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40 True Stories Of People Preventing Tragedies By Doing Something “Just In Case”
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There are days when a tiny voice inside your head nudges you, maybe to double-check if you turned off the gas or to grab a jacket “just in case.” Most of the time, it's nothing. But every once in a while, that cautious little voice ends up saving you from something disastrous.
Today, we’ve scoured the internet for stories from people who acted on those gut feelings or made thoughtful, cautious, or even random decisions that turned out to be life-changing. In this collection, you’ll find tales of backup plans, second opinions, and split-second choices that made all the difference. Keep reading for some uplifting proof that playing it safe can sometimes be the best thing you ever do.
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#1
I listened to my cat. She was stretched out in my lap sleeping panther style while I had dozed off in a chair at about 11:30 pm. All of the sudden she jumped up, which woke me up, and stared over my shoulder at the back door with her mouth agape and eyes dilated. She really looked scared so I went to investigate and startled a tall man, late 20s, in my laundry room. He had just picked the lock to enter the back door. I pivoted and ran barefoot out the front door to a neighbor who called the police. Eight police officers arrived silent approach within a minute but the intruder had already bolted. My cat gave me about a ten second jump on the intruder rather than him having the jump on sleeping me. I shudder to think what would have happened if my cat hadn’t warned me. The police asked if the intruder had a backpack — which he didn’t— so he wasn’t there to steal. My kitty is now 22 years old and I gratefully dote on her every whim.
Billo66 8 months ago
I was so annoyed when my little German Shepherd pup kept jumping on me like I was prey in the middle of the night, or lie down so his face is on mine and constantly plop his down till I was awake. Then he wouldn't stop licking my face. I thought oh well he's a pup he just wants to play. Nope, turns out I stop breathing in my sleep and it freaks him out so thank you Bandit little buddy. Now lets work on the going outside to potty thing lol.
Kalikima 8 months ago
My puppy, also named Bandit, also does that when I'm sleeping. Not every night, but some nights. I wonder if he's doing it for the same reason?
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Llkru 8 months ago
My dad has had several heart attacks over the years. One middle of the night, his gentle kitty inexplicably jumped on his chest as he was sleeping and started howling and batting his face to wake him up. Saved his life from another major heart attack. We say dad was saved by a cat-scan.
ILoveMySon 8 months ago
My sister's cat wouldn't stop bothering her as she slept. She finally got up. There was an intruder in our home! My dad had died a month prior and his tools were stolen as we slept. Nobody was hurt but kitty was alert.
Nikki Angulo 8 months ago
I know if my cats run and hide, some stranger (to them) is in my house!
Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago
Pay attention to your cats and dogs. They will warn you. My Belgian Malinois will scare off anyone trying to break in. Honestly all single women should have a dog.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 8 months ago
Mook doesn't make sense. The cat wouldn't have just stayed on OP. Cats feel love for goodness sake
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#2
Agreed to go to the hospital when my skin and eyes turned yellow and i couldn’t eat food and was pissing red.
I was drinking a handle of bourbon every two days along with whatever beers i had.
i had decided i was just going to drink myself to death, and i got pretty close.
My wife convinced me to go to the ER and they immediately admitted me and kept me for a week or so. i have no memory of my time there.
anyway, i survived and on july 15th it will be four years since i had a drink.
Lowrider 56 8 months ago
There was a time in my drinking days where I 'knew' if I didn't stop drinking i would probably die. That was 2011 and haven't had a drink since.
Borg 2 months ago
I guess actually going to the hospital in the first place. Sometimes you just need to hear the truth from a stranger - even if you already know
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Alexia 8 months ago
A friend of mine survived a myocardial infarction just because he listened to his gut feeling and went immediately to the hospital. As he recalled later, the physical symptoms were rather mild (could have been mistaken for a temporary indisposition). He first wanted to lay down for a while, but there was this strange thought that something was off. So he jumped into a taxi and headed to the hospital. He collapsed as he was entering the ER unit. He received immediate medical care - and even so, he barely survived.
Chewie Baron 8 months ago
I’ve had jaundice, but it was because my liver just stopped working for a while.
Pandapoo 8 months ago
Do you know why? It happened to a neighbor and doctors never figured out why.
Load More Replies... Dawn Marie 8 months ago
July 15th. That is a day of saving lives. On July 15th of 2024, I passed out and my roommate called 911. Turned out I had a massive UTI that went sepsis. It was devastating to my whole body. It took the strength from my legs, made my skin ashen, and affected my lungs to the point where I was in need of the oxygen. My heart was also damage and my memory is getting to be an issue, but I am alive!!
#3
Rumble strips. I love rumble strips.
Many people don’t even think about that rough edge on the side of the road that makes a lot of noise when you drift a little.
They have saved my life.
I commuted over 50 miles one way for over 20 years. I also worked the night shift. I would be driving home after working 12 -16 hours. Isn’t that alone a recipe for disaster?
Well, it happened. I drifted off a little bit while driving. Rumble strips. Instantly alert and moved back over. Missed the edge of the bridge over the Red River between Oklahoma and Texas by only a few feet.
God Bless the engineer who came up with rumble strips. Because of them, I am alive today. I was able to raise my son, welcome my daughter-in-law, and enjoy my grandbaby. I was able to see Washington, D.C., Chicago, California, Europe, and move to Alaska.
Because of rumble strips.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Seatbelts are for during an accident. Rumble strips are for preventing an accident :)
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Ruth Watry 8 months ago
Center line rumble strips were born in my area back in 2002. They did so well cutting head on collisions, that our state expanded them and won a national safety award, and then they started showing up all over the place. Got the idea from the ones that saved you.
Pandapoo 8 months ago
I’m in Florida. We have the rumble strips in addition to raised reflective lights. From what I understand, they can’t use the reflective lights up north because of snow plows. Does it not affect the rumble strips?
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Smeghead Tribble Down Under 8 months ago
We have this drilled into our heads here: Stop, Revive, Survive.
ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 8 months ago
And where is the "just in case" part in this story? Ah, prime BP title fúckup as we're used to 😘🤌
Lila Allen 8 months ago
The rumble strips are there just in case a driver falls asleep or slips from their lane
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Bookworm 8 months ago (edited)
A lot of newer cars have a feature that will flash in the side mirror if you start drifting out of your lane. Very helpful. Just be aware some do this even if you plan to (safely) change lanes but forget your signal light. The ones I've used have gentle resistance, just enough to get your attention, when you do this.
There are days when you second-guess yourself over the smallest decisions, like whether to carry an umbrella or try a new dish at your favorite restaurant. And then there are days when that tiny gut feeling leads you to do something unexpectedly wise. Maybe you double-checked and went to the doctor for a mild stomach ache. At the time, it felt like no big deal. But later? It turned out to be life-changing.
That same principle applies to smaller moments, too, like when you take a little extra care with your resume. It might not feel urgent or dramatic, but that one document can shape your entire career path. Think about it: a resume is often the first thing a potential employer sees. It speaks for you before you ever walk into the room. So, investing time and thought into it? That’s not just smart, it’s a power move.
#4
My mom worked on the 99th floor of the world trade centaur and I was 9 years old with her at 7 AM when I spilled apple juice on my pants and she took me down to the first floor to get shorts from the shop when the plane hit.
Littlemissgiggles165 2 weeks ago
It is very easy to accidentally spill a drink, maybe it was on the table and got accidentally knocked off
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#5
Sounds weird, but joining the Army. Even did two combat tours. I grew up in a trailer park in Oklahoma, lots of m**h, kids around me were getting hooked on the stuff, getting in trouble with the law, etc. I decided to just not have friends the last couple years of high school and pass with decent grades. Joined the Army and was in basic 3 days after graduation, Iraq 5 months later. Got out and got a degree in Business with no student loans and now have an incredible job, two houses, wife, dog all that. My step dad is dead from opioids, stepbrother died early 30s and stepsister is now a 36 year old grandma. Without the military and getting the f**k out of the trailer park, not sure if I would be much different.
SnackbarKaat 8 months ago
An ancestor of mine grew up in poverty, no dad. He joined the army, got decorated, got wounded, but came home and married a girl next door. Ended up working a decent job in a good house. His grandchildren turned out to be a docter, teacher, pharmacist... The army changed his life and of his family
Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
How sad that there were no other options to escape poverty and desperation.
XenoMurph 8 months ago
"Getting shot at in a war zone is safer than some areas of the US". US has established itself as the shortest Empire in history.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Of the 5 or so folks I hung with in school, 3 are dead, and the dude I used to hang with and I made it through. I joined USCG at 17 and, while not super successful after that, I 'went out' at 62. He worked a factory gig and, so far as I know, is doing ok.
ss 8 months ago
Don't forget that you have health care, and the VA. Unless Leon Mustfùck-14-chilluns wipes these out too.
Lila Allen 8 months ago
Yeah he's coming for all of that. More tax breaks for him and his friends
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Mason Kronol 8 months ago
It was math. Because in the USA we don't say maths.
Load More Replies... Danish Susanne 8 months ago
While I wish military wasn't necessary I found this a very uplifting story.
CatD 8 months ago (edited)
Maybe the Democratic president after Trump. We'll probably need it.
Load More Replies... Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago
I was poverty drafted as well. Unfortunately injured but have a 100% Service Connected disability, but I own my home and sometimes have enough money to spoil the grandkids.
