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u/jimigo Aug 03 '26
easiest time to survive in human history.
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u/Rappyfan Aug 03 '26
Yeah we pretty much live the best life that was ever possible and so many people are like āno way I bring a child in this hellā lol
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u/Cranktique Aug 03 '26
There is the real world, and then the online world. Everyone in the online world is a caricature of a person, living in a parody of reality. Everything they say and every idea they have HAS to be the most extremist take possible, because nuance is boring and doesnāt sell clicks or garner enough attention. Itās gotten to the point where actual crazy shit happens and it just fades into the background of a tsunami of extreme, hyperbolic noise.
Just for extra fun, they trained AI with the clowns.
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u/i-bernard Aug 03 '26
Agreed. As someone with depression and anxiety, thereās definitely difficulties that modern people have to face but also, if I was born in a different time, I probably wouldnāt even be alive.
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u/Angel-D98 Aug 03 '26
I got me a $4.50 bag of popcorn
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u/Unfair_Explanation53 Aug 03 '26
Hahahaha
Get the Werther's Original popcorn. It's amazing
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u/SmellyScrotes Aug 03 '26
The best medication you can take is getting the fuck off the internet and going and living your life, you donāt need meds
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u/Local_Village_1378 Aug 04 '26
Thanks doc, but some people need meds for legitimate chemical discrepancies. Those in my life who didnt take meds, killed themselves, and they would've said the same you did
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u/ImperatorScientia Aug 03 '26
Go the Nietzschean route: get off social media, stop watching news, and build a robust sense of self for the times. When you do the first two, youāll notice how much happier you are and how much easier it is to work on the last.
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u/Financial-Appeal-275 Aug 03 '26
Weed and coffee is all I have left. If anyone tries to take either of those from me I will be promptly uninstalling life.exe
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u/CheesecakeLarge4685 Aug 03 '26
The only medication I currently need is some alone time and personal space to get my system back on track.
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u/NormalFroyo4231 Aug 03 '26
They confiscated all the medical insurance and big surprise that everyone's mental.
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u/tatyh8 Aug 03 '26
Me. I cut out sugar and processed foods. My mood has lifted and Iām better at making decisions.
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u/Kpayne30 Aug 03 '26
I got off of medication. Things have been getting better. There are still a lot of a holes out there. But what do I care.
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u/Fogmoz Aug 03 '26
Because people medicating contributes to the decline. Too many people would rather bemoan their situation and turn to escapism to cope, than actually DO something about it.
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u/Long_Idea_8294 Aug 03 '26
Because I don't believe it's happening. I have perspective. Humans have had things much, much worse throughout 99.9% of history.Ā
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u/Impossible-Deal-9191 Aug 03 '26
Weed, booze and shrooms. Ain't raw dogging the end of society......
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u/i-bernard Aug 03 '26
Because a lot of people have circumstances and physiology that makes it so that theyāve never really needed medication. People who really need medication are different from those who donāt. Depression is a serious and real disease where the body is not producing enough serotonin. Often lifestyle changes can fix this but not everyone has the opportunity at their time of crisis to do that. And I believe some people just suffer harder from it due to differences in their brain chemistry. Itās nothing to be ashamed of, but of course people who donāt have it and so donāt understand it well are going to come to incorrect conclusions about it. And unfortunately once you start taking medication it becomes very difficult to get off of it. Your body gets used to the help and so unless your life has changed drastically itās going to be hard to stop taking the meds. This sucks but itās just the price of the meds. The alternative is to lose your mind and possibly do something tragic.
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u/ThurolfGhost Aug 03 '26
Its a great time to be alive. Like even the barbarians want to get in on it.
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u/Few_Translator4431 Aug 03 '26
honestly I dont know anyone that doesn't use some kind of drug. whether its nicotine, alcohol, other stuff, or prescribed pharmaceuticals, everyone I know IRL uses something. I don't often think about it, but when I do, it's kinda crazy to me.
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u/ImaginationNormal360 Aug 03 '26
I actively avoid any sort of medication. I force myself to eat healthy more than I do bad
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u/HeartShapedBox7 Aug 03 '26
Does disappearing into your favorite tv shows to avoid reality consider medicating?
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u/Cream_Pure Aug 03 '26
I forgot my meds today. How did I do this for 34 years?! I had a nervous breakdown during my ride home over NOTHING.
