blandastronaut

When I was on the swim team as guys we only shave for the league meet at the end of the season, or if you qualified for state you'd wait until then. It's no good to keep your legs shaved, it's only good if you shave before the big meet. I knew some girls who would let their leg hair grow out during the winter season so they could have the same shaving effect for the big meets.

In the article about saturation diving linked in this thread, they mention one diver's wife miscarrying while he was on a job. It would take something like 11 days before he would be able to be with her, so she told him just to finish the job and continue getting paid for that job since you're already there. I imagine anything like that has got to be tough on all sorts of personal and family matters.

I have autoimmune health problems and am not eligible to donate bone marrow or plasma. My uncle lived a decent life only because of organ transplants, and I want to help donation efforts if I can. What are some ways other than donating or giving money that I could help this cause?

I have an official diagnosis that includes psychotic symptoms. I've never had to disclose anything like that to employers unless it becomes an issue that affects my work, and then I would only give them relevant paperwork from the doctor with a much less specific term of just "mood disorder." If it comes to sharing such information with an employer, It's enough information for an employer to understand what's going on but vague enough to keep my privacy.

I am a software developer and analyst, so my mind is what I use for my job and mental health would never be an expected interview question, and I'm not sure what sort of job there may be where it would even be relevant at all. Mental health can come in the form of OCD, anxiety, paranoia or other psychotic symptoms, depression, and a wide variety of other things. Not everything is enough to affect job performance.

In the United States mental health is also protected by law just like physical illnesses such as cancer or diabetes, and as such you have certain rights while working. Though a lot can come down to Management's discretion at times, so YMMV.

Those biologic medications have so freaking much money involved with them. I take Humira and a single dose that I take every two weeks can be around $800 or something. And they essentially paid my maximum out of pocket costs for the year, about $3,500 with my insurance, so that I would continue taking their medication with it being covered by insurance. That was an amazing thing for me to receive, but it just shows how much money they're making with insurance when they readily throw $3,500 rebate at me every year.