You know how some medications numbs your emotions... so what happens if you're on those medications and you receive news of a close family member dying, do you like... not have any emotions over it?

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• Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Sometimes people don’t react emotionally to shocking news because they’re in shock. Surprising, right? It’s common enough that we named the phenomenon after it. So the part about the police suspecting you only applies if the cops are both idiots and inexperienced. Or fictional and poorly written.

  But yes, heavy/inadequate medication can numb people even to the most otherwise horrific events, which I sadly know from personal experience.

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• SarahFromOz@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So… do the cops just start suspecting you?

  Literally yes, they are not particularly great thinkers and work a lot from assumption.

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• deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So, it has finally come to this…

  Please, don’t murder your parents. Just moving out is good enough. :)

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    lmfao

    Nah I would use a throwaway if I was actually doing that. I said so much shit on this account that its very easy to deanonymize.

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• starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Let’s just say that when my kid badly hurt himself and I felt nothing I stopped taking Prozac.

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• Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Personal experience: yes, the medication they put me on when i was suicidal and stayed at a psychiatric ward numbs you emotionally, which would also mean that the emotional response to awful news is very muted. I did not feel nothing, but it’s a bit like the effect of noise cancelling headphones, but for emotions.

  I was not happy about that at that time, but it made functioning and working in therapy a hell of a lot easier compared to the dumpster fire of emotions i had to deal with before that.

  And everyone reacts differently to bad news - damn, when my sister was in an car accident where she got pretty hurt, her first reaction was to laugh her ass off, and then hurling abuse at the medics during the whole ambulance ride.

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• northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In the right dosage the idea is to keep you from going into overdrive from the news, in my experience taking them. It’s to lower your baseline, not killll it all. It’s not a lobotomy.

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• Paragone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Correct about being dead-inside, on some of those chemicals.

  Mind-you, sometimes medication is the currently-right-answer, but I find psychiatry’s devotion to a perpetually-medicated population to be the wrong paradigm.

  IF medication’s required, THEN can it be made to be not required, in the future, through engineered-healing, somehow??

  That isn’t how Western medicine worked, when I was engaging with it ( I’m autistic, then a brain-injury survivor, & spent much of many days catatonic, for years, late last century ).

  When you’re zonked on their drugs, though, you’re zonked, & it affects you consistently-enough that good cops’ll figure-out that you’re medically-drugged probably without even having to ask.

  I remember seeing a newspaper photo of an arrested murderer-suspect, & immediately thought: zonked on antidepressant ______ … & then when I read the article, yeah, they were.

  Going up against neurological-damage … COSTS one, but … depends on the person, you know?

  Some’d rather die than live drugged ( me ), & others just want life to be easier…

  Please understand this, though: alcohol & marijuana both can produce the same result.

  There used to be a subreddit called r/leaves which was people who wanted to be living again, instead of deadened the way THC does…

  ( & all the people who pretend that THC “helps” autism, no, it hides the symptoms it doesn’t help reduce the problem and they don’t care: marijuana-cult is a cult, as I was forced to learn, some years ago )

  It isn’t only pharmaceuticals which produce the effect you’re asking about…

  hell, sometimes trauma can obliterate a person’s emotional-functioning!

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• j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  :::spoiler This assumes truth exists or that cops care about right or wrong, or that what a cop believes is relevant.

  First of all, cops are data collectors in this dimension. Nothing about right or wrong matters with them. They are not judges. You need to be very aware of this, and when they can kill you. You must know when to do exactly as they say, and exactly when to tell them no. In every other circumstance stfu and say absolutely nothing. When a cop is copping, you are a lump of solder. Talking is heat. Once stuck to copper, there is no going back. The rest is only up to the judge and jury. You will need to spend around $100k in any case in court. If you do not have this money to burn, you are fucked. The blindness of justice in the now, is the blindsiding of those that do not understand how court is a major burier of caste. TV shows project the diluted nonsense about philosophical morality, but it is not really like that at all. There is not someone that will fight for you for free. The pedantic language is inaccessible to most, and the convoluted rules are a nonsensical patchwork of hacks and stupid mistakes that are a minefield to navigate. Part of the mistake is to think those mines are ignorance or unintentional. Most are not passive but active with corrupt interests holding the trigger for each one. They lie, watching your every move, hoping to pull the trigger and kill for kicks and giggles. The USA has a tenth of the laws on the books as a country like Germany. That is extremely intentional. The ambiguity is the minefield.

