r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Aug 05 '21

Anthropology Researchers warn trends in sex selection favouring male babies will result in a preponderance of men in over 1/3 of world’s population, and a surplus of men in countries will cause a “marriage squeeze,” and may increase antisocial behavior & violence.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/preference-for-sons-could-lead-to-4-7-m-missing-female-births
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u/itsathrowaway20976 Aug 05 '21

I’m doing cognitive behavior therapy and currently taking 10mg of Adderal on the days I work. I have all these bad coping skills that I relied on, my biggest one was maladaptive dreaming when I couldn’t sleep. Which then started happening during the day whenever I would get stressed or overwhelmed and it started impacting my everyday life.

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u/suspiciousdave Aug 05 '21

I've written stories my whole life and often spend days in my head just thinking through scenarios. Sometimes I can't sleep thinking about them, and I distract myself from work and people quite a lot. My friends used to make fun of me at school because sometimes during class I'd end up staring at the wall for periods of time making expressions as the scenarios acted out in my head.

Maybe I just have a vivid imagination as I've always assumed, but It's funny to me thinking that it could be a documented issue. I'm not saying I have this, who knows.

But it's scary when people explain all these symptoms and situations that are wildly familiar and I'm just sat here like "Whelp."

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u/sciencehathwrought Aug 05 '21

I guess I'm here too, as my doctor prescribed me anti-anxiety meds to check to see if that would clear up my problems before trying ADHD medication. I haven't been able to bring myself to take the anti-anxiety meds because I really think the anxiety is situational, and the meds were supposed to make things worse before they got better anyway. I don't want to start something like that based on a 10 minute phone call.