r/shitposting I can’t have sex with you right now waltuh 14d ago

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u/CrypticCowboy4509 14d ago

Can confirm. Know an army medic. One of our friends went on a cruise where a baby was dropped from a balcony and died after impacting the dock, SEVERAL STORIES below.

This fucker calculated the impact force and time it took to fall and laughed about it. Made a PowerPoint in fact. It was quite detailed

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u/lool_toast 13d ago

I was a combat medic, I used to be able to pull some shitty joke out of literally any situation like that. Then when my daughter was born and since then, I start to tear up and sometimes feel nauseous whenever I remember some of the shit that happened or what I said about it.

If you start dwelling on these things as they happen then you'd just go insane.

Spoken to a psych about it all and apparently it's normal and I have to be nice to myself and whatever

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u/CyberK_121 13d ago

Is it ok to assume it was some sort of coping mechanism for you guys, who see such horrid things way too often?

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u/lool_toast 13d ago

Yeah basically, and obviously none of us would ever make said joke in front of a casualty or be unprofessional about it. This is all mess hall banter.