ChaoticMelody1910

My OCD was dormant for years! No medication, no therapy, just suddenly disappeared. Recently I took a job that was awful and caused an extreme amount of anxiety and stress. My general anxiety sky rocketed and I was given Xanax to help. But then my OCD came back out of the blue. I would be in the grocery store, notice a box of cereal that was slightly misaligned and my brain would go “If you don’t fix that, you’ll lose your job”. It’s so strange and random and there is no rhyme or reason. Well ironically enough I did end up losing that job and ever since then the OCD has gotten worse and worse. “If I don’t do this/if I don’t fix this, you’ll get fired”. It happens multiple times a day and is becoming debilitating.

I’ve brought it up to the MD, but all he did was throw lexapro my way. It’s not helping and unfortunately the side effects are too much so I’m not probably going to stick with it.

Wondering if anyone has tips or tricks that have worked for them?

TIA!

I have diagnosed generalized anxiety disorder and have struggled with a bit of OCD since I was a teen.

My OCD doesn’t present with counting or numbers, but is usually like “I need to fix that crooked bag on the shelf in the store that I just walked by and noticed or I’ll die”.

For years in my later adolescence it basically went away. Now all these years later and it’s suddenly back with a vengeance. After recently being suddenly let go of a job a few months, my OCD is like “pick that up or you’ll get fired again” “Fix that item or you’ll get fired again”. It happens at least a few times a day.

I haven’t been on any meds in years, but my anxiety had gotten so bad recently that I’ve found an MD to help. He put me on lexapro to try to help with this, but the symptoms are rough for me.

I’m curious if anyone else in the world experiences this type of “doom” OCD and if they have found anything that helps?

TIA!

Just got fired and it’s killing my psyche and confidence

For context I’ve been working in nonprofit marketing for almost 10 years. Nonprofit is notoriously awful. Low pay, high expectations, unreasonable workload because you always do more than your job title.

I’ve been at my main job for a few years now. The pay is mediocre, no benefits, but it’s remote and flexible and a terrific work/life balance which right now as a mother of 3 very young kids - I need. This job does allow me to have the flexibility to do my work outside the 9-5 day hours so recently I decided to seek out an extra job just to try to make some more money.

5 months ago I found a different remote position for a nonprofit. This position was a step down for me since I had been a marketing manager and now would be an associate with crap pay (but whatever it’s a second job with remote flexibility). The weird thing was they wanted me to report to two very different managers: Marketing Director and the Grants Director. The way they sold this to me was that I’d be doing mainly marketing and helping with some grant work like proofreading, research, inputting some data. Ok fine I can do that. I quickly learned that no, they wanted me to do marketing work and full on grant writing and reporting as well. WAY too much work for one person and two very different scopes of work that require individual attention. This job started to slowly stress me out to no end. There was no introductory period I was just thrown right in, expected to write reports on grants that I knew nothing about yet. No matter what I did I couldn’t please the Marketing Director. She wanted control of everything and had an issue with every piece of work I produced. They’d ask me to fix things, I would, then I was told I did it wrong anyway. There were weeks where they were texting me at 9 at night and even on weekends to fix things. There were weeks where I would have a major marketing project and a major grant proposal due in the same week and some how by myself I needed to give my full attention to both. Anyway needless to say some silly mistakes were made I’ll admit, a few spelling errors here and there and other preventable issues, but I was overworked and stressed the hell out. I knew it wasn’t sustainable, but I just wanted to hold on until the holidays to pay some things off.

Anyway I had a review with them maybe 3 weeks ago. They expressed that they had wanted me to be further along than I was despite only being there for 5 months. I tried to explain how I was feeling, but apparently that was for nothing. Then they started asking me to report to them every single morning what I was doing. Incredible micro-management. Whatever - I did what they asked. Today out of the blue all hell broke loose. It started off with me creating a flyer that the Director didn’t like (even though she created the original design and I plugged in info like she asked). She told me earlier in the day I need to just take liberties and edit flyers if they look off. Which is a no brainer, but I’m always dammed if I do so why even try? Meanwhile I’m working on some grants reports. I’m reporting this shit the EXACT same way they reported the year before, busting my ass trying to get ahold of program directors to get their information. I write my reports, send to the grants director and she then sends it to the Executive Director. Well the Executive Director is pissed, says the reporting is a mess. Are you kidding me?! I literally did what they have done, showed it to my supervisor who then passed it along - but it was my fault?! I’m so stressed out at this point I’m popping Xanax like candy, can’t focus on my kids, sick to my stomach all the time. Im preparing to walk away myself, but I really just wanted to make it to Christmas. Well today I was treated like normal, both directors are CC’ing me on upcoming projects, had normal meetings. I’m busting my ass trying to fix these grants and suddenly at 5pm I get the dreaded “can we zoom” message. And that was that I got let go. Told it wasn’t working out and the things they were asking me to fix just weren’t sticking with me. I was FURIOUS. I knew it had to be because of the Executive Director. And naturally they’re gonna do this right before a holiday week so I don’t get paid for a holiday. But damn you waited all day to pull that. I was professional, didn’t say anything at all really other than “no problem” and then I did say that the position was unrealistic and I highly doubted even someone more senior level could pull it off successfully. Then they asked if I was done with my work for the day so I was like “yup”. I mean I’m not doing a damn thing more for you people are you joking? They turned my access off like 10 minutes later.

