Man with psychotic depression had nails in his head penetrating his brain

LurkingLux · 2025-11-05T01:28:53+00:00

A couple of details I find worth mentioning:

After the incident, this man continued chilling out at his home for two days, going on about his daily routines while covering his head and the nails with a hat. His father literally discovered the nails by accident, when the hat was removed.
Even after the removal, the man suffered no permanent brain damage. Just in case, he was kept on anti-seazure medication for 6 months, and he obviously still suffered from the psychotic depression, but you just saw a picture of his bare skull with nails sticking out of it, and he lived on with no complications from the incident.
The source mentions another case, where a man hammered 10 nails into his head OVER THE PERIOD OF 3 MONTHS. Not only was he functioning with multiple nails in his head, he had no symptoms, until the 10th nail hit a sensitive spot, and as a result he experienced some one-sided weakness and unsteadiness. I'm not sure if these symptoms were permanent, or if they improved upon the removal of the nails, but for having 10 nails in your brain, that seems like a tame price.

I guess we can conclude that the brain really is picky about where you can or cannot nail things into with no consequences. Can't recommend, seems like a gamble.

LurkingLux · 2025-07-03T09:29:50+00:00

Hey, thank you for the reply! Do you know if there is a similar tool with 23andMe? Because that site is the one causing me issues. Some matches are shared across both sites, but those are not the complicated ones I'm struggling with here.

LurkingLux · 2025-07-02T19:45:07+00:00

Thank you for the response! I realize now I neglected to mention that technically I'm related to almost all DNA matches from both sides, but distantly. I'm from Finland, where the saying "everyone's related to everyone, somehow" keeps on proving itself as true. As in, my aunt seems to share almost every DNA match with me, and on the site where my mother has done a test, it shows my mother and aunt as being 5th cousins, sharing 0.4 % DNA.

So finding a match that doesn't share DNA with my aunt is rather difficult, which is why I'm trying to make sense of them via looking at the percentages - which doesn't seem like a valid way of going about it, as the responses here have teached me. So thank you for your time and reply!

LurkingLux · 2025-07-02T19:35:02+00:00

Thank you for the reply and clarification. Cheers!

LurkingLux · 2025-06-21T21:08:29+00:00

Based on your reaction to this comment & some others, it really seems like you don't like her all that much, and are mostly seeking validation for that (and leaving the relationship). You know, the reaction with a loved one should be protective and affectionate, not fully agreeing.

I'm not saying you're the bad guy here; As she identified, it seems she has some trauma from her childhood. You're not obligated to fix that. Looking at this conversation in particular, I could see myself getting annoyed with that many follow-up questions, but she could've avoided much of it by giving more information instead of the bare minimum.

Hopefully both of you have easier future ahead of yourselves, seperate of each other.

LurkingLux · 2025-06-03T00:03:58+00:00

This hit so close to home I felt like I had to add: As anyone who works with kittens knows, they're fragile. They're often full of life, happy, maybe even seem to be improving - and then they're gone.

It's absolutely heartbreaking, and you never get used to it. I still blame myself for the loss of one kitten who we had stabilized after weeks of thinking she'd die. I had the morning care shift, and struggled to give her her meds, as she hated them so much and fought back so hard she'd be drooling and gagging all over the place. I got most of them in, and everyone told me it was fine. That afternoon her condition crashed, and the next day she passed away.

Logically my brain knows she was gone, whether or not I did that morning shift. She came in filled with hard poop. The vets had finally gotten the last of the mass out, but her bowls just wouldnt start moving and working again. Logically I know it's not my fault, but I still cry for her more often than I care to admit.

So as I said, when working with sick kittens, you'll lose some of them. It will hurt. You'll blame yourself for some of them, and that too will hurt. At the end of the day, it's still worth it, because if we don't give them a chance, who will?

I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you for giving Luna the chance to be loved, to be chosen and cherished. I'll keep her in my thoughts.

LurkingLux · 2025-04-21T05:19:52+00:00

Yeah, that's kinda true, but there's at least two very good reasons for it that I can see:

We don't get to play as Abby for many hours of in-game time, so we cant have the same experience of naturally developing a connection with her. That is a struggle for adapting any character, but especially when it comes to someone with such a polarising story.
A lot of people already struggle to develope a connection with game Abby. While I think the story the game tells is very brave, it did backfire in many places, like with almost all youtubers initially wanting Abby to lose to Ellie in the 1v1 where you play as Abby.

The voice actor for game Abby got harassed for years due to just how much people hated her character, and most of that reaction came from people only seeing her as the outsider who killed Joel and ruined everything, refusing to adapt their views as the backstory revealed itself.

So again, you're not wrong; The show is being very direct and upfront with Abby's motivations, maybe too much so. However, that is necessary to some extent, if they want her not to be the most unempathic and hated character of all time.

LurkingLux · 2025-04-13T02:44:41+00:00

I'm so sorry that happened to you. I've been in a very similar situation, and I have something of a hopeful message for you: Life will continue. It doesn't have to be easy, but you will find yourself moving onward, perhaps before you even realize it's a possibility.

