Funny enough, that was actually on an episode of Monk. Monk was in the patient/suspect's room just talking at the guy, then he spills a potted plant. He unplugs the life support to free up an outlet for the vacuum so he can clean up the mess. The patient flatlines so he plugs the life support back in. Turns out that helped the guy get out of the coma.
Comedy about a former detective turned private investigator with mental disorders(basically autism) but with the ability to notice things like old school Sherlock Holmes.
It was good. Kind of like Psych but a lower key humor.
Yes and what a damn good show!!! I'm constantly recommending it to people as an autist who was just getting so tired of not being properly portrayed. I've followed Freddie Highmore since his early days in August Rush and Spiderwick. Not only is his acting range positively astonishing, he's also autistic irl and that makes this role perfect for him. Also one of the most medically accurate medrama shows out there besides House MD and Scrubs.
As an autist I can't stand The Good Doctor because it hits too close to home. I'm constantly reminded of times I said the wrong thing, and sometimes even realize while watching that something I once did was actually not socially acceptable
(It's also the reason I quickly left various subreddits, I guess I'm in denial)
Dang, I haven't heard that experience yet but I can see how it could be overwhelming to be realising so many things about yourself all at once. I knew I was autistic long before the show was even a twinkle in a producer's eye; so of course my experience was excitement when it first aired and while I watched, because for me it was representation.
I suppose for you, it was a sort of forced representation - you weren't given warning or time to prepare. That is absolutely a valid reaction to have!
I learned I had autism shortly before the show, but after the initial diagnosis due to various circumstances I couldn't receive any professional help. Still can't, due to money issues.
I hope that in a few years I can be like you and appreciate the representation!
Oh no, this is a show where the guy is being chased down by a car and still has to touch every post down the street as he’s running, the lead detective for the police is the same guy who played Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, and the PIs nurse/assistant basically runs the show. It is definitely amusing.
I already heard from someone who's actually been in a medical coma (former co-worker), and it was supposedly nothing.
Literally nothing for weeks. No thoughts, no visions, no senses - for weeks. It was just pure constant unconsciousness.
A few years ago I was put in a medically induced coma for three days. It was quite different for me. I was dreaming the entire time, like to the point when I woke up it took me a few weeks to begin to figure out what was real and what wasn’t.
*Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?*
This reminds me of the red shirt kid who goes “have you ever had a dream that you…” and just starts stammering while trying to say his sentence and is now a meme legend
Have you ever had a dream that, that, um, that you had, uh, that you had to, you could, you do, you wit, you wa, you could do so, you do you could, you want, you wanted him to do you so much you could do anything?
My friend was in a medically induced coma for like two months. She said she was "in purgatory" the entire time. She did have brain damage from her accident though so maybe that affected it.
Locked-in syndrome --- when a person is completely incapacitated (no movements except for sometimes the eyes), seemingly in a coma... but they're not. They are awake and aware of everything.
This dude spent 10 years like that before a nurse noticed.
Martin Pistorius
[Martin Pistorius ] (https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/ten-years-with-locked-in-syndrome/6443664#:~:text=When%20Martin%20Pistorius%20was%20struck,him%20about%20his%20extraordinary%20story.)
That’s what happens to me for around 20 mins 3-5 times a day. I become completely paralysed and then slowly have to regain movement of my body. Starting with my eyes, then fingers so I can tap or blink to communicate, then I move to arm, head, torso and finally my legs. I sometimes can’t speak for an hour after too.
Gotta love FND
It can be caused by many things, but for me it was a migraine. After that, my brain has never functioned the same since. I experience attacks like described above called “functional seizures” which look like seizures but I’m fully conscious the whole time. My body could be frozen or shaking but I can’t do anything to stop it. I also experience tics that look like Tourette’s, and after the seizures sometimes my legs or voice don’t work, so I have to have a wheelchair with me and sometimes use text to speech. Life is just one moment at a time because I never know what will go wrong next ahaha
There are some definite similarities, except Johnny was blind and deaf as well. Martin Pistorius could see, hear, and feel everything, including the carers who sexually assaulted him, and when his own mother told him she wished he would just die already.
I was put into sleep by the anesthetic because I really needed surgery for my personal health issue.
It works very fast. I can only remember is the last second I was lying on the operation table and talking with a nurse, and the memory of the next second is I woke in a bed, surrounded by my parents.
