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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • I need to keep things new or hopeful, so trying new systems, new supports like therapy, or arrangements with friends to do a little work and exercise. DBT has a lot of small things that help https://dialecticalbehaviortherapy.com/.

    Systems I’ve tried:

    • On/Off days: I can push and try to be normal, and expect it will make stuff harder the day after and probably crash
    • Straight outta the house: work from a coffee store instead of home esp if I feel laggy
    • Improve the moment (dbt) I’m going to stay in bed, what are two things I can do to feel less shitty while I do, usually this is take meds, drink water, pee.
    • do something different, I was depressed as hell and not leaving bed more than a few times a week and kinda decided to try standup, going and watching gave me a lot of inspiration and realized these people aren’t that great. I’ve moved onto Improv, but a lot of the people I met there keep popping up
    • Choose a depression station, maybe a chair that isn’t bed or a relaxing couch. This video has some good ideas on maintaining mental boundaries if physically isn’t possible. https://youtu.be/snAhsXyO3Ck?si=bgJ6xhT2VfxbvM7x I like how it suggests to think of the hygiene of your different stations.

    I still have down times, and still using a tonne of supports. But happy to talk about it as it’s shit and not fun for anyone.




















  • Compared to other sites, and their relative costs to run, and amount of ads. YouTube has been fairly ok. They have balanced the consumer friendly skip this video and sometimes short ads with the probably higher engagement metrics from them.

    However YouTube the lite plan being discontinued right before this mostly means I’m going to move from Gmail to Zoho and wait for the ban.

    The final YouTube lite plan didn’t include removing ads from music, which seems to suggest the reason why YouTube music is bundled and maybe even exists, is in part the music industry being shitty.