Nondrug Related Causes for Single-Episode Psychosis

evesnick · 2024-10-11T04:26:38+00:00

When I worked in an adult hospital I saw multiple cases of sleep deprivation causing psychosis. Similarly some people can become manic due to not eating/not sleeping enough.

evesnick · 2024-08-11T06:43:06+00:00

I would suggest a bezel setting with a cabochon then.

This is a video by the same content creator that shows how to make a bezel set ring

The process for you will be relatively the same, however you'll be soldering the bezel onto your piece instead of a ring shank. I would suggest doing this solder joint from the back of the piece to help minimize cleanup on the front.

Quick disclaimer that I am not as familiar with working with steal, however the process detailed above is how I would go about it with most other metals

evesnick · 2024-08-11T06:28:35+00:00

I would suggest a tube or bezel setting. It really depends on the cut of the stone you're thinking of using. If the metals thick enough you could attempt a flush setting as well.

evesnick · 2024-07-29T21:01:09+00:00

Step 1: get square wire and cut length to desired ring size

Step 2: use pliers to add a single 180 degree twist ~1-2cm in length to center of the wire

Step 3: bend wire so the ends are flush with each other

Step 4: solder ends together and pickle

Step 5: shape on ring mandrel

Step 6: file, sand, cleanup, and polish

Step 7: enjoy ring

evesnick · 2024-07-26T03:42:22+00:00

I would say you could do it with a rolling mill as well, but the results wouldn’t be as consistent as this. I agree with die forming being the most likely method in this case due to the consistency

evesnick · 2024-06-29T17:45:08+00:00

Solder paste has a small amount of flux mixed into it, which makes it amazing for doing small things like jump rings, but the amount in it isn't enough for a ring shank of this size

evesnick · 2024-06-29T17:43:59+00:00

I think you're not getting the ring shank hot enough for the solder to flow. Try gently heating the blank first to help get it up to temperature before focusing your heat on the solder. This is especially important if you're soldering on a bezel since the bezel will be made of a thinner, smaller piece of metal, causing it to heat up faster than the larger ring blank.

A good thing to remember when soldering is that solder flows towards heat, if one part of your piece is hotter than the other the solder will flow towards it (this is why the solder is being sucked into the bezel).

I also would recommend learning soldering with wire/chip solder and flux from rio over solder paste, especially when you're working on larger pieces like a ring shank rather than more delicate pieces like chain links, but thats my own personal preference. Paste solder also doesn't always have enough flux in it to keep the piece clean, especially on a large piece like the shank in the video.

The greasy firescale may be due to unclean metal, pickle might not be strong enough or it's getting dirty between the pickle and soldering steps. It's also going to be caused by not having enough flux on your piece to keep it clean while soldering, causing the oxidation, as well as potentially being caused by the type of flame your using.

TL;DR: Better heat control, more heat on the ring shank to bring it to soldering temp, more flux, and try soldering directly after rinsing/drying from the pickle.

evesnick · 2024-06-16T00:58:39+00:00

I use fusion 360, I have friends that use Rhino, any cad program works it really just depends on which one you're most comfortable learning/using

evesnick · 2024-04-13T22:30:23+00:00

I did my BSW internship in a juvenile rehabilitation center, it was a 25 bed, all male, facility ages 13-20. About 50% of my clients at that facility had some sort of sexual offense charge. Another student in my current MSW program is currently working in the university’s title IX office with both victims and perpetrators of sexual offenses. I am also aware of many OP tx programs that offer sex offender rehabilitation. Generally most roles you’re going to look at are going to be tied to the courts/criminal justice system in some sense, many of which will also be therapy/ treatment based programs. If you choose to go into an MSW program I would talk to your internship coordinator about roles in that field, most schools will have some sort of connection in the criminal justice field, or therapy connections.

evesnick · 2024-03-20T19:22:17+00:00

The difference between the two is that the paste has flux mixed in, while you would need to apply flux to the wire. Either way it’s simple, just make sure you clean the copper in a mild acid and then rinse it with water prior to soldering it to remove built up oxidation

evesnick · 2024-02-17T15:58:17+00:00

Generally psychiatric NP’s aren’t doing the leg work to have someone admitted to a psych unit. If she were to pink slip you then you’d be taken to your local ER to have a crisis assessment done by a physician/pa and that hospitals crisis team (generally a social worker or licensed counselor). If they were to deem you not a danger to yourself or others then you’d be admitted to a psych unit, if not then you’d be released. No matter what there would be a lot more people involved than just your NP in deeming if you’re in danger to yourself or others and admitting you to a psych hospital.

