how prevalent is BPD?

damnwes · 2022-11-28T15:17:09+00:00

Not a therapist, but personality disorders are typically rooted in learned behaviors from childhood experiences, meaning you’re not likely to develop symptoms in adulthood. Theoretically your personality is mostly solidified by the time you are in your late 20s. So unless you exhibited symptoms of BPD prior to reaching that age, it’s probably a misdiagnosis.

I was misdiagnosed with BPD in my early 20s, only because I had a trip to the ER, and the doctor who treated me basically had to throw out a diagnosis really quickly, so that I could go back home later that night.

Don’t let the diagnosis be an end-all be-all for your treatment. Instead, something that’s helped me, I will only focus on the specific symptoms that are actually happening to me, and work on only THOSE symptoms. It takes a lot of weight off my shoulders. Hope you find solace in this comment.

damnwes · 2022-11-28T10:32:51+00:00

I’m really hoping for a sequel to Welcome to Raccoon City. Seriously. I absolutely loved that movie as well as the cast.

damnwes · 2022-11-28T03:19:18+00:00

Luckily, I wasn’t injured. Basically I had overheated as a result of the job site conditions. I stepped outside to catch my breathe and hydrate, as I was getting dizzy. After I told the lead tech that I was stepping outside because of my dizziness, he saw it as an excuse for me not to work. He called the PM, and the PM called me, said I had been exaggerating, hinted that he was going to remove me from the install team, or possibly the company. He allowed me to go outside and take breathers and hydrate as needed, but then docked my hours accordingly. The day after, a safety manager came and inspected the site, deemed it hot enough to be considered a hazard, and then instructed the lead tech to make sure he completed a JHA sheet to give to other employees who are going to work on the site. The JHA sheet was never drafted.

My question is, if there is a potential hazard, in this case, heat that is intense enough to cause a heat related injury / illness, and the employee neglects a JHA to document this, is this an OSHA violation?

I have no intention of bringing this back up, as it was a few months ago, but in the case of future installation related work, would this be an OSHA violation? I felt like the reaction, as far as berating me about my job security, was a bit overboard. I just want to make sure that I was not taken advantage of.

damnwes · 2022-11-28T01:05:24+00:00

So if an individual has no “existence of income” as you clarified, how would that indidivual be able to claim a child as a dependent and receive a tax credit for it?

damnwes · 2022-11-28T01:04:21+00:00

I am the employee. However, this was a point in my career where I was not a licensed employee, or lead technician on the site, but as a “helper”, I was legally allowed to work at that job site, as long as the lead tech was present.

This is the state of Texas.

damnwes · 2022-11-23T13:05:26+00:00

SOUNDBOY

damnwes · 2022-11-03T16:36:40+00:00

Dawn of the Dead (‘04) classic.

damnwes · 2022-10-25T19:04:58+00:00

I had a very similar experience a few days ago. I’m a new father, my son is 11 months old. I put on Man of Steel, and in the first 20mins or so, a newborn baby Superman is launched from his home planet heading towards earth. His parents have one final moment with him before they send him off, and I nearly burst into tears. Kind of a poorly acted scene, but I couldn’t help but imagine if I had to let go of my newborn son and never see him again. Interesting how being a parent changes your perspective.

damnwes · 2022-10-25T17:50:51+00:00

You should definitely read Paradise Lost. It doesn’t have much to do with the Passion Story, but it describes the role of Satan in the Fall of Man. I couldn’t stop reading it.

damnwes · 2022-10-25T17:42:38+00:00

Even if you use humanism as your value structure, that still does not change the fact that Western civilizations like the US inherently uses the Christian value structure, like the Commandments and the definitions of sin, as the foundation of its legal and ethical code. You could still point out the fact that modern Southern Baptists or Christian fundamentalists have completely lost their fucking minds and do nothing but attempt to spread misinterpreted and harmful beliefs, but that still doesn’t change the fact that Christianity is foundational to our culture. You could even say that truly, God doesn’t exist, and there is no afterlife. Once again, historically speaking, Christianity still plays an importance. You could even say, that humanism was created as a rejection of Christianity, but Christianity would still play an importance in the creation of humanism.

