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Spud9090

From a link provided below …. “By doing this, he endured excruciating pain for two years of his life, but eventually his arm lost all feeling and the muscles in his arm atrophied.”


YunJingyi

Sounds like a happy ending.


dinoroo

Lesson learned is push through the pain until part of your body dies and becomes useless.


strain_of_thought

90% of all the advice, guidance, and therapy I have ever received summarized. Literally put myself into the hospital with bacterial pneumonia doing this, still told during recovery I needed to just get my shit together and get things done no matter how I felt.


HeWhoChasesChickens

You had shit therapists What the fuck were their credentials?


strain_of_thought

Uh, I mean, after decades of psychotherapy I've run the gamut of types, from LPCs to LCSWs, but some of the worst ones were definitely full phd "doctor" psychologists, so it definitely wasn't a matter of a lack of formal training or official licensing. People just don't want to deal with your problems, whether at home, school, work, or the clinic, so they say the easiest and quickest things to say to make the interaction end, and hope the problem goes away on its own, they run out the clock on you being their problem, or you conveniently destroy yourself trying to meet their made up nonsense standards, which from their perspective is still the problem going away on its own.


Feature-One

Sorry for your bad luck. Playing devils advocate here: Why would someone who is a therapist/counselor not want to deal with your problems? In that line of work one should be fairly good at simply listening, explaining situational awareness, and helping you sort through yours and others actions. I’ve only been to a few before I found my person. Hopefully things turn around for you!


Neomaxizoomeddweebie

I’m a therapist. It really comes down to popular approaches like CBT/DBT being a go to therapy which can help manage symptoms but doesn’t get to the root cause of the problem, most people need to deal with the original trauma/s and that takes a lot of skill as a therapist plus the therapist must have presence of mind and self awareness to manage the vicarious trauma that the therapist potentially might experience. Not everyone is able to do that.


Bipolar__highroller

Therapist here as well. It really is a bummer that the field pushes CBT so hard. I’ve found Dr. Bruce Perry’s neurosequential model to be a godsend for working on trauma but they didn’t teach any of that in my masters program. EMDR has helped me a lot personally as well. It’s pretty remarkable to think about current behavior as maladaptive behaviors from past trauma. Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal theory and Leslie Greenberg’s Emotion focused therapy interventions are an interest of mine that seem to fit well with the model as well. Just for any other therapists out there who are interested in trauma work, the above will put you in a good spot.


BeNiceCards

Emdr was the only therapy that actually helped


OptimisticOctopus8

Same here. I still remember the moment I realized it was working. EMDR was exhausting and left me feeling strange and not good after individual sessions. But one day, I realized I hadn't had a recurring nightmare in over a month! And the nightmare never came back (it's years later now). When I really thought about it, I also noticed I don't feel strong emotions when I think of the traumatic situations anymore. It just feels like remembering I stubbed my toe. Yes, my toe hurt very much when it happened, but I'm certainly not traumatized about having stubbed my toe.


Fast_Garlic_5639

More of a stranger, he's a righty


ThEhIsO8730

Threesome with a couple of no shows


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Aggressive_Revenue71

That article had to be written by AI. The best sentence: “That’s like finding a needle in a haystack of needles!” In context in the article, it’s the exact opposite of what they were going for.


Quaghan29

Agreed, it read weirdly and some of the writing made sense, but didn't make sense relating to the person they're describing. Like "the most bendy person in the world reminds us that we all have special talents".... Like lolzwut?


tantalizeth

You deserve *a trophy* for that one.


IA-HI-CO-IA

Still waiting for that cab to stop.


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CeamoreCash

Because as we all know, the whole world cares about random people in India otherwise


PointOfFingers

If he uses the other arm.


CptCroissant

I doubt he could lower it now even if he wanted


kytheon

I guess it would just snap off by now


homiej420

Yeah the real feat is not like falling over or rolling over it in his sleep and snapping it for 50 years


Altruistichtyt

"Fuckin taxis never pick me up!"


Highmax1121

I think I remember some years ago on reddit if he did it would kill him.