#6
Keeping a paper trail of everything i do at work and recording closed-door conversations with management.
keyboardtek 8 months ago
There is a reason laws and regulations were created to keep businesses from ripping off people. The natural way of humans is to be dishonest. Ironic that Republicans and conservative Christians are the people always harping on law and order, and morality because you see in the news all the time how they are the people committing most of the corporate crimes, doing politically morally questionable actions, and getting caught as child molesters.
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R Dennis 8 months ago (edited)
I kept a paper trail at a job that I ended up having to leave. They hounded me for months after I left. I hadn't applied for unemployment benefits because I went back to school, but an executive wanted me to write a false statement that I quit - I left because a significant allergen was being brought in and they refused to try and move me. After three months, I filed only because of the harassment. They lied in response to the claim. I forwarded the email string and was given back benefits, extended benefits, and was told I could sue if I wanted to do so. Due to a few factors, I was getting more in benefits than my weekly pay when I left. ALWAYS keep emails and forward anything that isn't confidential to an external email in case access is terminated.
StrangeOne 8 months ago
I wish I could do this, but we're not allowed our phones at work, nor allowed to record employees. That's where they get ya. So, even if I recorded someone on the sly, just the fact I went against company policy to record a conversation would get me in hot water over whatever else was said.
ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 8 months ago
Taking voice records without informing the subjects that you're doing so is illegal where I live. Even if I did this, it would count as unusable evidence. 🤷♀️
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Little Bit 8 months ago
I always keep a paper trail. It has saved my a*s on more than one occasion.
SlightlyTarnished 8 months ago
If in the US the recording could be illegal, depends on the State.
Rachel Pelz 8 months ago
Secretly recording a conversation is definitely illegal in Germany.
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CatD 8 months ago
I always screenshot everything I buy and all the bills I pay online. Also chats with companies.
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Julia Mckinney 8 months ago
Oh yeah, to quote Samuel Goldwyn (co-founder of MGM studios) "a verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on".
Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago
Always always always always do that with almost any interaction you have: doctors, bosses, landlords.
DowntownStevieB 8 months ago
I work in healthcare, and I can certify that this is a great practice. We call it CYB...cover your butt!
To learn more about what makes a resume truly stand out, Bored Panda spoke with Erica Katz, a resume expert who’s helped over 500 people polish theirs to perfection. “We all want to land our dream job,” Erica said, “but people often overlook just how powerful the right resume can be.” According to her, many clients have amazing experiences, it’s just hidden beneath poor structure or awkward formatting. “The layout might be off, or the most impressive stuff is tucked away at the bottom where no one sees it.”
One of the biggest mistakes she sees is people sending out the same resume for every role. “Sometimes people forget to tailor their resume to the job they’re applying for,” Erica explained. “They’ll send one generic version everywhere, hoping it works.” But that approach rarely makes an impact. She recommends customizing at least your top bullet points and summary to match the job description. “That little extra effort shows you actually care about the role. If you don’t tell them why you’re the perfect fit, someone else will.”
#7
Emailing a colleague a summary of a phone call we had, where I noted that there was a faster alternative to finishing a project, but he wanted to go with the original plan because "we have plenty of time."
Fast forward a few weeks later and this dude is screeching to my boss's boss about the project taking so long. I just forwarded everyone on the email thread the original email where I proposed a faster solution and it was decided against.
#8
Transitioning. Life is worth it now.
Aroace tiger (she/they/he) 8 months ago
Everything is kinda going to śĥïť rn, stay safe out there my loves ❤️ 🏳️⚧️
NJ P 8 months ago
Have no understanding of someone knowing they're in the wrong body. But I believe God does make mistakes. (Think Noah and the Flood.)
Billo66 8 months ago
Yep, 6 chapters into the first book he thought, nah that ain't right. Flooded us all and started over.
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Nikki Angulo 8 months ago
But that’s not really doing something “just in case” that’s a long process with lots of therapy.
#9
When I was young, I had taken my car into a national brake place to get the brakes repaired, as they were getting iffy. Driving home, I wasn’t very far from the place when I noticed - at about 40 mph in city traffic - that I now had no brakes at all!
A scene from the old TV show Mannix flashed through my mind - the episode where Mannix is driving down a mountain and realizes his brake lines have been cut, and he repeatedly drives into the mountainside in order to bring his vehicle to a halt.
So that’s what I did. I repeatedly drove into the curb until the car finally stopped. So that useless bit of info probably saved my life and/or limbs, and maybe those of others, too.
(I called the brake place and yelled at them a lot, and they fixed the brakes. Being young, that’s all I did about it, aside from never going there again, and warning all my friends.)
Billo66 8 months ago
Well, try Hawaii 5-0 then. It came on right after :)
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Detroit Citizen 8 months ago
As a child in the 80s bike helmets were not yet law (very soon at time of story). Lee Majors had a show called the Fall Guy. IIRC he was a stunt man. I got hit by a car in our neighborhood one day. The night before Fall Guy was on and Lee Majors was on a motorcycle that got TBoned by a car. He jumped off. Well thats exactly what I imitated. My mom and step dad (who rode motorcycles) said that show saved my life. My bike was 3/4 of the way underneath the car. If I hadnt jumped, I wouldnt be typing this 40ish years later.
Mason Kronol 8 months ago
There was another old show about a lovely lady...Sure Jan.
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Rick Murray 8 months ago
Can't you *slowly* pull on the handbrake? On every car I've ever been in, it's a mechanical arrangement so that it will work to some degree if the main braking system fails. It would need a catastrophic failure of the actual brakes of *both* back wheels to render it useless.
Auntriarch 8 months ago
I managed to do that. But it took an embarrassingly large number of seconds for me to remember the handbrake.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago
Oh, I thought you had opened the door and rolled out. Remembering the Ron White bit about taking his vehicle into a national chain for tire replacement.."the wheel fell off...it fell the fvck off".
Burgermeister Meisterburger 8 months ago
Love that show! And btw my MILs mother died when she left the brake shop and she had no brakes. This happens more often than people realize.
Jennifer Clayton 8 months ago (edited)
That happened with my first car! '81 Chevy, but I got it in the 90s. The master cylinder was leaking and drained all the brake fluid. Brakes went out on the way to my high school job, but I hit the hedge in front of a parking space so it was settled, till I had to drive it home late at night. Rode the curb of our cul de sac in circles till I slowed down enough to park. Still a recurring nightmare where I'm driving and the brakes don't work or I can't get to the pedal.
Mark Kelly 8 months ago
I've had two 2 brake failures, a ball joint and tie rod failure failures but luckily each time I was going really slow, like parking lot speeds at the time
CatD 8 months ago
We had a ball joint failure that spewed ball bearings into the street. Lucky we were just pulling out.
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Chris the Bobcat 8 months ago
If the car has a manual emergency brake, this will work too. The brakes are linked via a cable to either a hand brake or a foot brake, and pulling it up or pressing it down while holding the release will allow the driver to slow and stop the car. A lot of cars now have electronic emergency brakes and I'm not sure if this will still work. The brakes on my folks' car failed completely but my dad used the emergency brake to stop without incident and drove it home carefully afterward. Good thing to know.
Formatting issues are another common problem. “I’ve seen resumes that look fine in Word, but once converted to PDF, the spacing is a mess,” Erica shared. Her advice? Always double-check the final version in PDF before hitting send.
“Recruiters won’t fix your formatting, they’ll just move on.” She also recommends keeping your design sleek and mobile-friendly. “It’s tempting to get creative with fonts and columns, but clarity is more important than flair.”
#10
I sent an email with my entire college project to myself on the day it was due to be handed in.
I carried the actual copy in on a usb drive which, for some reason, formatted itself when I put the USB in the college computer to print the project off. Think someone in the previous class in that room had set up some sort of script, thinking they were clever to try and s***w over whoever used the PC after them.
I'm sure considering the circumstances the college would have let me hand it in the next day or something, but it saved me from worrying, being able to just download it from my emails.
Snazzy Smurf 8 months ago
I do the same with important stuff. I fall going up the stairs so having a plan A, B, and C saved me more times than I can count.
ABC NrTen FCK CENSORISM 8 months ago
Seriously, BP? SCREW OVER is being censored? This is ridiculous. We'll be conversing in asterisks only soon. FÙCK THAT STUPID CENSORISM!
Jeremy Klaxon 8 months ago
Pretty much everyone seems to have no copies whatsoever of super important stuff, this is beyond me.
Kira Okah 8 months ago
I saved mine in three additional places from my pen drive after finishing it - spare hdd, my mp3 player, and my Playstation Vita - as well as emailing it to myself, as I was borrowing a computer to write it. My laptop had died midway and already eaten part of it, wasn't taking any risks.
Laura Mortensen 8 months ago
When I was in college I worked in the library. This was back in the early 90s and there were ancient Apple computers students could use. They would often crash and back then you had to save your work by hand. Every once in a while you would hear the cries of students who just lost the paper they'd been slaving over for a couple of hours. Things are better now.
Lila Allen 8 months ago
Definitely... because not only does it save a copy it saves a date and time to prove where and when something happened or was done.
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BookFanatic 8 months ago
I do that with work stuff a lot. Because I never, ever, trust Plan A. I need Plans A-at least D.
Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago
At the end of the day, you cannot really count on anyone but yourself
Nikki Angulo 8 months ago
I do that with report card comments and did it with my CTV and resume too. Any other important docs as well.
#11
Stopped drinking alcohol 10 years ago as of June 19, 2013.
