• pinyaka@lemmy.world
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    On a tangential note. Jack Black was great as a strung out nurse in Jesus’s Son.

    “Patient complains of knife in brain.” “Stabbing headache?”

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    So he was depressed and maybe tried to end it all??

    Wasn’t there another person that tried to kill themselves with a gun but survived and it also cured their depression?

    All wild speculation but also could have been a crazy ex involved.

    Some Final Destination shit going on.

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    Damn, added insult to injury!

    “You’re so dumb you got stabbed in the brain and it didn’t cause any damage!”

    Jokes aside, depression is awful and in hope they can get help.

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    As for how the injury happened, his doctors still don’t know. “The mechanism is unclear,” they wrote. However, they noted he had a history of depression.

    Wild speculation ofc, but imagine trying to kill yourself, you build up the courage to stab a knife into your brain through your eye and then you just fucking live with minimal complications beside a missing eye. What the fuck is that?

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      If it was self-inflicted, I can’t even imagine what he is going through that he chose the method of stabbing himself in the head. I hope he gets better.

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      If your speculation is accurate, then that’s one big ass fucking sign to live. Or at least that’s how I would take it.

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        His first attempt was with a water pick. He missed and hit his mouth and accidentally hydrated. The experience would leave him shaken and he wouldn’t make another attempt for 12 years.

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    Wasn’t there also a guy who got shot through the head with an arrow and only lost sight in one eye.

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      I have read about a guy who got a piece of rebar through his brain, survived, functioned, and even improved his outlook on life through such an event … And while looking him up, I found that it’s a surprisingly common thing (I mean, compared to what I expected).

      The top result on DDG was this person, of whom I had not previously been aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage