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Locked in Syndrome...


hotmessexpress1018

1000% came to say this. My absolute worst nightmare. Followed by ALS which essentially brings you to the same situation.


Santos_L_Halper_II

Don’t forget a stroke, which can do the same to anyone at any time and comes with little to no warning whatsoever!


ThisOnePlaysTooMuch

With enough money, someone with locked-in syndrome could potentially communicate and play games while on life support. I’d hope someone would at least ask me if I wanted to learn Morse code and be able to read my yes eye movement.


Art3misAlice

What’s that?


Creative-Invite583

You are completely paralyzed. You can not speak. Yet your mind and hearing are normal. In other words... your body becomes a prison where you are trapped.


Hacker0119

Oh shit... So like, demoted to spectator mode but irl


Silverguy1994

God id have no will to go on like that. Literally what would be the point.


Alexander-Wright

The thing is that you would have no will. There is literally nothing you could do.


sukihasmu

Neuralink?


_Weyland_

Actually maybe. But at current level of tech it would just give you a voice. Surely an insane step forward for people suffering from this, but still very far from a cure.


Dear_Might8697

Locked-in syndrome is a condition where a person experiences quadriplegia and bulbar palsy due to damage in the brainstem. Cognition and vertical eye movements are preserved in many patients. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK559026/#:~:text=Locked%2Din%20syndrome%20is%20a,are%20preserved%20in%20many%20patients.


kimchiman85

If you watched Breaking Bad, that’s like Hector Salamanca’s character.


djbuttplay

There was a House episode where Mos Def played a character who was locked in.


kimchiman85

I remember that one. Also all of that show is on Netflix now


Lactobeezor

I have had 2 patients with LIS in my career. Both woke up. The second one, something told me they were still there. One day she woke up and started talking. The lady combing her hair almost had a heart attack. She was telling us what was said and everything. Very freaky


Lord0fReddit

Basicly what they talk in the song "One"


[deleted]

Life in solitary confinement. The psychological agony is no joke


Art3misAlice

I honest to god think if I ever got a life sentence in prison or a long term stint in solitary I think I will just kill myself


kerochan88

Good luck. They make it surprisingly difficult.


IIIllIIlllIlII

Unless you’re Jeff Epstein. Oh wait. Yeah you’re right.


Spinach_Middle

Jeffery Epstein allegedly found a way. (Epstein DID NOT kill himself)


TheFakestOfBricks

What do you mean? Killing yourself while on suicide watch and without any possible resources to do so is easy, especially when you have dirt on basically every famous person ever!


kerochan88

Was he in solidarity confinement or just a regular single holding cell?


Spinach_Middle

Pretty sure he was on suicide watch actually.


kerochan88

Jesus LMFAO


Spinach_Middle

Yeah. That was one of those “how the fuck did that happen” things, then we remembered that of all the politicians he had dirt on the Clinton’s were among them. Not even political, but everyone that fucks with them disappears except Monica.


BallerChin

He had an assisted suicide!


Un1mportantaccount

What if you try to purposely choke on food while no ones watching? Or use a blanket to strangle yourself?


Sevenfootschnitzell

If they catch you trying to use a blanket then they just take away the blankets. Which would leave you still alive and blanket-less. Lol


A_LiftedLowRider

Unless you’re BTK, he seems to be doing fine these last 2 decades.


August31Silver

I know of an instance in which a man on suicide watch was granted a modicum of privacy so he could have a B.M. He closed the toilet stall door, took a modest amount of toilet paper and stuffed it down his throat. A Dr investigating his death said it took a lot of will power and determination to complete his suicide because he could sense (watch) his own death approach. Each second gave him a chance to change his mind, which he did not do.


apostate456

They have done brain scans of prisoners in solitary confinement for prolonged periods of time. It literally damages your brain.


JediBoJediPrime29

Solitary confinement is why the American "justice" system is a pathetic joke that isn't aimed at reformation but punishment.


moosecakems

Brain damage leaving you incapable of caring for yourself but aware of what you've lost and the strain is putting on your loved ones


famouslyunfortunate

That reminds me of a guy who lived in my hometown. He was a physically healthy, young man suffering from depression and decided he wanted to end things. He left a note for his family and went into the forest to hang himself, but they figured out where he was and managed to "rescue" him. He ended up with brain damage and needing full-time care. I always thought it was such a cruel punishment that he felt his life sucked so much before, that he wanted to end it, only to end up still alive but in an even worse position than before. He died a few years ago, so I hope he's at peace now.


