u/Theaterismylyfe

I've just started a series. Obviously I can't drive on the same day as a treatment, but what about the days I don't have one? I'm getting it 3 days a week. Like I had one today, but I don't tomorrow. Can I drive tomorrow?

Sorry if I'm unclear, I just got it done.

11x20. The necklace Dean threw away in season 5 glows in Sam's pocket. The implication being that he's kept track of it for 6-7 years. And Dean didn't find it with Sam's stuff after he fell into Hell and start wearing it, so maybe it was on his person. Like Sam had his brother's necklace with him in Hell. At least while he still had his body. I could write a fanfiction about that....

Also I'm not talking about the out of universe reasons for anything. I know the reason Dean didn't find it with Sam's stuff is because Jensen Ackles was absolutely sick of thing during fight scenes. I know the writers forgot about the necklace until the moment it became important and then it was suddenly in Sam's pocket for the cool scene. I know I'm thinking too deeply here but it's fun.

Idk, the implication that Sam has been carrying it around all this time is really interesting because they haven't both been on Earth the whole time. But for stuff like their guns, it makes sense because they obviously keep each other's stuff in the car for when they get back. But the only time Sam physically left this plane of existence since Dean chucked the thing, he didn't take anything with him.

I know there's the interpretation that Chuck put it Sam's pocket to create the moment, and that's certainly a very meta take to have. Because that is basically what the writers did. But I'm not sure which take is more common. Do you think Chuck put it in his pocket, or do you think Sam has been holding onto it?

My (24F) sibling (21mtf) recently came out. Our parents and I are supportive and got her on estrogen ASAP. I've got a little bit of a handle on how to support a trans person through their transition though I wouldn't claim to be perfect at it, but our parents are a little... confused. They love her very much and want to support her in any way they can, but they don't have a firm grasp on"gender stuff" as they put it. I know the pronoun change is going to be tough, but that's to be expected. They don't understand the process in the slightest (though our dad is willing to pay for whatever she needs to transition) and they definitely don't understand the social stuff.

Are there any online resources out there that helped you understand what your child was going through? How to navigate their transition? What they might need? The social rules of transition? Or hell, the correct terminology for stuff.

I'm 24 years old. I have spent all of those 24 years desperately trying to not be seen as bitchy, defiant, or rude with no success. I swear I'm not any of those things. I just want to understand what's going on clearly and I try as hard as I can to watch my tone, but it doesn't work. Hell, sometimes I even say at the top "This is a genuine question asked out of desire to understand." or "I'm going for a calm tone, I want to discuss this like an adult." But even then, people look at me sideways or respond like I've just called them an idiot or something. Or they think I'm an idiot.

If you've ever played Telltale games, I feel like a player character in one. The dialogue tree says something like "How long should this take?" I select that option, and what comes out of the character's mouth is "Is this bullshit gonna take much longer? I don't want to be here." Not a perfect analogy, because I'd be using the words in the dialogue tree, but people act like I've said the second one. People always see a secret hidden meaning I didn't intend. Or "It's the way you said it" when I didn't mean to say it some type of way.

Does anyone have any advice for "watching their tone" or am I screwed? I swear I'm not actually a bitch, I try to see the best in everyone. Being mean just feels like a waste of time and energy to me.

Those moments where you truly feel "..." is the best option. Could be funny, could be good for the story, could just make the most sense.

I don't take that option usually, but I did for "I'm not her dad." "A good samaritan" is honestly what Lee is, and it's what I would say in his shoes.

Ok, the body swap episode. A kid takes Sam's body and hooks up with an adult woman. No matter which way you slice it, somebody raped somebody. Everybody is a victim (Kid's under age, her consent was gained under false pretenses, Sam had no say in any of this) and everyone but Sam is a perpetrator (She's a grown adult, he's representing himself as Sam). Assuming the court system is aware of and fully accepts the idea of witchcraft, who's getting arrested? Everybody? Nobody? Could a conviction be secured, if the jury had all the information we do from the episode? I know this is literally an impossible situation, but trying to come up with a realistic answer is hurting my brain and I'm wondering what other people think. If I can't post this, I'll take it down no problem.

