Berttheduck

Take a cooking class. Learn how to manage a kitchen fire with a fire blanket or extinguisher and get one of each. Start practicing. You’ll burn stuff and make food that’s no good but you’ll get better. Start simple with stuff like pasta.

Yeah, in the UK they reduced the amount you can buy at once too, so drugs like paracetamol and ibuprofen only come in 16 tablet packs and you can only buy 2 packs at a shop., It’s helped lower suicides quite well.

People here have a real aversion to taking tablets a lot of the time. I have to convince people to take regular paracetamol (which is non addictive and doesn’t have side effects so long as you don’t take more than the recommended amount) after they have had surgery semi-regularly.

An option to consider is asking your dr’s to help you. They should be happy to talk to your family with or for you.

Wow that’s a lot of phone time. The only time I get close to that amount of screen time is when I’m doing a long drive using maps to get there. My average looks to be around 1-3. Though mine doesn’t work it out nicely like yours.

I had one back in the vista days (I had the pro version it wasn’t totally terrible) that bricked my laptop and I had to do a clean install from bios to get it working again. That was fun.

That’s impressive. My wife got all the achievements for it and that seemed very stressful. But just as something to experience is a really chill game.

Journey is a beautiful game with excellent music and visuals. It’s coop where you can only make a ping noise and run around each other so no possibility of negative interactions. There’s a little challenge and adversity at times but the ending is phenomenal and joyous.

Sayonara wild hearts is a playable music album about a lady learning how to love herself. It’s got simple game mechanics but the mechanics all compliment the music and the music is so so good.

What a cool device. I just watched this video on it and lost a bunch of my morning in a quite enjoyable way.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jhGeq_yQYyg

Shame the company died before they could do much with it.

Honestly those are terrifying. I can’t imagine doing any of that whilst on the move.

I enjoy the opportunity to do a little spooky stuff. We live near a primary school and there are lots of young families around so there’s always trick or treaters. We generally carve pumpkins and have a few decorations and sweets for them.

I tend to run a horror themed table top RPG for friends around the time as well which is usually good fun. I’m going to do Dread this year where you pull blocks from a Jenga tower instead of rolling dice and someone’s character dies if they knock the tower over.

Pain does suck.

We’ve moved away from nsaids (naproxen and ibuprofen) because of the stomach ulcers. If it doesn’t help try taking regular paracetamol instead it might help a bit and won’t mess up your stomach.

So something I tell my patients after they have had a surgery is that our goal with pain killers is to make the pain bearable rather than gone. Paracetamol is a great painkiller and helps opioids to work better. It’s also non addictive and provided you don’t take more than the packet recommends very safe.

For chronic pain the current thinking is it’s multifactorial, but basically your brain gets set with your pain threshold too low, there is also a huge psychological element to pain and therapy or things like CBT can be hugely beneficial.

For me paracetamol and codeine have been enough to manage all the pain I’ve had, the worst being when I fell off my bike and smashed my ribs (pretty sure I didn’t break any), luckily I’m in the 90% of people who can metabolise codeine to something more useful. Didn’t make the pain go away but meant I could breathe a full breath without flinching. Codeine at lower doses just makes me a bit drowsy and slow. Good for getting to sleep.

Something to talk to your therapist about maybe. Definitely focus on yourself as your priority though. Do things which make you happy, exercise, seeing friends / family, spending time outside.

It’s surprisingly fun and easy, I’ve made it this far with just a few YouTube tutorials and harmonica for dummies. Plus it’s a good sounding instrument for about £30 which is really reasonable.

I’ve started playing the harmonica, so I’ve gone from having no idea to being able to play some simple songs.

Sounds like you’re still working through depression to me. Be kind to yourself, give yourself time to heal and work through things, I’m glad you’ve found a therapist that’s a great step. Do you think you want to go back to the industry or could you be avoiding it subconsciously? Something that has helped me a lot is journaling, you can wipe down your goals and break them down into smaller goals if needed.

I’m still regularly going back to Hotdogs Horseshoes and Hand grenades to play take and hold. Easily my favourite VR game.

Bread and Fred looks great but my wife and I turned it off after half hour. The mechanics are proper hardcore physics sim with very little room for error or hand holding. It honestly just wasn’t fun for us. I think there’s a demo available so maybe try that before you spend money on it.

Phogs - simple puzzle platformer where you play an end of a 2 headed snake dog.

Lovers in a dangerous space time - share control of your spaceship to rescue cute animals. Take turns driving, manning the weapons or shields. Top down camera

Overcooked 1 and 2 - flammable chaotic cooking adventures. Top down camera.

Trine 1-4 are all pretty decent for some side scrolling puzzle action platforming.

Diablo 3 (on console as pc doesn’t have local for some stupid reason) is a great action RPG.

I’m playing fallout London. Super impressive for a mod. I’m really enjoying it.