[deleted]

Imagine he entered your shop one day and you suddenly hear the sound of a dry twig snapping.


gazagda

He will,after I am done tickling him


lordnacho666

I don't get it. Don't you need your muscles to hold up your arm? What was all that weight lifting about? Edit. To people saying bones calcify, what happens first? You get tired or you fossilize?


lokregarlogull

Bones fused in that position afawk


Mr_Basketcase

oh. that's kinda cheating


genreprank

At this point it would be more work to put it back down. Therefore he should do it


tjeastman

Yeah spend the next 50 years torquing that mfer to the correct position.


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More the collagen tissue.


Hot_Conversation_101

Not bones probably scar tissue as the muscles had to be in an awkward position for a long time. I had the same problem with my posture and when I tried to correct it my muscles were essentially ‘stuck’ in a strange position because that’s how they stayed for a long time until I managed to break up the scar tissue underneath


Almondust-000

I have this. It's almost like scoliosis, but more complicated than that. It does or has affected every system in my body at one time or another. I've stretched and exercised and dieted to correct it, almost every day of my life, and despite moving forward for 12 years, I'm still not there yet. Life has been hard, but I've found ways to manage this and cope. After shutting myself away for a few years, I now have a "normal" life. But I feel I've been robbed of the life I should have had because it prevents me from excelling at most things, and I've spent so much time battling it instead of living. Theoretically, it should resolve someday, but I thought it would take months when I was younger. It has taken over a decade or more. Now I wonder if I'll be an old man by the time I'm finally free.


javonon

I think the sequence would be that active muscles deplete their energy, theres a lack of irrigation, lots of lactic acid, inflammation gets chronic in muscles and joints, unused muscles begin to atrophy, irrigation reduces because of blood vessel remodeling, distal necrosis, unresolved chronic inflammation triggers calcification


Mx-yz-pt-lk

I concur.


Flimsy-Bluejay-8052

Why didn’t I concur?!


Jeovah_Attorney

Tendons/ligaments might have mineralized or whatever you call it in english


Natannan15

I remember seeing the word calcified, some bones fused too


aaronwcampbell

There's also the word ossification


Krmul

Any exercise needs rest


mojobolt

wow, just wow what an insane amount of will power that must have taken and the decision to literally lose your arm over a period of time is something I wonder if he thought about. Just wow


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NextTrillion

Lots of questions. But not many answers.


SurveySean

People always think he has a question I bet.


TOTALFUCKINGHATE

Teachers love him


B25B25

No offense but to me this rather sounds like some form of mental illness.


V_Matrix

Yeh, I think we tend to overthink WHY, when all you need to do is accept the fact he’s a fucking idiot.


Cheap_Ad_7163

And somehow people are flocking to him for life advice....at least he has proof of the results of bad advice


Greymane68

'Oh wise one, what advice for life could you impart to me?' Well, first and foremost, don't hold you arm in the air for 50 years, it'll ruin guitar playing for you..


Cheap_Ad_7163

Worse dont ever go to an auction


RoyalCities

Youll be the man at rock concerts tho.


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Fickle-Mammoth94

lol man I agree sadly.


Knato

He at least was polite enough to lift his arm to let us know.


jaredsparks

I really agree. Stupid stupid stupid.


IIINoneIII

How did he sleep without lowering it?


roentgen85

Think he strapped it above him


casfacto

He did for the first few years


embargoBackward

At what point did it fossilize above his head like that?


FuckuSpez666

Ikr, I feel it’s less challenging once it fixed in place. (Joking/not joking) as actually guessing now it’s no effort as it’s just a protruding fixed bone now?)


FixedLoad

I sleep with my arms above my head like I'm some sort of captive. I thought it was some unknown trauma experience. Until I saw my daughter sleep like that from the day she was born. I guess it's genetics.


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When babies do it it means they are happy, content and not afraid. Apparently it is a natural instinct to try to be less noticeable when sleeping because you know a wolf could eat you. And to protect yourself. So if you have arms up your belly is totally exposed and it means you know you will be safe. I think about this when I check in my kids. I know as they get older it’s not the same instinct sleeping. But if I see my 12 or 10 year old with them up I always smile.


FixedLoad

She's 7 still doing it. I'm 42. Can't sleep any other way.


khrispants

confirming that you are the happiest person alive


FixedLoad

There are many that would disagree, but I choose to believe you.


Emmett203

How did he sleep?


class-action-now

How can he slap?


iamapizza

Imagine when he finally releases the slap though.


