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It's okay. Try to think calm thoughts. The mind plays tricks and think of the worst case scenarios. They aren't true. Take a deep breathe in. Hold for 3 second, release slowly. Take another deep breathe in. Release. Everything is okay.

Lol, this brought about a mental picture of someone beating someone with a baseball bat.."You will listen!!"...sorry, in a weird mood right now. Typed word assault *ducking for cover* Thanks, Bolt. I am at the place of my cold/flu where it feels all gone, then I wake up blocked up. Then it settles down and then I am sneezing..ugh. It's at the end but is reeeeeally hanging on. Hope you're feeling better too.

I'm going to try to shut most of it off too, it's causing anxiety. I've already deactivated Facebook and I will only look at my local news paper once a day, to keep informed. Other than that, I will try to turn the rest of it off.

Thank you for creating this thread, Seraphim. It's helpful to read others thoughts on this. You walked 5 km? Awsome! I'm so glad you're feeling well enough to do that. FIO, I hear ya, I am a bit of a germ-o-phobe too and although I do have a few Lysol wipes, I know they won't last long and not much chance right now of buying more. But..just gotta do what you can, right? I'm glad that you found some bleach though. TWT, omg, can you believe the madness of it all? I have my socks on standby..lol. Have we really gotten this depraved? Lawdy. But glad you'll be getting some bum wipe soon. Bolt, am getting over a bad head cold too. Staying home (just in case). Lucky I have that option. I hope you feel better soon. Grandy, me too....yes, me too. My husband and I had ideas ages ago on what could have happened/should have happened that would have stopped things from getting this out of hand. You really just have to shake your head at it all. In my humble opinion, I don't feel it needed to get this out of hand. So many things could have stopped it before it got to this point. Even now I am wondering why the stores are not putting limits on items to stop one person from having cases of things and another person to having nothing. Sigh. All we can do is take it one day at a time, right?

100% agree, Wiseman and Bolt. The patting oneself on the back for what they do and how they do it, to the degree of making others on this forum upset and annoyed, is uncalled for. Sigh, what can you do? Shame for the OP who now can't get further replies that are actually helpful. I'm fairly sure I know which thread you're referring to. It's not the first time. But, move on I guess. I also had a bad head cold and considered if it was something more, but the worst is over now and I did stay home(lucky I was able to). Hope you're feeling better, Bolt.

So, I read an article about a man and his wife who were buying literally cases and cases of Lysol wipes, kleenex, etc. And reselling them on Amazon at four times the price. Firstly, what kind of despicable human beings profit off of an outbreak, and secondly, what is wrong with the shops that they allowed these people to stroll in there and sold them a ridiculous amount like this?!? What burned me up the most? Their reasoning was, it was an opportunity to take advantage and so they did to help pay for their children's private school...private school no less!! These are not poor people! Grrrrrrrrrr! Some people really are the lowliest of the low. Karma.

Really great news! :)

Awesome. So the blood work was all good? Has it helped with your anxiety?

I believe that whether in life or in the afterlife...there will be justice.

That's horrible. :( I'm so sorry you had to go through something like that. I hope he got what he deserved!

I am the same when it comes to the dentist (at least to a certain degree) but my doctor has reassured me that dentists are very professional and will make sure that their patients are safe. Good god, Seraphim, I am so sorry you went through that. No person should ever have to endure that. It's honestly so commendable that you went through things like that and instead of becoming bitter or broken, you rose above and are helping people Truly inspiring.

Crossing fingers that your appointments go okay today. Update us on the results. As for the dentist, no worries at all. They will take good care of you.

I remember the gall bladder surgery...not nice at all. It took me weeks before I felt anything like myself. Be gentle with yourself, it takes time. I'm sorry to hear that things are going not the best with you and your partner. It's neither one of your faults. Sickness can make it a tough go. Hope you get better soon. :)

He's your friend, Kim. He thinks you and he are roomates. :)

Sending good thoughts to you. Hope you're feeling better. Grief can be tough at times. (hugs)

A sloth Halloween costume? I might have to see that!!

Yaaay. I love sloths. :)

Great point, FIO. You stayed around for 17 pages, OP, so we can't be that bad.

I gotta agree with the others, I think you are focusing on such a minute detail when there are hundreds every week who are happy for our advice, thoughts, etc. Say you even found 50 reviews...well try to compare that with how many come here and keep coming back. There are new posts everyday and lots of repeat posters. You can see how many posts each one of us has responded to, so it literally is thousands of people. I really do think you're stirring a pot that doesn't need stirring. No site is perfect but the advisors on this site do their best and mean well. At the end of the day, for a free site, that is the best you can ask for.

I googled and found less than 10 reviews. Maybe I didn't see them all? 10 bad reviews out of the hundreds that are on here every week. And people still keep coming. I'd say that's pretty good.

That's right, Seraphim. We're meant to be perfect 24/7. It's just not realistic when we are humans who are doing this for free and are just giving our opinions. I've never seen any of the long time posters mean any harm. Yes, some will express things more strongly and it's more to do with tough love rather than coddling. But it's never meant to be harmful. I don't know. It really is damned if you do, damned if you don't. We do the best we can but we have bad days too and yes, some posts are triggering for us. That again is the human side in us.

:eek: That is some image.

Just to make people aware too...there is not one advisor on this site that didn't get some kind of flack at one time. All of us have had someone at some point tell us off and argue with what we were saying or just plain be mean to us. It happens. But we still come back. Because at the end of the day...we are just trying to help in our perfectly imperfect kind of way.

At the top of the site at one time they had an option to click onto a real live therapist for x amount of money per hour. Not sure how long ago that was. It didn't seem that long ago.

None of us get paid. And a lot of us are actually educated with counselling or have psychology backgrounds. not naming who, but there is actually quite a few. But still the same thing, no one gets paid, not the mods, not the advisors. Being as it's a free service, you get all kinds of opinions. The beauty of this site is that you can pick and choose which advice you want to take...or not. You can walk away and take none at all, or try another day. But everything is done all on volunteer and that equates to hundreds of hours of people doing this, just to help...no other reason. Sometimes it's great advice, sometimes not so much. But it really is up to the poster on if they want to take the advice or not. I remember the days when they had actual therapists on here that were being paid. Yep, it didn't work. Most can't afford it. So for now, you ask a question and get free advice, good or bad. I think this is one of the best sites for advice. It is run really well, at least in my opinion. I have seen some of the others out there, they are a lot less professional and some are downright run very poorly. I think the majority of advisors do their best to give good advice, but at the end of the day, we are only human too and not perfect.