KeepTrying 8 months ago (edited)
Me too! 10 years in October this year… well done so-bro or soberista! (Not sure of gender)
#12
I stayed 3 feet back.
When I was 15 I was walking along the road on my way to my mother's office. This part of the sidewalk was very wide with a fence along one side. A car, Cadillac I think, did a u turn and drove up onto the sidewalk where I was walking. The car parked diagonally across the walk blocking my way. The driver rolled down his window and said he wanted directions. I knew something was up but I felt trapped. There was no where to go.
When the driver asked me to step closer I did so because I wanted to keep him calm. He had already driven across my way close so I just stepped forward one or two steps. I stayed about 3 feet from the car. All at once the driver grabbed my arm and began to open his car door. Because I was 3 feet away, I still had the advantage and was able to wrestle my arm away. I took off running back the way I came as fast as I could.
This particular road was a raised road that had some stepped alleys down to a lower road. The lower road also led to my moms office. Her office was at the point where these two roads converged.
Anyway, there weren't many people around so I ran as fast as I could to my moms office. I ran in the door and started telling my mom what happened. But she had seen the car coming our way and she told me to hide. Meanwhile she used the radio to call her coworkers (gas line men) and then used the radio to contact police dispatch.
The man who tried to grab me came into the office screaming “where is that little bitch!” . The line men arrived back at the office and the police very shortly after.
According to the police no crime had actually been committed and so the best they could do was escort him out of town.
I am not sure my life was saved that day, but by staying 3 feet back from the car, I did save myself from something terrible.
Just a boring person 8 months ago
Proven by the police themselves, they're very useless as even with the evidence provided, they're turning a blind eye.
pikelet murphy 8 months ago
What did you expect the police to do? Arrest the guy for what crime? Believe me, they would have if they could have, that's why they do the job. The issue here is the court. Prosecutors will only press charges if they believe they can win the case. The suspect would get an attorney who would say he was desperate for directions. The state could not prove intent otherwise and the suspect would go free, thus the prosecutor would not take the case. It only takes one person on the jury to have reasonable doubt that this guy meant the victim harm, and believe me it's difficult to get 12 people to agree to anything. There's always someone on a jury that thinks the guy deserves another chance and really doesn't need to go to jail. The cops can't arrest this guy without probable cause that he committed a crime. Looking at the facts presented here, they do not have it. Yeah he was shady so they escorted him out of town, that was the best they could do. I'm sure they wanted to do more.
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Analyn Lahr 8 months ago
No crime? It was attempted kidnapping! That b*****d was bold enough to storm into a place of business after her and expected people to just hand her over? That's what it sounds like. And the cops didn't do anything useful. What's gonna stop the guy from coming back into town? There might be a lot of missing and dead girls because he wasn't arrested.
Awkward lady 8 months ago
What about a*****t? Surely they could have got him on something.
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Jorge Gonzalez 8 months ago
It would have been best not to call the police and let the line men take care of the issue
Lila Allen 8 months ago
Please describe what evidence you have that was a kidnapping.... I'll wait. You think he was. You believe he was. We all believe he was. But our personal opinion of his behavior is not proof.
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pikelet murphy 8 months ago
Can you prove that was what he was trying to do? His lawyer can prove it's not what he was trying to do. Not useless cops, it's the law. Cops can only arrest if they have probable cause. This does not rise to that level of proof. Of course they believe that's what he was going to do, but they can't prove it. That happens a lot in law enforcement. What they know and what they can prove are two different things. Cops don't like it any more than you do.
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Joe Reaves 8 months ago
God d**n I hate lazy cops. A*****t, harassment, attempted kidnap but no we'll escort him out of town and make him someone else's problem and hope he doesn't attack anyone else.
Lila Allen 8 months ago
Harassment requires a repeated intentional act with intent to cause mental injury. So not a one time thing. A*****t... are there marks on the kids arm? Anyone see him grab the kid? Cameras? IF not all you have is a kids word and the adult can say the kid is lying and with no mark or anything to back it up he said she said never works. Attempted kidnapping? So he had a detailed kidnap plan? He had rope and duct tape? He said I'm here kidnapping the kid? All you have is weird behavior that looks suspicious, but you can't actually arrest someone because people think his behavior is wrong or you feel like or believe he was> Unless he grabbed the kid and dragged him into the car and took off you can't prove he meant to kidnap the kid. I mean we all know that what he was doing but our opinion of his behavior is not proof
Load More Replies... Ruth Watry 8 months ago
A*****t because he grabbed your arm (a*****t does not need to cause injury).
pikelet murphy 8 months ago
the prosecutor would not charge this in court if it didn't cause injury.
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Veronica Jean 8 months ago
Unfortunately without a witness, all the two men have to do is tell a completely different story (about her throwing rocks at their car or any number of things) and the police can't do much. However, callifghe police creates a necessary paper trail. Now, if something ELSE happens, even if they once again don't have proof, they have more to go off of. A pattern of behavior a prosecutor can use. There's something called burden of proof. It's a blessing for the innocent and a curse for the sneaky
Load More Replies... Valerie Brillhart 8 months ago
It's the Laws That need be Exchanged. The Police can only do so much THE LAWS NEED YO BE CHANGED
Then there’s the length. “People either overstuff their resumes or leave out too much,” Erica said. “It’s either three pages of fluff or a half-page list of vague job duties.” Ideally, she suggests one page for early-career professionals and no more than two pages for experienced applicants. Use white space to your advantage. “It’s not wasted; it gives breathing room so your key achievements stand out.”
#13
Camera in my living room. Initially got it to say hi to my cat during the day, ended up using footage to defend myself against charges.
She who must not be named 8 months ago (edited)
For anyone wondering, I found some comments from the OP on the reddit post. He said he had a first date with a woman who got obscenely drunk and pretty much passed out. He let her sleep on the sofa as he didn't know where she lived etc. She then claimed he seggsually assaulted her whilst she was drunk. Luckily he had footage of her doing nothing but sleeping safely for hours. He didn't press charges against her for the false accusation as he was just too relieved that he had proof he was innocent and he wasn't arrested etc.
Pyla 8 months ago (edited)
Ok..I am l.i.v.i.n.g. For “seggsually assaulted” ….take _that_ BP censor
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Crystalwitch60 8 months ago
They very much are , lots won’t report of it cos of scum like that girl n it is an offence to file a false report in uk
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When I was ten, I was obsessed with the movie Annie. I even read the novelization of the movie.
The novel was…rather adult for a ten-year-old to read.
I was introduced to the concept of in theory vs. in practice. This was used to describe Miss Hannigan’s orphanage. In theory, the orphanage was supposed to be clean, with the orphans well-fed and cared for. In practice, Miss Hannigan would starve the girls, abuse them, and work them like slaves.
That was the first time I learned that rules were only how things were supposed to be, not how things actually work out. For an autistic girl, that was very crucial information.
And I learned that rules are only for the unpopular and low-ranking. For the popular and high-ranking, rule-breaking could be done with impunity.
However, I also learned that popularity and rank could fluctuate.
So it was safer for me to always obey the rules. And not safe for me to pay attention when others broke them.
Chris the Bobcat 8 months ago
Given the political situation in my country now, this seems frighteningly relevant. Go fvck yourself, trump, and take the maga trash with you.
Betsy S 8 months ago
Spoken on behalf of autistics everywhere. Everyone else can break the rules. If we so much as bend them a tiny bit, we're SLAMMED!
Tina Girard 8 months ago
this falls in line with the idea that even if something is legal, that does not necessarily mean it is ethical
Mary Finn 8 months ago
I learned that by reading, "Sarah Crewe" when I was a kid. That is a much older book that features a girl who starts out the pampered scion of a wealthy man who dies and stops paying for her boarding school. So, she is put in an attic instead of her pretty room and turned into a servant to pay her way. Sometimes she has nothing to eat. Eventually, an old colleague of her dad's finds her and saves her.
Courtney Christelle 8 months ago
I leaned that when I was young. It’s not what you do, it’s who’s doing it.
Evelien Stijger Martens 7 months ago
You learned a lot better than i did. I learned that we are here to help each other, to be honest, to be good and that that will in the end make us all good people. Reality took a long time to hit, because to me this was how it has to be and everybody knew that. I stil can't get people don't want that. Taking this literaly made it hard for me to see people often are not like that and don't want that, because they only want whats good for them. Beïng to sensitive and good, only .akes you an easy target. I stil can get sad over this.
Crystalwitch60 8 months ago
lol the movies of Annie came from the book not the other way round 😂🤦♀️
#15
In December, several years ago, I booked a week long getaway to Jamaica, with my wife for our 10th anniversary in June; just us, no kids. Wife insisted we buy the travel insurance. I resisted. She insisted. She won.
In April that year, our 4 y/o was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney cancer. Cancelled the trip; and got all of our money back - including the cost of the insurance (!), which I think was an error on their part.
Nat Rich 8 months ago (edited)
As a fellow Cancer kid parent, I hope they're OK. It's a tough old journey. My son survived grade 4 brain cancer. Thank God. ETA I think he only survived because I had a miscarriage and was off work on sick and so was able to really take in how ill he really was and have the time to make repeated trips to the doctors to seek help. I thank my little angel baby for saving my older baby. Sorry to make this long but also ETA my doctor insisted it was a stress headache and even said "it's not a tumour if that's what you're thinking". Parents, trust your intuition!! If I hadn't my son would be dead now.
