u/BarnacleContent6664

Hello! I’m a commuter student who struggles to get enough to eat during long days on campus, so I’m trying to come up with a filling breakfast I can prep for grab-and-go mornings. I want to make a smoothie that will make me feel full (alongside some egg bites and a bagel for the complete meal). Based on what I’ve read online, I made this smoothie today by measuring with my heart:

2 cups of milk

1/2 cup Greek yogurt

1/2 tsp chia seeds

1 tbsp hemp seeds

1/2 cup oats

1 cup fresh spinach

1/2 avacado

1 frozen banana

1/4 cup pink lemonade

2 tbsp honey

It could’ve been sweeter and more flavourful, but the thickness was perfect (even though the oats made it slightly chalky). I’m thinking of adding frozen mango or frozen apple to it next time for added flavour.

However, my hunger didn’t feel satiated at all after drinking a whole glass! Any tips/pointers for ingredients and measurements going forward?

P.S. I’ve been looking into protein powders or meal supplement powders I can add for health and fullness as well.

I have this big, gnawing feeling in my chest that has persisted for weeks, and I think it is something like fear or guilt. When I met my girlfriend almost a year ago, she struggled on and off with mental heath issues like you’d expect from a person her age, stuff similar to my own problems and all of my friends. You get the gist, life sucks, etc. However, over the past few months (I don’t remember when this started, maybe it was even before then?? It’s very hard to say) she began to develop extreme OCD symptoms (intrusive thoughts, paranoia, I think hallucination, etc) that has severely impacted her daily life and our relationship. Her depressive symptoms have caused her to fail a good portion of school, and she’s worried that she won’t be able to go to work because of how terrible her mental health is. She is afraid anywhere she goes, whether she’s in public in broad daylight or at home in her room. She gets terrified and paralyzed and she cries, and her eyes dart around the room like she expects someone to come chase her down. She has always had vivid intrusive thoughts but they’ve been getting to her more now, and she says that sometimes she can’t look at peoples faces or listen to them talk because it sounds “wrong” and is confusing. She has become a completely different person, she’s like basically not a person at this point because she can barely function due to depression and crazy fear. I’ve tried to be as patient as possible, but it’s gotten to a point where I feel like a doctor instead of a partner. And I’m a completely useless doctor at that. Anything I do she is either apathetic towards or it makes her feel worse. I’ve basically lost my best friend. I want to stick it out with her, but due to living situations we are currently long distance for the next few months and we’ve never been long distance before. Instead of “distance making my heart grow fonder”, I’ve been feeling surprisingly resentful and exhausted now that I can’t just clean up after her, cuddle her, and do other little physical things for her. Our calls have been getting more and more dry, like we really have nothing to talk about, yet just a month or so prior to now I felt like I couldn’t STOP talking to her. Today I snapped and just started crying about how hard it’s been for me and I would impulsively ask her questions to elicit obvious negative answers from her, like self destruction. It was also flat out mean, and to a suffering person no less. Im ashamed of myself, but im still fed up, because an explosion of my feelings (however unfair) just seems so inevitable now. I just don’t know what to do and I’m tired and miserable and I miss her but I resent this whole situation so much. I just want to feel normal and free but I want to feel normal and free with her. I’ve never been in a situation like this before, and I came to Reddit because I’m anxious to admit to family and friends how bad she’s gotten because she gets really embarrassed when people know private details about her life. Most people don’t know she failed most of her classes or anything of that sort at all. Anyway, what can I do right now? She has an appointment for a psychiatrist referral in the coming weeks, but other than that she’s really adamant on “no hospital” and she seems to spiral more and more. I know that when patients are admitted to psych wards unwillingly the results are often very bad, and I wouldn’t want her to go somewhere that is a bad institution in the first place. I just almost want to tell her that a good psych ward may be *good* for her, though I haven’t figured out how I could even begin to do that. I don’t know what I should do: emotionally distance myself but say nothing and continue acting supportive? Open up to my friends about my situation? Contact HER family and friends and say… something to encourage them to help her? Talk to my girlfriend directly about psych wards, or a temporary break? Whip MYSELF into shape?? Please, somebody just give me some guidance here. I’m desperate.