I'm giving you a bit of context first. I'm from India and here it is pretty common to live in joint families. I live with my grandparents, uncle and aunt and parents. Our house is built in a way where we have 4 houses in a common compound. It's like a duplex but each floor has different houses. So the story begins with when my maternal grandfather passed away. He passed due to cancer. My parents felt that since his passing my grandmother would be really alone in the house and hence asked me to say with her atleast during the night also considering the fact she is old too. My grandparents house is on the ground floor and it has 2 rooms
So the story begins here I'm a late night owl and I love to stay up till late hours in the morning and since I was in college it has become an habit. A few years since I started living with my grandmother I never has any weried experiences even when I used to stay up. I used to sleep in the same room as her and it was pretty fine. At some point few years later my elder sister too started accompanying me to sleep downstairs and considering how we both live to stay up, talk or watch we occupied the other room in the house. The fact about this other room is it wasn't used much as it was just my grandparents in the house. Fast forward to a year later I had my exams and I used to stay up for a full night to prep so I occupied the dining room and my sister was in the other room packing her stuff to go for a wedding the next day. Since I was sleepy and bored I got up washed my face all while talking to my sister about the wedding happening the next day. Mind that no one else apart from my grandmother, me and my sister were in the house and this was dead 2 in the morning. At some point of doing my skincare I went up to the door and continued conversing with my sister however while talking I saw my sisters face turn from having a normal expression to a horror. I didn't notice this in the beginning but when I observed my sisters face had turned pale. She looked horrified. I asked if something was wrong and why she would be staring at me that way. She then suddenly asked me to enter the room and shut the door. I was confused and kept asking her what is wrong and she being hesitant to say anything other than repeating me to come into the room and shut the door. At this point I thought she was messing with me and I played along too as I shut the door and sat down.
She then said the most horrific thing I have heard. She said she could see a shadow taller than me (I'm 5'10) behind me and she saw it stand behind me then walking past me. Even though she said all this I did not believe her at all I still thought she was messing around and asked her to stop messing with me. But in all honesty she said I'm not kidding or trying to scare you but it really happend.
Following a few days later we being ourselves were up at 3 in the morning doing our work, watching and stuff. By this time ny sister grew so apprehensive of the shadow incident she locked the room doors before sleeping. Anyway when we were working and laying on the bed we heard 3 knocks on the door. We assumed it is my grandmother asking us to sleep since it's already too late. I went to answer the door to tell her we were about to sleep and as I opened the door I didn't see her there it was just darkness. Assuming she knocked and went to use the washroom I went ahead to check there but she wasn't there either. Later I walked upto her room to check if she was awake but I found her in deep sleep and the next morning when we asked if she knocked on our door she said she was too tired and slept through the night.
At this point me and my sister grew more afraid of this. Following weeks and months things grew stranger and stranger. We would hear knocking and banging on the door between 2 and 3 in the morning and started having the most horrifying dreams we ever had regarding the room and the house. My sister was also being touched by whatever it was and things were so badly escalated it never ended.
Currently I do not sleep there anymore. There are a lot more stories these 2 are just the initial ones which we both experienced but individually and toghther we experienced a lot more. I will end this post with these 2 for now. I will definitely type the other stories shortly.
I request you to keep me anonymous Thank you Lots of light and love to you!!

