I dont know if you guys get this a lot here but was kinda bagffled by the amount of plot armor and crazy power ups. I dont know if im missing something but esp in the last season. The way they are miraculously able to compete upper rank demons is crazy to me. Ok i get they went through training but when you have tanjiro saying sheet like “ i cant even see her movments” then deflecting all her attacks its like wth. Or when hes like “i cant move” then proceeds to nearly chop off a dudes head. And the whole “i moved my heart so that it didn’t get stabbed” like what is going on. Or zenitsu being visibly trapped but then its like “ no wait i got this special move i didnt say before but i can only use it exactly twice” ik stuff like that sometimes happens in anime but there was just too much of it towards the end.

Bertie has been a part of our family for nearly 10 months now. He is a pretty typical greyhound—Velcro dog, nervous of loud noises, sweet in a quiet way. Around Memorial Day, people in our neighborhood started letting off fireworks at night, which he Did Not Care For. He responded by coming and standing by my side of the bed and panting. I petted him and he lay down next to the bed (it’s a very narrow space) and going to sleep there. Eventually in the middle of the night he would go back to his bed near the foot of our bed. Since then, he has been behaving similarly every night, even though there’s no more fireworks. Sometimes he whines, sometimes pants, eventually goes back to his bed. I’m not sure what to think. Is he nervous that the fireworks will start back up? Is he asking to get in bed with us? Is there something else going on? I feel bad for him, bedtime should not be such an anxious time for him. (Also for me because he sometimes wakes me up in the middle of the night!) we’ve tried calming treats and calming probiotics, they don’t seem to do much.

It's for my 15 year old niece. It's been her only wish since she was a baby. Now that she has permission of her parents, I want to buy her one.

Recently my partner's mother passed away. Us two and his siblings have had to relocate to a different state to deal with her affairs and funeral. This is where she was located and also their father who we are staying with.
I have stayed in this house once before for a week and vowed to never stay for longer than a quick visit again. His father is unbearable and our personalities clash. He is extremely religious, racist, sexist and old fashioned. He doesn't like women having opinions that differ from his and doesn't have the basic conversational skills to hear anyone elses opinions (will just talk over you and be extremely condescending). I'm not exaggerating when I say he is the most difficult man I have ever had to spend time with.
Of course in these circumstances I put this aside to support my partner through this awful time. I want to help in any way I can and was happy to keep my mouth shut for the duration of the trip and just be a comforting presence for my partner. I'm aware that she was not my mother, though I did live with her for nearly a year. My partner and I have been together for three years and he has seen his family members only a handful of times since we met.
The first few days we were working through the motions of everything together as a family, my goal always to stick by my partner and help him recall information if it was needed. Now suddenly I'm being asked to leave the room by his father every time there is a phone call or discussion, due to the other siblings wanting the situation to be handled without me.
I'm still working remotely while I'm here (we can't afford for me to take time off) and there is no place for me to work because wherever I set up I'm asked to leave the room. I don't have enough work to do here to fill in a whole day because I need my office set up not just my laptop.
I totally understand and respect their privacy, but we are up on a mountain and I have no canothing within walking distance. Also their father has their gates permanently locked and I have to ask him to unlock them if I want to leave which just makes me so uncomfortable.
I don't want to be selfish and I want to support my love as much as I can but I can just feel my mental health declining each day that I'm here. I feel like I shouldn't have come because his siblings so clearly don't want me involved in the process and who knows how long it will take. I've just spent today in our room alone crying.
I'm contemplating flying back home today or tomorrow which would mean I miss the funeral. If you think I should stay, do you have any advice on how to deal with this situation?

