You hope that men will recognize that this is a space not meant for them (which is often explicitly stated in the post body) and respectfully not comment. And those men that do comment but are respectful get politely asked not to comment again. And those men that comment and are rude or disrespectful get banned.
And some men do fly under the radar but a surprising number feel the need to start their comment with "As a man...".
Racing thoughts may be experienced as background, _or may take over a person's consciousness. _Thoughts, music, and voices might be zooming through one's mind as they jump tangentially from one to the next.
actually does describe what it's like inside my head. I think of it like background chatter. There are usually two to three tracks of thought that my mind hops between with a song playing in the background (currently it's I Second That Emotion by The Miracles). It's there when I wake up in the morning and it's there all day long. If I wake up in the middle of the night, it's there. That can be annoying because it makes it hard to fall back asleep. During the day I can quiet it down by concentrating on something else - e.g., listening to a podcast - but if I'm doing something that doesn't require much thought, my background chatter comes to the forefront again.
It is what it is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ It hasn't kept me from being successful and it doesn't really bother me except when it makes it harder to fall asleep. I'm guessing it's just an overactive imagination? I've described it to my husband and he can't relate - he says his mind is blank unless he's actively thinking about something (and I can't relate to that lol).
I think this is just what's normal for me. If it caused distress or confusion, I think it might indicate some pathology, but that's not the case.
I keep my house very clean, and when the weather allows I open windows to let in fresh air. I also have reed diffusers throughout my house to add a little scent. IMO the key is to choose one scent for your whole house so that it smells cohesive, and to choose a scent that is mild, not too artificial or overwhelming. Right now I've got the Life in Lilac diffusers in Peppermint Bliss and they smell great. All I have to do is flip the reeds once a week.
You might also be going nose blind to the febreze plug-ins if the scent is disappearing after a couple of days.
Do you mind if I ask you - I've always been curious how anyone could join the military and not bother with politics. Don't they want to know what they might be sent to fight for? Is it just blind trust that the government will use the military wisely, or is it being young and dumb and possibly poor, or is it the appeal of the GI bill? Or - you've mentioned Bush and I assume you mean W, not HW, and if so you must be roughly my age. Did they mostly join in response to 9/11?
They misunderestimated him.