Posts by redharbor9

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It’s not even rare, and honestly, whatever. But when I hear some woman acting like it’s totally fine to drop $100 on foundation or $500 on shoes (especially when she’s pulling in a $1167 salary) and then she has the nerve to whine about how expensive therapy is? I just don't get it. Zero empathy here. 🙂

Yeah, I'm with you on that... It’d be smart if therapists had two different gigs. One where they charge, say, $6.75/hour for actual therapy sessions, and another side hustle just to cover the bills, licensing fees, continuing ed, and groceries if there's anything left over...

dustygardener25 said:Most people in this country are scraping by on $3,000 a month, yet you think it's perfectly fine to charge a tenth of that for a single session? How many Americans can actually afford a psychiatrist at those rates? Should you be charging even more, too? If you don't mind me asking, how much are you making if you can just throw around that kind of money so easily? $100 For just one session? Maybe you don't even need a psychiatrist. It’s easy to act tough when you aren't the one dealing with the actual mess.

And how many people pay for skiing trips, manicures, or hair appointments?
How much time and cash does it take for a private shrink to become a luxury like that?

First off, a CT scan is just one way to look at the brain (or any body part). There are plenty of other tests, and they aren't all equal. Plus, you can't just wait in line for them forever... besides, automatically sending people in is both impossible and insanely expensive.

Second, when there’s actual suspicion of an organic issue—which is what gets flagged—that's when the testing starts. Usually, it goes to a psychologist first to rule out physical causes before moving forward...

But obviously, you'll still run into psychiatrists who just guess on an organic diagnosis based on a vibe.👎

Call it weird if you want, but it’s just a conscious choice you make before hitting the sack to control when you wake up. It sounds mystical or whatever, but I actually talked to a sleep expert who studied this at Harvard, and he told me straight up: there’s nothing magical or unexplainable about it. You just decide to set your internal clock, and it happens.

When I first started trying this, my routine was simple: right before bed, I'd just tell myself exactly how many hours I was going to sleep, or specifically what time I wanted to wake up. I didn't do it while watching TV or messing around; I did it the second I laid down, closed my eyes, and got ready to pass out.

Your body picks up on it crazy fast.

driftingcanyon16 said:It’s not about her being "convinced" of anything—she actually isn't getting enough sleep. I think she knows better than anyone whether she's exhausted or not. We can definitely talk about research, and honestly, I'm all ears if you have something interesting to share, but telling her she's just imagining things because you read some study somewhere feels like a bit much. Maybe instead of that, you could offer some tips on how to get more out of less sleep—you know, making it "quality" sleep? Right now, she hasn't figured that part out yet, and she's definitely running on empty... 🙂

Is this lack of sleep a subjective guess or a clinical finding?

The girl probably knows if she's sleep-deprived or not.

Obviously she knows. 🙂

We can debate the research—actually, I'm down to hear if you have anything interesting, but saying someone is imagining things just because you read some studies is overkill.

Where did I say she was imagining it just because I read research?
My take that she's making it up comes from that obsession with needing tons of sleep. In my years of experience dealing with this, it’s always the same story with people asking me how to sleep less or how I manage to function on 2-3 hours a night... Once they stop convincing themselves they need massive amounts of sleep or that they aren't sleeping enough, the whole problem vanishes...

Maybe you could give her tips on how to get "quality" sleep while sleeping less. Right now, she doesn't know how to do that and she's exhausted. 🙂

She already got that advice.
🙂
Instead of constantly repeating that she's tired, she should focus on how 5 hours will be plenty... Like, if she actually wants this, she needs to focus on how much sleep she'll get before hitting the pillow—specifically what time she plans to wake up. That forces the brain to compress REM cycles into that window and space them out so they finish right when she wakes up, letting her wake up naturally (which is why I haven't used an alarm clock in years). It results in total refreshment. She'll feel more rested than someone who slept 10 hours but got jerked awake mid-REM...

driftingcanyon16 said:🤦
What if you just stopped giving unsolicited advice?
Exhausting yourself by trying to "make up" for lost sleep... yeah, right. Like she's some spoiled kid who could just nap her way out of everything ☕

I'm not even giving advice...

Trying to make up for lost sleep... yeah, right. Such a spoiled brat, thinking she can just sleep her way out of it.☕

Yeah, she'd sleep more if she actually believed she was sleep-deprived... You want to go down the rabbit hole of actual sleep studies and the data behind it?🙂

bluewalker33 said:Like I said, I’ve got the hang of certain things by now and I've seen it all before, but the real issue is keeping up with these projects. You have to turn them in exactly on schedule or you lose points. It’s a lot when you're juggling multiple projects while trying to study for exams at the same time.

