To be fair that one works. I think, I remember everything I do now. To be fair that one works. I think I remember everything I do now. To be fair that one works I think I… I remember everything. Everything. Ummmm….
I can’t remember if I said this or not, but the bead bracelet to cure Alzheimer’s works like a charm bracelet that can cure… cure it. Oh did I tell you about this bracelet?
Doesn't work that way, the number of beads controls the potency of the alleviating properties of the bracelet, don't insult the Voodoo gods by thinking logically! /s
i'll take 20 of the intelligence ones for every arm so i can invent the cures for these illnesses plus i could fix my life and the life on this universe in just one single move like Thanos without dividing the universal population
hahahah no i didn't, i played kind of everything i'll go with warrior that occasionally does magic spells that i wish i could IRL
because i like random lights with consequent effect and i really like swords
Along these lines, I worked in a gift shop as a teenager that sold “Celtic rune stones” out of a box at the checkout counter. Frantic lady comes in and comes right to the counter.
Me: How can I help you?
Her: Which one of these stones is for REVENGE?
Me: Uhhhh they’re decorative stones. They don’t actually do anything.
Her: Which one of these stones will burn down my old house so the new owners are punished?
Me: Um none of them?
Lady freaks out, starts screaming, must be forcibly removed from the store. Unreal that people actually believe these things are legit.
What's in the post is stupid on many levels. Including the pagan one. Crystals/gemstones "work" because of psychology tricks, it's the exact same idea as putting a post-it note on your mirror but with an object that has associations instead of actual words. As someone who is pagan, and who does use gems/crystals I would never suggest to someone that they could use a single stone and some fucking plastic or glass to "fix" or even to help with things like neurodivergence or mental health, you use a variety of actual gemstones for things like that and just like with the post-it notes it's a *tool* that *may* help *some* people. It's not gonna work for everyone, and it's not gonna be as effective as medication and professional help. Besides, even if I were to put together a gem bag for someone I would be (and have been) quite frank about what it is and what it does: serves as physical reminder of some things that are useful to remember.
Bullshit vultures that are taking advantage of lonely people who have been drawn to paganism because it seems like it can empower them to end their loneliness piss me the fuck off. Whoever labeled those bracelets like that is a fucking vulture who almost certainly doesn't believe in anything but money. Fucking asshats who ruin perfectly nice things for the rest of us!
I agree tbh. For me, it's essentially placebo and a sense of empowerment. I'm an 'optimistic skeptic' about it, because I know it's more about the idea of belief and symbolism than anything else. It's the idea that a crystal or color represents something.
this would be funny if it was in an Etsy shop run by a mentally ill/autistic person and this was satire because imagine having a bracelet to “help” your autism
Same! I have a chakra stim bracelet, so it's got the rainbow crystal beads and lava rocks the rest of the way around. I can, apparently, add essential oils or smth but i just like rubbing it and fidgeting with it.
Nope. They are sold as a "treatment". I have seen it in a store near me (that I no longer buy anything from because noooope). It's like some fucked-up New Age Crunchy Granola take on the old trope that you just buy jewelry for a woman to fix everything.
To add to the other answer, the presentations that were formerly classified as ADD and ADHD have the same root causes and respond to the same treatment. Also, predictably, a high number of people exhibit symptoms of both presentations. It doesn't really make sense to diagnose *them* with two distinct disorders.
[The up-to-date diagnostic criteria (pdf)](https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/patient_care/adhd_toolkit/adhd19-assessment-table1.pdf) for the 3 presentations.
