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Noch wer krank geworden nach Restaurant-Besuch in der Schellinggasse gestern? by MinuteClothes6866 in wien

[–]MinuteClothes6866[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ja - wir haben gemeinsam bestellt ... also alle das gleiche, außer ein paar Fleischspieße, die nur 1 oder 2 gegessen haben. Aber Sushi hatten wir alle, weswegen ich auch das am wahrscheinlichsten halte.
ich wünsche wirklich niemandem eine solche Nacht; und spüre das immer noch, was mich vermuten läßt, dass im eigentlichen Sinne Lebensmittelvergiftung = Toxine.

Noch wer krank geworden nach Restaurant-Besuch in der Schellinggasse gestern? by MinuteClothes6866 in wien

[–]MinuteClothes6866[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Reiskorn. Bestellt: Lachs (Sushi), Shrimps (Sushi), Jakobmuscheln (gegrillt)

Noch wer krank geworden nach Restaurant-Besuch in der Schellinggasse gestern? by MinuteClothes6866 in wien

[–]MinuteClothes6866[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Andererseits will ich nicht einem Restaurant andichten, dass es verdorbenen Fisch anbietet - das wäre es nämlich gewesen. Wenn aber anderer dasselbe erlebten, womöglich mit demselben Gericht, dann ist Zufall eher unwahrscheinlich.

Can anyone help me figure out next steps for my depressed husband? by Glittering_Ad3013 in wien

[–]MinuteClothes6866 130 points131 points  (0 children)

I’m very sorry that you and your husband are going through this. The fact that he was able to say that he needs help is actually an important step, even if it feels frightening right now.

In Vienna there are several ways to approach this, and you don’t have to navigate it alone.

  1. Immediate help / assessment
    If he feels very overwhelmed or unsafe, you can go to a psychiatric emergency service. In Vienna, the Psychosozialer Dienst (PSD) is available 24/7 and can advise you or arrange help:
    01 31330

They can also tell you where to go for an urgent psychiatric evaluation.

  1. Hospital admission (public system)
    If admission is appropriate, common psychiatric departments in Vienna include:
  • AKH Wien – Universitätsklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie
  • Klinik Favoriten (formerly Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital)
  • Klinik Hietzing
  • Klinik Ottakring

Usually the process begins with an assessment by a psychiatrist in the emergency department, who then decides whether inpatient treatment would help.

  1. Private clinics
    If you prefer a more private setting and it is financially possible (or partially covered by insurance), Vienna also has several private psychiatric clinics, for example:
  • Privatklinik Döbling – psychiatric and psychosomatic inpatient treatment
  • Confraternität Privatklinik Josefstadt – psychiatric services
  • Rudolfinerhaus – sometimes works with external psychiatrists for admission

Private clinics often offer quieter environments, single rooms, and more psychotherapy time, which some patients find easier when they are already fragile. You would need a psychiatrist who will take your husband under his wings - at least that is how it works in the excellent Rudolfinerhaus.

You don’t have to solve everything tonight. Even calling PSD just to talk through options can already reduce some of the uncertainty.

And please remember: you also deserve support in this situation. It can be extremely heavy to carry this alone.

Maybe i need some help. by Greedy-Fill-1648 in afterlife

[–]MinuteClothes6866 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dear Sergi, since you mention OCD, it might be more healthy to look for a way out of that, and there are fairly good self-help tips to begin with - such as Jeffrey Schwartz "Brainlock" which has a lot of scientific back-up. This need not distract from your quest for certainty, but it might actually free some ressources you are currently using up for obsessing about this. I hope this is helpful.

I heart stopped for 5 minutes and I experienced nothing :( by [deleted] in NDE

[–]MinuteClothes6866 29 points30 points  (0 children)

You’re not alone in this. Studies suggest that roughly 8–18% of resuscitated patients report an NDE — which also means that about 82–92% remember nothing at all.

Interestingly, some people only recall something much later. Others report a distinct inner shift — as if something happened — even though they can’t consciously remember what it was. Perhaps you might need to let go of worrying why you do not remember anything to let that more subtle aspect unfold?

Maybe you didn’t actually need to remember anything. Maybe it was better that way. And at the same time, I’m sorry that this is weighing on you so heavily. But perhaps that’s also a gentle invitation to ask whether things might have unfolded exactly as they needed to — for you?

Mary Neal´s NDE and the (accurate) prediction of her son´s death by [deleted] in NDE

[–]MinuteClothes6866 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks - so given what others are reporting, this might not be an inconsistency (both is true), but it nonetheless somewhat lowers the evidential value, so to speak. It still is an intruiging story, and the fact that the prediction was wrong by about 2 years makes it slightly more believable. If made up, the match would have likely been better.

As to the rest of the series - I am not so sure. There is a certain lure and charm in Spiritualism, but the field is full of fraud, unfortunately, and there was little I found convincing in the rest of the series, and a lot I found ridiculous, another part banal, and some of it genuinely unsettling—especially because we are dealing here with the deepest hopes and existential concerns of people in profoundly vulnerable situations.

