How do you feel?

[RainyWoods]

Seems like fainting has been fashionable among escunited members those two last days. 2

Today, I was volunteering for the people who suffered from the wildfires in Greece. The team I was working with had to package the food and the medicines that had already been collected and place them into the trucks, with which they would be later distributed to the people in need. An easy job, but keep in mind that the work was never-ending, we had to be standing, the room was not air-conditioned and, most importantly, that I had not had a proper breakfast.
Everything was going fine for the first 6 1/2 hours, when I suddenly felt that I was getting dizzy. I asked for a chair but gosh, it just happened so fast! I tried to grasp the shoulder of a man who was standing next to me, so that I could hold on and that was the last thing I remember… A few moments later I opend my eyes and I was lying on the floor, with two people keeping my legs up in the air, another one holding my head and giving me a bit of ethanol to smell and a fourth one trying to check my blood pressure.
All of the volunteers seemed so concerned about my health, they were asking me if I was feeling alright – bless them! - but all I was wishing for at that moment, was to miraculously dissapear..such an embarassing moment. :?
The only thing I am happy about is that I gave to the people I was working with, the good laugh they were in desperate need of. I mean, seeing an 1,87m, well-built man fainting must be funny…

(☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞ ESCUNITED Faint Club Who's next to join? Hopefully no one else tbh as it's horrible when it happens.

What a lovely thing to do though for your people. You were the first person I thought of when I saw the terrible news on tv. Glad you're ok and doing some very good deeds. Well done! How close to home were these events for you?

Bless those people for helping you out. I think I fainted from spending too much time in my room that day with only a small window and no air conditioning. Occasionally I get random bouts of vertigo which is horrible and always makes me panic, but I don't faint so I was really scared. I managed to walk forward a bit and fell onto my knees in the back porch room. It probably would have looked really funny if someone had filmed it. Me trying to pour a glass of water from our fridge water cooler before it became too much for me. Such dramatics. I was really bad last night though. I woke up during the night and was sick, to add on top of the fainting palaver. I just wanted to curl up into a ball and die, but I feel a lot better today, though groggy and achy, like that feeling you get during a flu.

I hope you're feeling better now Nikos And keep up the good work. Bless you

 

[Nicholas123]

(☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞ ESCUNITED Faint Club Who's next to join? Hopefully no one else tbh as it's horrible when it happens.

What a lovely thing to do though for your people. You were the first person I thought of when I saw the terrible news on tv. Glad you're ok and doing some very good deeds. Well done! How close to home were these events for you?

Bless those people for helping you out. I think I fainted from spending too much time in my room that day with only a small window and no air conditioning. Occasionally I get random bouts of vertigo which is horrible and always makes me panic, but I don't faint so I was really scared. I managed to walk forward a bit and fell onto my knees in the back porch room. It probably would have looked really funny if someone had filmed it. Me trying to pour a glass of water from our fridge water cooler before it became too much for me. Such dramatics. I was really bad last night though. I woke up during the night and was sick, to add on top of the fainting palaver. I just wanted to curl up into a ball and die, but I feel a lot better today, though groggy and achy, like that feeling you get during a flu.

I hope you're feeling better now Nikos And keep up the good work. Bless you

Oh, that's too bad to hear...I hope y're feeling better today
This was my 2nd time ever i had a pass-out experience, the first one being in an Anna Vissi concert, at the age of 18 2
I was pretty safe, as i live in the centre of Athens and thankfully an old friend of mine from University, who lives in the are where the wildfires happened, was wise enough to leave her home early so she and her family were all saved.
It's the first time i see such a great support from all Greeks, it's so touching!
It was my 2nd day there and i was supposed to be there tomorrow as well, but they told me that i should give myself a rest for now...

 

[RainyWoods]

Oh, that's too bad to hear...I hope y're feeling better today
This was my 2nd time ever i had a pass-out experience, the first one being in an Anna Vissi concert, at the age of 18 2
I was pretty safe, as i live in the centre of Athens and thankfully an old friend of mine from University, who lives in the are where the wildfires happened, was wise enough to leave her home early so she and her family were all saved.
It's the first time i see such a great support from all Greeks, it's so touching!
It was my 2nd day there and i was supposed to be there tomorrow as well, but they told me that i should give myself a rest for now...