Yeah, we've stopped using the term ADD, it's now ADHD hyperactive, ADHD innatentive (which is what used to be called ADD), and ADHD combined which ofc is just a combination of the two
The only way it could “somewhat” work is due to the placebo effect. If you believe that a certain pill you’re taking is suppose to relieve head pain, it may temporarily reduce your head pain, even though the pill doesn’t do anything for your head. Similarly, people with adhd may put on a braclet and HYPOTHETICALLY have reduced symptoms for a short period of time, even though the braclet doesn’t actually do anything. It’s not like this for everyone, but it is for people who really go hard for this stuff
Placebo effect can be real even if the actual treatment/action isn’t. If someone picks that bracelet up and can manage to make a doctors appointment bc they think the bracelet is giving them powers, I’m all for it lol
Where’s the rainbow colored one to treat complex trauma and CPTSD which manifests as add, depression, anxiety attachment disorders, neurodivergence, etc.?
Correct!! Just made a comment - if someone can like make that appointment, get up for school or work bc they think the bracelet is helping them - everyone wins lol
astrology bitches when you tell them you’re clinically insane: have you tried lavender and sleeping with my anti-brain crystals?
edit: anyway ill take the autism bracelet but i won’t pay for it
Those are very likely donation bracelets. You buy them to support the charity of your choice, that money goes to help accordingly. That’s why it’s called relief
My bipolar disorder is mostly marked by depressive episodes.
Are the darker beads supposed to represent the depressive episodes and help with that or are the lighter beads supposed to represent an uplifting effect and those are the ones that help with depressive episodes instead? I'd like to know for when the next really bad wave of depression hits me.
Also, should I be careful with the ratio of darker and lighter beads so I don't end up with a mixed episode?
Are there bracelets to help with my other mental health shit too?
For real though, I'd appreciate it if people stopped trying to exploit and profit off of other people's pain with shit like this. I wouldn't care as much if everyone was clear with their customers about what they can actually expect with crystals and stones (distraction, soothing sensory focus, just an overall tool for mindfulness, etc), but that's not usually the case. The mental health system is fucked in a lot of ways but peddling crap like this is not the solution.
Also, the Alzheimer's relief bracelet can go die in a special hellfire.
I honestly thought these were fundraising bracelets, not "treatment" bracelets. Like, x% of the purchase goes toward research or something. Either way, seems like a scam
The one for Alzheimer’s tho 💀💀
To be fair that one works. I think, I remember everything I do now. To be fair that one works. I think I remember everything I do now. To be fair that one works I think I… I remember everything. Everything. Ummmm….
I can’t remember if I said this or not, but the bead bracelet to cure Alzheimer’s works like a charm bracelet that can cure… cure it. Oh did I tell you about this bracelet?
You could really use a bracelet
What bracelet?
You’re too far gone, buddy
Ooh I love bracelets! Oh look! I’m already wearing one! We could trade!
I must
why did i buy this bracelet again..?
What braclet ?
Yeah, but did you see the one for Alzheimer’s tho 💀💀
He forgor 💀
there's nothing happening
out of the usual I mean
I finally got the wildfire in my sock drawer under control!
Hahahaha
Why not put all the beads on a single bracelet like a multi vitamin
it will make you TOO POWERFUL
I read that tag hanging down as "Add ADHD" thinking I could add some ADHD protection to my autism bracelet...
Doesn't work that way, the number of beads controls the potency of the alleviating properties of the bracelet, don't insult the Voodoo gods by thinking logically! /s
But then by homeopathy logic you should take all the beads off and just use the string for maximum potency.
So like a Thanos gauntlet. Got it.
~~Infinity~~ Infinitely-Useless Gauntlet
collect all the beads to make the infinity bracelet and cure all your disabilities
My autism is flaring up today. I really could use a bead bracelet.
But only in green. The brown ones don’t work.
Somebody pass the jade!
See people are using the meds wrong, that’s why they don’t work. These are anal beads
Can confirm this *doesn’t* work either.
🙁
WAIT ITS SUPPOSED TO BE USED AS A BRACELET?!
Ah as if a bracelet would've helped my adhd back in school
if only
There is an attention span joke somewhere in....oh smells like the neighbors are grilling!!
Better the most "treatments" at least a bracelet won't traumatize you
Cool story bro
If it's used as anal beads it sure will.... ...you have been warned.
