Apytele
@Apytele@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 2 days ago:
Or if it’s a complete program for a profession like nursing or medicine, you wake up when the professors damn well say you do.
- Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? 1 week ago:
More of a cycle, I would argue. Part of the rise and fall of empires or whatever.
- Comment on Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago? 1 week ago:
“They used to sell gladiator sweat as a beauty treatment, they would sell it in souvenir pots.”
“It’s the worst of me … I never do pay my bills. Have been so from a child!”)
TLDR; no we’ve pretty much always been unhinged.
- Comment on Makes sense to me 1 week ago:
I read a book a while back that was called a “guide to mating” or something that was actually pretty decent and included some very objectively anthropological / sociological explanations of why if you’re ugly you better at least be a good person.
- Comment on can't unsee it 2 weeks ago:
Average in a way I wouldn’t normally have chosen if I hadn’t gotten over my weird hangups.
- Comment on can't unsee it 2 weeks ago:
(as an aside before I start this comment, me and my partner are both exceptionally blunt on all accounts)
I’ve mentioned to my partner before that he’s not the kind of attractive I expected to wind up with, but that I’m pretty sure most of that is rooted in daddy issues, so it’s probably for the best.
I’ve also told my partner that when he makes that very specific devious chuckle (that deep genuine one it’s hard to fake like when I send him a really good meme) sometimes I can feel my vagina make a little sploosh of goo.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
As an inpatient Psych nurse yeah the previous generations are, as a whole, wildly mentally ill, you just either made do or got locked up somewhere or other, and possibly also got beat, asphyxiated, or otherwise abused / neglected to death. This whole thing where we care about whether or not people with profound mental illness die is fairly new and yet somehow also rapidly fading. Not looking forward to what the Medicaid cuts are about to do to the modern mental health system. I’m just praying that it damages the insurance companies (in my state they get a cut of the funds for each Medicaid recipient by “being responsible” for “managing care”) but I’m not optimistic.
- Comment on true friend 2 weeks ago:
Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
- Comment on some o y'all 3 weeks ago:
I think I read somewhere that there are accounts of people complaining that learning to write would reduce students ability to memorize things. It’s up there with old timey accounts of people complaining how the kids act these days and all the penises drawn on the walls of Pompeii on my list of ways humans hadn’t fundamentally changed in the past 100,000 years. Other examples include:
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the amount of really freaky porn that’s in the Bible
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some graffiti that was found in the rafters of an old Norse building that says something to the effect of “Olaf was here.”
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Horrifyingly dangerous Historical beauty trends
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- Comment on I can fix her 3 weeks ago:
One of the medical clinic nurses at the state Psych hospital I worked at would give any patient a condom if they asked and not tell anyone. Like. It was known to administration and it was one of her official responsibilities to do so, but she would not reveal who she gave them to or keep any records. We would absolutely stop them if we caught them but you can’t always catch people before they make a wholeass new person.
- Comment on I can fix her 3 weeks ago:
Men love BPD chicks because we’ll be obsessed with them and could suck the paint off a trailer hitch but they act all shocked when they realize they need Steve Irwin level animal handling skill to not get their face chewed off and that they might just get speared to death anyway.
- Comment on Man, I hate it when this happens! 3 weeks ago:
It’s my signifier since gender means so little to me.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 4 weeks ago:
I say this to every coworker who asks why I have a car I rarely drive. It’s honestly just less stressful to commute that way. Idgaf about the weirdos at the bus stop for the most part. 90% of them are high or drunk af passed out cleanly. Every once in a while I have to nudge them out of the way to sit but that’s not usually an issue they just grunt and shift and they’re usually too shitfaced to move in their sleep once they’re out again. One is a lady who is always drunk af but awake and basically just uses the bus stop as a people watching spot and tells me neighborhood drama. There’s a pair of northerners who are polite in a northerner way. There were a brother and sister who were sleeping there for a month but last I heard she found a job and I wished them luck and haven’t seen them since. I’ve had a few really good philosophical conversations. One was a guy who had gotten his phone stolen and we chatted about the positive effects of increased mindfulness of the day to day and not being constantly observed and reachable by both your personal contacts and the faceless corporations. I got bothered by one guy but groundskeepers were hanging kinda close and the admins pass me on their way from their cars into the building I haven’t seen him since so either the facility took care of it or the other inhabitants did. Sometimes I talk, sometimes I just eat my Bacon and biscuit from the cafeteria and drink some tea. I’m trying to listen my way through the Bible just to know what’s in it. Right now I’m listening to the long long list of shit you’re not allowed to do while living in an aggressive war tribe in tents the desert like shitting too close to camp or having sex that doesn’t make more babies to keep fighting the other tribes. The cadence is weirdly chill almost seussian.
