Fundamentally, it’s hard to overstate how much assertiveness skills can help you meet your needs. Just because it doesn’t always work doesn’t mean it never works. (When I say assertiveness, I mean confidently and respectfully seeking what you want)
The famines, which outside of World War II when the Nazis deliberately attacked their farms, and outside of the 1930s, which had famine induced by weather disaster and magnified by privledged capitalist farmers called “kulaks” destroying their livestock and grain to prevent collectivization?
You’re really looking at this through red-tinted glasses. It’s ok to admit that there were also serious missteps by Stalin that magnified the extent of this famine, and that it was intentionally made worse for some ethnic minorities.
Are you seriously thinking this is how revolution in the US would go?
Commercials have always done that, though. They exist to lie to you
Commercials exist solely to convince you to spend money. Turning to commercials for life advice is gonna give you a bad life
Don’t forget he was a “close friend” of Jeffrey Epstein’s
While this may be something that has happened, this definitely is not something “the homeless do” in the US
What is it that will make your parents happy? It sounds like nothing that you want will make them happy, so at some point you either need to do what they want and be miserable or do what fulfills you and let them handle their own misery. Secrets are not sustainable.
Caveat that most of the advice you’re going to get on here, including mine, will be from western countries.
Everyone is only there for the money. No one would be there if they weren’t getting paid. It sounds like you’re walking around telling all your coworkers “I’m only here for money,” which very honestly sounds insufferable. When you say the “C suite” wants to talk to you about this, are you referring to your boss, or your boss’s boss? Unless you’re in a high level job at a large company, those people are definitely not in the “C suite.”
We send my son to private school. It’s not for multimillionaires, but it’s basically the cost of a second mortgage. We make his lunch every morning. Today it was a bean taco with cantaloupe, olives, cherry tomatoes, and cheese crackers.
Bipolar disorder is not curable, meaning that if you have it, you have it forever. That you have experienced mania before, but think right now it’s “impossible” that you’re manic, that’s a worrying sign.
The food is not doing this to you. The increased energy and irritability you describe are hallmark symptoms of a manic episode. Other symptoms include increased sex drive, loss of impulse control, and increased goal-directed activity.
I had a patient once who was manic as fuck and even came into the hospital denying that he was manic, that instead he started an all-meat diet and it gave him limitless energy. In real life, he was experiencing mania before he started that diet, and his manic brain was just continually connecting dots that weren’t actually connected.
I highly recommend you see a psychiatrist for an evaluation. If you are experiencing a manic episode, it could get worse before it gets better. I’ve seen it get a lot worse for people
My genuine advice for you is to find a psychiatrist, tell them everything, and then follow their recommendations
This is called “uptalk,” and it’s most famously associated with the “valley girl” culture of 1980s Southern California. Many of those people are now pushing 60 years old
With the caveat that it can be easy for some people to trigger a stress response in themselves when ruminating on past events, at which point any benefit of contemplation may become outweighed by the negative effects of anxiety. Developing the ability to set aside a thought that’s causing you distress in the moment and learning to approach it from a more neutral or objective perspective are also powerful tools.
It helps if you’re a regular customer and speak to your willingness to stop spending money with these companies
They’re talking about going back to school, not what you’ve already done
I have my great aunt’s Sunbeam waffle iron from the 50s and it still works great. Appliances used to be made to be repairable, and there were appliance repair shops all over the place
Which won’t stop people from using it for those purposes, only cover openAI in case of lawsuit