Fiber Internet Billing Fight, Personal Days & Anxiety Medication

Henrique Couto finally has fiber internet fast enough to turn a twenty-hour media upload into roughly an hour, a major upgrade for delivering television and film files. The joy fades when canceling a bundled television trial appears to raise his quoted monthly price from eighty to one hundred dollars. He has the lower offer in writing and launches into a determined billing dispute with AT&T while admitting that he can outlast customer service because he works from home.The disagreement lands in the middle of a burnout spiral. After reaching his limit around midday, Henrique works another twelve hours, finishes at one in the morning and declares the next day a personal day—during which he still works several times by accident. Pizza, Better Call Saul and a conversation with his mother help him realize that seven-hour weekend days were not actually time off. His remarks about pricing, contracts and tax deductions are personal recollection, not consumer, legal or financial advice.Michelle questions whether making comics and music is truly fun when she feels compelled to keep doing it. That leads to her recent experience with two remote therapy appointments that offered familiar advice and did not feel like the right fit. She then met remotely with a medical professional, began a daily prescribed anxiety medication and, on day three, reports insomnia, an indescribably strange feeling and an unexpected thought that the nice weather might justify a walk.Both hosts compare those early side effects with previous experiences using prescribed as-needed medication, difficulty obtaining a refill and fear of bothering clinicians. Henrique stresses that different therapeutic approaches can fit different people, while Michelle remains uncertain that anything will improve. This is a historical personal conversation, not diagnosis, medication guidance or a reason to start, stop, split or change any prescription. Contains anxiety, burnout, hopelessness, intrusive thoughts, psychiatric medication and side effects, alcohol and drug references, profanity and repeated inserted social-casino advertisements.LinksEmail the hosts: [email protected]