So three separate people have come out to me with various queer identities in a very short period of time. All of them, I was one of the first if not THE first. Like none of them are fully out of the closet. I'm just wondering if there was some kind of major event in the community that might've prompted so many people to realize their identity. One is trans, one is demi, one is nonbinary if that helps. I'm also ace myself. There was also a fourth person a month ago, but the other three were in the span of a week. None of these people talk to each other.

If this is a weird question or not allowed I have no problem taking this down. Not trying to offend anyone.

So my history with the show is I started watching it because my mom called me in 2020 after the finale to cry. I went into the show knowing how it ends. I am on the side of "the ending is good because it's the one the Winchesters wrote for themselves." But my mom is currently rewatching it and she's crying and idk what to do. She's upset because there was nobody with Sam when he burned Dean's body. I told her that's because they're hanging out with Dean. Plus Sam has the dog.

I am a trust fund baby with a job. My boyfriend is on disability. Growing up, I've always been the one to pay when my friends and I do stuff together. I've known a lot of people who have to choose between going to a restaurant or buying laundry detergent and I don't want to put the people I care about in that position. The way I see it, it's my responsibility. I was born into a very lucky financial position, but what's the point if my friends can't come along?

My boyfriend wasn't born into the same financial position as me, and he can't work. He has to make a few hundred dollars last him an entire month. He can't afford to take me places, but he's a great guy so I don't care about that. I want him to put his money into living the best he can, I don't want him blowing it all on a single night for me. The closest we've come to him paying is splitting the bill. It really doesn't bother me, but it seems to bother him. He's been complaining about me paying, and he keeps insisting on "paying for the next one" but then the next one comes around and I pay. Which again, I don't mind doing. He also told me about a dream he had, and while I'm no Joseph, I think it's really getting to him. How do I help him? How do I help him realize that it just makes more sense for me to pay? Do I let him pay? I would if he could actually afford it, but I'd rather he fill his gas tank than pay for us to go to a restaurant.

It's been a long time since I've SH regularly. Last week, I did a little bit and it opened the floodgates. I really don't want to start back up again, but I'm currently in a fight against myself because the urge is getting stronger. I'm struggling because I did ECT, and one of the things I've forgotten is whatever I did to manage the urge, or what I'd do when I got triggered. I have no idea what my healthy coping skills are. I know I had them because I've been clean for literal years, I had to be doing something. There's no way I never wanted to the entire time I've been clean, you know?

I'm currently dealing with the urge kinda bad after watching a video that honestly shouldn't have triggered me. It was a baking video for goodness sake! What do you do to manage the urge/triggers?

I'm ace, but I have had sex before. Generally, I follow the other person's lead. Sex isn't for me, it's for my partner. I don't really get anything out of sex, so I don't seek it out. But I have only ever dated allo people. I'm not sex-repulsed, just to be clear. I just don't have a libido.

I'm currently with an allosexual virgin. I really like him and I want things to go smoothly if/when we get there, but I've never been the one with more information in an encounter. I've never been the one who had to "hold their hand" for lack of a better term. I've never been the one with... I guess the power. Idk, I'm really struggling to pick the right words here because this is sticky. Do I initiate? Do I wait for him to? Obviously, a conversation needs to happen because we both have trauma that could ruin everything. But how/when does that conversation happen? I would be perfectly happy never having sex, so there's no threat of pressure from me. I just don't know what to do to make things feel safe for everyone. This might be a dumb post, but has anyone here ever slept with a virgin? How'd it go? How'd you keep things from derailing?

I've recently developed amnesia. I know Supernatural is my favorite show, and I know what happens in it. But I know it in the way you know what sound the letter K makes.

I get to watch the show for the first time again, but I'm bringing my boyfriend along for the ride. We saw the pilot a few days ago, it's wild to see how old the show is.

I made this post a while ago, and spam filters took it down. But every time I've mentioned it, someone has asked to see it. Figured I'd try again.

I have been in/out of psych wards/hospitals (yes, there's a difference) for years and this episode was a trip to watch, my mom got annoyed with me pointing stuff out. Spoilers for the episode. Also, I know the show isn't exactly gunning for a realistic psych ward vibe (Wraiths are typically not found in hospitals) but they got some stuff pretty bang-on.