- Comment on Welcome to petty lane 4 weeks ago:
If it’s a 2 lane per side road the best way to get them to pass you is to not break check them but just take your foot off the gas until they get frustrated enough to just go around but this contextually sounds like a single lane sitch which you are correct is dangerous.
- Comment on Lizards in space math 4 weeks ago:
In Psych we only have limits on the what.
- Comment on Lizards in space math 4 weeks ago:
This is what it’s like being a psych nurse talking to an ICU nurse. It’s the difference between
You put what WHERE???
and
The patient put what WHERE???
- Comment on Anon has a warning for incels 4 weeks ago:
Seems like a good time to bring up that I just created !DIYMentalHealth@lemmy.dbzer0.com.
- Comment on science 4 weeks ago:
yummy yummy pseudomonas…
- Comment on science 4 weeks ago:
cancer. It’s literally cancer.
- Comment on Enough is enough 5 weeks ago:
Legit have had paranoid patients making shivs or trying to start floods or fires and barricading their doors soap or lotion themselves up. The barricading has never been an issue because most places I’ve worked have had swingstop doors but extracting them without getting them or us hurt always fucking sucks. Usually someone who’s spent time in the correctional system doing stuff like that with the soap or lotion but one dude was a combat veteran. That suuucked.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Well. Emotional swings like that can occur as part of a manic episode specifically. Mania just means the emotions come faster than usual, not that they’re good. Ppl w mania are actually frequently extremely angry, usually because they’re going a million miles an hour and don’t understand why everyone else won’t just keep. tf. up.
But yeah if op has always just been like that consistently without any ebb and flow over month’s / years then yes it points more towards a thought disorder. I used to have a really cool infographic from a textbook on the differential dx between borderline, bipolar, and adhd since they can all have very similar presentations or even just be comorbid in certain patients.
- Comment on Vibe 5 weeks ago:
Psych patients actually do this a lot. Some places I’ve worked actually have protocols for it that include stuff like having the bathroom locked and only unlocked for supervised use, or having the water only be cut on when the contents of the toilet have been verified (also helpful to have water shutoffs for psychogenic polydipsia because they WILL drink their way into a hyponatremic seizure and they dgaf if it’s from a toilet) but also for the flushing usually they’re limited to one set of clothes and bed linens, one towel / washcloth, and have to ask for small quantities of toilet paper as needed. Then they yell at you about having to ask you use the bathroom like they didn’t flood the unit the unit three nights in a row. Motivations vary but the most common is wanting to feel in control of something and it can be difficult to try to find safe things for that kind of person to be allowed control over.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
A marriage is a mutual responsibility of the people in it and no one else. Only those two people are even capable of upholding the promises they made to each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Probably not, it depends on what you did. I can (almost) guarantee it was one of two situations though:
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it wasn’t actually that bad.
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If it was bad enough that you did manage to actually grievously harm or even kill someone, you were almost definitely put in a situation / given access to something no sane adult should or would have ever allowed a 6 year old child to have access to (such as a gun, or being in a position to knock someone off a cliff).
As for your current everyday life, I need you to understand that an inferiority / guilt complex is in itself a burden on everyone around you. I once dated a guy with a similar guilt complex and he was impossible to deal with because I kept having to constantly shore up his self esteem for him.
If you really want to do something that benefits other people, start by working on yourself and your self esteem. You may be able to try self-help books, videos, personal mantras, etc, but if you’re not making any headway with those you likely need professional therapy. You are no good to anyone (and even a bit of a drag), if you continue on with this mindset.
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- Comment on Anon dances with the devil in the pale moonlight 2 months ago:
memory care for my generation is gonna be a breeze. give me chicken nuggets and fries and tell me work called me off and they just updated tamriel rebuilt again.
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- Comment on In songs sung in English, a word ending with "t" followed by "you" sometimes makes the "you" sound like "chew". Does this happen in other languages with different words/sounds? 2 years ago:
