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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • I agree with @ringwraithfish about that being a very hard choice.

    Nope, can’t decide between (all paraphrased because I mainly remember the German translation)

    • “Comb through the desert!” [cut, followed by troopers using a giant comb on the sand]
    • The passcode scene
    • “Water, water!” “Water, water!” “Oil, oil!” “Roomservice, roomservice!”
    • “Didn’t I say only pack what we need for survival?” “But I can’t live without this thing!”
    • “Yoghurt! I hate Yoghurt!” [followed by underling offering to change Big Helmet’s breakfast and a rebuke that that wasn’t what he meant]
    • “He’s an Asshole, sir.” “I know that, I want to know his surname!” “That is his surname, sir.” [Big Helmet asks who else on the ship is an Asshole and nearly everyone holds up their hand.] “I knew I was surrounded by assholes!”





  • For a long time I (and people around me) just believed I must have become a lazy person and that I just needed to get over myself. The idea that I might be ill didn’t even come up. When I struggled to write my bachelor’s thesis I did visit an insurance-approved psychologist, but all that guy did was trying to find ways I could motivate myself, with no attempt to find out what was causing me to struggle in the first place rather than just reinforce my perception that I must just be lazy. After a couple of months I stopped going because all those visits did was making me feel worse. Also, because I chose to go to a psychologist directly rather than being delegated there by a doctor/psychiatrist, insurance only covered half of the cost, so it was a waste of money as well.

    Really the first idea that it might be a mental illness rather than a personality flaw and being a general failure of a person didn’t come up at all until I read a book in which I saw a lot of myself in the protagonist’s mother who was said in the book to have depression. That same week I had my second bout of suicidal ideation, which drove me to get help asap.