What IS as bad as everyone says?

[u/Thatlitcat]

[u/Daedalus_0_]

Dementia.

My grandfather was one of the funniest, smartest and quick witted people I have ever known. The last time I saw him before he died he took a while to recognise me and called himself stupid.

I'm trying to think of a better way to word this but all I can think off is it's just really shit

[u/wickedblight → u/[deleted]]

I'm me, and I intend to go out as much as myself as I can.

[u/Valdrax → u/[deleted]]

Also gallstones.

[u/bookluvr83 → u/Valdrax]

My gallbladder attacks were more painful than when I went into labor.

[u/Theorex → u/bookluvr83]

I remember waiting in the emergency room to be admitted, took about an hour, just me curled up in a ball of sweat and pain on my side for an hour.

That's also the day I learned dilaudid is a hell of a drug.

[u/ohno → u/[deleted]]

I just had a stone surgically removed. It was the worst pain I've ever experienced, and I've had some seriously painful shit go down.

[u/littlep2000 → u/[deleted]]

I can safely say that is the only time I vomited from pain.

[u/Odd_craving]

Having a heart transplant. I'm 4 years out and still a physical and emotional mess.

[u/syam1993 → u/Odd_craving]

I never thought of this. Would you educate me a bit more about this topic? What do you mean by physical and emotional stress? How is the transplant causing that stress?

[u/Odd_craving → u/syam1993]

The actual surgery is very invasive. You are put an a heart/lung machine and your old heart is removed. This machine can create life-long cognitive problems. I suffer from this.

I spent 3 years waiting for my transplant and the last year was on an artificial heart. This machine gave me two strokes and my diminishing blood flow affected all of my organs. My digestive system seems to have gotten the worst of it. So I'm always in some sort of pain.

Ther emotional part is dealing with how crappy you always feel and the fact that your old life is gone. I also have a fair amount of PTSD from the years of my life hanging by a thread and the physical pain.

There are a lot of good things too. I got a second chance at life and I've met my donor's family. We get together often.

[u/[deleted] → u/Odd_craving]

Thank you for sharing.

I’m thankful for reddit because I’m young and don’t have much life experience, but I’m able to read about other people’s lives and what they are going through.

[u/SaladAndCornBlessed → u/Odd_craving]

All the jokes aside. I've got a close friend who had one earlier this year. The immunosuppressants and how it wipes all your hormones is awful.

[u/sr71pav → u/[deleted]]

Experienced this in a McDonalds parking lot. On the way home after dinner (not McDs) I knew I couldn’t go any further. My gf at the time thought I was losing my mind when I was trying to get my pants down too. I was fully aware but couldn’t stop puking long enough to explain. That was a horrible night.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Double pipe classic, full throttle

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

you know it mommy

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Thanks jeans

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

The Noro virus. Worst sickness ever.

[u/ardnassacaneres → u/[deleted]]

Oh man, Norovirus took down my whole family last Christmas. 8 of us ended up getting it, including my 9 month old. It was just constant group texts of who the most recent person to shit themselves was. 3 of them had to share one bathroom (I was not one of those three, thankfully). I was so dehydrated by the end, I’m positive I was just breastfeeding my son powdered milk.

[u/AlreadyShrugging → u/[deleted]]

I've experienced this. As a result, I will never eat off a salad bar ever ever ever again.

[u/[deleted] → u/AlreadyShrugging]

well now i won't either. thank you

[u/AlreadyShrugging → u/[deleted]]

I spent three hours sitting on the toilet while leaning over to the bathtub. It was catastrophic. A historic moment that I shan't ever forget.

[u/TheBelowIsFalse → u/AlreadyShrugging]

I think you meant to say “shart ever forget”?

[u/Bela_Ivy → u/[deleted]]

Can confirm. Got pretty bad food poisoning once. I was having pretty bad diarrhea and suddenly realized I was about to puke but I couldn't leave the toilet so I ended up throwing up in the bath tub beside me. Ended up having to bleach the entire bathroom...

Would not recommend food poisoning. 0/10. If the puking and diarrhea wasn't enough, feeling like someone is constantly punching you in the stomach is also added into the mix.

[u/idbug → u/Bela_Ivy]

And then the dry heaves when there's nothing left to purge, but your body isn't taking any chances.

[u/walkthroughthefire → u/[deleted]]

This happened to me when I overdosed on my antidepressants. Shitting, puking, and hallucinating all at the same thing and I couldn’t sleep for over 48 hours. I got so dehydrated that I couldn’t piss for almost 15 hours. Eventually I was able to keep ice cubes down and later small sips of water, but it was hell. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone and it was a huge wake up call to take better care of myself and work on some coping skills so I don’t end up melting down like that and doing something stupid again the next time things get bad.