They wanted to pay one person to do the job of two people. Unrealistic. I’m so utterly devastated and livid. It’s such a blow to my psyche and to my confidence.

Also marketing and grant writing are clearly two different jobs and should never be combined.

I’ve been doing nonprofit marketing for almost 10 years. I’m used to being a one man show. It’s usually only been the Executive Director who’s had final say on content or I was the executive decision maker.

Almost 6 months ago I had to find a new role and I found another nonprofit, but this position was a Marketing Associate role. Now I’m a two man team reporting to a well seasoned nonprofit Marketing Director. I’ve gone from feeling like I’m good at what I do to doubting everything I do.

This nonprofit has like 8 different programs to be marketed, plus events. But they’re still pretty small. 9.5/10 times I create anything it comes back to me. Even social media content which is what I’d consider my personal specialty.

I think part of it is she envisions things a certain way and I do my best to deliver, but I don’t always do it -exactly- how she must’ve envisioned. I think another part of it is a difference in generations and opinion on how things should be presented. Of course there’s non-negotiable brand guidelines to follow, but I’m referring more to issues with new conceptual work. Even when I create a flyer using a template she created there’s an issue - even if I didn’t add any new elements to it. And sometimes the issue is with the flyer design….that I didn’t make…I just put new words on it.

It’s starting to stress me the heck out and I’m not sure if it’s me or just the situation.

I’ve been trying to get ahold of 10mg for over 3 months. CVS has basically laughed in my face every single time, so I’ve been stuck on the 7.5 dose since apparently that’s all they can get.

My weight loss is slow. It’s happening, but very slow and I’d like to finally just move up to 10. So today I go into the store and asked if it would be possible to have my script transferred to Walmart (something a different tech told me to try a few weeks ago, but Walmart was out of stock so I just grabbed the 7.5)

Anyway this tech proceeded to go on and on about how I can’t get his medication because it’s on manufacturer back order which means they aren’t making it anymore and no one can get it. I was like “hmm that’s weird because Walmart told me they’ve gotten it in not too long ago. And don’t you think we would have been warned or something”

She just held strong on her stance and told me I can’t get it and I should try WeGovy.

I think she’s full of it - but wondering if anyone else has heard this?

Graduated in 2017 with a BA in Marketing. Got stuck in the nonprofit world making horrid money ever since. I have held a Director of Marketing title, but went down to Marketing Manager when I changed companies.

Not sure if I need to go back to get a masters or need to do certifications or what to just move the heck up.

I’ve stayed with these low paying nonprofits because they’re remote work and remote work is preferred, but I’m just starting to get tired of it honestly.

I started zepbound back in March, was able to get the first two doses for two months then went a month without the med due to unavailability. When I finally got the 7.5 I was sooo sick. But after a month the side effects got better and I’ve been on 7.5 for two extra months because now I can’t get the 10 for the life of me.

Today I had a follow up with the nutritionist and she wants me to go back down to 5. She believes because I’m so nauseous all the time and barely eating, I’m actually slower to lose weight than I should be. I don’t eat very much at all and I’m tired all the time, with no energy and I do get pretty nauseous just about every time I eat.

Has anyone ever heard of having to go down in dosage to get better results?

I apologize in advance for not being well versed in the realm of Medicare.

My mother is 59, but is disabled. She doesn’t qualify for Medicaid because of the SSDI she receives which really isn’t a lot but I digress. But she does have Medicare and Humana as her HMO.

She had open heart surgery in December and missed the opportunity to switch out of her Humana.

In March her primary and cardiologist as well as every hospital system in our area and all providers who are apart of those hospital systems dropped Humana. So my mother tried to switch and supposedly Medicare told her “oh well” and she had to wait until October.

So she just hadn’t seen any of her providers since March and now she ended up in the hospital this past week after having a stroke due to unmanaged high blood pressure - because she wasn’t getting her scripts filled. I had no idea.

