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decaying-enigma · 2 years

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DP Crossover Prompt

DP x Harry Potter

Please bare with me as I begin:

We, as a collective, have established that it was Lily’s sacrifice, via when Voldemort killed her, that protected Harry and rebounded the Killing Curse back at Tom Riddle that night.

Yet, if I may take this a step even further. Some may ask, where did Lily possibly learn how to do this? Realistically, there’s no way that this magic was just something Lily invented, no matter how talented she was.

I am a little lazy, so it easier just to say she either found a book or scroll in the Potter library/vault or was somehow ‘mysteriously’ *Clockwork* led to find the ritual.

A very specific ritual that called upon the MONARCH OF THE INFINITE REALM to protect someone and place them under their rule.

This ritual was originally used by Parish Dark as an easy method to damning souls to eternal servitude as mindless drones in his army.

Lily didn’t see the eternal servitude part, as it was in the fine print, and honestly, who actually reads the fine print anyway. She did the ritual, but ‘accidentally’ mistranslated some words.

Who knew protection and adoption looked so similar in Ghost?

Anywho, by invoking the power of the Monarch of The Infinite Realm, Lily thought she put Harry under the Monarch’s rule and protection.

Which, if she translated it correctly, it would have. But since she didn’t….something else happened instead. Something incredibly unexpected.

For example, making a deal with the Monarch of The Infinite Realm to adopt her son.

Thus, enters a very confused and very tired Danny Fenton simply trying to get his college degree when, completely out of the blue, he can immediately recognize that he somehow just adopted an infant.

A actual human infant.

It’s a wizard and has magic, but still human for the most part.

*Cue Danny realizing this as a soul appeared in front of him*

Danny: “Fiddlesticks!”

*Immediately calls Jazz, the only Fenton with properly functioning brain cells*

Jazz: “What’s up?”

Danny: “I got another kid.”

Jazz: *Not even phased anymore* “What is it this time? Clone? Alternate timeline? Emotionally imprinted?

Danny: “A witch did a blood ritual invoking my status as Ruler of The Ghost Zone to save her kid’s life in exchange for eternal servitude. Now I kinda own her soul, and I sorta technically adopted her son.”

Jazz: 😐

Jazz: “…Huh. That is a new one. So when can I meet my new nephew?”

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*Danny sending Harry off to Hogwarts*

Danny: “Okay, repeat everything I’ve said back to me.”

Harry: “If I ever see something dangerous, I shot it immediately then asks questions after.”

Danny: *nodding* “Good. What else?”

Harry: “If a evil person tries to make me their evil apprentice, I shoot them twice to be safe.”

Danny: “Better. And what if you discover someone is plotting to destroy the school or to use a powerful artifact to gain power and become immortal?”

Harry: “…I get the bazooka?”

Danny: *tears in his eye* “Your grandparents would be so proud of you.”

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Requirements/Ideas:

-Harry will not, under any circumstance, stay with the Dursley’s (Not if Danny has anything to say about it)

-Lily will become a ghost/or shade that will help raise Harry. It takes a few year for her to fully form after dying and regain all of her memories.

-James Potter can either be fully dead or also become a ghost since his soul was technically involved with the bargain Lily made.

-Harry will be mostly raised by Danny, other ghosts, and the Fenton’s(debatable if you want Danny to have a good relationship with his parents) (#Dissection)

-Harry is not a Horcrux. None of that bullshit.

-Good amount of Dumbledore bashing, but not too much. Snape, on the other hand, will be crucified and nothing will change my mind.

-100000% see Danny as the Ultimate helicopter parent, but also be, like, super involved. I’m talking forming a Hogwarts PTA, randomly showing up to Harry’s Quidditch games and no one being able to stop him, and will for sure threaten anything remotely registering as a threat to Harry.

-Danny will become friends with Hagrid, and visit Hogwarts so Cujo and Fluffy can have play dates.

-Dani will be the Wine Aunt/older sister that randomly shows up sometimes. Clockwork is the fun grandpa that always gives out random fortune cookie advice. Dan is the weird uncle that likes to encourage mildly illegal activity whenever possible. And Vlad is just there.

-Daniel James Fenton/Phantom will not be nerfed in any way. My boy is the ruler of an ENTIRE DIMENSION. Ain’t no way some pasty dudes with sticks are gonna beat him or be even remotely close to his level.

