bloodssonnew said:

I confess I wasn't sure if this was ultra pampered white mold lol so i risked it n did a smell test

I am proud to say the komodoxttbvi I been thinking was mold because it was stupid fast is in fact just super happy healthy pan mycelium 🥳 next day off il send sum to grains for funsies



I also have a much much much much omfg pick up da fucking pace the snail is moving faster than u slower kamodoxbvi on a plate I'm cleaning up/ gonna run to compare

For example it takes about 3 days or so from practically nothing transfered to full plate colonization 💀

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Cakewonder said:
how does one help my anxiety?

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Saw your Q in QQQA about anxiety. The thread moved on and this is more of a confessional thread topic so I didn't respond there, but I wanted to reach out about it anyway cause I've dealt with that a lot.

I shot you a DM, but here's most of it in public since I've found that it can end up helping other people not originally in the convo.

Anxiety medication helped. I was on lexapro but wellbutrin is also a common one, trying a couple things to see what works with your body is common. Tooootally normal thing to be on, any doctor is likely to give it the green light.

I had a lot of worries that it would change my personality or make me zombie etc, and for the most part, it didn't. I was the same person, just with less anxiety.

I think about it like lowering the gravity in a weight room. Without practice, the act of lifting huge anxiety feels overwhelming, we don't have the mental muscles to handle it. But the meds turned the gravity down to a level I could handle, so I could start actually recognizing what "normal" feels like, and recognize the mental patterns behind my anxiety, and actually start building some baby muscles. And then as you get better at that over time, you can turn the medicine down and the weight up and actually find the onramp and build up to where you don't need them anymore.

Or stay on them forever. Fuck it. They're cheap, if they make you feel better, great, the medicine works, no need to mess with a process that works.

I also can't recommend therapy enough. I posted a therapist finding tek at one point. It's nice to have a dedicated space, and a dedicated safe person, where you can explore the "why" behind what makes us feel anxious, with somebody who can help break out of the thought patterns that keep us in a loop. It makes sense than an anxious mind would automatically recognize or think about things a certain way. If we had the other perspectives, the other mindsets, readily available, we wouldn't have anxiety lol. So it doesn't make sense that our solo anxious minds would be able to think their way out of the hole, since the patterns of our thinking are what got us in the hole in the first place. So having someone else to talk to who sees from the other side is helpful.

Anyway, wall of text, but that's been my experience, and I'm an open door if anybody in here wants to chat about whatever's on your mind.

Feel free to DM me, no presh to handle shit in public like this, I'm just posting because I know it can be helpful for others. So many of us are dealing with this kinda shit, and it all feels so personal and individual and like our own burden, but when we open up, it turns out a lot of people are going through similar stuff.

We all carry our own heavy stuff, but the load can be shared among friends and the stones can be whittled lighter with time.

Rasmodius said:

0_tonin said:

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This is so sick. It took me awhile, I was like hey that looks like a painting on a waaoooooh fuckkk whaaaatt

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You Should post this in dalas arts n crafts thread. 

Its very cool

Generic said:

I know this is a drug forum, and this may be unpopular, but first...

for anxiety: have you tried quitting caffeine and cannabis? before adding on more drugs?

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I'm joking, couldn't help myself

Mackload said:

my current little grow fading out. want to see a fresh shoebox all bejeweled with water droplets asap

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tryptkaloids said:

Nicotine too. Quitting nicotin cut out like 80% of my anxiety.

Caffiene is much harder to say goodbye to.

And weed? I should probably think about it, but fuckoff

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Belintaf said:

Congrats, Huskies! Awesome, man. Definitely better not to smoke.

My lungs have never known a life without smoke. I grew up in a smoking household (secondhand smoker) and started smoking around ~13 years old (active smoker).

I’m that special kind of idiot you see smoking between sets during a workout. Yeah, I admit it.

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