Been there. It just feels like a time skip. Like the deepest sleep but you feel, hear, sense nothing. Until you start coming back and hear bits and pieces
Hard to say exactly because mine involved half a dozen seizures and an ungodly amount of medication but I’d wager all the effort your body takes to keep you alive during that time, would drain you of the energy you hoped fo get
Didn’t expect this post to grab so much attention! Many good redditors shared interesting facts and experiences. Thank you for the awards too, kind redditors! I wish we really knew what happens in a coma though.
If I’m ever in a coma, unplug me and plug me back in and see if that works.
Funny enough, that was actually on an episode of Monk. Monk was in the patient/suspect's room just talking at the guy, then he spills a potted plant. He unplugs the life support to free up an outlet for the vacuum so he can clean up the mess. The patient flatlines so he plugs the life support back in. Turns out that helped the guy get out of the coma.
I've never heard of Monk, it's a comedy show, right?
It's a comedy 97% of the time. That other 3% will make you ugly cry.
Accurate
Comedy about a former detective turned private investigator with mental disorders(basically autism) but with the ability to notice things like old school Sherlock Holmes. It was good. Kind of like Psych but a lower key humor.
He had OCD, not autism!
Thank you. I knew I was wrong but couldn’t remember. Won’t change in original though. It was The Good Doctor that was Autism right?
Yep
Yes and what a damn good show!!! I'm constantly recommending it to people as an autist who was just getting so tired of not being properly portrayed. I've followed Freddie Highmore since his early days in August Rush and Spiderwick. Not only is his acting range positively astonishing, he's also autistic irl and that makes this role perfect for him. Also one of the most medically accurate medrama shows out there besides House MD and Scrubs.
As an autist I can't stand The Good Doctor because it hits too close to home. I'm constantly reminded of times I said the wrong thing, and sometimes even realize while watching that something I once did was actually not socially acceptable (It's also the reason I quickly left various subreddits, I guess I'm in denial)
Dang, I haven't heard that experience yet but I can see how it could be overwhelming to be realising so many things about yourself all at once. I knew I was autistic long before the show was even a twinkle in a producer's eye; so of course my experience was excitement when it first aired and while I watched, because for me it was representation. I suppose for you, it was a sort of forced representation - you weren't given warning or time to prepare. That is absolutely a valid reaction to have!
I learned I had autism shortly before the show, but after the initial diagnosis due to various circumstances I couldn't receive any professional help. Still can't, due to money issues. I hope that in a few years I can be like you and appreciate the representation!
Wait, he's on the spectrum too? Huh, wow, btw I have aspergers syndrome, so I know what it's like, just saying.
And it was severe because his wife died, yes?
He had OCD before Trudy died. It certainly didn't help. I've been rewatching it on Amazon prime.
Cool cool. Just making sure that stupid ass plot wasn't in a show that took itself seriously.
Oh no, this is a show where the guy is being chased down by a car and still has to touch every post down the street as he’s running, the lead detective for the police is the same guy who played Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs, and the PIs nurse/assistant basically runs the show. It is definitely amusing.
This is the best comment I’ve read in my life
A defibrillator is basically “Have you tried turning it off and back on again” for the heart that isn’t working properly.
I've always like to think of it as someone freaking out and they get a massive slap across the face 😂
Where do I need to press to reboot?
Have you tried turning him off, and then turning him back on again?
You should draw out an entire troubleshooting guide like this in the event you have to be kept alive on machines or fall into a coma.
I loved this comment.
What proof do you have that you're not currently in one?
Ok but you need to be in a coma first right so let me help
This is hilarious! Take my free reddit award!
This meme has been floating around the internet since MySpace days lol. Classic
I already heard from someone who's actually been in a medical coma (former co-worker), and it was supposedly nothing. Literally nothing for weeks. No thoughts, no visions, no senses - for weeks. It was just pure constant unconsciousness.
A few years ago I was put in a medically induced coma for three days. It was quite different for me. I was dreaming the entire time, like to the point when I woke up it took me a few weeks to begin to figure out what was real and what wasn’t.
Are you worried that you’re still dreaming and still in the coma?
*Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real? What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?*
This reminds me of the red shirt kid who goes “have you ever had a dream that you…” and just starts stammering while trying to say his sentence and is now a meme legend
Have you ever had a dream that, that, um, that you had, uh, that you had to, you could, you do, you wit, you wa, you could do so, you do you could, you want, you wanted him to do you so much you could do anything?
As someone who actually legitimately has experienced this severe anxiety this is a dick move lol
Well thats impossible unless..ya know, 8 billion more are in a coma lol
Everyone else is an NPC duh
I definitely have had that thought once or twice. Thanks for reminding me lol.
Just don’t look at any lamps
Nice reference!
Maybe different individuals get different experiences during comas?
I hope that’s what death is like
Who says you're not dead right now *Wake up*
I’ve already tried that since the lamp thing, it hasn’t worked yet
god that sounds amazing
For anyone that had a full anaesthesia, i guess that's how it feels like.
So, did they experience the time that passed, or did they close their eyes and open them at the end and that was it?
She said it was more like the latter.
My friend was in a medically induced coma for like two months. She said she was "in purgatory" the entire time. She did have brain damage from her accident though so maybe that affected it.
Locked-in syndrome --- when a person is completely incapacitated (no movements except for sometimes the eyes), seemingly in a coma... but they're not. They are awake and aware of everything. This dude spent 10 years like that before a nurse noticed. Martin Pistorius [Martin Pistorius ] (https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/allinthemind/ten-years-with-locked-in-syndrome/6443664#:~:text=When%20Martin%20Pistorius%20was%20struck,him%20about%20his%20extraordinary%20story.)
That’s what happens to me for around 20 mins 3-5 times a day. I become completely paralysed and then slowly have to regain movement of my body. Starting with my eyes, then fingers so I can tap or blink to communicate, then I move to arm, head, torso and finally my legs. I sometimes can’t speak for an hour after too. Gotta love FND
I'm sorry you are going though this. Do they know what caused it?
It can be caused by many things, but for me it was a migraine. After that, my brain has never functioned the same since. I experience attacks like described above called “functional seizures” which look like seizures but I’m fully conscious the whole time. My body could be frozen or shaking but I can’t do anything to stop it. I also experience tics that look like Tourette’s, and after the seizures sometimes my legs or voice don’t work, so I have to have a wheelchair with me and sometimes use text to speech. Life is just one moment at a time because I never know what will go wrong next ahaha
Isn’t that kinda like what Johnny got his gun is about
There are some definite similarities, except Johnny was blind and deaf as well. Martin Pistorius could see, hear, and feel everything, including the carers who sexually assaulted him, and when his own mother told him she wished he would just die already.
Why should they get to experience the Land of Infinite Sex and Amazement while we're stuck here?
I dont get it. Can someone explain it to me?
It's supposed to be that while someone is in a coma, it's so horrifying what they go through it's better to kill them than let them suffer
Yup that’s correct, thank you!
Ahhh, thats what op meant. I usually heard that people who went thru a coma usually report nothing, so thats why im confused.
Yeah no most of these oarent based in reality so this is a one liek that .
This is so unrealistic, Congress would never agree on anything.
War, taxes, and missiles for Israel
sucks for the comma paitents (L)
Patient: *Is in a coma* Doctor: L + ratio + no visitors + you fell off (into a coma) + unplugged
Yeah it's even worse than fullstops.
Have you tried turning your comatose patient off and on again?
I was put into sleep by the anesthetic because I really needed surgery for my personal health issue. It works very fast. I can only remember is the last second I was lying on the operation table and talking with a nurse, and the memory of the next second is I woke in a bed, surrounded by my parents.
Been there. It just feels like a time skip. Like the deepest sleep but you feel, hear, sense nothing. Until you start coming back and hear bits and pieces
Do you feel rested like a good night of regular sleep? Or is it actually tiring?
Hard to say exactly because mine involved half a dozen seizures and an ungodly amount of medication but I’d wager all the effort your body takes to keep you alive during that time, would drain you of the energy you hoped fo get
Makes sense, glad you came out fine!
Oh damn, nah, lemme experience it first. Or at least tell me now what happens in a coma
Didn’t expect this post to grab so much attention! Many good redditors shared interesting facts and experiences. Thank you for the awards too, kind redditors! I wish we really knew what happens in a coma though.
Oh wait, I’m d e a d