Nadine Debard 8 months ago
I'm sorry you had to go through all of this and I'm relieved everything went as best as they could. You're right, your little angel saved your son, as well as your amazing instinct.
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Brian Droste 8 months ago
I have a older male friend that is married. A few years ago he would get sick on and off. His wife finally made him go to see a doctor. Found out he had some type of stomach cancer. He end up having to remove 3/4 of his small intestine. Now he has to have some type of bag connected to him.
Big Chungus 8 months ago
Always get the travel insurance even if you don't think you will need it
Speaking of achievements, word choice matters a lot. “Instead of writing ‘helped with social media,’ say ‘managed social media accounts and increased engagement by 25%,’” she advised. Action verbs like led, created, launched, or implemented instantly communicate confidence.
“They paint a picture of someone who gets things done. It’s the difference between sounding passive and sounding like a problem solver, and that’s exactly what employers are looking for.”
#16
I got over myself and went to the doctor because I'd felt sick for a solid two months.
It turns out I had cancer and if I'd waited much longer it probably would have been too late.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
This. My mum found out she had cancer - not because of any lumps or weird symptoms or obvious signs, but because she has a chronic illness that causes chronic fatigue, but for months she felt even more fatigued and drained than usual. And she’d know lol. Came back twice but she’s been in remission for a couple years now :)
V 8 months ago
I know someone who found out because they broke their ribs. The ribs healed, but the pain never went away. The doctor sent them for some scans and x-rays to see what hadn't healed properly and they found an anomaly on them, so went for further investigation. Stage 4 cancer is a witch with a capital B.
Load More Replies... Jill Waters 8 months ago
I complained to my doctors that my arm hurt, for three years. Was told to just keep taking pain meds. Anyway, I fell at home and my bone ‘exploded’. Rushed to hospital. Found out I had stage 4 chondrosarcoma (bone cancer) and the tumour had had taken over the whole bone. Luckily they managed to remove the whole bone and replace it with titanium. I am still in pain all the time, but I am alive and still have limited use of my arm. Got the all clear this year.
#17
Not exactly my life, but close enough- I hounded my wife into letting me take her to the hospital one night, when she was miserable with back pain. She wanted to lie down and just tough it out, and she's very frightened of needles and surgery and stuff, not to mention America's profane healthcare costs. But I made her let me take her. It turned out to be an embolism that could have been really bad if not treated.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Consistent back pain can weirdly be a lot of different things for women, some of them serious.
Johnnynatfan 8 months ago
Not just women. I knew a guy who had back pain for a while and when he finally got it checked it was cancer and too late. He died about 10 years ago.
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#18
Quit a soul crushing job that I absolutely hated.
I just straight up walked out despite my credit cards being maxed and my savings being wiped out due to trying to live on workers comp for 6 months.
Best decision I ever made. If I hadn't quit that job I would have ended up k*****g myself.
Trisec Tebeakesse 8 months ago
*tips cap* It's approaching my one-year anniversary of rage-quitting a toxic job. I have only just now started to feel better about myself.
Marilyn Holt 8 months ago
Good for you. I hope you're ok now. Honestly I think more people should do this.
Kalikima 8 months ago
I did the same thing. I used to daydream about driving my car into things on the way to work, not to k**l myself, just to get an excuse for a day or two off work. Finally, after my boss told me that my biggest bully at work was going to start timing my bathroom breaks and they were going to start taking that out of my break time, I couldn't take anymore. I went in the next morning and the closer it got to the time when she came in, the pain in my stomach got worse and I texted my mom and was telling her I just wanted to quit, and she said she'd back up any choice I made.. well, that little bit of support was all I needed. Walked up to my supervisor, said I quit, pulled my drawer and walked out.. unfortunately I passed the coworker on her way in, and I wanted to say something catty so badly, but I just pretended to read my book and acted like I didn't even see her. It took me 6 months to get a new job, my savings is gone and my credit cards are ridiculous, but I'm happy again!
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
That would be good enough to qualify for unemployment benefits in most states.
Load More Replies... SnackbarKaat 8 months ago
I wish I did the same. I ended up with chronic fatigue due to chronic stress. It's so not worth it
Shawn Barry 8 months ago
I rage quit my last Boss. out of work for 4 mths. I heard thru the grapevine my Boss got fired. I approached his boss, who had noticed I had been kicking a*s right before quitting and Pointed out I didn't quit the company, I quit my a**hole boss. My boss's boss said he'll be posting an opening in 2 weeks. wish me luck.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
Most people don't know but you can collect unemployment benefits if you quit with good cause connected with the work.
DowntownStevieB 8 months ago
Same. Never looked back. Now I'm settled in a career I actually wanted.
MagicJacket 8 months ago
I am pretty darn sure I am not the OP, even though the post fits me pretty well. Except for the part about having savings.
Breadcrumb. 8 months ago
Considering quitting mine as it no longer serves me, and I'm getting bored and need a different challenge. Problem is I don't know what.
Numbers are your best friend on a resume. “Anyone can say they’re a team player, but it’s more convincing to say, ‘collaborated on a cross-functional team of five to reduce turnaround time by 20%,’” Erica explained. Quantifying your work gives context and shows real impact.
“Even if your job doesn’t involve sales or stats, there are always ways to highlight results. Did you save time? Improve efficiency? Streamline something? Put it into numbers.”
#19
I was at a friend of friend's for a bonfire and some drinks. We're a few drinks in having a good time and someone wants to get the fire started. Everyone moves outside to watch/heckle/give advice while they're having a little trouble getting it going. Someone decided to put a little gasoline on the wood to help get it going. Having seen MANY videos similar to this, I back up and pull my friend with me (if you didn't know, gasoline isn't just flammable, it's f*****g explosive). Not even 30 seconds after we left the immediate area someone lights the gas. As predicted, a massive fireball goes off and wouldn't you know it, the majority of the fire was RIGHT where we were standing.
The fireball didn't last very long, maybe a second or two, but I have a big beard that DEFINITELY would have caught on fire and even if it hadn't, I don't like being burned even for just a second or two.
DC 8 months ago
Everything able to release much energy is hazardous. Gasoline can be used to ignite stuff fast, even safe, but ... do they really know what they're up to?
Papa 8 months ago
I gave you a down vote because I don't believe there is a way to ignite stuff safely with gasoline, and no reason to when there are better alternatives.
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TL;DR - I wasn't taking care of my health, as a teen, and I could've died several times. But I have since taken control. Accepting my illness saved my life.
Long version:
I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 10. It's an autoimmune disease, meaning my immune system attacked the beta cells in my pancreas, k*****g them off. Beta cells produce insulin. Therefore, I need to supplement man-made insulin for the rest of my life. Basically, I must give exact insulin for whatever amount of carbohydrates I consume.
When I was a teen, I had been admitted to the hospital several different times for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). I barely survived each time. The reason that I got DKA was because I was a rebellious and stupid teenager. I wasn't taking enough insulin, sometimes completely skipping an insulin shot. All because I haaaated my diabetes.
A healthy HbA1c (a score that tells you your average blood sugar over the last 3 months) is 7%. Mine was literally off the chart, at 14%+, for a decade.
But when I was about 22, I decided I needed to take care of myself. My HbA1c is now 5.6%!! That's better than the recommended 7%! I've come to accept my diabetes. No use fighting it anymore.
So, accepting my illness has saved my life, as hating it only made me more sick and was putting me in danger.
Robin Roper 8 months ago (edited)
Had a very good friend with type 1 diabetes who, for many years, lived the same way. He turned himself around by stopping drinking and eating better, married a great person and had two sons. About 10 years ago he needed a kidney transplant. He got to meet his first grandchild 2 months before he died, his funeral was very nice. Those hard years, take a toll even if you turn it around; diabetes is nothing to play with. I miss him every day.
Debby Keir 8 months ago
This is quite common with type 1 diabetes - as soon as puberty hits, the kids don't want to conform, they want to be free of the dietary and medication restrictions as they perceive it makes them different from their peers. Hospitals and diabeticians see this a lot. Usually, it works out, but they may well have caused some irreversible long term damage before they realise.
Mel in Georgia 8 months ago
Have a nephew with type I diabetes who decided to FAFO in college. He nearly died. He's awesome now, but it's a terrible way to learn a lesson.
Liz Rutherford 8 months ago
I went into DKA twice. First was in 2013, the day before I was diagnosed as a Type 1. The second time was in 2021. I went into cardiac arrest 4x in 3 days. Everything was fine the first three, but something broke bad the fourth time and I lost use of my right arm. 4 years later, I have very, very limited use. It's a nerve thing there is the possibility that I will regain use. After that, I turned around. Better food, a bit of exercise, but I also have Neuropathy, kidney damage, and all of my remaining teeth have been pulled (some of that was genes, some the diabetes) with my last A1c check (February 2025) being 7.3. Diabetes with F you up.
CatD 8 months ago
Diabetes really messes up your capillaries. Causes kidney, heart, eye problems. I worked dialysis and most of the kidney failure was either from diabetes or hypertension.
Load More Replies... Arenite 7 months ago (edited)
Diagnosed at age 11. That was 1976. All these years later, the long-term side effects are showing up and it’s a b***h. For young or newly diagnosed diabetics: you eat that candy bar and nothing bad happens, so you eat another one. 20 years later, that candy bar will haunt you. Don’t mess around with food/medicine, you will regret it but there won’t be any way to escape the consequences.