  Inherited wealth caner cannot lead, cannot innovate, and hates any who can as the biggest threat to their existence and hegemony. The cancer doubles back, talks about fuckwit nonsense like morality of the populous to hide their own ineptitude from self. Their era feels stagnant, like some final state of progress because of their lack of leadership. Is the age of scientific discovery complete? Is biology a fully understood engineering corpus broken into code one programs with complete understanding?

  The reason crime shows exist is manipulative in nature. These are owned by the bunker island cuck cancer. Nothing they offer you is legitimate or benevolent, especially any influence of emotions and perspective philosophy.

  Nothing about your attitude or state is relevant to the cops. Any information they are able to collect and spin is fair game. It benefits them when they sell a story. They are in the business of selling stories. They are not supposed to do so. They are supposed to be indifferent and collect all the possible data. That is not reality. Humans are lazy and time is artificially pressured for results. The path of least resistance is always taken. They cover their own ass at the edge of the minefield, but they laugh and cackle in the entourage at the edge of the minefield too.

  In reality, court is a meaningless formality and financial warfare by proxy. You must be willing and able to spend more than the enemy, and to doing so result in your own advantage. This is the only function it plays. The way it works is simple. Each expert witness will cost you between $5k-$20k. These are all academic mercenaries. Most are unable to practice in their field for likely criminality gone unpunished. They are experts in what to say in their respective legal domain and hold the credentials in tack to go unchallenged. Right and wrong are totally irrelevant. These argue anything you would like for their fee and will do so in a way that holds considerable sway, especially if unanswered, and herein lies the swindle. For every legal expert the enemy conjures, you must respond in kind or you will lose. It does not matter what a judge or jury thinks. No one will sit on your case and front the $100k. You must pay the attorney for weeks of real work before each stage of the case goes before a judge. Some may float these funds for you, if the work load is small. The problem is that how the case unfolds is unknown. They are at risk of all that unpaid work, which will likely be under valued by all in the end. They have likely been burned by this many times before. So they are not going to fight a dozen mercenaries for you by themselves. If you are unable to equip your forces and march them into battle lord, perhaps it be better to sell self to thy enemy, lest one ends up in a federated homeless camp halfway unhouse. The for profit prison slave market beckons you to believe there is philosophical justice. Ignorance is grooming of slaves. Their pay is extortion from your family.

  Extortion and privateering are the only reliable means for those of the nepotism of inherited wealth cancer to maintain their hierarchical standing. They have no vision of the future to sell in their actions beyond lies and words. They are cowards of conservatism.

  Police are the dogs of the regime; judges are the many guards outside the royal court. Their primary job is to stop you from getting behind them and into the royal ranks. There is no idealist shortcut to paying the tolls and bribes required to penetrate their ranks.

  One of the biggest barriers is insurance. They get a bulk discount on experts in large numbers. They are some of the most powerful lords of the realm. You will not field a larger army of more criminal and experienced mercenary raiders. Besting one of them is a heist of considerable undertaking. All of us are taxed to the cause of these lords by royal decree for a reason.

  What is shown on TV is simply a curtain on a stage in front of a prison camp. How you react is irrelevant. Saying exactly what is required, complying exactly when required, and saying absolutely nothing else is all that matters. The idea that your emotional state is relevant to the dogs is preposterous. That your emotional state is feed for them to tear and gnaw as some kind of right is propagandistic misinformation. :::

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