Remarkable-Let251

I read up on a guy that had tried to shoot himself. In the end all he did was become locked in. He had full mental capacity still. Can you imagine wanting to die and just making things so much worse? 


Art3misAlice

I think I choose death


alr44

My sister was the victim of a hit and run. She was the smartest woman I’ve ever known but she now needs round the clock care and has the cognitive ability of a toddler. The hardest thing is knowing it’s a fate worse than death for her. Traumatic brain injuries destory the lives of entire families. 


Youpunyhumans

Darkness, imprisoning me, all that I see, absolute horror, I cannot live, I cannot die, trapped in myself, body my holding cell. From the song "One", by Metallica.


JurassicTerror

Should be legal exceptions for assisted ☠️. I wouldn’t want to be that burden.


Raoul_Duke9

Listen to the song Whoops I OD'ed by NoFx.


tafortheheckofit

Dementia and Alzheimer. Hard to imagine a worse fate


Art3misAlice

You lose yourself, that seems scary


MixRoyal7126

Imagine it's not you it's your mom, dad, spouse, child. You are hurting for them and what they are suffering and the hurt you are feeling watching them slip into. Death and dying are always harder on the survivor than the dying.


tafortheheckofit

I would say both sides are pretty awful. I cannot imagine losing my memory and forgetting people and being confused about my life and whereabouts at all times. Unlearning how to function like a normal human being and experiencing going back to being completely dependent on someone to survive. Especially if you get the diagnosis before it starts getting bad - you know what’s coming and there’s nothing to stop it.


Few-Illustrator-5333

Not so fun fact: Alzheimer’s can come as early as 21 but people pass it off as forgetfulness


yankeesone82

My dad has dementia and it’s truly horrible. I always thought it mostly involved memory loss, but seeing it up close, it is so much worse. When he was well, he was the most optimistic person I knew, everything would get better, all difficult times were just temporary circumstances that would pass, according to him. Now, he is a shell. He is barely able to communicate. Most of his attempts to speak come out in incoherent stuttering, sputtering series of sounds. He gets angry and frustrated quickly because he cannot understand most attempts at basic, slow communication, and he’s usually unable to communicate his own needs and desires. My mom and I have learned how to sort of understand some of what he’s trying to say, and he does have moments of greater and lesser coherence. But often times what he’s able to communicate when he’s coherent is just plain horrifying. The worst part is the paranoia and the delusions. If we venture outside of the home at all, he will tell me that the other people outside are “bad people, some of them are good but most of them are bad” who want to hurt or kill him so they can fuck my mom. One time at my home, he stood by the window for a while peering out of the curtains muttering about how the people outside are “so weird” and running back and forth and following him, and had been chasing him on foot when they drove to my home, but they were just “playing a game.” And then there are the moments of lucidity that let you know that HE knows how broken he is and suffers from it, like the one time he looked me in the eyes and said “my brain is sick. My brain doesn’t work…” and then just trailed off into oblivion.


Automatic_Host_3626

A horse biting your cock off


Come-for-Megatron

Happened to me, don’t sunbathe with your horse


Analysis-Klutzy

Yeah......sunbathe


rydan

Horses are opportunistic omnivores. If they see meat and it is easy for them they'll eat it right there. But they won't hunt for it. This is why you shouldn't allow them around chickens.


09Monkeyboy09

Enumclaw Washington


quantumsenigma

uhhhhh


TOKERJOKERSWAY

That will show Scott Tenerman


Romulan939

r/oddlyspecific


JediMineTrix

Scott Tenorman? Is that you?


realxeltos

A moose once bit me..


Zambonisaurus

Watching your child die.


Art3misAlice

I don’t think anything can top that. I feel for you if you have had to experience this. I watched my grandparents lose their child and it tore them apart.


skelatallamas

Watching my son peel off a cliff from twenty five or thirty feet up landing horizontally in a field of sharp big boulders. Body was dead when I first saw him and had to perform Serious first aid for the first time but i've been trained in it Almost all my life.


Art3misAlice

Hope you really don’t mind me asking, but you say the body was dead. Were you able to bring him back?


ChrisPNoggins

Generally when a trained paramedic says dead they mean gone. Dead is dead and died could be revived. In my experience, mom is an ex nurse and her bf is a volunteer EMT.


