Tbh I think creating new terms just muddles medical records over time because now when you go into a field you have to learn not just a disorder, but also everything it’s been called throughout the last 50-100 years in case you’re going through the records of a patient older that 50-70 years old. I think the public needs to be better educated on these things. And when they keep doing it anyway that just kinda is what it is. That said there’s definitely room for phasing out diagnoses and replacing them with entirely new ones that differentiate or combine what we currently know as our knowledge of them evolves.

Here’s my rec from AliExpress. Modern shape and color but a lot of classic imagery still. This one sort of as well. You could then pair either with a more traditional RWS deck for her to compare the imagery too. I wouldn’t fuss too much on getting a guide book. The internet has a wide range of interpretations to draw from. Wikipedia even has a pretty good set of pages on all things metaphysical and I find that it approaches them from a pretty grounded place as spiritual traditions without placing a lot of weight on them as truly divinatory or anything.

My rec was gonna be the biddy tarot since it’s a modern / inclusive version of the rws which is some of the most common imagery used in themed decks so if she decides to get a Pokémon themed deck or whatever later the imagery will translate well (I have a cat meme deck and an emoji deck in addition to my traditional rws deck). Comparing the imagery across themed interpretations of the RWS is FASCINATING and has taken up a significant part of my last two years. The biddy is about 2x what you’re asking though so let me see what else I can find…

Not up close and personal but it was enough.

They actually care whether or not shit is sterile. Oh and the thing somebody said about surgeons. Ewww.

Or you could go Buddhist and consider “good” sensations to also be suffering and make it your goal to escape from all of it entirely. I’m kind of an inverse gnostic these days. I’m hyped to be a rock again someday. Or maybe a nice pile of dirt.

I answered one about hospital socks semi recently but I may have deleted it in my most recent bout of muddying my post history.

It used to be anyway, looks like it’s less now. That said, a bunch of stuff on this list is radiology stuff which you could pretty easily pivot to with a nursing degree anyway.

Could’ve picked a different trade with similar amount of schooling like welding.

From another nurse? Go work night shift rads. Everywhere I’ve worked that nurse works alone or with maybe a transport tech or two. What was your specialty before this? You could always come do Psych with the rest of us freaks but that might not solve the communication issue.

Tbh the bigger issue sounds like you’ve just got a massive stick up your ass. You condescension towards everyday human beings and their interests is palpable in your written communication; I can’t imagine how blatantly it must come across in person. If you can’t learn to see the beauty in everyday human beings that’s fine but ffs why did you pick a human services field then???

It makes people feel better and more in control of themselves to think that their compassion fatigue is maturity instead of an injury that has been inflicted on them. I’ve spent a LOT of time working in inpatient psychiatry for a decade now wondering why people keep hurting each other. Why patients lash out at staff members, why staff members lash out at patients and why either does the same to their peers. This is just one of many common manifestations.

Or if it’s a complete program for a profession like nursing or medicine, you wake up when the professors damn well say you do.

More of a cycle, I would argue. Part of the rise and fall of empires or whatever.

“They used to sell gladiator sweat as a beauty treatment, they would sell it in souvenir pots.”

“It’s the worst of me … I never do pay my bills. Have been so from a child!”

“Matters came to a head at a ball in honour of the Duke of Wellington when Byron publicly insulted Lady Caroline, who responded by breaking a wine glass and trying to slash her wrists.”

TLDR; no we’ve pretty much always been unhinged.

Honestly it’s really helped me with spreadsheet formulae and more complex regex search and replace terms. And it’s so pleasant and patient about all of it. So many of those spaces are DEEPLY toxic to noobs and when I paste the error back to it it’s like oh it looks like the regex you’re using doesn’t support that! Let’s try…

I mean. It did offer to help you pick out a distro. Imagine your soon to be ex offering to make you a tinder profile.

Do we have a rimjob Steve comm?

Every once in a while a guy will know something about women’s bodies that makes me go “ooooh OK that one’s actually really like kinsey 0 straight” instead of some other weird combination of interests that are approximately straight in a mostly possessive way. Sometimes I’ll hear “straight” guys talk about how gross vaginas are but then you hear a guy talking about pH balances and lactobacilli and it’s just really obvious which guy actually wants to be in one.

Well. Emotional swings like that can occur as part of a manic episode specifically. Mania just means the emotions come faster than usual, not that they’re good. Ppl w mania are actually frequently extremely angry, usually because they’re going a million miles an hour and don’t understand why everyone else won’t just keep. tf. up.

But yeah if op has always just been like that consistently without any ebb and flow over month’s / years then yes it points more towards a thought disorder. I used to have a really cool infographic from a textbook on the differential dx between borderline, bipolar, and adhd since they can all have very similar presentations or even just be comorbid in certain patients.

I’ve actually seen a good few patients who we all swore up and down were borderline then the meds would click into place and oh. Look at that you really were just bipolar. huh. (I say all of this having a childhood dx of ADHD, an adult dx of borderline, and a current psychiatrist who thinks I’m bipolar so…)

As a night shifter whose employer exclusively uses Windows, ty