Oh I have another experience of fainting actually too, and it's funny. I was watching the official music video for Soap&Skin's "Sugarbread" and there was this flash of a really gruesome scene involving an eye with something being done to it. I have an eye phobia so I was in shock, and did this slow motion astronaut style walk to the bathroom before I fell down with a bottle of water I was carrying, and I poured the whole thing over me. Epic.

I would probably faint during Anna Vissi's 2006 Eurovision performance. I forgot how much I loved that song

Good to hear your friends are safe. Times like this are tragic and very sad, but the one thing about them is that they bring people together. Through the darkness there's a lot of light thanks to people like you.

 

[DenizESC]

Never had a fainting experience in my life but I can imagine how scary that must be, blacking out like that... As a control freak that's one of my biggest nightmares so hopefully I'll never join your little group Hope you're all well now Nicholas and remember to take it easy when you rejoin and stay hydrated and well nutritioned!!

Oh almost forgot to say, huge respect for you and all other Greeks who decided to volunteer and help their fellow countrymen in these times of crisis. Nice to see solidarity still exists in this age, it felt long gone to me sometimes but ofc you also gotta look in the right places like you guys, the volunteers in this case.



Also hope you're doing okay Kai, maybe you should save some money for a good fan or something for when you realy can't take it. I looked at the weather in London and looked like now and the next few days at least seem better. But you should definitely find a long time solution if it affects you that much.

Hope all of you manage to stay alive

 

[Ausesken]

Looking forward to my (very short) holidays...only 11 days left...

 

[mauve]

I understand very well how you both fainted, RW and Nic! It is unbearable hot here in Germany as well. The past four days have been! All you want is cold water, to cool down somehow, because it makes no sense to open the window. And I of all people! When I still lived in Tokyo, it was normal in the summer to have about 35°C and about 90% humidity. And now I complain when the heat is already 27-28°C. Ausesken (it was, I think) said: Drink much water! That is absolutely necessary for your body or you dry out. I hop everyone of you is fine!

 

[Brandt]

Some people are hard to read. I spent 3 months with a nice person who was into me. The day the person left the country, they secretly stuck a note on my door with the nicest words ever on it, including telling me how amazing the 3 months were, how different everything could be if we lived in the same society, I was the main reason that it was harder for them to leave the country. When I texted them on Whatsapp like a week later, I received no feedback and my texts were ignored entirely. Almost like they don't want to see me ever again. I have thought through like millions of possibilities of why it could have happened, but none is the truth that I can know of. I would like to study human psychology just for this.

I wonder if you ever did something like that to someone else, or experienced something similar to this. Maybe you could help me understand the situation.

 

[Ausesken]

Some people are hard to read. I spent 3 months with a nice person who was into me. The day the person left the country, they secretly stuck a note on my door with the nicest words ever on it, including telling me how amazing the 3 months were, how different everything could be if we lived in the same society, I was the main reason that it was harder for them to leave the country. When I texted them on Whatsapp like a week later, I received no feedback and my texts were ignored entirely. Almost like they don't want to see me ever again. I have thought through like millions of possibilities of why it could have happened, but none is the truth that I can know of. I would like to study human psychology just for this.

I wonder if you ever did something like that to someone else, or experienced something similar to this. Maybe you could help me understand the situation.

That's weird... Are you sure you had the right number? Or perhaps that person thought it was better forgetting you if you didn't feel the same? However, I agree with you. It takes studying psychology for 5 years to understand those people that change attitude apparently for no reason. Wouldn't it be easier talking and saying what the problem is?