Brian Droste 8 months ago
I have a friebd that has diabetes. From whst I see he will eat whatever he wants. But he will take a insulin shot before he will eat anything to combat his diabetes.
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
Honestly, did you think you'd win in some "it only makes sense to an adolescent" way?
#21
Left the a*****e relationship.
Little Bit 8 months ago
It was a 'now or never' thing for me but if I hadn't left when I did, one way or another I wouldn't be alive today.
And don’t forget the basics, like your contact information. “It might sound obvious, but people still forget to include their phone number or hide it at the bottom,” she said. Keep it simple and professional.
“Ditch the quirky email address from h**h school. Use your name and a clean email, and ideally, link your LinkedIn profile.” Make it easy for hiring managers to reach out. The easier you make their job, the better your chances.
#22
I had a stroke and went to see a doctor because I thought I was just sick. He told me I had a sinus infection and prescribed me antibiotics.
Getting a second opinion saved my life. The second doctor knew immediately.
Bec 8 months ago
A boy I went to high school with got home from school one day and told his dad he had a headache. His dad also noticed his eyes looked crossed and unfocused, so he took him to town and got to the eye doctor just before they were about to close. The eye doctor said, this isn't an eye issue go straight to the ER. He had a baseball sized brain tumor - he recovered and brought the X-ray to school, I'll never forget the image
April Pickett 8 months ago
Show and tell was interesting that day in school.
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Michael Largey 8 months ago
We were on a cruise and I suspected my wife had suffered a stroke. I got her off the boat and into the port city's large hospital before the ship could leave and take us with it for a long sea voyage. Complete recovery, which couldn't have happened if she was stuck aboard.
Geoffrey Scott 8 months ago (edited)
My grandson has been out of the hospital for a month now. Daughter took him to pediatrician and told him he was exposed to Strep. Doctor refused saying "we don't do that for 2 yr olds". He got worse, took him to urgent care where he WAS tested and was deemed positive and sent home with anti-b's. Still worse, went to ER, where he was transferred to a facility better equipped, STILL worse. Helicopter crew flown up for the bus ride to CS Mott Children's in Ann Arbor (U of M) where he arrived with a heart capacity of 15%. Attending said it was a coin flip on survival. Now doing really well. Moral? If your kid is sick, and you know they're sick, as my SIL said in the interview they did with them for TV, "Push back...if they don't listen push back HARD". Progression was: Asymptomatic Covid>StrepA> Sepsis.
CatD 8 months ago
Let this be a lesson to all those who don't believe COVID affects kids. It's still the #10 kíller in the US.
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 8 months ago
Always get a second opinion! If my bestie hadn't gotten one, she'd likely be dead. Campus health services said the small sore on her back was from her getting black-out drunk and falling on something. Hospital found she had a severe spinal infection and she needed surgery and then 6 weeks of PICC line heavy duty antibiotics.
Danish Susanne 8 months ago
Bad doctors must cost some lives. I once felt very tired and ill. As my normal doctor had gone on holiday I went to another who told me it was a cold and to go home and have some chamomile tea. The next day a friend showed up, saw I was in a bad way and called for another doctor who could see at once that it was pneumonia.
#23
Using a cpap machine.
If you think you have sleep apnea, fall asleep randomly or never feel rested, PLEASE have a sleep study done. Your life depends on it.
Michael Largey 8 months ago
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea but couldn't fall asleep with the mask on. The doctor said "In your case, losing 50 pounds might cure it." I lost 75, and it did.
Mathew Michuta 8 months ago
This. You can't imagine how amazing real, good sleep feels when you wake up, after years of unknown apnea. My girlfriend at the time told me, I had no idea. I don't even go camping anymore without it. Science, ftw!
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
People who sleep alone typically don't know. And sleep apnea does k**l. And it lowers intellectual functioning, too.
Load More Replies... Allie 8 months ago
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea in my late 20s and not overweight, turns out I have the hereditary type (didn't know that was a thing). I was sleeping terribly but at the time had two young kids and a stressful job so of course I'm tired all the time! Nobody suggested it could be sleep apnea other than my mom and she was correct!
Wild Cream 8 months ago
My grandpa has a cpap machine. I lived with them for years and now I can’t fall asleep without some kind of wind/fan/air moving noise 😂
Samantha King 8 months ago
I was diagnosed with sleep apnea because I stopped breathing in my sleep. I kept telling doctors that something in my throat was moving. I even asked him to do a scan or X-ray but he said no. About a month later I got Bell’s palsy but I thought I was having a stoke so went to the ER. Had a brain scan and doc says you haven’t had a stroke but your thyroid is 3 times the size it should be. Apparently you shouldn’t be able to see your thyroid on a brain scan. More scans and ultrasound and I’ve got a tumour in my thyroid and it was blocking my airway. The surgeon said it could easily completely block my airway and I would be dead. Someone or something gave me Bell’s palsy at just the right time to make me go to the emergency room
Tom De Paul 8 months ago
The weird fact about me I use in "getting to know you" exercises is that I can diagnose Bell's Palsy over the phone.
Load More Replies... CatD 8 months ago
My husband's doctor thought he had sleep apnea, I said not, but they did a study anyway. No apnea, just snores because he still has tonsils and adenoids.
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Beachbum 3 months ago
I did this! I always had headaches in the morning, never felt rested, falling asleep in the middle of the afternoon. I went to the dcotor because I thought this rash I had on my legs was infected, because mt legs was soo swollen. Doctor looks at me, and asks "Do you snore?" I was like well I have been told I do yes, I live alone, my daughter told me when we went on vacation together, that I would snore and stop breathing. He sent me to a sleep specialist. Two sleep studies later, and I hav a CPAP and am getting great sleep now, and never tired!
Bill Kubeck 8 months ago
Losing weight is a great strategy. Until then, though, wear your mask. They both work.
MagicJacket 8 months ago
I had mononucleosis when I was about 21, wound up in the hospital because my tonsils had swollen to the size, and almost the color, or robin's eggs. I couldn't eat or drink. Since then, I was a very loud snorer, which turned into sleep apnea. Got my CPAP about 15 years ago. I am a little overweight, but that isn't the cause. I was stopping breathing about once every minute before the machine, which I don't like, but I use EVERY NIGHT.
CatD 8 months ago
I used to wake my husband every time he snored, but decided not to once because he had to get up early. When he woke, his uvula was so swollen and long it could sit on the back of his tongue, and he was literally choking on it. At the ER, doctor looked at it and sticks his head out of the door. "Hey, come take a look at this", he said to the other doctors! Kinda funny. They gave him Prednisone to reduce the swelling and I always woke him after that.
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#24
Going to therapy.
Lyoness 8 months ago
This should be higher on the list. I have never met a person who said therapy didn't help them and most people I know say it changed their lives (myself included).
Becky Samuel 8 months ago
That's not my experience. Therapy only helps under certain conditions. The person seeking therapy must be prepared to really do the work. The fit between therapist and client must be correct. The therapeutic approach must be one that works for the client.
Load More Replies... Tom De Paul 8 months ago
Yes. But you have to be assertive enough to ask for a different therapist if you don't bond pretty quickly. Simply disagreeing with a therapist's formulation of the problem and suggestions is not enough reason to change therapist. You're not in therapy to have someone agree with you for one hour a week. If you were right about everything you wouldn't need therapy.
At the end of the day, a resume is more than a document, it’s your pitch. It tells your story and sets the tone before you even walk into an interview. “A well-crafted resume shows you take yourself and the opportunity seriously,” Erica said.
“It’s your chance to make a strong first impression, so give it the attention it deserves.” When done right, a resume doesn’t just list your past; it opens the door to your future.
#25
Condoms. Didn't plan on getting it on with anyone that day.
Grabbed a beer with friends. Hit it off with a gal.
What happens happens.
She sends me a message the day after telling me she had a herpes spur and didn't feel it in the moment.
Got tested. Don't have it.
Always wrap it before you shove it boys. And keep that bag on you always.
Lou 8 months ago
If the infection occurred very recently (within a few weeks to 3 months), the test may be negative, but you may still be infected. This is called a false negative. It can take up to 3 months after a possible herpes exposure for this test to be positive. I can't imagine being back in the dating pool. One of the benefits of a good marriage.
Bartlet for world domination 8 months ago (edited)
There's a test for herpes? They told me I had to show up with lesions. Wearing a сondom is not enough, by the way; herpes can easily be transmitted with fingers or any body part, basically.
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Lyoness 8 months ago
If you didn't know this was written by a man that word alone would confirm it.
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Heather Ball 8 months ago
I was lucky to have s*x education in school (something more schools are doing away with in the USA - so stupid). I remember in 7th grade s*x ed, we learned that condoms are great at preventing pregnancy (not 100%, but better than nothing) and STDs. Unfortunately, they are no barrier against an active bout of genital herpes.
#26
Getting that second fire extinguisher. Bought enough time for the fire department to get to my house and save my roof.
nomnomborkbork 8 months ago
So important to be proactive with disaster prevention! Like getting water detectors for your basement or hot water heater.
#27
Listening to a parent. I was running to catch the bus when I was around 8 yrs old. Without looking, I was going to cross the street (bus was stopped with flashing lights). My parent yelled at me to stop and I did. A car flew by and would have hit me. The driver was located and arrested.