You can fight me on this.

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#danny phantom #danny fenton #dp prompt #dp #ectoberhaunt22 #crossover #harry potter #jazz fenton #dp x hp #ghost king danny #teen mom

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bgharison · 5 years

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Which WIP?!

I have about three weeks between classes, my meds and my muse seem to be holding a tentative truce, and I really miss writing. Wanna help me decide which rabbit hole? I need to choose one and kind of stick with it. My goal is to have a rough draft done by August 19 and then edit during the semester. (My goal is to start an original work in January 2020, so this is warm-up.)

I do find feedback and enthusiasm both validating and motivating, so if something makes you go “oooooooh” let me know?

Options below:

Option A: Vaguely Pacific Northwest McDanno AU -- Steve returns from combat to his deceased father’s cabin, Danny is a journalist writing about missing children in the area. Danny gets too close to the truth. I only have three paragraphs of this written, but it’s outlined. Inspired in part by the idea of a bearded Steve and Danny wearing jeans, boots, and scarves.

(opening) He moved through the house, flicking on one or two lights, somewhat surprised that the electricity hadn’t been long since disconnected. Since it wasn’t, the well pump still worked and the kitchen sink yielded fresh, cold water. The aquifers here, in the northwest corner of the country, have the coldest, clearest water of anyplace he’s seen, on this continent or any other. He cupped a handful of it and gulped greedily. Even in the dim light, he could tell that the coffee maker had only a faint layer of dust. It gave him pause, to think that someone had been keeping up the property. His father must have arranged for a caretaker in his will.

It didn’t occur to him to test the heat; he simply took off his boots and climbed, fully clothed, under the heavy comforter in the room that has remained unchanged since he left it almost two decades ago.

(random selection)

“Go away, Danny,” Steve orders. “I mean it. Get the hell away from me.”

Danny wipes at the blood, dripping steadily now from his eyebrow, trailing down the side of his face. His jaw clenches as he squares off against Steve. “Why? Because I caught you off guard, didn’t duck fast enough? Come on, Steve, I know you didn’t mean --”

“That’s the point, Danny!” Steve explodes. “That’s the fucking point. Whether I mean it or not, this is what happens. People get hurt. The people I care about get hurt.”

“Yeah, is that so? Well maybe the people I care about get something, too.”

“What? What, Danny?”

Danny steps into his space and he can feel his own coiled tension reflected right back at him, in the stubborn set of Danny’s shoulders, in the heat radiating off his chest.

“This.”

Steve doesn’t have time to react before Danny’s hands are on him, wrapping around the back of his neck, his hip, pulling him in and down. He tastes the tang of copper and iron as their lips crash together and for a moment it’s violent, and Steve falls into it. Violence is familiar.

Option B: Core Four AU Steve comes back from being presumed dead after the Hesse fiasco in North Korea and opens an acupuncture clinic. Danny is building a new life on the island after losing his wife. Steve starts to fall for Danny until he suspects that Danny is keeping a secret involving his little girl. Kono is exasperated with all of the alphabet agencies that come into play -- CIA, FBI, ATF, and she just wants to know -- WTF?! Outlined but with two possible “reveals” I would need to choose from. This one also give me an opportunity to play with world-building, because the setting is specific, involving an elaborate tree house, a zip line, and other things that end up getting SEALed in order to protect Grace.

(There’s this)

“Kono, we are professional health care providers here,” he said. “No dating clients. And quit trying to set me up.”

“I’m asking for myself,” Kono said. She beamed at him, a flash of white teeth and dimples. “He’s adorable. Like a . . . like a fluffy little lion cub. I want to take him home and just --”

“Okay then, Kono, let’s get --” Steve glanced down at his schedule -- “Mr. Wilson into a treatment room.”

“Can I get him to put on a gown?” Kono asked.

Steve looked at her sternly as she blinked in mock innocence.

(And this)

Then again, Danny wasn’t most people. He noticed everything. Too many years of training and practice to stop now -- besides, the stakes had never been higher, and his powers of observation, of reading people, of seeing through disguises and lies, might just be the edge that would keep him and his daughter alive until this mess was over.