Wrong:

• The existence of white-coat orderlies, this episode takes place in 2009, not 1970
• The psychiatrist doing evaluations in his office, you would never have anything that could be used as a weapon (read: Anything at all) in the room. There are usually special rooms specifically made for intake evaluations.
• Honestly, pretty much anything the male psychiatrist did was bullshit. He hosted groups (typically led by a therapist), directly challenged delusions in a potentially upsetting way, and (if the conversation with Sam after the attack was real) threatened him..? Psychiatrists are typically used to just about everything an Sam wouldn't have been in any danger of being transferred.
• When Sam attacks the techs ("orderlies") the glass shatters. The glass in a real psych ward wouldn't shatter no matter what was thrown into it. It's plastic.
• Sam being awake after being booty-juiced (I can chalk this up to him being over 6 feet tall, but it's still a stretch). Honestly, that is not what the high looks likes. Personally, it just made me feel kinda fuzzy. I don't think I talked like that, but I am not the person to ask.
• The doors to the patient rooms lock, this is a fire code violation and would get a hospital in big trouble. It shouldn't be able to lock from the inside or the outside.
• There's a morgue.
• Unless the boys got literally everything done (including removing the patient's brain) in less than 15 minutes, there's no way. They need to do rounds, which vary in time but are 15 minutes almost everywhere. They need to lay eyes on patients and mark down their temperment. If someone is missing during rounds, there's a lockdown. You can't just disappear.
• If there is one, let alone multiple, suicides on a psych ward someone is getting investigated. Psych wards are literally baby-proofed to prevent this kinda thing, and honestly homicide detectives might even get involved.
• The "scrubs" the patients are given. First of all, not every patient would be wearing them. If a patient's clothes are safe (don't have strings/zippers, aren't revealing/offensive, and aren't a hoodie) they can usually wear their own clothes. Also, it's literally just a robe WITH A FREAKING BELT! Under no circumstances would that be allowed. Patients scrubs, from what I've seen, are either paper, or normal hospital gowns.
• While you can never underestimate a patient's ability to make anything into a weapon, and while you can never underestimate Sam and Dean, the lockpick situation just ain't happening.
• We never see anyone taking meds?
• When they are trying to get Sam admitted, Dean is in the room. Any doctor would want to do the evaluation alone.
• There are just.... carts? In the hall? I don't know what that's about but it's dangerous and wouldn't happen. Again, these places are babyproofed, idiotproof, and suicideproof.
• Wendy making out with the boys, a tech would step in if she even tried. No way in hell.
• On that note, where are the techs? If the white coats are techs, they ain't doing their job.
• When Sam is punching air, techs jump on him. IRL, restraint isn't the first thing on their minds and actually has a lot of legal stuff and paperwork in order to happen. If nobody is being hurt, they'll just redirect the patient. Punching the air does not equal restraint unless the hospital is abusive.
• People just walk into other patient's bedrooms, HUGE no-no. This actually happened to me once. I was in my room trying to go to sleep when a confused dude just... walks in. Scared the shit out of me. The techs didn't let him stand there longer than 5 seconds before getting him out of there because you aren't supposed to go in other patient's rooms. About a year later, by sheer coincidence, we were in the hospital together again. He seemed to be doing much better the second time around. I really hope he's okay.
• The lady just dancing, makes for good TV but I've never seen it. Actually, good moment for education: most people in the psych ward seem really "normal" unless/until you talk about something that they are delusional about. You don't usually see screaming at nothing or dancing without music.
• The fire alarm gets pulled and they just... run out? Literally the oldest trick in the book, I've seen it pulled twice and it didn't work. Most facilities actually require a key to activate the fire alarm.
• There's no way they got those scalpels, first of all there is no reason for that to be in a psych hospital anyways; they aren't doing surgery. Second of all, I know they're good at stuff but there are eyes on them all the time. That's what the mirror balls are for.
• The bed Sam is tied to in a padded cell. Again, 2009. This might be accurate for the 60's, but I was personally strapped to a chair and someone was in the room with me the whole time. They don't just lock you alone; they legally can't. Doctor is also required to reevaluate every so often, and if a patient can be removed from the restraints before that they have to. Again, there's a lot of legal stuff tied up in restraining a patient.
• There's too much stuff not bolted down, also there are usually two beds to a room.
• I can't stress this enough: The male doctor would have patient complaints out the wazzoo, even if we just take the stuff we know for sure definitely happened. He sucks, not true to life, bad.
• Dean's supposed diagnoses, yeah absolutely not. It takes longer than a day to diagnose definitively that he has paranoid schizophrenia and narcissism. They also likely wouldn't be diagnosed at the same time because some of his "delusions" could account for his narcissism symptoms.
• Sam and Dean would be put on different units if at all possible, one would be sent to a different hospital if not. They're experiencing a "shared delusion" afterall.