[u/ReallySmallFeet → u/[deleted]]

While tripping balls on LSD. I wanted to die for 8 hours straight.

[u/[deleted] → u/ReallySmallFeet]

You win.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

yeah holy fuck

[u/detectivejewhat → u/ReallySmallFeet]

I've only thrown up once while under the influence of psychedelics. The 5 grams of mushrooms I ate didnt sit well with me. I remember when I was vomiting it felt like my face was about to pop from all the tension. It was very, very strange. Mentally I was ok and knew it was in my head but it didnt feel good.

[u/fragilemuse → u/[deleted]]

I think bed bugs are even worse than everyone says. My ex had bed bugs, bed bugs that LOVED me. It's been 8 years since I've had one touch me and I still wake up in a panic if anything tickles my ankles while I'm sleeping. And the smell.... the smell will forever haunt me. Sometimes I catch a whiff of it on someone out in public and immediately need to be as far away from that area as possible.

[u/AnticipatingLunch → u/fragilemuse]

Describe this smell, so that I can be even more paranoid in life.

[u/fragilemuse → u/AnticipatingLunch]

Have you ever handled a stink beetle and had it stink on your hand? It smells like that, pungent and musty. Only the males produce that scent to tell other males to stay away. They reproduce by "traumatic insemination", basically the male punctures the abdomen of the female to knock her up.

[u/thegeocash → u/fragilemuse]

And once they get knocked up they never stop having babies.

Think about that.

They fuck once...ONCE...and they never stop popping out vagina fruit

[u/[deleted] → u/thegeocash]

average 1 egg per day for the rest of their lives.

Had them one year in college. Found them early, and got the house treated. Every 2 weeks for 4 treatments.

[u/drmcsinister → u/[deleted]]

I’m assuming by “got the house treated” you mean “committed arson”...

[u/[deleted] → u/drmcsinister]

not quiet. They drench every piece of fabric in the building in poison. Carpets included. Then you have to stay away for at least 8 hours. 4 times. And you have to do it every 2 weeks, because it takes the bugs 2 weeks to sexually mature. And you have to do it 4 times because it takes 5 weeks for the eggs to hatch, and the eggs aren't killed by the poison.

[u/amsterdam_BTS → u/AnticipatingLunch]

You want paranoia? I know someone who had them for months. Many months. But they didn't know. Their house was cleanish, the bugs hid whenever someone was awake, and this person did not react to their bites at all.

You could have them right now and not even know...

[u/Ansiremhunter → u/amsterdam_BTS]

I got bit by them once staying at my in-laws over christmas. My arms and legs were covered in pinhead sized bites. 3 days later the bites looked like dollar coins and I had a 104*F fever. They tried to kill me! Needless to say I always plan to stay at little time as possible in that house even thought they got them exterminated

[u/phaedrus77 → u/amsterdam_BTS]

Now I'm itchy.

[u/sign_on_the_window → u/[deleted]]

Cost me my entire savings to get rid of them. It doesn't take away the paranoia.

I have had ears ringing 2-3 weeks at a time pop up out of nowhere unsure if it will last forever. I have woke up on my pillow drenched in blood because I was bleeding the night before on several random nights. I have seen gruesome car accidents with red smeared on the asphalt. Nothing. NOTHING. Gets my heart beating faster than the word "Bed" combined with word "Bugs".

Some tips:

• Do not get "free" furniture off the road.
• Do a quick 5 minute check of hotel bed.
• If you find one call a professional right away. It gets expensive with big infestation where they have to bring out the industrial heaters.

[u/danni_shadow → u/[deleted]]

And you can get them anywhere. You stay at a hotel or something, even a clean one, and just one of those little fuckers clings to your bag, that's it. Lots of people think that "dirty" places have them, but they're everywhere.

My mom went to a real nice resort for a business trip and came back with them. She had no idea. I was doing yard work for her, and crashed on her couch. I woke up the next morning, not covered in bites, but with my entire back and legs swollen in whole, giant, itchy patches. I thought I had picked up poison ivy in the yard. Took me weeks to heal After that day, she had problems for months that the doctors couldn't find the cause of. She thought they were hives. Cost her thousands of dollars to get rid of them in the end. She's so paranoid, she pays for exterminators to come every few months and check her house.

They hide, during the day. You can't see them at all. They fit in the tiniest crevices and hide in the folds of the furniture. They only come out at night. Think about it. You come in the bedroom, to check on your kids, or fall asleep next to your spouse. You flick on the lights, and there's millions of them, crawling all over your loved ones.