Looking for reassurance/advice.
Hi all. I am new here, and I don't use reddit much, but I am using it as a last resort, and I'm really sorry for the long story, and appreciate any reassuring or helpful replies.
Up until last Sunday, 21st of May, everything was fine. I know I already have slight anxiety from previous things in life, for example not wanting to go out much, and being scared walking around in public. I used a vape for most of my day to day life have used one on and off for many years, but stopped cold turkey and IMMEDIATELY after having this "anxiety attack". I am an overweight individual, and have been for a long while, because of my mental health, so I have been recently worried about my physical health, whilst not doing anything about it, and being super lazy basically. I've been having the odd heart palpitation for years, and recently had noticed when laying down at my computer chair, my heart would flutter, this started happening a little bit before I started working out (because it was sort of a wake up call to me). I started working out for only 15-20 minutes a day, it's not much but it's something. I did indoors cycling. Until on 21st of May, Sunday, I was laying in my chair and I decided to call the non-emergency medical service (111 in the UK), for health advice to do with these heart palpitations, for more information and to put my mind at ease. What followed was horrific, I finished up on the phone and went to lay down to see if I would feel better, because the palpitations then continued after the phone call. (I think at this point I had already started panicking.) After laying down for no longer than 30 seconds, a pulse went through my body, almost like the strongest heart beat I've ever felt, and I felt lightheaded almost immediately. I shot up, and vocally said "Woah", at that point I rushed for my phone, and called emergency services, because I thought I was having a heart attack, I remember my heart pounding out of my chest, and feeling light headed - My heart was beating... fast but not abnormally fast. I had asked for an ambulance, and in the mean time, somebody called me from a nursing team, and they started feeding me the idea that I was having an anxiety attack. I spoke to him until I calmed down enough, I eventually ended up falling asleep sitting up in my computer chair, 1 hour~ later, the paramedic arrived. They checked my heart with an ECG machine, and checked my bloody pressure - Both were apparently perfectly okay, according to the paramedic, but she advised that I go to hospital since I'd been having the heart thump for over an hour.
I arrive at the hospital, and I feel the same symptoms start up once again, but this time I tried to breathe through it, and it wasn't nearly as bad, but still scary. I was in hospital and I was having problems with my heart, it was very stressful. In the hospital, I had another ECG check, my blood pressure and I had blood tests taken as well. After 4-5 hours of anxious waiting for results, apparently my blood tests were also completely perfect and clear. They said it was most likely anxiety.
As somebody who's been overweight their entire life, this was a huge shock to me, and I really am grateful for it. But part of me is doubting that there IS something wrong with me now, because today, 8 days later, I am experiencing most likely worse symptoms than I was before.
My symptoms in order from when they happened (Sunday 21st May):
on the Monday - My heart continued to pound, non stop for days, and still is to this day. I started worrying that I was still dying and the doctors didn't check me properly. I didn't eat much, and I definitely had trouble sleeping. I started non-stop checking my heart rate and then got extremely anxious because it was hovering around 50-65 BPM. I kept checking my pulse to make sure I was still alive and my heart wasn't going 100 miles per hour, but I would only do that when I stop feeling my heart beat, which I assume is what it's normally meant to feel like, but because I'm so anxious about things, if I don't feel my heart beat I start to panic.
Tuesday-Friday - I had this weird pressure build up in my chest, that seems to spread from the top of my stomach all the way over to underneath both of my armpits and it feels like it's above my heart, not my heart itself, though I have felt slight pressure in my heart too. The feeling is almost cold like under my skin - I mostly only get this feeling laying down but I still have it very slightly sitting up; I found a very temporary fix for that, is to lay on my side, and not my back, though that makes my heart feel like it's beating harder. In the same category as this, if I do lay on my side, I can feel that part of my chest vibrating in a way, like it's a muscle spasm. If I do lay on my back, and move slightly to the left or right it alleviates some of the pressure for a short time as well. I started having some chest pains, and arm pains. The chest pains felt like stitches, and they were very sharp, neither lasted for longer than maybe 15-30 minutes at a time. I have had sharp pains in my arms too, but those are very quick sharp pains that don't seem to repeat themselves. I started taking an over the counter medication here called "Kalms" anxiety , I believe it's a Valerian root extract or something like that I'm not even sure that it's working, I think I'm too anxious to let it work. I also started having bad bowel movements (almost complete liquid) and nausea, which apparently is a possible side effect of the Kalms medication.
Friday-Monday (29th/30th May Current time is midnight.) - Throughout the week I've been trying to take the advice of many of my family members, it's just anxiety. I'm trying to tell myself that on repeat, over and over again, but I cannot stop worrying at all. I went to go and stay else where for a night, hoping that exposure to an anxiety inducing situation would help me, but I ended up not being able to sleep, and only sleeping throughout the day. I started having unstable bowel movements,
As of right now, I'm having tightness in my jaw (Like tenseness), tightness in my upper stomach almost like I've been tensing my stomach muscles or worked them out and now it feels weird to push my stomach out, not sure if it's relief or not to relax those muscles, but if you've held in your stomach for a while and then let it bloat back out, that's the feeling I get, still having the tightness in my chest, thumping heart beat still (and has been thumping since last week), I have lost my appetite completely and I am not eating nearly enough, I'm trying to eat super healthy (For example today I had half an apple for breakfast and then a small amount of tuna, broccoli and cauliflower, and rice, of course, I'm worried about that. I'm having extreme troubles getting to sleep because I cannot get my mind away from all of this. Throughout the week I have had random outbursts of literally weeping and crying. I am experiencing feelings of weakness in my likes, they feel like jelly when I stand up. Still experiencing lightheadedness, for example I went to visit my dad to again try and put myself into an anxiety inducing situation to "combat" it, I guess, I hadn't had much sleep at all, but for most of the time I was there I was slightly light headed, and just wanted to sleep the entire time I was there - he gave me food, and I ate it all as to not be rude. I felt nauseous after, but didn't puke, but immediately after eating I had diarrhoea. I don't think it was the food, and I'm chalking that down to the Valarian Root Extract meds I've been taking, but that made me anxious for sure. I only have small bursts of diarrhoea, for like 1-2 hours, then I just don't go to the bathroom. I tried listening to a 40 minute guided meditation for sleep on YouTube this morning, and after replaying it 3 times, I managed to get to sleep, only to be suddenly woken from a nightmare, wasn't able to sleep after that until later in the day.
The pressure is really getting to me now, I'm scared my life won't ever go back to normal and I'm certainly feeling extremely pessimistic about things, and thinking bad things. For the record I have been offered anti-depressants a long long time ago, but chose to never take them because I was scared of the side effects... But now feeling all of this I want to take them more than ever (thoughts on this?).
I really hope somebody can calm me down, as I've tried to sleep already tonight (from 8-10pm, but had a nap from 2-4pm) and I'm exhausted.. Just want an unbroken sleep. I've been told from multiple people that it's just anxiety, but I just can't seem to believe them for longer than 5 minutes.
Sorry for the essay, but I thought I'd go into as much detail as possible. Thanks in advance.

