(don’t actually drink Drano, you’re an idiot if you do)

  • Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    I know this is just a joke, but seriously don’t kill yourself by drinking lye/drain cleaner. It a horrible death, basically slowly charing your esophagus and stomach until you die.

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      18 days ago

      I might not be remembering it totally accurately but my school back in the day had some dude who attempted this come and talk to us about something, can’t remember exactly. Anyway, in order to save his life, doctors had to take his intestines and attach to his throat…OVER the rib cage. I’m pretty sure in order to eat he had to push the food down that over-the-rib intestine like trying to get the last of the toothpaste out of the tube.

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        18 days ago

        I remember seeing this on TV - I believe it was grill cleaner? It’s been quite some years… But I remember him showing how he had to manually push food down the front of his sternum… Creepy

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        18 days ago

        My mom has peristalsis. That means her esophagus muscles no longer work, and so she has to have soft foods that go down really easily and has to either sit up really straight or stand up while she eats.

        And I thought she had it bad.

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        I saw this on TV and it lives rent-free in my head, forever. Guy indeed has to manually assist chewed food on its way down. I don’t recall if he’s on a special diet, has to chew the hell out of his food for lack of a stomach, or anything else like that. What was clear is that how he got there, and the way life is now, is very unpleasant.

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    18 days ago

    Yeah don’t drink draino. If you feel depressed and want everything to end, try something new: small crimes (eg graffiti), starting a union, volunteer work for food bank, election volunteer, etc

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      I would but I’m too depressed to even leave the house most days.

      Has nothing to do with the election; that’s just my default behavior.

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    18 days ago

    Good plan. I mean personally I’d go with a .38 - Drano is gonna hurt like a motherfucker the whole time it’s killing you.

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    18 days ago

    On one hand, lmao good meme

    On the other, I genuinely wish depressed/suicidal people would dedicate their life to a random cause instead of offing themselves

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      On the other, I genuinely wish depressed/suicidal people would dedicate their life to a random cause instead of offing themselves

      Man, half the reason is that the struggle is unbearable and never ends. “Go involve yourself more in the struggle” isn’t really an answer to that.

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        18 days ago

        It can be. Struggling is part of life, meaning makes struggle worth it. Meaning can change ones outlook from it never ends to I can move the needle, even just a little.

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          18 days ago

          Meaning can change ones outlook from it never ends to I can move the needle, even just a little.

          Meaning? Ha! And that needle you can do freely move? Doesn’t even exist for us. 👍

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          18 days ago

          Ever been deeply, clinically, chronically depressed to the point of suicidal thoughts and possibly have exhausted clinical treatments?

          Are you a medical professional offering a legitimate treatment?

          No?

          Maybe you should sit down and not offer such reductionist advice regarding conditions you apparently do not understand.

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      On the other, I genuinely wish depressed/suicidal people would dedicate their life to a random cause instead of offing themselves

      It really doesn’t work that way. You can work in charity and still deal with mental illness and suicidal ideation.

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      Yeah it doesn’t work that way bro.

      Take the most debilitating pain you’ve ever endured in your life, amp it up to “11”, and then live with it every single day from here until you die. 24/7.

      Then when you think you might have a handle on managing it, have people like yourself make such dismissive comments on how you should dedicate your life to some “random cause” instead.