SentientPotato2020

So do people here stay with the same breakdown cover service year after year or do you bounce back and forth every other year? The price jumps for renewing with the same company I had last year compared to signing on with a new company are eye watering.

As someone who came to the UK from abroad I have to say it's a completely alien concept to have companies look to screw over loyal customers like this, but I guess that's the market here.

As an alternative, is there a reputable company that doesn't jack the price up ever additional year you're with the company?

Long time reader, first time poster. 46M. I have been a nicotine user since I was 17 and even before then I may have been addicted to nicotine having grown up with a parent who smoked pretty heavily in the house.

Around 12 years ago I stopped smoking when my kid was on their way (and also because my company started to charge a health insurance premium if you smoked). I switched to vapes because it was "healthier." Earlier this year I decided I had enough of that and so I stopped vaping as well... and moved to nicotine pouches. I'm pretty sure the pouches ended up wrecking my stomach and so now I'm trying to move off them so I switched about a month ago to nrt gum. I'm using that, but

Currently on 20 mg. it was a rough start, but I’m feeling significantly betrrr now… but still having some issues with anxiety. I just finished a stressful period at work preparing and running a 3 day workshop. Going on vacation in a week and a half. Will see how I come out of that and where my baseline is, but just wondering how it’s been for people going from 20 mg up to a higher dose. Did you have to ride out the same issues as when you first started?

Yesterday was my 57th day on citalopram and I have to say to anyone struggling: it gets better. I started out with some gnarly side effects. I don’t know if they were 100% the meds or the meds combined with coming off a high stress period that included a panic attack, but I was ready to quit after two weeks… but decided to stick it out.

What I’ve actually found most helpful was firing up a ChatGPT instance that I use for journaling and documenting my toolbox of interventions when I feel anxiety spikes or find myself falling into rumination loops. Talking to a person would probably also work, but AI is always there and I don’t feel like I’m actually being a burden just constantly dum

Just wondering how people do it. I’ve got a relatively stressful job where they’re expecting a lot of me. I was on meds, decided to go off them, things got worse at work and now I’m back on a new med. I’m coping well enough, but could be better if I felt like I could have some time to get meds dialed in without work overhead stuff.

How are other people balancing careers and onboarding meds?

46M. In the past I've tried C25k, but it always seemed a bit of a faff. I'm not huge into running and all the prep and cooldown ended up making it feel like more of a burden. Also the idea of getting into running clothes and then going outside in the winter generally meant I'd do it for a bit and then lose interest when the weather changed.

I've recently entered a high stress period at work and was looking into ways to deal with it. Part of it has been getting back on meds to help, but I'm also looking at walking as a way to cope with things. I was reading that you don't necessarily need to be out there running to get the mental health benefits of exercise (specifically here looking at

So ever since I got on citalopram about 4.5 weeks ago I've had a shift in my sleep. I used to go to sleep around 11 or so and then sleep until my alarm went off at 7. Now I am going to sleep still around the same time, but I wake up at 5 feeling relatively clear headed and awake. So far I've generally rolled back over and tried to keep sleeping until my alarm goes off, though that generally results in about an hour of light sleep and then a period of "waking up" every fifteen minutes or so until my alarm goes off.

It was mostly fine the first few weeks, but now I've noticed that by the time I decide to sit up and start my day I'm now starting to feel a bit groggy as well. If I have the

So I was talking to a new GP today about the meds they put me on and she seemed a bit skeptical about drug therapy and was really pushing the idea that all I need to do wa exercise more. Granted I live a relatively sedentary lifestyle, but I’d like to hear from people who are using exercise for dealing with real anxiety and mental health struggles above and beyond day to day stress being hard to handle.

Did you see results similar to going on meds? How long did the results take to kick in? How much are you exercising? Based on my general fitness level I was going to have another crack a C25k, it’s just a matter of finding the time…

So I’ve been on antidepressants for at least 15 years. I started in grad school on lexapro and then at some point switched over to sertraline. I had been on that for at least ten years before deciding I was tired of the sexual side effects so I decided to take things into my own hands and just cold turkey last August. Dumb move, I know, but I didn’t realise the impact they were having on me since I couldn’t really remember life without them.

I remember one incident after coming off meds of becoming emotionally overwhelmed while traveling, but other than that it went relatively smoothly and the sexual side effects were totally gone. I felt like a new person.

The down side came a

46M. I’ve been on celexa for two weeks now. the first week had some significant side effects, but they’re starting to modulate. One thing I have noticed though is I wake up about an hour before my alarm and then have a hard time getting fully awake in the morning. I’ve been morning dosing so far. wondering if I should switch to evening dosing. I donot want to play around with dosing too much, though so maybe I just tough it out morning dosing until six weeks?

We just upgraded our daughter to a Kid Fire Pro Kindle 10 Ultra blah blah blah from her previous device. In the previous device I could go in and manually remove all the low quality apps from the device. With the new device I don't seem to have that ability? It seems like you can only set the age filters and anything not caught in an age filter is off limits?

Is there something I'm missing here? Is there a way to go back and make it so I can remove content from the device I don't want her to access? Alternatively, if I just blacklist all the apps can I go back in and manually white list stuff?

Edit to add: I can add/remove books, but it doesn't appear that I can do this for apps?

I want to set it up so my daughter can watch her tablet from when she wakes up in the morning until like 9 or 10 am, but after that I want her to read 5 minutes for every half hour of TV time. Is there a way to do this automatically? Times for reading and screening of course variable.