Saturday, June 20, 2020

Quick Tumblr Thread On Tips For Handling Anxiety


This quick and helpful Tumblr thread provides some tips for dealing with anxiety. It's all about giving that overactive brain and imagination something to play with. As it turns out, things like sucking on ice cubes or biting into lemons, are quite effective in alleviating those waves of anxiety as they pop up. 

Check out some more gold from the brilliant minds of Tumblr with this Tumblr monster prompt that invokes the feels.

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Text - thesigilwitch I was just about to spiral into a bad panic attack, and my boyfriend goes "Stick an ice cube in your mouth." I'm not really sure where he got the idea, and I kinda laughed at it because I didn't see how it would help, but he was insistent. So I did it. And now I'm on my second cube, because it worked. thesigilwitch He explained his reasoning to me when he got home.

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Text - 1. I would initially think "what the fuck" and be distracted from the anxiety. (Correct.) 2. The cold of the ice would shock my system, bringing me back to the physical world and reality, drawing my focus to the cold in my mouth, and keep my brain away from thinking "I'm panicking, I must be dying." (Correct.) 3. He assumed I hadn't drank much water today and wanted to keep me hydrated. (Triple correct.) arcisanickname It also forced your mouth to make saliva!

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Text - When you go into fight or flight mode, non-crucial body functions stop working so you have more energy to do what you need to do to survive (000or to spiral into a panic attack). By forcing yourself to make saliva it helps calm you down because since fight or flight is an all or nothing response, they can't happen at the same time. Learned that from my old therapist, who would use it with veterans with ptsd queer-papayas I'm doing this right now and its working????

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Text - april-thelightfury115 THIS! Do this! Anxiety is an emotional thing BUT there are feedback systems in place in your body that pay attention to physical states as well, which is why you then experience raised heart rate and so on when anxious. Eliminate or confuse one feedback system? Reduce anxiety. Go be free! smute biting into a lemon also works

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Text - k-phoenix Btw, this is part of Dialectic Behavioural Therapy, DBT for short, which was invented by a woman with borderline. It doesn't only work with panic attacks but also self harm, negative thought spirals, and sometimes even intrusive flashbacks. Eating very spicey stuff works as well. I used to keep little packets of wasabi in my jacket, and that saved me more times I can count.

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Questionable "There I Fixed It" Moments


Life has its many problems, but sometimes we don't have the time, resources, or effort to solve those problems how they should be solved. This leaves opportunities for Bad but Awesome Low Budget Solutions as well as less inventive but Wonderfully Unprofessional "Not My Job" Moments.

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Pink - NADE N DA

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Font - To Release Door Press Green Button DOOR RELEASE GREEN EXIT BUTTON

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Water - Tasta Twist Sha Shasta Twis Twist Shhasa sla Sh Si Shasta la sla Lemon Lime Diel Twwist Seet Lemon Li Hunts PANTAKACE Tdial 48-67536

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Technology - Zack Kruse 3 hrs · Got sick of everyone losing the remote. This'll learn 'em. er Franklin 2.5 RGA 2.5 Share Comment O Like 00 The Em in Post

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Vehicle - KIA

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Cooktop - Amana

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Lighting

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Land vehicle

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Tree - Great save by Ormond Bushey and Sons tree service! We dropped a tree on our job site and found two baby woodpeckers in it so we cut it out and taped it to another tree, mama's back to feeding, great employees at Ormond Bushey and sons.!

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Land vehicle - PJA 1484 PGW autoglass www.pgwglate.com B Mae If only there was a company that could fix that glass

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Room - long e LIGHT tulbis CON A ycling rakes UNIT3 UNIT PUBLIC UNIT

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Tile - When the fire inspector says you need to replace missing ceiling tiles, but all you have is a color copier and a UPS envelope... sdn Express Envelope

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Land vehicle - RE GERADOR REFRIGERADOR

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Entitled Girlfriend asks Boyfriend to Pay Her Substantial Debt


This guy's girlfriend of two years asked him to help pay off her enormous college debt, and he laughed in her face about it. The internet weighed in on whether that was an appropriate response. For other relationship disputes people took to the internet, here's a woman who emasculated her egotistical boyfriend and a man who tried to control his girlfriend's money.

