I had an anatomy teacher that actually was able to diagnose within half a centimeter of where his stroke was inside of his brain. He actually was a great teacher and lived many years after. I took a graduate class about addictions from him. It was actually brilliant
There's another part of the class that's about the physiology. Why we can talk, why we can walk. And because he knew his disability that he had from the stroke he was able to pinpoint where it was in his brain...
The class was actually mental disorders, and the exams were insane. Two and a half hours of writing for a midterm and a final. We covered depression and then in the addictions part he really talked about how the evidence of anatomy showed that once you've used drugs, that there really is no going back. The neurotransmitters gets used up, and that's why addiction is so hard. Once you've used, your life changes because you don't experience your life in the same way.
So after you've blown out the neurotransmitters in your brain from drugs, you're just constantly in discomfort.
I have a nurse friend, and she told me that when she took meth she realized if she ever took it again she would be completely addicted to it. So she vowed to never do it again.
The reason is is that people don't feel the same way because they lack the capacity to feel the way they did before they started taking the drugs. Meaning that they've kind of burned up all of their positive feelings about life. There is no joy. There is no motivation. And they have to take the drugs to to feel anything.
One other thing he talked about was when someone is addicted, and what that meant. Addiction really means that you will do anything to get the drug. And that drug could be nicotine in a cigarette. You will do anything to get it,an nd that's really why you see people who are addicted just do crazy things.. sell their kids. Sell themselves. Not eat.
Do you think enablers are addicted to attempting to help those they enable? What you learned sounds so interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Someone close to me has been addicted to meth for over 15 years. His mom just gives him money and lets him live with her when he’s out on bond, he goes to jail all the time. He’s been sent to rehab a dozen times but it never takes. He’s just not the same person I remember.
I have been on the RFDS. I went into early labour with my son and the hospital in Kalgoorlie couldn't save a baby that small. When I was in the air, it had to detour to collect someone in Esperance having an enormous heart attack. I had to pee very bad and was escorted off to a toilet in the hanger for what was probably the quickest piss of my life. It's the furtherest south I have ever been and all I saw was a hanger toilet haha
I had an anatomy teacher that actually was able to diagnose within half a centimeter of where his stroke was inside of his brain. He actually was a great teacher and lived many years after. I took a graduate class about addictions from him. It was actually brilliant
I didn't know you could feel the clot during a stroke. New fear!
its more to do with where your symptoms are manifesting vs the part of the brain that controls that area of the body
There's another part of the class that's about the physiology. Why we can talk, why we can walk. And because he knew his disability that he had from the stroke he was able to pinpoint where it was in his brain...
No. He could diagnose the location of the clot in his brain by the symptoms of the stroke. Like which part of his body was weak or not working.
What was something you learned from the addiction class that you thought made it brilliant?
Also wondering this!
The class was actually mental disorders, and the exams were insane. Two and a half hours of writing for a midterm and a final. We covered depression and then in the addictions part he really talked about how the evidence of anatomy showed that once you've used drugs, that there really is no going back. The neurotransmitters gets used up, and that's why addiction is so hard. Once you've used, your life changes because you don't experience your life in the same way. So after you've blown out the neurotransmitters in your brain from drugs, you're just constantly in discomfort. I have a nurse friend, and she told me that when she took meth she realized if she ever took it again she would be completely addicted to it. So she vowed to never do it again. The reason is is that people don't feel the same way because they lack the capacity to feel the way they did before they started taking the drugs. Meaning that they've kind of burned up all of their positive feelings about life. There is no joy. There is no motivation. And they have to take the drugs to to feel anything. One other thing he talked about was when someone is addicted, and what that meant. Addiction really means that you will do anything to get the drug. And that drug could be nicotine in a cigarette. You will do anything to get it,an nd that's really why you see people who are addicted just do crazy things.. sell their kids. Sell themselves. Not eat.
Do you think enablers are addicted to attempting to help those they enable? What you learned sounds so interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Someone close to me has been addicted to meth for over 15 years. His mom just gives him money and lets him live with her when he’s out on bond, he goes to jail all the time. He’s been sent to rehab a dozen times but it never takes. He’s just not the same person I remember.
Sometimes someone doesn't know how to love another person. That's what it comes down to, and they often have the same problems.
Wow, that’s fascinating. Thanks for sharing! Everything you said rings true to me, even down to the meth story. One time and I vowed never again.
I can only imagine what he was thinking when he saw the 12 lead the first time.
While setting it up. "I'm just checking. Probably nothing, and over reacting..."
Buzz of the printer. "Okaayy, so I guess its time to channel ol' Leonid Rogozov."
Gonna google something right quick.
EDIT: Okay yeah I now understand that reference.
Is that the guy who performed his own appendectomy? Hol’ up lemme look.
Yep. It’s him. Damn. I can’t even get my own slivers out.
I wonder how many times he called the heart attack and medical tools a Fackin' c*nt.
Went for an ECG recently in AUS and had a hairy chest. Can confirm
And now to give the Americans a heart-attack: any hospital transport by the RFDS is free.
I would call myself an ambulance after reading this but I can't afford it.
I have been on the RFDS. I went into early labour with my son and the hospital in Kalgoorlie couldn't save a baby that small. When I was in the air, it had to detour to collect someone in Esperance having an enormous heart attack. I had to pee very bad and was escorted off to a toilet in the hanger for what was probably the quickest piss of my life. It's the furtherest south I have ever been and all I saw was a hanger toilet haha
Outback attorney Dave was much less fortunate
Crikey!
What a nurse!
Weird times in which we live - i honestly misread the post as a guy who identified as having a heart attack.
To /a/ hospital.
In American English, you say, “We took him to a/the hospital.” In British/Australian English, we omit the article and say, “We took him to hospital.”
I am from the US, and I say it with and without the article.