Lost my beautiful boy cat last Sunday night/Monday morning. The Sunday was one of the most horrible things I witnessed. The previous weekend I thought it was time. However, he picked up, started eating, talking, purring and thought he may have more time than I thought. Fast forward to last sunday. He looked okay in the morning but suddenly he crawled over to me and laid on my foot. I knew straight away he didn’t have much time left and vet was closed.
He started peeing and pooping everywhere, could hardly breathe and couldn’t hold his head up at all. When he tried to drink water his face would just fall in the water dish. He collapsed in the litter tray. He kept falling when trying to walk. He was crying in pain and I kept telling him he didn’t have to fight anymore, he has done what he needed to do as a cat and it was time to let go. He was fighting the whole time.
After hours of this I patted him softly under his chin. He suddenly had a moment of lucidity and head butted my hand, put his paw on top of my hand and lifted his head for 10 seconds and stared into my eyes. At that moment I know he was comforting me, telling me it was okay, and he was ready to let go now. It was a moment I’ll never forget.
He stopped fighting and crawled up and was slowly letting go. I napped on the couch next to him. There was a minor earthquake at 11:45pm which woke me from my doze and disturbed him and he moved into what was his final resting position. I patted him could feel his paws were freezing and knew it was going to be very soon. I remember deciding I needed some sleep - I was exhausted and slept on the couch next to him. Checked him before sleeping and he seemed to be breathing. I slept a bit, woke up and he was still in the exact same position and knew he was gone. I actually now think he was gone when I checked on him last but didn’t realise such was the state I was in. How could I not realise he had passed.
I never wanted to see him go through so much pain. I wish I took action earlier but he had picked up a bit. It all seemed to turn within an hour on Sunday. Just now feeling lost without him and wished he didn’t have to experience all of that.
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I have 6ish years of experience in the niche industry I am in, over 3 years in the role (business development/account manager). I am currently working a Senior AM role at a company but due to leave in a few months as they will not be renewing my contract, and I have been looking for new jobs since before so it is no big deal.
This is my first Senior role. So I thought from now on I would be always taking Senior or upper roles, and I even interviewed with a few "Head of" positions. I have yet to hear anything concrete back, but most of the jobs I apply to are in this range.
Now, I came across a role that is perfect fit for me besides the title, at a company I have been dreaming of working for a very long time. Without revealing, this is the best company in the world in this industry, and unfortunately jobs fitting my profile in this company are rarely available, last one being posted over a year ago. So I ended up applying thinking it would not hurt, and I am due for a interview with them, but the problem is... it is an Assistant position. The job duty is the things I already do at my current job, and experience required is at least 2 years, so I do not think the job is "entry-level" despite being marketed as such.
But the fear of downgrading from Senior title to Assistant is making me hesitant and very anxious that I am ruining my career. I have been dreaming of working at this company, and from what I know, most roles are filled internally or through referrals, so the positions I could better fit are never available publicly. And growth is very supported, I have a few friends that moved several positions vertically in a few years.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I'm so tired of how the mental health system is. Nobody seem to know anything about adhd and assume that people who think they might have it are just delusional or have ulterior motives. Is this how you treat people who went on their way to ask for help and go through multiple appointments that cost a lot of money? They might be wrong about the issue being caused by adhd but that doesn't mean they are completely fine and are just spoiled?? Why do specialists, who are supposed to help us, act so insensitive and think it's bad to think something might be wrong with you? Being looked down on because you got your infos from internet like do i have to leave everything to the psy and do no researches at all and wait for them to bring up the possibility of adhd? Is this how insecure they are? As if we were taking their job away by trying to educate ourselves because only them can look at you and interpret your struggles....The answer might not be adhd but it doesn't change the fact that the person is experiencing those things?? Issues with focusing, processing emotions, anxiety....It's like the doctors feel threatened when someone says they are struggling, it reminds me of my mom when she invalidates me when i say i'm tired because she's more tired. Why is the system full of narcissistic insecure boomer-mentality??
I'm so tired.....why is it so hard to find someone who will listen and respect you....I don't want to ask for help anymore but i need it....Everytime i ask for help it turns into more traumatic experience that makes me even more reluctant to ask for help...
When i tell them i came for an adhd assessment they ask me why do i think i might have it and then proceed to belittle those points to "show" me my concerns aren't real because omg you're so inteligent and capable since you speak multiple languages and never skipped a grade! If i wasn't struggling i would have finished uni and would be financially stable...It's like asking for help is a taboo unless you're at the bottom of the bottom, like "how dare you complain when others have it worse" this is all so toxic....

