No. Pirate everything. 

No. It doesn’t matter if you’re not profiting from it. Not profiting from other people’s work or claiming other people’s work as your own is what copyright started out as. It was to protect intellectual property. Now it is exclusively for protecting the ability to sell something over and over and over again. If you stream a copyrighted song for free, then no one will pay the license holder for it. You can get your channel taken down for that. 

I use my base 13 for everything. I’m an all day, heavy user and the phone has never failed me. It does it all flawlessly. I chose the base model because it had everything I needed and because of the price. I didn’t see a justification to pay so much more for features I didn’t need/use or wouldn’t even notice. The only thing I would change on this phone is size. I like the larger size of the new models but I still plan on not upgrading for a long while. 

I was just about to say the same thing. We need to know what is the channel about as that impacts who the viewers could be.

Therapy never helped me with anxiety, even when it was cognitive behavioral therapy. I have gone to countless therapists. I spent decades actually, getting therapy. I finally gave up and started giving myself therapy which has helped more than all of the other therapists combined. I am not sure why it never helped. I guess, I just couldn't connect the therapy to anything useful for my anxiety. I also have to say, there aren't many good therapists out there.

Having said that, it wasn't utter failure. In fact, the most helpful thing about therapy came in an unexpected way. It helped me listen to someone else's perspective on what I was feeling and thinking. Someone who didn't have anxiety. I have always been very reserved about my anxiety and would never share much of it with anyone except for my therapists so I never received much feedback on my thought patterns unless I was in therapy. I use that to this day with helping me challenge my thought patterns and expose myself to situations, even when they are highly uncomfortable.

Social media can become a problem for people with anxiety/depression pretty quickly. It’s already a highly toxic and volatile environment as it is so imagine what it becomes for someone with mental health issues. 

I have to constantly monitor my social media usage because it can become obsessive, ritualistic and an interference with the handling of my anxiety. It can become very difficult to not engage at times but disconnection is really the most healthy way of approaching this as there’s nothing about it that will help you improve your mental health. Only facing the real world can. 

I’ve closed accounts, unfollowed and uninstalled apps recently. I plan on continuing to do this until I find a comfortable level of social media usage that doesn’t affect my progress. 

That company has a lot of serious problems. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. It’s unbelievable they are still allowed to do this. 

The only way I deal with it is by passing through it. I can't convince myself that it isn't real. In fact, fighting with it, only makes it more real because I am validating that it even exists and needs to be addressed. I just keep reminding myself that "I've had this feeling before and it will pass in time". I then continue on doing whatever I do because in the end, if doom really comes, I want it to happen while I'm doing something I love.

I can relate to this. When I was young, it really bothered me. I especially hated when my anxiety problems were dismissed as some sort of simple thing that I could easily control but I was too weak to do it. At least, that was the general reaction to it when I would explain it. I saw my cousin excel in everything and I felt like a loser that never lived up to my true potential.

But, I am 51 years old now and I am going to talk to you as if I am your future self. Everyone has issues. Everyone. We all feel at times like we are living under some shadow and are dissatisfied with our lives. I know that it may seem as though others are doing great and you're falling behind but you will see, in time, that it all levels out. We always compare ourselves to others and think that somehow they are doing better but in the end, you will see that they were dealing with their own stuff and most likely were also thinking that they were falling behind compared to others. Your momentum will increase and theirs will subside and vice versa. Every one goes through ups and down. All the people that I saw as great once, when I was in my twenties, turned out to be no better than me now in our fifties. I succeeded in some things that they didn't and they succeeded in some things that I didn't.

You are still so young. You will find something that motivates you in due time and what you are doing now will help you get there. Small steps. Slow and steady wins the race.

I find live shows on YouTube. You can search and sort by live and they usually recommend things you like based on your watch history. You can also use the Clubhouse app. There are a lot of live rooms there, you just join the ones you like.

I have to admit my doorbell ringing is as if a banshee is howling from the pits of hell. I don't know why, but I have always been this way. Doorbells and phones ringing make my heart race. I just want to be left alone. lol Thank goodness I can delegate all incoming irritants to my husband. He loves dealing with that stuff.

I have had this same feeling but it seems like the society we live in, has made it very difficult to make friends. Unless you have been able to carry over friends from childhood, it will be very hard to make friends as an adult. I have tried. I have tried with people around my neighborhood and friends of family but, unfortunately, it hasn't worked out. People are very stressful. It seems like they come with a load of baggage and they set it right up on your doorstep so you can carry it in and deal with it. It has never failed. Every single person I have met so far, has some kind of serious issue going on and they have been incapable of dealing with it in a healthy manner so they want you to deal with it. Well, I don't want to. I have enough of my own problems, which I keep to myself and don't bother anyone else with. For this reason, I don't have friends but at least, it hasn't been from lack of trying. So you are not alone in this. I have heard many other people also having this same problem. There is a reason why loneliness is at such a high rate.

Ohh, so Spotify owns the licenses they’re “selling”? So that music can never be removed from their system because they own it? Riiight. 

Ugh, so disturbing looking. I'd hate to be inside the mind of whoever made this garbage.

Jeez, how many people are going to use this same green screen?

It boggles my mind why someone would "buy" something, from someone who doesn't even own what they're selling. None of this music is Spotify's. They are literally selling you something, they don't even own. If that's not the ultimate scam, I don't know what is.

Then they shouldn't "sell" to others, what isn't theirs.

I have to agree. It’s the only way. It’s the only thing that has worked for me and I’ve tried everything since I’ve had GAD my whole life. Living in the delusion that “everything will be all right” is a constant exercise in avoidance, lying to yourself and finally breaking down when reality bites. Acceptance and facing reality might be the hardest thing you’ll ever do but it’s the only way out. 

It depends on the type of anxiety. Thankfully I have my anxiety controlled to the point that it is rarely incapacitating. For this reason, I can calm mild anxiety with cleaning around the house, gardening, doing a craft project, playing a computer game or watching a movie. But when it's bad, all of that goes out the window since I cannot focus on anything. That's when I have to sit outside because being inside is torture. While sitting outside, I will listen to a live podcast. I don't know why it calms me to listen to people talking live but it does. A nice repetitive movement like tapping my hand or moving my leg tops it off.

This could be easily solved if a legitimate medical source was allowed to post an official video showing the Heimlich maneuver and YouTube would allow that particular video to run ad-free and be the first one to pop up during any search inquiry about choking. That's it, Just one video. They don't have to do it for thousands of videos. Just one. It is not impossible to do. They have experience in censoring and filtering out videos they deemed as "medical misinformation", and instead pushed the narrative they wanted to push, when it was convenient for them to do so, so they can do it again, with ONE official video.

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I have an iPhone 13 and I also don't plan on changing it anytime soon unless it dies on me or I can find a super good price on an upgrade. The only reason I would consider an upgrade at a good price is for the size. I like the new larger phones. For now though, I eventually plan on changing the battery. The phone doesn't have a scratch on it and it's working as good as new. I used to change my phone often but now, I realize that such a costly phone does not have to be changed so frequently. It's truly made to last.

Habit. It's the first OS I ever used and even though I have tried others, I find Windows easier simply because I'm used to it and am pretty familiar with it. It runs the programs I need it to.

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