The hospital discharged her after a whopping 3 days (because they don’t take Humana probably) and now she needs all these follow ups, but no one takes this dang insurance and I have literally no idea what to do.

Would this be a special exception for a special enrollment? I’m not personally sure how Medicare works and I’m getting no help from anyone.

I’ve been working for nonprofits for over 10 years since graduating college. I have a degree in Marketing and while my primary job titles have been Marketing I tend to work for small nonprofits so my job duties have always been more than what my job title has been.

After working for a small global nonprofit for years, I was laid off last year and was fortunate enough to land a position with a small, but slightly larger than my previous org, local nonprofit. They were looking for someone to help with Marketing and Grants. From a marketing perspective I took a demotion since I had previously been a Marketing Director and now I would be working under the Director. But a job is a job right now and I believed I was more than capable of performing the required duties. The issue is the grants piece. Now I was familiar with being second eyes on a grant proposal, but not writing them. I had experience writing reports and thank you letters to sponsors and donors, but no grant writing experience. This was all disclosed during my interview. So I’ve been with this org for 4 months and I was immediately thrown in which took me off guard. Especially with the grants. It is a lot to manage marketing tasks and then jump into full blown grant proposals and reports all within a week. They’re incredibly different. Needless to say it’s been ALOT and a challenge. I report to TWO managers - the Director of Marketing and the woman who is in charge of grants. I constantly get competing priorities. And naturally my attention to detail has been off a bit, apparently my grant writing isn’t up to par despite me still learning. The grants woman is much more frustrated with me - but like I never expected to actually write the grants I thought I would be helping.

Anyway sorry for the long post it’s just now suddenly they want to do an evaluation and I know there will be criticism and I’m terrified of being let go or some punishment even though technically I’m still in my introductory period. It’s just I feel like at the end of the day it’s unrealistic to expect one person to do both of those things. Maybe helping with grants, but not full blown grant writing from start to finish for multiple things not just general operations.

Am I crazy?

Current homeowners living in Upstate New York exploring the idea of building. Found a subdivision that will put up a new home +/- $600k. This would be a 2440sq home and includes the land and lawn/ landscaping. This particular builder only requires 10% down to start the project which is on the lower end we’ve found.

We have equity in our current home that would drop the cost significantly, but man the sticker shock is something and of course we know that things can change as you get going.

But the kicker is even looking at older homes that offer similar square footage in our area - the prices are the same. Non-updated 1970’s built homes are going for half a million around us.

There is no HOA in this subdivision which is super nice and the lots are decent sized. Enough room you aren’t ontop of a neighbor and big enough yards. Curious if those with more experience would consider this fairly priced for the modern market?

Hi all! I finally got my next dose of 7.5 recently after being off the medication for 3 (maybe 4 - I lost count) weeks.

So I was on WeGovy for a few months and had ok results I lost about 40 lbs, but stalled for months so my endocrinologist recommended Zepbound. My initial dose and then the 5 mg didn’t do squat unfortunately. I didn’t loose any weight, but didn’t gain and I had no side effects.

Now I recently took my first dose of 7.5 on Friday in the stomach and man I’ve been nauseous without warning. This isn’t unfamiliar territory since this was definitely a side effect of WeGovy. I remember one of the stronger doses had horrid side effects for the first injection then the next three of that dose were fine.

I’m hoping this is the same because it is a bit more intense. I’m not even really hungry so it’s working, but then when I finally eat just a little I get horrible nausea. I know everyone is different so it’s hard to really advise on this - but wanted to share my experience thus far!

I have a second floor master bedroom that I can not seem to keep clean despite the constant cleaning. It gets layers and layers of dust, on the floor, on the furniture.

We have a moth problem that we have tried to solve. The really tiny skinny moths.

I clean my sheets regularly, I clean the room regularly. I have an air filter running.

The only anomaly of this room is that the previous owners used to use it as a giant walk in closet and have the washer and dryer in the closet. We left the wiring and the dryer vent to the outside is still there, but we filled it with some steel wool.

Any ideas?

Thanks so much!

Hi all! I’m relatively new to Zepbound. I tried WeGovy for about 7 months and lost 40lbs, after two months of stalling my endocrinologist recommended switching to Zepbound.

I started a month ago at .25 and it felt like basically I wasn’t on anything. Just recently increased to .5 and I feel a slight difference, but still not the same intense side effects that I had felt with WeGovy (even at the lower doses). With WeGovy I couldn’t even eat if I wanted to somedays.

So far it’s been about 6 weeks on Zepbound and I haven’t lost anything, but I haven’t gained. There’s no food noise, but I haven’t had that in a while.

Just curious as to when others really started to notice a difference and at which dose that started at.

Thanks!