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Apytele

@ Apytele @sh.itjust.works

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  • What are the most interesting user tags you have?

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  • you can't see what anyone else has tagged you.

    Well obviously, I meant that I don't personally know how to tag others, but am curious if anyone has tagged me. It's the he classic allure of wanting to know what others think of you, or even that you're noticeable enough for them to border thinking about you at all.

  • What are the most interesting user tags you have?

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  • Honestly I never bothered to figure out how but gave always been curious if anyone has me tagged but that thread of narcissism has been largely supplanted by the realization that I'm not enough of a main character to have made it onto the blocklist.

  • Women who consider themselves unattractive, what’s something men don’t realize about how they treat you compared to women they find attractive?

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  • I'm not on the blocklist 😭

  • sadge

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  • it still creates a literal set of targeting data that anyone else can pick up and harass

    this scope of possible damage hadn't occurred to me until now...

  • You find yourself teleported onto the stage of a TED talk right NOW with a large audience. What topic do you speak about?

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    1. Everybody's violent, the question is where and how sensitive the button is.
    2. Sardines
    3. Standup black comedy
    4. What I do should be considered ICU level care
    5. We'd need less ICU level behavioral care if we put people in houses and gave them food

  • You find yourself teleported onto the stage of a TED talk right NOW with a large audience. What topic do you speak about?

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  • 10 years of experiential observations on why people are violent in institutional environments.

  • What is the nature of suffering?

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  • I also think it's the thing the Buddha said. It was very well stated and made a lot of sense. You should go read about it.

  • Why do I sometimes have to yawn, but it didn't feel complete and I need to yawn again a few seconds later?

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  • I mean it could be something else, but that thing they're describing where they have to work their jaw and do it again and again until some arbitrary sense in their body decides they finally did it right... It's just too familiar. Like they're describing EXACTLY the same sensation. That is EXACTLY how I would describe the feeling. And that's what fixed it for me.

  • Why do I sometimes have to yawn, but it didn't feel complete and I need to yawn again a few seconds later?

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  • It's called air hunger and is a mild form of shortness of breath and I get it constantly. (Edit to add: I know EXACTLY what you mean by the jaw thing and that arbitrary bodily sensation of "u did it wrong tho do it again :( but right this time..." and then it keeps going and going and going until you finally manage to breathe in right somehow.)

    • get a medical checkup just to make sure nothing is actually wrong with your lungs, but especially have your iron levels checked
    • CUT BACK ON YOUR CAFFEINE AND OTHER STIMULANT USAGE (nicotine is another common stimulant)
    • it can also be due to anxiety (which is why you wanna cut the stims) so reduce your lifestyle stressors where possible, seek psychiatric treatment otherwise

    Not a doctor but I am an RN (but still not your RN).

  • [Serious] What is the expected result of kicking out and rejecting all immigrants?

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  • Oh yeah. If we made it so the immigrants faced 0 direct consequences but hiring them illegally had ruinous fines AND jail time, wages for natural born citizens would increase dramatically. A huge amount of "illegal immigration" is just diet human trafficking. Even the legal ones are sketchy sometimes, I meet so many international nurses who get hired into my specialty with 0 preparation for how dangerous American psych patients can get + how bad the working and living conditions are gonna be for them and the patients, but they can't get out of their contracts.

  • What's the most horrifying thing someone in your care has eaten?

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  • agreed

  • What's the most horrifying thing someone in your care has eaten?

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  • Patient - their own vomit. They ate so fast they puked then just kept re-eating it. Had to be dragged away. Mentioned this in a VtM group that thought they were edgy. They were like "well you can't eat anything that's not blood or you'll puke it up" and I was like "but I can just keep re-eating the puke right?" You could hear a pin drop in that chat.

    Also lots of weird day-old congealed milk in juice mixers. See that one a lot actually. They scream at you for clearing out their room but you have to do it to keep them from poisoning themselves or getting weird infections.

  • The Backlash Is So Strong That People With “Pervert Glasses” Are Afraid to Use Them in Public

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  • Yeah having to let the battery die on a patient's prescription glasses that they needed to like. Not fall down while walking. Was not a fun couple of shifts.

  • If pieces of a haunted house are all replaced ship of Theseus style, would the ghosts go away?

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  • Turns out ghosts were just termites all along.

  • SOLVED: Is it in any way incorrect to interpret a downvote as a "fuck you" in a 1-on-1 convo?

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  • I mean, OP seems to actually care that much.

  • What is the process of becoming a father minus a partner?

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  • Conservatives say that all the time. They blame them for overutilizing food stamps in particular. Campaigning against single mothers keeping their children away from their fathers been one of their main arguments against social services for literal decades.

  • What's the most interesting fringe group you've learned about?

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  • It's ok like half the techs I've worked with have bachelor's in Psych and still barely know what schizophrenia is. The academic degree apparently translates very poorly to clinical work. I've got a fucking associates but apparently nursing school is just way more rigorous for less years.

  • What's the most interesting fringe group you've learned about?

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  • Patients say the government, their ex, etc are "stealing their thoughts." Idk if it's a disorganized way of saying they're reading their thoughts. I do know thought blocking is a thing so maybe they're attributing that to the process of having their mind read? Idk but thought withdrawal is a common enough delusion that it's an option on some assessment forms. Idk either man the mere concept of the sensation is almost entirely alien to me as well.

  • What's the most interesting fringe group you've learned about?

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  • well the interesting thing is that it actually CAN happen, it's just extremely rare and is almost always related to prejudice in some way (somebody non-white or a gay couple move to a conservative rural community) or domestic violence on the part of someone powerful enough to have lackeys (or peers, like a cop and their coworkers). The church of scientology has also been known to use gangstalking against people who speak out. But no the goverment isn't stalking random people because they're telepathic (my brother-in-law's delusion).

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  • As a psych nurse stealing thoughts is a symptom I've always struggled to comprehend. It happens at the right frequency that I'm sure it's real (often enough in different people, but not often enough that they would have met to copy each other). But it's also such a bizarre concept that I can't imagine perceiving it happen. I can picture being so scared you think you're being watched all the time and plotted against, and I can imagine seeing, hearing, or even feeling and smelling things that aren't there. But thought stealing has to be a completely surreal sensation that I am entirely unfamiliar with.