Anyway, I'm just trying to push through. Sometimes I’ll pull a five-hour night if something urgent comes up, other times I’ll try to make up for it and sleep eight hours. Hopefully, I can survive another six months of this torture, though I'm getting more high-strung by the day and honestly just counting down the days until it's over. If I had a boyfriend, maybe it would be a little easier—he'd help me chill out, but since I don't... 🙂

Look, if you’d stop obsessing over how you aren't sleeping enough and exhausting yourself by trying to "catch up," your life would actually be easier. You're basically manifesting your own problems by convincing yourself they exist.

bluemason3 said:Ever actually tried it?

Nah, but there’s plenty of research on it... even Quincy did it... and some painter who learned from him famously said he finally had all the time he wanted for painting.😍

There's an adjustment period too (usually about 2 weeks).

bluemason3 said:Not much to add here 🤣 though I find it hard to believe people just "can't find the time." Does that mean you're spending fifteen days a month just staring at a fax machine? 🤔

In my experience, long-term, you actually need less sleep if you go to bed earlier. Instead of grinding away—doing whatever, really—until 3 AM only to drag yourself up at 8, it’s better to hit the sack at 10 PM and wake up at 3.

I’ve heard some talk about polyphasic sleep experiments—breaking it up into chunks to save time—but I don't know much about it and haven't tried it myself. 🤔

I remember those days back when I was stuck at the office; everyone wondered how I pulled everything off. Most people just went from their desk to their car and still couldn't get anything done, yet I was juggling a massive workload, social life, and errands... and still crushed it.

Personally, I think people like that just waste way too much time overthinking about how they won't get things done...

I heard about some experiments with split sleeping—basically not doing it all in one go—and claims that you can save time that way, but I don't know anything about it and haven't tried it myself. 🤔

Polyphasic sleep... it works great if you can actually pull it off, but with how we live today, it's almost impossible to make it work.

Sleeping on 4 or 5 hours isn't dangerous, but crashing from 10 hours down to 5 overnight? That’s gonna be stressful. It's not life-threatening, just a shock to the system. You gotta taper it off gradually if you want it to stick. Most people claim they can't function without a full night's rest, but honestly, that's just nonsense. If you tell yourself you can't do it, you won't. It's all mental.

Also, you should definitely look into meditation. Start practicing it twice a day—once in the morning and once at night, maybe 20 minutes each session. It works wonders for recharging and actually cuts down how much sleep you need. I do it myself, and it's a game changer.

Of course he heard about it, but I think you're missing the point on why these "punishments" happen in the first place... I'm pretty sure we aren't seeing cases where parents do this to their kids just because they're straight and won't let them go out or take away their phones until they decide to be gay...

Look, I've spent years volunteering for the iskorakov online support group, and I'm still deep in those circles...

Truth or not, I’ve heard a ton of stories like this firsthand—not personally, obviously, but from people close to me. And honestly? Most of them are way darker and more twisted than what you're hearing here. This kind of stuff is just everyday life in America...

placidjackal36 said:Of course. This shouldn't even be up for debate. We’re talking about textbook examples of criminal behavior here. These aren't just "mistakes"—they fall squarely under criminal law, and they need to be handled with an iron fist, no compromises allowed. We already have perfectly functional tools for this: prison sentences and stripping people of their professional licenses. If someone betrays the very system that provides them with a paycheck, they shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a government job ever again. Period.

Honestly, even if they shut that hospital down—which they absolutely should if they’re actually guilty—the whole investigation would probably be a total mess. In a country that isn't as dysfunctional as the US, the federal government would have sent an investigative task force to audit every single psychiatric facility of that kind nationwide. That’s standard procedure, something you shouldn't even have to ask for. On top of that, every single staff member at that facility in Lopača should be sitting in a police interrogation room right now.
Look, if you lock up the doctor but let all the technicians walk free, you’ve achieved absolutely nothing. It’s a total farce. It’s like when some high-ranking commander gets convicted for war crimes, but the guys who actually pulled the trigger or got their hands dirty stay out on the street. Or better yet, think about it like catching the big boss of a crime syndicate but letting all his foot soldiers run the streets untouched. You haven't solved the problem; you've just removed the figurehead.

We need to go in there and wipe the slate clean. Total extermination. No half-measures, no playing nice, and absolutely no compromises. If you don't pull the trigger on the whole thing, you haven't actually done the job—you've just moved the problem around.

Is that psychiatrist even licensed? Because they absolutely should be.

Look, let’s be real here. This isn't some progressive, modern take on homosexuality. It’s just the mark of a bottom-tier psychiatrist and a total hack who doesn't know what they're talking about.

Hell no, he isn't. 🙂

driftinggull21 said:"Quote:"

Homosexuality was removed from the DSM years ago, yet even today, 90% of psychiatrists refuse to discuss anything beyond socially acceptable, politically correct talking points.

And everything changes at a snail's pace... I mean, when you hear stories about pediatricians telling parents that a kid's obvious eating disorder is just "a phase" or will fix itself, you can't even be surprised by this stuff anymore...

Personally, I'm convinced real change only happens when society actually shifts... which means we’re probably never moving forward.

