Weird and Wonderful Stuff

Nathan

Just making this thread so that people can post all the weird yet wonderful stories and things that they know. fun facts, and things that are really difficult to believe.

Nathan

So, i'll go first. I give you the story of HMS Porcupine. A P class destroyer that served in ww2, that would go on to become HMS Pork and HMS Pine.

See, when most ships get torpedoed, they sink. Not HMS Porcupine. In 1942, she got torpedoed amidship, which essentially split her clean into two separate parts. Whilst this might sink most destroyers, somehow, both half's remained afloat, and were able to be towed separately to allied ports. Observing the damage, Royal Navy engineers decided instead of putting both halves back together and repairing them, they chose instead to repurpose both halves separately, instead as floating barracks ships. The first half became HMS Pork, and the Second half became HMS Pine.

So that's the story of HMS Porcupine, the ship that was torpedoed into two, and became HMS Pork, and HMS Pine.

toffuna101

(TW: death and psychosis)

so this is a weird story of mine that ive shared in the past but it has a good ending hence why its wonderful as well. this all starts in january of 2024 at the age of 15 when i was having a period of crisis and was taken to A&E in the children's emergency department. the camhs crisis team just basically said to see them again for a follow-up appointment on a saturday. im not sure why i remember why it was a saturday but oh well. i went there and after some explaining that they said nothing was wrong with me. so fast forward next month to february i started feeling worse so my dad contacted the crisis team again and said that im getting worse so i saw them again and i basically broke down to them in tears and after explaining my early symptoms of psychosis they diagnosed me with it. i deteriorated even further to the point where in late february i was taken to A&E again and this time i needed an admission into A&E so they took me in and thats when the symptoms started getting worse. basically whilst i was in A&E i thought that i was going to get taken somewhere and tortured or taken to a secret government facility. eventually i was moved to a hospital ward where it got even worse and i thought everyone was after me and wanted to kill me, even the government. also from the final night i was in A&E to when i was in the hospital ward i was being supervised by one to two people. i now know that it was to keep me safe. so eventually there came a period where i was being assessed to see if i needed to be moved to an adolescent psychiatric hospital under the mental health act and apparently i fitted the admission critera to go there because i was in psychosis. so i went to the adolescent psychiatric hospital and the drive there was nerve-racking. i remember that the drivers were talking about me about how i was going to be burnt alive, tortured and killed. and in A&E/the hospital ward people were constantly talking about me in a negative light as well, whereas in reality people thought of me pretty positively beforehand and after the psychotic episode. so i arrived there in the adolescent psychiatric hospital and was asked a load of questions testing my capacity to make decisions. this was to mostly test whether i was gillick competent or not. i answered the questions and soon i was taken to my room where i heard birds tweeting about me and how im not going to come back, which to this day i still dont know what that means. ive created a theory that i was moved universes in the past, but now i just think thats bs. ive always stayed in the same universe. anyways im getting tired of writing about my past but to put it shortly; yeah, i suffered psychologically because of my symptoms on that first day in the adolescent psychiatric hospital. i slowly recovered in that environment, however i eventually wanted to leave so i left earlier than i needed to. i shouldve stayed there for a couple more weeks to be honest. this story turns out to be quite wonderful because in fact i did recover. sure, ive had ups and downs that ive documented on here but i havent had a single symptom of mental illness since august which is quite an achievement.

Azziman

Hey @toffuna101, thank you for sharing this story. I can hear how difficult a time this must have been for you, and I'm really glad to hear that things got better. The journey can be a bumpy one, but you've done so well to be in the position you're in today!

toffuna101

Azziman wrote: »

Hey @toffuna101, thank you for sharing this story. I can hear how difficult a time this must have been for you, and I'm really glad to hear that things got better. The journey can be a bumpy one, but you've done so well to be in the position you're in today!

thank you