 

[mauve]

Some people are hard to read. I spent 3 months with a nice person who was into me. The day the person left the country, they secretly stuck a note on my door with the nicest words ever on it, including telling me how amazing the 3 months were, how different everything could be if we lived in the same society, I was the main reason that it was harder for them to leave the country. When I texted them on Whatsapp like a week later, I received no feedback and my texts were ignored entirely. Almost like they don't want to see me ever again. I have thought through like millions of possibilities of why it could have happened, but none is the truth that I can know of. I would like to study human psychology just for this.

I wonder if you ever did something like that to someone else, or experienced something similar to this. Maybe you could help me understand the situation.

That's really weird, but I actually made once (twice?) a similiar experience. When I was still in School, I had two best friends. After we graduated (in Japan), we promised to keep in contact. We both moved to Germany, but to different cities. And as promised I started writing her by email and actually never received a response. Till today I have absolutely no idea why. We have been friends for three years and it suddenly stopped. my own answer was maybe that distance killed our friendship. Like: out of sight, out of mind. But in this media era where you can reach a Person so easily, it is still weird. And to be honest, I never searched for her again because I thought she just didn't want to have contact anymore. But as you said, you really want to read people's minds sometimes. But then again, the other one is not worth if something like that happens.

 

[RainyWoods]

Someone did this to me once a few years ago. Someone who was a part of a small group of online friends i'd had for years. This particular one was having a bit of a rift with another friend from the group. I personally tried my best to bring them both back together, and I thought it was a success. We were all talking again, and for a week it was like as if nothing had ever came between them. Then one day they delete my friend as a contact on all the things they were connected on, and furthermore they deleted me too. I was friends with this person for about seven years and I had not once had a falling out with them. Strangely enough I wasn't hurt, but it did for a long while puzzle me. I was ghosted from a friends life and never was given a reason why. Years later we find out he's happily married to another ex friend from our group who was the center of the drama that caused the falling out between my two friends in the first place, and even moved to America to be with him. It's really strange.

Your situation [MENTION=14118]LesterMalvo[/MENTION] seems very different and complicated. I can imagine it must be quite difficult, especially if the pair of you had feelings for one another. People are strange things. Our minds all work in different ways. Maybe that message they left on the door was their way of saying goodbye? They could have already decided in their head for whatever reason that they were going to end contact with you, but wanted to make sure that you didn't doubt yourself in any way. Sounds to me like they loved you but they thought it was an impossible relationship, at least in their mind. It's possible their decision was made with that kind of mindset. I've never been in love so I don't know how it feels. I know though how hard it seems to be for some people keeping in contact with those they have feelings for, but feel that a relationship is not possible realistically. My mum often speaks about her ex boyfriends. She had so many dear ones in her youth, but none she keeps in contact with today, even though so many she considered special relationships. The media era that mauve described I think makes things even more confusing now, as it is so easy to just contact someone for a quick word.

 

[Yoni]

Some people are hard to read. I spent 3 months with a nice person who was into me. The day the person left the country, they secretly stuck a note on my door with the nicest words ever on it, including telling me how amazing the 3 months were, how different everything could be if we lived in the same society, I was the main reason that it was harder for them to leave the country. When I texted them on Whatsapp like a week later, I received no feedback and my texts were ignored entirely. Almost like they don't want to see me ever again. I have thought through like millions of possibilities of why it could have happened, but none is the truth that I can know of. I would like to study human psychology just for this.

I wonder if you ever did something like that to someone else, or experienced something similar to this. Maybe you could help me understand the situation.

Have been on both sides in the past, can't really explain it, could be that the person wishes to not deal with the sadness that came with leaving the country and you (then again I'm sure it's one of those million possibilities that went through your mind).

Sometimes it feels easier for the other person to feel bad with not making contact at all rather than remember it and see how it's all gone now. Either way I'm sorry that you went through such thing, eventually every person deserves to be answered.

 

[Ausesken]

I'm both physically and mentally exhausted. Seriously, it's a miracle I never miss my train stop because lately every day I almost fall asleep there after working. One day I won't be so lucky and end up in the French border and won't have any train back to Girona, I see it.

