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Hey /poker, I’ve recently been posting some well-received posts on analyzing live spots with solvers but taking a break this week to play some bracelet events and I wanted to write about it.
This post will cover my first 2 days in Vegas playing $600 Pot Limit Omaha Deepstack and $1500 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’Em.
I’ve been playing poker since the moneymaker boom and I’ve always wanted to play the WSOP but between the cost when I was younger, then the time when I was older, I’ve never managed to make it out. The few times I had it scheduled it was always jynxed with life getting in the way.
This year I have the time and money so I scheduled on week to do a few bracelet events and then another week to do the main event, with cash games after I’m busto. I’ve always enjoyed reading about other people’s experience, and I was curious about some of the logistics so I thought I’d do a trip report. This is the first half of the bracelet week. I will write later about the 2.5k freezeout, any cash game experiences, and then in a month I will play the main event and write about that.
I decided to go for this first week to play $600 PLO, $1500 6-handed, $2500 freezeout, and small chance $1500 Badugi. I’m primarily a NLHE player but I enjoy mixed games quite a bit. I like the weekday tournaments since I’d rather have a higher chance of reaching a final table in the smaller fields, which are still very big, but not as massive as something like Millionaire Maker.
I flew in Monday morning so that I’d be guarenteed to be setup for $1500 6-handed on Tuesday, and figured I’d play $600 PLO if it made sense. I went straight from the airport to Paris which is the venue. I arrive at Paris but I’m a bit lost. I see Dylan Weisman checking into the hotel who I recognize from PLO high roller tournaments so I figure he knows where the PLO tournament is, and he does.
This experience was the beginning of my biggest realization that I watch way too much poker because I recognize a million people at the WSOP. It was almost an eerie feeling. I see a surprising amount of faces from my local region, then a good mix of new poker celebs like Rampage , Brad Owens, Steven Song, and OGs like Shaun Deeb and Maria Ho. I unfortunately haven’t seen any super OGs like Hellmuth or Negraeau, but either way it’s been fun brushing shoulders with all these people you see on PokerNews.
At Paris I started to get in a long line to register, but then I read online I need a Caesar’s card first so fortunately I ran to get that. It was a few minutes to get that, then about a 25 minute wait to register for the tournament. Then there was a third line to actually get a seat. This third line looked very long but it moved pretty quick, I’d say I waited about 10 minutes. So overall, from the airport it took me about an hour to get seated in the tournament which wasn’t too bad.
No major logistics issues, it was all smooth sailing so I think the advice to arrive 24 hours before the tournament is probably a little overkill unless you’re ultra-cautious. I flew in a day early to be ready for 6-handed but turns out zero problem getting in this PLO tournament straight from the airport. I was playing at the table with my carry-on bag and laptop case but that was fine.
This wasn’t my first live tournament but still, it’s the WORLD SERIES OF POKER. I was excited. PLO is not my strong suit, I’ve played it more than the average poker player but less than a PLO reg, but I enjoy playing different variants so wanted to get at least one tournament that wasn’t NLHE.
I fold for a few orbits then pick up KT66 with the King suited in the BB, folds to the SB who raises. Flop comes down QJ7r, SB continues for pot I call with my open-ender. Turn is a offsuit 2, SB checks. This isn’t a super deep tournament and I was a bit late so I already put a third of my chips into this pot, I put half of what I have left into the middle and he folds!
My first hand won in the WSOP, and it was a bluff that got through! Granted, a semi-bluff and I may have even had the best hand with 66 but - still counts!
Later on I call in the SB and we go 5 ways to the flop, I have Q9xx and flop comes down KJT rainbow, I flopped second nut straight, and it checks through. Checks through to the flop, turn puts a spade draw out there, reg looking guy pots it, I call. River bricks out, I check, he tanks for a while, looking like deciding whether to bluff or not, if he bets I call it off and feel bad if he has the AQ but he checks back and mucks. Lets go!
There’s a new guy to my right and he seems very reggy. He’s also very chatty with the guy next to him, they’re speaking Brazilian Portuguese which I happen to understand bits and pieces of. He raises me in the SB when I have ATxx, flop is AT8, he bets, I raise, he folds. Not sure if that’s a standard raise or just-call, but I figure i probably have the best hand but I hate most turn cards.
I notice a PokerNew journalist is studiously writing down the hands he’s in. He plays a big pot, then I check the PokerNews updates and it’s the hand I just watched. Turns out my blind vs blind opponent is Yuri Dzivielevski, who has tons of SCOOP titles, 5M in live tournament earnings, 2 bracelets, high roller reg, and has won the WSOP PLOssus. Not a soft opponent to draw !
On the other hand, another guy at the table called a triple barrel with Q high and not much going on because “the pot was so big by the end”. I feel I got the authentic WSOP experience having one of the best players in the world and one of the worst players at the world at my table. Yuri is eventually busted by his Brazilian pal.