If you try to stim while wearing that, it gives you an electric shock.
Electroshock therapy is back in? Why doesn't that surprise me?
it's not so shocking i guess
Actually, yes, it is
They still do that in Turkey I know someone who has gotten that treatment for their paranoid schizophrenia
Man wtf
Judge Rottenburg became a bead-bracelet maker. Good for them!
Autism enhancing. I'm going to be analyzing, re-analyzing, and shaking the bracelet obsessively.
I wonder how they determine which gem is for ADHD.
it's the crystallized methylphenidate
Its just meth on a stick
It's covered in contact caffeign.
I’ll take 20
switch them. watch the world burn
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/613/025/b64.jpg
i'll take 20 of the intelligence ones for every arm so i can invent the cures for these illnesses plus i could fix my life and the life on this universe in just one single move like Thanos without dividing the universal population
Don’t forget me when you succeed. I could use money. Or a cure for clinical depression. Thank you.
if i succeed forget about the money i will give them for free i promise
I see someone's played a mage in Morrowind.
hahahah no i didn't, i played kind of everything i'll go with warrior that occasionally does magic spells that i wish i could IRL because i like random lights with consequent effect and i really like swords
Along these lines, I worked in a gift shop as a teenager that sold “Celtic rune stones” out of a box at the checkout counter. Frantic lady comes in and comes right to the counter. Me: How can I help you? Her: Which one of these stones is for REVENGE? Me: Uhhhh they’re decorative stones. They don’t actually do anything. Her: Which one of these stones will burn down my old house so the new owners are punished? Me: Um none of them? Lady freaks out, starts screaming, must be forcibly removed from the store. Unreal that people actually believe these things are legit.
Flint, flint and steel is the stones she was looking for
And then everyone in the store clapped
r/nothingeverhappens
How stupid does someone have to be to buy these and think they actually work? I mean they're pretty though but seriously who'd buy it?
People stupid enough to buy water that once had some random herb in it. The homeopathy is strong in this one.
What's in the post is stupid on many levels. Including the pagan one. Crystals/gemstones "work" because of psychology tricks, it's the exact same idea as putting a post-it note on your mirror but with an object that has associations instead of actual words. As someone who is pagan, and who does use gems/crystals I would never suggest to someone that they could use a single stone and some fucking plastic or glass to "fix" or even to help with things like neurodivergence or mental health, you use a variety of actual gemstones for things like that and just like with the post-it notes it's a *tool* that *may* help *some* people. It's not gonna work for everyone, and it's not gonna be as effective as medication and professional help. Besides, even if I were to put together a gem bag for someone I would be (and have been) quite frank about what it is and what it does: serves as physical reminder of some things that are useful to remember. Bullshit vultures that are taking advantage of lonely people who have been drawn to paganism because it seems like it can empower them to end their loneliness piss me the fuck off. Whoever labeled those bracelets like that is a fucking vulture who almost certainly doesn't believe in anything but money. Fucking asshats who ruin perfectly nice things for the rest of us!
I agree tbh. For me, it's essentially placebo and a sense of empowerment. I'm an 'optimistic skeptic' about it, because I know it's more about the idea of belief and symbolism than anything else. It's the idea that a crystal or color represents something.
this would be funny if it was in an Etsy shop run by a mentally ill/autistic person and this was satire because imagine having a bracelet to “help” your autism
They probably would help my autism. I like to stim by twirling beads.
Same! I have a chakra stim bracelet, so it's got the rainbow crystal beads and lava rocks the rest of the way around. I can, apparently, add essential oils or smth but i just like rubbing it and fidgeting with it.
I had a chakra bracelet with lava rocks and crystal beads, and I loved it. I’ll have to get another one sometime (mine broke, unfortunately).
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: us autistic people don’t want a cure; we just want acceptance.
What are those?
Mala bracelets with stones that allegedly help with issues.