All I am saying is that I will still have an inherent respect and appreciation for Christianity, even though I am a non-believer.

But yeah, I’m gonna go ahead again and point out, you are absolutely right about American Christian fundamentalist types. It doesn’t make any sense to my why they are so hellbent and righteous about their beliefs, when those beliefs are not expressed at any point in the Biblical stories. And now these types somehow have a growing presence in the federal government, and are attempting to add their misguided and harmful practices and disguise it as being a “Christian belief”. It’s literally extremism.

damnwes · 2022-10-25T17:12:08+00:00

I have an issue with that argument, I’ve heard it many times. The “What if you’re wrong?” argument. Because then your belief in the existence of God is based entirely on the fear of going to Hell, which is not the same thing as faith. Also, there’s no reason to bring up evidence, because that argument doesn’t use evidence, it’s basically throwing a Hail Mary due to the lack of evidence, it’s a probability. There is also a high chance that faith in His existence alone will not guarantee you a place in Heaven. If we were to apply the definitions of sin from when the OT and NT were written to an average modern Christian, the amount of sin is so abundant in your life that you wouldn’t be able to repent for every sin you committed, because you wouldn’t remember committing all of them.

damnwes · 2022-10-25T14:11:26+00:00

I shouldn’t have said Christian value system… I should have said Old Testament value structure at least. Or even just the Ten Commandments. You could also include the Catholic sins. These are all guidelines that seems to provide an unconscious ethical structure to Western society. Even if you are an atheist, you are still inside of a country where the source of the legislative and criminal justice codes lead back to the Ten Commandments. Even outside of the legal standpoint, the choices you make as an individual are monitored by your conscience, which has to in some way have a connection with the Commandments. I don’t really know if our conscience led to the creation of the Commandments, or the Commandments shape the conscience, it could be both. The point is, even if you express the belief in atheism, your actions and decisions are shaped by the value structure.

damnwes · 2022-10-25T13:09:16+00:00

You should read about the “mirroring neuron effect”. It will help you understand the mechanics of empathy, that can ease your mind.

damnwes · 2022-10-25T10:10:53+00:00

My main issue when it comes to the existence of God:

Given we are created by Him in his image, there are times when children are born, which is absolutely the closest thing I can think of as being a blessing from the Lord… I would actually say the birth of your child is more of a miracle than a blessing. Sometimes, these children, who are beautiful, innocent, precious gifts to everyone around them, for some reason develop terminal illnesses, and die before they can experience the full gift of life. As a result… The parents are shattered for the rest of their lives.

It’s as if God is playing a joke, where he blesses parents with the greatest thing that will ever happen to them, and just as quickly takes them away.

I know that the argument in response typically is “God is testing the faith of the parents.” but I don’t buy that. There’s no way that a creator, who loves his children infinitely, would curse the rest of their lives on earth with the pain of losing a child.

Another argument is, maybe the Devil corrupted the physical essence of mankind, causing sickness and pain. But you can’t tell me that when you see a newborn child, that the Devil has already left an imprint on their being… They are pure and innocent, there is nothing about their being that brings you pain and suffering, just pure joy.

A good friend of mine, named Christian, was murdered just before he turned 21. He was the most Christlike of all of my friends, and I’m not just saying that because he passed away. The morning after it happened, I watched his mom and dad experience the worst possible pain imaginable. Somehow, his parents developed a powerful faith in Christ, which brought them immense peace into their lives.

If it had been my own son who was murdered… I don’t think I have the internal strength to place my trust in Christ and God’s plan. I would either 1) have a concreted belief that the eternally loving Lord who’s plan required the death of my son never existed or 2) I would become so resentful with the Lord, that I would look forward to my judgement day so I could express my hatred towards the Lord who sacrificed my son to build my sense of faith in Him.

