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  • In my crash course to new psych techs about addiction I list off all the common legal addictions which goes something like this:

    • Caffeine
    • Nicotine
    • Alcohol
    • Gambling
    • Pornography
    • Social Media
    • Binge Eating
    • Non-suicidal self-injury
    • And depending on the location, Marijuana

    I tell them that mine is caffeine and my partner’s is nicotine, then we talk about motivational interviewing and then I move on to dementia.



  • If it’s new shortness of breath or chest pain , particularly the crushing variety that feels like something is sitting on you, do not pass go, do not collect money, straight to the ER. Same goes for sudden severe lower back or abdominal pain or sudden heavy bleeding out of your orifices (more than a super maxi-pad full every two hours if you’ve got that genital configuration). There’s a few other little things like a continuous erection more than 4 hours. Also you should learn the signs of a stroke (Google “stroke FAST”). If you’re not sure, look up the local ERs number (not 911) and ask for the “triage nurse” and ask them.

    If it’s been going on / steadily getting worse for over a month it can (probably) wait one more week if that’s all it will take to see your primary care physician or see a specialist.

    If it’s sudden but you know exactly what you did like if you pulled a muscle or sprained a joint at work or cut or burned your arm while cooking (I specify arm, if you cut or burn your hand, face, or foot, measure how big it is and call that triage nurse, and if it’s your genitals just go to the ER) or if you forgot to pee after sex or did it with somebody sketchy and now it hurts to pee, go to the urgent care. Or if your petri dish of a preschooler brought home something and you’re not sure if it’s strep but you almost definitely need a note for work. Or if you have an old cut but now it’s looking puffy and oozing weird liquids (but it’s still localized to that one little area, you don’t have a fever or anything). If you can look at it and already have a general laymans idea of what they’re gonna do to it, go to the urgent care.









  • That’s also why I’m being so active in this comments section; I don’t want people reading about compassionate euthenasia thinking “wait isn’t that how they torture people to death?” because it’s not unless you’re basically trying to use it that way. I’ve actually been briefly trained on what to do in an inert gas leak in some of the radiology safety modules for work because some of the imaging machinery uses inert gas and they literally tell you it’s super easy to accidentally die that way because by the time you’ve even noticed you’re almost dead.






  • They’re not doing it correctly to be used as euthenasia. You need:

    a) a person without COPD, chronic bronchitis, or any other disorder that has swapped their drive to breathe away from increased blood carbon dioxide / acidity and towards oxygen deficiency (fun fact, oxygen deficiency isn’t what drives most people to breathe).

    b) a cooperative person who can follow instructions to breathe out fully then take 2-3 full deep breaths

    c) a nonrebreather mask which is a special mask with an outlet valve so that when they breathe out that air with all the carbon dioxide is vented while the nitrogen continues being pumped in. (Edit: This is if they’re alone in a room or somewhere with excellent ventilation, or the nitrogen would be vented as well after a certain point and could harm the observers, that’s why the sarcopod is a pod).

    Sounds like they’re fine on A, but not doing B or C.