He pulled off the road onto the narrow gravel drive leading back to the beleaguered property that was not only his cover, but his home -- his fortress. He pulled up to the gate and keyed in one of two codes -- the one that verified that all was well, and that he was not under duress. The gate opened smoothly, its deliberately aged and tenuous appearance belying that it was part of the newly installed state-of-the-art defense.

The drive was long, curving around dense areas of vegetation that still hinted at previous deliberate planning and careful attention. With a bit of work, the grounds would once again be functional and attractive. His Camaro handled the gentle incline with ease, and soon he was pulling into the ground level garage of his home, opening the garage door with another code. It slid closed behind him, the motion sensors glowing at each other in the dim light. A third code was entered at the door between the garage and the house, the heavy deadbolt sliding open. Danny locked the door behind him and reset the alarm.

“You realize that three sets of coded entry is going to be difficult to explain to visitors,” a calm voice said. The clink of glass on porcelain in the kitchen, along with the scent of rich Kona coffee, was welcome.

(And this)

Steve took the long way home, the windows of his truck rolled down, filling the cab with fresh, fragrant air. He knew he would never tire of this, never tire of being back home, back on Oahu. Pulling into the driveway was something that at one point, he was sure he’d never do again -- he’d never take it for granted. The house itself felt in turn far too empty and far too full of ghosts, but he couldn’t imagine not living here. He was making peace with both the solitude and the presences he couldn’t quite shake. When Mary was well enough to be discharged, he would bring her here, where he could watch over her, protect her the way a brother should, care for her like she needed. He’d drag her out into the sunshine and fresh air. It would help. It had to.

He keyed in the alarm code and slipped inside the still house. Ignoring the boxes half-packed in his father’s office, gathering dust, he headed for the kitchen.

Option C: A case from Danny’s past comes back to haunt the team and threaten the island. This one is not really outlined. Possibly gen/case fic, possibly newly McDanno, potentially an OC interest for Steve when the original profiler, who considers this case her one failure, comes to help (because I love playing with OCs and creating better love interests for him than the show manages to do, and I loved the dynamic with Steve and Alicia Brown, and even though I didn’t see it as romantic, I think Steve could fall for someone who is a match for him intellectually and who would understand what his years in the underbelly of Naval intel did to his psyche, and I love the ‘brilliant, mentally tough but physically vulnerable person matched with the brilliant, physically tough but emotionally vulnerable person” trope, sue me). And I love exploring Danny’s back stories and volatility and the reasons that his marriage failed because his job came first. We would see a darker Danny in this and that intrigues me. I might also jump the timeline for the first time (for me) put this post season-4, meaning Junior and Tani instead of Chin and Kono.

There’s this:

“We called him the Holiday Weekend Killer,” Danny said. “First body, just like this one, the Tuesday after President’s Day weekend. We found the next body the day after Easter. And then another the Tuesday after Memorial Day. And then we ran ourselves into the ground all through the heat of the summer, got nowhere, and the fourth body showed up the day after Labor Day. We missed Thanksgiving with our families with nothing to show for it but another dead woman -- this one we had to identify with dental records, because the son of a bitch had four days to torture her. We took off twenty-four hours, Christmas Eve into Christmas Day, might as well, since we had no fucking leads. He had almost a month with that poor girl, college student, aged out of the foster system, so no one fucking noticed she was missing until classes started again in January. Christmas Day, no one even fucking knew that beautiful --”

Danny broke off with a muttered curse and walked out of the room, pushing the doors open with such force that they struck the walls behind, the sound echoing as Steve and Max stood in shocked silence.

“Give us a few, yeah, Max?” Steve said quietly.

He caught up with Danny in the basement locker room, the soles of his shoes sticking out of the stall where he was retching over the toilet. Steve grabbed a length of paper toweling and wet it at the sink.

Danny staggered out of the stall and silently accepted Steve’s offering, wiping his face and mouth. He balled up the toweling and dropped it into the wastebasket, then rinsed his mouth at the sink, hands trembling on the faucet.

Steve waited, arms crossed, leaning against the door of the locker room.

“I’m sorry, Danny,” he said, when Danny finally turned off the water, leaning over the sink, his breath coming in ragged gasps. “We’ll all understand if you need to sit this one out.”

It happened so fast that Steve flinched in surprise, Danny’s hand lashing out and shattering the mirror in front of him.