Rick Murray 8 months ago
So you can be arrested for driving too quickly by a school bus and *not* hitting a child, but trying to grab a child from a car and then following her to her mother's workplace and yelling...is not arrestable? [sarcasm] Yes, that makes perfect sense. [/sarcasm]
Kitty 🥀 8 months ago
In the U.S., it’s illegal to pass a school bus that’s stopped with its lights flashing. But I guess it’s technically not illegal to grab at someone and chase them down (even though it’s OBVIOUS attempted kidnapping).
Load More Replies... Bill Kubeck 8 months ago
Screw the sarcasm. That c**p is for weak minds. If you blow off the law and speed past a school bus, you deserve to get busted.
SlightlyTarnished 8 months ago
Likely the driver was issued a citation, unless found drunk, then they would have been arrested.
Wild Cream 8 months ago (edited)
Wait sorry, I know we don’t have enough info but - they arrested a driver for nearly hitting a child when the child ran out into the street unexpectedly? That’s an arrest-able offence?
Billo66 8 months ago
When a school bus is stopped and has it's lights flashing and the little stop sign is out, yes. By law you have to stop.
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And it’s not just resumes; these posts show how paying attention to certain details, even the ones that seem small or obvious, can actually make a huge difference. Sometimes, success really is in the details. Which one of these tips did you find the most helpful? Let us know, your future self might just thank you for it.
#28
So sick for 3 days. Everyone kept telling me I looked horrible. I was in so much pain. Finally went to hospital. My appendix had burst. Spent 8 days in hospital due to infection. Had surgery. Surgeon told my family I waited too long. Luckily it all turned out ok.
Sylvia Baker 8 months ago
A friend's wife got a bad sunburn and blisters formed on her chest. She started to get flu-like symptoms and between that and the itching of the blisters she was a mess. Her husband begged her to go to emergency and in the end he just scooped her up and took her in. She ended up with flesh eating bacteria on her chest and they had to scoop one whole breast out of her chest leaving a pit to save her life. This woman is an RN.
Spittnimage 8 months ago
In the case of an appendix, if it stops hurting your appendix has burst!
ss 8 months ago
And if I remember correctly, your fever will rise to 109.... FLEE to hospital!
Load More Replies... Beachbum 3 months ago
I wasn't feeling well either, took a nap, never take naps, went ot work the next day, told everyone I wasn't feeling well, took a nap in my car on my lunch. Everyone was like if this is a virus don't give it me! I didn't say anything, was just at me desk crying, someone came over and was like what is wrong? I was in soooo much pain, I googled the symptoms, and I had all of them! Everyone was like get the hell out and go to the ER. It was, it bursted that night, so at least I was in the hospital when it happened, I can't imagine having that pain for 3 days! Was the worst pain ever.
#29
Joining a Brazilian jiu jitsu gym. Lost 85 lbs. Made lots of new friends. It made every aspect of my life better.
#30
Wore my seat belt. Was in an accident last Monday and a new driver blew through a red light and smashed into me. If I hadn’t of been wearing my seat belt I’d have been dead. My car’s condition on the accident report was listed as “destroyed”.
Multa Nocte 8 months ago
It has always been a source of amazement to me that anyone would ever even want to go down the driveway in a vehicle without wearing a seatbelt.
Wild Cream 8 months ago (edited)
Many people find them annoying, and if they’ve never been in an accident, they don’t seem important to them. Huge fallacy. I was in a rollover when I was 17 and a seatbelt saved my life so I actually get crazy nervous when people don’t wear theirs!
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Rick Murray 8 months ago
My coworkers used to ridicule me when I was in the passenger seat and had my seat belt on just to go across the car park. That stopped when a truck came into the car park way faster than the marked 15 speed limit and smashed right into us. I get out with a sore neck from the impact. The driver needed an air ambulance and, thankfully, mostly recovered but still walks with a limp and can't run. Seat belts, people, even in a car that isn't moving.
Upstaged75 8 months ago
Driving without a seatbelt feels like being naked. It's uncomfortable for me. I've never driven without one. I don't get people who won't use them. Do they want to die? Or think they're invincible?
Westerly 8 months ago
In NZ the driver can get a ticket if their passengers are not wearing a seatbelt, law states its the drivers responsibility to ensure everyone is buckled up.
Sophia Pandia de Delphia 8 months ago (edited)
A lot of US states too. I think some of our states ticket both the driver and the passenger but I don't know personally as no one in my car goes without the seatbelt on.
Load More Replies... Barbara Hill 2 weeks ago
I wear mine all the time. A childhood friend died in the 1980's when a food truck ran into the back of her. She died from internal bleeding. I make everyone else wear one too. If they don't, I make them get out of my car. Find their own way.
Philly Bob 8 months ago
I hit a deer on the PA turnpike at 65+ MPH. The deer went flying 45 feet to the right (I was in the left lane), the car was totalled and the key fob broke into about 10 pieces and the electronics wound up on the back floor. I broke a fingernail. Seat belts work.
Sheena Leversedge Wood 8 months ago
it was drummed into me as a child, you get in the car, seatbelt on. first thing you do. my husband finds it funny that even if we get some fast food with the plan to eat it in the car, I immediately put my seatbelt on. because it's automatic. I can't understand why some people don't do it, or are even stubborn about not doing it. they even make fake clips to "trick" your car into thinking you have your seatbelt on, like there isn't an easy way to stop the warning beep, and that is just putting your seatbelt on like a sane person.
MP Deco 8 months ago
my husband & I live in il. in the mid 80's we werenailed by an a- hole driver blowing thru the red light....police came and asked if we were wearing our seat belts....i told him..we have been wearing them since BEFORE it became a law......people.....wear your seatbelts!!!!
#31
Grabbed a tree when I skied off a cliff.
#32
Always look up and question the medications doctors prescribe me. I've been yelled at by so many doctors because "you didn't go to med school, don't try to understand these things." Well one day I was having clear signs of serotonin o******e after taking a SNRI. I was hallucinating for days after taking it, nauseous, struggling to sleep, mood swings, etc. Not the first time this has happened to me, always from SSRIs or SNRIs, and it has since been confirmed by other doctors it is serotonin o******e syndrome. I called the doctor who prescribed it and told her, and she said, "OK, I'm going to send you over a script for Trazodone." I paused for a moment and said, "What classification is that?" She didn't answer. I said, "That's an SSRI isn't it. I'm already having serotonin o******e. If I take this it could k**l me." She got all flustered and tried to apologize and I just hung up the phone. F*****g idiot.
Meowzers! 8 months ago
I had a grand mal seizures due to serotonin syndrome. I was prescribed 2 meds that shouldn't have been prescribed together. It's been 8 years and I now have non epileptic seizure disorder, where I can have anywhere from 1 to 15 seizures a day, though they're mostly partial waking seizures rather than grand mal. I'm not on either of the meds which started my seizures but for some reason the seizure disorder won't go away.
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
I always have a list of my medications- 11 every day - with me and if one of my doctors changes/stops a med, I always ask if there will be any interaction with everything else I'm on. Most of the time the docs check themselves, but I ask anyway.
Lyoness 8 months ago
And make sure you include supplements on that list too (I made that mistake once). Sometimes things you're taking and assume are innocuous can interact with meds (St. John's Wort is one of them).
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Gadaffi Duck 8 months ago
My eldest is lactose intolerant, when she was a baby she was having trouble filling her nappy/diaper and the GP was going to prescribe lactulose. Pure lactose syrup. I just stared the dr dead in the eyes until the penny dropped.
Billo66 8 months ago
Man they just put me on Cymbalta too. I knew I didn't like it. Not taking anymore. They were trying to replace my xanax with it. It has worked fine for several years. nope it's not happening. I have cancer ffs leave me alone.
DC 8 months ago (edited)
I feel ya ... Dad's got cancer some years ago, and while it seems they could remove all of it, in five inside-peelings of the bladder, the scars they left, and a few other damages, make him depend on pain meds. He's got almost every box checked for a lifespan expectancy that doesn't count in the decades from now, and after our beloved Doctor had retired, the new one wanted to re-do every step that had led to the combination he was fine with. Shut that down instantly - it had taken literal years of replacing and adjusting times, drügs, dose and all that, and has worked fine as it gets for more literal years, so any change you try to implement must at least allow to reasonably expect a major advantage and very low risk for the failing thereof. He's a Doctor, he should know that it's not just reading a list of symptons and known damages and just selecting off a catalogue until all symptoms are targeted ... not that easy, highly complex, and with a growing count of different meds, we know even less. But, I've been doing this since 1997 partially, since 2005 or around that time, I'm in charge of that, because my mother might need to be eased of a task or two, too. I know his sicknesses and damages, his reactions to various drügs that would appear as best choice on first glance, but have proven to not work that great in practice. Never tinker with a complex system that is functional, unless you have a very good reason to. It's sorta tiring how often you gotta remind people of just basic, logic common sense that doesn't even go far into the spefifics of the meds, and there seems to be a drive in some Doctors to never just keep what their predecessors did, or carefully and with a lot of mistakes on the way, have set up. About some meds, this even goes down to specific brands that are not to be replaced by other ones (allergic reactions to some food colouring agent or so, he already had once, because "There's a better XY, let's replace YZ with it!" - yeah, sure so, but still no. Provide a reason, or don't advise a change, simple as that. If one wants to, like with every chronic pain sufferer, one could label him as addicted. Given the state he's in, that's about the least of a problem. He had an undetected, 2nd (at least) heart attack within the last 3 years. Mitral valve replacement, 4 stents on different locations (2 legs, 1 kidney, 1 heart), and and and and ... "BuT yOuR aDdIcTeD111" - no, not in the sense this implies, and even if - why worry about that, there's enough to reasonably worry about already. More of that? Withdrawal, even? Cold? Sadists!
