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[Orange Wizard]

Eh. People react to stress in different ways. That particular response is at least fairly common, and there's no exact time frame to get over it, as it were.
Just... don't act on it, obviously, and focus on getting out of the situations that make you feel like that in the first place. If it does persist to the point you're worried about it, then maybe chat to someone, but I wouldn't be too concerned.

[TheBiggerFish]

I agree with OW.

[Silthuri]

Prozac has possibly been giving me wonderful nightmares lately that include people dying as well as shoving my emotions and fears and past screw ups in my face.

Gods I hope this goes away soon and that it isn't actually my meds doing this to me.

[itisnotlogical]

God I'm tired of being fat and out of shape and I keep telling people this and that I'm trying to eat healthy so please please do not bring easy snacks, cakes, soda, etc. into my house, especially not in large quantities I'd have a hard time throwing away

And whenever I try to explain this in media res, I get a wink and a cheeky "you need to treat yourself once in a while" ;^)

I've been treating myself a fair bloody lot more than "once in a while" for around 20 years, that's why I have a body like a ziploc full of gelatin and can't run for more than thirty feet without getting winded god dammit, and now that I'm trying too little too late to change it I wish you would just god damn listen to me for once

[Truean]

Please do not quote:

Just learned I did not get this job....

Interview took hours and went well. Met entire staff; owner "half joked" it was the perfect job for me.

Then in the "any other questions or comments" part at the end of the interview, I told him the truth

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I swiftly proved everything in writing: that I was right and the guy in federal prison was terribly wrong and tried / failed to avoid his prison time by flinging mud at me. None stuck because I did nothing wrong. I explained I felt this owner was an ethical man and deserved to know, especially with the small size of his business. I also explained that it would never effect him, because it happened years ago and hours of travel away.... Simply being honest and fully disclosing.

I can't help but having a part of me (that I don't like) feeling I should've just let them all get away with it, all the heinous crimes against kids, etc. I won't lie (and that's what's shooting me in the foot repeatedly) the lost money hurt a lot, but the fact that I can't seem to climb out of this crap is worse. It drags on and nobody seems to get it. Personally, they understand I turned in people for some of the worst crimes imaginable, that the person was in a position they abused terribly, and that the scope of it was so massive it was intolerable. Thus incredibly unlikely to be repeated. Damn. "Professionally," they can't stand anyone rocking the boat, ever. People wonder why this crap keeps happening and nobody ever says anything? [sigh]

People do not get it.

Please do not quote:

[TheBiggerFish]

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*hugs Truean*

[Tiruin]

[..]
I can't help but having a part of me (that I don't like) feeling I should've [...]

Mind if I PM you about things like these and other parts I see about ya? :<

That part associates with the present--what's happening around you; thing is, what's happening around you is filled with social pressure, constructed pressure (eg Conformity), and this is affecting that part of you affecting you. It is amoral (not immoral :v), but note what and where it is directed to; everyone has mental mechanisms working towards something in their external or internal environment and given their natural//innate nature, it is most apparent by 'feeling'.

*hugs* to you ma'am. :/

[Truean]

Thank you both. T, OK.

Here's the thing(s) about that:

A.) Practically: You're right and that's why these monsters keep getting away with this shit.
-Punish the healer; hate the cure; wonder why the sickness persists.... And, the punchline to the joke is saying, "someone save us."
B.) Strategically: If I say nothing, got hired, and someone said something, then I would be "hiding something."
-Damned if you do; damned if you don't.
C.) If it does somehow come up: Did nothing wrong; fought it off and won. Beat them once; will again. [shrugs]

Still hosed and I want to make it clear I'm not blaming you greatorder. I am not mad at you. I am distressed with the situation.

There are more points, but right now, I'm kinda bummed out about it.

[IronTomato]

Eh. People react to stress in different ways. That particular response is at least fairly common, and there's no exact time frame to get over it, as it were.
Just... don't act on it, obviously, and focus on getting out of the situations that make you feel like that in the first place. If it does persist to the point you're worried about it, then maybe chat to someone, but I wouldn't be too concerned.

It has persisted for several years, and the whole point of what I was saying was that I was worried about it. As I attwmpted to make clear a few days ago, I do not have anyone who I can talk to about it.

[Jopax]

I'm doing my thesis (I guess, no idea what it would be properly called, basically, the thing you write and have to present after three years of Bologna style uni) and I've been a lazy/busy arse and did sweet fuck all up to this point, which is ok because I have the entire summer if I want to. What isn't fine is that it requires certain lab equipment and measurments, which we are doing now because the assistant and professor will most likely be absent for most of the summer. I need to prepare some stuff for freaking tommorrow so I can know what I'm doing, which wouldn't be a problem since I dabble in the subject matter anyways and could probably wing it if I had to. But I'm dead tired and can barely concentrate, let alone translate technobabble and integrate it into my knowledge base at the same time.

Blergh

[TheBiggerFish]

*applies hugpats*

[chaotic skies]

*applies excessive amounts of coffee and hugs*

Dude, take a nap. Then work on it. Also, get some coffee. It helps.

[Jopax]

Me and naps don't get along, similar for coffee, it keeps me awake/wakes me up, but it doesn't ensure the focus needed for functioning properly. The plan is to power trough another hour maybe, collapse then get up early and continue from there.

Tho, talking with some collegues now, it doesn't seem to be that big of a deal as the assistant did most of the work for them :V
Still, can't do any harm to know this stuff, I'll need it anyways.

[Parsely]

I hate that I'm surrounded by people who don't understand me and that the people who do are so far away that they couldn't help me if they wanted to.

[chaotic skies]

*applies hugs*

I wish I could help, but...I'm terrible at understanding myself, let alone other people, so I'd just make things worse :V