Can i complain about my line manager? Will I actually get an outcome?
Hi everyone.
I think my line manageteam leader is bullying me and I have had enough. But I don’t know if I’m overreacting so I need some more opinions.
I work in the healthcare sector in the U.K. - funny because I thought that’s where mental health and physical health would matter the most but clearly not to the people I work with.
I’ve been working at my current workplace for nearly 2 months now. But I feel like I am being so nitpicked by my current line manager. I must also point out although maybe not relevant that I am an ethnic minority in my workplace. I was late once due to traffic (I catch the bus - a bus that only comes once every 2 hours from my town) so it takes me an hour to get to the town where my workplace is. I was 7 mins late to my work place that once. Btw for my job I don’t need to swipe in or swipe out, you work according to your schedule - and in my diary I had nothing on till 9 so me coming at 8:07 was not effecting my performance in any way. I just feel like this line manager of mine just wants to nitpick and find any excuse to tell me off as he’s very new to having this sort of power of authority. That’s the first example that’s happened. The second example, i asked him if it’s possible for me to have more days in the week to work from home ( I currently only have Friday as work from home) OR be moved to the closer office that is very close to my house if they really need me to come in (bc I’m a newbie) instead of travelling 2hours for 4 days a week - and this is because I am also still a newish mum. I explained to him that my child is still an infant (my baby is 9months old) and I just feel like it would help me so much to have that request accepted. He said he will look into it but never agreed to it. What annoys me is that it’s easily a request that could be done - as many in my position are given working options that suit them. Example 3 - Im doing my job very well and I have gotten so many positive feedback from other colleagues - but not one single positive feedback from my line manager. Which is fine but it just makes me think he really has it against me for some reason? One of my colleagues even told me to be careful as she thinks he really does not like me and it seems that he is nitpicking on everything I do and waiting for me to slip up. This was her observation. Now Idk what to think , this has sealed what I’ve been feeling. As I initially thought it might be in my head.
Now latest example, I’ve been diagnosed recently with IBD unfortunately, so more trips to the loo. and last Thursday I was late to our teams catch up meeting that was at 9. I messaged him saying I was going to be a few mins late - as I had something personal going on (I was too embarassed to mention my diagnosis at this point because I just am not comfortable with this man at all). He proceeded to berate me and say I’m always late. I said to him I’ve only been late twice since I’ve started working? And that I had a good excuse for both occasions. He replies back saying I am “arguing back instead of taking his feeedback on board” I was like ????? I said to him I am defending myself because I don’t think the way you’ve been treating me is fair. He then says he’s going to put the request I told him about on hold bc he thinks I’m underperforming? At that point I just stayed quiet and thought to myself I’m never going to win here. I then told him I was recently diagnosed with IBD and it’s affecting me a lot mentally and physically. He was like “what’s that” and then Googled it and said it out loud in such a monotone voice. “Irritable bowel disease” and he literally showed me no empathy or nothing? Is this normal? What should’ve been my dream job is now a place I dread going to. I dread going to work and I feel so on edge everytime I am there. All weekend I’ve been crying and not knowing what to do. I even had thoughts of just quitting and staying at home caring for my baby instead of going aomewhere where they are not willing to understand or make any sort of adjustment because my line manager has it in for me for some reason. Please advice on what can I do? Is quitting my only option? I have spoken to the cultural and diversity lead in our workplace for advice but she said to me that perhaps I’m just feeling really emotional recently and just taking things the wrong way. But I’ve been employed before in the same sector and I’ve never been made to feel like this? She also said it’s unfortunately just the way the U.K. hierarchy employment scene works - “UK work politics where you have to play the game and just try to get on his good books until he likes you” just like the other newbies that have started they have to suck up to the manager. But I don’t understand why we need to do that? Surely that’s not a normal thing? Is there nothing I can do? I feel like after speaking to her that no one will listen to me. Even the higher up managers are buddies with my line manager so I feel like it’s a case of his word against mine. It’s just never going to end up with the result I want. The result that I want is to have a different manager - I cannot deal with this man anymore. I’ve had enough. Please if you were in my shoes what would you do. Thank you