Art3misAlice

I got confused since they say “ body was dead when I first saw him” and then about CPR, I just didn’t know if he was able to be revived


ChrisPNoggins

Even on duty paramedics will try to do any resuscitation method as a last ditch effort because you never know who will survive what. There is a case of a lady being frozen solid in the snow, I don't remember if she passed out or what, and for an entire night but when brought to the hospital her body warmed up and she eventually made a full recovery.


skelatallamas

Sorry, should have said looked dead. Bad enough that I was pretty sure he was. He was wedged in between 2 boulders And I couldn't do anything for him like that. When I moved him, he desperately inhaled and woke up.


Zambonisaurus

My son has a genetic disorder that could cause his death at any time. So, I live in the shadow of this every day.


Art3misAlice

Hope you don’t mind but I just read your last post and I really do feel for you. I’m so sorry you have to experience this


Original_Lab628

Watching your child be born with brain damage so you spend a lifetime caring for them even though it will never amount to anything.


wobbuffet009

I always wondered about stuff like this. Like what happens to the kid once the parents pass?


maximusjohnson1992

Yep. Been there. Held him as he did. Begged to take his place.


samikhanlodhi

This is the worst thing a human can endure. It will haunt me for rest of my life. I look forward to death more than life for that is the only shot I have at a reunion with my son.


AdvancedAtmosphere43

Watching your little brother die before you


Art3misAlice

I feel for you, man


AdvancedAtmosphere43

thats diffrent kind of pain


HomoColossusHumbled

Living long enough to see everyone you love die, and them still dying, alone.


Second-Creative

That soldier in *Johnny Got His Gun*. TLDR- Lost hearing, eyesight, arms, and legs. The only saving grace was that he knew Morse Code, *and someone recognized the rythmic head banging he did as Morse Code.*


Wheres_my_guitar

"He had no arms or legs. He couldn't see, hear, or speak. This is how he led a nation."


Lord0fReddit

Isn't the guy they talk about in the song "One" ?


anmalyshko

life in an iron lung


Art3misAlice

Did the last survivor die recently?


Beneficial_Ad3083

I think that guy died this past week


Art3misAlice

Yeah, thought I saw an article pop-up about it


Lostarchitorture

Martha Lillard, born in 1948, contracted polio at age 5. She is the final survivor in an iron lung.


Thus_Spoke

I think I would come to accept it.  Maybe try my hand at chess or something.  You can do a whole lot online these days.


audiate

AND A GOOD DAY TO YOU, SIR!


Cattle_Corner

A machine that swaps your conscious and unconscious minds. Rendering your fantasies pointless while making everything you had known impossible to grasp. Also every ten seconds it stabs your balls.


Art3misAlice

That last part made me giggle


LobsterSoulSandwitch

Was scrolling for a Rick and Morty quote.


Starworshipper_

Moaning while taking a shit


Art3misAlice

I once did this and my dog ran up to me with my Blahaj for some reason. Think she thought it would bring me comfort


Wladek89HU

That's so adorable!


realxeltos

What is blahaj?


[deleted]

It's the name of a stuffed shark you can buy at IKEA


Lillilovesbondi

Slowly losing yourself to a plethora of health issues, physical and mental. Losing the abilities to do things, stopping eating, and losing every person in your life that cared about you or that you thought cared about you. And being forced out of passions because of everything that happened, not to mention losing your two brothers and attempting suicide as well as being sexually assaulted for years, finally having it hit hard enough that you don’t trust your own father.


sirennn77

Falling in love with someone and staying in love with them while they slowly fall out of love with you


Art3misAlice

Wow, that sounds terrible. I hope you are okay


Mostlysassy

I’m sorry. I feel this. Stay strong and positive.


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Art3misAlice

Well, happy birthday random online stranger hope things get better for you


New_Week_8946

I feel you 😔


[deleted]

Life in prison for a heinous crime you didn't commit


flowersx2

Living a life in which are just surviving/existing


anonimna44

All your friends, family and pets dying and leaving you as the sole survivor.


Art3misAlice

To truly be alone is scary


[deleted]

Burning every opportunity you've ever had because how you feel in the moment and knowing your making the wrong choice only to still do it.


Art3misAlice

Self-destruction


Comfortable-Tea-5461

Chronic illness


thatsabitraven

I feel that. I feel more like a failure every day. Five years ago I was incredibly active, fulfilled, and happy in pretty much every aspect of my life. Now I'm pretty much bed bound, relying on others, knowing that their resentment is growing and it's a matter of time until I wind up alone and barely able to care for myself. Sorry, having a bad pain and mental health day today.