Right:

• Sam and Dean would be separated, they'd have a note in the nurse's station and everything. Unfortunately, this means that any scene where they are interacting in the dayroom likely wouldn't be feasible.
• The nurse's station in general, an island in a big hallway? Very accurate.
• The globe mirrors in the corner everywhere.
• Patients milling around the hallways because there's nothing better to do.
• Unfortunately, the nurses saying to ignore the young woman at the beginning.
• Also unfortunately, the attitude of "Who's gonna believe a crazy person?"
• The way the female psychiatrist handled Dean's "delusions" as well as the questions she asked at the beginning were exactly right. I'm not sure if she was ever real, but she was more real to life than the dude.
• The skin assessment ("Drop your pants,") is a normal part of intake. No idea why, just go with it.
• Sam not being allowed in the dayroom after attempting to kill the doctor.
• Bizarrely, Dean's "Pudding!" moment.
• Sam trying to pull an "I've had an epiphany, and I'm all better now!" (it never works, doesn't stop people from trying).
• This isn't a psych ward accuracy so much as an insanity accuracy and it's so subtle my mom didn't even notice, but there's a moment where we see Dean open a door three times and it's not an OCD ritual way, it's the same time it just replays and I wanted to call that out because it's awesome.
• The dude raising his hand in group when the doctor clearly wants someone else to start.
• The existence of multiple groups throughout the day
• The dayroom
• Wendy's behavior is something I have seen, I only marked it in the "wrong" section because the staff doesn't seem to react to it. There are definitely patients that act like her.

Just some stuff I noticed and now I'm typing it up. I was wondering this stuff about the prison episode too but I've never been to prison.

I finished my treatments on Monday, and I'm going back to work today. I'm a preschool teacher, and I'm terrified. Don't get me wrong, there is no world where I don't take care of the kids or hurt them. That's just impossible, I don't think I could if I tried. But the brain fog is still really heavy, and I have some memory loss going on. I'm really really worried I'll get into a car crash on the way to work, or I'll forget something important. I've forgotten some of the kids, I know because I've seen pictures and the names are not returning to me. My mom works at the same preschool, and she kinda helped me out last night by reminding me who the kids were.

I'm asking for help because I need this brain fog to lift ASAP. How do I put my brain back in my head within the next couple of hours?

I have PTSD and Bipolar with Psychotic features. I recently realized all of the following is true:

1. My favorite musical is Next to Normal, about a family dealing with the same diagnosis I have.

2. My favorite episode of Teen Titans is Haunted, Robin hallucinates Slade. This has been my favorite episode since I was a kid, before I started hallucinating myself.

3. My favorite season of Supernatural is 7. Controversial opinion, but holy shit I feel seen.

4. My favorite GTAV PC is Trevor.

I don't know what it says about me that involving mental illness makes me like something so much more. I'll probably be pulling random examples out of thin air for the next few weeks. It's weird, I'm weird. I'm crazy.

It lasted for 15 seasons, they obviously didn't get the mythology of absolutely everything right. What jumped out to you as being wrong?

I'll start:

Season 8: >!Sam still has lungs after insulting Artemis. Generally speaking, insulting any of the Hellensitic Gods doesn't go well for the mortal involved. That goes double if the mortal insults a God with a lot of relevence to their daily life. As Sam says, she's the hunter goddess. Sam should be dead.!<

Season 4:>! Uriel is an archangel.!<

Season 5: >!None of the Gods in this damn hotel are supposed to eat people, what the hell? Some of them are still actively worshipped, what are we doing?!<

Season 10: >!That's... not how the Mark of Cain works.... I get that the Bible isn't super helpful when it comes to making a TV show and they went in a new direction, but yeah.!<