Bro Hospitalized For Slamming Too Much Eggnog. Yes, Really.

A brush with death thanks to eggnog is a thing—at least for Ryan Roche.

Here’s how that happens: Roche rallied all of his competitive skills to chug an entire 12 ounce carton of eggnog as fast as possible to beat his coworkers in an eggnog chugging competition.

As soon as he finished he realized he hadn’t drawn breath for 12 full seconds and began gasping for air, but instead of air, he aspirated the creamy holiday drink into his lungs. But he figured he was fine, according to Buzzfeed, besides who knows what it feels like to breathe eggnog, right?

“Within two hours I was shaking uncontrollably,” he said.

When he finally made it to a hospital, Roche was shuttled to the Intensive Care Unit and spent three days recovering from that fateful Holiday Clash of the Beverage Champions. Was the punishment worthy of the reward?

For setting a eggnog chugging record, Roche won a $50 gift card to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse — a reward that in retrospect Roche said was definitely not worth it.

“I’d rather have my health,” he said, adding that next year he won’t be participating in the contest.

‘Murica.

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Holiday Hysteria

Anyone else starting to feel that Holiday Hysteria setting in? I’ve been so immersed in mod podge and powdered sugar that again, as always, Christmas has snuck up on me. And I’m not prepared for it.

House is a disaster – Christmas party last night was successful and delicious though! BBQ sauce is still sitting in the crock pot on the counter. I’m wrapped in a sherpa throw playing video games… gotta love a hangover.

Plans for my Christmas vacation may be falling through which was apparently the tipping point to my already fragile mind-set.

Women – don’t you hate when you’re talking and out-of-nowhere, get entirely too emotional? Didn’t realize you felt that way did you. Well I didn’t realize that with great crafting comes great responsibility and I have a Christmas tree overflowing with presents this year… but. Here comes my crippling manic-depressive-holiday-hysteria that has reduced me to tears at the thought of leaving my house.

Our society, in America at least, the topic of mental illness is shunned, misunderstood, and stigmatized.

Dictionary definitions of stigma describe it as a mark of disgrace, shame, dishonor, ignominy, opprobrium, humiliation, or bad reputation unfairly attached to a person, group, or quality. Tellingly, “the stigma of mental disorder” is almost always offered as the first and most classic example.

A troubling paradox has developed in the stigma attached to mental illness—never has there been less stigma for having mild psychiatric problems, but never has there been more stigma for having severe ones.

–Allen Frances, MD

A troubling paradox has, I think, developed in the stigma attached to mental illness—never has there been less stigma for having mild psychiatric problems, but never has there been more stigma for having severe ones. This has come about because the definition of mental illness is now so loose—1 in 4 of us qualifies every year; 1 in 2 qualifies in a lifetime; and 1 in 5 is taking a psychiatric medicine. There is enormous power in these numbers. The sting of having a psychiatric diagnosis or receiving a treatment is much reduced when so many people take psychiatric medication or participate in psychotherapy.

– See more at: http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/forensic-psychiatry/stigmatizing-and-shunning-severely-ill#sthash.DZV2sJcT.dpuf