#Tylenol mention

[arrowheadedbitch]

Okay everyone, get ready for a long as hell post.

Tw, suicide attempt, suicide, suicide talk

This is my really indepth Shawn hc that is more of just straight up a story at this point

So STRAP IN!

Okay, so during the ten years, at some point Shawn is super duper depressed. He's not going well at all. He's thinking of offing himself, and he has it all planned out. But, he calls his dad first, in hopes that despite their rocky relationship his dad will talk him out of it. But, as soon as his dad picks up the phone...well, you know Henry, he assumes the worst. So Henry is already yelling at him, why are you calling, what do you need now, blah blah blah, so shawn hangs up on him without ever getting a word in edgewise, he never gets to tell him why he called, and now it's just confirmed to him that he should end it and he's feeling a little spiteful too, so he downs a bottle of painkillers, one of the ones with the candy coating, yknow? He only survives bc he didn't care to lock his apartment door and one of the random girls he's always hooking up with came by to get something she accidentally left there, he doesn't answer but the door isn't locked so she thinks she'll just slip in an get her stuff, but instead she finds shawn and gets him an ambulance. After Shawn gets better, he either manages to charisma his way into convincing the doctors that it wasn't *really* a suicide attempt and gets realesed or does his regular sneaky shit and escapes and dips town so he doesn't have to do any therapy or go to grippy sock jail.

To this day, Henry doesn't know, GUS doesn't know, NO ONE KNOWS, *shawn tells NO ONE*

And he can't take advil anymore, can't stand the candy coating.

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Hear me out, him accidentally letting it slip during a big argument with Henry

I'm thinking Shawn says something that alludes to what happened during the argument without out right saying it so Henry gets to be more confused than angry as Shawn realizes what he almost reveals and completely shuts down refisung to elaborate

I'm imaging that scene in modern family where Alex accidentally mentions to her dad that she did stuff she wasn't supposed to as a teen and slowly backs out of the room

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And I could go on a whole rant about the candy coated painkillers, and I will!

The idea of picking something that's supposed to be sweet, that is supposed to go down easier

Because that's kind of the whole point of candy coating, and Advil tastes good as hell, I don't care what anybody says

He chose something that would be sweet and go down easy for his final moments

But it ended up sickly sweet

And it still got stuck in his throat

And it burnt on the way down

He started out tasting good (there's a reason Advils child lock game is so good) but it ended up tasting awful and burning

The burn and pain contrasted with how he thought he would go out

(Maybe even a perfect metaphor for his relationship with his father too....)

The taste is stuck in his mouth forever, a taste he can never forget

The sickly sweet burn of a whole bottle of candy coated painkillers

And even just the term "Candy Coated Painkillers" feels kind of perfect for Shawn, like aiygjvifjtjejjdksndh

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Also the fact that he never tells Gus? AUGHH hits me right in the heart

He doesn't call his mom or his best friend, he doesn't tell them, they wouldn't even know until after he was long gone

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Maybe Lassie finds out at some point, finally switching gears from looking for something in his criminal record to checking his medical history

Or as a favor for Juliet (thank you Sid/@obsidiancreates ) to find out the truth about a scar he won't tell her about

Lassie doesn't tell anyone, but he does switch out Juliet's stash of Advil for Tylenol, no candy coating.

Shawn finds out he knows because he gets protective of all the new suicide cases in a completely different way than before

Shawn has to tell him to tone it down before Gus starts getting suspicious

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And then of course, there's the major angst potential of an AU where Shawn /does/ die

Especially if told from Henry's perspective...

Especially if all of Psych is just Henry imagining what could have been if Shawn didn't die......

But that's all for now!

Enjoy, angst lovers!

[Thanks to @obsidiancreates and @mores0 for talking with me about this AT LENGTH in the Psych discord :)]

[zagreuslives]

“Take the blade, Ms. Pollard. Go on. You two have played out this farce before, I believe.”

“Kill me.” // “It’s me. I’m the bravest person here” // “Kill me…” // “Goodbye, Doctor.” // “Go-goodbye, Charley….Thank you…”

One of my favorite scenes in all of Doctor Who. Have some more Big Finish fanart courtesy of my fever that won’t break

(Though for the record: I do NOT recommend listening to Zagreus with a high fever. It starts to actually make sense)

[forfuckssakejim]

Love waking up with multiple pains. Like. 🙃🙃🙃🙃 as if everything in life doesn’t suck enough.

[muiromem]

I have TEN sugar cookies I still need to decorate (to look like the crew of Voyager), but my body is killing me 😭

[girlstressed]

hate hate HATE having to admit my mom was right

[the-crow-cryptids-domain]

Also uuuuh ibuprofen/etc jokes are fun and all here on Tumblr.com, but Also please keep in mind how often you take it, cus my aunt went to the hospital last week-literally all the symptoms pointed to sepsis

But it turns out she got sick because she was taking ten tylenol a DAY for God-knows how long

So like, be mindful of that????

[moonlessbeast]

I know it’s bad practice to share like personal medical info online to strangers and stuff etc

But Also I’ve only received major medical care the last few years and some of the discoveries I’ve made about my health are Super Funny to me

[pissfizz]

The mental unwellness has transferred into physical unwellness

[arctic-hands]

Someone explain to me that how in the twenty minutes I had to sit up straight in order to eat dinner did I manage to hurt my back

[the-jukebox-system]

to whatever part of the body thought it would be a good idea to mix restless leg syndrome with tourette's: what the FUCK were you thinking

i mean, maybe on some degree they could cancel out each other a bit?? but NO they feed off each other and symptoms worsen because the other condition is always there!!

[big-eater-queen]

can we STOP with the anti medicine mentality for gods sake

[adelaidedrubman]

of the things i had to temporarily discontinue to account for uc flare i miss ibuprofen so much more than alcohol. and as for caffeine um. that one is a work in progress couldn’t be done cold turkey

[alivehouse]

the worst thing about the probable endo is idt its even genetic like my mom doesnt even need to take any painkillers at all & idt my sibling does either god just hates me so bad

[strikingamatch]

i asked for

pain meds

for once

in my fucking life

he gave me

my allowance

im going to

cry

[sukunasdirtylaugh]

it’s been a stressful two days and today I’m hit with PMS. someone lock me in a room

[lesbian-sex-in-supernatural]

the reason the spn characters are always hurt and bleeding is because their analgesic of choice is FUCKING ASPIRIN