Your comment made me laugh because it’s only a picture of my arm lol. I’m glad you are imagining that bahaha.

Thank you! We are twins haha.

Yes exactly! I am still on reddit and I love trying to uploft the OP when people start shitting on them when they are self conscious with their new tattoo.

But tbh I also love browsing the shitty tattoos sub lol.

Thank you very much! :)

I love that statement about tattoos too! There are a lot of tattoo subreddits on Reddit and a lot of people on there seem to love to shit on people’s tattoos unnecessarily. Lot of people on there critique the most minute details.

Not sure why you randomly decided to come to this community to fear monger lol.

But anyway, instead of a pop-sci piece, I managed to find the original referenced paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ceo.70012

I’ll admit I only skimmed it, but what is confusing to me is that they doesn’t seem to go into detail what sort of research was involved to determine the tattoo as the cause of the condition described. I don’t know that this article really goes into depth enough to discern whether or not the tattoos themselves are the cause, or if the inflamed tattoos are actually a symptom. There are many references to a relationship with sarcoidosis, which is an autoimmune disease. Sarcoidosis itself is not associated with tattoos and has multifactorial causes. It seems to me that in those genetically susceptible, you could hypothesize that the tattoo pigment may play a role in the development of the condition. But it seems like more of an explanation is warranted. But I’ll admit it is a long paper so I just did some light skimming.

Oh but I will say it’s not totally unheard of for the body’s immune response to a particular substance get too “messy” and start attacking other things. It is the case with strep throat sometimes causing heart damage due to a “messy” immune response/overreaction or certain GI bugs causing Guillain Barre syndrome (an autoimmune paralysis disease) from a “messy” immune response/overreaction. So it certainly is plausible. It just doesn’t seem to be definitive yet based on my casual reading. I could be wrong. The article describes tattoo excision being associated with remission, BUT that the patients were also systemically treated. So imo sounds like a confounding variable instead of definitive proof. But idk.

One interesting thing is that my job revolves around dissecting human organs. It is interesting to see, but tattoo pigment does travel to and color the nearby lymph nodes in your body. Lymph nodes are part of the immune system and help maintain the balance of fluid between your tissue and your blood vessels. It’s neat to see.

Anyway, a curious phenomenon that I hadn’t heard of. I can’t say I feel at all alarmed if that was your goal lol.

Thank you!

I have heard the biggest risk of the surgery is basically “permanent” dry eyes. Might not sound like a big deal but to me it sounds like torture.

Is this a new copypasta?

I see this propagated on the internet, but I get curious on whether or not it’s actually true or something that someone made up and got telephoned around the world.

What’s the relation of this gif in your post to the static photo? It’s this an ad in the Duolingo app or something? It’s hard to make the connection to that. And this part of the gif is small and in the corner. All you need next time is a bit more of a description!

I clicked on the post instead of scrolling by and I am still incredibly confused.

Sadly mine doesn’t seem to work properly. Nothing in that region does.

Me irl.

Sad thing is that having a spouse doesn’t at all stop a hell of a lot of people. To be clear, I’m not saying this is limited to men…all genders do this. I’ve personally never understood why. If you don’t want to be with your significant other, break up with them. It’s a zillion times worse to betray their trust and intimacy and then break up anyway when they find out.

Thing is sometimes I can’t remember if I forgot to take it or if I forgot to log it in the app! I have an app too but it had only been so helpful lmao.

Yes exactly lol! I have my watch set to go off but then I don’t remember if I did it or forgot to check off the list!

Thankfully I take two pills per day rn and have a two well pill cutter. So I put a pill on each side. In the morning, there are two pills in the well. I take one pill from one well. In the evening, if I remembered to take the morning one, there is one pill left in the second well.

Then, at night, I fill up both wells so I start over with them full in the morning.

Sometimes I forget if I took the morning pill or the evening pill, but I never forget if I took both pills thankfully.

My goal is to move down to one pill though and that’s going to be a lot trickier for me to remember. I don’t want to go full old people with a weekly pill box, so I’m going to have to figure something out.

I’m thinking something like starting with two pills (one per well) on even days and starting with one pill on odd days. I’d just have to make sure I’d keep track of the end of the month. Idk.