 

[MyHeartIsYours]

Seriously, it's a miracle I never miss my train stop because lately every day I almost fall asleep there after working. One day I won't be so lucky and end up in the French border and won't have any train back to Girona, I see it.

Oh haha I have done this too many times So tired you fall asleep and miss your stop, then have to find the energy to walk all the way home from the next station

Get some rest, summer's are so busy in the libraries!

 

[Ausesken]

Oh haha I have done this too many times So tired you fall asleep and miss your stop, then have to find the energy to walk all the way home from the next station

Get some rest, summer's are so busy in the libraries!

If I end up in the French border I'll have to 'walk' more than 70km and the closest train stop would be around 8km away, so it would be a disaster for me missing my stop hahaha

I thought everybody would go to the beach in summer, not to the library, but there's much more stuff to do than before because everybody has more time to read and also we are preparing everything to move the library to a new, bigger place after the summer.

 

[Leydan]

I've done that with my bus once, I was too tired from work and in my own world and just went straight past my stop. Luckily I realised quickly and got off at the next stop which wasn't much further. Be careful not to end up in France.

 

[Ausesken]

Feeling vertigo in my own bedroom, sitting on my chair. Suddenly I had the sensation that the floor was leaning.

 

[RainyWoods]

Feeling vertigo in my own bedroom, sitting on my chair. Suddenly I had the sensation that the floor was leaning.

Oh no Couple of days since you posted that but I hope you're feeling better now. Have you ever experienced vertigo before? I occasionally experience it because of my ear problem. If my tinnitus is bad it has an effect on the rest of my body, and I tend to get vertigo. So horrible when it happens. I sit myself down immediately and make sure that my back is straight. Sometimes I have to wait half an hour until I feel able to stand up.

 

[Ausesken]

Oh no Couple of days since you posted that but I hope you're feeling better now. Have you ever experienced vertigo before? I occasionally experience it because of my ear problem. If my tinnitus is bad it has an effect on the rest of my body, and I tend to get vertigo. So horrible when it happens. I sit myself down immediately and make sure that my back is straight. Sometimes I have to wait half an hour until I feel able to stand up.

Fortunately it only lasted some minutes. I thought perhaps it was due to sleeping very few hours (and bad sleeping because I wake up very often feeling too hot and sweating) and the high temperature. I’m seriously thinking of taking sleeping pills or something, because this can’t be good. I haven’t slept 7-8 hours in weeks.

 

[RainyWoods]

Fortunately it only lasted some minutes. I thought perhaps it was due to sleeping very few hours (and bad sleeping because I wake up very often feeling too hot and sweating) and the high temperature. I’m seriously thinking of taking sleeping pills or something, because this can’t be good. I haven’t slept 7-8 hours in weeks.

Hmmm if you think sleeping pills could help you at the moment then do try them. Be careful though as they can become addictive. Both my mother and a close friend I have are reliant on them. And if you do use them, then make sure you settle yourself down to actually sleep. I've experienced a whole host of crazy situations with my mother awake under the effects of the sleeping pill, in the kitchen at 2AM cooking god knows what, and then waking up the next morning to find out she's the winning bidder on ebay of a new saucepan she couldn't even remember buying.

If these restless nights are really getting you down then sleeping tablets could be a good temporary fix. They really do knock you out well.

 

[Ausesken]

Hmmm if you think sleeping pills could help you at the moment then do try them. Be careful though as they can become addictive. Both my mother and a close friend I have are reliant on them. And if you do use them, then make sure you settle yourself down to actually sleep. I've experienced a whole host of crazy situations with my mother awake under the effects of the sleeping pill, in the kitchen at 2AM cooking god knows what, and then waking up the next morning to find out she's the winning bidder on ebay of a new saucepan she couldn't even remember buying.

If these restless nights are really getting you down then sleeping tablets could be a good temporary fix. They really do knock you out well.

Seriously? I knew sleeping pills had some negative effects but I'd never thought they were that negative :? good to know, thank you XD for now I think I won't take anything because they say the heat wave is over, and even I saw there might be storm on thursday Fingers crossed it means I can sleep without waking up every 30 min