Apytele

@Apytele@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Recently handed out a 7 day ban specifically for “uncreative trolling.” There’s actually one troll in particular I kinda like (won’t say who because they’ve successfully managed to make the discussion about whether or not they’re a troll part of the troll) but they’ve really made an art form of it and are impeccably polite to boot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to be anyway, looks like it’s less now. That said, a bunch of stuff on this list is radiology stuff which you could pretty easily pivot to with a nursing degree anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Could’ve picked a different trade with similar amount of schooling like welding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From another nurse? Go work night shift rads. Everywhere I’ve worked that nurse works alone or with maybe a transport tech or two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes people feel better and more in control of themselves to think that their compassion fatigue is maturity instead of an injury that has been inflicted on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or if it’s a complete program for a profession like nursing or medicine, you wake up when the professors damn well say you do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bruh most people don’t even realize how much of modern healthcare still runs on fax machines. I didn’t even grow up with fax machines but I had to learn how to use them when I started my career. Most of our interactions with the government and pseudo government agencies for our involuntary / committed Psych patients is done by fax. The cops forgot to give us one of the pages we need when they dropped off a patient a few weeks ago and I found the NonEmerg line for their county and spamcalled their Dispatch at 2am until they faxed it to us.

  This is all to say that nurses as a whole are extremely tech illiterate. Most healthcare workers are; they’ve spent a lot of time learning anatomy and physiology and have had very little time left in their schooling to learn tech stuff. I grew up using CL Linux so I do most of the 2am tech support for everything that doesn’t explicitly require IT credentials. The wildest thing to me was watching both older nurses AND younger nurses hunt and peck to type. I grew up using AIM to talk to my friends as a teenager and nothing will increase your fluency with something more than most of your teenage communication that way.

  But it also means that I still have to go back to reddit to find people to properly empathize with me. As the OP says, a lot of these people can’t even empathize with the fact that I can’t find people here to empathize with. They just blame my fellow healthcare workers for not keeping up with technology. Like, cool, but I also just wanna be able to talk to them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lately, a great many people who used to say they didn't care about privacy because they had nothing to hide must be realizing what a flawed conclusion that was.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve reconciled within myself that I’m not much of a fighter anyway, but I would like to help strengthen the people who are!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More of a cycle, I would argue. Part of the rise and fall of empires or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we dream smaller now than we did decades ago?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “They used to sell gladiator sweat as a beauty treatment, they would sell it in souvenir pots.”

  “It’s the worst of me … I never do pay my bills. Have been so from a child!”)

  “Matters came to a head at a ball in honour of the Duke of Wellington when Byron publicly insulted Lady Caroline, who responded by breaking a wine glass and trying to slash her wrists.”

  TLDR; no we’ve pretty much always been unhinged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes sense to me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read a book a while back that was called a “guide to mating” or something that was actually pretty decent and included some very objectively anthropological / sociological explanations of why if you’re ugly you better at least be a good person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨true friend⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just hope the new pebble supports a Sim card soon but I’m not holding my breath. I just want talk, text, and a calendar. Music or a matrix app could be cool too so I can run beeper or similar through it. Other than that I have a tablet or laptop and tbh I’m thinking my next tablet when this one finally dies or I maybe give it away would be a remarkable or other epaper device. My coworkers are starting to think I’m a Luddite but whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨some o y'all⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I read somewhere that there are accounts of people complaining that learning to write would reduce students ability to memorize things. It’s up there with old timey accounts of people complaining how the kids act these days and all the penises drawn on the walls of Pompeii on my list of ways humans hadn’t fundamentally changed in the past 100,000 years. Other examples include:

  • the amount of really freaky porn that’s in the Bible

  • some graffiti that was found in the rafters of an old Norse building that says something to the effect of “Olaf was here.”

