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40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived

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Re: 40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived

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Post by specialist »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #25
specialist wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on my recent personal experience, I don't feel that much has improved. Perhaps society is more accepting of the condition, and less likely to stigmatized. But helping a mentally ill person (in the USA) is pretty much not an option. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough.

>> "But helping a mentally ill person (in the USA) is pretty much not an option." Could you explain why? Here (the UK) there is quite a lot of free help from the health service and there are a lot of charities I know of which provide counselling. Local GP's are also able to work with people and refer them to specialists if necessary.

Someone close to me has paranoid schizophrenia, undiagnosed.

Re: 40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived

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DanBC wrote: post #35
k-mcgrady wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> "But helping a mentally ill person (in the USA) is pretty much not an option." Could you explain why? Here (the UK) there is quite a lot of free help from the health service and there are a lot of charities I know of which provide counselling. Local GP's are also able to work with people and refer them to specialists if necessary.

In England: A person can go to their GP to get treatment, and the GP will either treat (access to short form talking therapies and some medications), or refer on to a community team. The community team provides access to heavier duty meds; long form talking therapies; ECT; hospitalisation; a variety of different clinicians, etc etc. Note that treatment can be forced, and against the patient's wishes. Note also that t…

Note also that there's the possibility of community treatment orders.

We don't have that option. And I'm really torn on this one.

And let's not forget that people with mental illness are far more likely to be the victims of violent crime, not the perpetrator.

Absolutely.

Re: 40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived

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Post by LatvjuAvs »

pinaceae wrote: post #10

interesting as this again was done by a deeply disturbed individual, a paranoid schizophrenic. society since then has not gotten better at identifying threats coming from sick people. down to sandy hook, the completely insane individual is left alone until he/she commits an atrocity.

Without the incident, there is no heroic life to be lived. There is no lessons to be learned, there is no one left to be saved.

You must see little bit further how everything interacts like a connected cogwheels.

First you have emotional burst, the anger, the sadness, full range of emotions, then, you must go further than that. Then you must see how well it have played out.

Re: 40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived

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Post by omarchowdhury »

XorNot wrote: post #47

About 6 months ago in my lab we had an acid attack. One student took offense to another telling him what to do, grabbed a hammer and the nearest vial of sulfuric acid and chased the guy down, knocked him down, and started pouring acid on him. About the only lucky thing about the attack is that the victim didn't get any his eyes, but months on he's still recovering after multiple skin-grafts. There isn't really a less…

Tell us more about the perpetrator.

Re: 40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived

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Post by seatac »

EliRivers wrote: post #28
seatac wrote: post #16

no offense but he looks like a certain Star Trek character I forget his name.

How does adding "no offense" to the front of a statement affect how offensive the remainder of the statement is?

I see your point; it doesn't help at all yet many people still do it. but that's a cool star trek character if that helps. (probably not)

Re: 40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived

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Post by XorNot »

omarchowdhury wrote: post #55
XorNot wrote: post #47

About 6 months ago in my lab we had an acid attack. One student took offense to another telling him what to do, grabbed a hammer and the nearest vial of sulfuric acid and chased the guy down, knocked him down, and started pouring acid on him. About the only lucky thing about the attack is that the victim didn't get any his eyes, but months on he's still recovering after multiple skin-grafts. There isn't really a less…

Tell us more about the perpetrator.

He was just a new student - working closely with the victim actually. Apparently he turned out to have schizophrenia, but it was previously undiagnosed or unreported or something. Which is just weird as hell because how do you get to Ph. D level and have schizophrenia in the first place?

Re: 40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived

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Post by loumf »

pyre wrote: post #45
gnosis wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To my knowledge, HN hasn't added any new features in years. I think the people who run this site are pretty happy with it the way it is and don't want to change it, despite many suggestions for improvements. So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to do anything about it.

You just have to be around for some of them. Sometimes pg has done things to the UI of the site, then there is a large thread of community commentary, then it's kept, modified, or removed. If the feature shows up, and then goes away over the course of a day or two, you might miss that anything happened.

In the past pg has mentioned adding a feature to the running instance via a connected REPL, not the real source. If it proves its usefulness it goes in the source -- if not, the next restart removes it.

Re: 40 Years After an Acid Attack, a Life Well Lived

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Post by v0cab »

pg wrote: post #15
gnosis wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To my knowledge, HN hasn't added any new features in years. I think the people who run this site are pretty happy with it the way it is and don't want to change it, despite many suggestions for improvements. So I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to do anything about it.

Actually I added one about an hour ago. This is an interesting suggestion but it would not be on our top 100 things to fix.

Could you please delete my account?
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