How to safely dull taste buds?

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Terminal Blue

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DarklordKyo said:
Everyone who tried to "help" me just wanted to throw me in the loony bin.
There are only a few situations in which you may be detained in a psychiatric institution without your consent (certainly for longer than a few hours).

1) You are constantly trying or threatening to seriously injure yourself or other people and this is frequent and uncontrollable enough that that there is seen to be a genuine risk that you will kill someone.

2) You commit a serious crime for which you would normally be detained in prison, but because of a successful plea of insanity you are sent to a secure psychiatric ward instead.

I'm not saying you imagined or made up these occasions where you got the sense that people wanted to put you in a psychiatric institution, although I would say that if you have a tendancy to fixate on or "replay" bad memories then you can't always trust what you remember because repeated replays can change the content of the memory. What I'm saying is that it's not actually going to happen unless you walk into an assessment with a knife held to your throat and demand to be detained (which someone I know did, and was detained for a grand total of 72 hours).

Now, considering that we're having a conversation about you wanting to permanently injure yourself over something as trivial as someone else saying you might like food too much, then I'm not saying it's beyond the realms of possibility that you will be detained at some point, but if it does happen (which won't be over something like this) it will be because there is an immanent risk of you doing something to seriously hurt yourself. At that point, if you ever reach it, you may find that detention is actually a huge relief, because it means a few hours of not having to deal with whatever thoughts resulted in you needing to be detained.
 

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DarklordKyo said:
I've had what was called a good sense of taste for a while now, I basically love food a little too much. The thing is, my brain keeps on replaying a memory where that was criticized (that I love food too much, and that certain others I know treat food as mere sustainance).

I've been wanting a safe way to destroy my taste buds, and, as I'm too much of a pansy to do so, I'm not willing to either burn them off with a heated spoon, use methods that would number my entire mouth, or cut my tongue out (don't worry, nobody told me to self-mutilate, those are just ideas I thought up, heard from Google searches, and thought up respectably).

Does anyone know any safe ways I can permanently destroy my taste buds?
you do realise you can make a serious amount of money being a taster, right?
 

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My personal solo advice is to drink water when you're hungry. I'm talking a stupid amount of water. Drink water whenever you're hungry first BEFORE eating any food. No special techniques or stupid hunger-reduction diet pills required. It will kill hunger temporarily and get you to not want anything to eat temporarily, and thinking about food is the primary source of desire for food unless you're starving.

It doesn't matter how you get the damn water. If you can imbibe tap water, great. If not, there are cheap ways to get filtered/spring/distilled water. Keep a bottle/container on you at all times full of water. Fucking drink that shit, and accept no excuses. If you're wanting to reduce caloric intake, keep in mind that at the very fucking least you could be drinking water to dull the desire before eating something you'll regret.

You want to lose some weight, that's one simple tip. Use it. Don't let me invoke Shia Lebouf to make you do it. It's stupidly simple and easy, so it's worth a try and you have nothing to lose. Good luck.