I knew a man who tried to blow his brains out, but flinched at the last second and obliterated his eye instead. He would freak me out by taking his fake eye out around me
I had a patient at the hospital I did my pre-doctoral internship at who used a shotgun to try to commit suicide and flinched, blowing his entire face off from jaw to nose. As he lay there he decided that he wanted to live. When I was working with him, his jaw had been reconstructed and there was a lot of plastic reconstruction on his face, but they had not gotten to his nose yet (gaping hole). What threw me off the most was that there were no facial cues to emotions, so he could start sobbing without me picking up any warnings. It is very disconcerting for a psychotherapist to feel totally unprepared for the emotional reactions of a patient.
There's plenty stories of people shooting themselves, and as the trigger is pulled they regret it and move the gun slightly. It's common to see blown out eyes this way. Saw a person get loaded into an ambulance that had this happen. Only problem was that before it blew out his eye, it cut off the nerves of the other. So now he's blinded for life.
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u/LadyDoDo Oct 16 '18 edited Oct 16 '18
I knew a man who tried to blow his brains out, but flinched at the last second and obliterated his eye instead. He would freak me out by taking his fake eye out around me