Hey ya’ll! I’ve posted on here before but I think I should share this and a slight update since my last post. First I do want to let you know that the reason that I didn't post on AITA is because of the rules about the paragraphs. I also feel with my story it fits well here then on there. I definitely need a rant more than advice and feel like I should vent it out while I still can before I go crazy. So here you go.
I've known for a while that my boyfriend's mother has not liked me but now I say enough is enough. We are coming up on our 1 year anniversary next month (July 2nd) and I love this man with all of my heart. I never want to leave him and he has treated me better than any other guy I've dated. He's like every man any woman could dream of, loyal, caring, loving, big hearted, and just overall an amazing guy. I would say three months or so into the relationship is when I noticed she had some issues with me but unsure as to why so I left it alone because I thought there was nothing wrong. Boy could I have been anymore wrong than that.
Around 6 months into our relationship is when the issue with Christmas plans and the weather turned into a temper tantrum of her not getting what she wanted. If you don't know what I'm talking about I can summarize it for you but if you want the full story please go read it in this group. To summarize it is that it was a dangerous blizzard where I live and it was hitting the same week as Christmas but would end Christmas day. The news stations were sending out alerts saying to keep off the roads unless for emergencies, did she listen? Nope. That day I told him not to drive or go with his parents because of how bad the roads were, logical thinking right? Not to her no. She threw a temper tantrum and blamed me for things that weren't my fault. After that eventful day, there was another out burst about a few weeks later but you can read that yourselves in the other post and there wasn't a whole lot to go into detail about to just type it out again.
Now after me not going to family gatherings for a while and being invited to my boyfriend's uncle's birthday, I was tempted on going to the event but with his mom's last attack on me I felt I shouldn't go. With it being a really good restaurant that I love along with my convincing boyfriend saying that nothing would happen, I decided to go as I wanted to hang out with the family and eat some good chinese food. While family members were finishing up or have been done eating we are just sitting there talking amongst ourselves when the topic of health comes up. I go and say, "I'm thinking about getting off birth control because of me being tired all the time and the weight I've been gaining", everyone was fine with that except her. She buts in with, "are you going to be switching to anything else?". I respond with, "Not really as I want to give myself a break from birth control in general and don't want anymore weight gain." She then blurts out of her mouth, "If you get pregnant, I'm going to fcking shoot you." Yeah are you getting angry as well reader? So was I. I'm glad I didn't explode on her in front of the entire family in a public place unlike her saying something like that just to be an a$$hole. I told my boyfriend I had to step outside because I needed a breather and I just walked out of the restaurant and as soon as I did I called my mother. I started crying but not that I was hurt no, it was because I was frustrated and wanted to tell his mom to fck off. My boyfriend was saying that I was making a big scene and making a big deal out of it but I told him, "How would you feel if someone said that to you?" and after that he didn't say anything. After our conversation, he went and cussed his mom out. She did apologize for her what she did but I felt it wasn't authentic and meaningless.
Since then there has been complaining and her making last minute plans when we have already had something planned weeks prior, irritating isn't it? She has also showed up to the house we live in with his grandmother unannounced and putting her nose where it don't belong. Now her, her husband, his youngest brother, and my boyfriend are going on a road trip down to Bartlesville, Oklahoma for his aunt's wedding and I know of her so-called plans of having a "serious talk" with my boyfriend while they are down there. For those wondering, I have anxiety and don't like being too far from home and I have never been out of my state anytime in my life. I've known about this so-called "serious conversation" for a couple weeks and I've told him I don't feel comfortable with him going on this trip if this serious talk is about her trying to make him break up with me along with it ruining the fun of a family road trip. He really wanted to go on this trip to get out of the state and see his family from his mom's side that he hasn't seen in a long time. He has already left as of yesterday for the trip and I feel like an a$$hole for saying what I said but I don't feel great that our relationship is being constantly attacked by his mother and being constantly stressed by her remarks and the drama that follows. I'm done trying to be civil and I want to so badly get our own place to live and tell her she's not allowed to come over just to go no contact with her. Am I a horrible girlfriend for wanting my boyfriend to get away from his b!tch of a mother and us getting our own place where she is the only one not allowed at our house?

