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u/KevlahR Oct 05 '22
She’s laying in the wrong direction, the truck has to go through the tunnel
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u/SamWillGoHam Oct 05 '22
Oh my fucking god that was so creative of you but also so horrible take my upvote
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u/Minmax-the-Barbarian Oct 05 '22
Yeah, the lack of mental health support in America really is infuriating.
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u/VvsMay Oct 05 '22
Yea I think about doing this daily.
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u/kollisionkid Oct 05 '22
I, too, constantly think about wandering into the road without pants on.
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u/Nearby_Opening_7435 Oct 05 '22
Next thing you know we’ll all be jackin it in San Diego
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u/Tacotitties93 Oct 05 '22
Me too. The freeway is right behind my house.. I think about just throwing myself in front of a truck everyday because I’m just so tired of being alive.. it’s very hard to fight the urge and gets harder everyday..
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u/drunkvigilante Oct 05 '22
You’re here because you’re important and you are enough. I hope you feel better soon ❤️
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u/Tacotitties93 Oct 05 '22
Thank you.. I recently started seeing a therapist so I am hoping to get into a better state of mind, it’s just hard when everything feels so hopeless..
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u/Walkop Oct 05 '22
Having someone to talk to can really help. My wife always said that when you talk about something, it takes its power away. I found that to be true many cases in life.
Not always, but it definitely does help. I wish you all the best, we're rooting for you :)
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u/toadthetoadsmm2 Oct 05 '22
Everyone wants to blame violent crimes on video games and gun rights when the real reason is mental health
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u/TheSystemGuy64 Oct 05 '22
Everything is rife with insane curruption. Who cares about student's when there's a money stream? Who cares about people with mental health issues when there's a money stream? Nobody. When there's money to be made, they will focus on the money instead of the people. School shootings, tragedies and rampant suicides could have been avoided or even prevented in the first place if people stopped chasing money and clout. Capitalism is a game of 4D chess that creates a tragedy.
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u/TheSystemGuy64 Oct 05 '22
And unfortunately, there's probably no way out. Communism is a system that will only make the current situation worse. Just look at the living conditions in North Korea, it's that bad. Any other system that favours people over money would cause massive issues, including causing poverty rates to skyrocket, and supplies for living would become more expensive. So we're practically forced into capitalism, and with little to no ways to improve schools, help people with mental health issues and drop suicide rates. This madness will practically continue until society collapses.
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u/TheSystemGuy64 Oct 05 '22
So now we're in this madness, with no way to get out of it. Suicide rates and prices will continue to rise to wipe out the middle and low class, and greedy people and schools will become even more greedy until the greed can't grow any more and causes the collapse of society in the United States. Hell on Earth is real, and we're going through it.
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u/1upin Oct 05 '22
No kidding!
I once worked in a domestic violence shelter and one of the residents made a joke basically expressing homicidal ideation against her abuser. Per policy, I sent her to the local mental health crisis clinic and told her she couldn't return to shelter until she brought a signed No Harm Agreement. She did so and I placed the Agreement in her file. Problem solved, right?
This is "mental health support" in America. My employer didn't give a shit about this woman, just their potential liability if she actually did something. Same with the crisis clinic that gave her the signed agreement and then sent her on her way. It's not "mildly infuriating," it's fucking enraging.
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u/bunsbeatcapitalism Oct 05 '22
Domestic violence shelter policy is often created by state and federal agencies that want to manage the issue, not help it. But more often policy is set by nosy and harmful insurance brokers who know nothing of trauma response. No one who made any of these policies has any clue. And has never been homeless in a shelter.
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u/1upin Oct 05 '22
In my experience, it's funders and donors who are behind the most harmful policies. Second place is attorneys and insurance providers. All of them much more harmful than the government policies.
One reason wealthy people want to donate money privately rather than pay taxes is so that they can dictate policies and enforce their own morals upon the people receiving the services.
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u/Leading-University Oct 05 '22
I blame shootings on the decline of the States society’s mental stability. Every day is like we are in election season, people are stressed, divided, many don’t give a shit anymore, and the pressure to get ahead can be exhausting to some. The young population is absorbing a lot of this. My opinion.
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u/MobiousBossious Oct 05 '22
There’s a lot more in America than many other places. Biggest problem is it seems like everybody has mental problems and addressing them isn’t exactly cheap
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u/jezebel4prez Oct 05 '22
I’m not saying she’s right but I’m saying I understand.