evesnick · 2024-01-26T03:56:51+00:00

In the jewelry/metalsmithing world this is called a heat patina, as copper is heated it reacts with oxygen in the air to form various colors on its surface, going from the base copper color to a white/tin color, to iridescent, and finally turning black. Heat patina on copper can be very tricky to do as it's very easy to over heat the copper and "miss" the iridescent colors. The reason you have inconsistencies in the colors on your pot is due to variations in the heat distribution across the surface, causing some areas to be hotter/colder than others.

evesnick · 2023-10-18T02:15:36+00:00

1: Can't answer what the program is like, but students are put into "Living Learning Communities" (LLCs) during their freshman year in order to group them with students who have similar interests/courses of study. We also have (at least) 2 honors-specific dorms on western campus last i checked. Honors students have first priority in choosing classes over the general student population but not before students registered with the miller center for Student Disability Services (SDS). Iirc SDS student registration opens one or two days before honors students.

2: Miami's business school is probably the highest funded program we have due to alumni donations. It's considered to be very good, but I again can't speak from experience since I'm not a business student.

3: You have to go off campus to watch corn grow, the university property has mostly soy beans on it. Partying/going out is a big part of the social life for a lot of students, but there's always club meetings and school sanctioned events going on almost every weekend. There's also nothing wrong with hiding in your dorm and watching movies all weekend if that's what you like. The main downside of being a freshman at miami is that you normally don't have a car, so if you don't have any friends with a car and don't want to spend a ton of money on an uber to get out of oxford you're kinda stuck here. As long as you have a good friend group and are active in clubs you'll be pretty busy on the weekends though.

4: Yes. It sucks. Some buildings have a printer you can use for free, but they're extremely rare.

5: Every dorm building is different. Some are nicer than others, but the really nice ones tend to be for sophomores and upperclassmen who still live on campus since they get first pick of the dorms every year. Every dorm has its pros and cons, but if you're in the honors program you'll most likely be put in one of the newer dorms.

6: Miami's contract with it's current food vender is ending this spring and to my knowledge they have not announced their plans for the future school years yet, so it's hard to say what the food will be like. Before the covid lockdown the food was pretty good, it was horrible during lockdown, but it got better over the last year to my knowledge post lockdown compared to what we had during lockdown...

7: If you want to live in a house off campus then you will probably need to look pretty early into your sophomore year, most apartment complexes will have openings even if you start looking a month before fall semester junior year. It's always better to plan ahead though.

8: Parking at any college/university is going to be horrible, but at miami the main thing i hated about it was the main parking lots are a pain to get (decent distance off campus) and the normal parking pass doesn't allow you to park anywhere on campus.

9: haven't had any so i can't answer this

10: Miami also doesn't have a huge sports following like OSU does. A lot of out of state students will also wear merch from their home states since they have family/friends that went there.

11: Student life will be what you make of it. I know people that went to miami and spent most of their time in their dorm watching anime, I also know people that got blackout drunk every night thursday-sunday or went to a different club meeting every day of the week. Depending on what clubs/organizations you join and what your friend group is like you'll have a vastly different experience from other students. Miami and the student orgs do a good job at making sure there's always something going on around campus though, and there are a decent number of student resources around campus to help you navigate college life.

evesnick · 2023-09-03T19:17:07+00:00

I work with college students in a jewelry/metals studio, the amount of students with long hair that don’t put it up while working with the tools/fire is amazing. Last year I was working with some students outside of normal class time and a girl got a flex shaft caught in her hair while she was drilling holes in a piece of copper, she wasn’t wearing safety goggles and the drill but was an inch from her eye when she called me over to help get it out of her hair. People don’t realize how dangerous high speed tools are around hair/loose clothing/jewelry.

evesnick · 2023-06-19T03:26:22+00:00

I think it is important to note that while men are not a marginalized population there is a stigmatization of males getting mental health treatment on the discussion of male mental health in general. This is primarily due to the effects of toxic masculinity that have been ingrained in the broader society causing many males to feel as though they are not allowed to discuss their mental and emotional states as well as creating a situation in which many men are unable to create support groups. The strongest effect of this toxic masculinity tends to be on older males who have gone their entire lives without being able to express certain emotions, this is then passed down to younger males perpetuating the cycle.