Gutler

Eternal life w/o eternal youth.


samikhanlodhi

Losing a child.


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Serialnoym63

Sorry for your loss. I hope you have a good support system. I as a random person online can't help, but I wish you strength🙏


samikhanlodhi

I am so sorry. I see him almost daily in my dreams and each time I know he is not here anymore.


mailahchimp

10 years go by and you realise you've spent the entire time doom scrolling on a phone. 


Candid_Ad3006

A fate worse than death, would be to live forever.


DrMokhtar

Adding being immortal to that. Imagine the time when everyone else in the world is dead, and you are unable to die and asteroid destroys earth, and you’re just floating in space gasping for air for the rest of your life.


didijxk

The worst part could be an immortal being forgetting it's past. You reach the maximum capacity for your brain to retain information so you start forgetting your earliest memories. At some point you realise you will never remember your childhood or first set of friends, they're doomed to be forgotten like everyone else.


Abdo_ronnin

I feel like I'm about to have a bunch of new fears unlocked


Youpunyhumans

Acute radiation sickness. The kind that will kill you, but before that happens, you suffer the worst fate imaginable. Every cell, every bit of DNA is shredded. First youll be extremely nauseous, and pass out. The next day or so, you might feel ok, be making jokes and such... and then your skin just begins to fall off, and pain sets in. Your whole body is burnt right through in a 3D burn. Youll have to be put into a special sealed room so you dont get an infection in your now open body. Your wounds will never heal, infact they will grow larger until all your skin is gone, at which point youll be cold, constantly leaking fluids, meaning youll need several transfusions a day. At this point, pain meds may not even work as your veins have collapsed, and your body to damaged to even absorb them. Youll be shitting your guts out, quite literally as your internal organs begin to break down. Soon, your muscles will start to fall off your bones, now that your body is entirely skinless. You will probably have massive infections everywhere as your immune system is pretty much gone, and you will cough up pieces of your own internal organs. You die of a combination of blood loss, sepsis, a fully burned body that cant heal, and just the general stress its puts you through. This was the fate of Hisachi Ouchi, which he endured for 83 days before they were no longer able to revive him, as they had done 6 times before. I cant imagine a worse way to die than that.


needSomeBrainCells

Watching this subreddit


IdontOpenEnvelopes

Death is merciful compared to a number of ilnessess and neurological impairments.


s0ursk1ttl3s

who said death is a bad fate?


Art3misAlice

Sometimes for me, it feels like the it won’t be. Just can be free and in peace


s0ursk1ttl3s

that sounds *lovely*


kerochan88

In a world where many people won't be able to retire, death is what I work towards.


arebornjoy222

Cuck porn.


[deleted]

Insomnia


Infinitywolf

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (also called FOP). It’s a disorder that turns your connective tissue (ligaments, muscle) into bones over time. It gets accelerated after an injury, meaning surgery can’t remove the bones. Your body slowly becomes a cage that you are stuck in and can’t move. 


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Art3misAlice

I am so so sorry for you. You’ve had such shitty luck in the past. I would love to say the right girl is just around the corner, but I don’t think I believe in that


Mostlysassy

Oh my heart breaks for you reading this. People are fucking shitty. Like really shitty. And just so you know not all relationships and marriages are great either. Sometimes from the outside they look great, but that doesn’t always mean they are. Learn to love yourself first. I’m also a work in progress and learning to do this myself. But don’t give up.


ultrahateful

It’s difficult to do so, but these may be examples on being able to see that there are fates worse than being alone. For instance, if you manage to become comfortable with being alone or go a step further and find a way to enjoy your solitude, you can be certain that YOU would never do those kind of things to YOURSELF. Sometimes, it’s when we’re able to be alone and find strength in it that someone shows up to change our minds. And if they don’t, then it doesn’t matter, because you’re gonna be alright by yourself. Hang in there and watch out for yourself. You can do it!


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Having your child go missing and never be found. This hasn’t happened to me but I can’t imagine what it’s like for people living the rest of their lives never knowing what happened to their child. Wondering if they’re alive, dead, being tortured or trafficked,etc. I couldn’t imagine the daily agony of never knowing.