“Sit it out? Why bother? This fucking animal already destroyed my marriage, almost cost me my baby girl, not to mention the pile of pretty young corpses we processed. Processed lots of bodies, Steve, but precious little evidence. I’ll have them FedEx it to us, shouldn’t take much to send one fucking file box full of nothing useful,” Danny exploded. “Sit this one out? What, just do paperwork while I watch you and Chin run yourselves into the ground, while we all try to pretend that we aren’t worried sick about the possibility of this guy getting his hands on Kono? While Max stacks up bodies in the morgue? Bodies that no one claims? Because this guy, this guy, Steve, he knows how to pick his victims.”

“Danny,” Steve sighed. He rubbed his hand over the back of his neck. “Danny, we have -- we have resources here, we can cut through red tape. If it is the guy --”

“Cigarette burns on the soles of their feet, Steve, do you have any idea --”

Danny stopped short at the flicker of emotion that Steve couldn’t mask quickly enough. He met Steve’s gaze and held it.

“Yeah,” Steve said. “We’re going to get this guy, Danny. Now listen, the first thing we need to know -- is this personal? With him and you? Is he here, now, on Oahu, because you’re here?”

#bless you if you read this whole mess #beegie used to write #wip wonderland #some of these ideas are self indulgent and shallow #and i don't even care #this is supposed to be fun

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daltoncqcu202-blog · 4 years

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Allow's Talk Survival Knives

"One of the seeds for the survival sound judgment principle originated from the Deschutes County Sheriffs Office Search and also Rescue. Deschutes Region, Oregon, has one of one of the most energetic SARs in the country. I heard this story after asking just how well site visitors are prepared for the backcountry!

The Deschutes Region Sheriff's Office Search as well as Rescue volunteers were pet dogs tired after 3 days of looking for missing out on backpacker Danny Curran, who had actually vanished in The Waterfall Hills in November 2001. (Mr. Curran's remains were discovered on July 31, 2002). They collected yourself in a trailhead parking lot to intend the following action. Snow began to spatter en masse of walkers headed out for the mountains. The searchers looked in disbelief.

"" The hikers were gently dressed and also using shorts as well as flip-flops,"" stated Sgt. Marvin Combs, of Deschutes County SAR. ""We figured they would most likely be our following goal.""

Every year, unprepared wild visitors make blunders that put them into danger and the news, Combs said, but there are numerous various other close calls where individuals are lucky. The bad luck appear to comply with some fairly predictable patterns.

"" What frightens us most are the near misses you don't find out about,"" Combs claimed. ""People are humiliated to tell about a close call they had.""

Psychological reactions to emergencies follow a pattern, according to John Leach of the University of Lancaster, England, and also the writer of ""Survival Psychology.""

Leach's research studies show that just 10 to 15 percent of any kind of group associated with any type of emergency situation will certainly react properly. An additional 10 to 15 percent will act totally inappropriately as well as the remaining 70 to 80 percent will certainly require to be informed what to do. One of the most common responses at the beginning of an emergency are disbelief and also rejection.

Individuals do not prepare for emergencies, Leach creates, for three reasons: Preparation is bothersome, preparations might be expensive and also a deep-rooted folk myth says to plan for a disaster is to encourage it. These unrealistic point of views are the basis for many wilderness tragedies, claims survival professional Peter Kummerfeldt, and also he sees rejection as the underlying cause.

"" We refute we will ever before remain in an emergency situation. Then, we reject that the emergency situation is happening, and after that, we refute that it ever took place,"" Kummerfeldt claimed. ""The usual progression is that an individual thinks: 'This isn't taking place to me,' after that, 'It's not that bad,' after that, 'If it is that negative, there's absolutely nothing I can do concerning it.'"".

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To deal with truth, he includes, you should initially deal with the circumstance as being actual as well as admit it is happening to you.

So, emotionally and also psychologically, what is the most effective strategy to establish a survival state of mind? The first thing to do, according to Kummerfeldt, is understanding you're in problem.

"" Ask yourself: 'Am I OK?'"" Kummerfeldt stated. ""If I am, what do I have to do to remain by doing this? If I'm not, what do I have to do?"".

Psychological conditioning is hard to define, states Deschutes Region SAR expert Al Hornish. Many people hesitate of the dark, he claimed, and also putting in jeopardy darkness contributes to the anxiety of being lost.