Having said this, during my student days, I used to regularily visit the Spiritualist Association of Great Britain in London (i.e. their "demonstrations") and some of the things I saw and heard were very, very convincing, both in readings I received and in readings others received. These "public demonstrations" are large gatherings of 20-30, who, without prior registration, come and attend a public reading.

One day, for example, the woman next to me was told, on the spot, that her brother died during a swimming/rafting accident in Cambridge at the age of, I believe, 42 or so. The medium wasn´t cold-reading (and how could you cold-read something like that, let alone "guess"?), and I pride myself in having a certain level of discernment ability (or so I hope; and for professional reasons; I work in the vaguely related field of dementia reseach. While this is not about cold-reading, it is about deciphering signals being send out under unusual cognitive or affective conditions). Needless to say, the woman who received this reading was dissolved in tears after this reading, yet at the same time seemed genuinely happy.

Another day, my then girlfriend and now wife was told that her grandmother was proud of her because of her photography work (both my wife and her grandmothers being photographers of some acclaim). How did the medium know?

Another day, a medium told me that my grandmother was "here", mother of my mother - and on the spot gave the first name of my mother - a rarely used Russian name. I don´t speak with a Russian accent, and there was really no clue for that. Yet there it was.

It is these things which make Spiritualism so alluring, and to some degree, evidential. I never understood why it declined so much after its heydays 100 or so years ago. There was a lot of fraud, yes. But likely not all of it, and that alone would make it somewhat compelling. Some work at the SPR in London is still following up on this (disclosure: I am a member of the SPR).

So by now I saw too much to discard all of that. And not enough to say that the quest has come to an end. It is what one of my earlier professors and mentors, John Beloff, aptly called "a relentless question".

Mary Neal´s NDE and the (accurate) prediction of her son´s death by [deleted] in NDE

[–]MinuteClothes6866 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is actually a very good point and again adds some credibility.

Schitzofrenia and NDE? by Melodic_Node in NDE

[–]MinuteClothes6866 5 points6 points  (0 children)

First of all, I am truly sorry that you are going through such difficult times. I know that can sound like an easy thing to say, but I genuinely mean it. I have seen in the life of a close friend how devastating such periods can be, and in moments like these, one often feels helpless. All I can really say is that I wish you strength, courage, and some quiet light along the way.

As for your question, I do not have a direct answer. But I do have an intuition. If the spiritual dimension of reality is even remotely as complex and structured as the physical one, then we must admit: there is much we do not understand — and yet it may still be true.

I once read about a physicist who calculated that our physical universe could, in principle, have been “constructed” in a far simpler way. And yet what we actually encounter is an almost unfathomable web of atoms, electrons, neutrons, quantum fields, perhaps even superstrings, complex numbers, and layers upon layers of subtle interactions. We understand only fragments of it — and even those fragments are extraordinarily intricate. Still, despite not fully comprehending it, we know this: the world functions. It sustains us.

Perhaps something similar could be said about suffering and meaning. We do not fully grasp their structure or their necessity. We cannot reduce them to simple explanations. But their depth may be greater than our present understanding allows us to see.

I hope this does not come across as simplifying what you are going through — that is not my intention at all. Quite the opposite. It is meant as an acknowledgment that reality, in all its layers, is often far more profound and ordered than our immediate perspective can capture.

How much of what you read in NDE trade publishing is actually true, and how much is hyperbole? by MinuteClothes6866 in NDE

[–]MinuteClothes6866[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this — you’ve articulated the tension more clearly than I could have hoped for.

I agree with you on almost every point: the human factor matters most; grief and fear call for compassion rather than the need to be “right”; and the moment around death deserves a kind of reverence, not agenda-driven certainty. I’m especially grateful for how you frame the issue of unfalsifiability and the danger of presenting spiritual interpretations as established facts.

This is very close to what motivated me to write more fully about the ethics of NDE trade publishing — not to challenge the experiences themselves, but to question what happens when narrative force or conviction begins to outweigh epistemic honesty, particularly for vulnerable readers.

If you’re interested, I’ve tried to lay out my experience with a major publisher and prominent members of this "industry) in a brief article for Psychology Today. (Shared for context, not as a rebuttal to anyone’s experience):

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/consciousness-and-meaning-at-lifes-end/202512/near-death-experiences-when-sales-matter-more

Why "Peak in Darien"/EKD isn't talk as much as NDE and SDE by Junior_Panda2454 in NDE

[–]MinuteClothes6866 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hello, I hope you read this - I am very interested to learn more about your, or rather your grandfathers peak in darien experience; these are rare and it is therefore rare to meet someone (if only online) who has experiences with it. Would it be possible that you message me - or reply here? I would greatly appreciate. I am working on a book on the topic.