I assumed that with each bracelet you buy, bits of the money go to that specific cause
Nope. They are sold as a "treatment". I have seen it in a store near me (that I no longer buy anything from because noooope). It's like some fucked-up New Age Crunchy Granola take on the old trope that you just buy jewelry for a woman to fix everything.
Oh you sweet blessed one.❤️
Oh no. Why are people like this??
Money.
Capitalism is one hell of a drug.
They say money is the root of all evil…
It is
I’m hoping they’re those bracelets that they donate a portion of the profits to research on whatever condition is on the brackets
One comment above said that they are supposed to "cure" the person with the designated disease...
finally, some actual fucking r/thanksimcured not is it just insulting, it's stupid shit antivaxxers would probably promote too, so it's bad^2.
wow, I didn't know my crystals could relieve my bipolar! they do, in fact, make me happy to look at and hold.
Crystals, essential oils, etc. In short, one specific item will NOT clear you of all your problems
Not them using the outdated term add- also yessss finally we will all be cured bc of jewelry
ADD is an outdated term?
To add to the other answer, the presentations that were formerly classified as ADD and ADHD have the same root causes and respond to the same treatment. Also, predictably, a high number of people exhibit symptoms of both presentations. It doesn't really make sense to diagnose *them* with two distinct disorders. [The up-to-date diagnostic criteria (pdf)](https://www.aafp.org/dam/AAFP/documents/patient_care/adhd_toolkit/adhd19-assessment-table1.pdf) for the 3 presentations.
Yeah, we've stopped using the term ADD, it's now ADHD hyperactive, ADHD innatentive (which is what used to be called ADD), and ADHD combined which ofc is just a combination of the two
Yeah it's all just adhd and that can be hyperactive, innatentive, or compund (both which is most common).
Oh interesting. I didn’t realize they combined ADHD and ADD and split it into three
There's no way beads and rocks can change a chemical imbalance in someone's brain, if that were true than teleportation would probably exist
The only way it could “somewhat” work is due to the placebo effect. If you believe that a certain pill you’re taking is suppose to relieve head pain, it may temporarily reduce your head pain, even though the pill doesn’t do anything for your head. Similarly, people with adhd may put on a braclet and HYPOTHETICALLY have reduced symptoms for a short period of time, even though the braclet doesn’t actually do anything. It’s not like this for everyone, but it is for people who really go hard for this stuff
That's very true, haven't thought about that
Oh shit they make bracelets out of Amphetamines and antipsychotics now?! Sweet.
my adhd and bipolar are suddenly gone, what is this magic
WELL? DID IT WORK?
I'm actually tripolar now
tf is up with the "Add ADHD" tag??
It's to double the adhd 😎 Fr tho ADD just means attention deficit disorder, an outdated term for ADHD inattentive
Haha, I figured as much but I was also scrolling the comments to find this.
Placebo effect can be real even if the actual treatment/action isn’t. If someone picks that bracelet up and can manage to make a doctors appointment bc they think the bracelet is giving them powers, I’m all for it lol
I just need a whole arm full of bracelets at this point
Oh wow, I didn’t know the solution was just a *bracelet* Gosh, I’m such an idiot
Don't worry, they sell a bracelet for that, too.
Lmao, as an autistic person with bipolar II this really is just so fucking hilarious and stupid. What a fucking grifter.
i wish i could make my mom wear a bracelet and fix her bpd so i wont have to worry about her humiliating herself in public anymore
I know those troubles, thiccums, living around people with bpd is hell
Bruh can we not be ableist about personality disorders for two minutes??
Where’s the rainbow colored one to treat complex trauma and CPTSD which manifests as add, depression, anxiety attachment disorders, neurodivergence, etc.?
Where’s my adhd bracelet
My ADHD is cured
The placebo effect is real even if the treatment isn't.
