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Watching medical TV shows and wondering why no doctors ever be trying that hard for you 😭.

By hot takes I really mean it, can’t stress it enough.
Whats an opinion you have about the show that is so controversial there’s gonna be riots in this comment section?

I’ve just started solo travelling, landed down in London yesterday. It’s been so exciting , and I feel completely fine, until last night I realised, I’d eaten absolutely nothing all day.
I didn’t feel hungry whatsoever, but I decided I have to eat something so I got out of bed and headed down to the 24 hour market to grab some stuff. However, when I got in there, the thought of eating anything made me feel queasy and I couldn’t manage more than a few bites. It’s the same today. I definitely feel like a little bit dizzy, but the thought of eating is super off putting.

I’m sorry if this is an out of place post. I (18F) just feel so isolated lately. For nearly a year now, I’ve been in pain every single day of my life. Debilitating pain at that. In and out of hospital, doctors appointments, specialists office, the whole lot.

Not only is it the urinary symptoms, but the constant systemic symptoms. The feeling of just being ill and fatigued 24/7. My nervous system being on edge, worsening my existing anxiety to unbearable levels that in turn, worsen my systemic symptoms so it’s a never ending loop. And then the cherry on top of course, the burning that never ends day in , day out.

I’ve always been independent. I won’t go ahead and get into everything, but I’ve been working since a pretty young age and providing for myself financially, emotionally and generally. I don’t have a support network nor a parental figure. I always thought I was doing just fine and I could handle anything that comes at me, but to be hit with a chronic illness and navigate the whole setting alone? It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever done.

Nobody in my life understands how this illness robbed me of everything. A lot of them didn’t even know it existed prior to me explaining it to them, and yet, some of them still don’t believe in it. I’ve been told it’s phantom, health anxiety, the works. All by people I thought I could confide in. I’ve lost so many people because of how this illness stripped me of my ability to enjoy simple pleasures and get myself out of bed. Hence, why I wish it had more awareness. Sometimes, I used to catch even my own mind wondering whether I was just going crazy.

I was prompted to post this because I was reflecting on my whole journey to this point. I worked my ass off through all this pain to be able to afford to travel to London, to the Artemis Cystitis clinic. I’m hoping for the first time in forever, to be heard and listened to. To finally have hope to grasp on to. I fly out in two days. It’s been a long time coming. I don’t know how I did it, but I did, all on my own and that’s something I’ll pat myself on the back for. But nobody should have to endure feeling lonely and gaslit while already battling illness.

EDIT: Genuinely overwhelmed with the pour out of support from everyone. I’m so grateful🩷🩷

Okay, I’ve seen people’s reasons for disliking him, and I get it.
However, personally I think he’s pretty over hated. I get peoples reasonings for not liking him. But a lot of the time people just say he’s actually pretty similar to Barney, just a ‘nice guy’ version. Then they go on to say Barney is their favourite character.
I actually haven’t seen many other reasons for the dislike he gets.
I think his pretentiousness is pretty charming, and that he’s overall just an incredibly loyal, friend oriented character. He’s the glue of the show in my opinion.
I would say more, but I’m a few sandwiches deep and this took me quite a while to type and fix mistakes, so essentially I’m looking for people to give me other reasons as to why they don’t like Ted other than “he’s like Barney” , or for people who also have Ted as their favourite characters and their reasonings as to why.

I never see much discussion about this episode on here. It’s definitely one of my all time favourites 😭 It’s SO funny, it’s got so many twists, the captain, and the scene with Lily expressing to Marshall how she feels as though it’s too late for her, was so touching and relatable for a lot of people.
It definitely comes first on my ranking for season 8, but even within the entire series i’d put it as a top 4.

I mean I’m just curious. When I’m watching it, the way I think about is he doesn’t even give his kids the full run down. Just a thing or two to describe what happens then potentially he would move onto a sentence that captures the entire thing, just enough for him to move onto his next point. I feel like we, the viewers, just see the full segment of what he’s explaining, in comparison to his kids who only hear a very quick summary. Of course that goes against me, in times where for example, he interrupts a line in the middle of a scene to make a comment or state that he doesn’t quite remember.
But in general, when you’re watching the show are you just automatically going with, “well this is what happened!” or “Well, this is just Ted’s point of view”?