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Text - r/AmItheAsshole - Posted by u/JFThrowaway3312 18 hours ago AITA for laughing at my girlfriend for her suggestion to pay off her loan Not the A-hole Throwaway for obvious reasons. Me(32) and my girlfriend(29) are living together for a year and going out for two. I make about 1.5 times the amount she makes and split all our bills including rent 60-40. She has a huge student loan in low six digits. So here's the incident. Yesterday, she came up to me and asked why I was not helping pay off h

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Text - is she expecting me to help pay of her loan. she said it was the latter. I told her I am not willing to join finances as long as we are not married. But she retorted that I have more than enough in my savings and it's unfair that I am not helping her pay off her student loan. So, I asked her if she was expecting me to take my savings and completely pay off her loan. She nodded and I started laughing uncontrollably. She got upset and has informed most of her friends and they have been call

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Text - Emptyplates Partassipant [4] 20.1k points - 20 hours ago NTA. Her debt isn't your problem. Her attitude after asking would be a deal breaker for me.

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Text - PlaneJaneLane03 Asshole Enthusiast [7] 6.4k points · 20 hours ago NTA. She let her friends get in her head and make a fool out of her.

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Text - terrenoya 3.4k points · 20 hours ago NTA she wanted to use you

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Text - Revolution8531 Partassipant [1] 740 points · 18 hours ago NTA. I'm already laughing at the hubris needed to ask and EXPECT such a thing. Your savings, your money, and you already pay 60% of the bills because of your income difference, yet she's asking for even more? Red flag dude, especially if her friends are also piling on.

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Text - thundermalice 2.0k points · 18 hours ago NTA, she's not your wife, not even a fiance! It is laughable that she thought she could get you to spend your savings on her debt. That clearly shows irresponsibility and lack of personal accountability on her part.

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F1 Racing but All the Sounds are Hank Hill


Do you like Formula 1 racing but find the constant sound of engines and announcers too exciting? Here's a snippet of what things could be if it was all just a chorus of shocked Hanks going "Bwaaaaaah!"

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Women Who Dated Toxic "Nice Guys"


"Nice Guys" are a kind of manipulative dude, claiming to be chivalrous, but then demanding sex and attention that they feel like they're owed. It can be a weird combination of creepiness and entitlement. Toxic behavior is toxic behavior, like this woman who bombarded a guy's phone with a storm of texts.

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Text - AndThenThereIsJess 10.1k points · 1 day ago I finally allowed him to take me on a date to breakfast. Figured midday would be ideal to meet up in public. I offended him immediately when I spoke to the waitress. I said, "We have two" when she asked how many we had. He insisted that she was asking him, not me, and I emasculated him in public. I laughed it off as a joke. I grew up with all brothers. Surely, he was trying to be funny. We sat down. The waitress asked for our order. I gave her m

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Text - 100_night_sky_ 11.2k points · 2 days ago · edited 1 day ago I was once in a similar situation. I dated a sweet guy. But honestly, "sweet" is subjective. He was a gentleman, but he INSISTED on ALWAYS opening the car door for me (he literally would not let me touch the car handle, like at all), letting me eat first ALWAYS (instead of both at the same time cause honestly it's not a biggie for me), commented that I should never cut my hair, etc... I felt like I was with a man from the 50s. It

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Text - milkeymikey 6.6k points · 1 day ago A girlfriend told me that when she was still new to dating, she gave a nice guy a shot. They were in different states and after weeks of "owing him" a sexy picture or video she agreed to FaceTime him with a wink wink agreement that things might get steamy. The day comes and this 300lb unwashed dude called her (190lb, 5'6) "nice, but bigger than he liked" and suggested she start working out. He then pushed for an in-person visit near him so that he could

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Text - ApricityAmends 29.0k points · 2 days ago · edited 1 day ago Yes. It worked out that he also felt entitled to other things and felt like "no" wasn't an acceptable answer for things like sex when he “did so much for me."

