[Mental Health] BetterGoon - Unlicensed, unprofessional help.

I didn't finish math 11 until I was 25 and only because my eventual wife somehow understood how my brain worked and taught me better than any tutor.

But everyone just assumes you have a high school diploma anyway so that was a waste of time.

# ¿ Sep 13, 2019 04:35

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Ugato posted:

I’m curious because I’ve had something of the same experience (from your wife’s perspective). is she just naturally good at math?

I’ve got a friend who’s working on her GED and just keeps bombing the math portion. I think she has a learning disability of some sort, but she could barely understand multiplication and division (she knew what to do, just not why). algebra was killing her. but I was finally able to break it down and explain it in a way she seemed to get. also went on to explain multiplication and division so it actually made sense to her. math just makes sense to me and is easy to explain to nearly everyone. the hardest part of any interaction is the person coming in saying from second 1 that they just won’t understand.

She got Bs in math so no math whiz, but she's very empathetic and just understands me. Ironically I ended up being an A student in math. But I literally forgot everything the hour after my tests. My problem was always memorizing, not so much comprehension.

# ¿ Sep 14, 2019 01:30

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I'm so tired (literally) of not being able to sleep. Just sitting here at 4:30am Aussie time posting on the mental health thread again, realising that yet another day is going to be a write off because I can't go back to sleep after my wife coughed in my face. Been up for two hours, will be woken up by the gym below my apartment in one hour, so I'm pretty much done sleeping.

This is only my second week at my new job and there is so much to learn. I can't do it tired. It's bad enough I have chronic hand pain and am 15 years older than everyone else.

The only thing that helps me sleep a little is benzos, but they don't let you take that long term here. So I've been tapering, but now I have no way to get out of the anxiety spirals I get into at night.

And of course when I'm struggling my wife gets nervous and sleeps worse, which makes me sleep worse, which eventually leads to disaster at work. Or at least employer disappointment. And since every loving job is a contract job now, I have no security even if I pass probation.

I'm so tired of this cycle, and the older I get the harder it is to get and keep the next lovely job.

# ¿ Sep 15, 2019 19:34

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SubnormalityStairs posted:

CBT-I, and more specifically Sleep Restriction Therapy, got me out of those anxiety spirals within days of starting. I still had (and have) some sleepless nights, but it's far, far better when you don't have the anxiety to go with it. SRT is contraindicated for certain psychological disorders, so it's something you'd likely want to discuss with a professional, but it is very much worth looking into.

Thanks, I think my shrink wants to try that but we've been busy with other stuff first. Didn't expect to be employed and that makes "it gets worse before it gets better" strategies harder.

I'm so tired by the end of the day that I fall asleep just fine. But that first wake up is when all the thoughts start. And of course now I have a pattern of not going back to sleep so I almost expect it. So annoying

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# ¿ Apr 23, 2024 11:43

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Chokes McGee posted:

sup migraine buddy

I suddenly developed bad, low air pressure related headaches (or at least suspect it was that) and had them for years but they disappeared when I moved cities/regions. Melbourne has much more volatile weather but maybe it's so volatile that whatever causes my headaches never gets used to it??? I dunno, just happy to have one less crippling issue

# ¿ Sep 17, 2019 04:28

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