Since completing my education, I've noticed a decrease in mentally stimulating activities in my daily life. For this reason I've been experiencing a sense of cognitive decline, feeling like my mind isn't being challenged or engaged as much as it used to be. I'm looking for ways to stimulate my brain back. I'm interested in exploring activities that can help, such as reading, puzzles, games, and other intellectually stimulating stuff. Could you recommend some engaging and challenging options to help me get started? Thanks a lot

Hello everyone,

I'm reaching out today because I'm feeling overwhelmed with anxiety as I reflect on the past eight years. I've struggled with mental health issues, including a mild depression as diagnosed by my therapist, and more recently, anxiety. While these issues haven't severely impacted my daily life, I feel that I've stagnated and not made the progress I had hoped for.

During these years, I've remained in the same low-qualified, low-paying job. I dropped out of university due to feelings of inadequacy and never moved out of my parents' house, despite my dream of living abroad. Now, I find myself just going through the motions, waiting for the weekend, which often doesn't bring the joy I expect.

I'm approaching 30 and feel like a failure, a loser, and too old to turn my life around. At the same time, I feel that my problems are trivial and that I shouldn't be posting here. I'm not sure if this is the right community for this kind of post, so I apologize if it isn't. I'm just looking for a bit of advice or resources that might help someone in a similar situation.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

We call on the European Commission to propose a binding legal ban on conversion practices targeting LGBTQ+ citizens in the European Union:

Conversion Practices are interventions aimed at changing, repressing or suppressing the sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression of LGBTQ+ persons.

Such practices, due to their discriminatory, degrading, harmful and fraudulent nature have been qualified as torture by the United Nations, and are currently being banned in a growing number of States.

The EU plays a key role in the protection of fundamental rights and should take actions to fight against all inhuman practices. The Commission should propose a directive adding conversion practices to the list of euro-crimes and/or amend the ongoing directive on equality (2008) to include a ban on these practices.

Furthermore, to fight against the legislative moratorium, the Commission should also enforce a non-binding resolution calling for a widespread ban of conversion practices in the EU.

Finally, we call on the Commission to amend the Victims’ Rights Directive to establishes minimum standards on the rights, support and protection of victims of conversion practices.

All member states should introduce a ban on conversion practices or review their current ones.

I enjoy scrolling the local/global feeds but I often come across NSFW content, which despite being blurred, annoys me. Is there a way to completely hide that? Thank you

Whenever I talk or interact with people I feel I don't talk like a "normal" person would nor I feel other people's feelings towards me are positive.

Their interactions with me seem always cold and superficial and it's not their fault. I told that to my psychologist, even asking whether I may be autistic or suffer from other conditions. She said I don't, but heavy neglect affected me when I was a kid and it's not possible for me to become like others, I can just work on myself. The problem is that I don't know how to work on this. I really wish for somebody to point out evey mistake I make when I talk to them so I can know what I'm doing wrong.

Sorry it's probably just venting but I genuinely got tired of that.

Hi everyone. I created this community here on Lemmy because I wish to give others what I have never felt: the love and the support of a father.

My father is alive and well, but I've always felt like he was dead. I've never received support, love, or hugs but I instead received disapproval, criticisms, insults and high expectations from him. I remember telling kids in elementary school I had no dad.

I am at an age where this should not affect me. I am an adult with his own life but I am unable to feel indifferent to it. His words (or the lack thereof) still affect me. I want him to be proud of me, at least once in my lifetime, and whenever I try to say something that I think will make him proud, I always leave disappointed telling myself "never try again".

My mother was emotionally unavailable too as she has a schizophrenia diagnosis. I don't know what I am looking for by writing this post, maybe just some nice words.

I still wish to be someone's cherished son. Thank you for reading.

Edit: Thank you to all, really. Your thoughtful comments warm up my heart.

As you can see, there are "1 new reply" and "3 more replies" buttons but if I press them nothing happens. It's not a problem of my app (Voyager btw) because the same happens on the lemmy.world website.

The problem is not this particular post, but almost under every post I encounter this issue. Does it happen to anyone else? What causes this?

Kim Jong Un is a dumbass

Israeli assailants set homes and vehicles ablaze in three West Bank Palestinian villages and pelted Palestinian cars with rocks on Sunday night

I will start first

• I didn't notice my diy NAS motherboard had Pci-E Gen 2.0 (old gen) before buying it. It's not a great limitation (still 500MB/s) for the two spinning disks I have on it, but it'd be if I will decide to switch to SSDs
• I cheaped out on the PSU. I bought another one without waiting for that crap to burn down so I eventually spent more
• I often break the software. Sometimes I kill the OS or mess with some BTRFS pools

Sometimes I just feel not adequate for it. Does this kind of things happen to you too?

Why do some subreddits are labeled "Shown via [my instance]", whereas other do not? What is the difference if something is seen "via" my instance?

Can I also kindly ask why I am able to see banned subreddits when they're now shown via my instance?

I'm asking because I've never seen this on Mastodon

Sorry, maybe this question has already been asked (but can't find it), what are some good Lemmy open source clients for Android? All the ones I'm trying are really buggy and glitchy.