I’ll share mine first.
I had a psych patient one night pile shitty toilet paper next to his toilet overnight. Normally my psych nurse brain would consider this a symptom of disorganized psychosis, EXCEPT!
I remembered an aita post about a conflict between a western OP and his middle eastern roomate trying to figure out why their roommate put their shitty toilet paper in the trash. Turns out many middle eastern toilets can’t handle toilet paper.
Oh and inpatient psychiatry doesn’t provide freestanding hard plastic trashcans (turns out they make great clubs). We gave him one of our freestanding paper bag trashcans and problem solved.
TL;DR; Reddit expanded my cultural knowledge enough to differentiate disorganized psychotic behaviors from a genuine cultural difference. Thanks reddit!
Anyone have any similar examples of positive exchanges of knowledge or culture using reddit?
I’m very confused by OP. Wouldn’t speaking to the individual have answered the question about the toilet paper? Isn’t that usually what psychiatrists do?
not every one is a conversationalist… or capable of talking to people… or talking. i would assume a professional in this particular field would have started with a hello… you do understand that not everything or one can be verbally dissected or reasoned with.
Well they were also psychotic. That particular behavior just wasn’t part of it.