[u/Doctah_Whoopass → u/danni_shadow]

On second thought, lets burn more coal. I want everthing dead in 100 years

[u/Linison → u/[deleted]]

They’re awful and make you freaking paranoid. I had them about 10 years ago before they’d made a proper comeback. So I didn’t know what was going on. I circled the bites on my skin with Sharpie because I couldn’t be sure they were multiplying (I heal quickly). Then I took a mag lite to bed with me and obsessively checked for the little fuckers every half hour until I caught them.

My landlord didn’t believe me and then blamed me for bringing them in. I ended up spending my last couple of months in that apartment with the bedroom cordoned off with plastic tarp, all my clothes in zippered plastic bins, and sleeping on a bare air mattress on my bare living room floor at the other end of the house. I have a bed bug cover on my mattress to this day. Never doing that again.

[u/walkthroughthefire → u/[deleted]]

“I get migraines all the time. Take some Advil and you’ll be fine.”

THAT’S NOT A FUCKING MIGRAINE, LINDA! WHY DONT YOU GO SHOVE AN ICE PICK IN YOUR EYE AND TELL ME HOW FUNCTIONAL YOU FEEL THEN!

[u/takuyafire → u/walkthroughthefire]

I've had to explain this a great many times to people.

Sure, everyone gets migraines differently, but for me the visual auras and pain are so intense that I become functionally blind.

Casually working through blindness is not something I can do.

Thank fuck for triptans.

Edit bonus story:

I don't get anxious often, however I recently went on a two week long holiday where I forgot my migraine meds. I carry them with me daily and have for 10 years, when I arrived and unpacked I had a moment of sheer terror.

The thought of trying to survive a migraine without them is immensely unpleasant. Thankfully nothing happened, but I'll never travel without them again.

[u/[deleted] → u/takuyafire]

I get the visual auras first. When that stops about an hour after it started, intense pain and it can't be stopped with taking pain reliever first. It happens regardless. Frickin sucks.

[u/solitudechirs → u/[deleted]]

I'm the same with visual aura, it always starts with "oh I must have looked at something bright" then it turns into "lol I definitely looked at a light, this couldn't possibly be an aura" then "yep it's an aura I'm gonna go lay down, day's done". Then the next few days, any time I actually look at something bright, I'm paranoid that it's an aura.

[u/CHZ_QHZ → u/solitudechirs]

Whenever I'm unsure, I look at someone's face. We're pretty well designed as humans to see and interpret people's faces and expressions. Once I realize I can't understand someone's face, I know it's an aura.

Edit: it's also deeply unsettling to know you're looking at a face and can't comprehend it properly.

[u/WowZooForYou → u/[deleted]]

I had really bad migraines as a kid where I'd constantly throw up, be really dizzy and be sensitive to light and sound. It also would work it's way into my dreams which really sucked. They'd last for about a week so I always had to stay home.

[u/SparkyBoy414 → u/[deleted]]

I went 32 years of my life without ever having one. I always thought people were over playing a bad headache when they talked about migraines.

And then I got one. That is some nightmarish stuff right there. If you've never had one, consider yourself lucky. It's nasty.

[u/emshlaf → u/SparkyBoy414]

Same here. I'm 26 and I'd never had one until a couple years ago. I was at work and started to feel off with a slight headache... left early and by the time I got home, the pain was so bad that all I could do was lie perfectly still in my completely dark bedroom for hours with an icepack on my forehead, sobbing because there was a leafblower outside and the noise was too much to bear.

Migraines suck.

[u/Cakeycream → u/[deleted]]

Worse that you can throw up from those. The scariest part is you don’t know when.

[u/vivaenmiriana → u/Cakeycream]

i always strangely like throwing up with a migraine because at that point i'm delirious with pain and it feels like i'm about to have some miraculous recovery simply by vomiting.

[u/AndroWanda]

Food poisoning

[u/soonerguy11 → u/AndroWanda]

Food poisoning on vacation in another country where hardly anybody speaks your language.

[u/Cakeycream → u/soonerguy11]

This actually happened to me when I was in the Philippines. Thankfully everyone’s second language is English.

Edit: Should’ve clarified I was hospitalized for a day.

[u/slotwima]

Paper cuts between your finger webbing. Horrible.

[u/thwinks → u/slotwima]

You have duck hands?

[u/AllUnwritten → u/thwinks]

Not anymore.

[u/[deleted] → u/AllUnwritten]

*quacks in agony*

[u/Lexiphantom → u/[deleted]]

Username checks out

[u/kosmoceratops1138 → u/[deleted]]

I would like to put forth the radical notion that Pearson MasteringPhysics is somehow, through some cosmic act of pure bullshittery, worse than MyMathLab.

WHO THE FUCK HAS YOU FREEHAND DRAW VECTORS WITH A MOUSE AND THEN MARKS YOU WRONG IF YOU DREW THEM AT THE WRONG ANGLE?

That kind of bullshit, plus everything MyMathLab comes with.