Load More Replies... BookFanatic 8 months ago
Pay attention to your meds! I'm naturally nosy and when I was going through chemo I liked to watch the nurses hang the bags and insert the needle into my port. One day my chemo was bright red instead of yellow. I asked the nurse why the color changed. She was about to give me an entirely different, wrong, very very strong, chemo d**g that was meant for the man next door. Thank God for nosiness!
Ruth Watry 8 months ago
My lungs have a serious intolerance to NSAIDs. Orthopedic doctor put me on cream (knee injury) with it and "promised" that I would be fine. Ended up with Walking Pneumonia
Bookworm 8 months ago
I'm learning to do this. I got a new diagnosis and a couple new meds to treat it. Combined with 4 others I was already on. Thankfully I've got a good doctor who told me none of my meds would interact with each other. After that I actually read the information included with my medications and know to research them.
DC 8 months ago
That's important! Know your sickeries, know your meds, nobody else is even half as interested in them as you.
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Wild Cream 8 months ago
I get the trembles when I take SSRIs, which is apparently a mild symptom of a just little too much serotonin.
#33
Quitting Oxycontin after 2 weeks. The doctor’s group that I had chosen would only give you a week at a time prescription. After just wanting to sleep all the time and neglecting my dog. At the last Friday I said I needed something else for my nerve pain and no narcotics. I got a prescription for Ibuprofen and Tylenol. I was told that I would suffer no ill effects. Saturday morning, I began to experience what I would only describe as withdrawal. Sleeping in my bathroom next to the toilet wrapped in a comforter that was partially covered in vomit from the times I didn’t make it. My back door opened so my dog could go out for 48 hours which let the bugs in that swarmed around my head and bathroom. And I’m in pain.
I went to urgent care and was placed on an IV and handed materials for Narcotics Anonymous. I made the decision right then and there to avoid taking a narcotic again and from that point on when I talk about pain, they talk about me being d**g seeking. I am not. I’m now on an SNRI that helps with nerve pain, but in the back of my mind, I wonder if there is a going to be a point where it’s discovered that it is addictive in some way.
This was several years ago and yes; I am aware of the book and series called “Dopesick”. Not sure that I really want to relive that part of my life again, which I’m sure I will by watching/reading it. I was lucky that I had my dog at the time (she passed on) as that’s who saved my life by me being somewhat coherent enough that she needed to be fed and be let outside to go potty. My girl saved my life.
Billo66 8 months ago
Same, diagnosed with cancer and they gave me Oxy. When the people were burying nukes in our front yard, giant snakes were coming to eat me, and a family of exiled scottish royalty were hiding in a cave under our basement. It was time to stop. Then the withdrawals took over. Good times.
jonesnori 8 months ago
My late husband had oxycontin due to metastatic cancer. It was quite a low dose, and he didn't get any of those symptoms, thank goodness. He also took ibuprofen, which made more of a difference to his pain. He was less able to be creative than before, due to either the oxy or the cancer, but he was able to continue to work as a programmer and be helpful until the week he died.
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MeMosabe 8 months ago
I had a tooth extracted and my dentist prescribed hydrocodone. After two weeks of sleeping and hurting, I felt funny, too. Looked up symptoms of opiate a*******n and checked off half of them. Decided to lay off the opiates and just use ibuprofen. Fortunately, no hallucinations or withdrawals. But, I still feel like I dodged a bullet.
Ruth Watry 8 months ago
I have had 13 joint surgeries and and extremely lucky that I have never become addicted to the opioids
CatD 8 months ago (edited)
I had 2 failed back surgeries and am usually in a wheelchair. I was on C4 every 4 hours for 24 years but when I ran out in 2020 I had no withdrawal at all. Same for the Xanax I was on for insomnia. Nothing happened, is that usual?
Load More Replies... Wild Cream 8 months ago (edited)
My mum was given o****d d***s once. She didn’t get addicted but I remember her telling me how much of a pain in the ash it was. Only a week’s supply at a time and she had to go thorough a whole circus act to get her next week’s meds. I get why they’re so cautious though. Opioids have ruined a lot of people’s lives.
Amanda Reinstatler 7 months ago (edited)
Those withdrawls are the purest most hellish misery I have ever experienced. Its pharmaceutical Her0in
DC 8 months ago
Oh my ... gotta say something here. Demonizing a drüg is stupid. It depends on a lot of things if it does harm, or if it helps. There's nothing I know that is so immobilizing, passivizing like chronic pain - don't need to be strong, just permanent. I have dreamt about doing things I never did, and within my dream, thought about how that will affect my fücked-up gallbladder removal. Which is generally considered a minor operation, and therefore, often doubted that it even CAN result in such. Opioides turned my life around, in the positive. I can't even tell if the euphoria was by the drüg directly, or caused by the lack of pain that I hadn't had before in literal years. Five effing years, and had I dodged my stupid prejudice, I'd have even less side effects now, a lower dose still, and had enjoyed more years of my life. But, the DaNgErOuS OpIoIdEs ... actually, sick of a class of chemicls being labeled in moral dimensions at all. There are no evil molecules, there's stupid use of them.
#34
Didn't get married or have kids in the military.
Deborah Besl 5 months ago
I'm an Army brat and the only hard part I was leaving friends and my dad going to Vietnam. I have great memories of everywhere we lived and countries we saw.
#35
Early in my freshman year at Princeton, I went to a party in a dorm room. It was not in my dorm (Lockhart), but in a nearby one (Joline). I don’t recall why I went to that party. I didn’t know anyone there very well.
At the party was a girl named Nicole who lived in my dorm. I had met her once or twice, but didn’t know her.
We left the party and started talking. We sat on a bench out on Nassau Street and talked until 4 am.
We married in 1980 and were married until cancer took her in 2015.
Going to that party in Joline seemed pretty useless at the time, but turned out to be a key point in my life.
(Coincidentally, one of Nicole’s outdoor adventure buddies here in New Hampshire was a fellow named John Joline. He was from the family that donated for the dorm. But he was the rebel of his family and went to Dartmouth instead of Princeton. John passed away from cancer just a couple of months before Nicole.)
#36
Paying for full vehicle insurancec coverage in a foreign country on my honeymoon. Got sideswiped by a bus 20 min. later and totalled the rental. Got a new replacement rental same day without any fuss.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Got travel insurance on a trip to Florida, USA (I’m Canadian). I ended up getting insanely sick, couldn’t keep anything down and eventually had to go to the hospital for dehydration. Got some medication and a 2 night hospital stay - probably would have cost me thousands in the US but it was free and covered with my super cheap Canadian travel insurance :) I was so grateful. Insurance can be so helpful.
Lyoness 8 months ago
Always buy travel insurance, especially going to the US.
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#37
I’ve been tracking my mood multiple times a day for a few years now, and decided to map it to my menstrual cycle a couple months ago on the suggestion of a friend. Turns out I have a hormonal disorder that makes me periodically insane (pmdd). The mood changes coupled with general depression/anxiety/traumatic events have almost killed me before. Highly recommend anyone who has a period and is randomly depressed/s******l/irrational for a few days a month do this and see if it matches up to a few days before your period.
Little Bit 8 months ago
I've had this since day 1 of my periods but back in the 1990s it wasn't a recognised condition. In the days leading up to it I would sit in my room and sob uncontrollably for hours and hours and my mood swings would be so extreme that I had to lock myself away to stop people thinking I was insane. My periods were so excruciatingly painful that I literally couldn't move. My mother told me it was normal and to stop making such a fuss so I suffered in silence. About 10 years later I went to my doctor and begged for a hysterectomy because I couldn't take it any more. The doctor was understanding and gave ne medication which was a great help. My mother later admitted that she'd never had any problems, emotional or otherwise with her periods and simply didn't know how to handle it. I've warned both of my daughters of the possible worst case scenario with periods, but explained that it is different for everyone and to please tell me if they're experiencing any problems.
DeeDee M 8 months ago
And all that happens when you go to the doctor is you hear s**t like, “it’s JUST anxiety”, “It’s JUST pms”, you’re JUST stressed.” No m**********r turns out I have an actual autoimmune condition called progesterone hypersensitivity that will f**k your s**t up until you learn how to manage the symptoms. But by all means just gaslight because women’s health is severely underrepresented and understudied and it’s easier for you. 🤬🤬🤬
CatD 8 months ago
Doctors still act like "hysteria" is a valid medical diagnosis.🤦
Load More Replies... Mel in Georgia 8 months ago
Back in my day guys would joke about "being on your period" if girls were cranky. I was emotionally fine on mine. Then one time when I was feeling irrationally upset about something small and I realized it was a few days BEFORE my period. It happened again the next month. It was good to know there was a cause, and while I couldn't control the feeling, I could control how I reacted to it.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Oh I have PMDD! Getting diagnosed and educated makes a world of difference. It’s so much easier to recognize when my world starts falling apart once a month and I end up on the edge. It’s just stupid hormones.
Ruth Watry 8 months ago
I had no period for 12 years due to being on Depo Provera. It was awesome - no PMS, no depression, no vomiting and loose p*o, and no anemia.
