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Mike O

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20-Jun-2006
Last activity
16-Mar-2024
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2,323

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#1564025
Topic
Therapy
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It’s very helpful and healthy, but it’s a lot of hard work. A therapist can help you see problems, but they can’t solve them for you. Also, it took me about a half a dozen tries to find a therapist who really clicked with me. Is it worth it? Absolutely. But it’s hard. Just know that.

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#1562640
Topic
The Place to Go for Emotional Support
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I’m reaching a major tipping point in my life, and I don’t think I have the necessary strength and courage to make changes. I see a therapist I really like and I’m on medications which really help, but it’s not enough. My grandfather passed away, my father has Parkinson’s, and I’m continuing to work the same dead-end job. My dream job is to do some writing, especially as a film critic or something, but I can’t find any place to get a foot in the door, and I could really use the supplementary income. I can’t keep living on $400 a week. I’m still a virgin, I still live with my parents, I still work a dead-end job, I have severe depression, and every day the noose seems to tighten. I’m just comfortable enough not to make changes, but unless I do, soon I’ll be stuck forever. I see so little point my life and no way out.

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#1507042
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VPNs
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Hey gang, I figured that this was a place with enough tech-savvy fan editors to ask, I recently got a VPN on my iPhone and just have a quick query. Pretty much the only reason I have it is because the Wi-Fi at work essentially blocks everything except the store website; I’m not using it to look at anything inappropriate. It is possible to set to exclude anything that it locks though? Like most of my streaming apps won’t work when it’s on, and I can’t really surf the web when it’s off while I’m at work. Kind of puts me in annoying position where I have to turn it on and off. Is there any way to manage its settings?

I may use it on my PC to find fan-edits if ever figure out how goddamn BitTorrent works 😉.

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#1484496
Topic
The Place to Go for Emotional Support
Time

I was making genuine progress with my new therapist (Easily the one with whom I’ve most clicked, and then a stupid stimulus caused me to backslide in my OCD. I barely survived this the first time, I can’t do it again. The medicine was helping, and I think I got complacent. If I’m lucky, it will be something I can work through. But I’m rarely lucky.

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#1474595
Topic
Audio commentaries
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Hey, gang, not sure if this is the right section of the forum to post this in, but I’ll roll the dice and let the mods move it. I’m starting to dig on putting movie audio commentaries on my iPod. In the past, I’ve done this with Total Recorder in real time. Though a pain, this has proven pretty effective. But this only works with DVDs because I use VLC media player; it’s harder to do with Blu-rays, and as far as I can tell, I can’t do it at all with my out-of-region Blus (I have a region-free Blu-ray player, but I’m not sure how to play them on a computer.). For the record, I have no intention whatsoever of putting these up online or anything of that nature; I simply like them for my own edification. Is there a quicker way to do this and to circumvent my problems with Blus, and especially alternate region discs? Figured this was a good place to ask 😉. I’ve been able to hunt down a few on YouTube too, but transferring those to MP3 and then to ACC within iTunes proves time-consuming as well.