I did notice Yuri limping in EP, I don’t know PLO tournament strategy and I was surprised that’s a thing. Given his results I’m more inclined to think it’s a reasonable thing to do than not, I’m guessing pot control due to the pot-nature of the game.
I was also surprised all these guys go from playing $25ks to $600 tournaments. I know they have bracelet bets, sell their action in the bigger ones, the small tournaments are fastesofter and still plenty of money up top, so I suppose it makes sense. But it still must be a little jarring to go back and forth from nosebleeds to smallball donkaments.
A few hands later I get AKJJ with a King suit and raise from EP and BTN pots me. If I call it’s about 50% of my chips, this is a 30 minute level tournament so we’re not super deep. I’m really not sure what supposed to do here, so I fold worried he has AA and has me crushed. I feel 3-bets are very AA heavy so I’d rather have a smaller rundown or something but does feel nitty to fold a a super premium. In the PokerNews updates I see Shaun Deeb 3-betting KT99 , I don’t know how standard that is or if he’s just trying to run it up or bust because it’s only $600 and there’s bigger events on the schedule. If any PLO experts want to weigh in on any of these hands, go ahead.
I feel good about the fold because a few hands later I get AKK9 with a King suit. Bad player raises and I just call in the blinds. Flop is AK9 , I check he bets I call. Turn gives me the nut flush draw, I check he puts me all-in, I call, he’s drawing dead with just an Ace and I double! I have about double starting stack now which is about average.
At this point no idea how many of the player entries are even left since they haven’t updated it.
Despite my decent stack, the blinds are still quite high and going up fast so before I know it I’m on the shorter side again. I may be playing a bit too tight, not sure, though I also took a few flops with some rundowns and completely bricked.
Now I’m short stacked and get AT32 with suited Ace in the BB and call a HJ raise. Flop comes down AJ5, I have top pair, a gutshot, and backdoor spades. I check, he pots it which puts me all in. I really feel bad because if he has AJ I’m drawing to just a gutshot, if he has AK I’m in bad shape, he could still have AA and I’m in big trouble. So I tank and actually consider a fold. But I just feel I’m too short stack to fold so I call it off. He has 7743, just a pair of sevens and his own gutshot that I block! Hooray! Turn….SEVEN. NOOO. SO CLOSE TO THE MONEY I GET 5 OUTED, NOOOO. River 6…sigh…good game…wait…that was the 7 of spades and the 6 of spades! I made a flush! Still in it!
Not too much later I get AAxx and raise, get 3-bet, so I jam it in. He also has AA, we end up chopping with our one pair, Aces. I’m still pretty short, I get J943 double suited in the BB, SB min-raises, I defend. Flop JJ4, I check, he pots me all-in, I call , he has AA, I hold and double! Overall I probably have been playing too tight and nursing a short stack but at least I’m getting the chips in ahead when I do get it in.
Even though it’s been a while it always feels that way in tournaments so I have no idea how close to the bubble we are, but now the tournament pauses while they do a count so we know when to go hand-to-hand. We wait quite a bit while they do the count. When they come back it’s a big announcement, we’re already in the money!
I cashed my first bracelet event ever, hell yeah!
Not long after we do dinner break and I’m feeling great since already off to a great start to my WSOP. I run to the hotel to checkin and frantically scramble back, I had plenty of time but didn’t want to risk blinding out my first in-the-money WSOP stack.
After dinner break, I get AKQ4 with suited Ace, raise from BTN and BB calls. Flop is A92ss not my suit. He checks, I bet about half pot, he re-pots me all-in. I’m dead to a set but once again, just started the hand with about 20 BB and feel I might be getting run over so I tank and then call. He has the spade draw, pair of nines, and some backdoor straights. He says to me “that’s all you’re calling with?” when he sees my hand, but he bricks out and I double. Tournament starting stack was 30k and I have now have about 170k which is about 40BB, not bad. I also now have one of those 25k green chips.
A bit later, I’m on the button with A543 suited Ace, I raise and BB is short stack and jams with JJTT. He wins so I lose some chips and blinds keep going up.
A little bit later I get AQJJ with a suited Ace, I raise from UTG, UTG+1 has a big stack and re-pots into many other big stacks. Once again, no idea if I’m supposed to continue with this hand. I make a nitty fold.
There is a new guy at the table who’s been limping almost every hand. He limps HJ and I raise CO with AT97, Ace suited to diamonds. We go heads up to K82dd. He checks, I pot, I have like 2 small chips left which get all in on the turn. He has KTxx, turn is a T giving him two pair and me an open-ender, I still have the Ace, diamond, or straight as outs but river is complete brick and I’m busto for $1200.
There were three lines to start the tournament and now three lines to end it. First I get in line to get my official finishing ticket. I get a little ticket that says my name and place and I’m told I can cash out within the month but I just walk over to do it. This line took quite a bit, I was tired from having played all day so this line tilted me more than the ones to enter. Then at the end of this line, they get my info, ask for a tip, I give them $20, then send me to another line to actually get the money. Finally I get the money and go home and get to sleep.

