Lawrence Robinson11 said:And don't even get me started on how I can barely miss even one month!
hehe, kind of like us psych majors... oh wait... does that actually mean my major is hard?? 😬
anyway... I honestly think they have a pretty sweet social standing (way better than some other professions, for sure)
but man, let me tell you a story about this one doctor—who happens to be my doctor, though not for very long anymore so basically, this woman CANNOT write. Like, she writes in such an extreme, ultimate, totally unreadable way that if you weren't sitting right there in her exam room hearing her say something like "you'll be getting some Tylenol," you wouldn't have a clue what the prescription said. Every single time, the ladies at the CVS pharmacy lose their minds and they always end up asking me, "Is this really Tylenol or what?" Well, one day I'm just waiting in line, and this super angry guy storms up to the nurse's station demanding to see the doctor. He starts yelling right in her face, telling her she's illiterate and needs to actually learn how to write (which, let's be real, she probably should since her handwriting is straight-up hieroglyphics) and demands she write him a new script and a referral. (Of course, the pharmacy staff had already sent him away because they couldn't read it either). Naturally, the doctor took it super personally because—and I am quoting her here—“she studied for ten whole years, so how dare he suggest she can't write when she graduated from medical school!" She refused to give him the new script, so she called security (the guy was being a bit aggressive), then security called the cops, and eventually, they all sort of reached a compromise to just give him the new prescription.
But seriously, the woman absolutely cannot write. Yeah... it was honestly wild watching her insist that her writing is perfectly legible and that she's literate just because she finished med school, and then refuse to write anything more clearly just because SHE GRADUATED FROM MEDICAL SCHOOL. God help us with doctors like that!
tinitrus said:I don’t know about you guys, but I’m starting to get this nagging feeling that psychotherapy is becoming kind of a lost cause lately, like we're all just spinning our wheels! It honestly feels like for most people struggling with mental health issues, the real heavy lifting is being done by prescription meds, just letting time pass, and leaning on your buddies to vent to when everything is falling apart.
Sometimes you're stuck in this total limbo where meds just aren't cutting it—either they’re way too much to handle or they simply don't do a damn thing for you—and then there's the whole issue of time, which either feels like it's moving way too slow or we just straight-up don't have enough of it to spare! And let's be real, sometimes you don't even have a close friend to lean on when things get heavy. So, what the heck are you actually supposed to do when everything hits the fan at once?! Look, I’m telling you, it’s not that psychotherapy itself is some kind of dead end or a total waste of time—it’s just that we’re dealing with some seriously subpar, low-quality therapy out there! Honestly, it’s all about those undertrained and undereducated therapists who clearly didn't put in the work to actually get their credentials straight. It’s not the practice that’s broken, it’s just that some people out there aren't nearly qualified enough to be doing this job properly! Honestly, I’d take a licensed psychotherapist over a friend any day of the week! At least a therapist actually went to school and knows what they're doing, whereas friends? Man, sometimes they can honestly mess things up way more than if they had just stayed out of it entirely!
Honestly, it’s kind of wild how much the whole psychotherapy scene has opened up lately! It feels like everyone and their mother is getting involved in it now—I mean, you’ve got psychologists, licensed social workers, educators, and even philosophers jumping into the mix! I was just thinking about how widespread this is, like, even over in Italy or something, where the professional lines seem to get all blurred and everyone is trying their hand at mental health support. It’s definitely a bit of a crowded field these days, isn't it?
I mean, let’s be real, almost everyone has a little bit of that therapist energy buried inside them, you know? Like, we all give advice and try to help our friends through their drama, even if most people aren't actually out there practicing professionally. But honestly, you just can't put psychologists on the same level as educators or social workers. It's just a totally different ballgame! Honestly, let’s be real here—it doesn't matter how prestigious or top-tier a psychotherapy school is, there is absolutely zero chance they’re gonna open their doors to a philosopher. It's just not happening!
If that's the case, then what's even the point of sending psychiatrists to med school?
I mean, look, psychiatrists are literally there to fix a broken brain, right? We’re talking about actual chemical imbalances or maybe some weird physical growth messing everything up, which is exactly why people start acting out or perceiving things totally differently than everyone else. So, like, how is medicine even supposed to help with that? I mean, they’re basically digging around inside people's heads and messing with their neurons—if anyone actually needs medical intervention, it’s definitely them!
And honestly, it feels like psychiatrists these days are suddenly experts on absolutely everything, right?! It’s like every time something happens in the news, they’re immediately summoned to some TV studio to give their "professional" take, and they swear they have a deep, psychological explanation for literally every single thing that goes down!