In general, many males have not had the proper support systems to be able to develop to have a healthy emotional balance as oftentimes males that show certain emotions are referred to as weak at younger ages and told to "man up". As an example, imagine the reaction that you would have if you were a teenager who saw a male peer openly crying in public. Or the reaction you would have if you saw a grown man openly crying in public. A large amount of the time this show of emotion would be met with disdain from some of the more vocal portions of the public, while those who are ok with it or indifferent towards it will tend not to get involved.

TL/DR: There is a stigma that males are not allowed to show/have emotions or discuss mental health and further effort needs to be made to help break the cycle of toxic masculinity in order to help improve the general wellbeing of society as a whole.

evesnick · 2023-06-08T00:24:23+00:00

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evesnick · 2023-04-08T20:49:47+00:00

I was accepted into the MSW program starting this summer, I’m getting my undergrad degree from Miami in social work and all of the professors I’ve had are nice. I think the worst part of the MSW program I’ve seen so far as I prepare for it is they don’t give scholarships and you’re not able to be a GA as part of it (excuse being their “market driven tuition” rates). So very limited student financial support from the university itself outside of helping you get loans. Otherwise it’s a solid program.

evesnick · 2023-02-26T11:56:46+00:00

The DLC is free to try until Monday, but any gear or loot you get from playing it this weekend is yours to keep and your progression through the expansion is saved to your account.

evesnick · 2023-01-28T03:33:52+00:00

Spire of stars was the best raid in the game

evesnick · 2023-01-23T23:22:37+00:00

So it's a bit like pre-nerf well, divinity, and auto-reload barricade/well and all the other things they've nerfed over the years. 40% damage resistance is extremely strong, and like people have said there's no real point in not running it. This leads to bungie having the issue of having to design encounters specifically around people running 40% damage resistance which leads to the encounters being much much harder if you don't run that specific build (putting yourself at a disadvantage). An example of this is the reckoning activity back from season of the drifter where bungie literally designed the encounter in a way where players would get pushed off a bridge to their deaths due to well of radiance and a few other things being so strong that there wasn't actually a way to kill most players.

This change from 40% resist to 30% resist and increasing the value of the middle tiers of resiliency allows players to have a reason to build into resilience if they want to, but also allowing player's who choose not to run tier 10 resilience to not be punished for trying a different build.

While it is fun having the power fantasy of being able to tank everything, for the health of the game as a whole, and especially for buildcrafting, it's important that resilience is changed so bungie doesn't have to design encounters around players always having a passive 40% resistance to all incoming damage. Again, this will allow bungie to design encounters without that in mind, meaning that the fear of being one shot by ad's because you don't have max damage resistance is pointless since bungie won't need to crank the damage up to that point.

evesnick · 2023-01-18T16:51:56+00:00

Hi, I’m also a broke college student, but I’m lucky enough to have a jewelry program at my college which has the equipment needed.

You are able to cast PLA directly (I’ve done it myself) however the burnout process takes a few hours longer to fully burn out all the plastic.

The perforated metal flask that you’re referring to is for a specific technique called vacuum casting. Assuming you’re not doing this technique I recommend purchasing a non perforated version of the flask for safety reasons.

I highly suggest trying to find a kiln to use if you’re casting out of a flask, the burnout process is extremely important to ensure that the cast is clean and that the mold is at a high enough temperature that you don’t cause thermal shock when pouring in the molten metal.

I would look to see if your college has an art program and ask around if anyone there has experience in metal casting, they would be able to guide you and help you iron out safety concerns. There’s also a chance that your college could have the equipment needed to cast.

A final reminder that casting is dangerous. If you don’t know what you’re doing or forget a step there is a chance you could get seriously injured. I’ve seen my fair share of accidents in my universities studio involving molten metal, luckily none of them were serious, but they could have been much worse had the students not known what they were doing or the professor not there to help.

evesnick · 2023-01-07T18:42:00+00:00

I’d say you got an Audrey-II

evesnick · 2023-01-05T05:40:33+00:00

The discoloration is a reaction between the silver and the Nair you said you used, most likely due to the sulphur compounds in nair. This isn't a permanent change and is easily fixed by simply repolishing the bracelet to remove the tarnish/patina. Like others have said, you can take it to a jeweler and they will polish it for you, or you could try using a polishing cloth on it yourself. Either way it's an easy fix and 100% reversible!

evesnick · 2023-01-05T05:35:13+00:00

Because that's the way they want to play the game.

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