I'm struggling big time. I started at my job nearly a year ago as a casual educator because I am studying psychology at uni. I still love ECE but I was burnt out working full time and I want to pursue further education, casual seemed perfect for me. But, the centre is struggling with staff like every centre out there, so at the beginning of the year I got put on a part-time contract but the contract was set to end this month in time for my exams so I could take time off and focus on uni.
I have been sick all year. Constantly. I used up my sick leave pretty quickly and I've just been powering through, I went into the negatives at one point so now when I get sick I just accept that I have to keep going but it's been wearing on me and getting worse and worse. The stress of uni is making my immune system worse and I am feeling worse every day. I decided to ask my director to go back to being a casual, she was really understanding, and I felt good about having more flexibility again.
Well, it turns out my director was burnt out too. She left abruptly and understandably given her circumstances. We currently have no director and our centre is struggling even more than it was. The lady who has taken some of her roles didn't get the communication that I was back to being a casual and that I was taking time off and I have completely disappointed her. I was supposed to have today off but I had 3 missed calls asking where I was. Then, on top of that, I had to say that I need tomorrow off because I have now fallen quite ill (which was separate from why I had asked for the day off) but I am sick, physically, with stress. The next two weeks I have exams, so I am a no show
Everyone at my centre is sick with stress. I know it's not just me, the hygiene process is sooo lacking and we don't have any support, everyone is struggling. I feel so guilty. I am letting the staff down, and the children down, but I can't do it, I can't work right now, I'm completely burnt out and so is everyone. I'm surprised the centre isn't shutting down. I don't know what to do. I've worked when I have been sick too often but I need to rest now. Why is it so overwhelming for me? Why do some people just seem to cope so much better than I do?

Are you tired of a dull and uninspiring work environment? Do you feel like your team lacks the motivation to excel and achieve great things? If so, it's time to consider the power of team bonding activities. Not only can these activities provide a much-needed break from the daily grind, but they can also help foster a positive work culture that encourages collaboration and productivity. In this blog post, we'll explore the benefits of team bonding activities and share some fun ideas to help you create a more engaging work environment. Join us as we take a closer look at the impact of team bonding on workplace morale, and how Kebe Corp. can help you incorporate these activities into your company's culture.
Kebe Corp is a company that understands the importance of creating a positive work environment. They believe that team bonding activities are an effective way to promote collaboration, communication and a sense of unity among team members. Research has shown that such activities can increase employee engagement, improve productivity and reduce turnover rates. Team bonding activities can range from simple icebreakers to elaborate team-building exercises. However, the key is to choose activities that are fun, challenging and foster a sense of belonging. Kebe Corp believes that by investing in team bonding activities, they are investing in their employees' well-being, job satisfaction and ultimately their bottom line.
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• Organize team building activities outside the office
• Create a positive work atmosphere with open communication
• Encourage a culture of feedback and recognition
• Celebrate successes and milestones together
• Invest in team-building sessions or activities
• Schedule regular fun activities to build morale
• Promote team camaraderie by finding ways to laugh together
• Create special incentives to recognize great performance

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In conclusion, team bonding activities are not just a fun way to spend time with colleagues, but they also have numerous benefits for the workplace. By promoting collaboration, communication and a sense of unity among team members, these activities can lead to increased employee engagement, improved productivity and reduced turnover rates. At Kebe Corp, we strongly believe in investing in our employees' well-being and job satisfaction by providing opportunities for team bonding. By doing so, we are building a stronger team that is committed to achieving our organizational goals, and ultimately contributing to our bottom line. We encourage all organizations to consider the benefits of team bonding activities and make them a regular part of their workplace culture.

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So, two weeks ago from May 14th through the 18th I had gotten My period. It was unfortunate bc I was at Disneyland for the very first time and I was very uncomfortable. Anyway, I had unprotected sex twice the week before that on both the 7th and the 8th of May. Fast forward and the last time I had sex was the 21st this month. I think I skipped the plan b on the 7th and 8th bevsjse I was about to get my period and didn't feel it was necessary. I took a plan b either 2 to 3 days after the last time I had unprotected sex on the 21st. Not right away. Knowing I was either ovulating or about to be as I use Flo. That period tracker app. I'm type 1 diabetic I get frequent utis due to my blood sugars alone. It started to hurt to pee on Friday a few days ago around the same time I koticed little spots of dark brown blood. I don't spot between periods so this freaked me out a bit. It was very light only a few spots. Saturday there was no blood but i felt very sick and threw up after using the bathroom. Today, Sunday I had noticed a spot on the bed and freaked out thinking somehow I mightve pooped a little bit. It's very dark brown and creamy. Went to the bathroom didn't even have to poop. It hurt to pee, got up and noticed a dark brown blood clot in the toilet. This freaked me out bc I thought I peed it out. I've had a kidney infection in the past and was worried I was ignoring a uti. Although tbis doesn't feel like a uti. It doesn't hurt constantly and all the pain actually goes away until I have to use the bathroom again. The pain is different. I didn't realize rhe blood was coming from Mt vagina until a few hours ago when I seen it on the toilet paper. It's gotten heavier since Friday. Not enough to fill a pad but enough to notice in my underwear more than the spotting on Friday. I've noted some cramping around my right ovary before any of this even started. I'm not in the best situation currently with my love life. We did just go to Disneyland together but we aren't together and have been broken up for almost a year now. I've only been with one man but he has seen one other girl in the time being. I got checked almost a year ago for stds and came back clean. Might be an sti now but the only symptoms are the dark brown creamt blood and the pain with urination. But this doesn't feel like a uti. And I really don't think it's an std. The chance is there but the three of us have all been tested since and all came back clear and neither him or the other girl have symptoms. Just me. I've looked up implantation bleeding and I'm nervous thats the possibility. I did take a plan b but it was 2-3 days after unprotected sex around the time I'd be ovulating or about to be. Does this sound anything like implantation bleeding? I'm not irritated down there no itchiness burning nothing. Completely fine until I actually have to go to the bathroom and then the pain dissapears again. So I don't think this is an sti nor does this remind me of a uti. Might I be pregnant? I know kts too early for a test.