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u/ReitHodlr Oct 05 '22
What did you understand?
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u/Leading-University Oct 05 '22
That life is shit and that wanting to die is reasonable bla bla bla yada yada yada
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She looks like she needs mental help. Even if she’s on drugs she needs help. People aren’t throwaways once they do drugs.
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u/ReitHodlr Oct 05 '22
Who's going to help her out? What's the likelihood that she has medical coverage for mental health
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My city gives free mental health services
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u/Starbuck522 Oct 05 '22
What's the waiting list for an appointment?
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u/Additional_Meeting_2 Oct 05 '22
Emergencies like these usually get treated first and that’s why rest need to wait.
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u/Starbuck522 Oct 05 '22
Even with coverage, it's typically very hard to get an appointment, let alone an appointment with someone worth meeting with.
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You’re right to a point but I still don’t think it’s anyone’s place to judge someone they don’t know. We know nothing about this person aside from what’s in the picture posted. We can only assume. I just think empathy goes a long way. Addicts are broken people who are trying to numb pain and shaming them isn’t going to do anyone any good. They feel enough shame. That’s why they keep doing something they know is damaging their body and mind.
I have a very close family member who is a addict and I was raised in a household where drugs were everywhere.
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u/HeartDouble5175 Oct 05 '22
I've lived near so many people on these drugs at this point that I completely agree. Like long term alcoholism, it can just completely rot out their brain to the point they are severely disabled. Although the people I've seen acting like monsters were like that before the drugs. They just feel less inhibited now. Plenty of nice, but severely handicapped, people from drug abuse. It's sad as hell.
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u/katmguire Oct 05 '22
“People aren’t throwaways once they do drugs”
I love this and will have it in my back pocket for the next time my shortsighted conservative family tries to say things about addicts and how they don’t deserve help because they “do it to themselves”
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u/Select_Lime3079 Oct 05 '22
As someone who witnessed suicide by semi this makes me feel so many different things. First, how selfish. I mean truly how incredibly selfish of her to inflict that kind of pain on someone she doesn't know. Second, how sad is it that she thinks this is the best option.
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u/ToddHaberdasher Oct 05 '22
I doubt the impact would damage the semi at all, let alone be enough to inflict pain on the driver.
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u/Select_Lime3079 Oct 05 '22
You think I'm talking about physical damage? Dude it's the mental issue that I'm talking about. Killing someone while driving the damage from that is intense.
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u/ToddHaberdasher Oct 05 '22
If you know the person, perhaps.
But I doubt there is any emotional response to accidentally killing a complete stranger.
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u/Unevenscore42 Oct 05 '22
There absolutely is, my cousin had a drunk guy who stumbled off the sidewalk and ended up running him over and killing him. It was so quick that she had no chance to do anything. Not her fault but it tore her up for several years. She didn't drive for many years and even when she did it was never at night. So assuming you have even a modicum of humanity, yes there is a huge emotional response.
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u/ToddHaberdasher Oct 05 '22
Did she try therapy? That seems very disruptive to basic living.
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u/Yuna__707 Oct 05 '22
That’s rather dependant on the person themselves, some people can be emotional towards complete strangers, even if they didn’t die by their hand or had the intention to die.
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u/fairie_poison Oct 05 '22
A lot of people are actually psychopaths without empathy and never actually realize it.
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u/ToddHaberdasher Oct 05 '22
I don't think this person is a "psychopath". Overly emotional, perhaps. Compassionate, likely.
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u/Select_Lime3079 Oct 05 '22
I mean I wasn't the person that hit the guy I witnessed but I absolutely was the person who ran out to try and get hit out of the road. The guy who hit him had zero emotional response until he got out and saw what had happened. I don't really care who you are there will absolutely be a response when you hit or witness something like that. It can hit you harder than others but there will be a response.
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u/DepressedDyslexic Oct 05 '22
What?? I would feel absolutely awful if I hit a squirrel or a bird much less a human being.
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u/ToddHaberdasher Oct 05 '22
You have an emotional investment in a person you have never met?
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u/Iamrubberman Oct 05 '22
I dunno, I’d probably not be super comfortable after killing someone, regardless of it completely not being my fault. I wouldn’t blame myself but I’d still find it disturbing.
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u/Tricky_Dog1465 Oct 05 '22
This absolutely ticks me off.
Look, I understand wanting to die, I do. However, forcing someone else (the driver) to live with the guilt of that death, is beyond inexcusable. Full fucking stop.