"" People will just keep going because they do not wish to be out in the wild after night drops,"" Hornish said. ""This can cause them to make even more blunders."".

In one circumstances, he added, a lost walker kept going through the evening.

"" We asked why he really did not just quit as well as wait until it obtained light,"" Hornish said. ""The man said: 'I listened to wild animals in the woods all night long.'"".

Individual responses to catastrophes often tend to follow a pattern. Once you comprehend what is taking place to you emotionally, after that you can take positive actions. This is a ""survival mindset"".

Here's the typical catastrophe reaction development, according to ""Survival Psychology"":.

Rejection: The initial reaction will probably be: ""This can not be occurring to me!"" Yet an emergency, catastrophe, accident or collision can occur to any individual, as well as it can lead to a scenario where your life is at threat.

Panic: Once you get past rejection, there is a solid opportunity you may panic. This is when judgment and also thinking degrade to the point where it can result in suicidal behavior. It can take place to anybody.

Hypoactivity, defined as a clinically depressed response; or hyperactivity, an extreme but undirected activity: The clinically depressed person will certainly not care for himself or herself, and will probably need to be told what to do. survival knife The hyper action can be much more harmful since the affected person might offer a deceptive impression of purposefulness and leadership.

Stereotyped actions: This is a kind of denial in which victims fall back on discovered actions patterns, despite how unsuitable they are. The one in charge might choose to proceed in that role, despite the fact that he/she has no idea of what to do. Unfortunately, the servant may likewise revert to that subservient function, although he/she might be better ready psychologically.

Rage: A global response, anger is irrational. Rescue employees often come under verbal as well as physical attack while performing their tasks.

Mental breakdown: This could be the most determined issue facing a victim, and also this phase is characterized by impatience, lack of interest, worry, psycho-motor retardation as well as confusion. When this point is gotten to, the ultimate repercussion possibly death. So, the trick to a ""survival state-of-mind"" is to be prepared and also confident that you can take care of any emergency situation.

STOP: Quit Assume. Observe. Strategy. Use good sense to remain warm, hydrated, nourished and also sheltered. Carry out emergency treatment when it's a top priority, and do not follow the leader who might be hyper and also claiming to be ""in charge"".

Only you can be in charge of your as well as your household's survival. As well as, when you are ready, you will be."

#knives #saws #axes

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triplemixedpd · 4 years

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8/12/20, 1:34am - i wouldnt dare