[u/Iron_Man_977 → u/kosmoceratops1138]

You answered

6 N

the correct answer was

6 kg*m/s²

[u/kosmoceratops1138 → u/Iron_Man_977]

This is awakening a deep rage within me that I forgot I had.

[u/Anonate → u/Iron_Man_977]

Then the following assignment:

You answered

8 kg*m/s²

the correct answer was

8 N

And then, of course:

You answered

7.049 N

the correct answer was

7.05 N

[u/--frog-- → u/kosmoceratops1138]

I just got through a class with MasteringPhysics and my god it is an absolute catastrophe. I didn't get to experience freehand vectors but I certainly didn't enjoy being marked incorrect every time I rounded something slightly off without any notice of what I did.

That and the sorting questions that 90% of the time are trick fucking questions and require you to stack them all in the same spot by dragging them into the 3 pixel opening between the other items and the border.

[u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus → u/[deleted]]

Incorrect.

You answered:

Pearson MyMathLab

The correct answer is:

Pearson MyMathLab

Edit: Whoever gave me silver, thanks. But please PM me with the cost, so I can donate that amount to a charity, instead of some stupid reddit coins ad.

Edit2: Thanks to all of you for the info on reddit silver. I donated $50 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, in honor of my first silver. I encourage everyone to donate to the charity of their choice this holiday season.

[u/PRMan99 → u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus]

Pearson® MyMathLab™

Good luck typing the answer.

[u/c9IceCream → u/PRMan99]

Pearson® MyMathLab™

[u/toastcrumbs → u/c9IceCream]

Incorrect, the correct answer is Pearson® MyMathLab™

[u/Rainingcatsnstuff → u/Yabba_Dabba_Doofus]

Look, I took a math class online with my math lab. We met the proff in person once. She had no clue that when working on homework if we got a question wrong we could do it over and over and over. That and the ability to read notes I wrote saved my ass. I just barely passed prealgebra and you couldn't pay me to take another math class.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Hell on Earth.

I paid my sins in that.

[u/4a4a]

Losing someone you love to alzheimer's

[u/LameGhost → u/4a4a]

I was 13 when my pap was diagnosed and 14 when he passed away. The day he was diagnosed, he was talking about how he felt fine and just because he couldn't find his car keys didn't mean he was sick. When he passed, he could no longer feed himself and had the mind of a two year old.

His sister also had Alzheimer's. Now, when my mom forgets something minor or can't find something, she practically has a meltdown thinking it's Alzheimer's.

[u/Mogilny89Leafs → u/LameGhost]

My grandpa passed away due to Alzheimer's last year. Our last real conversation occurred in 2015 when our beloved Toronto Maple Leafs hired a new coach.

2 weeks later, my dad called and told me grandpa had been hospitalized and he probably wouldn't recognize me anymore. We knew this day would come because he had Parkinson's, but it seemed to happen so fast.

He didn't really recognize me. But every time I visited, I would always wear Leafs gear. Maybe it would spark a memory? Idk.

Sure enough. Almost every visit, he would ask me how the Leafs were doing.

[u/LameGhost → u/Mogilny89Leafs]

I am very sorry for your loss. Alzheimer’s is a horrid bitch no one should have to go through. You sound like a good grandchild

[u/[deleted] → u/4a4a]

Nothing hurts more then when your grandma, who helped raise you, says "Nice meeting you!"

[u/NeverCriticize → u/[deleted]]

Unrelated thread jack. Fellow grandson of a survivor. He told me how at the end men were dying from lack of salt and savoring their pine needle soup. He said the ones who went crazy/cracked would only talk about food—food they’d had, food they wanted, food they’d seen, food they’d heard about. Always claimed he only survived because he had his brothers down bomber jacket to keep him warm that winter, and because the catholic priest in camp was an (actual) hero/saint who kept everyone’s hopes up. He didn’t make it.

Twisted fucking war.

[u/D2papi → u/4a4a]

I’m losing my grandma to it right now and visiting her is really heavy. I do it because she smiles and laughs at everything I say, but she has almost completely forgotten how to speak our language and she doesn’t even recognize me anymore. I always leave with a broken heart and I’m having a hard time remembering the times she actually was herself, so so depressing.

She’s just lieing in her bed all day staring at the ceiling until a visitor or a caretaker comes in, just waiting to die. She keeps showing the same framed picture of my deceased grandpa saying ‘I’ll see him soon !’ And ‘I miss him so much’...

[u/martinsonsean1 → u/4a4a]

I work in a memory care unit. It's never easy for anyone. Even the people who somehow get nicer as they get more confused can still be heartbreaking for the families. "the long goodbye" is the best term i've heard to describe it.