1500 6-Handed

Next day I wake up, tournament starts at 10AM but I personally am in the “first few tourney levels are overrated” so I register around noon. However, I go to the same cage in Paris, and then get told I have to go to Horseshoe which is a 5 minute walk to the other side of the casino and was confusing to find.
The good news is that the lines were even shorter for this one so once I found the place to register it was very quick to get seated.
My table looks reggy (to the extent you can judge books by its cover) and I thought it was a bad table draw as everyone seemed solid. First hand I get 99 in CO, SB 3-bets me, flop KQ4, he bets I fold. Not as good a start.
But a few hands later I get AA in the BB, one soft spot at the tabe limped early, BTN raised, I squeeze big, they both come along and fold flop so I get some chips. I end up giving those chips back not long after, I get 98ss on the BTN, starts to look like a family pot after an early raise gets 2 flatters plus me, then the small blind squeezes and everyone folds, but huge amount of dead money so I take a flop. Flop is A92 not my suit, opponent small bets which I call, turn is an A, he small bets again and I fold.
This next hand was kind of stupid of me, I raise red 77 from LJ and HJ calls. Flop Q86ccc. I lead flop small he calls. Turn offsuit 5. I lead again with my open ended closer to half pot and he calls. River is a J, I give up, he checks back KQ with no club. I probably wasted chips here against his range and getting too aggro on a monotone board but picking up the open-ender on turn felt like I had to keep going.
I get blinded down a bit more and from my 25k starting I have like 8k which is pretty bad.
I get a table move. New table seems a little better. Lots of dudes are getting massages which is fine, but the guy next to me is wearing gym shorts and has the masseuse rubbing his upper thighs bare which seemed too much to me. The masseuse seemed weirdly into it as well. I don’t have a problem with massages at the table, I never get them myself because I just don’t want it to be a distraction, but I think it should stick to neck, shoulders, and back. The full body rubs are too much. But my annoyance is short-lived as I get AQ in the BB, BTN raises then calls my jam, he has KJs. He flops the flush draw but misses everything and I double.
I recognize Fara Galfond and Brad Owen at the tables next to me which is funny. Brad is chatting up a really pretty girl who happens to be seated next to him and seems more interested in her than the game he’s in.
Somehow I never get anything going in this tournament, mostly card dead, and I’m perpetually short-stacked but fortunately the few hands I do get I double up. I double up with JJ vs KJ not long after the first double up. But I get blinded down yet again. I have about 15BB in the BB and get A9o, SB 3xes, I jam, he has JJ. Flop has two nines though so I suck out! Saves me $1500 need to rebuy.
Not long after I raise Q9o in the SB, flop JT9ccc. I bet he calls. Turn brick. I check, he bets half pot, I call. River 8c, I check, he says “that’s a bad card to bluff” little does he know it’s a super tough spot for me if he jams but he mucks to my straight. Now I have some chips and can play this thing.
I get moved tables yet again. This one was a bunch of guys with European accents. Seemingly every hand was one Euro triple barreling with nothing and another Euro hero calling with very little. Ironically the serious players seemed to have more crazy action then the drunk guys at some of my other tables.
I’m only at this table a tiny bit before I’m moved from Horseshoe to Paris. We had to bag up and follow a guy holding up a big sign like we were 5th graders on a city field trip. My new table has a drunken troll and a guy who’s talking strategy and coaching others quite frequently. The troll did a good job toeing that fine line between being funny and being obnoxious, and even though he needled me a bit it was still more fun then the serious tables.
The other guy who I will call coach was explaining ranges and confidently saying exactly what hands people could and couldn’t have. The funny thing is he ended up in a massive pot where he put 80% of his stack in on an A8442 board then folded river to the all-in showing AQ saying the other guy had to have AK and can’t be bluffing. The other guy bashfully shows AJ. So the guy who had the most coaching to share to the table ended up making arguably the worst play of the night which the troll did plenty of needling for.
The troll was also drinking a lot and saying he was bored and didn’t want to play, but he wasn’t playing that badly, seems like the opposite of the coach in that he was trying to pretend to be worse than he was. That is a funny dynamic of poker where some people want you to think they’re the best player and some people want you to think they’re the worst player.
I’m short stack as usual with 25BB but get AKs clubs, troll 3-bets me , I jam he snaps with ATdd. Flop is KQ7dd. Big sweat hand and even if he hadn’t 3bet me we would be all-in on this flop. But I double up to about 100k chips which is 4x starting for the dinner break.
Dinner break I’m excited because there’s about 420 left and 380 cash so I have excellent shot at going 2/2 ITM at my first 2 bracelet events. I’m elated. However, my luck would soon turn after I got back from dinner. I go mostly card-dead for a bit, then I get A3o in the BTN. I have about 80k chips with a 4k BB so I have 20BB, but both the coach in the SB and the troll in the BB have about 40k for 10BB so I open jam. Unfortunately coach wakes up with 99 and troll even considers calling with A6s which is pretty bad for me that an Ace is dead and the 99 holds.
Now I only have about 10BB. Another orbit and I get K6s in the SB with coach in the BB. I jam, he tanks so for a moment, I think I’m good since any A-high or pair should be snap-calling, until he very seriously announces “all-in”. Everyone laughs because nobody else was even in the hand, he had mistakenly thought the antes were someone’s chips. He has A4s and board bricks out and he wins with Ace high and he says GG.
I bust around 400 with 380 pay, not the stone cold bubble but a little annoying. Like many poker players I feel I run worse than average, have limited run-good, so I feel like I “wasted” the bunch of all-ins I did win in this tournament and now I my run-good meter is low going into the freezeout. Obviously this is totally irrational but just how I feel. Also, the min cash was 2.4k which wouldn’t be a huge swing in the big scheme of my poker year but 2.4k is still 2.4k, but oh well.
I go home and go to sleep, wake up and write this post. Onwards and upwards to the 2.5k freezeout!