Ugh, you already know exactly how this plays out! It’s always the same old routine where some reporter from a major network like CNN calls him up, and would he be down to sit for an interview? Of course he is! This guy lives for the spotlight and basically treats every interview as a chance to run a massive self-promotion campaign. He’ll just breeze through a quick summary of the topic, rattle off a list of his latest books, and then spend the rest of the segment acting like he’s the smartest person in the room. It's honestly such a predictable circus! You know how it goes—they’ll go out of their way to track down some actual expert who spends every waking hour working in that exact field just to get the real scoop!
So, I gotta ask you guys—do you actually trust them? Honestly, I’m sitting here scratching my head wondering if anyone else feels this way, because I am seriously on the fence!
Honestly? Not really. If I had to count on one hand—and I’m being generous here—I could probably name maybe two psychiatrists out of the whole lot that I actually trust. You know, the kind of people where I wouldn't mind handing over my entire brain to them or even trusting them to prescribe a medication without feeling like I'm playing Russian roulette with my own neurons! 😁
Arthur Anderson49 said:On paper, I wouldn't give this movie a single cent, but honestly, it actually caught me off guard in the best way possible.
Well, personally, even in real life, I wouldn't drop five bucks on this one..
I just couldn't get sucked into the story at all... total zero on the emotion scale for me.. It felt like just a massive pile of old tropes and a million cliché setups I've seen a thousand times before.. And don't even get me started on how they constantly try to force the audience into tears by playing "What a Wonderful World"...ugh.
Like, I remember sobbing my eyes out watching Amélie, for instance. I don't know, man, it just didn't click for me. Even having the legendary Brad Pitt in it couldn't save the flick or make it worth pushing through to the end. I mean, I've seen him in much better roles too... though hey, he is over 40 now!
Honestly, I wasn't really feeling this movie at all
The beginning was actually decent enough Like, death just shows up out of nowhere—boom! And honestly, Brad Pitt totally nails that role where he's just this super confused guy—I think he did a great job with it.
But man, that ending? It was absolutely nauseating..
I mean, nobody actually realizes that Joe is Death and that he's there specifically for Bill, yet everyone is just sobbing and saying their goodbyes to him.. give me a break... please don't tell me I'm supposed to guess—it's not like they actually sensed he was about to kick the bucket...🙄
And then you get to the end where that guy whose body Joe/Death took recovers, and then there's that one moment where he gets hit by a car and dies, only to suddenly find himself in a tuxedo on some lawn at a party... and my first thought is, "Okay, let me go flirt with some hot girl nearby." And boom, they fall in love instantly (well, they already fell in love back at the cafe) and they just act completely normal, like absolutely nothing insane just happened.. Aha, sure thing..🙄
And the woman, good grief.. if she had actually followed them.. it's like it never even crossed her mind (if she actually sensed her dad was dying—because that final scene where she's wailing and dancing with her dad felt less like "I'm crying because my boyfriend left" and more like "I'm crying because these are our last moments together with Dad") to just leave Joe right where he is and go check on her old man.... nope, she's got a new boyfriend to deal with instead...😵 Then, to top it all off, she tells the guy at the end, "I wish you could have met my father"—seriously, lady!!.. your dad is dead.. go find his body.. call the paramedics-- DO SOMETHING. Or is she going to spend more time showing off to the guests with her new beau (who, by the way, just undergoes a total makeover in clothes and setting and carries on like nothing ever happened)
And the scenes are just so incredibly dragged out.. they'll have the two of them staring at each other, and the camera will linger on one for 15 seconds, then the other for 20, then back to the first, then the second.. seriously, JUST GET ON WITH IT ALREADY
I've definitely seen better and "more emotional" movies than this.
jadesailor14 said:Dr. Slaven Bilić mentioned that they record every single surgery so patients can actually get a CD of their own procedure.
Oh please... as if I’d want to watch that and then immediately feel the urge to go out and end it all!
Honestly, my dream would be to just knock me out, let me wake up in some heavy, drug-induced haze while my eye heals, and then have everything back to totally normal—zero issues, zero glitches, zero stitches, and absolutely zero memories of the actual surgery ever happening.
And like, "here's a recording of the gore," yeah, okay, maybe tomorrow.
I'd honestly rather just shove silicone directly into my eyeballs than deal with watching that... once my prescription hits -12, then maybe I'll consider it.
Seriously though, I remember watching a surgery on TV once... there was this one part where he was working on those incisions and I just started sobbing uncontrollably—like, full-on Niagara Falls tears because he was pulling out tiny little pieces of tissue. evo now just typing this out is making me tear up all over again... 😳
jadesailor14 said:She was on TV showing the actual surgery footage along with this super detailed breakdown of everything happening. It’s honestly pretty wild to watch. And it definitely makes me lean towards saying "nope, I'm good" 😁
Wait, seriously? How does it even work??
I haven't really had the chance to see what they actually do Or rather, I'm not even sure if what I saw before was an actual "laser eye surgery" thing or just some other eye procedure... but man, it looked absolutely terrifying (it was on some German channel, so uh... yeah, I had zero clue what they were rambling about).
