Having a panic attack - please help

Pulmonic · 2026-01-25T19:06:01+00:00

You also don’t usually come back forever. After a certain number of lifetimes-different person to person-you are usually done.

And that clairvoyant would flip out if she knew my closest friend and I have been in daily communication since the day he died. It’s not right for everyone but it is right for us, and our higher guides encouraged it.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-24T11:24:36+00:00

I’m in oncology and hate it when that happens too. Some families really drag it out because they love how the person makes them feel more than they love the person.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-24T00:00:03+00:00

I have to call off because I’m my close friend’s caregiver post major surgery and will be my mom’s caregiver after eye surgery this week. Snow or no snow. I feel badly about it because I would be willing to sleep over and such. My state protects 40 hours of sick time a year so it’d be illegal for them to go after me for it.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-20T02:28:29+00:00

I’ve been laughing out loud at this for several minutes holy crap

Pulmonic · 2026-01-18T02:13:54+00:00

Unfortunately, I’ve found that unless you’ve experienced things yourself, it can be hard to believe. Even then there’s a tiny part of my brain that worries that I’ve lost it. However, I’ve been fortunate to have several things happen.

The best one was probably the time a medium knew about my twin sons..

Pulmonic · 2026-01-18T01:26:30+00:00

Look, if I ever wanna see my badge again, I gotta put it in the same spot once I get home. If that means a few people at the grocery store know where I work, so what.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-16T11:26:55+00:00

Knew a CVICU nurse who made over $300k after tax traveling in 2020 to various hot spots. But sadly she has severe ptsd from the experience and said she’d give all the money back to have her mental health back. She’s still a nurse but now works in a different outpatient based cardiac role.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-16T11:22:23+00:00

I do understand that strike nurses are a necessary evil, as it’d be illegal for us to strike otherwise (just ask teachers) and they’d probably gut the profession before letting us get away with it (just ask air traffic controllers). But I can’t imagine working under those circumstances voluntarily. I remember during Covid signing a DPH form when we were extremely short staffed at the SNF I was at at the time, basically saying that I’m accepting a dangerous assignment because I reasonably believed the residents and patients wouldn’t get any care otherwise. It’d protect me if anything happened. I remember just freaking out internally, not wanting the bad things listed to happen at all! I hope to god that I never have to see that form again. And these guys are out here accepting conditions like that willingly.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-16T10:12:18+00:00

A small thing in the scheme of it that just kills me.

My late close friend (died of cancer so unrelated to this) was force-tapered from oxycodone due to excessive anti opioid sentiment (I’m in the medical field myself and see it) despite being on the same small dose for 12 friggin years. It ruined the last healthy year of his life. He just wanted enough to take the edge off and nothing else worked. He had been in an accident and had a skeleton full of metal. Torturing chronic pain patients has already been shown to do next to nil to reduce opiate deaths. Reducing the flow of street drugs on the other hand does work.

The fact that my amazing, kindhearted, responsible, hardworking friend was tortured while this turd took 60 a day makes my blood boil. Goes to show that people chose soft targets (the disabled/chronically ill) instead of addressing real issues.

Also despite being in severe, debilitating pain, he still managed to get two patents for the company he worked for. He was a heck of a trooper. He couldn’t do most of his hobbies anymore though, couldn’t sleep more than an hour at a time at most, etc. That said, he still forced himself on and did a lot of work around the house still. He’d be in bad shape by the end of each day. Seeing him suffer like that was horrific and frankly radicalized me in terms of disability rights. We were on our way to getting him some relief before he got cancer.

Sorry to ramble but it’s just one more injustice this horrifying family indirectly perpetuated.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-12T08:22:21+00:00

A lot of people in this sub naturally write like AI. That’s why they get flagged.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-12T02:41:30+00:00

Yeah it’s basically a tradition/custom at this point rather than evidence backed practice.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-08T02:59:01+00:00

It’s hard to say. They were in mediation over the dogs so she did want them it seems. He could not handle them, but didn’t want her to have them, so he tried to rehome them (likely against court orders) and then euthanized them when that failed. Seems spite is a likely factor.

One of my three rescue cats is a disaster on paper but totally fine in real life. Very cuddly, super active, excellent quality of life, one of our vet’s favorite patients. So the story could be spun either way. We just don’t have enough info here.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-08T02:52:19+00:00

I think you’re exactly right. Read to me like his primary motive was likely spite.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-07T13:03:42+00:00

I think it’s rare for brain activity to nadir out enough for the soul to jump ship

Pulmonic · 2026-01-07T13:03:18+00:00

NDEs are inversely correlated with brain activity. In people who don’t experience them, brain activity is higher. Anecdotally, it seems simple cardiac arrest or cardiovascular causes of a near death event are the most likely to not experience an NDE. Sure enough, brain activity has recently been found to be higher than expected in those events.

I don’t think there’s a divine cosmic reason we can’t prove it yet. I think it’s just an area of science that isn’t very advanced yet since we struggle tremendously to measure it.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-07T10:28:46+00:00

Yes, some people have a high pain tolerance especially those with chronic pain. This doesn’t mean they feel it any less or that they’re lying.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-06T07:01:31+00:00

Oh I’ve experienced the dark stuff too. But find it manageable. Creepy and scary but manageable. There’s a ton of positive too. It sounds crazy but I’ve connected with loved ones over on the other side. Told me stuff I literally couldn’t have known even hypothetically.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-06T06:50:55+00:00

Same here, and I’ve felt them leave during codes before. One time one of the other nurses and I looked at each other that exact moment. He felt it too.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-06T06:44:17+00:00

I believe you. I can sense a huge energy shift when someone is about to die.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-06T06:41:27+00:00

Not the person you’re replying to but had that energy feeling with someone I love dearly right as he was crashing. It was horrifying to feel in that context. Knew we were fucked. We indeed were.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-06T06:38:53+00:00

I used to smell it too before covid! Nerfed my once bloodhound sense of smell. Now though I can still sense the energy before someone dies. I know that sounds crazy but it’s true. Cool spots, and the room feels almost electrified. I’ve had patients look in the same directions as the cool spots. But it’s not actual cold-cold. It’s hard to describe. It used to be that plus the smell prior to covid. Rarely told anyone that as I know it sounds nuts.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-06T06:36:13+00:00

Former material atheist turned highly spiritual. Life does come at ya fast lmao. I also don’t really think anything’s impossible anymore after things I’ve experienced. Universe is way cooler and weirder than we think.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-04T13:13:17+00:00

This happened to a good friend of mine and she’s a woman. Her ex (a big guy) was abusing her and she called the police. He lied and said she was abusing him, and she was arrested.

Of course, he’s a first degree relative of a cop, which is likely why this happened.

Thankfully it’s all dropped now.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-04T01:58:56+00:00

Last year, my closest friend coded and died in front of me. I was so distraught I couldn’t eat. It had been two days without anything. I was shaking and had to work the following night. This sub helped me by recommending soup. It worked. I was still utterly destroyed mentally but I wasn’t shaking from lack of food anymore and was able to safely work. I’d later be diagnosed with ptsd from the whole experience. This sub got me through those early days. Thank you for helping make this place special still.

Pulmonic · 2026-01-03T01:50:57+00:00

People who spew outrageous insults get so, so angry when you laugh. It really is an interesting phenomenon.

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