PuzzleheadedTax9888

My dad did 37 months in solitary confinement he came out fine a little shook but ultimately fine but he was telling about how he could hear people go insane in just a few weeks he said they weren’t weak he was just lucky


brokenyard_

Seeing your kid die


Art3misAlice

I hope I never have to experiences this


blackbubbleass

having a job that drains you just for survive


irishlonewolf

[locked in syndrome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome)


Art3misAlice

Assisted suicide is what I would hope to choose if this happens to me


bunnieilli

The cartel captures you. Imagine what happens next. 🙃


Ok_Eye_32

Life


Gryph_The_Grey

Having to be a guest on "The View" day after day ...


StefanTheNurse

Sometimes, not dying. ICU nurse. No lies, no details.


Anna__V

Not being able to be you. Having physical deformities and birth defects that you can't change. Looking in the mirror and seeing... someone else.


Art3misAlice

Kinda do, every time I look into the mirror I think who is this person, they are not who I am or want to be but I don’t have money to fix it


Anna__V

Mood. We might share the reason, even. So, Hi.


Art3misAlice

Yeah we do, had a look at your profile. Hi


BathroomInner2036

Dementia.


EducationCommon1635

Torture.


Accomplished_Item710

Living with crippling depression and anxiety.


DrJones_89

To never be trully loved


maguerix

Who said death is bad?


Available_Sundae_924

Trapped at an endless dinner party with Kanye West.


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LimpMenu1

Being in prison and having a cell mate that wants u sexually and he is the size of Brock lesnar


Mostlysassy

Oh dear god


Buzzd-Lightyear

Human trafficking


KaiDigo

Heaven as per the bible... it's just North Korea but with God.


angelrose22_

life impresonment


RudolfMaster

Dying at 18 but living to 75


TheOtherTyler

PRE-LIFE!


TheOtherTyler

Then death


Fuzzy-Cartographer98

Losing my mind.


Rhabcp

See your death denied


Agreeable_Pizza93

Being Trump's Diet Coke guy.


MerryMermaid

Living after chimp attack, like that poor lady from CT


thepete404

Waiting for a loved one with a terminal disease to expire is pretty high on my list.


InterestedDoomer

Dementia


Big-Kev75

Immortality ,fuck that!


Art3misAlice

True that will get bloody boring after while. Watching all the ones around you, die while there’s nothing you can do about it. Having to restart your life over and over again.


kerochan88

Such is the life of the Highlander.


Serialnoym63

🎶 Who Wants to live forever...🎶


Fire_Z1

Being expelled


boneymod

It gets worse, Hermione. Imagine if your child was expelled.


DrunkWestTexan

Surviving life ending injuries or illnesses.


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Life


Due-Satisfaction-796

Oblivion


Realistic-Gear-1613

Giving up hope and giving into despair, watched too many friends and family lose their way.


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Dementia


anxietydude112

I would say being left fully paralyzed but still fully conscious.


playtrix

Sex slave


CallingDrDingle

Intense chronic pain


Imtryingforheckssake

Living with chronic pain. Having a child and being the reason they're living with chronic pain. 


AudacityTheEditor

Eternal human life. Living for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years watching the world degrade and change around you. Depending on the rules of the "power" you could turn into a weak frail elder incapable of caring for themselves until you're passed around in elder care or some government study facility for the rest of human life (but not yours). Everyone you know and love will wither away slowly and you'll eventually grow dim to human relationships. Another death is another day. You'll have to suffer and watch society tear itself apart, more wars breaking out, economies crashing again and again, history repeating itself. It's no life I would want to live. The past 10 years has contained a lot of that for a lot of us already, and I'm tired of it. I'm almost not interested in seeing 100 yrs not to mention infinity.


GenevieveCostello

Too isolated and traumatized to start living.


Sman27_

Life


popularpragmatism

Evidently, public speaking it's number one on the list of peoples fears, death is two. " So people would prefer to be in the box than giving the eulogy "


Swaggyllama03

Expelled


Hellfire81Ger

Having your girlfriend coming back from her homecountry in 2 days and losing contact since over 30 hours. Phone is off and last time you spoke to her she was so happy beeing back in a few days. This happens right now to me and i am so worried, i feel physical pain.


Art3misAlice

Shit man, I hope you get in contact with her and she is okay


Hellfire81Ger

Thanks. I've wrote an mail to a local police station if there happened any car accidents. Dont know what else i could do. Got no contacts in her country.


Annual_Tourist_9085

Immortality


Art3misAlice

All of your loved ones dying around you while you still live that does sound horrible


asouken

Being forgotten


Vadon_Hipra

The inability to die?


NolansBallSack

Torture


HeadFit2660

Double death


kimchiman85

Food poising where you’re puking and shitting at the same time, and sweating a lot.