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Just spent another two hours with wacky conspiracy nut coworker. I am exhausted, and have heard too much about Jewish space lasers and secret government hit squads abducting random people for their organs. Pray for me!

My coworker is trying to cure her asthma with essential oils and crystals. Saw "Great American Conspiracies" on her desk yesterday.

I'm assuming "Great American Conspiracies" isn't about, like, Watergate, or the Iran-contra, or all the times the CIA has tried to kill someone...

Yeah. This is why I roll my eyes whenever someone defends that bullshit by saying, "But it's harmless so it's okay!" Uh, it's not harmless if someone is trying to treat a real and threatening medical condition with it.

Jesus Christ you fuckers. No matter how many scientific medical articles I throw at you, you never stop.
https://www.nature.com/search?q=herbal
https://www.nature.com/search?q=aromatherapy
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0254629921002866 ("so what?" neuroinflammation factors in a lot of severe mental disorders such as Alzheimers and schizophrenia and so on.)
Aromatherapy / essential oils and natural medicine do work, so much that warnings have been issued against them because JUST LIKE SYNTHETIC drugs they can cause harmful side-effects.

But it's not my fucking fault that what you call "aromatherapy" in the US is some weird adulterated marketable bs sold through pyramid schemes. Which, you know, is not what aromatherapy is actually. Not my fault either that some people who know shit about meds will wrongfully believe that they can replace rivastigmine for some herb because it's "less harmful" and have it work in the same way because that's just NOT how it works. I resorted to herbal therapy after trying out over 5 conventional meds (because it's trial and error for doctors, who don't know your inner workings in-depth, too) and had doctors tell me that my side/effects were "unheard of" (until they did their research) since I am unfortunate enough to have a body resistant to many conventional treatments. Doesn't mean I quit looking for the right synthetic drug either. But I need to be able to work to pay the bills (including medical ones) so whatever works is fine. When you say "don't believe in aromatherapy and herbal treatments" or "they don't work for me" that's completely fine and it's a YOU issue. Not all drugs work for everyone. However, when you say "aromatherapy and herbal treatments don't work and should be stopped" you're actively harming the survivability of people such as myself and I WILL fight you for that. Particularly because a lot of people who say such bullshit have NOT studied biology at an advanced level and DON'T actually know what they are talking about.

tl;dr "haha she so crazyy conspirationist lol" whatever, fine, keep doing you :D "stop selling these" no. The aspirins and ibuprofens you take (and I say you because where I live the synthetic analgesic of choice isn't that) have side-effects too and no one is telling you to quit them, because you need them.

Do you actually read the articles you vomit up? Because even the ones you've puked up today all boil down to "Some natural remedies may have some benefits. Additional research is needed to see if they actually do anything worthwhile." And none of them are promoting aromatherapy as primary cancer treatment.

As for side effects being proof of effectiveness... how about you drink some radium water for a few months? Maybe spike it with a little "raw water," just for extra health benefits? Radium and sewage are ALL NATURAL, unlike those awful synthetic drugs! If it's not effective, then clearly you will have nothing to worry about since side effects only happen if your alternative medicine works JUST LIKE the real thing.

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Yeah, that totally made me think you AREN'T a crazy conspiracy theorist....

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Believe in flimsy pseudoscience nonsense if you want to, but I'm not going to encourage anyone to try snake oil just because you think it works for you. Guess you'll have to die mad about it.

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You could bring/wear something from here in to work for the hell of it.

https://dissentpins.com/collections/secret-jewish-space-laser

are you allowed to put in earbuds and listen to music at work? my guess is you probably aren't but some jobs allow it if you're lucky.

do you think your boss would put a stop to it if you went to them? if not, the only other thing i can think of is to tell the conspiracy nut "can you please stop? no one wants to hear that crap."

This. At my workplace we're not supposed to talk about politics (and I guess conspiracy theories would fall under that). Of course, we're humans and politics do come up, but everyone understands that boundaries have to be drawn for the sake of harmony, and we all know that if things go to far we have the right to ask for it to stop or to go to the manager about it. Does your workplace have a policy about it?

After over three months of back and forth because of my broken tablet, I actually got Samsung to agree to repair it at no cost because it was just a short time out of warranty... only to get told that lol nope, we're not doing it after all because the spare part we need can't be ordered anymore. For a tablet that's 2 and a half years old. This is pathetic. And as a consolation, I got a whopping 50€ voucher for their online store (which is technically wort only 25€ because I had to pay 25 for getting a repair cost estimate and it's non-refundable).

And I just looked at their online store- even with the voucher, it would be cheaper to just by a new tablet at a different tech online store.

