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No one here has yet named and shamed the Swedish for their banana pizza and I cannot let the Swedes continue to get away with this. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/bananas-and-curry-on-pizza-thats-how-the-swedish-do-it-180984961/

Yeah, OCD and anxiety often go hand in hand, as they do in my case. Do some breathing exercises and, if appropriate for your timezone, go to bed. Throw on something to listen to to take your mind off of things, like a podcast or audiobook or music you enjoy. You will very likely feel better for having done so.

At the risk of projecting, it’s sounding to me like you are currently experiencing a larger anxiety issue that I, as someone who has struggled throughout her life with anxiety, am very familiar with. Specifically, it sounds to me like you are catastrophizing.

What this means is that you have experienced a stressful situation that, for whatever reason, has triggered an intense stress reaction for you. Because of this, your body is experiencing stress symptoms, and your brain, recognizing the level of stress, is spinning trying to find possible threats that would match the intensity of the reaction, convinced that surely there must be a threat your conscious mind has missed that is causing this. As a result, your brain ends up overthinking everything about the scenario and coming up with catastrophic interpretations. This then causes further stress, resulting in a self-sustaining cycle where the brain stresses out the body and the body stresses out the brain, causing you to ruminate on a situation for much longer than would usually be expected for the situation.

Frequently, the first and most effective way to deal with this is to try to address the stress reaction itself. Activate your parasympathetic nervous system, whose job it is to calm the body back down after stress. Here is an article with some breathing exercises that help: https://www.katiepotratz.com/post/5-deep-breathing-techniques-to-activate-your-parasympathetic-nervous-system

It is my personal experience that, when dealing with catastrophization, the divide between the rational brain going “I’m overreacting” and the anxious brain and body going “AAAAAAAAAAAAA” can result in further feeling ashamed and embarrassed. It is not a cause for shame or embarrassment. It’s your system reacting to something in a way that you did not choose. If you eat a strawberry and have an allergic reaction, your brain knows that it’s not a threat, but your immune system has ideas of its own, and yet having an allergic reaction is also not cause for shame or embarrassment.

I could go through and soothe each individual fear that could possibly arise from this scenario, but if I am correct, none of it would be as effective as calming the nervous system down first and then seeing if the problem is still bothering you.

Finally, because I often have an experience where I freak out due to anxiety and then feel very embarrassed towards the person I was talking to and have a follow-up anxiety spiral about whether they are judging me for it, I want you to know I’m feeling zero judgment towards you, just recognition of an experience I have and sympathy for someone else experiencing it.

Or I could be totally projecting and off-base, in which case I have made a social faux pas, myself. I hope you can not only forgive me, but experience your own forgiveness and realize that the other people in that scenario are extending that same forgiveness to you.

Oh, 100%. I promise you that the people you encountered have already put this incident out of mind.

*flicks water over each of your shoulders * In the name of social anxiety relief, I, a random woman on Lemmy, hear your minor faux pas and absolve you. With this blessing, may you find relief from overthinking and forgive yourself for any perceived transgressions. Amen.

I would not consider it creepy behavior if I were in the bathroom and a guy did this.

Cis woman here. I’ve had a couple times where I’ve seen a guy accidentally walk into the women’s room, realize his mistake, and embarrassedly apologize and leave. I pretty much forget about it immediately unless reminded by a thread like this, and will forget about it again in short order. You’re fine; these things happen.

For anyone in scenarios like this:

• You likely already know about local food banks, but just mentioning them for thoroughness.
• Look for local chapters of Food, Not Bombs to find out when they do food distros. Try contacting them via online contact information for direct aid as well.
• Speaking of, look for mutual aid groups in your area. Some online directories can be found at https://www.mutualaidhub.org/, https://organize.directory/location and https://www.communitycommons.org/entities/edd8457e-d151-441f-9113-f4a4d04e8cea
• Look for local Sikh temples in your area that serve Langar, which are free community meals available to everyone of any faith.
• Try asking around for extra produce from people’s gardens on online local groups, especially gardening groups. This might mostly net you copious amounts of zucchini, but it’s still something.

Just grabbed it via Aurora to check it out, and it looks like there’s no anon browsing option and it requires an account. Can’t use my Lemmy account, either, gotta be a loops.video instance. It’s not overly difficult to make an account but is there any reason not to allow anon browsing?

This is some Gumbly shit right here.

I expect that the idea is to be a dark mirror of Catholic masses (Black Masses, etc.) but this somehow brings to mind the mental image of a Satanist Martin Luther nailing a list of 95 grievances to the door of some wicked temple and translating the Black Mass into German for the accessibility of the common Satanist folks who don’t know Latin.

I’ve considered that a few times, and have done the 'phone chatting while gaming" solution, but it gets pretty unwieldy quickly in my experience, sadly.

I have the same question, but a particular problem I am having is the need to chat via text while streaming instead of audio for accessibility purposes. Discord’s game overlay worked okay for this (not great, but usable) on Windows, but doesn’t run at all on Linux, and every alternative I look at seems very voice chat focused. Steam does have chat options within the overlay but doesn’t seem to have good chat history options.

If you’re also trying to avoid github because Microslop, looks like this is further hosted on https://tboteproject.com/, with a decentralized repository on https://tboteproject.com/git/hekate/attestation-findings

Fun little game! I’d say up through the first forty levels or so, it’s easy but not effortless, very relaxing. Around the forties it starts to require more active thought and effort, and becomes more challenging. Both are appealing in their own way. As a game strongly reliant on color matching, this game isn’t going to work well for you if you have limited color vision, but otherwise it’s pretty accessible to all players and runs smoothly. If this sounds like your thing, give it a whirl!

Flags for Good has a lot of great flags available, if you want to peruse their collection. https://flagsforgood.com/