You're doing great by having her in therapy and sticking with it. It is hard to be consistent, especially with a house full of young children. 8 years old seems very young to be diagnosed as bipolar or ODD. My experience has been that lots of doctors will give you lots of different opinions, so be careful with who and what you believe, especially when it comes to medications. Our most beneficial resources have been parental support groups, so maybe try to find a group like that in your area. Stay strong!

Kudos to you for having the courage to leave the abusive marriage. Everything else will be ok In the long run because you took that action. Please give yourself some grace and good job getting your child into therapy.

Definitely not a fuck up. You're doing your best!!

It happens. I was early told add or adhd or whatever now, and depression. Bipolar wasn't on the books till much later in life and a suicide attempt or Two.

Ain't a fuck up as much as trying to find someone who would actually answer the calls for help.

You did not fuck up. You fought bravely for yourself and for your children, and when you realized she started having issues, you did your best to help her and listened to the advice of professionals. She is going to grow up so proud of you.

What's important is that you're there for her, you can't change what happened in the past and blaming yourself is only adding to your grief. Keep being brave.

This is not a fuck-up. I wish the best for you and your family.

You're doing the best you can. I don't know your situation, but I do know you love your daughter, and will get through this. Keep your head up, hug your daughter and know that this too shall pass.

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You know, I've always wanted to have a go at celebrating every holiday for one year. I think it would get way too convoluted though. So many different foods, and probably a lot of conflicting traditions. I'd invite you to my Christmas if I could OP!

Wow, you're writing is top notch! Cheers and happy holidays.

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On a side note, have you considered volunteering to help serve a meal at a church, VA, or shelter for Christmas? I did as a child, and also after a divorce…it’s oddly therapeutic to give back and be reminded that you’re still lucky.

Yay - my birthday!

Happy Anzac Day.

Taanit Ester is the fast day before Purim. Very lucky day indeed. Esther fasted for 3 days including this one before approaching the King to ask that he NOT destroy the Jews;.it's the day before the planned annihilation of the Jews, which the Jews were specially allowed to fight back. One wonders why the order to slaughter the Jews wasn't just, y'know, rescinded.

It's not a big fast. But compared to some of the others (commemorating the destruction of the temple, for example), it is much lighter.

1. Go to your Calendar, View in the top Ribbon tab, Change View > List
2. Top Search bar, use the Current Folder scope, search "category:(holiday)"
3. See all the search results in the list below? Ctrl+A to select all, then Delete
4. Try not to feel too lonely? *hug*

I know the basics of linux, kali, sql, python. Programming definitely takes practice and I do not know it all.

My work computer is very restricted, I can't create a second email account but I'm sure there's a solution similar to the theme you stated.

I was considering making two calendars as well. I may do it manually. I'll see how busy my winter workflow is because it will definitely take a nonstop day or so.

sounds good =] I'll consider reaching out if the holidays conflict w/my duties. My workday just ended and I kinda didn't mind it.

The solution seems to be quite simple if you can program.

Create an empty account and add all the holidays there too.

Then write a program which runs through all the calender entries of the empty account, deleting the matching calender entries in your own calender.

If it's o365 you'd be extremely surprised what we are able to do. PowerShell makes it very easy to undo something once we figure out how Microsoft actually does it on the backend.

Haha thank you! March 6th, 2023 seems to be a shockingly lucky line-up

• Taanit Ester
• Lailat al-Baraat
• Makha Bucha/Puja
• Awakening of Insects (Jing Zhe)

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That's how to be inclusive!

Kinda doubtful they can. The holidays are synced like events. I'll probably clear my days as they come.