Do you have a source for that? I know the issues within homelessness are complex but I haven’t seen any data to suggest that a majority of homeless people are severely disabled.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8423293/

A peer reviewed article of a meta analysis of many studies shows a whopping 76% of all homeless people have a mental illness. The majority are alcohol or other substance abuse problems followed by schizophrenia. These can all be incredibly disabling conditions. Something like social anxiety disorder, for example, while can be very disabling on the extreme end, does not cause difficulty caring for basic functioning of yourself. Alcohol/substance abuse problems and/or untreated schizophrenia are incredibly significant conditions which are severely disabling.

I have a friend with schizophrenia which has been thankfully successfully managed. I have known her for a long time and it was very scary watching her develop it and at first and for professionals to struggle to help her treat it. She would also periodically do this thing where she felt she didn’t need her medications because she felt better. So she would stop taking them periodically and go back to having severe issues before everyone managed to convince her to go back on them. It’s actually an incredibly common phenomenon and one of the reasons why it’s a difficult disorder to treat. She is one of the success stories because she has had a lot of help and support and access to very intensive mental health care. Many do not, unfortunately.

I’ll admit I only read the first several paragraphs. I do get a bit frustrated at times with the number of people nowadays that claim to have ADHD just because their house is messy or autistic because they have one thing they are passionate about.

The tricky part is that like the article states…yes, basically all mental illnesses are essentially a part of the normal human condition! So it actually really is a spectrum between “normal” and “mental illness”. So where do we draw the line? That’s the problem. It’s blurry. It’s not a binary.

Where the line is theoretically supposed to be drawn is when the issue is severe enough to have an impairment of functioning or severe distress in an area of your life. Do you have mild social anxiety where you get a little bit of butterflies in your stomach before an event but are able to attend and function just fine? You don’t have a disorder. It’s natural…some people just have more or less of this than others. Do you have anxiety so intense that you have a panic attack at the thought of ordering food at a restaurant so you never go out to eat? That is functional impairment. You have a diagnosable disorder.

But again, this line is blurry. What I will say is that even though the first example shouldn’t technically be classed as having a disorder, it is always a good idea to try to improve your happiness in life by seeking out how to cope with things like therapy! That’s always a good thing and we should strive for everyone to live their best life! But if the first person were to receive medication for that, I’d say they were overmedicated. The second person would heavily benefit from medication.

It’s just dumb to me how people go around and are like “I have trouble paying attention to boring things. I am so quirky with my ADHD, guys”! Yet they have always been able to function just fine. People often get overmedicated this way and two other things happen. 1. They are pathologizing normal human reactions and 2. They almost “cheapen” (not the word I’m looking for) people who really really struggle with “actual” ADHD because they make it look “easy” to live with the condition, while those who “actually” have the condition struggle.

I will say that a lot of this in the US at least is insurance related. Often, a provider needs to tack on a diagnosis, even if not necessarily accurate, in order for insurance to pay for anything. If they just said that a patient was seeking help for “life improvement” (which is a good idea!), insurance is going to be like “fuck no, you’re not getting any money”. So like in my case, my providers immediately diagnosed me with both of your standard “anxiety and depression” for billing purposes, when really it’s kind of innacurate.

Anyway goddamn I am always so wordy on the internet lol. Just my views is all.

tl;dr - I both agree and disagree with the artilce

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literally just fix homelessness

Dude, I know everyone makes it out to be a simple thing, but it’s really absolutely not. Homelessness and mental health issues are associated…usually a combination of addiction with one or more other mental illnesses that are severely disabling…be it PTSD, schizophrenia, etc. It is absolutely not as simple as just “give everyone some money” or “give everyone a place to live”. Obviously that sort of stuff helps way a lot, but it is really not the easy fix people think it is. Many of these people even end up wandering away from housing that is given to them exactly because of their multiple overlapping severe mental illnesses.

Basically, the majority of homeless people are also severely disabled by often multiple overlapping mental illnesses which are difficult to treat even in people with stable housing. We should always always strive to find them food and shelter, but it is NOT the easy fix that people think it is. It’s a multi-layered issue that requires an insane amount of different types of resources.

Right…the idea isn’t to make it foolproof, it’s just to make a barrier. People generally go for easier targets over ones with a small barrier. If you have two bikes next to each other in public, one with a bike lock and one with no lock at all, the casual thief is way more likely to steal the one without a lock. Bike locks can easily be broken, but they serve as a deterrent.