Like, do they just peel back the cornea, blast it with a laser, and then just patch it all back up? Do they use stitches? I can't even begin to imagine how weird your eye feels after something like that—if a single eyelash falls in there, it feels like a freaking scratchy nightmare! Imagine if there were actual stitches or if they were cutting things around in there.
Some people are trying to convince me that you don't even have to peel back the cornea part...
I am totally on the same page as restlesspanther1... Seriously, same thing here I find myself just wandering around looking at everything instead of actually picking up the phone to call someone... but honestly, when it comes to texting or being online, I’m totally fine with that kind of communication, you know? It works for me!
But over the phone? No way, absolutely not.
I think I’ve finally figured out why it's like this for me—it's because I constantly struggle to put exactly what's in my head into actual spoken words, which is so frustrating! So, like, if I say something like
"I really want a pizza right now," and then I realize the person on the other end sounds confused or didn't quite catch my drift, I can easily just add more detail to clear things up... but on the phone, I just end up getting completely flustered and muddled every single time. 😢
That’s probably why my prepaid plan from Verizon$33 lasts me like three whole months, because I always wait until the very last$1.75 "Your account balance expires in 3 days. Please top up using a voucher."😉 notification pops up before I deal with it!
Look, methadone might actually be a decent way to kick things off when you're starting the whole detox process... but honestly? That’s just the calm before the storm. Once you get through the initial detox phase, that's when the real nightmare truly begins...
So, let me try to break this down for you, even though I’ve always been pretty terrible at explaining stuff
Basically, you’ve got two different worlds when it comes to psychoactive substances The legal ones—think things like tobacco, alcohol... or even prescription meds if you're using them exactly how they're supposed to be used And then there's the illegal stuff (marijuana, coke, heroin, LSD, etc.)
See, once you start messing with the illegal side of things, you've basically crossed over to the other side of the law. You start hanging out with people who are also smoking weed, and then eventually, you might feel like trying something new, and boom... there you go
It’s really just about the vibe; when you're drinking, you're still "on this side" of society, and you aren't lumped in with the "junkies" But once you move into marijuana territory, you’ve stepped onto "that side," and I guess that's where you end up staying
I mean, there are all sorts of psychological processes and reasons behind it and everything else too There are entire books written about this stuff, and honestly, I don't think I could ever tackle the whole thing in just one post
Plus, if you're the type of person who naturally leans toward using substances—whether it's booze or actual drugs—just to feel better or calm your nerves, then frankly, it doesn't matter if you start with weed or a beer. There's a huge chance you'll both end up in the exact same place
I mean, that’s what I was saying... just because I saw how someone overdosed in a movie doesn't mean I fall into that category of people who have never picked up a book in their entire lives! One single leaf doesn't make a whole spring, right? And just because I watched a scene in a flick doesn't make me some absolute idiot, which is kind of what you guys are implying here.
Even back then, I didn't actually get the point of what happened... but later on, everything finally clicked for me.
And honestly, I'm not the type of person who just swallows everything served up in those American movies... but in Pulp Fiction, Vincent bought some stuff (coke, right?) and the dealer warned him that while the stuff he had was pure, the stash his buddy was holding wasn't, and then he ended up overdosing... It's not like the situation is impossible or totally disconnected from real life. Sometimes, even in movies, they actually portray certain things relatively realistically.
Haha, okay, I guess I finally realized you guys are all buddies... what I was trying to get at is that even little kids know that whole scene is total garbage, including stuff like 0.05% heroin Or honestly, pretty much anything else—even coffee! You could take some burnt crust, tint it brown, slap an "aroma of coffee" label on it, and sell it as premium beans😛
I actually first saw how shady this stuff gets in Pulp Fiction😁 like, that's when it clicked for me that they basically mix it with everything under the sun
Then, once I got to college, my professors wouldn't stop lecturing us about it... but yeah, the movie was definitely my first real wake-up call😁
Joe@ said:So you're speaking from experience here, huh?😕 😁
Well, honestly, you don't actually need hands-on experience to know this stuff...
I mean, it's just common knowledge that there are different grades of heroin, ranging from high purity to the really low-quality junk, just like pretty much any other drug out there. I haven't a clue if anyone is even taking anything at 100% purity, or what kind of tiny micron amounts we're talking about before it just straight up kills you on the spot.
Like, hellooo, I totally get the concept, even though I've never even laid eyes on actual heroin in my life!
I haven't exactly sat down and read every single tiny detail of this thread but basically, heroin works by messing with how certain neurotransmitters get released and reabsorbed... which, honestly, is pretty much how all psychoactive stuff works and how almost everything happens inside our brains, right?