There were two girls (Sam & Amy) and Ryan, that were involved. Ryan for weeks was being really sus around me. He didn’t tell me what was bothering him, cancelled plans at the last moment, & purposely not include me in any plans. I tried texting & calling him but nothing.
Amy was the same, more or less but she did text me back and was being super passive. When I asked what was wrong, all I get was, “you should know?” Or “why do you think something is wrong” something along the lines
Sam did respond to me and I expressed how I felt towards Amy’s actions lately and in the past but instead of trying to resolve the situation, she twisted a few things and threw me under the bus.
Three of them knew my friend had a bachelor party coming up. Nothing big but a few friends having fun. Those three came but weren’t acting social and left early. About 30 minutes later, I hear loud banging on the door and open to find it’s them. Sam, Amy and Ryan come in and start yelling and making a scene. For the next 20 minutes that’s all it was and I could see my friend was upset. They left, my friend was crying in the back and I was controlling myself to not knock the lights out of those three fools
It takes a real special type of person to knowing cause a scene at someone’s bachelorette party and almost ruin the wedding
Weeks later I saw Ryan at an event. He tried to shoulder check me but something inside of me lost it for a second and I threw him onto the ground. I found out afterwards from a friend that Amy & Sam saw what happened and were afraid to talk to me or get near me
I hope all of three them step on Legos

Ive been feeling extremely tired for the last 2 years. Saw a number of doctors, had blood test, imaginings, took meds… nothing worked. I dont know how much longer i could go on as theres next to zero qualities of life, most days im just a mindless zombie. Here are my symptoms - I feel exhausted upon waking up in the morning. Naps made it worse. I have brain fogs and cluster headache nearly every day. Loss of memory & inability to concentrate. Insomnia I’m not officially diagnosed with CFS. I saw my pcp and he put me on Modafinil then later adderall to help with fatigue and sleepiness with no improvement. I had blood work done (CBC & CMP) that were normal. No diabetes, thyroid, or prostate problem. Energy drinks, caffeine pills, vitamins, supplements didnt help. Swimming gave me a little bit of enegy boost for an hour or two. What else can i try next? What should i getvtested to know for sure i have cfs? Please helppppp

I can’t help but get irritated whenever my dad calls me. It’s like every other day that he calls. It may sound messed up that I react this way to his calls but it’s the truth. My life is pretty messed up due to DUI I committed a few years ago. I’ve been busy working and paying off fines, going to counseling, doing community services, etc. As soon as I get off my shift at my primary job, I do some DoorDash. My schedule isn’t very flexible at all. Yet my dad keeps calling me everyday asking “what are you doing?” Or “do you work today?” “Maybe sometime next week we can go hang out”. I’m glad he wants to hang out with me but I hate hanging out with him. Confusing right?
He just got through a 2nd divorce and is all lonely so he starts contacting people he suspects got nothing better to do. I’m single too but I’m working pretty much all day, everyday. Most people don’t wanna hang out with him because he has anger issues. He LOVES to be angry. So every time we go out to restaurants or the grocery store he starts a scene over something petty.
One time the cashier at Costco at self-checkout told my father that he had to remove his grocery bags off the bagging scale to start a second order and he got all angry with the lady even though she was just explaining how the machine worked. My dad assumed the worst and thought she was just trying to give him a hard time so he gave her “the look” 😡 and went to a different self checkout register to start a new order. He told me to just wait at the self checkout register while he waited in line again to use a different one. The whole 6 minutes my dad was mean mugging the employee like he was Shrek or something. Meanwhile I was stuck looking like a dick for holding up the line.
He overanalyzes every situation and assumes the worst about people so he’s always getting offended. The energy he gives off is always negative. I have to get drunk just to cope whenever we hang out. My body can only take so much alcohol before I get alcohol poisoning. I only hang out with him because I pity him. I feel a sense of guilt if I decline his invitations to hang out even though I know I shouldn’t. I feel kinda shitty for saying this but there’s a reason why nobody wants to hang out with him and there’s a reason why my mom left him. If ANGER was a species of human, that’s him.
What’s worse is that he tries to get me to believe that me and him are alike. We’re no where near alike to each other besides in genes. My idea of socializing and having a good time don’t involve road raging, starting drama scenes eat restaurants and criticizing everything and everyone in sight. He used to offer me rides home after work because the walking distance was like 7 miles. Any time I accepted he’d do nothing but criticize every decision I made. He’d spend the whole ride back home explaining to me how foolish I was for whatever decision I decided I’d share with him. It sucks because when we talk, it’s not really talk. When we talk, he’s questioning me like he’s some kind of detective. Whatever I say is met with anger and ridicule.
Dad: “How many hours did you work today?” Me: “4” Dad: “Only 4?!…..you better stop letting your boss step all over you like that” Me: “🙄”
Dad: “What did you eat for dinner?” Me: “I don’t remember” Dad: “what?! You don’t remember?!” Me: “no I don’t, why is that a problem?” Dad: “most people with a brain know what they ate for dinner” Me: …😒 Me: “I think it was French toast” Dad: “FRENCH TOAST?!!” Me: “yes”
Dad: “Why’d you buzz your hair off?” Me: “because I wanted to” Dad: “not a smart move, people are gonna think you’re a skinhead…..again, you need to start thinking with your head”
By the end of the trip I would feel like shit. I eventually decided that I’d rather walk 7 miles instead of putting up with him. I truly don’t understand what the hell my dad gets out of spending time with me. I definitely don’t get anything out of it except for when my little half brother comes along.

