I love genuine questions and people putting in the effort to love and understand each other better. If you come at me just wanting to argue I’m going to troll you back. FAFO.
At this point working in psychiatry I’ve lost count of the number of things that cause dementia. Some part of my body is gonna break down first and I haven’t decided which part I’m least afraid of yet, but when I do the solution is probably just going to be doing more of whatever will help it beat dementia to the punch.
At least you were kinda trying to do the right thing. We had a resident who insisted we hold a man down for a POC glucose fingerstick just because there A1C from a week ago said the EAG was like 400 and we had a court order for psych treatment.
Like sir. I’m not starting the precedent of restraining this man 4x daily to stab his fingers. He’s probably been living at 400 for months (if not years), a week or two more waiting for the antipsychotics to hit isn’t gonna do all that much more damage. Also idt the paperwork was completely in order to apply medical treatments under the psychiatric court order (not that I was super concerned about a homeless psych patient being able to hire a lawyer anyway but–). You you know what’s gonna really convince this man that both diabetes and hypertension really are government conspiracies to torture him? Restraining him 4x a day to stab his fingers over them.
Anyway he didn’t call the senior resident. ALL the nurses told him no so he called his Attending. at 9pm. ON A SATURDAY.
she told him no
One of my dementia care protips to new psych workers is that (since music is actually clinically proven to be calming), you can look at the age on their wristband and try whatever was popular when they were 15-25.
“These are the best years of your life” is the WRONG thing to tell a teenager thinking about ending it.
have had IBS my whole life. hearing people say this is like hearing people say they only breathe at home. they just. hold their breath. until they get back. Shit WILL exit my body when I’m away from home and I generally prefer it to be in a toilet.
I wonder how many people in these comments love an artist that someone else finds objectionable / harmful because they just don’t personally empathize with the people their fav has marginalized.
Op if you can swing ~30 pick up a drug test at the drugstore while you’re there. It’s a benzodiazepine, for future reference.
From another comment of mine on a similar post:
ADHD protip: commit to only setting up the digital workspace as soon as you get the assignment. Set up a cloud storage folder with google drive or one drive or whatever you use with:
Not only have I written numerous fabulously scoring assignments on my phone while taking horrifying IBS shits but also–
–one time I set this up for a group project and sent the folder out to the members. A few days later I logged in and one of the other members who also had ADHD had basically completed the entire assignment. Cannot say whether she was shitting while writing it but it’s certainly not impossible. A day after that another group member edited it and it was ready for submission five days ahead of schedule.
The neurochemistry isn’t actually averse to work, you just gotta catch it at the right angle.
Hubs gets annoyed sometimes by my attention seeking hypersexuality. He’s fond of this bit:
I mean during COVID as a nurse I paid for my neighbor’s groceries in exchange for meal prep (they were single with no kids so it was still cheaper than getting takeout all the time) but that’s a highly personal deal to cut. Incidentally though I told one of my coworkers about the deal and they were like “wait my neighbor has kids but I could probably still net positive on like half their groceries…” There were some good human moments during that time. I also promoted that neighbor who cooked for me to husband but that’s a different story.
The funniest part of this video for me is that one of my neighbors growing up did in fact get arrested for breeding illegal reptiles.
According to the FDA melatonin tablets are food and bupropion doesn’t work for smoking cessation as Wellbutrin, you gotta shell out for Zyban specifically.
Fun fact: it’s also good for migraines and depression! While it’s often used in an invalidating manner, it’s true that frowning too much does have at least a small effect on your mood. No frown = no sad is literally the mechanism of action as far as researchers are able to tell so far.
I find libertarians to be a very mixed bag. Their biggest issue is usually not understanding how much power they’ve been given, and what it would actually take to return that power to people who have historically not had much. I would think that a black man would have better context.
The world would be a better place if people spent more time recognizing and admiring skilled labor. Like even people who mostly just move and make things. The level of dexterity alone is just 👨🍳🤌💋
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People ask me all the time if taking the bus is stressful but like. bruh I’m zoned out scrolling social media the entire time at the bus stop and on the bus. Or I’m just straight up zoned out. I don’t have to pay attention even to my own driving let alone the rest of these people. And also once in a blue moon the bus driver does something utterly wild like execute a perfect K-turn on a crowded city street in the ice without touching a single car to route around a detour (my mind was blown).
The informatics nurse took a second to register that I was just gonna give her the IP address to remote in. She had this whole spiel ready ready to walk me through finding the device number (that wore off years before I even started). I was like girl I have the network settings open do you just want the IP address I just need you to make the new EPIC update behave let’s get to it.
I couldn’t get over Abraham repeatedly trying to get cucked and god cockblocking it by telling the other party in a dream every single time. I know it happens at least twice and I think three. He just kept tryin’!
Somebody told me they found the Bible boring one time and I was like that’s literally the one single thing it’s not. Telenovelas have nothing on that shit. And that’s in the very first book. We haven’t even got anywhere near the interracial gangbang snuff porn yet!