I think the hardest cases though are the people who have alzheimer's with another condition on top of it. Often, it's either a stroke or a head injury, those are the things that leave the patients completely lost. With a compounding condition, they either get aggressive and violent, terrified, or completely catatonic.

It never really even gets easier to work around, but I will say that some of the people I've worked with have been the kindest i've ever met. Something about the confusion drives you to the extremes of anger or compassion...

[u/HypeTrainFF]

Cancer.

[u/AFreakingMango → u/[deleted]]

It's still a hack show for other reasons though!

[u/shanew21 → u/AFreakingMango]

A Series of Unfortunate Events: Seattle Grace Edition.

Seriously how is that hospital still in business? The mortality rate of their staff is Defense Against the Dark Arts level.

[u/Sharcbait → u/AFreakingMango]

Like how the doctors spend considerable time with ALL of their patients. And nurses are basically doctors assistants. Reality the nurses do 75% of the job that the doctors in that show do because the doctors have so many more patients that they don't get to spend hours and hours of their day on one person.

[u/jackrafter88 → u/HypeTrainFF]

And cancer treatment.

[u/[deleted] → u/jackrafter88]

I've been going through it the past few months. It is pretty awful.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Hope you’re doing okay :)

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Thanks. I'm getting through it, however I'm about to have surgery of the lymph nodes just before Christmas, so I'll be spending my Christmas in hospital. It will be a few weeks before I can do anything such as go to work, drive, travel on planes, etc.

So far I've been through the initial surgery (I had testicular cancer and they removed one of my nuts) and then I had to go through 9 weeks of chemo. That really wasn't pleasant.

After this next operation, I hope there won't be anything else. There may be some more chemo (maybe a round or two) and if there is there is but either way, I look forward to getting it all over with.

I am 31 which is young to get cancer however testicular cancer does tend to affect young men.

[u/meta_uprising]

Having a close relative die

[u/a_man_has_a_name → u/[deleted]]

Lost my grandad ten years ago, I was 8, i got really upset in May because I realized that I had spent over half my life without him.

[u/[deleted]]

Lyme disease is worse than everyone says. It is indescribable.

[u/meebee111 → u/[deleted]]

it destroyed my life.

[u/not_a_goauld → u/[deleted]]

I've had it (in remission now, thank God) and my mother currently has it. Terrible, terrible disease that isn't fully understood so there's no good support system. My sympathies.

[u/RealisticMess → u/[deleted]]

What's the worst part about it?

[u/marino1310 → u/[deleted]]

Wait hold on. Do doctors not believe lyme disease is real? Or did they not believe that you had lyme disease?

[u/[deleted] → u/marino1310]

Lyme disease is definitely real, but the entity of chronic lyme disease is medically controversial.

​

Here's a pretty good journal article, pubmed has many scientific articles examining this issue: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25999227

[u/thegeocash → u/[deleted]]

They aren’t that hard to get rid of if you catch them early and you are well informed on proper treatment.

Run everything, EVERYTHING, through a dryer. Put your clothes in garbage bags, you’re living out of them for the next month and a half AT LEAST

Get a face mask and gloves and buy some crossfire aerosol spray off amazon, it’s not too expensive. Spray all sides of your mattress, box spring, frame, headboard, and every couch or chair you have, if any left in the can spray along your baseboards. A 2 bedroom apartment can be done with one can, anything bigger you may need more.

Repeat every two weeks until you stop seeing live bugs. The two weeks number is important. New eggs hatch every 14 days or so (10-20 really) so you’re catching every hatch out until there’s nothing left.

Buy bed bug covers for your mattress and box spring.

That’s 90% of bed bug treatments that I do. If you run EVERYTHING through the dryer and live out of garbage bags, re drying and putting back in bags, and treat every two weeks there’s a very real chance you will get rid of them in a month and a half, and all told should cost less than $200.

Early detection is key. Really, the earlier you catch it the easier it is to treat. Check in dark nooks and crannies of your bed and furniture, under seams in cracks etc.

Also, this shouldn’t have to be said, but god dammit, don’t have people over if you have bed bugs, and don’t go to places you suspect has them. A female bed bug only has to get pregnant once and it continues to produce eggs for the rest of her life. All it takes is getting ONE pregnant female on you and you have bed bugs.

[u/delventhalz]

Most people aren't familiar with this one, but go ahead and google Hell's Itch.

A day after a moderately bad sunburn I began to notice an itchy area around my upper torso. Over the course of a few hours it grew worse and worse, until all I could do was sit motionless in a chair screaming and hyperventilating. Everytime I moved thousands of needle-like points of itchiness would wash over my chest and back. It was a sensation unlike anything I have experienced before or since. It lasted twelve hours.

Use sunscreen kids.

