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Author Topic: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O  (Read 14846898 times)

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112440 on: November 01, 2016, 06:03:09 pm »

Basically, yes.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112441 on: November 01, 2016, 06:46:54 pm »

I guess it's a difference of sensitivity or something between us then. Some counter examples I know of: A friend who was literally shot by a mugger not too far from the apartment he was staying in at the time. While he was a bit shaken initially, he had a strong support network of family/friends to fall back on, and he has a good ability to laugh at things. Within a week or so he was pretty much back to normal psychologically, and hasn't shown any signs of problems in the years since. Heck, he actually somewhat can laugh at that situation now. A classmate who was attacked by a person with a bottle, had their arm beaten up something badly and lost some of their stuff. They came out of the situation a touch vindictive and were rather happy when the person was found, but other than that they were fine even in the longer term. Another person who has been attacked multiple times over the course of his life, and again, he's still totally okay (his only mental symptoms being the push that inspired his passion for ju-jitsu and led to becoming an instructor of it).

Again, it's a personal tolerance issue. Some people can walk through war zones and come out perfectly okay, while others are shattered by far less, and there is no shame in either.

I'll reiterate, my intention here is not to somehow lessen what happened or it's impact, my use of the terms I did was simply because I know people who have been put into the hospital for periods of time due to things like this, ("lesser"), and because it doesn't appear that this event has happened over a long period of time or repeatedly, ("isolated"). I simply would like to emphasize that, if Pisskop is one of those people who bounces back well from trauma (a cue that could be potentially drawn from the fact this was posted in the WTF thread instead of say, the sad thread, combined with the more calm/angry tone of their post) then there is no need for them to feel that they have to go see someone about PTSD and waste money that could be spent elsewhere (going rate for the diagnosis consultation alone in my area is about $80 at a minimum, which means about a week's worth of decent food money at the least, and scaling up harshly from there).

If they feel they need it, or they have money to spare, then by all means, go; as you mentioned, it can't really hurt you directly. But if they're one of those people on here who is scraping money for day to day (and I know there are several of them present on this forum) than they might want to consider how much help said treatment might actually provide before just immediately turning to treatment they may not need. (I do double suggest the police report though).
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112442 on: November 01, 2016, 07:16:35 pm »

Hmmwell yeah, I didn't mean he HAS to go to a shrink, I did mean it as advice only, although I admit I worded it somewhat imperatively.
Force of habit from being used to living in a country that has completely free healthcare. (Or at least used to have. Since about 10 years we have a 'personal risk fee' of up to 400 euros per year that you do have to pay back to the insurance company, in other words te first 400 euros of whatever medical care you need per year are not free, but that's bound to be scrapped again after next elections. Too many of our political parties are using it as clickbait for voters now to not be scrapped, that plus is hits chronically ill lower income patients disproportionally hard so it's just a bad thing). Basic healthcare includes 15 visits per year to a psychologist or psychiatrist. More if you get a diagnosis that requires specialist care.

But yeah, if you can afford it, it can't hurt. If you can't, well don't get into debt over it.

Our perception of how serious having a gun pointed at you is might also differ, because I live in a country where the vast majority of the population has never seen a real gun in their life and never will.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112443 on: November 01, 2016, 07:26:16 pm »

Our perception of how serious having a gun pointed at you is might also differ, because I live in a country where the vast majority of the population has never seen a real gun in their life and never will.
That is a fair difference from me living in the state where you don't even need a license to do concealed carry (though it's suggested) and most families go out shooting or hunting as their standard weekend pastimes. :P
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« Reply #112444 on: November 01, 2016, 07:50:40 pm »

Ugh! I keep getting sicker and sicker and sicker >_<
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112445 on: November 01, 2016, 08:24:18 pm »

Eat something wrong?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112446 on: November 01, 2016, 08:25:58 pm »

Ugh! I keep getting sicker and sicker and sicker >_<
Tell yourself "stop being sick"

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112447 on: November 01, 2016, 08:32:00 pm »

Eat something wrong?

Got a nasty ear infection that required two different anti-biotics (and still hurts... but likely because it is healing rather then because I am still infected)

Yet about halfway through I got a particularly bad virus at the same time... This one seems to be intensifying. In fact in spite having an ear infection for what? 11 days... I am having a hard time coming up with which was worse...
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112448 on: November 01, 2016, 10:10:05 pm »

Damn...
Your immune system sounds pretty stressed.
I now when my brother got an ear infection the pills he tad to take were crazy big.
Get well soon!
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112449 on: November 01, 2016, 10:24:46 pm »

Ugh! I keep getting sicker and sicker and sicker >_<
Tell yourself "stop being sick"

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112450 on: November 01, 2016, 11:19:03 pm »

Eeeh, I always get a :-\ feeling when I see the slang term 'shrink' being thrown around. (Maybe due to being influenced by highly awesome psychologists in my context...as that word sounds very crude)

Also along with Iam2roy's info--PTSD is also dependent on the time (albeit the symptoms and feelings are notably on a very similar level) given its acuteness and time period between the traumatic event and the timeline afterwards. Do put in mind that the event must be from something personally experienced rather than second-hand experience (and that if in second-hand observations, it's connected to an underlying cause). Always put the person's own context in mind. Internal factors such as how they handle what had happened and their thinking about it are also important (It also could show in how they react or express themselves about it)
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And when I say context, I mean the external stimulus and the person's thinking or response about it. The term 'trigger' came from the context of PTSD as far as I can write in brevity. :P
But yeah; timeframe is very important. It may possible not occur right after the event but in the time period after such.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112451 on: November 02, 2016, 06:45:58 am »

I laughed so hard that I almost pooped myself. I've laughed to the point of crying, but never that far before.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #112452 on: November 02, 2016, 06:49:31 am »

I laughed so hard that I almost pooped myself. I've laughed to the point of crying, but never that far before.
What happened?

E: I thought calling psychologists shrinks was like calling police officers cops. As opposed to calling them pigs, for example. Slangy, but not really malicious.
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« Reply #112453 on: November 02, 2016, 06:52:27 am »

Same.
I always saw Quack as the actual offensive term.
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« Reply #112454 on: November 02, 2016, 06:57:46 am »

Quack is good for anyone you don't respect, but usually in a medical field
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