That is one benefit of the dumbing down of society, brain injuries aren’t quite so recognizable.
To be fair, it’s a lot smaller that the last one of these kinda things.
As for how the injury happened, his doctors still don’t know. “The mechanism is unclear,” they wrote. However, they noted he had a history of depression.
Wild speculation ofc, but imagine trying to kill yourself, you build up the courage to stab a knife into your brain through your eye and then you just fucking live with minimal complications beside a missing eye. What the fuck is that?
If it was self-inflicted, I can’t even imagine what he is going through that he chose the method of stabbing himself in the head. I hope he gets better.
If your speculation is accurate, then that’s one big ass fucking sign to live. Or at least that’s how I would take it.
I had a moderate depressive episode due to health issues, couldn’t do shit, basically chair-ridden (like bedridden, but at least I could sit). If my health had gotten any worse, like from a failed suicide attempt, I only would have wanted to die more.
Depression doesn’t work that way, unfortunately. I hope this guy gets some support.
Damn, added insult to injury!
“You’re so dumb you got stabbed in the brain and it didn’t cause any damage!”
Jokes aside, depression is awful and in hope they can get help.
The knife was probably made of metal or some other hard material, that’s why damage was minimal.
okay, it took me 15min to understand the joke, the knife has minimal damage
Interesting theory, a hard material? Super weird they didn’t use a standard jelly knife
I use my penis because of safety.
That shit hasn’t been hard since the 70s.
What’s the difference between jelly and jam? You can’t jelly a knife into your brain
The brain is jelly, you can’t use a jam knife for jelly brains
something something cheese knife
His first attempt was with a water pick. He missed and hit his mouth and accidentally hydrated. The experience would leave him shaken and he wouldn’t make another attempt for 12 years.
You made me laugh out loud in the bathroom stall, now I can’t leave or people will know who the maniac is
On a tangential note. Jack Black was great as a strung out nurse in Jesus’s Son.
“Patient complains of knife in brain.” “Stabbing headache?”
My exact thought right when seeing this! Pretty much no one I’ve met IRL has even heard of this movie. Lemmy is kindred spirits I guess.
BTW the movie is actually called “Jesus’ son” which I believe is grammatically incorrect and that’s always kind of bothered me. I feel like someone would have pointed that out and that it must be intentional but I can’t see the significance of doing something like that.
Why would that be grammatically incorrect? I was always taught that if the name ends with an “s” you omit the “s” after the apostrophe.
I looked it up, and it’s not quite that simple.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/what-happens-to-names-when-we-make-them-plural-or-possessive
For names that end in an s or z sound, though, you can either add -'s or just an apostrophe. Going with -'s is the more common choice
Ok, so it’s kinda optional in most cases, but reading on:
For classical and biblical names there are other rules. For names ending in s or es and having two or more syllables, you usually just add an apostrophe. If the name is only one syllable, add -'s.
- Socrates’ students
- Ramses’ kingdom
- Amos’ prophecy
- Zeus’s warnings
The names Jesus and Moses are always made possessive with the apostrophe alone:
- Jesus’ disciples
- Moses’ law
So pretty obscure stuff, but the bottom line is that the title is the only correct way to write it according to M-W at least.
BTW the movie is actually called “Jesus’ son” which I believe is grammatically incorrect and that’s always kind of bothered me. I feel like someone would have pointed that out and that it must be intentional but I can’t see the significance of doing something like that.
I actually knew this when I was writing the comment. My brain rebelled when I tried to write it correctly.
per Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, it’s only grammatical for Jesus (yes, that Jesus. not the other ones) because we make exceptions for Jesus or something
I thought the whole point was he was supposed to be one of us! At least follow our grammar then!
what if god was one of us? and he went into religion because he was a really shitty carpenter?
The book is something.
Wasn’t there also a guy who got shot through the head with an arrow and only lost sight in one eye.
I have read about a guy who got a piece of rebar through his brain, survived, functioned, and even improved his outlook on life through such an event … And while looking him up, I found that it’s a surprisingly common thing (I mean, compared to what I expected).
The top result on DDG was this person, of whom I had not previously been aware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage
So he was depressed and maybe tried to end it all??
Wasn’t there another person that tried to kill themselves with a gun but survived and it also cured their depression?
All wild speculation but also could have been a crazy ex involved.
Some Final Destination shit going on.
If you survive a gunshot to head it’s typically because it hit your frontal lobe / lobes which are to some degree expendable. So you basically have a frontal lobectomy which yeah, it’s an effective treatment for depression. There are some side effects however.
Lobotomy is NOT an effective treatment for depression, anymore than a death is a treatment for depression, or whatever.
There have been stories of people committing suicide by jumping off bridges. The survivors typically reconsider their actions between when they jump and before they land.
TFW you’re so dumb a knife to the brain can’t make you dumber.