Female, 22. Height: 5 foot 1 Weight: 130lbs
Conditions: secondary adrenal insufficiency, central sensitization, convergence spasm (eyes) / double vision, colitis from C. difficile (now under control), chronic pain/ fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, anxiety, depression, ocd
Medications: cortisol, venlafaxine, amitriptyline, Suboxone
I’ve always had really small tremors throughout my whole body. People always ask me if I’m cold. But since I got adrenal insufficiency, I’ve been getting muscle spasms literally all over my body that keep getting worse. I can feel it constantly. It’s my entire body. My eyes have double vision because of it - muscles are stuck in a spasm so I see double and my eyes can’t move fully.
Then there’s my tremors which are getting more severe and I’ve even developed some twitching where my head lurches forward sometimes.
The worst pain is in my spine. Specifically the pain is around T5-T7 vertebrae area. The pain IS my spine. It is not around my spine or near my spine, it is my spine. It is so bad that the only way for me to help it is to jam something into it really hard and lie down on it using pressure from my legs. I’ve used those neck back massager things in the past to try and help but I keep burning myself without realizing it because my pain is so bad that I don’t even feel my skin get burned by these heat machines.
Well, I’ve found a solution that helps very temporarily. I bought a vibrator to try and help relax my muscles, and I figured out that if I lie down on it, it almost counters my tremors / spasms that are happening and helps calm my pain a little bit. Unfortunately it isn’t permanent and I can’t do it for very long.
My question is, what do I do, and does this have a name? I am in so much pain. My body is so exhausted. I can give more details if you need. Please help me. Thank you

help!
so i have a 2015 toyota prius c, i recently got into an accident with it and ever since afterwards my gas tank hasn’t been filling up all the way (usually fills up to 8 gallons but now will only fill up to 4-5). additionally, my gas gauge reading is all off where it’ll bounce up and down and not give me an accurate reading.
i took it into an auto body shop and they gave it a look, however they stated that there is no physical damage to the underside or the gas tank and all the vent lines at the tank are clear. does anybody know what the problem could be and how to fix it? i also hear that this is a common design issue with prius’s and to just rotate the gas pump but i don’t want to overfill in case there is an issue.

My family has owned the same farm in Kentucky for five or six generations. Since my grandma died we don’t have any use for the farm and my mom is looking to auction it. She’s very hesitant to do so because my grandma always said she wanted to keep the land in the family. My dream for a long time was to live on that farm and have cows or crops or just do something. The thing is I have no experience what so ever and would not even know where to begin. I am in college now very far away but I could continue at the local college near by. If I could make this happen I’d need to prove that I am able to do it. I’m 19 hardly an adult. How could I learn more about farming to at least see if it’s feasible for me to do it? Preferably free or very cheap.

This morning while driving to work nearly avoided an accident on the highway when a careless driver chooses to change lane on me. 100% sure if I hadn’t slowed down he would’ve hit me. I have the plate number. How to report such cases here in AD?
Thanks.

