I've noticed that a lot of Christians I know equate "successful person claiming to be a Christian" to being a good person/Christian.
Legitimately, Christianity is the perfect place for salepeople to weasel in (and they absolutely have) because Christians have lost the ability to think critically and scope out "wolves among sheep."
"A Christian said it, and a Christian would not lie!"
All you have to do is put on a face and claim "Christian". It really is that easy!
I look back and regret not embracing things I had interest in.
I was made fun of for my Pokémon cards so I threw them away. I was told that my drawings are weird so I stopped. After being constantly told that video games were "a stupid waste of time" and that I "should be doing something productive", I boxed them up and gave them away.
Now Pokémon cards are cool and there are worldwide tournaments. I look wistfully at talented artists & animators and wish I hadn't given up. Video games can now be considered "art" and are openly enjoyed by so many.
I'm too old to let others dictate what I should & shouldn't like. I wear fun clothes, collect stuffed animals, nerd out over Zelda lore, paint miniatures for DnD games. Why? Because I enjoy it and I deserve to be happy in what I like.
I hope that you will one day feel that you are able to enjoy things openly, too.
"You're an adult. You get to enjoy whatever you like."
Stuffed animals? Legos? Video games? Cartoons? I've been made fun of all my life for liking "stupid stuff" or "kid stuff" (even as a kid).
I pay my taxes. I've lived life long enough to know that I deserve to be happy. What kind of miserable shit-head would make fun of me enjoying something? Someone whose opinion has no value to me, that's who.
My friend is a technical writer and just lost her job because "chat GPT can do what you do!"
She then informed me that she knew 11 other people who got fired due to the same thing. And now those companies are realizing how badly they fucked up and are frantically trying to rehire.
If someone asks another person close to OP about their "medical issue" and the other person is clueless, there's a way out.
Say they're confronted by an old coworker later down the line who says "I talked to your sister/mother/SO/best friend/whatever and they said that you don't have any medical issues!"
Then OP simply acts upset and says "you told × about my private medical issue????" and act distressed over it.
However, I doubt these coworkers care about follow-up. So this situation is very unlikely to occur.
Private medical issue = private. Even people close may not know. It's a good alibi.
Do note that St. John's Wort can mess with other medications you may take and can make them downright ineffective. A big one that comes to mind is birth control, but there are many others.
Always check with a medical professional and/or look up more information about supplement interactions before adding them into your regimen!
So glad that everyone seems to love it!