My boss has said to me it's really hard to train the most junior member of my team in a virtual capacity. This guy has had very little structured training over the last six months, and I've executed over half of it. As a result, this guy cherry picks like it's no one's business. Frankly, I'm pissed that my boss has not more directly handled this deficiency herself. The only reason I'm cutting her any slack right now is because our whole team got shuffled around in a (surprisingly useful) reorg, and I don't want to drop all this on her new boss' head while he's trying to coordinate three different geographies. If things don't improve in a month, though, her boss and I will be having a long chat.

I wish I had sisters who were more affectionate and more...caring/thoughtful. I feel like every person in my life only talks to me because I initiate conversation with them. For the most part, I've become rather OK with it but it still gets to me when it's my family where I feel like the only person putting in any effort is me. And I just...I don't know how to express my feelings without it being combative or passive

I have the sisters that I have, not the ones I want. I can be sad and upset about it but I also have to accept it.

I'm with you, anon. My sister are bullies - I've only just realised it. ZZThey are toxic as hell and my parents didn't protect me from them, being too narcissistic to even notice. I'm so grateful to my friends but am afraid of driving them off. Consequently I';m a drain on the local mental health services.

Why do people have to be nasty? Why, if fact, can't we all just get along? Or even just be civil to each other?

Most of my family hasn't spoken to me for a year. I've recently initiated contact because my mother went into hospital - and instead of being thanked for the heads-up, got grilled on how I knew.

Sorry I'm kinda making this all about me. But I do know what you're going through, anon. I really do, and you have my hugs if you want them. You're not alone, though it may feel like it.

AYRT

Here in solidarity with you nonny! Thanks for replying even though it's about painful family stuff.
I do not mind you venting in reply to me at all nonny. <3
It sounds like you have a lot going on in your life. Unload as much as you need.
I might not know what to say but I am reading and I'm sitting here with you. I'm sorry you lack so much support and care in your life.
My small support is here if you want it. <3

Hugs, nonny, hugs.

nayrt

Why do people have to be nasty? Why, if fact, can't we all just get along? Or even just be civil to each other?

I dunno. Those are very good questions. If I thought long and hard about it, I'd say it's a mix of ego (insecurity mostly), upbringing, miscommunication, and possibly resentment of having to adjust one's existing worldview (possibly fear of what it might mean for them personally). Well, maybe I'm speaking very generally here. Point is, it's very rarely about the other person.

You deserved better and still deserve better than the family you grew up in. I'm not saying it's easy, but everyone has a choice, and it sounds like those family members continue to choose toxicity. Your friends sound awesome. I doubt you're a "drain" on services that are meant to help people going through what you're going through and similar.

That sucks, and I feel you. I rarely ever was included in conversations with my family, and they never made any effort to keep the conversation going when I initiated. I figured I was just a boring person, because even as a kid I loved watching documentaries and I wanted to talk about them. My family is a "football/copaganda/gossip about the neighbors" family.

When I got back from college, my aunt let it slip that I made everyone feel stupid and that's why they hated talking to me. It took about ten years after that before I would try to initiate conversation about my latest fixation with anyone. I spend family gatherings in the corner surfing the net on my phone.

AYRT

Holy crap, nonny. I'm sorry your family situation is awkward and that they would resent you for having interests and then try to shame you for how they feel. That's petty and heartless. I'm sorry you feel so alone around them =( I can relate to occupying myself with my phone by looking up stuff I'm into when I see family.

For my situation I have one sister who is super self obsessed, still tries to play by the win/lose logic of managing relationships. And the other isn't good at all in initiating and carrying convos and doesn't reassure or comfort. Either way, they're so checked out I sometimes resent that they don't even think about me outside of what I'm doing for them.

Hope you're doing well with whatever interest you're taking up <3

I work from home and I am in office only on Fridays. But fuck every Friday is a shit show. Not only I just really really don't talk politics with colleagues because I don't want to start hitting people. (They think that the West makes all children trans so you can imagine) There are also a lot of things that make me physically uncomfortable all day long and I feel like shit and every Friday I just want to drop dead. But I am not often enough in the office to stir shit. So who forgot to upload their project on a server at the end of the day yet again? And who is going to go to the office first thing Monday morning before work hours? Yeahhh this anon

Sounds like my office experience, except I had to be there every day and started postponing all of my tasks because I couldn't afford to be productive any more. Offices are living hell

Somehow I think my office experience became worse after we've started doing split scheme. I don't have my own place, I share it with fuckoton of people. My work PC is getting overused. I can't exactly set boundaries or change cabinets because I am not often enough in the office to enforce them. Also issue with uploading is absolutely ridiculous.
On the other hand we don't have cabinets with lovely view and smell of neighbor smokers no more. Yay

SA
OK, I hope I've posted late enough so people wouldn't see my misuse of word "cabinet". Fucking faux amis and my cognitive functions decline

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