[ SECRET POST #2122 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2122 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

No shit.

You shouldn't take health tips from fiction. You shouldn't take history tips from fiction. You shouldn't take physics tips from fiction. You shouldn't take art tips from fiction. You shouldn't take ANY tips from fiction unless the tips can be backed up by research in real life.

[(Anonymous)]

+100000000000000

Fiction is not real life. Fiction is not real life. Fiction is not real life. FICTION IS NOT REAL LIFE.

The vast majority of depictions of mental illness I've seen in fiction have been woefully inaccurate. (I think one of the worst offenders is that show where the main character solves crimes because he's schizophrenic or something.)

(On a more positive note, your post made me laugh, OP, so thanks for that!)

[(Anonymous)]

a-fucking-men. As a first responder I see so many laughably basic health-related mistakes, and I'm barely certified to do anything but throw some oxygen on to tide a person over until paramedics arrive.

(Hypothermia fics are the best for this, but depictions of CPR come in close second.)

Even when it's clear the author tried to research there are some things that are hard to grasp realistically if you haven't witnessed it. The first time I saw someone breathing over 30 BPM was definitely not how I'd imagined it, as well as my first case of anaphylaxis.

[fingalsanteater]

You also shouldn't take tips from internet anons on what you should take tips on.

[visp]

You shouldn't take health tips from fiction

Not just fiction, FANfiction. Yeah, not the best.

[sensualcoco.livejournal.com]

well idk you might be able to take art tips from fiction because fiction itself is a work of art.

[(Anonymous)]

funny story though - thanks to a Kradam fanfic by bexless, wherein Adam is a movie star whose car breaks down and Kris helps him, I knew how to stop my car engine from over-heating and was able to get home safely.

my dad was like, "wow, how did you know what to do?" :D

i mean, otherwise i would have just googled it and gotten the same answer.

but still.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, you shouldn't. Especially when it comes to panic attacks. I've had them randomly ever since I was a teen, and just no. They're scary as all hell, I can't imagine taking advice from FF to deal with that!

[pynapel]

I can't even imagine what fanfiction depicts panic attacks as. Swift? Fun? Just needing a romantic kiss to make it go away?

[kijikun]

Unless the fanfic is written by someone WITH panic attacks, yeah, fanfic isn't exactly know from accuracy on that stuff. Often because the source material is wrong as well, but you know research is your friend.

[elephantinegrace]

Because the internet is the epitome of real-life accuracy.

[sockpants]

Taking health tips from fanfiction is like taking recipes from 4chan. More often than not something is going to blow up your microwave.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, /ck/ has great recipes.

Though it is good practice to take everything on the internet with a grain of salt.

[elaminator]

It can be hard to put experiences into words (even for things you have been through), so for people who haven't and go by what they read or what others say? It's not unlikely that those descriptions might be inaccurate.

Hope you're feeling better now OP!

[terabient]

I'm sorry to hear you had a panic attack, OP. It's one of the scariest things I've ever witnessed and I can't even imagine how hard it must have been to live through one.

TBF to fanfic writers, I think panic attacks and panic disorders are particularly difficult to research and describe. My classes didn't really describe panic attacks beyond 'people having them are scared and may think they are experiencing a heart attack or stroke.' :|

[(Anonymous)]

thank you)

yeah, I heard this descriptions too. But I`m not that scared and don`t think it is stroke. That`s why it never occurred to me

[(Anonymous)]

Personally I realised that what I was having was panic attacks when I added the song The Ghost Of You Lingers by Spoon (http://youtu.be/NKmgUdRAzxQ) to my playlist. Often when I came on I got the same feeling especially if I was in a public place. It wasn't until I went looking for interpretations of the meaning of the song that I realised that "panic attack" came up a lot and then I researched that.

It was certainly a lot nicer to know what was happening.

[(Anonymous)]

Don't take health tips from anyone but a medical professional. Not movies, not TV, certainly not G. R. R. Martin, who fails basic science, and not from fanfiction. People are stupid and not all treatment is highly logical to the untrained.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, any sort of medical advice shouldn't be taken from fanfiction or any fiction, really. Doctors and nurses are health professionals for a reason. You can only research so much.

[avocado_love]

Yeah. They blow, don't they?

Luckily, with effort(and hell, medication if it helps) you can get over them. Good luck OP. <333

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, OP. But you might want to change 'fanfiction' to just plain 'fiction'. A lot of source material gets things, particularly mental disorders, wrong. Sometimes insultingly so.

[gethenian]

I will not ask what fanfiction you have been reading.

Because it would just make me want to go punch people.

>.

[wauwy]

... "Hospinal"?

I know people probably explain it in the comments which I'm about to read, but I just want it on record that I have no idea wtf that is.

[(Anonymous)]

I was diagnosed with panic attack disorder recently. It sucks because I have a heart arrhythmia (also recently diagnosed) and sometimes I will come close to blacking out (my hearing fails, vision blacken out, severe nausea etc). I often become very out of breath as well.

It scares the hell out of me because my father and uncle (who both recently died from Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis) dealt with "panic attacks" before they were properly diagnosed with IPF. I can't stop myself from thinking that the arrhythmia and breathlessness is an early symptom of that instead of an actual panic attack (they started having symptoms fairly young).

I also got my gallbladder removed 3 months ago after a severe attack. I've been having ERCPs every month to remove leftover stones. So far I've been hospitalized after every procedure because I develop pancreatitis. Now my doctor believes that I'm developing chronic pancreatitis. Yay!

Oh, did I mention I also have multiple sclerosis, crohn's, PCOS, menorrhagia, and anemia? Yea. All developed within the last 6 years. New doctors love dealing with me. They think I'm a lying hypochondriac until they take a look into my records.

I'm only 24 years old dammit! My poor health has driven me into despair and taken over my life. I hardly ever leave the house anymore...I legit leave only 2-4 times a month. It's no wonder I've suddenly started having panic attacks.

Ugh sorry. I'm being a downer, I know. Goodluck OP! I hope you manage to get those pesky panic attacks under control somehow!