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Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Post by brazzy »

dawhizkid wrote: post #8

for some reason I assumed that he would write about how this trauma would give him a new perspective on what was really important in life, but at the end it sounded like the experience didn’t really change his perspective on desiring to work all the time on his startup and that he was only stepping down because he couldn’t perform 100% and not because this experience changed anything about how he prioritized work/car…

Read again: he writes that he decided to prioritize his family over work before all of that happened.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Post by lawlessone »

madaxe_again wrote: post #10

I was going to say “I recall when I had sepsis in my teens”, but the truth of it is that I don’t - there’s a six week hole in my memory, that skips straight from lying in a pool of blood and puss on the floor of the kitchen at school, having a mop thrust in my face, to lying in a bed in hospital with tubes snaking out of me. The weird thing is, despite being unconscious for over a month, I woke up feeling like I hadn…

it sounds like it was the schools duty to get you medical attention far sooner and they failed.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Post by madaxe_again »

lawlessone wrote: post #22
madaxe_again wrote: post #10

I was going to say “I recall when I had sepsis in my teens”, but the truth of it is that I don’t - there’s a six week hole in my memory, that skips straight from lying in a pool of blood and puss on the floor of the kitchen at school, having a mop thrust in my face, to lying in a bed in hospital with tubes snaking out of me. The weird thing is, despite being unconscious for over a month, I woke up feeling like I hadn…

it sounds like it was the schools duty to get you medical attention far sooner and they failed.

Yeah, the house’s matron was fired over it - and it transpired that she’d lied on her CV about her experience and qualifications - something that seemed to happen with alarming frequency at the school.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Post by rtb »

EliRivers wrote: post #15
Pimpus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was absolutely caused by unconscious emotions (like stress). The following part just made me laugh out loud: > This mainly involves infection by the Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria and more commonly affects young, healthy adults. I didn't do anything to get it, it just happened - like being struck by lightning. The jarring contrast between medicine's ability to perform surgical miracles, like those described in th…

It was absolutely caused by unconscious emotions (like stress). I cannot imagine a mechanism whereby stress causes a human body to create a bacterium, effectively from out of nowhere. To synthesise it. Do you have any evidence or even a posited mechanism for this amazing claim? Or is your claim that the illness isn't caused by this bacterium?

No-one is claiming that stress synthesizes bacteria, that is a laughable strawman.

We are surrounded by bacteria at all times. If stress were to weaken your immune system, then you might be more easily infected by them. This seems completely plausible to me (likely, even). It is not a great leap to describe this link as stress "causing" the infection, even if it might be better to describe it more precisely. Perhaps "stress meant he couldn't fight off the infection as he normally would have"?

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Post by rtb »

dawhizkid wrote: post #8

for some reason I assumed that he would write about how this trauma would give him a new perspective on what was really important in life, but at the end it sounded like the experience didn’t really change his perspective on desiring to work all the time on his startup and that he was only stepping down because he couldn’t perform 100% and not because this experience changed anything about how he prioritized work/car…

I agree. I find it heartbreaking that the brightest minds of our generation are working on better ways to get spam into people's mailboxes. He more or less worked himself to death just to "enable our customers to deliver a highly responsive, on-demand experience with their marketing and their content."

Surely the world would be better off without further optimising targeted spam.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Post by _of »

EliRivers wrote: post #15
Pimpus wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was absolutely caused by unconscious emotions (like stress). The following part just made me laugh out loud: > This mainly involves infection by the Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria and more commonly affects young, healthy adults. I didn't do anything to get it, it just happened - like being struck by lightning. The jarring contrast between medicine's ability to perform surgical miracles, like those described in th…

It was absolutely caused by unconscious emotions (like stress). I cannot imagine a mechanism whereby stress causes a human body to create a bacterium, effectively from out of nowhere. To synthesise it. Do you have any evidence or even a posited mechanism for this amazing claim? Or is your claim that the illness isn't caused by this bacterium?

This bacteria is part of our normal microbiota. The immune system suppress them to not wreak havoc.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Post by targonca »

dana321 wrote: post #16

When you feel a "flu" coming on, a little bit of zinc sulfate on the tongue does wonders. I've wiped out a flu on more than one occasion. If that isn't enough and your adrenals are gone, or a virus has taken hold take licorice sticks for a couple of weeks until your adrenals recover and the virus has been destroyed, its a really good anti-viral but makes you go to the toilet really hard (remember to intake more potas…

"your adrenals are gone"

Wtf. Adrenal crisis [1] would be fatal. You're talking nonsense.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenal_crisis

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Post by jmkd »

bitexploder wrote: post #2

Stoics would encourage all of us to internalize our own mortality, not for morbidity’s sake, but because it helps live in the moment. The wake up call stories like this should be simulated by everyone. Imagine if this were you? Live with a fraction of that pain in your heart and try to internalize it. How does it impact our choices? Things like fingers and walking become amazing. I am always happy people share their…

An elegant reminder, thank you.

Re: My Sudden Trip to Hell

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Post by yodsanklai »

bitexploder wrote: post #2

Stoics would encourage all of us to internalize our own mortality, not for morbidity’s sake, but because it helps live in the moment. The wake up call stories like this should be simulated by everyone. Imagine if this were you? Live with a fraction of that pain in your heart and try to internalize it. How does it impact our choices? Things like fingers and walking become amazing. I am always happy people share their…

> I am always happy people share their stories, it helps us all remember our mortality and make good choices every day.

Not for me. When confronted to death or intense pain, everything else becomes insignificant and futile. And when things go back to normal, I tend to forget. I suppose that to be fully functional human beings, we need to ignore the harsh reality of life! Is it really possible to "internalize mortality"? I know some people try very hard but are they immune to anxiety and daily worries, are they happier? I haven't met such a person yet.

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