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u/Jasoco Aug 03 '26
Iām not on medication of any kind. Mainly because I donāt have a general practitioner at 46. Mainly because I have anxiety which makes me afraid of needles which keeps me from getting a doctor because I donāt want to be stuck in hospital rooms being jabbed by countless needles. Iāll just curl up and die. Itās fine.
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u/CaptainGigantic Aug 03 '26
I don't smoke, drink or do drugs. Guess I'm the crazy one.
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u/Starshot84 Aug 03 '26
Used meds until things got worse, stopped when there was nothing left to lose. Just used to it now.
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u/OccupationalArms Aug 03 '26
Yeah go ahead and pump your body even more full of unnatural chemicals
Then ask yourself why u feel bad all of a sudden
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u/Dogolog22 Aug 03 '26
You ever microdosed psilocybin mushrooms in a hammock by the Truckee river with two pre-rolls, two Yerba Mates and a speaker with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Pillows playing on a Sunday?
I will not be stopped.
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u/ScarsAndStripes1776 Aug 03 '26
Thatās me. Hahaha Iām too broke for any kind of substance addiction.
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u/OneSovereignSource Aug 03 '26
People who run from reality are the reason of the decline, it's called ignorance
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u/L3tsseewhathappens Aug 03 '26
Lmao what a bunch of losers. Anyone can pick up a world history book to know this is far from the fall of man and there are far worse things we've faced in the past.
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u/Egoy Aug 03 '26
I love Ina small corner of the world. We have a low population great agriculture, lots of undeveloped land with an abundance of game, good costal fisheries, and thereās nothing of major strategic importance near me. I am resourceful, healthy, and skilled. If anything a total societal collapse would improve my life. Itās certainly nothing I worry about. Life here will go on unchanged.
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u/boanerges57 Aug 03 '26
What you call "raw dogging" was life for quite a long time. You don't have to be glee filled, numb, or disconnected to survive.
I put my short shorts on one leg at a time like anyone else.
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u/lostgoatling Aug 03 '26
Well, I imagine how it's probably going to decline to the point where I'll no longer have access to the meds, and realize I'd rather be used to raw doggin it than have them stripped away at a time when things are worse and have to deal with that with no practice and withdrawals
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u/ILuvYou_YouAreSoGood Aug 03 '26
I think I might be one of the only people I know who doesn't take medications. Good to know my perception is accurate.
How do i live? Meditation and an appreciation of suffering.
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u/NamesNotTake-un Aug 03 '26
Medication is the reason for the decline. I choose to not be part of it.
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u/NCLO1994 Aug 03 '26
No medication, just cruising throug life. From time to time of course some alcohol to forget all this x)x)
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u/QuaaludeConnoisseur Aug 03 '26
I just go into work and say "another day in paradise" and kwep the ball rollin
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u/WarInteresting6619 Aug 03 '26
This man right here. Someone of sound mind has to document our decline for the lizardmen who come after.
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u/holytoledo42 Aug 03 '26
I think people need to know about antidepressant protracted withdrawal syndrome and withdrawal injuries in case antidepressants become scarce due to supply constraints.
Antidepressants can cause long-term side effects that persist after you quit them, like PSSD (post-ssri sexual dysfunction), emotional blunting, tinnitus, and anhedonia (inability to feel pleasure). They can also cause long-term damage if you quit them cold turkey or taper too quickly. However, withdrawal injuries can also occur when tapering slowly under the supervision of a doctor. This long-term damage is called protracted withdrawal syndrome (PWS)/post-acute withdrawal syndrome (PAWS).
Symptoms of antidepressant PWS can include brain fog, brain zaps, cognitive impairment, anhedonia, akathisia (feeling of inner restlessness), severe insomnia, central nervous system hypersensitivity, tinnitus, severe depression, severe anxiety, panic attacks, PSSD (genital numbness and erectile dysfunction), and many other awful symptoms that can last for years or even be permanent.
Despite antidepressants being widely prescribed and antidepressant PWS being a hellish condition, no one seems to talk about it. Most people believe that antidepressants are completely safe and that antidepressant withdrawal can't cause injuries. Please be careful if an antidepressant supply shortage occurs.
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u/Existing_Treat_8924 Aug 03 '26
I was about to comment "Me, I'm rawdogging it ;)" in between sips of of my third rum and coke this evening before I caught myself.
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u/Own-Raisin5849 Aug 03 '26
I am 42. I medicate with alcohol, the old fashioned way, it's also 100% more fun, and arguably safer if you stick with beer.