That whole entire process where neurotransmitters zip back and forth between two neurons is—if you ask me—a super delicate balancing act. I mean, we’re talking about such microscopic little molecules that I honestly can't wrap my head around how it even works at all, or how the whole system doesn't just totally crash when you mess with your head, but clearly, it works well enough since we're all here living our lives and stuff... Anyway, getting back to the point... using heroin for a longer stretch, or let's just say using it more regularly, is definitely going to leave some kind of mark on that balance and the actual structures within those neurons. So, I really do think those consequences stick around for a loooooooong, looooooooong time after you finally quit. The longer you've been on it or the more frequent your usage, the bigger the fallout is going to be, logically speaking.
But check this out—heroin doesn't actually hit your motor skills directly (unlike, say, alcohol or those MDA derivatives like ecstasy and all that crap). Instead, it acts as a psychodepressant. So, if you find yourself struggling to move or feeling totally wiped out, it’s because you're just incredibly drowsy, not because your motor neurons are being directly hijacked. What heroin really wrecks, though, is your mood—or, to put it simply, your emotions. So, the main side effects that jump to mind for me would be regarding changes in mood and feelings, and we're talking potentially heavy shifts there. I know, I know, I should have probably known the names of all those specific neurotransmitters that every drug hits... but seriously, who in their right mind would memorize all that? I can't give you the technical names and all that. But what I *do* remember is that heroin hits those brain structures incredibly hard—way more intensely than a lot of other substances. Because of that, even a relatively short period of use (like maybe 6 months, once a week) can cause wayyyyyyyy more negative damage than someone using marijuana once a week for 6 months. It isn't called the toughest drug for nothing—I guess.
So, to wrap it all up... yeah, it damages specific structures in certain neurons. The longer and more often you use, the more trashed those structures become, and that makes recovery (assuming recovery is even possible after a while) take much, much longer.
Oh, and just to clarify that "certain neurons" part... I don't want anyone thinking it's fine just because you still have billions of other neurons left. Nope, it doesn't work like that! Not all neurons are interchangeable. When heroin hijacks those specific connections, there isn't some built-in backup plan waiting to save you. You just end up with busted neurons, and you're stuck living with that.
Charles Young said:Cannabis can actually be super effective at knocking down OCD symptoms, and it’s even used in pill form right here in the United States and plenty of other places too.
Hey, don't take this as me being provocative or anything, so feel free to just hit up Google if you want to look up the actual facts.
Oh my god, please just shut it and seriously never say something like that again because that kind of talk is exactly what gets people banned on forums like this.
Look, let's get real: marijuana is an illegal drug. Just because you guys are smoking it every single day and acting like it's the most normal thing in the world doesn't mean you can just go around recommending it to everyone else!
Just because you take one little hit and feel relaxed for a split second doesn't mean you're actually managing your condition—and let's not forget that obsessive-compulsive disorder falls under psychology, meaning it's officially classified as a medical disorder. Trying to DIY your way through this with drugs is honestly just going to lead you straight toward addiction in your misguided attempt to help yourself.
Oh man, fungus... those things seriously almost took me out
Anyhow.. I’ve basically tried every single thing on the market to fight off yeast infections.. just like you have. When nothing else was working, I went full "alternative medicine" mode. I was soaking cotton swabs in entire lines of dairy products from brands like Lactacyd and shoving them inside.. then garlic, all sorts of herbs, oils, blah blah blah.. I also cut my carbs down to what I could barely tolerate. And guess what? I was stuck in this constant cycle of fungal inflammation for like four straight years.
Anyhow, then this year I changed my doctor, Ginić, and this new lady prescribed me some Itraconazole tablets. The plan was to take two in the morning and two at night, once a month, for six months. + I kept up with that low-carb diet too (I totally cut out sugar.. chocolate is gone, and I really scaled back on ice cream, pastries, and sweets, plus bread, pasta, rice, and potatoes were kept to an absolute minimum.) And honestly? I have to admit, I feel so much better.. I finished that six-month treatment course two months ago, and so far, zero signs of fungus. + Plus, I stopped taking all those birth control pills (which I actually had to take because of PCOS) that were definitely helping trigger and maintain the whole fungal mess.. At this point, I’m telling everyone they can take my ovaries out for all I care, but I am never going back on those pills again because my abdominal cysts were starting to get out of hand.
Sooo... I’m looking at a $3,000 laparoscopic gallbladder surgery... and the hospital is, uh, I think it's St. Jude's?
The thing is, my mom used to be a nurse working right alongside these doctors for over 40 years... so if she isn't giving them the thumbs up to go ahead and do things by the book, then honestly, I don't know who we can trust!
(Also, just as a little side note because I have to say it) She actually went in for a liver ultrasound and a bunch of other tests recently, and the results explicitly stated her gallbladder is perfectly fine—which makes sense since she already had it removed six years ago. Anyway, that's the lowdown on the doctors.