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⌈ Secret Post #2244 ⌋

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Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[(Anonymous)]

Post before yesterdays there was an interesting discussion about the ability to function in the most extreme situations.

It's a central aspect of a huge number of characters in fiction, but it isn't really something most people ever have to deal with in real life outside a select few careers or being unfortunate enough to be involved in some situations.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[intrigueing]

I keep my cool way way way way better in extreme situations rather than relaxed ones, actually. When there's nothing pressing happening, I start having a million thoughts and "should I do this? will I look stupid if I do this? would it be rude to say this? how should I word this?" and I wind up not knowing how to act and babbling and making a fool of myself, whereas if it's an extreme situation, my brain goes all clear and cold (dunno how else to explain it -- it honestly feels like the inside of a freezer) and I know exactly what to say and do and all the wheels and gears in my brain just work.

Same if I'm really really emotional. I never get incoherent when I'm angry or upset, I get totally clear and concise and rational, whereas I ramble and get distracted by shiny thinky-thoughts when I'm relaxed.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[dreemyweird]

My feelings seem to shut down every time I see danger. Unless I screw it up logically, there's no trouble with functioning in such conditions.

Like, I've been close to death a couple of times (including one when I got lost in the mountains), and I didn't care at all until it was over. Then I finally realised that some odd shit just happened to me.

Same goes for anyone else being in danger in my presence. I act or I don't, but I don't truly feel. When I saved my little sister from being drowned, I wasn't even scared (but after it I've never liked being on a seashore again).

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[pantswarrior]

Certain ones. I have often told the story of how I was driving home from a 3rd shift job, middle of the night, in a terrible ice storm, singing along with They Might Be Giants in my tape deck (yeah, this was a while back). Went to try to stop at a red light, and apparently the ice had built up there, because the car slid and started spinning, and wound up in the oncoming traffic lane with another car indeed oncoming. I spun the wheel around, found some traction, and got out of there just before the oncoming car got there too.

Realized a bit later that I'd never stopped singing the harmony to "Your Racist Friend".

Since then I've had a couple other near-misses in automobiles, including one winter when my brother was driving and I was in the passenger seat, we slid off the road down a hill and the car ended up basically on its side with me on the bottom, and all I was thinking as we slid down the hill and tipped over was "Wow, the grass is getting awfully close. I hope we don't hit that fence." Car incidents don't seem to faze me, so every time something potentially bad happens, I pull out of it no problem.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[morieris]

By keep cool, do you mean can think rationally or show no emotion? Because I get excited and sharp minded upon extreme situations

Nope

[chardmonster]

I can sure lock myself in my apartment avoid human contact and get the crisis handled at great strain to myself while going through what is probably an unacknowledged panic attack though!

AND THAT'S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ACADEMIA

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[(Anonymous)]

I like to think I'd go pro ice because I was in a raw situation, but more than likely I'd freeze up.

Never been in a situation that would require it as far as I can recall.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[making_excuses]

From experience, yes I can...

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[bombay]

I've been in a few tense situations where I've shut down everything but the essential functions needed to get me through it, but when the danger's passed and/or there's nothing to do about it, all my fear and panic hits me and I freak the fuck out. Knowing what needs to be done (or at least, having options on doing something) helps me stay rational. I don't think I could handle constant danger very well, though.

I'm not looking forward to the zombie apocalypse.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[dethtoll]

Not me. I break pretty easily in times of crisis. My response is usually to go back to bed.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. I've had to. If I couldn't, there would be some dead or at least fairly mangled people in my life right now. Sometimes I wish I could have acted faster or been more alert, so I could have gotten there sooner or warned them to fucking move, but shit happens. :/

I dunno what kind of responses you're going to get from this thread, because I think a lot of people haven't been exposed to extreme situations, or their version of extreme is relative.

My version of extreme is something that is imminently life-threatening to the self or others. Like blood spill, broken long bones, severe infection, etc, especially without medical attention. Anything else is unfortunate and shitty, but otherwise not extreme.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[littletown]

I worked at a preschool and kids/accidents is life's OTP. You have to keep your cool if you wanna stay sane. So I handle dire stuff pretty well.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[elaminator]

I don't think I've been in enough 'extreme situations' to say, but most likely...no.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[ill_omened]

Yes, enough for it to be a marketable skill.