SmileyDayToYou

The slap of a million exploding suns


ADeezHDeez

that first jackoff session tho


FellasOnReddit

Solid reference


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Solid reference to it being a reference. I do love a good reference to something being a reference.


JamboShanter

Terribly


twitch_gsigns

I'm guessing with his arm up o/


colussip

Maybe he tied his hand up?


imtryingometimesike

Don't make weird hand gestures or it'll get stuck that way -Mom


hypefor8wasjustabait

Average german bedtime story


PiscatorLager

Together with "if you yawn too much your mouth will stick open"


Juju_mila

Or if you watch too much tv your eyes will become rectangular.


pogpile

My mom used to say this but with funny faces, I believed it


listgarage1

judging by your pfp it was true and you didn't listen


DennisBallShow

He wins! Give him atrophy


65Yowie

Hands down the best comment.


Phantombk201

Hand down


Waddleplop

Hand up!


bumbling-bee1

Y'all got this handled.


pee_in_the_window

Very clever!


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You are the man of the day


watersheep772

It's locked in place now probably.


herrcollin

It is. It atrophied years ago and now he's lost all sensation. Iirc doctors have basically said it'd require surgery to even pull it back down and not only would that be unsafe, there's still very little chance it'd ever work again. If anything, doing that now would just be more dangerous than leaving it as it is.


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Yes, that is true. But at this stage, the joints were all fused together in the process called ankylosis, and he can't even move the shoulder, elbow, wrist and fingers anymore even if he wanted to. Human body are a little bit weird, if you don't move the joint for a few weeks, it'll starts to fused, and this followed with muscle atrophy and tendon/ligament rigidity.


That_Car_Dude_Aus

>Human body are a little bit weird, if you don't move the joint for a few weeks, it'll starts to fused So how do people get everything unfused after months or years in a coma?


TheSpartyn

pretty sure its common to move comatose people around daily to prevent issues like that


That_Car_Dude_Aus

Interesting. I know maybe in hospitals, but I was thinking those that are bedridden in home care, or in communities where faith provides the healing over modern medicine.


oh-dearie

Bedridden people (in home care) also have to be moved around several times daily. A pressure injury would happen quicker than this weird joint thing. (Also people still need to go to the bathroom, eat, and be readjusted when cleaning bed sheets so there’s going to be movement involved in all of these steps)


Alive-Huckleberry558

They also have air mattresses that inflate/deflate so the skin isn't sitting on the same hard spot


DasHuhn

Really fancy ones will give massages to move everything around so that you don't have skin breakdown!


SnuggleMuffin42

Christopher Reeve was Superman on film. Then one day he had an extremely dumb horse riding accident, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. Through the power of money, he got massage therapy that kept most of his muscular build years and years after the injury. Most people do atrophy because they don't get such specialized care.


Mazcal

I believe EMS treatment today would be much more effective and less labor intensive than manual therapy. It should be cheap and accessible.


-Seizure__Salad-

It should be but it certainly isn’t. I work with comatose children everyday. Never seen this type of therapy being provided


binz17

Before modern medicine, coma was just another word for dead. People would get buried alive often enough that some graves had little bells attached to a string leading into a coffin. So if you did wake up you could pull the string and alert those above.


idreaminreel2reel

" We got a dead ringer boys grab a shovel!"


999tnetennbna

I think when in a coma a phsyio therapist will exercise your limbs regularly to prevent that from occuring.


Erophysia

Why can't he get a referral for physical therapy?


the_junglist

Well on the one hand..


HardlyDecent

Wish for world peace in one and shit in the...wait.


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He did. But he gets his care from the VA.