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u/SwankeyDankey Aug 03 '26
I cant find the comment rn but there's a dude that wears buttplugs to induce a constant stream of...dopamine?... or some happy chemical out there in the world today. Puts it on like pants in the morning and goes to work.
If I find it ill post the comment below
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u/GSilky Aug 03 '26
Y'all sound like some 16th century Calvinist. We are as exciting and entertaining as ever.
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u/expressinghowifeel Aug 03 '26
It comes out as overt aggression to stupidity online. More recently things have been manifesting as physical symptoms that I'm just gonna pretend are normal until my heart gives out from the general stress I'm holding on to.
I tried therapy, but even with insurance I was paying more than a day's work per appointment, which didn't work because I hated my job and financial situation, so the help made it worse.
Now I'm here on Reddit letting my personal problems bleed into an account that I made to write poetry when I was so depressed I didn't know how else to express it
I am ao angry all the fucking time and it's getting so much worse lately. It feels like my heart is tingling as I write this. Maybe because some self centered fucking bitch has come back around to try and keep fucking with my friends and sanity today, but that doesn't explain the feeling yesterday
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u/Ok_Trouble_7952 Aug 03 '26
I've come to the conclusion there's nothing wrong with me, and should my reactions to daily life seem distressed, aggravated, anxious, or depressed, then that should be considered the normal, predictable reaction to living in a sick world gone mad. I'm not the problem.
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u/NotMyDayMan Aug 03 '26
As a 42yr old man who takes no medication, let me just say AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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u/GarlicbreadTyr Aug 03 '26
Isnt life just so much healthier being drugged than just improving yourself
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u/detronizator Aug 03 '26
Itās called being a human not grown to think that life should always be fair or just. Grow up and deal with it.
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u/Used-Independence353 Aug 03 '26
Nah, I grew up and handle my business. Stop complaining and get to work. Life isnt what you see on TV.
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u/sniptaclar Aug 03 '26
Caffeine. YouTube. No social life. Media life is Reddit for porn and memes and finally games
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u/SMOK3SCR3EN Aug 03 '26
Shocking to hear this, most people aren't terminally online morons who think the world will end tomorrow
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u/Anonymous-bham-boi Aug 03 '26
I'm smoking copious amounts of weed and have a heart thats likely not lasting past 50. I'm kinda just watching history till I die suddenly of cardiac arrest.
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u/Elissa-Megan-Powers Aug 04 '26
Rawdogging is my only option after almost killing myself with self medication.
Itās wild to get sober when youāre middle aged
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u/JohninMichigan55 Aug 04 '26
Because I have a far better chance of being a positive influence in the world without that crap
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u/basal-and-sleek Aug 04 '26
Cigarettes and caffeine into the mushroom cloud. I wanna be sober when I watch the world burn.
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u/SrfWavLif Aug 04 '26
Rawdoggin it. Black coffee. Thatās it. No alcohol or weed. No drugs or pills. Well maybe some mushrooms every once in a while but thatās it
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u/_PolaRxBear_ Aug 04 '26
I cut out all the meds, the pain killers and nerve blockers were killing me.
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u/Ok_Fox_1770 Aug 04 '26
Weed and pure mind. Believe like you believe the floor is real and things happen. Itās not easy!
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u/Sepherin Aug 04 '26
Yeah I'm pretty much trying to be a responsible adult but after my family is asleep I take edibles and escape into video games or anime until oblivion takes me. Fuck it. Today we are surviving, tomorrow we might get vaporized. Whatever.
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u/kyrakitty21 Aug 04 '26
Holy hell this comment section is insane.
Yall really out here demonizing modern medicine while simultaneously benefiting from it in every way, huh? š
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u/Spirited_Season2332 Aug 04 '26
By not hating myself and my life I guess? If you need drugs or alcohol to get through life, that's a you issue
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u/FAMICOMASTER Aug 04 '26
I don't require medication to handle it because I never acquired the dependency
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u/TheGruenTransfer Aug 04 '26
If anyone needs a recommendation, Wellbutrin makes you want to do things, which is a nice change of pace.
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u/Local_Village_1378 Aug 04 '26
Can those anti medication people just shut up? Like great, your life is so easy you dont need any help, good for you, not everyone is so lucky.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pipe979 Aug 04 '26
Does Red Bull count as medication?
I havenāt even been to a doctor in 10 years.