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Chapter 10

It took Kenny several minutes to regain his strength, and he wasn't exactly fresh afterward.
"It's not just exhaustion," he said. "It was so hard to concentrate, and I was seeing black spots for a while."
"I'm going to heal you back," I said. "Don't worry, you'll feel like new."
"No, No," he waved me down. "We have to be efficient about this. We have to plan it out."
"You're right," I said. "We need to know if we can heal only the body or even a single wound."
"Not only that," he replied. "We made a lot of assumptions here. We need to get rid of all the unnecessary stuff," he pointed at the ground. "The first thing that needs to go is the temple. We didn't even use the right one, and it will be a whole different game if we can Heal outside."
We made our plans and went outside. I wasn't a stranger to the scientific method. I went to school like every else, but planning experiments for something explicitly supernatural felt out of place. If it can be repeated at will, we'll be able to depend on it. Hell, if it was impossible to sleep, we would have to rely on something like this.
We slowly walked out of the plaza, noting the bustling activity near the growing ramp, and turned a corner behind one of the closest unattended buildings. When we ensured there were no people or ghouls in sight. We continued to experiment.
It didn't take us long, ten minutes at most. And yet, while I still felt reinvigorated physically, the clarity and freshness left me by this point. Whatever Kenny did, it was not the substitution to sleep the witch made it out to be.
First, we had to try it without all the most likely noise. We were outside the temple and decided to try to recover only Kenny's life force.
It took him several tries to manage a nick on his skin, and I was quick to draw the Ankh on his hand. We already knew the placement of the symbol was insignificant since he used the one we drew on my hand to Heal everything.
"Do you accept this blessing to recover your life force?" I asked him.
"Yes," he accepted.
"This Ankh was drawn with your blood and my saliva. It represents life," I said, touching the symbol.
"I use some of my life to bless you," I proclaimed. "Be restored."
I finished with a prolonged measured blow on his symbol. It was a hard feeling to describe, a mentally draining exercise that made me feel lessened for it.
I stopped blowing when Kenny lifted a hand.
"Did it work?" I asked. I felt the drain, but it did not guarantee success.
"Yeah, It felt like getting slapped awake or chugging coffee," he answered. "Could be addictive. We should be careful with this."
This was a huge win. We now gained the ability to Heal outside of the temple.
I was in awe. Not only miracles or magic were possible. I had this miraculous ability—me. It was unbelievable, and there was much more to come.

***

We continued our work, resting between each try, and still, we were both spent by the end.
Kenny managed to Heal himself. Then I succeeded in treating separate wounds.
The Ankh could be drawn using anything. We didn't have to use bodily fluids for it. The symbol was not strictly necessary but made the spell easier. We could use a stone with the sign to Heal without drawing it on the body.
The patient's permission was only needed when casting on each other; without it, the effect was severely weakened. Same with touch.
The most selective of all was the ending. The command to be healed could be whispered, which didn't change the result. Willing the effect silently was strenuous and barely worked, but it was possible.
After that, only the trigger remained. Blowing on the symbol or whispering to it worked like pouring water. It was seamless and gradual. However, using the command itself as a trigger, a snap of the fingers, or a clap, was worse. The effect was more abrupt, harder on the caster, and felt more wasteful.
We were absolutely exhausted, but we had the framework for future spells.
Consent from the target, a symbol of the effect, the intent to use life force, the command, touch, and the trigger.
Out of all of them, only the use of life was missing on our very first try, we were so close, but it took us so much time to get to it. It was also the only thing essential for the spell. All of the others only made the magic more manageable and potent.
"We must thank Victor," Kenny remarked. "His description was so good, we actually managed to repeat it."
"I still can't believe I can use magic," I said. "He only missed the life-force aspect, and he couldn't have known it either way. And oh, how I wish we knew the spit wasn't necessary. I feel so stupid for trying with it so many times," I chuckled.
"I still don't understand the Ankh," Kenny complained. "It represents life, so do we use it for any spell that uses our life? Or maybe only the spells that affect life?" he continued to ramble. "What even gives it the meaning of life? How many people need to recognize the symbol to give it meaning?"
"Whoa, hold your horses there," I said. "I wouldn't risk casting anymore without rest. You need to find a way to write down all your ideas, or your head will explode," I joked.
I was very thankful to Kenny, but he needed to be more careful. It took some persuading to make him stop earlier. We didn't know what would happen if we used too much of our life. We could die for all I knew.
"I have just the idea for next time," Kenny said. "You'll only have to heal a small cut up to three times at worst, and we will have another piece of the puzzle."
"What piece exactly?" I asked.
"I can tell you only after you do it. That's part of it," he said.
His enthusiasm was infectious, which made me curious, but I was serious when I decided to stop. So It'll have to wait.
We were walking beside the colonnade when I noticed his silver tray.
"Didn't you try to sell it?" I asked.
"Nobody wanted it," he shrugged. "I just left it here when I saw you talk to Victor."
I got an idea.
"Let's go talk to the witch," I proposed.
He looked at me questioningly.
"We won't tell her we figured out her trick," I warned him. "But we need to get as much as we can from her. Anything she lets slip, we may be able to use."
I picked up the tray. "This will be our gift to her. Who doesn't like silver?"
"We need to ask her about the Goddess," Kenny suggested. "And how she knows when it's dawn."
"We'll ask her to teach us to heal," I said.
"Why?" He asked. "We already know that."
"Just to see what the price she puts on that information is," I said. "We'll know her better for it."
Kenny hummed thoughtfully.
"Chin up. We're going to make a new friend," I joked.

