samus12345@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoHave you tried not having a smashed hand?www.akimbocomics.comimagemessage-square53fedilinkarrow-up1682arrow-down131file-text
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minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up19arrow-down4·edit-21 day ago“I can’t, because of my hand. My hand hurts so much. Life sucks because of this hand.” “You should go to a doctor to show your hand” “No! It won’t help anything! And it costs money. And I don’t know how to or want to anyway.” I’ve seen that too, where the person doesn’t want to actually even try to help themselves.
minus-squarescratchee@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·1 day agoWhich of course is a symptom. “My leg is broken” “Then walk to the hospital, duh” “I can’t, my leg is broken” “Why are you choosing to live in pain?!”
minus-squareuid0gid0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·1 day agoThen you carry them to the hospital and they don’t want to get treatment but they sure as hell want you to keep carrying them around. Been in that situation and it really sucks.
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·1 day ago“Well you could call a taxi” “I don’t know how to besides it costs money and time…” “Well fine, I could drive you” “No I got other stuff to do.” “Just give me a time and I’ll do it” “I don’t know when ugh…” At that point people will just stop trying since it’s always the same wall.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 day agoBut they saw it was a serious matter and tried. The people in the comic haven’t even reached that point yet.
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·24 hours agoIt could’ve happened before this
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·23 hours agoTheir comments don’t make it seem so. Nobody says they’ve tried to help him, only that he should get over it.
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·21 hours agoIn the real life discussions I never have or heard about the prior times as trying to give advice either
minus-squarePeter_Arbeitsloser@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·1 day agoA therapists saying about behaviors like this is “then the suffering isn’t big enough yet.”
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 day agoNotice how the “friends” are completely dismissive of the hand? If they actually thought it was cause for concern, that would be an improvement.
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·1 day agoWe don’t know how long this has been going on. If it’s been years and years of this, I get it.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoIf encouraging him to see a doctor were something they were doing, the comic would have shown that.
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·24 hours ago what is this, the hand again They do seem to have been through this before.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·23 hours agoAnd it’s heavily implied it was brushed off before as well. No “I’ve tried to help you,” but rather “It’s not a big deal, get over it.”
minus-squareKusimulkku@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·21 hours agoWell obviously the comic has that as the point, even though very similar situations have people who have tried to help but have been brushed off
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·21 hours agoSure, but that’s not this situation. First they have to actually care to get to that point.
“I can’t, because of my hand. My hand hurts so much. Life sucks because of this hand.”
“You should go to a doctor to show your hand”
“No! It won’t help anything! And it costs money. And I don’t know how to or want to anyway.”
I’ve seen that too, where the person doesn’t want to actually even try to help themselves.
Which of course is a symptom.
“My leg is broken” “Then walk to the hospital, duh” “I can’t, my leg is broken” “Why are you choosing to live in pain?!”
Then you carry them to the hospital and they don’t want to get treatment but they sure as hell want you to keep carrying them around. Been in that situation and it really sucks.
“Well you could call a taxi”
“I don’t know how to besides it costs money and time…”
“Well fine, I could drive you”
“No I got other stuff to do.”
“Just give me a time and I’ll do it”
“I don’t know when ugh…”
At that point people will just stop trying since it’s always the same wall.
But they saw it was a serious matter and tried. The people in the comic haven’t even reached that point yet.
It could’ve happened before this
Their comments don’t make it seem so. Nobody says they’ve tried to help him, only that he should get over it.
In the real life discussions I never have or heard about the prior times as trying to give advice either
A therapists saying about behaviors like this is “then the suffering isn’t big enough yet.”
Notice how the “friends” are completely dismissive of the hand? If they actually thought it was cause for concern, that would be an improvement.
We don’t know how long this has been going on. If it’s been years and years of this, I get it.
If encouraging him to see a doctor were something they were doing, the comic would have shown that.
They do seem to have been through this before.
And it’s heavily implied it was brushed off before as well. No “I’ve tried to help you,” but rather “It’s not a big deal, get over it.”
Well obviously the comic has that as the point, even though very similar situations have people who have tried to help but have been brushed off
Sure, but that’s not this situation. First they have to actually care to get to that point.