Oh cool a psychopath

Extremely valid. I got a friend into IBO and didn't warn him about season 2. After this episode, he didn't talk to me for 3 days 😂

I used to date someone who had this issue. She doesn't anymore, and I dont know what changed (she was really abusive when we were together so we arent in contact, i just know what i hear from others). But the fact that things did change is something to be hopeful about. I don't know what exactly it is that troubles you, but I do hope that you are able to find your footing and live the kind of fulfilling life we all deserve to live. An insightful community like this will support and believe in you, even from afar, and I hope that gives you reason to remain hopeful and proactive in your efforts to find what you need, desire, and deserve.

Hard relate, but my support network doesn't include my mom anymore, thankfully. I don't associate with emotional terrorists 🙂

Lmao ngl, every day I'm on this sub, I get the feeling we're all sharing a brain.

No problem! I hope your research yields fruitful and satisfying results for you! Going general entry was very smart of you. Again, if you have any more specific questions dont hesitate to reach out! Take care!

Hi, I'm actually a foreign student going into year 4 at an Irish university for biomedical engineering funnily enough. So, if you have any specific questions about that, feel free to reply, and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

With that in mind, I think it's really cool that you have a clear and definable interest in an area of BME. A lot of my colleagues started this degree only with an interest in job security and money, and of course, in Ireland, there is a great deal of that with a number of medical supply companies in the west (Boston Scientific and Medtronic spring the mind to name a few) as well as a number of start ups coming into the fold as Ireland seeks to grow its Intellectual Property base separate from the American companies that have made themselves at home here. You will have no shortage of options upon graduation, and many of my colleagues have already found jobs both in Ireland and back home if they are foreign students (i was meant to finish this year but needed to take the year off for personal reasons).

BME is a good field of study for what you're interested in, but I do recommend you keep an open mind as your interests in BME may change or become more grounded as you progress through whatever course you choose. Cyberpunk and Rick Sanchez are fine things to be inspired by and aspire to, but its important to remember that new devices are developed by teams of people and those teams have to develop those devices based on the research available to them from researchers and academics. Most importantly, both researchers and development engineers are limited by the laws of physics and their baseline understanding of those laws. To be honest with you, this last part is something that you may not get out of an engineering program itself, but something you have to develop on your own, so it is important that you are a self starter in this regard.

I also highly recommend you look carefully at other fields of engineering and read through the course and module descriptions for each program at your selected university. Speaking from the experience of my university, while a mechanical or electrical engineer may not get to experience the biomechanics or other biology specific classes a BME program has, the BME program i am in is rather broad and mostly just gives a taste of the different areas a BME can be involved in. Alternatively, these Mechanical and Electrical engineering grads will have a solid foundation in the intricacies of mechanical and electrical engineering respectively and they have the option of doing some biomedical coursework in 4th year as a specialization to help them integrate what they know into biological systems. At the same time, people who studied on my degree have a greater familiarity with things like biomaterials and the specific mechanics of the body, as well as regulatory concerns such as the MDR adopted by the EU in recent years. There are pros and cons to both, so again, i recommend to read carefully as to what each program entails at your selected university and think about what you want to be doing 4-6 years down the line. It sounds like prosthetics is where you want to go. Also, start thinking now about your work placement and potential companies you'd like to work with for that.

I hope this lengthy rambling has helped some, but if you have any other questions, please let me know. I am happy to give you more insight into my own experience studying this field in Ireland.

It definitely do be like that sometimes. I hope that you are able to find those people eventually. It's the least we all deserve.

Yeah, mine was the same. It isn't anymore, but when you're conditioned to what you've described, it's hard to trust it when you are actually able to build real supports.

Lol, my therapist used to do the same, and then he ghosted me 😂

Relatable. The hidden truth behind the meme 😅 though I've definitely been able to separate myself from that toxic 'support' and build a new support network. I just don't trust it because the old support network was exactly what you described.

Constantly. Just hearing the word throws off my whole day.

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Ow

Whenever I pass by a urologists office, something in the back of my mind tells me to commit arson. For legal reasons, that's a joke 😃

The fact that this kind of 'content' is on youtube. Just...freely available. I feel sick.

I am in utter disbelief

OH MY GOD, YES! THANK YOU, I THOUGHT I WAS CRAZY.

Society has a very heternormative perception of sex-based/sexual violence. There is some rational justification for that bias in perception, as other commenter noted, statistically speaking, males are more likely to be the ones to abuse women and afab persons. After all, men tend to hold more power socially. There is certainly an argument that there's sampling bias because, as I noted at the top, people have a heteronormative perception of what sex-based and sexual abuse looks like. So a female abusing another female or even a male isn't necessarily perceived the same way as a male abusing a female and may not even be considered abuse by society or the victims themselves. I digress. It really doesn't matter because abuse is abuse, and violence is violence. Especially when you're that young. Like you said, social norms and perceptions of sex and gender aren't really wired into your psyche yet. All you know is that you're being traumatized, and that's all that should matter tbh.

Yeah, I wish we didn't have to go through what we went through, but happy to find community after the fact, i guess? It's an odd mix of feelings.

I only had this realization this week, and i thought i was the only one. Having a bad morning, so seeing im not the only one is kinda nice. Thank you for sharing!

Thanks, I hate it 😅 actually was thinking about this earlier this week but decided to keep it as an inside thought. Glad I'm not the only one 🙂

Extremely valid. My step-dad has been going through bladder cancer treatment, and the treatment he's been doing is eerily similar to VCUG. Frankly, I'd rather die than do another one or any kind of treatment that remotely resembles it, so i totally understand where you're coming from here. That they dont seem bothered to figure out new methodologies has been one of my top motivators in my university studies (Biomedical Engineering). We are missing out on what could be vital medical care because these 'professionals' don't seem to care about our psychological well-being. It's sick.

Depends on which Char you're talking about I guess. I think he starts out as a well-intentioned and calculated extremist, but over time, he grows increasingly disillusioned and shifts into indiscriminate destructiveness because he believes the ends justify the means. It's certainly true that resistance and liberation movements don't go anywhere without force, and people are often taught to disproportionately demonize the use of force in retrospect, but these movements also tend to win by remaining principled in their efforts, keeping some respect for the sanctity of life and the preservation of the environment to gain broader support or at least to soften opposition. By the time we get to CCA, Char is more or less an accelerationist pursuing mass destruction rather than principled tactical escalation. That's my guess anyway.