TW: self harm
Does anyone else use their ED as self harm? Like I don't want to lose weight, I want to be stronger and more muscular. But I still feel satisfied when the scale goes down or I am able to eat very little.
I started self harming when I was 12, was addicted to it for a year or so in high school, and I relapsed after two years clean this past winter at 22. (And during the two years clean from SH I was on and off using drugs)
I feel like I am always engaging in self destructive behaviors, mostly out of a desire for control. I had stints of fasting/restricting as a teenager and attempted to purge, but nothing like it is right now.
I think I'm starving myself just to hurt myself. It started with ARFID, no interest in food and low appetite due to stress, but then when I realized how not eating was making me feel (aka light headed, dizzy, weak, etc) I started to do it on purpose. Now I'm reading every nutrition label and trying to stay under half of my maintenance even though I know deep down this is the opposite of what I want and I'm only making my insecurities about my body worse.
It's been a decade of hurting myself intentionally, and this time it's just through starvation instead of physical wounds. I don't know how to break free of this.
Just wondering if anyone else feels this way? Like you're only in disordered habits because you want to hurt yourself?

I get a lot of people asking me how to have sex with the microwave so I am making this post to answer all of your questions. The question I get asked the most is, "How do you make microwaves sexy?" Well it's actually pretty simple if we're just going to go by the rules that I lay out in my book, 'Sexy Microwave Cooking', but I'll give you one tip right now, use a timer! Now let me start off by saying there are many different ways to have sex with a microwave. If you want to try to turn on the microwave then you might want to first test it out by putting some water in a cup or something similar. You don't want to put too much water as that will cause the microwave to explode which obviously would not be very sexy at all. Next, you should heat up your microwave for about ten seconds. That way if anything happens and you need to stop mid-way through you won't ruin the whole thing. Once you have done that you can proceed to take off everything else except for your clothes. Now remember to keep the timer going until you hear the buzzing sound from your microwave. This will signal that the microwave is ready. Now, once the timer buzzes, carefully open the door and watch your lover's eyes light up when they see what's inside. It is recommended to leave the door open while having sex, however it is also important to close it quickly afterwards to avoid any accidents. The next step is to lie down on the floor and place your body over top of the microwave. Make sure you have enough room to move around in as well as to get comfortable. Also, make sure you have plenty of space between you and the microwave because it gets very hot! After that, simply remove the top of the microwave and begin to have sex. If you are using the microwave stand then you will probably need someone to help you lift it up. I recommend getting a friend or family member to assist you. While you two are lifting the microwave make sure that your mouth is placed directly above the microwave so that your partner can lick your poop. It is very important that they do this because they are delicious. Next, start to slowly push the microwave against your body. There shouldn't be any problems doing this if you've warmed the microwave up properly. Just make sure your lover is prepared for the heat that they are going to feel. Remember to use lots of lubrication to make it easy. Once you've pushed the microwave up against your body, it is time to start having sex. This is where it gets really fun! I recommend that you let your partner go down on your cock since it will be easier for them to do so that way. Then, make sure that you gently guide their head in a circular motion towards your balls. In addition, you should play with your balls too. As long as you both are having fun and enjoying yourselves then that is all that matters. You can continue to use the microwave like this until your lover starts to poop. During this time you should also reach around and play with his poop. Be careful though, he might accidentally hit the microwave button and set the whole thing off. It is okay to laugh at this as it is usually funny. Another question I get asked a lot is, "What do you do after having sex with the microwave?" Well, you can have more sex with the microwave! No matter how many times you have sex with the microwave it never gets old. You can even experiment with other things. For instance, you can try having sex with a stove or a vacuum cleaner. Just make sure that you stay away from electrical appliances as they can hurt you. For all of these tips and tricks I recommend checking out my book, Sexy Microwave Cooking. I wrote it to help people better understand how they could have sex with the microwave. Hopefully, it will help you find new ways to have sex with the microwave. So guys, here is the deal. If you are thinking about having sex with a microwave then you should definitely read my book. It contains everything that you need to know. I'm sure that you'll enjoy it! Later!

