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Pre-Infected Tissues

The company Vaev claims to be selling tissues that have already been sneezed into. For about $80 it seems that you get a box containing one infected tissue. The idea apparently is that you can infect yourself with a cold, and this will somehow strengthen your immune system, thereby protecting you from further colds or […]

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This Viral Post Shows Exactly Why People with Mental Health Issues Don’t Seek Help

According to the World Health Organization, over 300 million people worldwide have depression. Sadly, at least in the United States, your health insurance coverage dictates what treatment options (or lack thereof) you’re allowed to get. So what happens if you’re stuck between mental health concerns and financial trouble?

Nicole Vlaming experienced this firsthand. She was having suicidal thoughts. She went to an emergency room for help, which is absolutely the right thing to do – what we’re told to do, in fact.

She posted about her experience, and the resulting bill, in a post that went viral on Facebook.

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She starts with explaining her initial treatment in the ER:

It’s time to go public with this shit. Two weeks ago today, I walked into the ER because if I didn’t I was going to kill myself. I was stripped of all my clothes and possessions, given disposable scrubs and put in a room for the next 5 hours. In the US, this costs nearly $3,000.

She owed almost $3,000, which, to be clear, didn’t include any medications or actual care. She continues:

I was then placed in the behavioral health ward until Sunday at noon. Three nights, two and a half days. Because it was a weekend, all therapy was scaled back, both in number of sessions and the quality of sessions. During one we simply played a trivia game. I sat around watching TV all day and chatting with a Vietnam vet. In the US this costs nearly $10,000.

Sure, she was monitored and received some counseling services. But three days of scaled-back care for $10,000? And that’s not even all the charges:

During this stay, I had blood drawn twice. That was another $3,800. Not shown are the “physician charges” that bring my grand total to over $18,000. I saw an MD once and had once daily sessions with a psychiatrist. Those sessions consisted of rating my depression on scale of 1-10 and asking if I want to hurt myself or anyone else. Real stellar care. /s Oh, I almost forgot to point out the $145 for 3 days worth of meds. I normally pay less than $50 for an entire month.

It’s natural to assume that her health insurance would cover these costs. You’d be mistaken.

My employer sponsored insurance does not cover inpatient mental health care in any capacity. I do have a supplemental insurance plan that will hopefully cover $6,000, leaving me on the hook for over $12,000.

You want to know why people don’t seek help? This is why.

It’s really sad. She did exactly what she should have done. She sought help when she needed it, and now she has a crippling amount of medical debt to contend with. As a country, we can do better. In fact, we have to do better – for her and other vulnerable populations.

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You Can Now Get Slippers That Look Exactly Like Your Dog (Or Other Pets)!

Do you love your dog to an extreme? So much that you want to have them immortalized in the form of warm, fuzzy slippers?

Well then, Custom Clones has the answer for you! For the low cost of $199, they can “turn your favorite buddy into one of our most loved products in a matter of minutes.”

The likeness is actually pretty uncanny.

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They specialize in slippers, but they also make an array of other products, such as jewelry, stockings, and golf club covers.

And don’t worry if you feel your brand new fuzzy slippies don’t resemble your pet – Custom Clones offer 100% money back guarantee. But they do pretty spot-on work. Just take a look and see for yourself:

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I can’t even tell which is the real dog!  **Runs to order slippers**

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Walmart Banned This Heroic Woman After She Was Caught in the Parking Lot Drinking Wine from a Pringles Can

Times are tough out there, and the success of Marvel movies is clearly a sign that we as a people are desperate for heroes in our lives. It’s important to remember that heroes come in all shapes, sizes, and, apparently, degrees of sobriety.

This week, a new hero emerged, and the world was quick to embrace the Texas woman for exactly who she is – a woman who rides motorized carts around a Walmart parking lot while guzzling wine out of a Pringles can.

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No word on what kind of wine or what kind of Pringles, which only proves that people reporting the “real” news don’t understand what we all need to know.

The woman had been galavanting about since 6:30 in the morning and was still at it when the police arrived at 9.

All joking aside, if her mental state is precarious or worse, I hope that she gets the help that she needs. If she was merely capping off a great night with friends, then more power to her.

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The Walmart permanently banned her from their store (which is pretty much a blessing in disguise, if you ask me), and most people online seem to see nothing but a woman interrupted while living her best life.

This is America, after all, and she wasn’t hurting anyone or herself.

