I can think of a few professions and life-choices that would benefit from that requirement.

Not the double bounce?!

And he said to me, “Sir–” they always call me sir because I help them and they respect me – “Sir, you are the best at everything,” and its true; once I was in a room and everyone laughed at all my jokes. That’s very rare: being able to run the most powerful nation – well we used to be, and I’m making America great again. “…and sir,” he was crying. Did I mention he was crying? That was the oranges of this story. He was so thankful for me.

tl;dr I try but its mostly moot.

I have a few triggers I try to avoid like the plague. I do what I can to avoid them, but that gives me anxiety, too.

One category of trigger is related to depictions of sexual violence (or even non-consent) in media, which can be hard to avoid unless you only consume media you’re familiar with.

Driving with all the road-ragers is another. I can’t avoid it, so now I get anxiety days before I have an appointment, thinking about the 40 minute drive to the office.

But I can mostly avoid my demanding, demeaning family. I can mostly avoid police and their dogs.

Yep. I feel this. Nothing like random effective weightlessness that causes me to double over and clench and grunt. And the privacy of my home, no less.

Like the part where one person having a machine learning “super lawyer” is a bad thing (hint: it is), and the fix is for everyone to have one. 'Cause those have worked out great so far with the court-imposed sanctions for hallucinations in official court filings.

AI is this decade’s pet rock.

My worst ones, I black out and come to in a puddle of sweat, shaking and crying.

Usually, its more like I’m at the top of a rollercoaster. My insides clench up like I’m waiting for the guillotine to drop. My eyes fill with tears, shaking, etc.

I loved his appearance on “Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum” (Lex from Smallville). He want political there, but very personal and open about his Bipolar disorder.

Krita rocks!

After reading your post body, I realize this isn’t what you’re looking for, but at least for honorable mention reasons:

https://openlearning.mit.edu/courses-programs/mit-opencourseware

Full disclosure: am a guy.

Holding your breath allows you to tense up and clench more than you can while breathing. Taking a deep breath eliminates some “tensing” muscles from the equation. Still, with some effort (or anxiety, probably) you can still clench up while breathing.

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New post or as an edit to this post? I think doing an update would be good. Just have to sit down and think it through.

No idea, but it could be the account I used (my friend in Belize) is compromised. The charges are coming from PSN. I’ve checked, And it’s not him

Unless something changed recently, Google Play has always accepted my privacy cards. I have one saved now a my family payment method on my Nvidia Shield account.

Don’t use Apple products, so can’t speak to that.

I live at my mother’s place after I imploded living abroad (and my father got vascular dementia) two years ago in August.

She is a constant nag, narcissistic, dark empath and hoarder.

She was gone for a week, and I haven’t felt so relaxed since I moved back. That tells me I need to get the f#@k out of here.

That said, my months-long hypo seems like it might finally be subsiding, and since my diagnosis, I’m more aware of who I am and how I tick. I guess I’m more “mindful” now. It’s wild to go back through my life and realize how much of it was my disorder.

On my best days, I still hate this timeline. Just know that your disdain for the cosmos may not be your BD, but reality.

Glad you are back to baseline. I’ve been hypo since April/May, but now that I am at 150mg Lamotrigine, it feels like it might be subsiding. I was actually tired at midnight last night. That hadn’t happened for months. Since April, I’ve been getting 4hrs or less sleep, about three nights each week without any sleep at all.

I have played piano off and on for about forty years, but in the past few months, I’ve skilled up significantly. More than ever. There are other areas where I’ve excelled, too. More than is normal. The problem is that I’m doing two or four things at a time. I’ve been hypo before, but this is my longest, most intense episode yet. It led to my diagnosis.

I was only diagnosed 7 or 8 weeks ago, so I’m not at full therapeutic levels yet. I may need 200mg or more eventually.

You can’t avoid all of the surveillance, but this helps a lot.

I’m back in the US for now you take care of family, but living in another country for two years was bliss except for their racist immigration staffers who openly accept bribes to avoid procedural delays (that they put in your way to punish those who don’t bribe them)…

Medical and dental was so cheap (free for citizens), and accessible. Doctors do house calls. Taxes are done automatically. School system cares about outcomes and not test scores.

They best part was watching the US implode from abroad and relishing that I was mostly unaffected by it.

Oh, and getting prescription meds can be a pain, but likely more meds are available without prescription. Ritalin and Adderall for instance. Lamotrigine too. Need antibiotics? They just ask his many days worth.