#galileoace

[actuallyadhd]

Can ADHD meds cause, or worsen, intense mood instability?

Yes, this is actually a side effect of pretty much all psych meds.

-J

[bpdgooglesearches]

I'm BPD and I don't have an FP, is there something wrong with me?

[eeee-lye]

[image description: an assortment of Tangles arranged on a quilt cover featuring the black silhouette of a tree and branches against a stylised night sky backdrop--dark blue dappled with white blotches for stars.]

@galileoace: This isn’t all my Tangle collection. I’ve got some really cheap eBay ones I couldn’t be bothered unclipping from my bags/fishing out of my dressing gown and coat pockets, and I have a few doubles of the eBay Fuzzies knock-offs because I go through those quickly (picking off the flocking). But when I say I have a lot of Tangles, well...

Why, yes, I am bragging. I’m not even slightly sorry.

Assortment includes:

eBay knock-off yellow GitD Tangle Jr

eBay knock-off rainbow scale print Artist’s Collection Tangle Jr (gifted by @ambiguouspieces)

eBay knock-off purple galactic print Artist’s Collection Tangle Jr

Tangle Creations orange/green/yellow/purple Tangle Hairy

eBay knock-off yellow/red/purple Tangle Jr

eBay knock-off translucent blue Tangle Jr w/ old-style logo

Tangle Creations clear/yellow/blue/pink Tangle Jr Textured w/ last year’s logo (my first Tangle!)

eBay knock-off flocked white/blue/dark blue Tangle Jr Fuzzy

eBay knock-off purple Tangle Jr

eBay knock-off black Tangle Jr w/ old-style logo

eBay knock-off purple/white jade-patterned Tangle Jr

Tangle Creations clear/blue/green/orange Tangle Jr Textured w/ last year’s logo

eBay knock-off red Tangle Jr

Zuru orange/blue/translucent blue/white Tangle Jr Textured/Crazy

Tangle Creations red flocked sample Tangle Jr Fuzzy

Zuru metallic blue Tangle Jr Sparkle/Metallic Textured

Zuru pink/purple/yellow Tangle Jr Textured

eBay knock-off black/orange Tangle Jr

Tangle Creations red/yellow/green/purple/light blue/dark blue flocked Tangle Jr Fuzzy w/ last year’s logo

eBay knock-off black/pink/aqua Tangle Jr

Tangle Creations red/yellow/green/purple/light blue/dark blue Tangle Jr Fuzzy (picked clean of flocking)

Tangle Creations yellow/translucent yellow/translucent orange/translucent purple Tangle Jr w/ last year’s logo

Tangle Creations pink/fuchsia/purple Tangle Jr w/ last year’s logo and replacement metallic links because I keep breaking this one

eBay knock-off flocked rose pink Tangle Jr Fuzzy

Slinky green/yellow GitD Tangle Slinky Glo

Tangle Creations metallic pink Tangle Jr Metallic Textured

eBay knock-off rose pink GitD Tangle Jr

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[image description: fifty-odd dice scattered across a red watermelon slice pillow. The dice are standard D6s, one pink Chessex D20, standard MtG Spindowns and one large blue Q-Workshop Spindown, in a variety of colours and designs. D6 dice include Disney dice with Mickey Mouse heads for dots, fantasy-style Q-Workshop dice with textured and ornamental designs, coloured translucent dice with white dots, and clear translucent dice with coloured dots. MtG Spindowns are in the standard mottled white, blue, black, red and green colours and some of the fancier opaque colours from Khans of Tarkir/Fate Reforged--red, green, purple and brown--and the translucent colours of Dragons of Tarkir--yellow and pink.]

@galileoace: If it’s the dice itself that made you happy, here’s the contents of my dice bag. Most of these are dollar shop dice, but there’s quite a few decent ones if you look around. The Disney ones were gifted from a relative and I got the fancy Q-Workshop dice at PAX Australia two and a bit years ago. I wish I’d gotten more. I’m still kicking myself for not getting their green large Spindown as well.

I don’t know what it is about dice, but they’re colourful and pretty, and I really don’t know how it is people don’t want to have heaps of them--I used to comment all the time in my old job how much I wanted to collect dice. (Especially when I was processing a Chessex order.)

I stim by sorting and counting them, so they’re not just gaming pieces for me. It’s more like a portable dragon hoard of pretty. How do you not enjoy?

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[image description: several handmade stim/fidget toys, sitting on a blue and white mottled night-sky-with-black-tree-silhouette quilt cover. The toys include an orange and purple bar cake sponge squishy with glittery purple icing; a long rectangle marble maze with yellow stitching made from a fabric printed with cupcakes, sweets, lollipops, candy canes and cherries; a short rectangle marble maze with white stitching made from a dark blue fabric printed with white “X” and “O”s; a pendant necklace of a green cupcake in a yellow case, topped with fake cream, strung on a green rattail cord with a black breakaway clasp; three bead rings made with flower or star eraser beads bracketed by two smaller beads; a bead lanyard made from black rattail cord in trans pride colours and finished with a pink star bead; and a bead lanyard made from blue rattail cord with purple, blue, green, black and white beads, finished with a green star bead.]

@galileoace: I am nowhere near finished, as I mean to make scented pendant necklaces and a bunch of other things, but here’s the start of the stim toy bits I said I’d make for you. There’s a DIY squishy, marble mazes, bead rings, roller bead lanyards and a cupcake pendant that’s quite textured for fidgeting.

The little marble maze is little because I fucked up, but I’m pretending that I did it on purpose so as you’d have a more portable-sized one for travelling with you.

I’m trying to do two of most things so you either have another if one gets lost, or one for at home and one for a travelling stim kit.

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galileoace replied to your post:

I’ve been watching, when I can get them, TV shows...

*scoff* @sevenraptors SHIELD isn’t fabulous? *scoffs* harumph and other noises lol �� hehe

It’s a little too Joss Whedon-y for me, and I’ve fallen a bit out of love with the way Whedon et al approaches his media (TV and film) with regards characters, character arc, and dialogue. So that really doesn’t help! It’s not terrible, but the dialogue and the characters don’t grab me in a way that really draws me in and makes me feel passionate about the storytelling behind it. I never feel it goes further than “eh, I’ll put on an episode to fill time or while I’m crafting” for me. Passable, not fabulous--at least for me. I have only seen the first two seasons, though.

(The captions, though, are good. The only problem is that they use an all-caps type that can’t handle accents, so you get a few non-English words half in capital letters and half in lower case. In terms of detail, it’s the best show for captions in my library. All the respect for that.)

You’ll just have to accept me as a friend flawed in this way, but you can roll your eyes at me on occasion because of it. I won’t mind. :P

ETA: Peggy Carter, though? Awesome.

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The process of steroid injection was boring as procedures go (you wouldn’t do it for fun, but hardly agonizing, if you’re like me and your pain threshold is dry needling), but I cannot much move my arm now from pain, and even this much keyboard use is difficult. Which is normal for the first 24 hours.

The really good news was that the ultrasound showed that my inflammation is perfectly aligned to the pain I’m suffering and the movements I’m finding difficult. I think this is the first time I’ve had a very detectable cause of my body malfunctioning; it is such a relief, honestly. I could cry.

(Although I had a drunk man talk about killing me on the tram today. Truly. Even 100% believing it was all talk on his part, that’s still pretty scary. Very glad to be home.)

@galileoace: I’m glad you’re home, too, although you just shouldn’t have had the experience you did. And with regard to your comment, oh, no, you’re not out of line, no worries.

I’ll spend tonight reading and watching TV.