What Are You Thinking?

[Viper]

Whoa, doses? It's a single pill, LOL. Also his pain apparently wasn't just a little, and he needed his concetration to his max to study. I don't understand him.

That was just a random quote I remember from school. XD

Even if your friend took a pill, the reason why he has a headache would still be there and I have a good feeling his pain would be soon back anyway (pills have a limited time to work, and with sharper pain the time tends to be shorter than usual). A worn out mind and body don't sound like a good base for studying, you can plant seeds but still need a good ground to get results.

 

[Foxtrot94]

Even if your friend took a pill, the reason why he has a headache would still be there

The most frequent cause of headache for me is my eye sight problems. The solution for that would be a laser operation to get rid of them but I don't got the money. Does that mean I shouldn't bother taking a pill if I have a headache?

It's simple, really. He was in pain. He didn't like the pain. He needed to be well to be able to study. He likes to be well. All the reasons to take a pill are there, extremely unlikely chances of any side effect (it's... it's just a headache pill... tons of people take it every time they got a headache and they're perfectly fine). Yet he didn't... ah whatever. I'm gonna have a headache if I try to get in his head. LOL

 

[Shadow]

Friend: I'm having such a headache.

Me: Take a pill then. It'll be over in a few mins.

Friend: No, I don't wanna take medicines.

Me: What? What do you mean, you don't take medicines? You won't be able to study jackshit with a headache.

Friend: No I don't take medicines man, period.



I always fail to understand the logic of that. The logic to prefer pain to medicines. Took my friend as an example but it's not the first person I've met to think like that, whether it is on the net or in real life.

What is it, the "MEDICINES ARE EEEEEVIIIIILLL" mentality? Masochism? I can't think of any other explanation.

As someone with this mentality, myself, these are just my two cents. The first reason I refuse to take meds is that a lot of over-the-counter meds give me a bit of an allergic reaction. Taking headache meds helps for maybe an hour and then makes the pain worse. I'll get to the next time I'm able to take them and they do nothing but instantly make the pain worse. (My doctor said something about weird pain receptors but I really don't recall because that was years ago and I don't feel like telling him about every migraine I have or I'd be there for hours. LOL) It's possible your friend has a similar reaction. Luckily there's a lot of homeopathic ways to get rid of headaches: a warm bath with aromatherapy stuff can remove stress if that's how it was caused, a warm/cool towel over your eyes can relieve pressure, a bag of crushed ice/mixed frozen veggies on the back of your neck (for no longer than 15 minutes!) can numb the nerves in the back of your neck, keeping them from transmitting pain so that you feel you don't have a headache (learned that one from my doc), and there's a ton more I've forgotten about.

Second reason I don't is because I've developed a bit of a phobia of medication and of being addicted to meds. Mum was diagnosed with Lupus when I was 9 and they tried so many different types of pain meds on her. It's was like...nonstop. One didn't work and so they tried another. And so they put her on oxycotin. They put her on so much godd*mn oxy that she slept 20 hours a day and, when she was awake, she was so drugged up she didn't know what was going on. She couldn't even walk most days. And her doctor thought it was perfectly fine. When we moved here, her doctors switched her to morphine...the effects weren't as severe, but she would hallucinate from time to time. Now that she's off the narcotics, she's actually coherant and able to do things she never could before. But watching her be that drugged up and then watching her go through withdrawals as she got off the pain killers has made me incapable of accepting any kind of pain medication out of fear that I'll end up the same way.

Just some food for thought.

...that said anti-vacination people and people who think all meds cause cancer and autism and so yeah, let's just let our kids get horrible, deadly diseases cuz "it'll build their immune system and it's not like anyone dies of these things nowadays" make me want to bang my head on the wall. Unless you're allergic (like me and flu shots...dang it), get your vacinations! You actually need those, dummies. If I can suffer through them, you can, too! -facepalms-

 

[Foxtrot94]

@Shadow
I can guarantee you my friend doesn't have such problems.

Well, maybe a bit of phobia, might be. Never really paid attention to that I dunno. Guess that must be it, can't explain it otherwise. XD

 

[ReaperHunter]

Got, episode six of Crash Bandicoot 2 uploaded today

 

[LordOfDarkness]

@Foxtrot94, @Shadow: The way I look at it is a headache is like a demon that needs to be expelled from your body. This chant should do the trick;

 

[Foxtrot94]

@Foxtrot94, @Shadow: The way I look at it is a headache is like a demon that needs to be expelled from your body.

Don't tell me, I particularly hate headache.

 

[Shadow]

@Foxtrot94, @Shadow: The way I look at it is a headache is like a demon that needs to be expelled from your body.

Maybe Vergil can help exorcise my migraines. -innocent-

Thinking:
Not directed at anyone on these forums, but...sometimes I wonder how people can seriously think emotional disorders and chronic illnesses are short term "you'll be better in a couple weeks" thing. Like...seriously? These things rarely go away. That's kinda the point of them. And, if the person with them is in a state where they just need to cry and sleep and eat chocolate, let them do it. Good gods.

 

[ArabPikachu]

4 class completion certificates, 5 to go before getting that Multimedia Design Certificate.

On a side note, the 4th class (Adobe After Effects-Level 2) I took earlier will need to be retaken but I managed to get my 4th class completion certificate in another class (Screenwriting-Introduction) today.

 

[Demi-fiend]

Hah... Nintendo. :facepalm:

 

[Shadow]

Got into a discussion about making a cosplay group in honor of Legends's cancellation and four people have already expressed interest and I'm honestly scared this'll become an actual thing. :| I'm too broke to make an actual cosplay right now.

 

[Angel]

Zootropolis was awesome, despite the use of God's name in vain a couple of times. The kids enjoyed it, the cinema was pretty empty - good times.

Sooner we get out of this house the better - those boys need separate rooms, like, yesterday.

Wine? Why yes, thank you.

 

[Absent Nova]

Jokes are a lot like birds, they tend to fly right over people's heads.

 

[Chancey289]

This is the internet in a nutshell.

 

[Rebel Dynasty]

A chapter revised and another couple of decades' worth of notes completed? Score one for productivity. :thumbsup:

+Only one day left, and then back to early morning wake-ups. :'(

 

[Director Bison]

I really felt that I had to update my signature to something a little more subtle
sometimes it's best that people don't know certain things about you

 

[LordOfDarkness]

53 moderation alerts, all from the same spambot...

 

[Absent Nova]

Everytime someone on the internet is salty I'm just gonna refer to this wonderful moment:

 

[ReaperHunter]

Episode Seven of Crash Bandicoot 2. 3/5 of the way finished.

 

[Shadow]

More people seem to be jumping into the cosplay group, thing...guess it's time to start sketching. And exercising. And waist train...actually, wtf did I stop waist training? That was just stupid of me. It's going to be a pain all over again.

+ All I wanna do is drink tea and stare at the ceiling.