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The responses are almost as funny as the story’s headline, with most people choosing to see her as a great symbol of someone with no f*cks to be given.

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We can all agree that the woman should get help if she needs it, but otherwise, I agree with the masses and say more power to her.

Carry on, good lady.

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No Matter Who You Are, We Can All Agree on These Tweets,

There’s just too much division in the world these days, so it’s nice to find something we can all agree on. Like these tweets, for instance.

So, let’s all take a chill pill and get ourselves on the same page.

1. I’ve been to Level 113

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2. They sense fear

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3. Two different worlds

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4. It’s over

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5. A bad situation

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6. You’re not my father

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7. Get rid of that

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8. I’m still waiting

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9. There are many types

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10. Instant anxiety

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11. I need you, mommy

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12. Please stop

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13. It gets ugly sometimes

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14. Like zombies

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15. Such a pleasure

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16. Smitty!

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17. Time to clean that off

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18. Me, too

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19. Bye bye

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20. I’m in the latter category

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All for one and one for all!

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10+ People Confess the Most “Loser”-ish Thing They Do

We all have something we do that’s kind of lame. Some silly, nerdy behavior that others might look down on if they knew, but that we just can’t stop enjoying. These 15 things definitely fall into that category.

I say let your freak flag fly!

#1. Alone in my house.

“Act out conversations with people…alone in my house.”

#2. At least 5 hours a day.

“I spend at least 5 hours a day watching meme compilations and gaming videos. Sometimes I won’t even be watching them. I’ll have them playing in the background as I work. I swear to god I know like every single Vine by heart.”

#3. I hate small talk so much.

“You have no idea how many times I’ve pretended I’ve never met someone with the hopes that they would pretend they never met me too. I hate small talk so much. It’s worked more than half the time.”

#4. Real life.

“Cry over fictional characters more than I cry over my own real life scenarios.”

#5. My precalc teacher.

“go to tutoring everyday because my precal teacher is honestly one of the only people i relate to”

#6. It stung.

“There was a shop that offered to rent rooms by the hour for games. Good for groups of four or six since they offered interactive motion detect games like Just Dance. The console was put at the top middle of the room so it could project the image in the entire surface of a wall. Imagine an enclosed room and an entire section of the wall was the game. It was fun playing with people. I asked my friends out to play there many times but they always had some excuse so I decided to go there alone and enjoy it.​

The look the girl gave me when she learned I was renting the room by myself stung. Normally I don’t pay attention to those kind of things. In my mind, I’m here to have fun and I’m not bothering people but still, that look she gave me made me self-conscious. I spent my hour there and never came back.”

#7. Mommy dearest.

“I’m 36, single, child-free (prefer it that way), live with my mother (She had a stroke a few years ago, so I came back to help out). Last year she had a blood clot in her leg that freaked us out. She asks me to quit my job so I could be here full time with her. I did.

Now I have no job, no money, and rely on my mother to pay my bills. Since my mom is mostly independent (She can’t drive anymore, but can get around with the help of her cane or wheelchair), I have a ton of time on my hands, so I just play video games all day when I’m not doing house work.”

#8. League of Legends.

“I’m 29 and I play League of Legends. And I honestly prefer making some coffee and nachos, putting on some music in the background, and just jamming on a Friday night playing League while just hanging out on my own.

I feel like a loser explaining this haha.”

#9. A dinosaur Instagram page.

“Im 19 and i run a dinosaur instagram page”

#10. Nothing better to do.

“I work weekends because I have nothing better to do. At least I’m making money”

#11. I literally sit at home.

“I moved to a new city three months ago and I have 0 friends herel, so I literally sit at home alone every single Friday and Saturday night.”

#12. To unwind.

“I love to drink alone. I have a family, I have friends, I’m more than happy to go out and hang with them, but I also like to just chill by myself and have a few drinks to unwind. I usually watch a movie, listen to music, or read, and just unwind.”

#13. 100% more relaxing.

“Every day on my lunch break at work I take my lunch to the stairwell and just sit by the window on the top floor and watch youtube videos while I eat . It may be loser-ish but it’s also 100% more relaxing then listening to people loudly talking in the break room.”

#14. Play video games.

“Play videogames instead of worrying about my future”

#15. All the ideas.

“I add ideas to my Wedding Pinterest Board. I’m not in a relationship, nor engaged.”

Love yourself, friends. Loser-y tendencies and all.

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