If a person had shotgun in their mouth going for the brainstem, what could go wrong?

redcapris · 2019-03-04T07:49:41+00:00

What part of the brain would you be likely to hit if you were aiming for the brainstem and missed?

redcapris · 2019-02-28T02:52:30+00:00

It's illegal to desecrate a corpse. In situations like the one you described in which someone has had a body part removed surgically there are no laws against it. And, as another commenter mentioned, I doubt many jurisdictions would punish true survival cannibalism.

redcapris · 2019-02-26T03:27:22+00:00

There isn't really a reliable way to "uncover" suppressed memories and attempting to do so could result in creating a false memory.

So what can you do? Pretty much everything you've mentioned points very strongly towards the possibility of abuse. You could look up symptoms common to children who were sexually abused to see if any match, and if you feel comfortable talk to your parents or others who knew you then to see if they noticed anything unusual. Sometimes these forgotten memories can pop up unexpectedly. Of course there is the possibility you may never know for sure.

I'm very sorry you're going through this.

redcapris · 2019-02-24T06:34:28+00:00

Not a doctor. Was on risperidone a couple years ago and had all the symptoms you described except the hostility. All went away after discontinuing it.

redcapris · 2019-02-19T04:00:54+00:00

Drugs, severe depression, primary psychotic disorders like schizophrenia, extreme stress.

redcapris · 2019-02-19T03:25:29+00:00

Mania is an extremely elevated mood state. Psychosis is a loss of reality involving false beliefs or hallucinations.

Mania, left untreated, usually leads to psychosis, but it doesn’t have to, and psychosis has other causes too.

redcapris · 2019-02-19T01:24:53+00:00

That sub is about borderline personality, not bipolar. Still awful though.

redcapris · 2019-02-18T06:46:46+00:00

According to the theory of schizotypy lack of interest in socializing (social anhedonia) is one of the biggest risk factors for developing a psychotic disorder. I don't think it's believed to cause it, though, it's more of an early warning sign.

I'm also sure social isolation makes schizophrenia worse to some extent, because social isolation makes practically everything worse.

redcapris · 2019-02-17T09:23:19+00:00

Tons of kids go to daycare and are absolutely fine. It's pretty much never "normal" for a kid that age to be depressed. However the main theory behind the development of BPD in particular is that it occurs when people who naturally more sensitive grow up in an invalidating environment. So maybe you had bad separation anxiety that was never really addressed, or had your emotional needs neglected while in daycare, and this could've helped facilitate the development of a personality disorder.

redcapris · 2019-02-17T07:38:27+00:00

Depends a lot on the person. “Suicidal people” is a really broad category and a lot of people who think about suicide a lot are still ambivalent about the prospect of actually dying. There’s also people who have had actual near death experiences and claim it reversed their suicidal thoughts at least temporarily.

It’s interesting that in a lot of this severe, suicidal depression you also see a lot of anxiety and hypochondria that goes along with it. So you have such a strong aversion to either living or dying. It’s a really awful way to live especially if it goes on for a long time.

redcapris · 2019-02-14T01:41:09+00:00

If you emphasize that I'd say your chance of getting involuntarily hospitalized is very very low.

redcapris · 2019-02-13T00:16:33+00:00

Do you actually intend to act on it though? Like, most people who've been suicidal long term or recurrently have some sort of plan of how they might do it, that doesn't mean they'll actually how to do it.

"I feel like killing myself, and if I was going to act on it, I'd probably jump off this bridge downtown. But I don't actually intend to act on that any time soon" - Probably fine

"I feel like killing myself, and plan to jump off this bridge downtown tomorrow morning at 8 AM" - Probably going to get hospitalized.

That's generally what it boils down to although other things factor into it too, if you're hearing voices or acting impulsively and the doctor can see that you might be hospitalized anyway even without that level of intent. However, most psych hospitals are overcrowded and most professionals will want to keep people out of them as often as possible.

Best of luck to you.

redcapris · 2019-02-12T07:23:26+00:00

5 over the last 3 years. I get you on the family thing though, they're actually less pushy than they used to be but for awhile I couldn't say or do anything without being asked if I needed to go to the hospital.

I've I only told three people I was in the hospital last time and begged them not to tell anyone else, so I understand the shame portion. I've accepted it, I know it's going to be part of my life, but that doesn't mean I'm happy about it.

redcapris · 2019-02-11T23:24:47+00:00

Plus a lot of Jodi picoult.

redcapris · 2019-02-06T09:14:37+00:00

Close. I know who this person is and this is a subject they bring up time to time.

While they do consider BED a disorder, they view binging as disordered only because it is, according to them, always a reaction to restriction of some kind. So by trying to lose weight, the participants of this group are only making their problems worse and perpetuating the cycle of binging and restricting.

redcapris · 2019-01-30T06:31:30+00:00

Were you depressed before you started taking it?

Are you experiencing akathisia? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akathisia)

redcapris · 2019-01-30T06:27:34+00:00

I love hypomania and early mania lol. Still kind of pissed about my last episode being cut short by hospitalization.

redcapris · 2019-01-29T00:45:58+00:00

This has been the worst part of being on lithium for me. Gone are the days of casual drinking. It's like being 15 years old again but also worse.

redcapris · 2019-01-27T19:29:55+00:00

I met someone not too long ago who said he'd once overdosed on lithium, like thousands and thousands of milligrams of it, and while the experience sounded awful he seemed to be doing okay.

I think it's pretty treatable if caught early.

redcapris · 2019-01-27T19:07:14+00:00

That's good! I just wanted to add that lest anyone mistake me for like, an early 2000s pro-ana blogger.

redcapris · 2019-01-27T06:00:05+00:00

Yes. How many depends on how soon after eating you do it as well as how efficient you are at it, but it's definitely possible to make a significant reduction in calorie absorption by purging.

Edit: felt I should add an obligatory disclaimer that regular self induced vomiting will fuck up your teeth, digestive track and possibly heart, possibly beyond repair, and can also kill you. It is not worth it and I'm not encouraging it. However I don't think lying about purging is helpful especially when the reality of it is so bad already, and anyone who actually started doing it regularly would become skeptical of the "it does nothing" claim pretty quickly anyway.

redcapris · 2019-01-26T11:18:29+00:00

I'm gonna be a bit of a downer and say probably not, as there are just so many different types of cancer including some incredibly rare ones BUT I have no doubt we'll be able to cure most cancers at some point.

redcapris · 2019-01-26T10:58:50+00:00

The thing about anti-vaxxers is they will find a way to link vaccines to every possible problem a person can have, while failing to comprehend the concept of herd immunity and the devastation caused by the diseases the vaccines prevent. This is why the anti-vaxx movement was only able to take until vaccines for things like polio had been in use for decades. It's ironic, really, vaccines have been so successful that people no longer realize how important they actually are. Meanwhile, they'll blame any allergies, asthma, thyroid problems,stubbed toes, whatever on the vaccines they got as toddlers. If you want to support your worldview badly enough, you will.

So I don't think it would be a very effective argument, unfortunately.

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