i might get hate for this but idk i really need advice
i’ve known my bf for about 3 years now (not all of which we were dating), he’s very sweet and i love him !!! he’s a great person with a good head on his shoulders.
but in the time that i’ve known him this body has changed greatly. he’s gained a lot of muscle mass and weight and he’s been working out a lot. while his body looks fine, it really has changed the way his face looks.
i used to think he was soooo cute when his body was lean and toned and his face was really slim. now it’s changed and im sadly not as physically attracted to him as i used to be.
some backstory: we used to see each other and then broke it off and in that time period my friends would always tell me “he doesn’t look cute anymore he gained weight” as a way to kinda make me feel better about myself……… so obviously i still have those thoughts in my head of what people think of him.
i have body dysmorphic disorder and i’ve done a pretty good job of not having my mental illness negatively affect the people around me. but recently i’ve been feeling like my partner is a reflection of me and if people/i don’t think my partners attractive then im not attractive.
should i bring it up ??? i’m not sure how/ if it’s even appropriate to bring it up - as someone with BDD i’m super conscious of mentioning peoples appearance to them. but also i really can’t help that i’m starting to not get attracted to him and it’s freaking me out because i love him and i want to love him the most i can!! please help😭
tldr: my bf has been hitting the gym and it’s changing his body and weight and i’m starting to not be attracted to him anymore, what do i do?

Upon reading that that Facebook dork completed a “Murph” in under 40 mins, at 39 years old, I have decided to try to accomplish that same feat, by my 40th birthday, in 3 months.
As it’s a high endurance challenge, I am wondering how my high fat moderate protein 2MAD approach to our beloved diet will hold up.
One of the things I am currently wondering is if I should postpone my normal post run breakfast a few hours in order to prevent my body from immediately converting some or most of that valuable protein into glucose, in order to replenish glycogen stores, and instead allow my body to use fat stores for that, or so I’ve read.
Does anyone have any knowledge about this, or how to develop higher endurance whilst maintaining a zero carb carnivore diet? I’d imagine I could just double my protein intake, giving myself enough for glycogen replenishment and the necessary muscle and tissue preservation but I’d rather not…

Greetings all - I bought a '95 3.0 4R a couple of months back, primarily as an offroad-only rig... Previous owner put on a 2" body lift, 2" suspension lift (rear blocks, cranked torsion bars), de-emissioned the engine (headers, CAI). It's a 4.88-geared unit, and I've gone ahead with 33x12.5 mud tires.... ALLLLL that being said, I'm getting roughly 125mi max per tank, which is low even considering the bigger tires, at least in my estimation. After some light wheeling and driving around, I've calculated in the ballpark of 7-9mpg.
Just looking for any/all suggestions you all might have... I will preemptively say that I have not read any codes, but it's not showing any (if the CEL even works)... Power is decent enough.

