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Re:Psychedelic Mushrooms Hit the Market in Oregon on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @03:41AM (#37995874)
I took Sertraline (one kind of SSRI) to treat anxiety, never had depression. No panic attacks anymore, sexual drive was still good, after 3 months I felt superhuman and like my life changed, 3 months after that the suicidal ideation started. I thought it was something I could power through, so I gave it another three months before it became unbearable, and I couldn't book an appointment with my treating doctor for another two months so I quit cold turkey. The withdrawals were so terrible, I was basically a zombie for two weeks. Took me a few months until I felt like myself again.

I no longer experience anxiety to the same degree I did back then, no use of other SSRIs or any other drugs.

This isn't meant to scare people into not trying SSRIs, just sharing my experience. I think had I been more informed of the potential risks and changed my attitude of toughing it out, it could've probably been more beneficial.

Doesn't GDPR basically count as the perfect excuse as why they would count the same user installing as multiple installs?

Something along the lines of "we can't identify the device so we have to count it as a unique install"

Re:To Conference Organisers Everywhere on Monday August 21, 2023 @08:50AM (#37208824)
Funnily enough those instances I described are based on Israelis as well.

From what I gather it mostly depends on how the person reviewing your application thinks it's likely you might break your visa terms (stay longer than you should, work when you're not allowed to). Usually happens for younger people or people involved with problematic industries (military etc)

Re:To Conference Organisers Everywhere on Monday August 21, 2023 @05:13AM (#37207051)
For the US you sometimes might get a visa that's valid only for a year, and in some extreme cases I've seen people receive visas for 30 days surrounding a specific event they were traveling for .
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:31AM (#29187196)
To play the devil's advocate here - I do the same as you, but last month when I booked a 3 week vacation Booking offered better prices than the hotels themselves. They also didn't pull any stunts like other hotel aggregators do (show you a price and change it when you get to the checkout). I also had a single instance in the past where I wanted to prolong my stay at a hotel, and the hotel clerk told me I'd get a better deal if I booked through Booking, which I did.

Generally I think you're right, but I guess it depends.

Highly doubt any Zen master would reprimand you. Any habit you want to keep needs to be sustainable, if it doesn't fit the way your life works, you probably won't keep it. They would however most likely encourage you to challenge yourself from time to time when possible to see if you can get comfortable doing a longer session once in a while.
Re:AWS NLBs and the mixed up TCP connections on Thursday October 22, 2020 @08:15AM (#24857186)
That's a really interesting point. The startup I currently work for only uses a single AZ due to financial concerns (and some performance as well), but I assume we'll have to move to more AZs for reliability. Would you advise the same for clusters of RDS and Elasticache? I'm wondering how you would even go about having two separate data sources, how would this be manageable?
Re:Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia on Thursday November 07, 2019 @03:20AM (#21471423)
You just described about half the population of Israel
Same in Israel