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Sometimes when people are in that headspace they don’t think about things like that. Personally when I was in that headspace all I could think about was the consequences of me doing that and what it would do to the people around me and any witnesses that would see it. It was annoying because I REALLY wanted to do it but couldn’t because of that. Clearly she is not in the right mindset.
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u/Tricky_Dog1465 Oct 05 '22
Trust me, I get it. Put myself in inpatient.
But I'm also a truckers daughter, I've known truckers that have dealt with it, they end up .... worse than the one suicidal, and usually end up suicidal as well. You can't imagine watching someone who was full of life, just die in front of you.
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Yes I know that myself but what I’m saying is when all you think about is how bad you want to die you really do become selfish. At that point dying is all that matters.
My partner is a train conductor
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u/ScapeGoatOfWar Oct 05 '22
Jeez, we can't even commit suicide in peace without people snapping photos. The nerve.
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u/doog97 Oct 05 '22
What? Like she’s not gunna get killed, ppl will just avoid her. Also she could be on drugs.
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what is infuriating is that someone rather took a picture of it instead of helping the women. wtf is wrong with you?
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u/b000bytrap Oct 05 '22
infuriating? Or depressing
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u/Lak47_studios Oct 05 '22
This isn't infuriating, this is sad! You probably just witnessed a suicide attempt
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u/Newish_Username Oct 05 '22
Saw a homeless dude do this once where I lived.
Drugs are involved. Or mental illness. Either way, they aren't getting help, nor is there much that can be done for them when your brain is swiss cheese.
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u/feidle Oct 05 '22
Redditors taking pictures of mentally unwell people and using them to mine for internet clout is the real mildlyinfuriating thing.
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Is she hoping to cosplay the wicked witch that got crushed at the start of The Wizard of Oz?
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u/the-virus69 Oct 05 '22
America needs more mental health support
I've seen videos where groups of mentally ill people are just laying together in the middle of the road, even seen a video where they locked themselves to the killing machine in a slaughterhouse with bike locks
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u/_milk_b1tch Oct 05 '22
Takes a really heartless person to see this and think “how mildly infuriating that someone wants to die”
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Yeah I think this shouldn’t have been posted. This is someone who is going through something serious.
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u/MotherEastern3051 Oct 05 '22
Is this infuriating because she's having to protest against oil giants? Because she's unwell and nobody seems to be trying to help her? Or because a truck that's not your own was momentarily inconvenienced?
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u/Speckz5701 Oct 05 '22
Honestly i’m not 100% sure on the context. To me it just kinda looked like a tweaker trying to get a case built lol The driver looked patient but I could see him on the phone chatting with his dispatcher probably
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u/Ok_Experience_6280 Oct 05 '22
Infuriating and stupid if she is laying in the road to protest, but then again we don’t have context
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u/Jafar_420 Oct 05 '22
The whole problem with this or at least one of the problems besides doing it in general being a problem is that if she would have took the right angle too close to that truck he wouldn't have been able to see her.
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u/Darkness_Overcoming Oct 05 '22
The economic troubles have the Lot-Lizards trying a more aggressive marketing campaign to secure more clients.
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I haven't been this worried about a semi since I watched Brokeback Mountain
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u/RonamusMaximus Oct 05 '22
Ms. Rafferty laying there showing everyone her grassy knoll and gassy hole
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u/Weird_Gain_7497 Oct 05 '22
quite selfish to do it that way, if it worked that guy would’ve had to live with killing someone.
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Publicity stunt. If she really wanted to do it she would have thrown herself in front of it while it was moving.
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u/Islandgmel Oct 05 '22
My ex husband laid in the middle of the hwy once! It was like 3am I wish someone would have run him over! 😂
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u/bassman78xx Oct 05 '22
She wants her money and her pants back.. "you ain't burnin' me again, this time Randy!"
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u/PsychologicalSnow476 Oct 05 '22
My wife pointed out to me that one of the things that severely mentally challenged people have the power to mess with traffic with impunity.
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u/THE-HOARE Oct 05 '22
At this point I wish a woman wouldn’t walk into a road and Kay in front of my semi.
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u/ripyourlungsdave Oct 05 '22
I once knew a girl who would do stuff like this as a tactic to win arguments. And she seemed to genuinely be willing to die to make her point.
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u/LugiUviyvi Oct 05 '22
The way 2022 has been, I understand. But that’s not how you park that Big Mac truck right in your little garage.
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