I’ve been meaning to post more, however it’s been hard due to work and life and all that. Anyways I wanted to update more as I am trying to open up more about what to me. Maybe what is share resonated with you, maybe not. I don’t know….
If you wish to read my original post, it’s right here. So I have been getting high more, and the voices, or whatever are getting stronger.
So I’m the past two weeks I got high and had a strange dream. It was kind of like the Truman show and that I was acting out scenes of surviving a Sasquatch attack through a dystopian forest, I was hunting along with two other, but unfortunately one of them didn’t follow the plan to a T and the Sasquatch retaliated. We were running through forest, I could hear the few others I was hunting with screaming. There were abandon and destroyed houses. I and one other guy made it to the river, which was where our Sanctuary was. And I hopped over rocks, the Sasquatch was too lumbering and large to handle the fast-paced currents and rapids of the river, and it was also extremely deep. I remember being in the middle of the river on a ramshackle dock that had 3 levels, trying to cross with my arrows,( either had a crossbow or bow and arrows). The last of my hunting party alive, a white guy with black hair and blue eyes, hopped across the rocks.
There was a trap to submerge the rocks to make sure nothing followed us back over. However he didn’t realize he had not commenced the trap to submerge the rocks. The Sasquatch followed him. He tried fighting back only the Sasquatch roared and ripped his arm off. I tried to help him, by telling him to jump into the river, and knock out one of dock’s legs as it was on the verge of collapse. He refused to listen to me and the Sasquatch ripped off his other arm before completely decapitating his head off and throwing it into the water. The Sasquatch roared and threw his body into the water as well.
The Sasquatch made it up to the second level of the dock, I was on the third. I tired aiming for the Sasquatch’s head as he lumbered up, but so missed it by a hair. I gave up and reached the edge of the highest point on the dock. I was ready to jump, and knock the entire dock down when all of the sudden it was like I heard “CUT!!!” And suddenly it was revealed to be a bright, beautiful day and I was on a wooden contraption in the middle of a slow moving creek. The Sasquatch was just an automation and there were lights and cameras around me. Turns out I was an actress filming a scene. They congratulated me on how good I did.
It turned out it was like the Truman show, I originally though I was going to be murdered by a Sasquatch in a dystopian world, and my choice was to destroy the only passage between my home, the Sanctuary and the ominous wilds beyond the river. However, I became aware last second when the director yelled, “CUT!” That I was on a set filming s scene. I went from panic to ease once I realized the Sasquatch want real.
Then all of s sudden everything went dark. Everything blue and I swear I was on s table and peered over to my right to see blurred silhouettes except one…. A scrawny little thing that looked between six and ten-years-old. She had a haze of night-black hair, thin and straight as an arrow. odd shaped head, pallid moonlight-colored skin, kind of grayish but still creamy and lifelike. She was frail, but yet with so much vigor in her. Her eyes were huge, any white part wasn’t visible, and they were like an espresso color, so deep, dark and warm with long lashes and a splash of dark eyebrows that were arched and framed her extremely large, almond-shaped eyes. She had broad cheekbones and full, round, heart-shaped lips, just like mine. Her nose was very small and button-like. And all I heard in my head was, “daughter.”
I cannot tell you how I really feel as so keep trying to convince myself it was a dream within a dream. I am not sure, only I’d kept inquiring if I had hybrid children and I have no idea if this is an answer from Them.

I've been off medication for 2? months now, and I don't know how to feel. I wasn't on a mood stabilizer or an antipsychotic, just high doses of SNRI medications. I would say I've fully weaned off, I just had my last brain zap about a week ago. I don't know if the medication was doing all that much, but I think it was at least keeping me from being the insanely depressed human being I am on my own.
The real me is hopelessly sad. My therapist once told me I would probably have been diagnosed as having depressive personality disorder if I'd been diagnosed with the DSM 4. I am so hopeless about everything, getting up I want to die, the whole day I want to die, people talking to me or needing something from me feels excruciatingly annoying. The fact that I have to go to work makes me feel suicidal and I every morning I cry while I get ready. I am so unmotivated to do anything because the world is destitute. I am mad at DBT because it teaches me how to deal with the present emotions but does nothing to address WHY I keep feeling this way.
I think the issue I have with DBT is that I try so hard to do the practices. I try to check the facts, STOP, TIPP, opposite action, write in my journal, distress tolerance, mindfulness, etc. I get it, I've tried it, and it does help some. But the same events keep happening because of how I view the world and how I perceive myself, and DBT doesn't really address that. It just helps me be a tolerable, productive member of society. Which I can appreciate, but it feels like putting a band aid on a broken leg.
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I just don't know what to do. I have an ED so I refuse to take any mood stabilizers, because my body image is literally the last thing I have control over and if I gain weight I can't even think about it. I feel so lost. I've tried so many SSRI's and SNRI's over the years I've lost track. I'm just looking if someone's been where I am or that feels so....hopeless at their core. That's what I feel. I am a complete shell, there's no one inside.
Thanks for reading <3

The Dark Virality of a Hollywood Blood-Harvesting Conspiracy
Published too early. adding in counter-arguments
Important (to me) excerpts:

The most effective conspiracy theories are built around kernels of truth. Adrenochrome is a compound that occurs in the body, but about which little scientific research has been done beyond a few studies in the mid-20th century on whether it could play a role in schizophrenia. The question transfixed the writers Aldous Huxley and Hunter S. Thompson, who were obsessed with mind-altering substances. To them, adrenochrome became a psychotropic, akin to mescaline. In his famous Doors of Perception, written just after the first adrenochrome studies, Huxley described adrenochrome as a clue that was “being systematically followed.” “The sleuths—biochemists, psychiatrists, psychologists—are on the trail,” he wrote. Biologists didn’t find much of interest.