Hell used to do suicide watch at a station with fortnightly jumpers, and have personally been stabbed.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[lynx]

It depends. Are we talking about "We're in a life or death situation! We need a cool head and adrenaline!", or are we talking about emotions?

Because I can do decently with the first (example: I was once involved in a massive drowning incident with my family and got my brother and cousin back to the beach); but at the same time I have bad social anxiety, so...

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[al28894]

That kinda depends.

Snake invading your garden? Ok. Carry on.

Car out of control? BRAKE! BRAKE! SCREM! SHOUT! CRY.

Robbery? Look at this mess. It'll take ages to cl- Oh Mr Officer, some coffee?

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[maverickz3r0]

Hahaha. No. Not even slightly.

Although I freak more out of fear than pressure. Pressure doesn't get to me nearly so much as if, say, there's a wasp in the room.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[(Anonymous)]

Yes. In fact, I can get downright belligerent in extreme situations, and take control of people I don't even know to make them do things that I want done in the fashion I think it should be done, and no one's ever questioned me on it, but let me run the show.

It's more often the little stupid things, like someone insulting me, that make me go all blither-y.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on the situation

Extremely angry/threatening customer - depending on my mood of the day I either lose my cool or manage to keep it under control and just deal

Then there's things like when I broke my leg and tore my muscles and a ligiment. I wasn't a screaming, flailing mess but I WAS oddly fixated on making sure my housemates understood to put the chicken in the fridge and feed my pets.
Then the needles came out and I lost my cool :(

Emotional or friendship related things? I become an emotional wreck.

Healthwise *coughimmunesystemdisease* I managed to keep my cool by suppressing for a few months, then lost it, then gained it, then lost it...

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[(Anonymous)]

If it's with family, no.

If it's not with family, you can bet your butt that I can.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[(Anonymous)]

tbh i've never been in a situation that i'd consider extreme. like, the worst would be when i was in japan during the earthquake. but i was in tokyo, so it wasn't that bad. granted, i was the one who, when the ground started rocking, latched onto something sturdy real quick while my friend flailed around in shock, and had to grab her towards me to keep her from falling over. but i don't know, honestly, mostly everyone around me was pretty calm (cause..japan), so it didn't seem like that big a thing, even though i didn't know that it wasn't going to be that bad.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[tabaqui]

I'm pretty good at it. A friend of ours was badly hurt - fell and shattered the back of his skull - and while brother-in-law and then-wife were freaking out, i was calming them down and asking questions, and my SO was keeping him from choking on his own blood.

Blood doesn't bother me, screaming kids don't really bother me unless i can't figure out *why* they're screaming, and sudden crisis and such mostly just make me ask questions and try to figure out the best way to deal.

Of course, i've never had to deal with a horrible car accident with my daughter in the car or my SO or close family, or someone being shot or stabbed or attacked, so who knows, but my dad was always calm and my mom, too, even when we got hurt as little kids, so a lot of that has rubbed off.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[(Anonymous)]

I do better in extreme situations than in day to day life. Get all calm and focused and just somehow know exactly what to do. But God help me if I have to go to the DMV to get my license renewed.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[silverau]

I haven't been through many extreme situations but a few months ago I saw a dog get hit by a car and my reaction was to panic and scream, run out into the street, and stand over the dog staring at it for several minutes without having the basic common sense to pick the dog up out of the street, soooo... I figure I wouldn't handle any situations more intense than that, either.

Re: Can you keep your cool in extreme situations?

[eaten_by_bears]

I have a pretty strong crisis-mode in most situations. Too many angry customers at once, someone's been hurt, someone needs help out of an abusive situation, there's some kind of danger- it's all low, calm voice, setting priorities, and getting through them one by one. I kind of go into another state of mind, and afterwards I can be a little surprised by how I reacted. So it's freaky in a way, but useful.

One crisis I can think of that really had me rattled was a car accident that caught me totally by surprise when I was already under a lot of stress from school, being lost, and ongoing family medical problems. I cried hysterically for about an hour. Still managed to call 911 and take care of what had to be taken care of, but I was not in good shape.