Jane Hower 7 months ago
Next thing you know trans guys will be saing they need this treatment!! omg
QueerAxolotls 8 months ago
I probably have this. All the symptoms match up, and when I started birth control for period regulation, it went away almost instantly. I went from being s******l and ready to fight someone three weeks of the month, to just normal hormonal teen (not the best but better). The main reason I haven't been diagnosed is that with my autism (why I got birth control, periods were sensory hell) and POTS, I'm already taking the recommended treatment, so nothing would change.
Veronica Jean 8 months ago (edited)
Oh no!!! I got softly diagnosed with that for several years of life and it was awful (I say soft because my gynecologist suggested it as a possible explanation for behavior and issues I had had for years, but I don't know if that's the same as a formal diagnosis or not). Wouldn't wish it on anyone. I also had a hormone disorder at the time...I suppose my entire life haha though I manage to much better now and I'm out of the spectrum. People severely underestimate how much hormones can effect your life.
Courtney Christelle 8 months ago
I get a little depressed while on my period but that’s because my estrogen goes down and my testosterone goes up. I can easily compartmentalize what I’m actually feeling vs what my hormones are making me feel.
#38
I’ve told it before so I’ll summaries this one:
Old mobile phones you had to set the time yourself. As a youth I set the time but messed up AM - PM , so my phone thought it was 12 hours earlier.
Alarm doesn’t go off, I wake up go to my bus stop, can’t, go to a different bus stop. Catch bus. While on bus see that my original bus stop has been flattened by a vehicle next to the highway.
If I had set my clock correctly I would have been there on time and died with the other dude that was there.
Mistakes, learn to live with em.
#39
Quit drinking alcohol.
Wild Cream 8 months ago
Congratulations! I’m struggling but not giving up :)
Load More Replies... Billo66 8 months ago
I just forgot I drank. I just remembered one day that strangely I hadn't had a drink in months. I tried a beer and spit it out, can't stand the taste now. 20 years ago, good riddance hangovers sucked.
VNES101 8 months ago
Awesome! That's how I am with cigarettes. Woke up on January 1 and just didn't have a taste for them anymore. Now the smell makes me sick and I can't see why I would ever smoke. I don't know what switched in my mind but I'm grateful for it.
Load More Replies... Liz Rutherford 8 months ago
Both sides of my family have/had alcholics. Both grandfathers, a list of aunts and uncles. My aunt died of liver failure in 2018. She started at 14, stealing a swig from the liquor cabinet (it was the early 60s), and never really stopped. I last had a drink in 2016, the night the Cubs won the World Series) and that was an airplane bottle Jack. Before that, I was 23 (2003) when I last had one.
DC 8 months ago
20 years. But, I never was addicted to it, I just found it the most boring drüg, the most painful hangover, everything about it is worst, or among the worst, and yet, is seen as none of a problem. Alcohol is best used in spark-ignited engines to run climate-netraul. As an agent to tinker my brain for fun, it doesn't qualify by poor performance. So, I consider myself pretty much unaddicted to it.
#40
When I was young, my mom made me sign up for the frequent flyer program of every airline we ever took a trip on. Of course, the miles would expire before we ever flew each of those airlines again. Seemed like total waste of time and effort to my younger self. Fast forward, now I am in my 50s, have collected a few million frequent flyer points, mostly from credit cards, and every trip I have taken abroad in the past 15 years has been for free - in first or business class - by using those frequent flyer points.
Brittania Kelli 8 months ago
This kind of screams of privilege these days. How many every day kids are taking frequent flights in this economy?
M T Sharp 8 months ago
Might be privileged, but the point was about the mom's advice being good.
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#41
Bringing a gun on a hike through the mountains.
Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago (edited)
Same reason I bring pepper spray and a taser out hiking: mountain lions, bobcats, and bears. Also human predators.
#42
PRENUP BABY
Still lost 250k but could have been so so much worse.
Peeka_Mimi 8 months ago
My now ex wanted a prenup because he's inheriting 30 acres in the middle of nowhere worth like 300k. I'm inheriting 1/5 of my dad's ranch worth millions. He cheated we never got married but he was right about one thing, prenup baby.
What do you think ?
Gingersnap In Iowa 8 months ago
I went back to the psych ward for the third time in a month bc I didn't feel safe at home. By the third visit I got the help I needed even though a nurse said; what are you doing back here? Had I stayed at home I'd found the pills I needed to take my life. Am I better? Yes. Am I cured? Not even close. I'm just taking it one day at a time.
Mathew Michuta 8 months ago
About 3 months before covid hit, I got the wild notion to refinance my house, clean out my ccds, not big balances, but still. Got furloughed for a few months.
CatD 8 months ago
I finally finished paying off my last credit card this month!!🎉🎊
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 8 months ago
I'll never ever take antidepressants again. When I was much younger I got into an anxious depressed mess, and since my emotional state is pretty much dead flat, it was pretty bad before even my mother noticed and took me to the doctor. He gave me some pills to calm my worries. Well, he was right, my worries went away. As did every other feeling. Even though you would rarely know it, I do feel things inside. All that ceased. It came to a head when a stranger, a traffic warden, grabbed me just as I was about to walk across the road directly into traffic (their light was green, not mine). I wasn't sūīcidal, I've never wanted to dīe, but at that moment I simply didn't care. Alive, unalive, it's all the same... when the medication started to ease off enough for a traumatised mother to tell me what happened, I destroyed the pills, suffered the effects of quitting cold-turkey, and vowed never again. If I'm feeling *something* then I'm alive, right?
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Don't blame all antidepressants, they've been a life saver for me. Although I do understand you're not wanting to try a different one. Are you in therapy?
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 8 months ago
In the wild mid '70's I and some friends were bar hopping in the downtown of our college town on Halloween. It was party time everywhere we went. Then, vibe felt off so we headed to a friend's apartment, missing the First Annual Greenville, NC Halloween Riot by about 2 minutes. Turned over cars, teargas and all.
talliloo 8 months ago
listening to my dog, evie. she was a big boxer girl and my constant companion for just about anything - especially fishing on the pontoon boat. she would stand like figurehead in the bow of the boat with her floatation vest. this particular day was slightly overcast but still good fishing weather. but, she refused to get on the boat which was odd as she was normally on there while i readied to take it out. then she looked across the lake and started barking. i looked over and saw this dark storm system coming fast so i figured we could wait in the car until it passed. btw, the dock was metal. we got a short way from the dock when it got hit with lightening. scared the c**p out of me and realized my dog had more sense than i did that day.
Rosecat 6 months ago
About a 1,5 ago I had some symptoms that didn't seem serious but still bothered me, so I booked a drs appointment. The dat before the appointment, I felt better and contemplated cancelling, but decided to go anywway. Turns out I had an infection that could have killed me or made me infertile if left untreated for too long.
Gingersnap In Iowa 8 months ago
I went back to the psych ward for the third time in a month bc I didn't feel safe at home. By the third visit I got the help I needed even though a nurse said; what are you doing back here? Had I stayed at home I'd found the pills I needed to take my life. Am I better? Yes. Am I cured? Not even close. I'm just taking it one day at a time.
Mathew Michuta 8 months ago
About 3 months before covid hit, I got the wild notion to refinance my house, clean out my ccds, not big balances, but still. Got furloughed for a few months.
CatD 8 months ago
I finally finished paying off my last credit card this month!!🎉🎊
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 8 months ago
I'll never ever take antidepressants again. When I was much younger I got into an anxious depressed mess, and since my emotional state is pretty much dead flat, it was pretty bad before even my mother noticed and took me to the doctor. He gave me some pills to calm my worries. Well, he was right, my worries went away. As did every other feeling. Even though you would rarely know it, I do feel things inside. All that ceased. It came to a head when a stranger, a traffic warden, grabbed me just as I was about to walk across the road directly into traffic (their light was green, not mine). I wasn't sūīcidal, I've never wanted to dīe, but at that moment I simply didn't care. Alive, unalive, it's all the same... when the medication started to ease off enough for a traumatised mother to tell me what happened, I destroyed the pills, suffered the effects of quitting cold-turkey, and vowed never again. If I'm feeling *something* then I'm alive, right?
Lady Eowyn 8 months ago
Don't blame all antidepressants, they've been a life saver for me. Although I do understand you're not wanting to try a different one. Are you in therapy?
Load More Replies... Robin Roper 8 months ago
In the wild mid '70's I and some friends were bar hopping in the downtown of our college town on Halloween. It was party time everywhere we went. Then, vibe felt off so we headed to a friend's apartment, missing the First Annual Greenville, NC Halloween Riot by about 2 minutes. Turned over cars, teargas and all.
talliloo 8 months ago
listening to my dog, evie. she was a big boxer girl and my constant companion for just about anything - especially fishing on the pontoon boat. she would stand like figurehead in the bow of the boat with her floatation vest. this particular day was slightly overcast but still good fishing weather. but, she refused to get on the boat which was odd as she was normally on there while i readied to take it out. then she looked across the lake and started barking. i looked over and saw this dark storm system coming fast so i figured we could wait in the car until it passed. btw, the dock was metal. we got a short way from the dock when it got hit with lightening. scared the c**p out of me and realized my dog had more sense than i did that day.
Rosecat 6 months ago
About a 1,5 ago I had some symptoms that didn't seem serious but still bothered me, so I booked a drs appointment. The dat before the appointment, I felt better and contemplated cancelling, but decided to go anywway. Turns out I had an infection that could have killed me or made me infertile if left untreated for too long.
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