I'm not even where to start, this is long I apologize in advance for errors, I'm on mobile...
Please bare with me as I have multiple chronic illnesses which cause my brain to be mushy 200% of the time... But I'll try to be as detailed as possible, I don't want to give too much away as this is a very serious issue and could get my husband in some serious trouble. Which he deserves to be in, BUT I'm currently waiting on a decision from social security disability so his full time employment means we have a home, food to eat and food for my 3 fur babies. He is supporting me and I do not have anything to fall back on in terms of support so I'm stuck still living with my husband.
The backstory: we've been together for almost ten years now, married for about 3. I have multiple slow progression painful chronic illnesses, I've been sick my whole life and he's taken on a huge responsibility being my partner... And I thought he accepted me for who I am not what I can offer. Mind you I'm not completely disabled, I'm able to do light housework, make his lunch for work, care for our pets and make simple dinners daily... So from chronic illness standards I'm doing pretty well for how progressed they are. Multiple of my illnesses causes severe pain so I take high dose pain meds to regulate myself on top of getting regular epidural steroid injections and ablations of the nerves in my spinal column to be able to walk. Back to the story, about 3 years into our relationship, the first time I noticed my meds were going missing I was on a low dose pain med called tramadol, he lied but eventually admitted to taking "a few". We moved forward but I had to hide my medication. The second time, fast forward a few years and we had moved into our new house. At this point I was taking lower dose Norco, but I was noticing I was light when I shouldn't have been. Confrontation again and I got a lock box. Third time I was spring cleaning and I found an empty checkbook full of my USED fentanyl patches, I had started using those due to not being able to keep my meds down completely. He had shaken them out of my sharps container then stored them away... Still not sure what he was going to do with them, it's basically skin cells by the time I take it off. I was ready to leave at this time but my parents had just moved 2 and a half hours away in a two bedroom small home. I had/have no where to go and no money to use to do anything about it... Things seemed fine for a couple years. The lock box was protecting my meds and things seemed ok... But I was still weary... Unfortunately my room in which I stored my lockbox got really cluttered due to many reasons so it became hard to use. Another part of me wanted to trust my husband. Stupid me, right?
Well to break down my dosage - I am prescribed a medium dose Norco 4x a day. Usually I only take 2-3 depending on pain and ration the rest in case of med shortage. But I was noticing my extra earrings were not as abundant as they should have been but I thought maybe I was taking a bit extra that month since it was winter. Due to recent medication shortages, my dose was increased but for 3x a day. Which I downgraded my dose to 2x a day to make sure I had extra as my pharmacy warned me they still can't get any in.
Come to the other day and I open my bottle to notice I only had a small handful... So I emptied the bottle and counted, i only had enough to take 2 a day for the next three days leaving me not only 3 Norco short for those days, but three days worth was completely gone... My heart sank because I knew what happened... I confronted my husband who lied about it at first but I asked him again and he finally admitted to taking "a few". I screamed at him for awhile before telling him to get out of my face and go to work, so he left. Sitting there I calculated not only did he steal about a months worth (1 a day) for May but he had to of stolen another two months worth during the previous months my meds weren't in the lock box... A MINIMUM of 90 Norco was taken from me when I absolutely needed them.
I wanted to file a police report that morning but was stopped by my mom who reminded me that I'm currently depending on him to survive. Only when social security goes through do I have any options of leaving... I currently pay about $315 a month on a student loan I'm not even able to use. It's not for not trying, I started working at the age of 14 but had to stop in 2020 due to multiple flare ups ending me up at 93 pounds plus in and out of the hospital on the regular.
Current situation, it's been 5 days, I asked him if he had anything to say to me at all, he said no. He still says I love you and tries to kiss me... I lean away in disgust... I'm disgusted with his audacity to take the medication that helps me be a person. I'm disgusted with myself that I do still love him but all feelings have been burned from his actions. It's obvious he has no respect for me and I'm not even sure if he married me because he loves me or if he just thought he'd have easy access to my medications for the rest of his life... Well my life. I feel obligated to continue my "wifely duties" such as making his lunch, picking up the house to the best of my abilities, make us dinner at night as he is the only one on the house so it's his, he's letting me stay despite my cold demeanor... Kinda keep the peace until I can figure a way out... It's selfish but so is he.
I do not have money to move on my own and I have to take my two large dogs and cat with me as he will neglect them, not intentionally, he has ADHD so he just forgets things. My parents said I could come up there but that means every doctors appointment I'm driving 5 hours both ways... And I have 5-7 a month. My best friend is in another state, my other bestie has 4 kids a husband and allergic to animals, 3rd friend lives with her aunt and uncle. I could crash at my brother's for a few days but not any longer... And my neighbor can't house my animals... That is my list of people, I have nobody else... Though who would want to roommate with someone who can't pay rent but can contribute to groceries, cook and light cleaning...
I'm not even sure why I'm posting... I'm very lost and confused. I've officially taken off my wedding band, I know I should file a report but he could lose his job which means he loses insurance meaning I lose insurance... I should leave him but I have nowhere to go... I told him the only way I'd even consider working on our relationship again is if he goes to therapy or rehab but he's said he'd go on the past just to not go or go once then never again...
My only plan I can think of is wait for social security to hopefully approve me then I can get my student loan waved, then I can look into low income apartments or housing... But who knows how long that's going to take, it's been in reconsideration since October of last year (22).
I'm gonna go potato now... Any helpful advice would be magical. Thank you

