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Alfiegerner @lemmy.world
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Weekend poll: When do you charge your smartphone?
  • Handily my phone can use the same chargers that we use for laptops on our house, and as the charge is fast, and battery capacity good, I don't bother charging it at night unless it's low. Before this phone I'd charge every night. Some sort of progress.

  • socks with sandals?

    Gross? Practical for the dairy? Fine for all occasions? What say we?

    Bonus question, socks with jandals anywhere?

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    Lithium vs other meds

    Hi all,

    I've been on Lithium for around 10 years, it's been a life changer for me. Aside from mood stabilisation, I feel it's had positive effect on my mental health in general, odd little kinks and glitches ironed out.

    However physically I feel like it's been quite rough on my body. I've had various issues to do with inflammation (e.g. hospitalised for cellulitis), have developed horrible painful psoriasis on my scalp that turns into welts, and get incredibly itchy in my hands and feet especially so take antihistamines to get under control.

    Does anyone else have experience like this or am I wrongly thinking this may be lithium related? My GP doesn't think it's necessarily related but may be.

    I'm considering changing meds but not sure of the effectiveness of others,, what the side effects may be and how they would make me feel.

    Thoughts welcome 😊

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    Do you regularly feel like something's off?
  • For someone with mental health challenges I think that's 'normal'. I think emotional states like dread, despair and others that don't fit with what's happening in front of you can be part of the symptoms. This happens to me more when I'm more stressed over a prolonged period, or other triggers generally cause my mental health to decline.

    Does it go the other way too, unusual episodes of excitability, joy etc?