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Ritchson is a tiny bit weird. I watched a youtube video of him talking about his bipolar disorder, depression and substance abuse - he's rather intense. He is also very religious - not exactly a born-again, but he's passionate about his beliefs. He is also a songwriter and musician. He has a high-pitched vibrato vocal style, like Mandy Potemkin's, that is like fingernails on a blackboard to me. Nonetheless, it's hard for me to take my eyes off of him. He's most interesting when he's giving workout and nutrition tips.

I'm a small donor with a few pet causes. Even my minimal charitable giving activity generates an avalanche of junk mail.

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I have never once had a provider ask me for payment - I must have an honest face. I leave the payment on a table where he can easily see it. They don't act like they're even interested in getting paid - It's all pretty seamless - just like in a movie. Once, one picked up the cash and counted it in front of me and I was a little surprised.

Yes, they alter mood. That’s what they are supposed to do. In fact, everyone is “addicted” to endorphin-it is a neurotransmitter without which a person’s nervous system cannot function properly. Nowhere near the same as an externally supplied substance such as alcohol or Vicodin

It’s on my “must try”. Not always available. Jet Fuel is very good too.

optimal for me would probably be 8+ hours, but I frequently only get 6.0.

I have a mobility impairment that I hope is going to go away eventually. My husband won't allow me to leave the house without my phone, calls me during the day. Our neighbors have started keeping an eye on me. I'm really touched by the concern people show.

I think I remember that.

I'm curious about trans men - haven't taken the leap.

Same here. The branch manager who openend my accounts had been with First Republic for years and years and retired. She was replaced by young woman who I liked just as much. The current manager I have never met because I haven't been into the branch since the start of the pandemic. I think it was just a day or two before the mayor declared the lockdown - there was a long line in the lobby and security was only letting people in one at a time. It was all very spooky so I haven't been back since.

That's it exactly - I'm not talking about your dollar amounts, my assets are insurable, but they don't seem to value the customer the way they used to.

Ive been banking with First Republic for nearly 20 years and been very happy with them until recently. I dont know whether it's a problem with the company or just a branch manager who isn't very service-oriented and/or knowledgeable. I asked his assistance with a trust and he said "no, we don't do that." First Republic NEVER says "we don't do that." I called someone I know at the main office and asked her to give him a call. He called me a day or two later and said he would be happy to take care of it. I had a check from a tenant bounce last month and they actually assessed me a fee for the returned check. I called and reminded them of our long association and they reversed the returned check charge. It might be because he doesn't know me - I havent been into the branch since before the pandemic. I had great relationships with the previous two managers.

I don't believe that sex "addiction" is an addiction. It is a compulsion. - a repetetive behavior that the person can only resist with a lot of anxiety - a behavior that assumes a life of its own. There is no such thing as sex addiction. What is commonly called "sex addiction" is compulsive sexual behavior. Addiction is also a compulsiion - a compulsive use of a mood- or mind-altering substance complicated by a physical dependency on the substance - a compulsion on steroids.

It is a repetitive behavior that a person can only refrain from with great anxiety. Performing the behavior relieves the anxiety. The classic example is repetitive hand washing

That sounds more like it. I imagine even the most militant have occasionally forgotten a dose

I cannot believe that if someone forgets to take their meds one day that " The HIV infection becomes active and infectious again within a few weeks of forgetting to take their meds." It is certainly not optimal, but they certainly don't go from undetectable to infectious in a matter of weeks becaue they forgot one dose.

The sales staff in the dispensary can help you. You can just tell them what sort of pot you are looking for, what you need it for and they will make suggestions. The last time I visited a dispensary, I got a vaping pen and a cartridge of Grand Daddy Purple extract - one of my favorite strains - we've come a long way from the roll-your-own days.

I agree with all of the above. My father developed end-stage kidney disease at age 70 as a result of years of persistent hypertension, several heart attacks and severe CHF. When his kidneys failed, they put him on machine dialysis. The machine dialysis was problematic from the start. His heart was so weak that it couldn't tolerate the sudden shift in fluid volume that a dialysis session entailed. They tried doing sessions in which they didn't take off so much fluid, which he was able to tolerate. I don't know if anything has changed, but at that time (late '80s) they absolutely wouldn't dialise somebody more than 3 times in a week. When they tried the reduced volume, he was able to tolerate it, but but he couldn't make it through to another dialysis session, but, for whatever reason, they couldn't just slip in another dialysis session. I always suspected it was more of a utilization problem than a medical problem. Eventually, they decided he was going to have to go to peritoneal dialysis. I sat through the training with him, and I know the dialysis nurse had her doubts, because a couple of time she asked me if I was sure he could do it. For a couple of weeks, I supervised as he was doing his fluid exchanges and everything seemed fine, so I left him on his own. This was the start of a succession of hospitalizations to treat him for peritonitis probably as result of breaks in technique, although he insisted he was doing everything perfectly. At one point, they had to replace the catheter, during which time he was back on machine dialysis with all of its problems. Ultimately he died from complications related to the peritoneal dialysis. He had to be hopitalized to treat a severe diarrhea, probably brought on by the antibiotics they had just used to treat his most recent bout of peritonitis and he had a cardiac arrest the day before he was to be discharged. It was a 2-year nightmare. I had a neighbor who was on peritoneal dialysis, and he did fine for probably ten years. Eventually, for some reason, he had to go to machine dialysis. I had an older friend in his mid-80s who had CKD. When he was at the threshhold of stage 5, he decided he wanted nothing to do with dialysis and opted instead for assisted suicide.

I cured a persistent shoulder injury by icing it. I used a shoulder wrap that I got here. It was hard to do, but I completely stopped doing any kind of shoulder exercise. I iced the shoulder about 3 times in a day, for 30-40 minutes at a time. It took several months - I would say 4 months. After that, I had to rehab the shoulder because I had lost so much strength in it. I have told other people about it, but they can't handle the idea of not using their shoulder and icing it every day for several months, but that's what it takes.

That is a great article - it identifies everything that is wrong with the idea of porn addiction and I love that the writer points out the general trivialization of the concept of addiction. Whenever I speak the word "addiction" it is because what I am talking about is substance abuse. Ever since it entered the language, I have hated that expression "positive addiction."

Let me say here, that I don't believe there is such a thing as being addicted to porn. As I pointed out above, when a problem is strictly behavioral, it is a compulsion not an addiction. I have had hookups with guys that I thought might be compulsive about porn. You go over to their place and they can't pull their eyes away from the display on their laptop for longer than a brief look at their partner. Nobody that I know well is compulsive about porn. I enjoy watching porn myself, and it is pure enjoyment for me - no compulsiveness at all. I'm willing to be convinced that porn "addiction" is largely an internet phenomenon, since the internet is where it generally is discussed. If it exists, I don't think that porn is the problem. The problem lies with the people who can't seem to moderate their behavior - but that is the nature of compulsion.

"watching porn cannot constitute an addiction because it cannot cause "substantial harm," unless the harm comes from the partner objecting to it, which is really the partner's problem regarding an activity which does not imply unfaithfulness." your words, not mine

You have a narrow a view of "harm." Many incels started the road to becoming an incel by watching lots of porn. Some guys become so warped that watching porn and beating off is the only way they can orgasm. In a practical sense they are incapable of having sex with a live person. I would say being incapable of having sex with your partner constitutes harm - they could lose the relationship, or seriously damage it. I could imagine a techie working from home who gets so compulsive about porn that he loses his job. That's not harm?

I will say that the rash took a long time to go away, but I made a judgement call and I'm still standing.