This is the updated version of u/mykeedee's wonderful guide written with their express persmission.
Whilst most of the contents of the guide are still golden, the mod has gone through a lot of changes since 2020, prompting me to write this update. As such, I would like to humbly introduce the 2023 edition with OP's from the original.
"Ever wanted to be an invincible Mary Sue slaughtering your way across Tamriel and dominating the continent without cheating or dying? Well unlike in Vanilla CK2 Elder Kings has a defined path to success for this outcome with zero RNG involved. Many of us have done this, but there's a bit of inherent knowledge of the mechanics required to do it with minimal headaches, hence this guide.
This is a guide for people who own Jade Dragon, don't ask how if you don't have it because I don't know."
The guide is tooled towards making you a high-stat Legendary Pureblooded Vampire Mage. A legendary mage can remove bad congenital traits, add positive ones, and amongst the many OP benefits of being a mage in the Elder Scrolls. A Pureblooded Vampire is immortal, can sire children, and will never be exposed as one unless if you feed or tell a friend/lover.
AI can be set at extreme handicap, the AI having more money is ironically a good thing for you

Step One: Selecting your starting position.

The strat is going to require an immense amount of cash. As raiding is not limited to certain religions in EK1, you would want to play someone coastal and could raid literally everywhere, a patrician, or ideally both. Whilst you could technically do this strat as genuinely anyone in Mundus, you are going to look real silly trying to raid anyone as a single-holding count in the middle of Alinor.

Step Two: Selecting your natural lifespan.

The ruler designer ages you per good trait and de-ages you per bad trait. Playing as a long-lived mer is obviously the best foil to this caveat and you could simply ignore this guide to play as a 70 year old genetically perfect bosmer. However, the guide also works excellently for short-lived races (if you're not actively trying to age your character) or for starting off as a 16 year old elf.

Step Three: Designing your character.

Traits:
You are NOT to gain vampirism and immortality from ruler designer. As such, ignore all of the vampire traits. You are however looking towards becoming a legendary mage. To do so you will start your character, STRICTLY, as Experienced Mage.
For positive traits, especially congenitals, we recommend the following as they are either impossible or an extreme b*tch to get and are remarkably valuable

• Genius - can't be magicked by Legendary Mage
• Tall - can't be magicked by Legendary Mage
• Lucky - can't be magicked by Legendary Mage
• Left Handed - can't be magicked by Legendary Mage
• Shrewd - an extreme b*tch to get. Practically unobtainable within your own life time
• Daedric Scion - you are some daedric prince's spawn.
• Erudite - an extreme b*tch to get. Practically unobtainable within your own life time
• Any of the character history traits - You will start off as 16 year old child of who knows what. You want to add any of these in, I prefer Former Soldier
• Your preferred Birthsign

For negative traits, especially congenitals, we recommend the following as they are removable, insignificant, or can be dealt with

• All of the bad congenitals (dark bluish purple background in icons) except dwarf, inbred, slow/imbecile, unlucky - can be magicked away by Master Mage and replaced by good congenitals by Legendary Mage
• Bastard/Adopted - get both. A ruler designed character has no parents and the negatives are cancelled by your super high stats.
• Drunkard, Lunatic, Possessed - can be magicked away by Master Mage
• Uncouth - can be removed and even replaced with Groomed by being a member of the Scenarists
• Gluttonous, Arbitrary, Craven, Slothful - will be removed by the passage of time
• Cruel - is actually a positive if you want to become a Necromancer