  • Horrifyingly dangerous Historical beauty trends

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can fix her⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the medical clinic nurses at the state Psych hospital I worked at would give any patient a condom if they asked and not tell anyone. Like. It was known to administration and it was one of her official responsibilities to do so, but she would not reveal who she gave them to or keep any records. We would absolutely stop them if we caught them but you can’t always catch people before they make a wholeass new person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can fix her⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Men love BPD chicks because we’ll be obsessed with them and could suck the paint off a trailer hitch but they act all shocked when they realize they need Steve Irwin level animal handling skill to not get their face chewed off and that they might just get speared to death anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man, I hate it when this happens!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s my signifier since gender means so little to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I say this to every coworker who asks why I have a car I rarely drive. It’s honestly just less stressful to commute that way. Idgaf about the weirdos at the bus stop for the most part. 90% of them are high or drunk af passed out cleanly. Every once in a while I have to nudge them out of the way to sit but that’s not usually an issue they just grunt and shift and they’re usually too shitfaced to move in their sleep once they’re out again. One is a lady who is always drunk af but awake and basically just uses the bus stop as a people watching spot and tells me neighborhood drama. There’s a pair of northerners who are polite in a northerner way. There were a brother and sister who were sleeping there for a month but last I heard she found a job and I wished them luck and haven’t seen them since. I’ve had a few really good philosophical conversations. One was a guy who had gotten his phone stolen and we chatted about the positive effects of increased mindfulness of the day to day and not being constantly observed and reachable by both your personal contacts and the faceless corporations. I got bothered by one guy but groundskeepers were hanging kinda close and the admins pass me on their way from their cars into the building I haven’t seen him since so either the facility took care of it or the other inhabitants did. Sometimes I talk, sometimes I just eat my Bacon and biscuit from the cafeteria and drink some tea. I’m trying to listen my way through the Bible just to know what’s in it. Right now I’m listening to the long long list of shit you’re not allowed to do while living in an aggressive war tribe in tents the desert like shitting too close to camp or having sex that doesn’t make more babies to keep fighting the other tribes. The cadence is weirdly chill almost seussian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to petty lane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s a 2 lane per side road the best way to get them to pass you is to not break check them but just take your foot off the gas until they get frustrated enough to just go around but this contextually sounds like a single lane sitch which you are correct is dangerous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lizards in space math⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In Psych we only have limits on the what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lizards in space math⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what it’s like being a psych nurse talking to an ICU nurse. It’s the difference between

  You put what WHERE???

  and

  The patient put what WHERE???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨science⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  yummy yummy pseudomonas…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨science⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  cancer. It’s literally cancer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enough is enough⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Legit have had paranoid patients making shivs or trying to start floods or fires and barricading their doors soap or lotion themselves up. The barricading has never been an issue because most places I’ve worked have had swingstop doors but extracting them without getting them or us hurt always fucking sucks. Usually someone who’s spent time in the correctional system doing stuff like that with the soap or lotion but one dude was a combat veteran. That suuucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well. Emotional swings like that can occur as part of a manic episode specifically. Mania just means the emotions come faster than usual, not that they’re good. Ppl w mania are actually frequently extremely angry, usually because they’re going a million miles an hour and don’t understand why everyone else won’t just keep. tf. up.

  But yeah if op has always just been like that consistently without any ebb and flow over month’s / years then yes it points more towards a thought disorder. I used to have a really cool infographic from a textbook on the differential dx between borderline, bipolar, and adhd since they can all have very similar presentations or even just be comorbid in certain patients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that you can create keyboard shortcuts to adjust brightness and contrast of your computer monitors even on a desktop PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a night shifter whose employer exclusively uses Windows, ty

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Psych patients actually do this a lot. Some places I’ve worked actually have protocols for it that include stuff like having the bathroom locked and only unlocked for supervised use, or having the water only be cut on when the contents of the toilet have been verified (also helpful to have water shutoffs for psychogenic polydipsia because they WILL drink their way into a hyponatremic seizure and they dgaf if it’s from a toilet) but also for the flushing usually they’re limited to one set of clothes and bed linens, one towel / washcloth, and have to ask for small quantities of toilet paper as needed. Then they yell at you about having to ask you use the bathroom like they didn’t flood the unit the unit three nights in a row. Motivations vary but the most common is wanting to feel in control of something and it can be difficult to try to find safe things for that kind of person to be allowed control over.

• The fact that some dogs are used to the groomers and some aren't is wild.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A marriage is a mutual responsibility of the people in it and no one else. Only those two people are even capable of upholding the promises they made to each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not, it depends on what you did. I can (almost) guarantee it was one of two situations though:

  1. it wasn’t actually that bad.

  2. If it was bad enough that you did manage to actually grievously harm or even kill someone, you were almost definitely put in a situation / given access to something no sane adult should or would have ever allowed a 6 year old child to have access to (such as a gun, or being in a position to knock someone off a cliff).

  As for your current everyday life, I need you to understand that an inferiority / guilt complex is in itself a burden on everyone around you. I once dated a guy with a similar guilt complex and he was impossible to deal with because I kept having to constantly shore up his self esteem for him.

  If you really want to do something that benefits other people, start by working on yourself and your self esteem. You may be able to try self-help books, videos, personal mantras, etc, but if you’re not making any headway with those you likely need professional therapy. You are no good to anyone (and even a bit of a drag), if you continue on with this mindset.