~text or tell anybody about my new life because at the moment, it consists of things like indulging in squishmallows and fidget toys, and the highlights of my week are either creating/redesigning a new oc or doing chores ~i dont have a job, i dont have a drivers license, but wow i dont even have a personality; literally how the fuck can i talk to anybody else when i dont know how to talk to them??? i hesitate to talk because when i texted danny to try and catch up and tell them about my surgery, i got screamed at and cried at, and then told “i cant do this; i need to sit in the back seat for a bit.” and, i got this reaction for.. doing nothing. literally, nothing. she told me that she thought i was mad at her the entire two months. but, i was texting anna??? they knew i wasnt dead??? and i texted danny on 6/23??? im, sorry??? im sorry ~dude i wish i literally wasnt so blatantly autistic. ~i cant process emotions when i desperately need to, i struggle to understand what i do wrong, i seem to do or say something wrong, or i say something that seems worrying, or just different, to others; i laugh at stupid and repetitive shit, i eat fucking childrens food, i repeat things like im fucking rain man, and im a fucking EMBARRASSMENT!!! ~i feel like ive disconnected from reality and people as a whole, bc for the past few months ive just delved into my partner, me, our mental health, and our trolls. ~but at the same time, its nothing new; this isnt new day-to-day conversation. it just happens to be all day, everyday now, in person- something that ive never had with capp before. as opposed to only getting to text them while also juggling everything else; school, family, schoolwork, mental health ~dude, being fake is hard ~ive realized just how fake i am because i dont remember how to talk to anyone else, and seeing how graant reacted just by me trying to literally text them “how are you doing? i miss you!”, im kind of fucking like??? “well??? guess i shouldve just stayed dead honestly???” ~a lot of my day to day consists of thinking/talking about our ocs and plot, drawing, watching shows/movies and playing games, and literally just trying to fucking stay afloat; that last past including a lot of abrupt, sudden suicidal thoughts and crippling fucking self-esteem, paired with hypersensitivity. that is not me being “boohoo poor me sensitive baby :(”, that is the textbook description of what i experience. thats not exactly conversation material with others ~because of melissas reaction and dannys reaction ive felt very unsure of myself - im unsure if i did the right thing or not - i dont know what i shouldve done differently, or where i messed up - i feel like a terrible person, an awful person - im upset at myself because i get really really confused by people and their expectations, or what they want me to say or do; - i wonder if im currently displaying the textbook definition of the borderline symptom “impulsive ending relationships” - and subsequently, im wondering if im thinking rationally; its kind of scary to not know, because i hate myself when im fucking splitting* ~i see that theyre upset, and from experience, i know that they require alone time when stressed. so when theyre stressed, and im the source of the stress, i leave to give her space. and what does THAT equal??? “YOU NEVER TAKE INITIATIVE TO MAKE THINGS UP” “I’M TIRED OF BEING THE ONE THAT FIXES EVERYTHING” ~WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU MEAN “TELL THEM WHATS GOING ON IN MY HEAD?????” ~I WAS LITERALLY TERRIFIED TO REACH OUT TO ANYONE??? WHAT THE FUCK AM I SUPPOSED TO SAY????? “GOOD MORNING DANNY I JUST SUDDENLY WANTED TO SLIT MY CHEST BECAUSE I SAID SOMETHING STUPID IN A THROWAWAY CONVERSATION AND IT EARNED A SLIGHT CHANGE OF TONE FROM MY PARTNER THAT I INTERPRETED AS AN ‘I HATE YOU’ VIBE [WHEN THATS ACTUALLY NOT THE CASE ITS JUST ALL IN MY DUMBASS INFERIORCOMPLEX-HEADASS HEAD]”???????? ~IT’S A LITERAL SCIENTIFIC FACT THAT ME AND ALL OF MY BAGGAGE IS A FUCKING BURDEN!!! I CANT ENTERTAIN, CONVERSATE, OR FUNCTION WHEN IM EXHAUSTED, AND RECENTLY??? MY BRAIN IS MAKING ME SO SO TIRED ~BUT MY PARTNER DOESNT JUDGE ME OR MIND MY RAMBLINGS ABOUT TROLLS OR MY REPETITIVENESS OR FIDGETING GODDAMN IT!! I DONT HAVE TO HOLD BACK OR WATCH WHAT I SAY LIKE HOW I DID EVERYDAY IN TEXAS!!! ~I JUST DONT UNDERSTAND WHAT I DID WRONG!!! ~”IM SORRY THAT I WAS SO EMOTIONALLY UNSTABLE AND, DARE I SAY, MENTALLY ILL, THAT I NEGLECTED TO MESSAGE YOU AND TALK”

“I! CAN’T! DO! THIS! ANY! MORE!”

- *either too cruel or too nice, too aggressive or too passive, too rough or too soft, im too sensitive/serious or “i need to learn to take a joke”, im either a disrespectful and ungrateful brat or the best goddamn trophy-tranny kid on the planet, i either really REALLY love someone or think “oh my god im gonna have to prepare to cut them out of my life so much that its already happened in my head” ~im scared that maybe im worse than i think i am, and i just dont know it; ive never told anyone the full extent of my symptoms. i guess thats why im seeing a psychologist, right?

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trevoredtm355-blog · 4 years

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10 Ways To Transform Your CAMPING LAMP

"Among the seeds for the survival good sense concept came from survival knife the Deschutes County Sheriffs Workplace Browse and also Rescue. Deschutes Region, Oregon, has among one of the most active SARs in the country. I heard this story after asking how well site visitors are gotten ready for the backcountry!

The Deschutes County Constable's Workplace Look and also Rescue volunteers were pet dogs tired after 3 days of looking for missing backpacker Danny Curran, that had actually gone away in The Waterfall Mountains in November 2001. (Mr. Curran's remains were located on July 31, 2002). They collected yourself in a trailhead car park to intend the next action. Snow began to spray en masse of walkers headed out for the mountains. The searchers stared in shock.

"" The walkers were lightly clothed and wearing shorts and flip-flops,"" claimed Sgt. Marvin Combs, of Deschutes County SAR. ""We figured they would possibly be our next goal.""

