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Ines

I do not understand your "Eh? ", Alexis.
I mean that the belt is good tool to avoid to eat so much.

Angelina

I admit that I often eat meat, very often in fact, but I would still consider my diet to be healthy because I try to avoid artificial additives. I also buy meat and vegetables from a local farm where I am sure I can do it ethically. Of course I spend more money on it than in a discount store, but there is a huge difference both ethically and in terms of taste 🙂

Sasha

Angelina Have an omnivorous diet, try to avoid additives, buy ethically farmed meat products and shop at local farmers markets.
But if you can grow your own fruits it’s so much nicer. Plus all the fruit trees out back looks great too.

WriterAlexis

Sasha

But if you can grow your own fruits it’s so much nicer. Plus all the fruit trees out back looks great too.

Our current living arrangements do include a live fig tree. Sadly, I am allergic to raw figs.

Angelina

Sasha

unfortunately i can't grow my own fruit, but i mostly eat vegetables rather than fruit, which i also buy from the farm if possible

pestulens

WriterAlexis A shame, I love them fresh from the tree.

Sin

WriterAlexis I have been manifesting anxiety and OCD for as long as I have been communicative.

WriterAlexis unmedicated and left to my own devices, it would become highly compulsive during high stress times. I can remember the weeks before some of my academic tests or some of the swimming/horseback competitions I was doing, my membranes would be raw and inflamed in the morning.

This hits home for me and brings up all sorts of issues I'm still trying to work through as a 30-something adult. As a teenager I was (very inappropriately) misdiagnosed for what was essentially a physical condition, and heavily medicated with antidepressants that I didn't need, and certainly didn't want. I'm mid 30s now and only just coming to terms with my own libido as a result.

Not to say I disagree with your mental health diagnosis... just that antipsychs are a slippery slope and if you ever want to come off them, you might be in for a hell of a ride. HINT: Don't go cold turkey like I did.

curious

Sin HINT: Don't go cold turkey like I did.

I second that recommendation. Most drugs that are for whatever kind of psychic condition (no matter if antidepressive or anti-psychotic or whatever require a slow weaning process. Stopping from one day to the other can be life threatening.

WriterAlexis

Sin

if you ever want to come off them, you might be in for a hell of a ride.

I had been taken off them too quickly in the past.

You can identify the veteran depressives when they know to do it very sloooooowly.

Milord

WriterAlexis I want to keep my phone. I want to be able to go to the library. I need transportation to do certain things. I want to be able to leave the house unchaperoned, so I can work/volunteer, because those are important to my future and I want to be able to help people.

I haven’t read this before. As a parent I would encourage this, and I will be proud of my son should he decide to help others and volunteer.
In my opinion a parent should provide this, tied to economical situation, and not use it as a trade off to impose things (not only CB of course).

youdontknowme

Milord I doubt it is used as a bargaining chip only, they just want to control her access to unfiltered information and ability to engage in activism, and she has negotiated hersrlf some liberties there.

Milord

youdontknowme

I will never understand this, but I hope my son will be like Alexis. Curious about that world and burning with the sacred fire to change the world.

WriterAlexis

Milord

Well behaved women seldom make history. -Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

youdontknowme

Milord I am happy that my father has always been a little like you. Maybe not as inspiring when it comes to standing up for a good cause, but definitely encouraging curiosity and nurturing independent thought. As a male who is a generation younger than you, I am convinced you make a great father figure in your son's life.

Sasha

Milord Curious about that world and burning with the sacred fire to change the world

I’d just like to build on that mindset.
If fostering the desire for curiosity and the knowledge that if it’s not right we can change it, we must establish right and wrong first.
Because it’s natural that a young adult becomes curious about the darker side of the world, but it must only be observed from a distance.
Learn everything you can without going over there, so you can avoid it when confronted by it, and drive it out from places it shouldn’t be.

I believe you personally are way ahead of me on this and have already done so of course, just a friendly caution for anyone else who comes across this who may not be

Sin

WriterAlexis You can identify the veteran depressives when they know to do it very sloooooowly.

Three years was enough, I quit the day I moved out to go to uni.

I wasn't depressed either (at least not until I tried to get off them). I just had a shit geriatric obgyn who decided I was a horndog instead of treating me properly and referring me to a physio.

Milord

WriterAlexis I have the idea that you make the world around you a little better. That's enough for me

Milord

youdontknowme

That's the best think I can even heard
Thank you

youdontknowme

Sasha I think a library is a great place for that. Many authors have concerned themselves with the topics of where our lives are headed if people follow their base instincts first and foremost. Explored the delicate balance between liberty and peace. Told tales to inspire compassion.

Sasha

youdontknowme While very true, and there are many authors who’ve explored this topic, we still need to proceed cautiously.
It’s very easy to fall into though. Seeing how easily you can achieve wealth and power through violence can easily sway a young mind. And it’s a long road back if it exists at all

WriterAlexis

Sasha

becomes curious about the darker side of the world

I cannot testify to the capacity of Milord's son, but you drastically overestimate my esteem to warrant such cautions.

I cannot raise an army, I cannot radicalize followers, I cannot aggregate power, I cannot accumulate capital, I cannot shift the Overtun window, I cannot destabilize existing power structures. I'm not even a registered voter yet. I have been explicitly instructed not to contradict the teachings of the church, which was abjectly unnecessary because all my friends wouldn't listen to me anyway. Whatever I dabble in is unlikely to make an impact on this earth by a single iota. So I'm gonna send my opps everything I got because why the hell not?

Sasha

WriterAlexis While I’d agree that most, probably almost all wouldn’t venture beyond learning about the darker things. It’s actually good that people learn about it obviously, those parts of our world history need to be studied.
It’s still worth mentioning people exercise caution, and do so with some guidance. That’s all I’m saying about it.

Ines

WriterAlexis I cannot raise an army, I cannot radicalize followers, I cannot aggregate power, I cannot accumulate capital, I cannot shift the Overtun window, I cannot destabilize existing power structures.

You do not need to do that. You are a girl, simply enjoy the "soft power" street that society gift to us.
🤭 I am "teasing" you a bit, but not totally, for us is much easier to have power and influence and even get rid of consequences.

Milord

WriterAlexis
With time your priority will change. And as for now, you volunteer, you help other, you try to stay informed. You learn. This, alone, make you a virtuous person. The world will change thanks to your actions. Maybe just a little bit. But in the right direction. This is the important part.

Milord

WriterAlexis I cannot testify to the capacity of Milord's son, but you drastically overestimate my esteem to warrant such cautions.

My son is still 12. 13 in few months. A little early to change the world, but we will see…

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