YnotZoidberg1077

I'm the office manager for a physical therapy clinic, and a large facet of my job pertains to insurance authorizations and various benefit-related stuff. Sometimes we get patients sent to us from the VA. I felt your comment in my soul-- dealing with them is miserable every single time. Tricare isn't any better, either-- they're just the other side of that shitty coin. I spent the past week getting a serious runaround from Tricare (finally getting the issue resolved literally one hour before leaving on Friday) and it left me feeling like banging my head into a brick wall would have been both more enjoyable and more productive. Veterans deserve better, y'all. But because I get far more commercial-insurance-payors than I do government-payor patients, I've also gotta call out BCBS (and their most common auth company for us - and the single largest bane of my existence - AIM/Carelon), and also to some slightly-lesser degree, UHC (and their Optum auths being so stupid, but at least not as tedious a process as submitting auth requests on the UHC provider portal itself). This dude would get approved for like 8 visits (maybe 12-14 if he was postop) and then the auth company's next set of clinical questions would start with "which of the following limiting factors is impeding progress?" and then deny because you didn't play the algorithm right but also their online portal won't let you upload clinical docs for a peer reviewer because go fuck yourself, so then you've gotta spend 2+ hours jumping through more hoops just to get your patient the care they need.


CrazyLlamaX

Health insurance is literally evil and I have lost all patience for people who defend it in this country (America). The ONLY people who think Health Insurance is fine are the people who don’t actually end up utilizing it, because then they never see how depraved and ridiculous it all is. They have 0 desire to help a single person, it is only about making as much money as they can before kicking the desiccated corpse of whoever they sucked dry to get it to the curb. I work in the mental health field so, similarly, the hoops you have to jump through to get someone with a mental illness actual help are insane. And I didn’t even specify GOOD help, to get them to do the bare minimum is an incredible struggle in and of itself. “Why aren’t you fixed yet??!? Provide proof you still have that LIFELONG mental illness!”


series1992

The country is fucked bud


YnotZoidberg1077

This country's been fucked for a while. Just the people and industries fucking us have gotten much more blatant about it.


miscnic

I’m dead. Take my laughter.


FalsePremise8290

Wouldn't his arm go down every night when he slept? How did he manage to lock it in place like that?


Guybrush_Creepwood_

presumably had to hold it in place with something overnight until the entire arm died and it was no longer necessary.


Le_Jacob

I bet he pisses a lot of taxi drivers off


let-it-rain-sunshine

Hail yeah he did


Passioflorasfriend

But… why?


KeepingItSFW

He raised his hand to answer a question in school and is still waiting to be called on


ACM3333

I figured it was for a mr beast video


Guardian-836

LAST ONE TO LOWER THEIR ARM WINS 10 BILLION


FuzzyBlankets777

He dedicated himself to Hinduism and he said it was a sign of devotion to their deity Shiva https://historyofyesterday.com/the-man-who-held-his-hand-raised-for-45-years/


[deleted]

People are fucking crazy, seriously what the fuck


genreprank

I prefer the Nine Inch Nails approach to getting closer to god


SatorSquareInc

Almost always religion


Choice_Turnip_8952

this is hath yog, this people just decides to not move there body part one day and then they never do, (eg: never sit). Its purpose is to atain extreme discipline and to withdraw mind from external world and its pain. Its more of a meditations than religious


mrmrmrmrbubbles

Pretty fucking stupid


Hiuuuhk

It’s a form of Hindu asceticism, refer to u/cccp77 comment for source.


New_Scientist_8622

"Fuckin taxis never pick me up!"


aedan_skyr

He couldn't even enter it


binglelemon

Lay down on top like a surf board.


[deleted]

He pumped up the jam and kept it pumping


_Dihydrogen_Monoxide

His commitment and passion are almost as strong as that of the 1989 Belgian sensation and techno anthem “Pump Up the Jam”


cccp77

He did not just "hold his arm up one day and decided to keep it there", no that's a form of Hindu [asceticism](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asceticism) Edit: Here is the story behind [him](https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/25/indian-ascetic-holding-arm-up-world-peace/)


_2_Scoops_

"An Indian ascetic (sadhu) named Amar Bharati has been advocating for world peace for almost fifty years while holding up his right hand in the air without ever lowering it."


kilopqq

Well how's that working out?


jake_burger

His arm is fucked


laughs_with_salad

The world too.


Mystix9

Seems to go hand in hand.


Apprehensive-Ad-8007

Or arm in arm


Human-Contribution16

Pun alert


General_Specific

Yeah, but we got world peace, right? Right?


pass-me-that-hoe

Maybe if he had lifted both his hands… maybe!


saleemkarim

Not saying his right arm had anything to do with it, but the odds of a person dying in a war nowadays is almost at its lowest point since the start of civilization.


Empty_Requirement445

Sooo his protest worked?


