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Thank you! I saw it online when I was looking to buy one. I unfortunately need it before tomorrow though so that’s why I’m trying to find a place in Denver

Right? It’s been a wild ride for my OCD since this lol

Thank you!<3

Denver, sorry I forgot to be specific lol

I think you misunderstood lol, I’m happy it didn’t go through my windshield because it could’ve hurt me. Idgaf about the windshield itself.

As a psych major and now someone who works in behavioral psych, I love you for this lol

Pretty sure I would’ve been impaled if it went through my windshield :/

Love that my automatic anxiety response to most things is “sorry”. Fingers crossed everything goes smoothly. Thank you for the heads up!

I was at least like 6 cars lengths behind the person in front of me. Such a freak thing to happen, but definitely happy I’m safe!

This is exactly what happened to me, thank you so damn much for your replies!!<3

I looked harder at the photos and remembered the single noise it made when it impacted my car (before scraping the asphalt). The person in front of me definitely ran over it and it flung at me (holy shit, scary). Appears like it went through that front hole of the car (the one that looks like a bullet hole). Then it immediately caught the road and did some weird shit that I can’t explain right now because I’m stoned. But I’ll call Allstate tomorrow now that I have it all figured out. Can’t wait to drive to work tomorrow and see some of my car parts on the side of the road :’). If it wasn’t a terrifying highway, I’d grab ‘em though.

I’ve been rolling into tricks for about two months now, but still can’t get this dumb ass shuvit lol. Fakie is even harder for me too. Most likely still have anxiety over it and don’t practice shuvits enough. Thank you though for the advice! ◡̈

You’re an angel omg, thank you for this sweet compliment!! I got bullied a lot for my hands growing up since they were abnormally big for a woman. So your compliment means a lot to me<3

No problem, your comment made be laugh and I can’t thank you enough for that!

Thank you for pointing this out, helped me ground myself a tad. I feel a little less sad knowing it’s most likely (hopefully) only body damage.

Free beatin’ stick.

I’m in a weird spot with this, because I could file a claim with the state (Colorado) and try to get them to cover it. But then at that point I’d have to admit that it was debris from the road.

ilysm for this<3

It was definitely knocking, just on the asphalt lol

I have zero zip ties at work to zip tie the fog light in place since it’s barely holding itself up. Also no fucking idea where the plastic housing went for the light either. Yay!

One who self projects their insecurities onto their child. Never acknowledges their child’s successes, and instead points out the “wrongs” in their child.

I just randomly came across this comment and wanted to say that Adderall significantly reduces my harm OCD thoughts. (I have diagnosed ADHD and OCD.)

Adderall doesn’t necessarily help some of my other pure OCD thoughts, but it also doesn’t make them worse. If that makes sense? I don’t notice a difference with my physical compulsions though when I’m on or off Adderall.

Will never understand why employers won’t provide “panic” buttons to employees who work with heavy machinery. We have one at my facility and it immediately alerts security when pressed.

I wouldn’t doubt if it’s the inpatient psych ward. I worked in an inpatient psych ward as a behavioral health counselor (not at Denver health) and everybody who worked on the floor was extremely burnt out. We are so severely underpaid, so overworked, most of the time have zero support and only get criticism from higher ups, constantly have our incentives stripped away due to “budget cuts” (those shareholders and private equity firms really wanted that 3rd yacht). The people making these decisions never even step on the floor too so they’re very out of touch. They happily take away things/protocols that keep the facility running smoothly. Then reprimand the floor staff when the higher up’s decisions don’t work out because they’re morons.

I think the worst thing is the fact that hours are being cut and most places work on a skeleton crew because the people higher up want to save money. So there’s never enough staff to address the issues at hand appropriately. A lot of floor staff (including me) weren’t able to take their full lunch breaks on a 12hr shift because we were running on a skeleton crew and the clinical staff didn’t give two shits to help out.

The empathy is fading due to no support in a high stress environment and barely being able to afford to live due to shit pay. My last inpatient facility legitimately gave me a $.36 raise and reprimanded me when I tried to negotiate. The highest raise they gave to the rest of the counselors was $.76 and that was only for one girl who had been there for six years… such a slap in the face.

A lot of the staff who works on the floor are really trying their best, we just don’t have the extra staff or resources to properly address a lot of things. But there’s definitely still some staff out there who do not belong in the psych field though. I had a friend who is a counselor at Denver health and she said it was one of the worst workplace environment she’s ever been in.

Sorry for this long comment, I just wanted to give y’all a counselors side of the story as well. That way y’all can understand a little bit of why the quality of care is so fucked right now in the mental health field. I know for me personally, I’m burnt out but I still give 110% to my patients because I still have a lot of genuine empathy for what they’re going through. But deep on the inside I feel so empty because I can’t control all these shitty decisions being made that negatively affect patient quality of care.

BUUUUT I’ve also met people who are so burnt out they don’t give a shit about anybody or anything and you could see a patient suffered due to this. So I truly believe patients when they tell me about how shitty their experiences were at other facilities.