Are there ways to mod the game such that certain plot/quest triggers are bypassed? For instance, a plot that requires you to talk to NPC John can be done by talking to another NPC Charlie, in the case where John is somehow not available.
This has been on the back of my mind for a while now. A possible use would be, if the station housing essential NPC has been blown to bits for some reason, the plot can still be continued as usual, without having to wait dozens of hours for the faction to rebuild the station or for the NPC to magically reappear elsewhere.
Also, more in line with what I actually have in mind, this could possibly let me skip interacting with Dal entirely.
I have a well-known, severe and possibly unhealthy bias against Dal Busta, to the point that I don't even want him on PHQ (which is not helped at all by HAT's constant encroachment on my claimed sectors, nor his ever-present smugness), yet the vast majority of plots are locked behind him. Apart from the CovOps plot, his entire function is a glorified search engine that spews out historical entries, and eagerly suggesting genocide, monopoly, sabotage, or other war crimes for no apparent reason. Which is why I am looking into ways to replace him entirely.
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I am not sure if this is achievable. Only mods I've seen that changes NPC interactions are either mini-vendor add-ons, or complete overhauls that changed almost all aspects of the game. I am not that familiar with modding NPC interactions in X4, so perhaps someone could help me out here?
Thanks in advance.

Sorry for the long post in advance, as well as the multitude of questions but I just need to know.
So I played the game a little on launch, stopped for a while then played after the base building got updated. And now I have the urge to play again with my friend. But I have some questions and concerns and I just need some clear answers.
First up, multiplayer now, if I hit the new game button, load in next to the starting ship, can my friend just join my game? (On PC) or do I need to build some sort of base item etc. And if I started a new game with custom parameters, would those apply to my friend as well?
I ask this because, for me, what I like to get out of the game is just being able to explore new worlds and kinda just go off doing my own thing, without a huge investment on the story. But I'd like to still be able to do story related quests if we wanted to. Is this possible or is it basically you have to follow the story and do things as they happen. Eg, flying to the beacon marker when prompted.
Next question, I get a big sense of FOMO with games like this, I rocked up to the big hub station place (I forget the name) and there's all these people with big ships and heaps going on and it's very overwhelming. I kinda just want to explore places and do things here and there story wise if that makes sense. Is playing this way going to seriously mess up the experience of the game?
And lastly, these expedition updates. I have no clue what these are? Will not doing them (life responsibilities and work) impact the main game, as in missing exclusive items etc
I guess because there is so much more in the game now (giant sand worms?!?) It feels pretty overwhelming, and I just want to know if that will all effect my want to just play to explore
Thanks!