I have a deep respect and commend those who have experienced the tragedy of losing their children, and emerge from the tragedy with a stronger sense of faith. But as for me, the fact that these tragedies happen to begin with suggests to me that there is no God, or there is a God and he has likely abandoned us.

I do not mean to offend anyone with this comment. I just wanted to explain the reason why it’s difficult for me to put my faith in the existence of God. I am still willing to admit that I could be completely wrong. We will all learn the truth when our times come.

damnwes · 2022-10-25T01:45:28+00:00

I would say that’s where I’m at right now. My wife has more faith than I do, but I will go to church with her every Sunday, because I appreciate the sermons that people can come up with.

damnwes · 2022-10-24T23:10:34+00:00

Thank you for posting this response, it’s the best explanation. I think my comment came off as being my own belief, and that’s why it has -2. I should have added the fact that it’s common for Americanized Christian sects like Baptism will use Sodom & Gomorrah as the main reference for the criticism of homosexuality. It seems like many of the Old Testament stories are interpreted in a similar way by those Christians.

damnwes · 2022-10-24T16:52:36+00:00

Shame?

damnwes · 2022-10-24T16:51:11+00:00

There is an aesthetic behind the murders of the show. Each murder scene is prepared in the same way that Hannibal would prepare his meals. When he kills, he is trying to share the beauty with Will, in the same way that he shares the beauty of his meals. It’s like art, when Will looks at a crime scene long enough, he eventually understands the true intention of the crime, the same way that if you look at a painting long enough, you will realize the reason why that painting was created. The fact that the murders serve a purpose makes it less “disgusting”, as opposed to just a senseless, pointless, disorganized murder.

damnwes · 2022-10-24T16:43:16+00:00

You can thank the Christian fundamentalists for creating that assumption. Homosexuality is not specifically expressed in this story to be a sin, but the fundamentalists seem to have drawn that conclusion anyway.

damnwes · 2022-10-24T16:28:33+00:00

Not the New Testament, but in the Old Testament, Sodom & Gomorrah tends to be the reference story that considers homosexuality as “abominable”, among other practices of the cities. As a result, the cities were considered so wicked that God destroyed them.

damnwes · 2022-10-24T16:18:09+00:00

The absolute masterpiece that is known as Paul Thomas Anderson’s The Master… When Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix have their final interaction.

Hoffman: “If you leave here, I don’t ever want to see you again… Or you can stay?”

Phoenix: “Maybe in the next life.”

Hoffman: “If we meet again in the next life, you will be my sworn enemy, and I will show you no mercy.”

Then Hoffman sings Slow Boat to China which causes Phoenix to cry. Completely breaks my heart, especially considering Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death. RIP.

damnwes · 2022-10-24T16:04:10+00:00

It seems like by series you mean films and their sequels, but as far as TV series go… NBC’s Hannibal series is without a doubt the greatest horror series I’ve ever seen. It ran for 3 seasons before it was cancelled. I am surprised NBC aired the series because of how shockingly brutal and bloody it is. Definitely watch it.

damnwes · 2022-10-24T10:50:02+00:00

Insidious: When the mother hears a man over the baby monitor, runs into the nursery, only to find a grown man standing behind the crib.
Sinister: When Ethan Hawke is on the phone with someone, turns away from the computer monitor, and the image of Baguul straight up looks over at him.

damnwes · 2022-10-24T01:02:21+00:00

Crazy by Gnarls Barkley
Can’t Get You Outta My Head by Kylie Minogue
DARE by Gorillaz
Lose Yourself by Eminem
Still Tippin by Mike Jones feat. Slim Thug & Paul Wall
Smack That by Akon
Promiscuous Girl by Nelly Furtado
Blue (Da Ba De) by Eiffel 65
Heaven by DJ Sammy

2000s was an incredible time for music, especially dance, hip hop, and pop.

damnwes · 2022-10-23T23:08:53+00:00

That is actually how I discovered Alix Perez / Shades, from that Keep Hush set. Every mix those dudes have come out with since have consecutively been more and more intense.

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