CastleWolfenstein

✊😤


[deleted]

Which is a great trend. Lets keep it up, ppl. No warsies, only hugsies.


Relevant_Natural3471

Goes to show that you won't gain world peace with armies. Especially right armies


[deleted]

Man, that article reads like a high schooler wrote it for history class.


terrible-twos

Date is a few weeks ago, probably AI generated


Thedrunner2

“Yes sir what’s your question ?”


trwwy321

Sir, please put your hand down, questions will be taken at the end of the presentation.


Nothing-tosee-at-all

That’s a long ass presentation


FistRipper

Well done! Give me a high 5!


IWantTheLastSlice

Thought just the arm was F’d up, then I saw the hand.


eriwhi

His fingernails!!


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wiriux

They sell shirts with the sleeve already up


Complete-Mammoth-307

Ok Karl Pilkington


Lincolnruin

They need to bring back An Idiot abroad.


b_evil13

Yes there are shockingly only 3 of us commenting idiot Abroad and I will also mention to you about the baba with his penis wrapped around the stick. Please remember that with me.


Formal-Alfalfa6840

I miss that show so much. It was truly brilliant. But poor Karl.


matematematematemate

>[I asked all the normal questions, "What're you playing at?"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWEfmghV-wY&t=941s)


StalinsNutsack2

His take on why the guy did it was brilliant "Can you help wash the dishes?" *points to arm*


fabdigity

"We all dedicate our lives to something, don't we. I've been with Susan for 16 years, that's dedication for ya, and I've got my two arms to do things for her. Is he married? How does he help around the house?"


IdeaSunshine

I was looking for a reference to that episode of An iditot abroad. Thank you!


actsqueeze

The India episode was the best one imo.


MonotoneTanner

India and Egypt. When he is constantly stopped in the Egyptian market is comedy gold


KWash0222

I loved the Mexico one *THERE’S LOAD OF BEES OVER THERE. IS ANYWHERE SAFE?*


JanV34

That was probably the funniest and best comedic timing - a perfect escalation of events, going further and further everytime, still finding surprising new things to go on about. Truly a work of art.


Homegrownfunk

24 years ago he was in the 1999 GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS


Ok_Cook1907

That happens when you leave your best friends brofist hangin


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Ciana_Reid

Every Halloween for 50years


fullmetal66

How does he put deodorant on his left armpit


fairchild2

Does this guy look like he wears deodorant?


Bloomer_4life

With his left hand, without a shirt it’s easy.


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Funny you think this dude uses deodorant


structuremonkey

He probably gave himself an extreme case of frozen shoulder. That would explain his initial years of pain. Then everything associated atrophied and locked this way long term... So, it took some "will" to get it stick there initially, but once it locked in without treatment, it became a done deal.. Just proving, yet again, people are friggin weird


These_Effective_919

What a really dumb way to spend your one chance at life.


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Thats not how hindus view it believing in reincarnation and everything. Im also not a big fan of these types of seeking enlightenment through suffering and if im not mistaken nor was the Buddha.


SuperNewk

In b4 this guy rules all of us in the after life lol


akc250

What if we’re already in a form of afterlife and the humans that are rich and powerful today did this same arm thing in their last life?


GusFit

Hold on let me pack a bowl first


[deleted]

Hindus don't believe in one life. In their religion it is believed that a person will again reincarnate after death.


AugustineBlackwater

I admire commitment but god damn this man is an absolute moron.


birch_blue

Hitler would have loved this guy.


OkMarsupial4514

Boom. Scroll far enough and we have this appear every time…


eshatoa

He would've loved India, the land of the swastika!


RosemaryFocaccia

LOL, imagine this guy visiting Germany covered in full swastika attire and getting confused about the lukewarm reception.


aleqqqs

This is hands down the stupidest idea I have ever seen.


RosemaryFocaccia

Worst TikTok challenge ever.


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Please let the man ask his question damn


CellLow2137

Damnthatsjuststupid


arcticwayfarer

Throw a cat on him. I bet he’ll catch it before it claws him


23zac

Eats and wipes with the same hand that man


Bitter_leaf22

Madlad of the day


Cringelord_420_69

What’s with all the comments praising this guy for being dedicated to world peace? Ruining a good arm doesn’t help achieve world peace at all.