Ugh, I’m so sorry to hear that 😦 I used to work a job that was at nights too and it was quite literally the worst and totally wrecked my social life as well as my mental health just because of the kind of place it was.
I’m afraid I’ve got no advice other than to keep trying to find somewhere else. Apply for everything and anything, even if you feel you’re not qualified. You never know your luck. If it gets too much and you have a safety net in place…quitting is also an option.
Word of advice though, (I lied, apparently I do have some) if and when you ever get asked about why you left, or why you had a long period of absence from working, lie through your teeth if you have to and tell them you were “taking time out to do XYZ and do something you always wanted to do”.
The number of times I had to explain why I took a year off for health reasons and I just said “yea I decided to go backpacking” or “I had an opportunity to do X so I went for it and now I’m looking to settle down and seriously commit to XYZ” has saved my ass a number of times.
Employers really don’t want to hear “yea I quit my last job cause it ruined my mental health and I’m only here cause I need the money, please hire me”.
Woman: I have a health problem. Doctor in literally 2018: Thy wombe is moving about. Hysteria. Go home.
A legitimate thing I was told in the year of our Lord 2k12 was “have a baby, that should settle things down” in response to my limbs quite literally dislocating out of their sockets at random. It was not only illogical advice, but potentially very DANGEROUS advice.
Yes. I think the official qualifying criteria for diagnosis is “pain or recurring pain that lasts over a period of six months”. It’s always wild when people with back pain realize they do in fact have chronic pain. Just because it’s common doesn’t mean it’s not serious.
For some people it’s a constant ache requiring constant medication, for others like myself it’s severe to debilitating pain that occurs from exhaustion or a specific trigger (like if I eat the wrong thing or strain myself too hard by doing something like moving furniture, or put on socks, or sitting still doing absolutely nothing)
Wait does that mean that the knee pain I’ve had since I was like 12 that never foes away is chronic??? I’m too young for this shit wtfffff
Re your tags: I’ve had chronic pain my whole life, for as long as I can remember. I remember being maybe…nine? and telling my mother “this hurts” and her telling me it’d go away, and it never did. Not really. When I was a teenager they said it was growing pains. Then they said it was because I was female, or overreacting. Most recently I was told it was depression.
Except I’m pretty certain the reason I’m depressed is because I’ve spent the last 20 years in unmediated chronic pain and my body is a shit heap because of it.
Please take care of yourself, and if something hurts? Don’t ignore it. It could be something fixable, or a sign that there’s something else going on under the surface. Also for what it’s worth, physio pretty much did nothing for the knee pain I’ve had since I injured myself in my teens, but two visits to my chiro and I’m way more stable and the pain is significantly less. Keep trying ❤
Yeah, don’t be like us. Or at least, don’t be like us in this specific way. My parents dismissed my stomach upsets as me just being weird, and it wasn’t until like 2 years after I was diagnosed with celiac that I started realizing that my body has been telling me SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOUR DIGESTION my whole life… and because people told me it was ‘no big deal’ I just got really good at ignoring it.
The fact that I’m not dead of malnutrition is magic.
Literally fucking same. I was at death’s door for the last two years because of the health complications that happened from having my pain ignored for so long, both by family and the medical establishment.
Fucking fight for your health. And never ever compare yourself to others and think you don’t have it bad just because others have it worse.
Oh, for gods sake, listen to them! I can’t speak for pain (although my feet thing is starting to make me wonder), but I know enough people who have had their pain dismissed by “you’re just being dramatic” or “it could be worse, you know” to see that those words are utter and complete bullshit! Don’t let them dismiss your health! Listen to Mom Bibliosphere! She is wise!
“It did not growl. It did not make any sounds. It just tried to get in. Apparently it was scared and tried to shelter itself,” said Ray Zavalas, Quiznos employee.
Just to expand on this post about calling 911 and asking for a pizza to secretly ask for help:
The post is based on a Super Bowl commercial, which itself was based on a Reddit post that’s never been verified as true.
There is no actual pizza code with toppings and shit that dispatchers are trained in. If you come across someone who has heard of the commercial, they might understand. If you come across someone who’s never heard of it, they might think it’s a prank call and hang up on you.
A piece of actual advice to help you in this situation is to dial 911, then hang up without speaking, then turn the phone off. 911 will attempt to call you back, and when they’re unable to reach you, they’ll dispatch a unit to your location under the assumption that you need help and your call was interrupted. This will work 100% of the time, whereas the pizza trick will only work if the dispatcher has heard of the commercial/urban legend.
Also, the toppings thing was a complete and total fabrication and whoever wrote that should be ashamed of themselves, tbh.
as a dispatcher, i need to correct you here, because calling 911, hanging up, and then turning off your phone will, in fact, work 0% of the time.
in my center, when we receive a 911 call from a cell phone, we do not automatically know your exact location. it doesn’t work like that, contrary to popular belief. the only thing we know for sure is the address of the cell phone tower your phone is connected to. cell phone towers cover huge areas, you could be anywhere in that huge area. if you absolutely can’t talk at all, if you can’t even hold the phone to your face, enable the speakerphone and start crying, or yelling, or even whispering, if you can.
also, as i said in my last reblog, most 911 centers in the US these days have text-to-911 capability. can’t call 911? text 911! it’s as simple as that. just be sure to include your address/location in the first text you send, because if you can’t send any more texts after the first one, at least we’ll know where to send help.
OP is correct, however, about the pizza thing. there is no “secret pizza code” or anything like that among dispatchers. i wasn’t trained on anything like that, none of my coworkers were trained on anything like that. it doesn’t exist. if you call 911 and say you need to order a pizza, our very next question will be, “you called 911. did you mean to call 911?” and if your answer is yes, the next question will be, “do you need help?” or “are you in trouble?” pretending to order a pizza is a good way to give us your address, because when you call 911, an address is the most important thing to give us. we can’t help you if we don’t know where you are.
i’ll just say that again.
we cannot help you if we don’t know where you are.
we are trained professionals, but we’re not psychic.
every time I reblog this the facts change
It’s so crucial to remind people that life is not a CSI episode. There is no magic ability to track exactly where a cell phone is immediately. I was just reading an article about that the other day. Try to get them the address, and absolutely don’t assume that if you call and hang up they’re going to know where you are.
Important info for UK peeps!
If you dial 999 but can’t talk for whatever reason, enter 55 to alert emergency services you need help.
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