r/Whatcouldgowrong • • 4h ago

Doing handstand at the dentist

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u/Ok_Zookeepergame5141 3h ago

The excuse that people who don't want to take responsibility for their actions use.

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0HU6S4dEDINGkIF2

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u/PsychoCrescendo 2h ago edited 2h ago

As a schizophrenic, I learned the hard way there is some truth to it for some. Many of us really are living with dissonant tormentors trapped inside of our bodies seemingly impervious to most consequences.

The little assholes tend to have a mastery in exploiting all your vulnerabilities living their entire lives inside your body and all, manipulating nearly every element of your reality from memory and reasoning to your very visceral experience of emotion and pain.

Consciousness for many of us becomes a desperate attempt at keeping all of our parts from killing each other.

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u/Glittering-Stomach62 2h ago

It's fascinating to hear those with potential serious mental illnesses talk about their conditions with detachment. Sorry if this comes off as overly clinical -- it's great you're able to manage it!

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u/NicoBango 2h ago

I have zero qualifications to talk about mental illnesses, but I noticed that they kept referring to their own mind as if it were separate entities as well.

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u/Responsible_Oil_2369 1h ago

Mines different it’s always felt “we” the way Eddie Brock talks to venom in his head all the time was something I understood as way too close to home.

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u/Uraanitursas 54m ago

There might be a grain of truth in it for all of us: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Family_Systems_Model