15. “I work in a grocery store, and several things have changed. One: packaging is shittier. From the cardboard boxes being paper-thin to the cellophane wrappers being a joke to the glue holding boxes together, it has all gotten lower quality as companies cut costs. Two: the quality of the course has gone down. I…
15. “When I began trying to get healthier in 2022, my starting weight was 300.6 pounds (47.8 BMI, 5 feet 6 inches). I lost around 30 pounds on my own through diet alone, then started Ozempic in June 2023 at 270 pounds. I never went above 0.5 mg. I maintained a caloric deficit of 350…
2. “People licking their fingers before touching stuff that other people are going to touch next. (E.g., magazine pages, papers, cash, cards, etc.).” —Bastard_of_Brunswick “Finger licking out in the wild is just generally pretty gross. So are a lot of people’s phones, too, probably, along with computer keyboards and mice. How often do people clean…
—spreadskater “I’m a chef, and I see the direct outcome of all of this every week. Broccolini, onions, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, asparagus, tomatoes, potatoes, green onions, limes, lemons, and oranges are all standard items we keep in my restaurant, and over the last six months, prices have increased anywhere from 30% to 60%. Plus, the…
—Mental_Antelope5860 “Same here, I bought some new-old-stock French quality sheets that were slightly stained from lying on a shelf for years (got the stains out right away, no problem). They were very affordable, but man, these were made to last you 50 years, and it shows. The weight after washing is unlike anything I’ve owned,…
Yeah…I don’t think I was fully prepared for all of this 😭. If you work in the medical field and have a story like this, feel free to share it in the comments or submit it below — your story might end up in a future BuzzFeed Community post! Note: Some responses have been edited…
4. “You really can’t fully understand depression until you’ve experienced it.” —u/kytheon “Too many people think it’s a ‘just get out of bed and have a better attitude’ kind of thing.” —u/melissasoliz “I’ve struggled with it my whole life. A friend recently went through her first spell and was like, ‘How do you do it?!’…
20. “My father was officially diagnosed in the last year at almost 80 years old. He is now in a nursing home with health problems, and this has finally allowed him to get some psychiatric treatment, thus the diagnosis. It’s been an amazing relief and weirdly vindicating. I have described my dad for most of…
—Hyptanius “Very forgotten and very amazing. Got this show as a gift for someone in the mid-’00s, at the time, a very expensive DVD set. Picked one up for myself much cheaper a few years later. The show was still so enjoyable. I think the search for the next big/great thing was such a well-timed…
11. “I dated a swimmer for five years when I was young. He’s not an active athlete anymore, but was when we lived together. He missed the Olympics by a few milliseconds. After school, we’d hang out and do homework together for about two to three hours, and then he’d go swimming for three hours….