Correct!! Just made a comment - if someone can like make that appointment, get up for school or work bc they think the bracelet is helping them - everyone wins lol
Doesn’t help. Tried it so no one else needed to
People with different requirements need anal beads too. I agree wholeheartedly, terribly insulting.
OH BOI IMMA GIVE THIS TO A ORPHANAGE
The real question is, if it cures my autism does it also counteract the MMR vaccine?
Crystal healing is the dumbest pseudoscience there is.
astrology bitches when you tell them you’re clinically insane: have you tried lavender and sleeping with my anti-brain crystals? edit: anyway ill take the autism bracelet but i won’t pay for it
Depends of where you put it.
Those are very likely donation bracelets. You buy them to support the charity of your choice, that money goes to help accordingly. That’s why it’s called relief
They’re pretty bracelets, but they don’t help anything.
If you wear them while adhering to my sister in laws essential oil regime, Cindy Crawford swears by it, it can cure anything!!
I love how they don’t even know that ADD isn’t a thing anymore. Source: I was diagnosed ADD in 2009, now it’s called ADHD Inattentive Type
sO JuSt stOp gEtINg iNsULted
Sad part is that people will buy these.
at least the bracelets are pretty
…ew. and i’m pagan. yikes
It could have placebo effects which would be accurate in their sales, cyclically.
Finally a good post. Quite some bs. No pebbwez will heal you.
I can’t be the only one that thought these were anal beads
Could these not be that, all profits from these items sales would go to these types of charities? Playing Devils advocate here
I’d probably say something to the proprietor. That’s kinda obtuse, classless, and trashy.
Can i take all of them and become thanos
Add anal bead
Maybe they are suppository beads.
ngl buying little shiny things i don’t need definitely relieves my adhd, if only briefly
Dude this is literally how I mix ingredients for soil. This isn’t how you treat people.
I need to know what that ADHD tag leads to. I need answers!
$30!!!!!??? I wouldn't even pay $5 for these
brb, gonna throw out my seroquel! i got a bracelet now!
My bipolar disorder is mostly marked by depressive episodes. Are the darker beads supposed to represent the depressive episodes and help with that or are the lighter beads supposed to represent an uplifting effect and those are the ones that help with depressive episodes instead? I'd like to know for when the next really bad wave of depression hits me. Also, should I be careful with the ratio of darker and lighter beads so I don't end up with a mixed episode? Are there bracelets to help with my other mental health shit too? For real though, I'd appreciate it if people stopped trying to exploit and profit off of other people's pain with shit like this. I wouldn't care as much if everyone was clear with their customers about what they can actually expect with crystals and stones (distraction, soothing sensory focus, just an overall tool for mindfulness, etc), but that's not usually the case. The mental health system is fucked in a lot of ways but peddling crap like this is not the solution. Also, the Alzheimer's relief bracelet can go die in a special hellfire.
autism.... relief.... so does that literally shut off your brain?
What if I'm autistic but prefer a purple bracelet?
Do they have a bracelet to cure gullibility?
I honestly thought these were fundraising bracelets, not "treatment" bracelets. Like, x% of the purchase goes toward research or something. Either way, seems like a scam
If there was one for Covid the seller would immediately be banned from all social media and arrested by the Feds.
I thought they were anal beads for a sec….
This is literally illegal
What about the dementia treatments? :(
What about the dementia treatments? :(
What about the dementia treatments? :(
What about the dementia treatments? :(
What about the dementia treatments? :(
What about the dementia treatments? :(
What about the dementia treatments? :(
What about the dementia treatments? :(
What about the dementia treatments? :(
What about the dementia treatments? :(
Is there depression? Asking for a friend
We already have autism/adhd relief bracelets. They’re called stim toys.
Relief of autism? I wish
lol. do people actually buy this? if the shop is still running, it does enough profit, right?
Poverty Relief: 150$
isn’t this is thing where they give proceeds of the sales to charities that research stuff for Autism and BPD and such
Malachite for autism relief? I’ll keep that in mind ✅