My parents are old and tired. After graduating college in the pandemic i came back home and helped with one of our two restaurants, we will call this one Restaurant B. I thought it was a career I could pursue, grow the restaurant and go from there, but working under my parents can be like having a ball and chain on your ankle. Very poor communication skills and even poorer emotional awareness, but that’s for another day. Now fast forward some years I left the other restaurant with the goal to pursue my degree in psychology but have found it damn near impossible to get a job, so i have continued to help out when needed at the restaurants. Now my parents want me to take over Restaurant A, a wildly popular restaurant for the last 20 + years. The thing is, growing up this restaurant stole my parents, specifically my dad, away from me. I grew up hating that place because of how much more it seemed to matter than anything else. Multiple times it almost tore apart my family, and I do mean that very literally. But at the same time this restaurant has provided more opportunity and money then I think either of them could have predicted, enough to pay for both my brother and my colleges in full, leaving us debt free. Fast forward to now, I understand why they worked so hard, I understand to at least some degree why everything had to be the way it was, and i am super super appreciative and sorry for the way I grew up and treated them. Through sucking up my own emotions repaired any connection with my dad I may have had left, but that’s been the story of my life sucking up how I feel to help others, to people please, and I believe this originates from competing with Restaurant A for my dad’s attention. Now the time has come, and my parents want me to take over Restaurant A. I don’t particularly love the service industry, but I’m good at it, I was raised in it. I have no other immediate plans or career paths available to me, but i don’t want everything in my life to come from my parents. I want my own adventures and mistakes and victories, and I feel like if I stay and do the restaurant im sacrificing myself to be financially free.
I don’t particularly want this but I know it’s too good of an opportunity. What should I do?

(California) My benefits were skimmed on April 10 and they took $3800 in benefits. A good portion of this was pandemic emergency benefits that I was saving in case I don't get recertified. I found out about the theft a week later and filed a report at my local office immediately. I was told the funds would be replaced within 25 days and that an investigator would call to get more information. No one has called me. It has been nearly two months and I have no idea when this will be resolved. I called twice to inquire and they finally sent me a letter saying they needed time to investigate since the amount was over $1000. How long does it take for this sort of investigation to conclude?

Started at age 12 with ADD, around 15-16 I was diagnosed with social anxiety and depression. In and out of the hospital psychiatric ward due to suicidal ideation and self harm. I began seeing a therapist and psychiatrist at that point. I've been on and off meds since 12 and I'm running out of options as far as medication goes (I'm 26 now btw). I was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder which explains A LOT. My mother tried applying for me as a kid, and I have applied 4-5 more times since then. This is my last try. I see a therapist every week, I have a bad history with dealing with emotions properly and I've never had any sort of "good" coping mechanism. I also see a psychiatrist once a month, and I'll be weaning off my Zoloft 150mg and beginning Lithium next month in place of the Zoloft. I also take Seroquel and Lamictal.
I believe I provided everything I could to them, as I always have in the past. I sign releases for my therapist, psychiatrist, and the multiple hospitals I've been admitted to (usually admitted myself). I had also recently applied for SNAP where they require you to work or seek work. My therapist filled out the psychological paperwork saying it is not recommended that I work due to the severity of the issues I'm having. I did tell them that I smoked weed and took Kratom (just google it), I feel like that alone would be grounds to deny me. But since that visit, I've quit both and only vape nicotine. No alcohol, no weed, no kratom, etc.
SO. Am I wasting my time again...? I called the number to check the status and it has been less than two months since I initially started the application again, it says they've already made a decision.. This seemed odd, because it took quite a while in the past, every single time. I'm trying to do everything right, and I'm actively seeking help and working on my issues, but I honestly feel that SSA and/or the IMA Group doesn't take mental health into consideration as much as they should.
I do plan on pursuing this all the way through this time. I will get a lawyer if it has to come to that. I'm tired, and I just want to be able to work on myself for once without having to worry so much about something I really just don't care about (money).. I want/need this simply so I can pay my part of rent and cover my own food, clothes, gas, etc. It's currently weighing on my younger brother, he basically takes care of me, and he's also my only, and best friend. He's all I've got, other than my mother who unfortunately got sick with encephalitis resulting in brain damage.. I'm happy she survived, but she's been in a rehab dementia ward for quite a while, and may be for another year.
Thanks for taking the time to read and respond.
Would you recommend anything specific that I should or can do to improve the chance of me finally getting this?

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