So i go into Kinkos and....

[CareBear]

i do aswel , when i got the cash to anyway ^^

[Masaq]

I think most stories here are either made up or simply exagerated...

Same happens with escape roots, lines of fire and tactical manouvers that eventually pop into my head from time to time, concerning whatever surrounds me at the moment.

If you were a real soldier and had those type of behavious and thoughts you wouldn't be that happy about them.

Both mine are completely true, word for word lol. As for "if you were a real soldier..." as I've said, it's mostly nothing to do with PR getting involved with RL, for me it's my RL activities getting involved with PR.

And no, I really wasn't happy about it. It was when I was starting to end phonecalls by signing off with "standing by" that I realised I was spending FAR too much of my free time burried elbow-deep in bandages, blood and student vomit, and started easing off. To put it in context, at the time I was doing 37.5 hours a week for the NHS as a student nurse and around an additional 100 hours a month volunteering with St John Ambulance.

As for escape routes etc, try working in forensic hospitals. You very quickly learn to be the one sat closest to the door, to never turn your pack on people, to read body language when people step into a room and to assess intent. It's scary that it doesn't take too long for it to become second nature, either- at the end of my third year in the services and I already feel uncomfortable sometimes in restaurants and the like with my back to the room.

[Sgt_carbonero]

Both mine are completely true, word for word lol. As for "if you were a real soldier..." as I've said, it's mostly nothing to do with PR getting involved with RL, for me it's my RL activities getting involved with PR.

And no, I really wasn't happy about it. It was when I was starting to end phonecalls by signing off with "standing by" that I realised I was spending FAR too much of my free time burried elbow-deep in bandages, blood and student vomit, and started easing off. To put it in context, at the time I was doing 37.5 hours a week for the NHS as a student nurse and around an additional 100 hours a month volunteering with St John Ambulance.

As for escape routes etc, try working in forensic hospitals. You very quickly learn to be the one sat closest to the door, to never turn your pack on people, to read body language when people step into a room and to assess intent. It's scary that it doesn't take too long for it to become second nature, either- at the end of my third year in the services and I already feel uncomfortable sometimes in restaurants and the like with my back to the room.

you realize thats a form of PTSD?

[Masaq]

you realize thats a form of PTSD?

Absolutely, but with respect as much as I hate it, it's impossible to work as a psychiatric nurse in inpatient hospitals and not go through some traumatising experiences, and indeed even in the community it's likely that if you spend enough time in the job, you'll be exposed to trauma. Restraining patients, witnessing self-harming behaviours, developing a close theraputic relationship with a patient who then commits suicide - all of them are pretty hard on the healthcare professionals involved as well as on the patient and their family.

I've been exposed to a few traumatising events but nothing truly horrific. As it is, I've just learnt that there are some people (really, truly unwell people) who you just don't want to leave your back too. Likewise, the NHS is now supposed to be training *all* front-line staff to be aware of this kind of thing purely because of the levels of assaultative behaviour from patients and relatives. Partly it's institutional paranoia, partly it's a realistic acceptance that people can kick off and you can end up leaving yourself with a very angry client between you and the only exit.


Ultimately though, my back watching and exit-awareness is more like a conditioned response at present than a post-traumatic one. For now, it's at a healthy level, and I hope that I'm self-aware enough to realise that if it became more serious I'd seek supervision around it.

[Sgt_carbonero]

well, you sound like you have a healthy attitude about it and you sound smart enough to monitor yourself and get some help if or when you might need it.

cheers,

carbonero

[jOHNNYdOUBE]

...Seriously, though.
I hear rallies outside and i turn my head from side to side to try and pinpoint them. I'ts sad, I know.

[Brummy]

I keep saying gumbula when I throw something :/

[crudge]

you think you lot have got it bad??? i was playing football this week and i charged at the goal and shouted "allah akbar!!!"

[Brummy]

you think you lot have got it bad??? i was playing football this week and i charged at the goal and shouted "allah akbar!!!"

[00SoldierofFortune00]

....I'm waiting for a job to get laminated. The guy looks at me and says "Is this the front cover?"

...and I reply in a loud voice, "Negative!"

...............so embarassing


...when i go into town I have fleeting thoughts that I should look for caches........


share your real life funny moments!

Could of been worse. You could of said


"My CPU is a Nueronet processor, a Learning Computer!"

[Dunehunter]

Hm...I do day-dream about having a paintball fight at the uni I go to, does that count?

[TeRR0R]

Put the funny suicide car music in my real car.

[Eddiereyes909]

you think you lot have got it bad??? i was playing football this week and i charged at the goal and shouted "allah akbar!!!"

Ha, ever since i started going out with a middle eastern girl i can now say that correctly.