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Text - Isaac_The_Khajiit 23.0k points · 2 days ago My sister did... She is a hairstylist and one of her clients was very aggressive about asking her out. He repeatedly bought flowers, concert tickets, and other gifts which he brought to her at work, and she said no each time because he seemed a little off. He got in a car accident and was really badly injured, and she felt sorry for him so she went out with him finally. They dated a few months before breaking up, I don't know the exact reason wh

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Text - Lrad5007 18.5k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago Yes. The tantrums continued throughout the relationship. He was very controlling. If I was out with friends he would be upset that I was having fun without him. He ended up cheating on me and dumping me only to beg me back. He semi staked me for a couple of years. Had an online blog about what I did each day and tried to befriend my exes

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Text - ChibiSailorMercury 18.2k points · 2 days ago S It was my first experience on OkCupid. The guy seemed ok on paper, we swapped non nude pictures so none of us would be surprised with the way we looked. We talked on Skype for 2 weeks because at the time I was in campus town and scrolling OkCupid for my hometown. I told him I would be back home after finals and that it would take 2-3 weeks before we could meet in person. It was good to talk to someone who wasn't outright trying to sexualize/f

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Text - Anyway, so we meet. I got dressed up and he was in t- shirt and cargo pants. I bought us both a latte (it was a coffee date). We sat down, and he talked mostly about himself and his job. At some point, he stood up, walked behind me, and started giving me a shoulder rub, while I was seated. I never asked for a massage and why would I accept one in public? I got bored, so I pretexted a family supper to leave and he was like "Uh, too bad, I could have had brought you home" and I thought "I t

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Text - ynextdoorneighbor 11.8k points · 2 days ago Yes I did once, and I wish I didn't. He wasn't a nice guy after all. He treated me like I was the ugly one, I never felt more shitty in my whole life than when I was with him. I should have known

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Text - WackyNephews 8.3k points · 1 day ago a I was the 'nice guy' who got turned down for a second date. I said the same bullshit that any 'nice guy' says when that happens, ie) all women are the same, say they want nice guys, only date assholes, etc. She said 'Well, fine, let's have that second date but doesn't it make you feel weird to have to convince someone to date you? Don't you want someone who wants to be with you?' Me: .. Changed absolutely everything about dating for me.

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Text - Akagikin 10.5k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago I didn't, but my friend did. See, me and This Guy had a Mutual Friend. This Guy saw himself as a white knight and would use that term to describe himself. He had a code of honour, and he was always somebody who'd walk the girl home, lend out his jacket, that sort of thing. Well, Mutual Friend was asked out by This Guy, and he threw a fit when she turned him down. So, she gave him a chance. At first, she was happy. He pulled out chairs,

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Text - MinMaxMarissa 9.3k points · 2 days ago Way too many times in college. I had guys in the "friend zone" who I decided to give a chance because I was stupid and I felt sorry for them I last straw was when a guy took me shopping. I said "yes" in lonely desperation on a Friday night, this was a Saturday afternoon. After every store I went into he would either criticize me for not wanting him to buy me anything (I'm not much of a shopper anyways) or ask me for sex because he bought me a used vi

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Text - lasha890 9.5k points · 1 day ago S Met a guy online and he seemed really nice. He was a tad pushy about meeting up but I ignored that little feeling. We met up shortly after for a quick date (I think we got coffee) and chatted. It was instant chemistry, he had 2 sons and i have 2 kids, both open to blended families, goal oriented, smart, easy conversation. We decided to go out again the next night, really nice date and he was a complete gentleman. He mentioned on the date we'd have to get

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