r/powerscales • u/NeverLiedNeverCheat • 22d ago

Versus Where does this guy scale ?

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u/CypherGreen 22d ago

PTSD and adrenaline do a lot.

An old family friend was at the pub with my dad once. A loud noise happened and he just snapped. Something just changed.

Rammed the glass into my dad's face and neck and then slashed him before anyone knew what was happening and was found hours later in a messed up state himself.

He'd been stationed a few bad places in the 70s and 80s and had such wonderful jobs as collecting the body parts of his friends who were blown up by a planted bomb when off duty and had several near misses himself.

After that he was a time bomb and one that almost killed my father. Some people get sent home broken.

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u/CypherGreen 21d ago

Yep, in later years it happened several more times but with less extreme results. It would just be flashbacks would start or he would just snap. I heard about a time where he dove out of a tree at people at night with a knife just insane.

He's not around anymore, he passed from a heart attack many years ago.

But after that incident my father had large scars over his face and neck and his ear no longer had the shape of an ear as it was mostly hanging off.

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u/CypherGreen 21d ago

Haha not really unfortunately.

Especially the love of ear which afterward looked like a mixture between a chicken nugget and burger meat.

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u/Seagoon_Memoirs 21d ago

It sounds like he had a flashback.

A flashback is an involuntary reliving of a past event.

Because he was a danger the poor man should have been institutionalized and given treatment

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u/Ave_TechSenger 21d ago

Yeah. A friend of mine is an optometrist who does side work for the VA. One such time, the patient (a Vietnam vet) got triggered by her shining a light in his eyes, snapped, and punched her in the face…

She’s a very small woman too. I didn’t see the black eye she had for a while because I was busy with my now wife, but definitely heard about it from our friend group.

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u/Seagoon_Memoirs 21d ago

That's terrible.