I was diagnosed with PTSD when I was 14. It was mainly surrounding the traumas of my mom’s death when I was 13 years old.
However, since then everything that would be just about distressing to somebody that doesn’t suffer with PTSD, has managed to loop me into the same cycle that the death of my mom did.
(small warning since i’ll be briefly mentioning things such as SA)
I’m 19 now, and I’d endured a lot of further trauma since my diagnosis such as two SA instances, a lot of family regards, being kicked out of home etc. Obviously these are traumatic events, and I now suffer with the same PTSD symptoms surrounding these instances, I always have immediately after they take place. But even average enough things like I spent two days in hospital, being my first ever hospital stay, and when I mention to others that it genuinely kind of traumatised me they can’t seem to figure out why and remind me that loads of people endure that.
Thing is, I’m aware it’s not a rare experience, a lot of the things I end up feeling traumatised by aren’t. I’m just wondering because I was told by my psychologist when I was diagnosed that it was PTSD surrounding my mom’s death, that left me with the typical psychological and physical PTSD symptoms. However, now it’s like I face flashback that could vary around multiple different events, same thing goes for nightmares etc. It’s like i’m juggling several different things at any one time and it doesn’t feel like it’s just about my moms death, it hasnt for years and I’m just curious as to whether this is normal with PTSD. Am I meant to be this susceptible to distressing circumstances becoming incredibly traumatic? Do many PTSD patients have multiple things that come into play when it comes to nightmares, flashbacks and avoidant behaviour? I’m sorry if this sounds like a stupid question, I’m just curious because it seems like a lot to handle at once. Especially with picking up so many things as trauma, even when it’s incredibly involuntarily and at the time it really wasn’t the worst, but you still have flashbacks and nightmares anyways. I’m just trynna figure out if that’s normal with PTSD.

I think this would be the right place to post this, I love this subreddit so much as a superfan of himym😭
I’m 19 years old, and I started watching himym back in september of last year. Since then I’ve watched it multiple times since. I’ve tried to coax a lot of other people into watching it (for their own sake), and have always been hit with the “but it’s a sitcom?”.
When people say that, it does make me think a lot about why exactly this show means as much as it means to me. To explain , I’m an avid fangirl, I’ve had a lot of other interests. Yet, nothing has ever hit me so deeply or kept me so connected as himym does, so it’s reasonable to question why.
Since I started watching, I’d been through a lot with my health. Like back in November I was hospitalised (chronic illness girlies rise), and I remember I was itching to watch the season 8 finale but wanted to save it for when I was out of hospital. It’s moments that seemed so minor to me at the time, but looking back it’s like wow, I was in hospital, terrified, in a moment where I know deep down I felt so hopeless, but one hope I did have was to go home and watch that season finale.
I was only diagnosed with my chronic illness around a month after I started watching, and it’s seen me through a lot of broken relationships, friend losses and hardship, so maybe that’s why it’s so personal to me.
But it’s also to look at it from the lense of someone in their early twenties who just thinks life is moving too fast and they’re running out of time, or anyone who can’t see the bigger picture of what life has in store for them, or anyone who feels lonely and believes their people aren’t out there waiting for them years down the line.
It’s a sitcom, but it stands out from almost every other sitcom to me , because of the themes it targets and the general lessons taught throughout the show.
It’s just been a really rough week, which makes me appreciate this show even more as someone bordering my 20s to know that things won’t be like this forever! I’m just grateful to have it.

There’s a pretty big amount of takeaways to carry with you in your day to day life from himym. One of the reasons I love this show so much.
Out of all of them, Is there one lesson you carry with you in specific or any certain quotes that stuck with you? Or just anything you may have learnt from the show.
It definitely taught me how to value my time more and slow down. I feel like it’s pretty easy to feel like you’re behind in life, but he recalls his life gaining traction from the age of 27 over the course of 9 years.

I think ‘No pressure’ has to be one of the best episodes in sitcom history iwl. That end scene to Shake it out by Florence and the machine, genuinely so emotional.

I’m 17(F) and for the past 8 months I’ve essentially lost myself to chronic urinary symptoms. It started as a typical UTI back in October. I’ve only had one UTI before this, so I just went about it the same way. I went to the doctor, got some antibiotics and waited for the pain to subside.
Then it didn’t. The following weeks were filled with doctors appointments where I was just thrown a different antibiotic to try, all of which did nothing for me. My samples were negative, nothing made sense and this was all very new to me. It’s just me and my dad at home and he’s not the most present, so I was navigating this whole thing alone and I had no idea what to do.
Then in February, I was hospitalised for an infection that had spread to my kidneys. This made no sense in my eyes because all of my dipstick tests were negative prior. Nonetheless, I was in hospital for three days on IV antibiotics and I thought, maybe somehow they were finally targeting the root issue. I was discharged and nothing changed. I’m living in Ireland and using the public healthcare system, so for anyone who knows what I’m talking about you already know I’m describing a straight up nightmare. I’m on a very long waiting list for a urologist and in the meantime ever since then, my samples have been negative, no medication works and I can’t find a pain relief that targets my symptoms.
I don’t see any way out of this or any light at the end of the tunnel, I don’t know how anybody is supposed to live this way. My symptoms include intense burning, sometimes signalling I need to pee, even if I do end up with a proper stream it’s followed by the worst stinging and burning sensations with a feeling of having not emptied my bladder properly, leading to voiding and forcing weaker more stinging droplets, discoloured and cloudy urine and fatigue.

Is there any moments throughout the 9 seasons where you’ve noticed a mistake, breaking character, or anything you know was improvised?