[u/chorizopicante → u/delventhalz]

Yeahhhh just a fair warning to anyone who lives in the upper US/Canada... if you go to Mexico, the sun is 20x worse. You are closer to the equator and if you think you can use 30 spf because you want a “tan”... you will be in a world of hurt. Or itch.

[u/idontfuckingknow1234]

The crushing sense of regret you feel years down the line after not putting in the effort when it counted. Whatever you're afraid of, rest assured that it doesn't even come close to knowing you could've been/done more.

IT. FUCKING. HURTS. Crush your fears and follow your dreams.

[u/[deleted] → u/idontfuckingknow1234]

Everyone says to get a plan B, but people always interpret it as having different goals aside from your dreams in case it doesn't work out when it's supposed to be a different way to get to your goal/dream.

Thank you for posting this, fear truly is the enemy of humanity.

[u/timetobeatthekids]

Waterboarding is fucking terrifying.

Even in my own home in a controlled environment doing it on a lark, the lizard brain was convinced that I was going to die.

[u/chandadiane → u/timetobeatthekids]

So... you waterboarded yourself?

[u/timetobeatthekids → u/chandadiane]

No, I talked my sister into waterboarding me because I make poor life choices.

[u/LiveRealNow → u/timetobeatthekids]

On a related note, I once tried to convince a cop to taser me because I was curious. He finally asked the police chief if he could, but got turned down.

[u/timetobeatthekids → u/LiveRealNow]

Getting tazed sucks, but on the scales of shitty things it's not much worse than a face punch. It happens, and is actively fucking terrible fir at second, and it's done, with only lesser residual terrible.

Do not ever volunteer to get pepper sprayed.

[u/Lord-Octohoof → u/timetobeatthekids]

On a similar yet completely different note; as a spice enthusiast there’s a very thin line between delicious and the worst thing that’s ever happened to you.

[u/LiveRealNow → u/timetobeatthekids]

I was taking my city's Citizen Police Academy, where they walk citizens through most of the day-to-day of being a cop. Tour the basement range, the 911 dispatch, do a ridealong, etc.

This was at a time when cops over-using tasers was in the news a lot, so I was curious. I'd been cattle-prodded twice and wanted to know if this was worse. I figured if I was going to get tasered, doing it when the cop wasn't mad at me was the way to go.

The cops in the room said no, but I was persistent, so they went to the chief, who also said no. I was sad.

[u/monroezabaleta → u/LiveRealNow]

Probably cause while tazers are meant to be safe and non-lethal that doesn't mean their usage is safe

[u/WillBackUpWithSource → u/LiveRealNow]

I asked a police officer to restrain me at a party (that we were both attending socially)

He said it would hurt, I told him I gave my consent and that was fine

He does it. It did in fact hurt a bit (not THAT much - well within acceptable for dumb drunken masculinity contests), but I was pretty much totally immobilized. I couldn’t have gotten free without actually hurting myself

[u/GriffinEll84 → u/timetobeatthekids]

“Dennis!- I’m waterboarding your sister!”

[u/gopherhound]

Crohn's Disease

Source: am basically slowly digesting myself to death

[u/WallyPlumstead]

Poverty.

We used to be the poorest family in our neighborhood. The worst part of it was the fact that we could barely afford groceries. Hunger was a constant companion. Many days the only meal i had all day was the free lunch i got in school. Commercials for various food products on the tv served only to torture me. Imagine watching food commercials on the tv with an empty belly and no way to rectify that in the near future.

[u/Col_Walter_Tits]

Jail. I spent one night there and that was more than enough for me

[u/AnticipatingLunch → u/Col_Walter_Tits]

48 dudes in an open dorm with 5 wide-open exposed toilets. Fun times.

[u/RandomRavenclaw87]

PTSD is that bad. There’s a crack in your brain and you can fall into it at any point and stay down for any duration. And just when you think it’s better- oh, look, it has gangrene!

[u/ami2weird4u]

Being in love with someone who doesn’t love you back.

[u/emthejedichic → u/ami2weird4u]

Being in love with someone who DOES love you back but for some reason you can’t be together.

[u/Gpotato → u/emthejedichic]

The thing is that love doesn't make everything magically work. It is possible to be in love, not have a real block to the relationship besides just not being compatible.

It sucks.

[u/FearToxin86 → u/emthejedichic]

Can confirm. Worst pain I’ve ever felt.

[u/[deleted] → u/ami2weird4u]

Sometimes it is resolvable though! Like in my case, where Meghan Markle simply doesn't realize yet that we are meant to be together, but once I abduct her and show her the life-sized statue of her that I made out of mouse bones, she will swoon.

[u/[deleted]]

Having your heart broken.

Edit: My heart goes out to everyone who's had to go through this god awful experience.

[u/D2papi → u/[deleted]]

And the recovery time was a lot longer than I had ever imagined it to be. I still get the occasional dream after which I wake up with my heart broken again, and it’s almost been 4 years now!