Yearly, not really prepared wilderness site visitors make blunders that put them right into risk as well as the information, Combs claimed, but there are many various other close calls where people are fortunate. The tragedies appear to comply with some rather foreseeable patterns.

"" What frightens us most are the near misses you do not hear about,"" Combs said. ""People are ashamed to outline a close call they had.""

Mental actions to emergency situations adhere to a pattern, according to John Leach of the College of Lancaster, England, and also the author of ""Survival Psychology.""

Leach's studies show that only 10 to 15 percent of any team involved in any type of emergency situation will certainly respond appropriately. Another 10 to 15 percent will act completely wrongly and the staying 70 to 80 percent will need to be told what to do. One of the most common responses at the start of an emergency situation are shock and also rejection.

People do not get ready for emergency situations, Leach creates, for 3 factors: Planning is bothersome, prep work might be costly and also an embedded folk myth claims to prepare for a calamity is to encourage it. These impractical way of thinkings are the basis for numerous wild catastrophes, asserts survival professional Peter Kummerfeldt, and he sees rejection as the underlying cause.

"" We refute we will ever before remain in an emergency situation. Then, we refute that the emergency is occurring, and then, we refute that it ever before occurred,"" Kummerfeldt stated. ""The typical development is that an individual assumes: 'This isn't taking place to me,' after that, 'It's not that negative,' then, 'If it is that bad, there's absolutely nothing I can do regarding it.'"".

To manage truth, he includes, you should initially treat the circumstance as being actual as well as admit it is occurring to you.

So, psychologically and emotionally, what is the best course of action to create a survival way of thinking? The first thing to do, according to Kummerfeldt, is understanding you're in trouble.

"" Ask on your own: 'Am I OK?'"" Kummerfeldt claimed. ""If I am, what do I have to do to remain that way? If I'm not, what do I need to do?"".

Mental conditioning is tough to specify, states Deschutes County SAR veteran Al Hornish. Lots of people are afraid of the dark, he claimed, and approaching darkness contributes to the anxiety of being shed.

"" Individuals will certainly simply maintain going since they do not intend to be out in the wild after night drops,"" Hornish stated. ""This can cause them to make more errors."".

In one circumstances, he included, a lost walker maintained going through the night.

"" We asked why he didn't just quit and wait until it obtained light,"" Hornish claimed. ""The man stated: 'I heard wild animals in the woods all night long.'"".

Individual responses to disasters often tend to follow a pattern. When you understand what is occurring to you emotionally, after that you can take positive activities. This is a ""survival frame of mind"".

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Below's the typical disaster reaction progression, according to ""Survival Psychology"":.

Rejection: The initial response will possibly be: ""This can't be occurring to me!"" Yet an emergency situation, calamity, mishap or collision can take place to anybody, and it can cause a situation where your life is at danger.

Panic: Once you get past denial, there is a strong opportunity you might panic. This is when judgment and thinking degrade to the point where it can lead to suicidal habits. It can happen to any individual.

Hypoactivity, specified as a depressed reaction; or hyperactivity, an extreme but undirected spiritedness: The clinically depressed individual will not care for himself or herself, as well as will most likely require to be told what to do. The hyperactive feedback can be much more hazardous since the affected person might give a deceptive perception of purposefulness and also management.

Stereotyped habits: This is a kind of denial in which sufferers fall back on learned behavior patterns, despite exactly how improper they are. The one in charge might choose to continue in that role, even though he/she has no concept of what to do. Sadly, the assistant might additionally return to that subservient function, although he/she might be much better prepared psychologically.

Anger: A global response, temper is unreasonable. Rescue workers often come under verbal and physical strike while performing their duties.

Psychological failure: This could be one of the most determined trouble encountering a sufferer, and this phase is identified by irritation, lack of interest, worry, psycho-motor retardation and complication. When this point is gotten to, the best consequence perhaps fatality. So, the key to a ""survival state-of-mind"" is to be prepared and positive that you can deal with any type of emergency situation.

QUIT: Quit Think. Observe. Plan. Use good sense to stay warm, moisturized, nourished and protected. Carry out emergency treatment when it's a priority, and do not comply with the leader who may be hyperactive and also asserting to be ""in charge"".

Only you can be accountable of your as well as your household's survival. As well as, when you are prepared, you will certainly be."

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