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Funnily enough this was actually taught to me as a precipitating factor to constipation in a hospitalized patient. If they're a coffee drinker and / or cigarette smoker at home, and their morning coffee + cigarette has been replaced with shitty weak hospital brew and a patch, their bowel muscles might forget they actually have a job to do. Not that you should encourage bad habits, but you might need to mindfully replace them with another laxative or in some cases just accept that people do things that are unhealthy and you're not going to fix 20+ years of substance dependence in one stressful AF hospital stay. Still can't let them actually smoke cigarettes but maybe some gum or a lozenge.

I genuinely can't tell you what my thing is. Other than that deep down, I know the feeling and know that I have one. This has happened to me before. I have felt this feeling. I just don't remember what about. I'll keep you guys posted if I remember.

I literally have to take metamucil daily to not shit liquid multiple times daily. It is baaaaad. But when my stomach has been super irritated for a while because I haven't been keeping up with it that first properly fibered shit feels like a kitchen sponge running all the way through me. I feel so clean afterwards. I'm convinced it's the only real "cleanse."

Omg I thought that was the joke.

Oh John dies at the end is in my top ten all time favorites possibly even #1 and I don't even like horror.

yes it's very likely to either get torn apart by interpersonal tensions such as infidelities or economic power struggles or just devolve into a new age cult of some kind, and usually some combination of all three from what I've seen of those kinds of communities.

ok so it wasn't just me:

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My hill is that some people have made it far enough to realize they should do that with a neurotypical child but will hold back a neurodivergent one, especially if there's some intellectual / cognitive disability in the mix. A looot of parents come to terms with having an ID kid by picturing that they're going to stay their cute sweet baby forever. It can result in a lot of messed up situations and a little public masturbation is the least of them. I actually really enjoyed the "tard Wrangler" greentext despite the thoroughly stigmatizing language just because he actually completely nailed the experience of working those kinds of jobs. I've definitely worked with a few people who have some questionable traits but who do, in the end, have the patients best interests at heart, and it's not hard to see how the job itself has kinda fried them a little. That anon is probably one of the coworkers I would make the Picard holding his head gesture at a fair amount but who definitely wouldn't hurt a patient and in a heartbeat would jump into action helping me stop someone from smearing shit everywhere.

working in psychiatry for as long as I've had, the people I admire most are actually the ones who are just decent every single day. the ones who know everybody's kids names and remember everybody's birthday. I don't know how they do it. I became the person who helps pull apart people trying to bite each other's faces off because idk how to remember birthdays and I was hoping it would be something people appreciate but day to day it actually really isn't and the reason why becomes obvious pretty quickly. the people who make the biggest difference in people's mental health are people who know how to plan a good Friday night get-together and how to follow up when they haven't heard from one of the invitees for two weeks in a row.

the only mental health thing I'm aware of being publicly available is commitments, and in most localities that requires an initial involuntary hold followed by evaluation and a hearing. and even that I think only counts for clearances, gun rights, and possibly licenses concerning public safety such as doctors, social workers, etc. rando employers should not be able to access that info afaik (this is a summary of the relevant part of the speech I give to patients when they ask if they want to change their status to involuntary and what the process looks like if the doctor disagrees that they need care, what their rights are in that situation, etc.). even with that idk that they can see what you were committed for just that you were. I'm not sure how hard they'd have to dig to get access to the mental health board evaluation that led to the commitment. I talked my way out of a commitment after an involuntary hold and have had a few incidents since where I even talked myself out of the hold to begin with and it never even affected me getting licensed (fellow cluster b PD here, hiiiii).

I have borderline personality and premenstrual dysphoric disorder. I was so unmanageable as a teenager (and twice a month since my cycle was coming every two weeks) that my fundie parents put me on birth control at 14 years old.