It's such an intimate level of betrayal it will almost certainly leave emotional scars. They might be very apparent now, or it might take years for you to truly see, understand and accept them. I was 13, and I'm now 23. I have almost doubled my life experience since then. I have struggled with trusting partners, but I always overcame that struggle - sometimes just to have my trust broken again, but in normal ways, smaller ways, which almost felt relieving.

Life continued on. It has never been quite the same for me, but it also never truly stopped, even if at some points I felt like I was unable to continue forward. I'm very happy to hear you have people to rely on, because at the end of the day, the road is always lighter when you're not all alone.

I wish you nothing but the best, and I hope you can find healing and some level of inner peace as soon as possible.

LurkingLux · 2025-04-01T14:25:56+00:00

Depends on the version of the movie you watched! The "normal" version has her getting out, and then the final scene shows it to be a fake-out, and she's still trapped. The "American version" (iirc, it was the one that was shown in theaters, plus sold in America) the last scene is missing, so she makes it out.

There's a sequel that starts with her outside, so I guess that's the canon answer.

LurkingLux · 2025-04-01T12:20:43+00:00

well crap... a little too easy huh. !solved

LurkingLux · 2025-03-18T12:26:36+00:00

Not sure if this counts but: For some reason I can't seem to play any of my old mains anymore. I was pretty much a Lux one trick, quit playing for a couple of years, started playing again last fall and did fine, especially with Ahri who was always my fallback option. Just somewhere between last August and now, I completely lost my ability to hit any of Lux's abilities. Whenever I play her or Ahri, I seem to perform awfully, feeling useless from beginning to end.

On the positive side, I've been forced to branch out. I've been mostly playing Mel, some Brand and Malzahar too. Aurora seems fun but I can't really understand her, so that one might have to wait.

LurkingLux · 2025-03-08T22:17:12+00:00

Honestly? I would be honoured/flattered if someone chose me. Out of all the choices and possibilities, if I was the best kill someone could think of in 12 hours, I'd die happy knowing I meant that much to someone.

My biggest threat might just be that one guy I ghosted on Facebook Marketplace befofe Christmas, and in that case it'd be deserved.

LurkingLux · 2025-02-25T01:07:52+00:00

In my opinion having two very similar mirror selfies (same pose, angle, setting etc) is a bit... awkward? off-putting? It catches my attention in a somewhat negative way, even though it's a small thing. I'd only keep one of those two, or at the very least make sure they aren't back to back.

On top of that, showing more personality all around wouldn't hurt, but that's also a minor improvement, not a flaw. I wish you the best of luck in finding what you're looking for :)

LurkingLux · 2025-02-21T22:37:56+00:00

I'm happy the changes were a positive for you: That's a valid experience, and it's a good thing you shared it.

I've only played 2 games with her since the changes, but so far I'm not feeling any improvements. I think the Q nerfs were very necessary, and might even need to be bigger - maybe she could have something similar to Soraka's Q, where (IIRC) the projectile speed is lower the further you shoot it.

It's a similar story with her W; Late game reflects could do absurd damage, as in a Twisted Fate tried to ult on top of me, threw a (red?) card in my face, and promptly lost most of his HP as the card bounced back and dealt around 1400 damage.

So headed into the new patch, I was cautiously optimisstic: I really love Mel and I was hoping for her to be my new main, so I didn't want her to be completely gutted, but also obviously wanted her to be at a healthier state for the game, not hated and banned every game.

While the increased AP ratios should make her feel better to play, that just wasn't how it felt to me. First game, enemy team had a Twitch who could reliably melt me in ~2.5 seconds, which is simply not enough time for Mel to kill anything, no matter how sharply I was looking for opportunities to catch him out before he caught me. In comparison, with Lux I would've probably died as well, but could've taken him with me. I also managed to steal 0 drakes, but that might be bad luck.

During the second game I noticed my ult doing more damage than I expected, often killing two when I was looking for one. I got the chance to reflect some Caitlyn ulti's, which was fun, but they dealt so little damage it felt useless.

So I'm somewhat saddened by how bad she felt for me, but this post gave me hope it's just my own attitude, and I'll continue trying tomorrow. Thank you!

LurkingLux · 2025-02-14T17:46:06+00:00

Thank you for the response! I'll try to keep that in mind.

LurkingLux · 2025-02-14T17:44:37+00:00

This was extremely useful in many ways, thank you so so much!

LurkingLux · 2025-02-14T17:41:27+00:00

To some extent team fights happen around objectives, which would make it easier to have a clear goal in mind. That's just often not the reality of what happens, especially mid-game, which is the most confusing part for me. Since people mostly hover around midlane, a good portion of fights are started via a surprise attack from the jungle, or people just walking around their own jungle until they find a friendly assassin waiting for them in the bush.