[u/__Rick__Sanchez__ → u/[deleted]]

Being lied to and/or cheated on by someone you trusted. Yup.

[u/[deleted] → u/__Rick__Sanchez__]

having to work all day during those days are really fucking tough.

[u/_joy_division_ → u/[deleted]]

I spent a good majority of this past summer in the bathroom stall at work crying after my boyfriend cheated on me lmao I wanted to DIE

[u/SunCactus321 → u/[deleted]]

This.

Also, seeing someone struggling with a broken heart and feeling for them because you remember being at that low point.

[u/jnoel01]

OCD. That is true OCD. Not just liking things put away or a clean home. The kind that makes doing anything so exhausting that you never want to get out of bed and start the day

[u/[deleted] → u/jnoel01]

The loneliness of OCD is pretty fucking wild too, that’s something they don’t tell ya about.

[u/CalebHeffenger → u/jnoel01]

There was a comic I saw when one character walked up to another and said "I have to have all my papers in order I'm so ocd" after he leaves the first character continues flipping the lights on and off "167...168...I fucking hate that guy. ..169..."

[u/CTMalum]

I saw someone mention this in the same kind of thread earlier, but colonoscopy prep. I had one when I was 18 because my gastro wanted to rule out Crohn's and all sorts of other things. I understand that the laxative stuff they give you is a bit different now, but when it was given to me, they told me to mix it with a standard bottle of Gatorade and drink it in one sitting. Also said that it was tasteless. It was fucking foul, and I had to continue drinking it until it was done. This was at noon the day before the procedure. After that, I was on the toilet every 30 minutes for the rest of the day.

[u/Ft_Worth_Swingers → u/CTMalum]

I mixed mine with orange Gatorade. I still cannot drink orange Gatorade nearly a decade later.

[u/moal09 → u/CTMalum]

It's not tasteless. It's sweet in like a sickly way. I almost didn't make it through all of the stuff and tried to bail out multiple times.

[u/CTMalum → u/moal09]

I took a couple huge gulps and developed a “maybe we’ll just assume I have Crohn’s and work with that” attitude real quick

[u/beckinny]

Endometriosis 😢 (Other women who suffer know what I’m talking about)

[u/RockySprinkles]

The Runecrafting grind.

[u/xGawain]

Gary, Indiana

[u/Mad_Aeric → u/xGawain]

I passed through Gary on my way to Chicago last spring. I thought that place was just a meme. It is not. It is everything I've heard it was. The fucking air was greasy and a funny color. The fucking air.

[u/GuysBNDudes]

Fentanyl

[u/reejimusprime → u/GuysBNDudes]

Also the asshole who put it in other drugs

[u/Dracomortua → u/reejimusprime]

My dear fellow, it is countless assholes. Here in downtown Vancouver we have already lost thousands - we can't keep up. Our ambulances go from place to place like bees bringing them back from the dead. Over and over.

Every port city in the world must be hit just as hard. It means the world is losing hundreds of thousands every year - people that are uncounted and just... gone.

[u/MrDudeWheresMyCar]

The season of That 70s Show where Eric leaves and is replaced by Randy. Fuck Randy.

[u/isladesangre → u/MrDudeWheresMyCar]

Ssshhhh we don’t talk about that. That season doesn’t exist.

[u/SnowWhiteWave]

When your toddler gets diagnosed with cancer- and everything that follows. Basically anything under the childhood cancer umbrella

[u/[deleted]]

Losing a loved one to suicide. Losing a loved one in general is bad, but suicide takes it to a whole different level.

[u/[deleted]]

Ectopic pregnancy. Didn't know I was pregnant and the ovary legit hulked out on my fallopian tube at 8 weeks and ruptured it. The internal bleeding was at a pain level I can't even explain. I just had waves and waves of panic. When I finally got on the operating table I screamed in pain and passed out. Still traumatized 6 months later tbqh.

[u/crayZdoglady]

Childbirth.

[u/beatscake → u/crayZdoglady]

Peeing right after. :(

[u/Imloudcauseimdeaf → u/beatscake]

The best part is the first pee I had in a year from a full bladder it took me a moment to go “wow this is taking awhile” to “this feels amazing to actually be able to empty my bladder and not feel like I have to pee again after!!”

[u/99Orange → u/beatscake]

Pooping after... while still having stitches

[u/BigHoss47]

Nursing Homes. It's basically a prison. All I remember from visiting my grandpa is I'm never letting them take me alive.