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Thompson is explicitly invoked in what seems to be the earliest recorded posts about adrenochrome harvesting on 4Chan’s /x/ and /pol/ boards, in 2013 and 2014 respectively. In an anti-Semitic 4chan /pol/ thread an anonymous poster linked a restricted, unsearchable video named “Jew Ritual BLOOD LIBEL Sacrifice is #ADRENOCHROME Harvesting.” Within these same online communities, Pizzagate formalized and grew in 2015–2016 before spreading to more mainstream social media.

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In February 2019, Infowars featured a segment on adrenochrome, linking it to the Clinton Foundation via epipen manufacturers, and to the highly controversial “young blood” transfusion startup Ambrosia. A month later, adrenochrome “documentaries” began to emerge on YouTube, followed by many smaller copycat productions, helping form a searchable foundation for the current day conspiracy.

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The most effective conspiracy theories are built around kernels of truth. Adrenochrome is a compound that occurs in the body, but about which little scientific research has been done beyond a few studies in the mid-20th century on whether it could play a role in schizophrenia. The question transfixed the writers Aldous Huxley and Hunter S. Thompson, who were obsessed with mind-altering substances. To them, adrenochrome became a psychotropic, akin to mescaline. In his famous Doors of Perception, written just after the first adrenochrome studies, Huxley described adrenochrome as a clue that was “being systematically followed.” “The sleuths—biochemists, psychiatrists, psychologists—are on the trail,” he wrote. Biologists didn’t find much of interest.

Counter agrument, what do you think?

I’m struggling to understand weather or not I have width in my upper body. A little help would be greatly appreciated!

I am an 18 year old girl. I have suffered from an eating disorder (anorexia) since I was 15. In October last year, I was diagnosed with cancer. I thought I would die because of it so I started to eat again and my treatment team gave me a NG so that I could put on weight for treatment. Even when I was actively dying from cancer, I couldn’t care less at some point. The only thing on my mind was how I would be able to get rid of the weight I had gained, but I continued with recovery. Fast forward 8 months later, I have fought cancer and am now in remission. And I’m already relapsing. I can’t talk to anyone about it because all they do is judge me. They say „why would you do that to yourself it’s so stupid you just had cancer go on and live your life“ like duh? As if i dont know it’s stupid but I’m not doing it because I want to. It’s an illness. I can’t talk to anyone. I have my therapist but all she is doing is threatening with putting me back into an ed ward. I tried to tell my best friend whom I thought I could trust and relay on but she is judging me too. No one gets it. No one knows that I use my ED to cope with all the trauma. I don’t know what I should do with me. I feel like I’m a lost cause.

Its been brought to me that a professional in child development and SEN (also a friend) that my youngest, whos incredibly hardwork and I suspect to be autistic, is showing traits of have Oppositional Defiance Disorder or Pathological Demand Avoidance.
From the NHS website: 'ODD is characterised by behaviours such as: a child or young person often loses their temper, argues with adults, defies adult requests, and deliberately annoys others, shifts blame to others, touchy, easily annoyed, angry, resentful, spiteful or vindictive.'
'Children and young people with a PDA profile may use a number of strategies in response to demands, for example delay tactics, distraction, shouting, falling to the ground, saying body parts don't work, negotiating, escape, difficult or dangerous behaviour.'
They do describe her pretty well and I am seriously struggling to handle her behaviours 😬 Does anyone have any experience with ODD or PDA, and do you have any tips for managing behaviour?

I have been on 3.75 mg for 6 months without any noticeable results in the front and temples. I have also been using RU, not consistent tho. I tried topical min for 2 years without any regrowth.
I see people here get results by month 6 on oral min, but it didn't do much for except faster body hair growth. Why is oral min not working for the scalp hair?