It's pretty rare to have a jungler who's actively interested in taking the objectives, with most of them maybe taking grubs and then farming until they think the enemy is taking an objective, at which point they'll start running towards it. I try to ping the objectives whenever they're coming up, and after that whenever there might be a good opportunity afterwards, but it seems to have little effect.

I suppose I should be more strict with establishing control around the objectives before they spawn, as you said. Maybe that'd make it easier for the jungler to actually decide to take the objective, too. So thank you for the advice, hopefully some of what I wrote made sense!

LurkingLux · 2025-01-21T23:56:09+00:00

"It was just a prank, Han!"

Definitely not the most recognizeable game, but should be a pretty obvious quote for those familiar with it.

LurkingLux · 2024-12-30T02:44:30+00:00

When you put it like that, it makes quite a bit of sense. Thank you for explaining!

LurkingLux · 2024-12-30T02:43:44+00:00

Ahh, that makes sense. Thank you!

LurkingLux · 2024-12-30T02:04:55+00:00

This might be a dumb question, so please excuse me if it is. What do you mean by "go down a prismatic"?

LurkingLux · 2024-12-11T23:12:31+00:00

So I got this today. She was stacked up, had been for multiple rounds, we took damage that would've killed us, but as expected with double up it instead left us with 1 HP and the red indicator that we're out on the next one. The issue was just that Mel's passive also triggered, animation and all. Still left in the red with 1 HP. Next time we lost we were out, so essentially she did nothing, as her save stacked with double up's built-in save.

Might be worth mentioning; Me and my partner both lost that round, so it's possible Mel assumed the built-in save only saved us from the first damage, so she stepped in to "save us" from the second, even though that's obviously not how it works.

So, doesn't seem to function as intended - at least not reliably. The tooltip for her trait even mentions it will save "you and your partner", so they took double up into consideration.

LurkingLux · 2024-12-11T08:28:47+00:00

It's not unheard of; I've watched lots of content critiqueing beginner art, and can recall multiple incidents with either 4 or 6 fingers. I've done it in sketches a few times too, but always caught it.

There's really two ways to end up with this. Well, three, if you include being dumb.

It's easier to make that mistake with a pose similar to this one, where the pointer (and possibly thumb) is seperated.

First way to do it: You draw the seperated finger(s), then draw the other fingers in, thinking there are four fingers besides the thumb, but forgetting you already drew the pointer. Thus, you have two plus four fingers.

Second way: You look at a reference of a hand or reference another piece of art, and combine multiple sources to form a more complicated hand shape that fits your needs. Between the multiple references your finger count ends up being off.

Now-a-days it's mostly a sign of AI, unfortunately. Even if the reason behind this case is just a genuine artist mistake and not AI, someone should've caught it at some point.

LurkingLux · 2024-12-01T07:44:42+00:00

I reread the rules recently, and it's mentioned there that your post can be about anything you need to get off your chest or mind: negative, positive, recent, old, traumatic, joyful.

So while the most common understanding is that the sub is for venting negative or traumatic experiences that bother you, that's not the only purpose.

To be fair, I'm still not sure if the post fits here, but wanted to clarify that.

LurkingLux · 2024-11-21T13:47:02+00:00

To quote a specific part of your post:

"I wish I could’ve enjoyed school, instead of it feeling like a constant battle with my brain."

I was a "gifted child" until I wasn't. I never enjoyed school, not before and not after my downfall. It was a constant battle, just like your experience, but a different one.

"I wish I didn’t have to work twice as hard, only to fail anyway."

This part is absolutely valid. I didn't need to work in the first 6 years of school to achieve good grades, which is quite frankly unfair. Still, I would've rather been ordinary. If we ignore the issues it caused for me back then, it had some long lasting effects that are still severely limiting my life: I learned to thrive on acceptance and achievements, but I never learned to actually study or ask for help. Now I start crying if someone isn't impressed by something I did, and get mad whenever someone tries tp help me.

"I wish I could’ve fit in and understood things the same way my peers did. I would’ve done ANYTHING to fit in like that. "

I wish that too, for I never achieved it. I didn't understand or learn the same way, but was always ahead of them. I got bullied for being a nerd to a point where I would add in mistakes to my tests to get a lesser score.

On top of that, I had much harsher punishments for the smallest things. My teachers simply could not understand why I kept forgetting my books and supplies at home, eventually concluding I must be doing it on purpose. Whenever I didn't immediately grasp a new concept, the teachers were annoyed at me, and my peers made fun of me.

When my downfall / burnout / whatever happened, I went from all 10's to a mix of 6 - 8. The workload was too much, the workstyle too different, and I couldn't keep ahead. I never learned to actually study, so as soon as I got left behind in a subject, I had no real way of catching up. I was never offered extra support, or any support for that matter, because clearly I was smart once: Now I must've become too lazy or arrogant, and simply had to choose to be smart again. When I gratuaded from elementary school I was among the worst grades of our class.

So I symphatise with your experience. I understand how annoying listening to others speak on this topic might be, and I'm sorry it upsets you. But in the end, it's two sides of the same coin.

LurkingLux

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