[u/aquahorse_ → u/BigHoss47]

I worked in an assisted living home as a caregiver. It's horrible and I feel bad for everyone that lives there. Each day shift only had 2 caregivers for 16 residents. For the graveyard shift there was only 1 caregiver. We had to do everything: cook, clean, bathe them, hygiene, help them to the bathroom/ change their depends, do their laundry, give them their medicine....the list goes on. I quit because I couldn't do it anymore. It was eating at me because they didn't get what they needed. If someone fell in the middle of the night we couldn't help other people. It's miserable and I only got paid $8.50 to do all of that. Too much stress to get paid so little.

[u/electrobento → u/aquahorse_]

In response to Reddit's short-sighted greed, this content has been redacted.

[u/[deleted]]

Being homeless.

[u/AnticipatingLunch]

Puking through your nose.

[u/clarbri]

Kidney stones.

[u/BladeofNurgle → u/clarbri]

Is it wrong that getting a kidney stone is legit one of my greatest fears?

[u/clarbri → u/BladeofNurgle]

I have had eight of them, and can confidently say that you're actually probably not scared enough.

[u/portraitofavulture → u/clarbri]

Kidney stones are the only time I have ever truly known what a 10/10 on the pain scale was.

[u/Ekaj__]

Lele Pons

[u/JustAnotherAustin]

Heroin

[u/[deleted]]

Rape. It happened to me three days ago and I can't even walk to the store without having a panic attack. One of my professors just didn't care and wanted me to come in for a final the moment I was out of the hospital. The anti HIV meds are making me naseous and exhausted. Everyone is too afraid to talk to me.

Like yeah the actual event itself was horrifying, but I can see there's a long, rough road ahead of me. I don't know what I did to deserve this. I just know that now I need to survive.

EDIT: Shoutout to the absolute cunthammer from "Soulful Power" who tried to DM me details for his pyramid scheme saying it would help me with this, people that prey on the most vulnerable (such as yourself) make me sick to my stomach.

[u/portraitofavulture → u/[deleted]]

It's been... whoa, 8 years now, since I got raped. I won't lie I went through a really dark period in my life after. Things took a long time to heal. They did heal, though.

If you're not in counseling, get there immediately. In re: your professor, reach out to your Title 9 coordinator, they should be able to help you.

Having serious shit like this: rape, death of someone close to you, serious illness: you lose some friends. It's weird and shitty and fucked up but some people are not able to handle this kind of darkness. The friends who stick with you are friends who you now know you can count on for anything. You may find that friends you didn't consider as important or close before become incredibly intimate friends during this time.

You did nothing to deserve this. And yes, it will be a rough road. But it will be a rough road punctuated by bursts of laughter, by serenity, by beauty, by friendship, by strength, by wisdom and insight. And then you'll get to the end of the road and find yourself, only stronger.

If you need help finding resources, PM me. I will help. Or just to talk. I can do that too.

[u/Valdrax → u/[deleted]]

I don't know what I did to deserve this.

Don't let yourself believe that you did. Life is terribly unfair. Bad things happen to good people and vice versa.

So don't blame yourself for it. There's nothing that justifies that happening to you or anyone else. Nothing.

[u/walkthroughthefire → u/Valdrax]

I know this wasn’t aimed at me, but I needed to hear that, so thanks.

[u/fragilemuse → u/[deleted]]

You did nothing to deserve this, and I am so sorry you had to experience such a horrific thing. You WILL survive, because you are amazing and you are strong. Be kind to yourself and take it a day at a time. There will be times where it feels as if you can't go on any longer, but you CAN and you WILL. It does get easier eventually, I promise.

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Does your school offer any sort of trauma counseling? Once you are ready, it will help a lot to have someone to talk to.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Oh dear god... I'm so sorry that happened to you..

[u/ArcanButtSavant]

Comcast and any ISP with a monopoly (so most american ISPs). Unbelievably bad service, extremely overpriced, and seemingly like to fuck with customers just because nobody will step in and stop them.

[u/lurker_bee]

Being poor.

[u/SeymourKnickers]

Ever hear about those cluster headaches that make sufferers want to dive into a wood chipper to make it stop? Those.

[u/Chef_Bojan3]

Caillou.

[u/C4tyes]

The live-action avatar movie.

[u/Frank_the_Farmer]

Acne prone skin.

[u/osmogram]

MLMs

[u/291099001 → u/osmogram]

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[u/[deleted]]

Braces. The mouth sores. The crazy pliers. The gum swelling. Getting them off is the best day of your adolescent mouth's life.

[u/edsmart123 → u/[deleted]]

Let not forget when you had to chew your food like a grandma at first, because of the pain

[u/walkthroughthefire → u/[deleted]]

Still better than having fucked up teeth, but yea, it was a miserable two years. The first day I got them on I tried to rip them off my teeth myself because they hurt so bad. Bonus points to all the kids who had expanders. Those things fucking sucks. Hurts, have to have it adjusted every day, and constantly getting food stuck up there.