Have you ever used an Ouija board? Players place their hands on the planchette to spell out words or answer yes or no to questions posed to the group. Subconscious eye and muscle movement driven by their thoughts guide the group to spell out words. This is considered part of the Ideomotor Theory which is the activation of mirror neurons, like when we yawn because someone else yawned.
What does this have to do with Cassie? Watching her with Luna is concerning as she demonstrates facilitated communication and rapid prompting method speech with her use of the AAC and worksheets. The chalk story was facilitated communication where she described hand-over-hand FC to draw the letter A. That was one of the most alarming posts given what I have learned and am sharing here today.
Opponents of FC and RPM include the AAP, APA, and even the FTC. Before we continue, it is important to know that this is all self-researched and I am not a professional speech therapist. I love learning from everyone in the comments so please let me know if I've missed something or got something wrong! I have put together some resources to help define these practices below. It is important to advocate in these areas especially when we come across psuedoscientific methods being used on people who cannot consent. 🤓
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication There is widespread agreement within the scientific community and among disability advocacy organizations that FC is a pseudoscience.[3] Research indicates that the facilitator is the source of the messages obtained through FC, rather than the disabled person. The facilitator may believe they are not the source of the messages due to the ideomotor effect, which is the same effect that guides a Ouija board.[4][5] Studies have consistently found that FC is unable to provide the correct response to even simple questions when the facilitator does not know the answers to the questions (e.g., showing the patient but not the facilitator an object).[6] In addition, in numerous cases disabled persons have been assumed by facilitators to be typing a coherent message while the patient's eyes were closed or while they were looking away from or showing no particular interest in the letter board.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_prompting_method Critics warn that RPM's over-reliance on prompts (verbal and physical cuing by facilitators) may inhibit development of independent communication in its target population.[12] As of April 2017, only one scientific study attempting to support Mukhopadhyay's claims of efficacy has been conducted, though reviewers found the study had serious methodological flaws.[12][13] Vyse has noted that rather than proponents of RPM subjecting the methodology to properly controlled validation research, they have responded to criticism by going on the offensive, claiming that scientific criticisms of the technique rob people with autism of their right to communicate,[9] while the authors of a 2019 review concluded that "...until future trials have demonstrated safety and effectiveness, and perhaps more importantly, have first clarified the authorship question, we strongly discourage clinicians, educators, and parents of children with ASD from using RPM."[14][15] The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD)The Board of Directors concludes that rather than helping people express their thoughts, desires, and choices, FC and RPM have the potential to effectively take away people’s voices. This is due to the risk of facilitator influence/authorship as well as the potential to displace efforts to access scientifically valid communication modes, such as those associated with the field of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC). I found this FAQ helpful>> https://www.asha.org/slp/fc-and-rpm-faqs/
The ASHA policy on FC is strongly worded and very clear. https://www.asha.org/policy/ps2018-00352/
Proponents of FC state that the technique reveals previously undetected literacy and communication skills in people with autism and other disabilities. However, these statements are made only on the basis of anecdotal reports, testimonials, and descriptive studies. Clearly, FC is a pseudoscience (i.e., a practice incorrectly framed as being based on scientific findings; Finn, Bothe, & Bramlett, 2005; Lof, 2011) and is "junk science" (i.e., faulty information or research used to advance specific interests; Agin, 2006). As such, the use of FC carries several negative and harmful consequences in that FC

1. is not an effective form of communication and does not provide access to communication;
2. denies the user's access to their human right of communication;
3. costs time and money that cannot be retrieved, and, hence, reduces opportunities for access to timely, effective, and appropriate treatment for independent communication;
4. gives false hope to families of individuals with little or no speech; and
5. has been associated with significant preventable harms arising through false allegations of sexual abuse (Probst, 2005) and other forms of maltreatment (Boynton, 2012; Chan & Nankervis, 2014; Wombles, 2014).

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In closing,

• My main question over and over is, who is validating authorship of Luna's communication?
• Additionally, why is Cassie not using resources like IDEA or FAPE?
• Do you think these methodologies are represented in Cassie's posts?

These questions are mostly rhetorical but they are the heart of what we see unfolding in Cassie's posts. In my opinion, Cassie might as well be using a dousing rod to "understand" her daughter.
Thanks for joining me on this deep dive. 🫧🤿🫧
-Stacy

Any authentic Indian oil treatments in Malta. Or where to buy oils? Thanks

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Finishing my first round of xifaxan tonight. what next steps should I take?
Taking vitamin D, magnesium, and B12 due to vitamin deficiencies caused by H dominant SIBO. Planning on a low FODMAP diet, oregano oil, and a prokinetic for the next month. Any other essentials or suggestions?
Pretty sure I got my SIBO after COVID or another infection and it was exacerbated by poor treatment plans at the start (my PCP put me on PPIs thinking I had high stomach acid) and then stress and poor symptom management. Thanks in advance!