Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Dannyalcatraz]

I have family members who spend too much time on TikTok and now walk around diagnosing everyone as autistic and/or ADHD. It's exasperating. Sometimes, people just are bad at social cues or easily distracted.

It’s like Medical Student Syndrome. It’s been depicted in fiction, but it’s real.

If you’re unaware, it’s the common but not universal phenomenon describing something that happens as students begin their medical training. The more they study, the more they notice heretofore unrecognized symptoms of the diseases they’re reading about being present in friends, family and even themselves.

My worst social clue fail is forgetting people’s names. I can rattle off all kinds of obscure info, including which musicians (by name) worked on which album, but I’m terrible at remembering the names of people I know in person. I have repeatedly struggled with the names of my friends’ wives and kids, despite knowing some of them 20+ years. It’s embarrassing.

 

[CleverNickName]

It’s like Medical Student Syndrome. It’s been depicted in fiction, but it’s real.

If you’re unaware, it’s the common but not universal phenomenon describing something that happens as students begin their medical training. The more they study, the more they notice heretofore unrecognized symptoms of the diseases they’re reading about being present in friends, family and even themselves.

I think a good bit of it is also cultural. In American culture especially, it seems like everything has to be described as The Worst Thing Evar!!1. Maybe it's the result of years and years of exposure to sensationalism and advertising?

You don't have a headache, you have a migraine.
You don't have heartburn, you have acid reflux disease.
Etc.

 

[dragoner]

C'mon its all in your head.

 

[dragoner]

I think a good bit of it is also cultural. In American culture especially, it seems like everything has to be described as The Worst Thing Evar!!1. Maybe it's the result of years and years of exposure to sensationalism and advertising?

You don't have a headache, you have a migraine.
You don't have heartburn, you have acid reflux disease.
Etc.

I don't know how it is other places, like for Firefighters, it was at a Church, after hours, go to a meeting, and the therapist being alone with you and saying one had to just get over it. She was trying to be helpful, I'm sure. There is not getting over it though.

 

[CleverNickName]

I don't know how it is other places, like for Firefighters, it was at a Church, after hours, go to a meeting, and the therapist being alone with you and saying one had to just get over it. She was trying to be helpful, I'm sure. There is not getting over it though.

Yikes.

I know it's only a single data point, but I've had several therapists over the years for different reasons, and I've never had a therapist tell me to "just get over it."

 

[prabe]

Yikes.

I know it's only a single data point, but I've had several therapists over the years for different reasons, and I've never had a therapist tell me to "just get over it."

Not without pointing at some sort of how, at least.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I know it's only a single data point, but I've had several therapists over the years for different reasons, and I've never had a therapist tell me to "just get over it."

Honestly, I would have questions about a therapist's credentials if they said something like that.

 

[Ryujin]

Mr. Police Ossifer, you have to be better than that to catch me. Let's just start with the fact that I'm generally paranoid and, even though I sold my last motorcycle a year ago, I still have a rider's instincts. You were "following" me, from in front. How could I tell? Your lane management made you look drunk. You crossed the centre line and into the bike lane, repeatedly. You were obviously paying more attention to me, than to the road in front of you. You didn't signal your turns until I did, then went the same way as me for 5 Km.

Oh, the big give-away? When you turned into my dead end complex parking lot, with me right behind you, because you thought it was another street. Yes, hang your head in shame, in the back corner of the lot, until I have gone into my house.

Buh-Bye!

 

[dragoner]

Yikes.

I know it's only a single data point, but I've had several therapists over the years for different reasons, and I've never had a therapist tell me to "just get over it."

It was a long time ago. Her point was that it will eat you alive, and it does. You close dead eyes and it takes something out of you. Mostly now I think I fear that it is not have any consciousness post death, screaming to get out while dead. Something like that. Or I covered a station for a crew that went to 911, and those guys, one had recorded the sound of a thousand SCBA chimes* going off below the rubble, he was shaken, playing it for us. We carry the dead within us, their memory.

*The Self Contained Breathing Apparatus Firefighters wear has a chime that goes off if you stop moving, that's why you see them shaking the tanks.

 

[CleverNickName]

Not without pointing at some sort of how, at least.

I have had a therapist tell me "sorry, but medications won't help you with that," and prescribed counseling and exercises instead. I understand how some folks might interpret that as a fancy way of saying "just get over it," but that's not what the therapist said.