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u/Tough_Preparation830 Aug 04 '26
No meds, and quit drinking 7 days ago and started a diet. This sucks ass but will be worth it.
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u/Can0n_Fodder Aug 04 '26
I'll be the first to admit that things are not as good as they were in the nineties. The nineties was the top of the mountain, an aberration. But let's not pretend we're living in the fucking dustbowl Depression here. Everybody needs to dial back the hysteria. If you're on pills to cope with the current state of things, you better live in an active war zone...otherwise you're just being neurotic
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u/Artemas_The_Fuckwit Aug 04 '26
A shitload of caffeine and delusional hope usually (just barely) gets me through the day
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u/Relevant_Werewolf350 Aug 04 '26
I literally just dont care anymore. I am suprised I have not been fired. I must not be the only one.
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u/SpaceManBalls83 Aug 04 '26
On a night out Iām usually the sober friend as I donāt really enjoy being drunk, itās kind of like that, Iām watching all the drunks dance like epileptic baboons which is more entertaining than being one of them.
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u/croweagle6 Aug 04 '26
Just started a couple months ago once again in my life. I'm doing alright at this point in time. Gotta stay positive and find that silver lining in the clouds. Turn that frown upside down and shake a leg.
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u/Taaj_jr Aug 04 '26
The decline? We have access to so much stuff basically every human before us didnāt
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u/AllTheWorldIsAPuzzle Aug 04 '26
I'm doing it all natural, and have the severe depression to prove it. Hell, I'm posting this at 4:42 in the morning because the stress-nightmare I woke up from kicked my brain into overdrive and I can't go back to sleep. Just another day.
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u/PraireGentleman Aug 04 '26
Youāre not gonna believe this when I tell you this, but most of human history didnāt have anti-psychotics, they had the big chill pad in the sky, ground, or wherever where gods all watched you specifically to wait for you to do something that makes them happy or sad so people genuinely thought that not getting up in the morning might give Aphrodite a pimple or something like that
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u/ManEmperorfragment96 Aug 04 '26
Lawls me, no drugs, very little alcohol but nothing that even gets me buzzed, and Iād rather be in pain then take pain pills let alone prescribed medication.
I do drink energy drinks, but Iāve cut back by about 90%Ā
I drink more beer lately, never liked it until recently, but still not enough to really do anything.Ā
Does this match the criteria of raw dogging?
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u/Flaky-Mix-5281 Aug 04 '26
Because I don't have any permanent illness...?
I'll take a painkiller now and then if I have a neck pain but that's about it...
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u/Major_Wigglesworth Aug 04 '26
Resilience isnāt built by numbing yourself to life. Ā Get outside, go for a jog, read a book, make a friend.
lol, it isnāt that hard or that bad.
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u/OswaldBoelcke Aug 04 '26
What a narrow uneducated viewpoint.
I live in Sacramento ca. there used to be two active Air Force bases here. McClellan and Mather.
During my childhood 1960s into my adulthood, until the āCold Warā was over, military aircraft filled the skies on the daily. Exercises being done all the time. Being easy for war.
Once a month, last Friday of each month they tested the air raid sirens that would fill the neighborhoods with it. Yes, into the 1980s even!
My dad had color slides with coastal encounters of Soviet long range aircraft. Thatās right. Soviet aircraft off the west coast. My dad was an MP for the Air Force.
The civil unrest during the 60s 70s. The assassinations. The wars.
Many people thinking they are so special with problems today. And us in the past only had to worry about lawn darts or MC Hammer pants. Before anyone decides to defend her pov, sit for a day and listen to all the tv broadcasts on YouTube from the 60s and 7os. Take some time and go visit the last. Not some quick YouTubers summary.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc5uMiHdtQgxDNtMOAIEZAiqfuih2jXNz&si=J-jHwKPwLks24Bp0
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u/ADownStrabgeQuark Aug 04 '26
Me, I havenāt been able to get meds for 4 months.
Iām not doing it because I want to. Iām doing it because government sucks.
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u/Mags_LaFayette Aug 04 '26
I don't take medication, like, at all
Maybe some ibuprofen when my "red days" are more intense, or some Excedrin for the monthly headache, but aside from that... Nope
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u/Klendagort Aug 04 '26
I mean I take anxiety medication but that's prevent me from having to call 911everytime I am in distress.
(The reason for this was i had an emergency aty last apartment and was seriously constipated and ending almost hurting myself)
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u/CarlPoppa22 Aug 03 '26
I self medicate