Back to the point... I dealt with a case involving a minor where a psychiatrist (at some hospital in Chicago) decided they weren't gay just by looking at their facial features. They actually told the parents the kid was making it all up...

It’s not quite the same kind of aggression we’re debating here, but it’s a perfect example of how people view homosexuality these days...

placidjackal36 said:

Look, when I mentioned choking, I wasn't talking about her. I was using it as an example of how a non-aggressive patient who actually *wants* to be hospitalized (because of suicidal thoughts) gets handled... just an example of how things go down in our psych wards...

By the way, there was resuscitation too...
Well, just say it then. Look, at the end of the day, she’s got nothing to do with this. You’ve got to come out and say it right away, before people start making up their own versions of events. If you don't, sooner or later, those rumors just harden into what everyone accepts as the truth.

Look, I’ve said this before when it comes to resuscitation: suffocating someone is actually a pretty effective way to kill them. The media loves to paint CPR as this miraculous, high-success-rate miracle cure, but that's just not the reality. In practice, the number of people who actually pull through is incredibly small. And even among those who technically "come back," a significant chunk of them don't last very long anyway.
If patient neglect were actually widespread in our healthcare system, they’d probably just install a conveyor belt leading straight from the hospital beds to the cemetery.

Later on, my psychiatrist told my mom that when things get that intense, the technician is authorized to tighten the restraints—even if it means holding them until they can't breathe anymore, if that's what it takes to keep control.

If he actually said that, then he needs to lose his license immediately. He should be facing prison time right alongside those technicians. "Until death if necessary"... give me a break. It sounds like something a teenager would mutter while obsessing over some B-list action movie.

I haven't seen any posts from morbidangel lately. Anyone know where they went? kaže:
🙄
You’re acting surprised like some clueless bystander, but you probably still have those vivid descriptions of "life" inside a state psychiatric ward burned into your brain. I remember a user who went by dozens of different handles over the years—she was Dubravka, someone struggling with schizophrenia. Then there were all those other people on this thread who had varying degrees of contact with facilities like Bellevue or various state hospitals across the US. I specifically remember one guy who described his time there with such dark, biting humor; if anyone remembers which user he was and has a link to that old thread, please drop it here. A lot of these folks wrote about how the staff actually treats patients behind closed doors.👎👎👎👎👎

I’m not even surprised at this point. All I’m saying is these aren't just isolated incidents. At this rate, we're going to find out the entire hospital system is being run by Helga's nurses and Doctor Death's private militia.
And one case is still way too many, don't you think?

Jose Barrett said:Man, stay far away from politics, seriously. 🤣

Even a half-wit Democrat can see you're trying to sneakily pass off a lie as the truth.
Your technique is weak.
If you want to play this game, you'll need more practice.

Too bad you aren't the subject of this debate, so none of that matters. 🙂

placidjackal36 said:

Look, when I mentioned choking, I wasn't talking about her. I was using it as an example of how a non-aggressive patient who actually *wants* to be hospitalized (because of suicidal thoughts) gets handled... just an example of how things go down in our psych wards...

By the way, there was resuscitation too...
Well, just say it then. Look, at the end of the day, she’s got nothing to do with this. You’ve got to come out and say it right away, before people start making up their own versions of events. If you don't, sooner or later, those rumors just harden into what everyone accepts as the truth.

Look, I’ve said this before when it comes to resuscitation: suffocating someone is actually a pretty effective way to kill them. The media loves to paint CPR as this miraculous, high-success-rate miracle cure, but that's just not the reality. In practice, the number of people who actually pull through is incredibly small. And even among those who technically "come back," a significant chunk of them don't last very long anyway.
If patient neglect were actually widespread in our healthcare system, they’d probably just install a conveyor belt leading straight from the hospital beds to the cemetery.

Later on, my psychiatrist told my mom that when things get that intense, the technician is authorized to tighten the restraints—even if it means holding them until they can't breathe anymore, if that's what it takes to keep control.

If he actually said that, then he needs to lose his license immediately. He should be facing prison time right alongside those technicians. "Until death if necessary"... give me a break. It sounds like something a teenager would mutter while obsessing over some B-list action movie.

I haven't seen any posts from morbidangel lately. Anyone know where they went? kaže:
🙄
You’re acting surprised like some clueless bystander, but you probably still have those vivid descriptions of "life" inside a state psychiatric ward burned into your brain. I remember a user who went by dozens of different handles over the years—she was Dubravka, someone struggling with schizophrenia. Then there were all those other people on this thread who had varying degrees of contact with facilities like Bellevue or various state hospitals across the US. I specifically remember one guy who described his time there with such dark, biting humor; if anyone remembers which user he was and has a link to that old thread, please drop it here. A lot of these folks wrote about how the staff actually treats patients behind closed doors.👎👎👎👎👎

I’m not even surprised at this point. All I’m saying is these aren't just isolated incidents. At this rate, we're going to find out the entire hospital system is being run by Helga's nurses and Doctor Death's private militia.
Does my post even sound like I'm linking it to her? 🙂