This is a risky trait to add but if you think you're lucky and will gain magicka early, go take Scurvy which you will be curing ASAP.
Stats:
Put a base 10 points in all your stats, then pump your Total Learning to at least 30 and put what's left into Martial. Anything north of 50 martial will ensure your char is a nightmare to beat when leading an army. Add 5 clicks to fertility if you want an easier time spawning kids.
If you've stacked so many negative traits, you would notice that your char is still 16 years old. If this is so, go wild in dumping points into Martial until around 90 at most as the designer will Stack Overflow your Martial back to zero if you go anywhere above that. At 80+ martial, your ruler will practically win every single battle.
Here are some more recommendations for the stat dumps after 80-90 Martial, rationale, and ranked by importance

• IMPORTANT - Dump some points into Intrigue until reaching a total somewhere north of 36-40. this will make it easier to do jobs as a member of the Thieves Guild or the local version of it
• Important - Dump some points into Learning until reaching somewhere north of 45-50 for a larger Magicka pool. You will need it. A bit higher if you want to be a Necromancer.
• Somewhat less important - A Stewardship skill of 40-50+ improved by boosts from Black Book quests will give you enough Demesne Limit to personally hold all the tower holdings (White-Gold, Greensap, Adamantine, Crystal-Like), and get an impressive income as a patrician
• Unimportant - Just have a base of 18-20 for Diplomacy. By the end of this guide, your vassals should immensely like/fear you regardless.

Keep dumping points into stats/traits until your character ceases to be 16 years old.
Religion
Publicly-worshipping short lived mortals gain a discount for Favor (Ardor ingame) interactions. If you want to save time as a short lived race and is fine with the likelihood of becoming middle aged, start off as publicly Cult of Hermaeus Mora. Elsewise, start off as publicly Cult of Molag Bal. Either works as you are going to be worshipping both of these in sequence.
Why are we worshipping Hermaeus Mora - We are going to use the Oghma Infinium twice to graduate our Experienced Mage to Master Mage then to Legendary Mage. We can also use the Black Book events to boost our stats even further.
Why are we worshipping Molag Bal - To gain Pureblooded Vampirism

Step Four: Playing the Game

To gain benefits from Daedric Princes, we have to spend Ardor. To gain Ardor, we would have to sacrifice a ton of Artifacts. As the PC has no cost-efficient ways to craft artifacts for sacrifice, we would have to steal these from elsewhere in the world.
So upon starting the game, you are to join your local Thieves Guild or version of it. Upon joining, you will be given the option to personally steal artifacts, as long as the target is located in the same continent, as opposed to having someone else doing it for you. If you've started off with an impressively high score in Intrigue, you will successfully steal the following artifacts around 95% of the time and at markedly lower cost. These artifacts are usually the easiest to steal, the most prevalent, and are ordered according to my subjective ranking by cost-efficiency

1. Silver Ring - steal for 25-50 drakes, sacrificed for 150 Ardor.
2. Superior Mithril Armour - steal for 75-150 drakes, sacrificed for 400 ardor
3. Superior Steel Sword - steal for 25-50 drakes, sacrifice for 100 ardor
4. Mithril Armour - steal for 75-150 drakes, sacrificed for 300 ardor

As stealing requires gold, gold will be gained either by raiding or trade posts. If you're a patrician near or a non-patrician on the Imperial Isle, slap a trade post on there IMMEDIATELY and forget it until later. In this time of the game, gold is mostly gained by raiding.
Whilst you start off as an unbeatable 80+ Martial god, you will still need the numbers to raid down holdings. I suggest dabbling into Necromancy and summoning up risen dead armies for this purpose, unless if you started out as a King/Emperor with an acceptable amount of vassal levies. Do take care as learning Necromancy quickly, and the Necromancer's Ring and Necromancer's Amulet, comes with a significant semi-temporary health malus. So cure that Scurvy ASAP using Expert Mage.
So the gameplay is

1. a loop of raiding, stealing an artifact, sacrificing to daedric prince
2. once you have gained what you need from the respective prince (reminder: two uses of Oghma Infinium for Hermaeus, one request for Pureblooded vampirism from Molag), take Scholarship focus, build Observatory, study Oblivion, and secretly convert to the other prince. Alternatively, you can secretly convert if you personally own a county that is the other prince's holy site.
3. a loop of raiding, stealing an artifact, sacrificing to daedric prince. if mastelegendary mage, simultaneously improve your congenitals (get brawny, strong, perceptive, agile, powerful/melodious voice, attractive, hardy)
4. once you have gained what you need from the respective prince (reminder: two uses of Oghma Infinium for Hermaeus, one request for Pureblooded vampirism from Molag), the world is your oyster. You are now the most dangerous being in Aurbis, a Legendary Pureblooded Vampire mage.

That's it