Full disclosure: for the past several weeks I have been considering getting an Elastrator (a device used in the bloodless castration of livestock) because I feel increasingly more convinced that the apocalypse will happen before I go in for surgery and I want a plan B in case that happens so I don't have to worry about testosterone in the post-apocalyptic future............

I have been apocalypse-obsessed since I was in 7th grade and first heard about the 2012 prediction and it was a large part of why I did not bother transitioning at that time... I figured there would be no point. Now people are so negative and won't shut up about nuclear war and I feel like one day I'm going to look outside and see a mushroom cloud, or a mega-tornado is going to rip through the midwest because of climate change and my transition plans will be thwarted and I will be forced to take matters into my own hands to ensure dysphoria is kept at bay..........

My therapist does not know about my plan. My SO does not know about my plan. My family does not know about my plan.

I have pushed a lot of normal future plans (marriage, house, career) to the side and done a lot of thinking about how to survive when society collapses and... I don't even know...

Please help me.

I've lived through more prophecised apocalypses than I can count.

Either I'm lucky, I'm really a cockroach, or these prophets of doom just aren't getting it right.

On a serious note, this sounds like an awful idea and a bad reason to do it.  I'd save the elastrator idea for AFTER an apocalypse.

Since I'll run out of hormones and get osteoporosis post-apocalypse, my plan is to break a hip and plead with my non-functioning Life Alert until I die.

It has been six hours since the robot uprising, time to resort to cannibalism.

I'd suggest that if you can find a way to talk about these thoughts with your therapist (in a safe confidential space),  that would be a way to start moving past them. But I'm with Colleen,  hold off on any vetinary procedures for now!

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Actually according to one nut the world was supposed to have ended Saturday. Yet here we are. A nuclear war would really suck . In the aftermath people will be starving and I don't think they will care as much about how you look as how you taste. Watch "the road".  Horrifying movie.

Unless a very big rock hits earth or the sun goes supernova, the earth ain't going anywhere.


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You know, the Jehova's Witnesses said the world would end in 1977, when I was 14.  We're still here.

But using a castrating machine designed for animals on yourself is a really bad idea.  Even if it does not kill you it may not leave enough scrotal tissue for a surgeon to construct a vagina.

However that might be a perfect device for the bad guys to use as a persuader in my next novel...

Quote from: CarlyMcx on September 27, 2017, 03:24:22 PM
You know, the Jehova's Witnesses said the world would end in 1977, when I was 14.  We're still here.

But using a castrating machine designed for animals on yourself is a really bad idea.  Even if it does not kill you it may not leave enough scrotal tissue for a surgeon to construct a vagina.

However that might be a perfect device for the bad guys to use as a persuader in my next novel...

On the show Hemlock grove one of the characters, a crime boss, used one of those on his employees who messed up. He would make them strip and then De-oyster them.lol

It's a rubber band,  it takes awhile. Did they wait in his office for the oysters to fall off?

Quote from: Devlyn Marie on September 27, 2017, 03:31:49 PM
It's a rubber band,  it takes awhile. Did they wait in his office for the oysters to fall off?

He had them tied up. They never specified the time period, only that they were De-balled. Really, several days? I didn't know that. I thought it was like instant. What a stupid plot twist. I did really like hemlock grove but it wasnt like Oscar winning material or anything.

I'm talking about the tool that the O/P mentioned. Don't know what you watch on t.v.

Quote from: Colleen_definitely on September 27, 2017, 01:10:16 PM
It has been six hours since the robot uprising, time to resort to cannibalism.

Wait six hours? Who has time for that? The second anything even looks like a robot uprising or zombie outbreak I'm eating the person next to me.

But yeah, on the topic... Seriously, don't worry about preparing for the apocalypse. Worst case scenario (well, maybe not the worst case, we are talking about the apocalypse) if you survive you will be the only one for miles who has any interest in raiding the hormone supplies, and certainly won't have competition in the scramble for a... uh, cow castrator. In other words, cross that bridge when you come to it.

Quote from: Allie24 on September 27, 2017, 12:45:39 PM
Full disclosure: for the past several weeks I have been considering getting an Elastrator (a device used in the bloodless castration of livestock) because I feel increasingly more convinced that the apocalypse will happen before I go in for surgery and I want a plan B in case that happens so I don't have to worry about testosterone in the post-apocalyptic future............

I have been apocalypse-obsessed since I was in 7th grade and first heard about the 2012 prediction and it was a large part of why I did not bother transitioning at that time... I figured there would be no point. Now people are so negative and won't shut up about nuclear war and I feel like one day I'm going to look outside and see a mushroom cloud, or a mega-tornado is going to rip through the midwest because of climate change and my transition plans will be thwarted and I will be forced to take matters into my own hands to ensure dysphoria is kept at bay..........

My therapist does not know about my plan. My SO does not know about my plan. My family does not know about my plan.

I have pushed a lot of normal future plans (marriage, house, career) to the side and done a lot of thinking about how to survive when society collapses and... I don't even know...

Please help me.

OK this is kind of serious I think at least. In the seventh grade when the end of the world was more or less prophesied for 2012? Hell I was an adult when all the planes were supposed to fall out of the sky in the year 2000. Seriously Armageddon was supposed to have taken place in Nero's time.

Yes I know what you are talking about. It is the equivivilant of wrapping a rubber band around your testicals to cut off blood flow and they will die. That is not a good idea. Animals can handle more than humans can. Dogs can eat rotten meat raw and not get sick but humans can. Animals can get cut and roll around in the dirt but if a human cuts themselves and the wound gets dirty then it can go septic and kill you.

What exactly is a mega tornado? So Global warming is going to cause a tornado that will eat up all of Tornado Alley. I have lived in Tornado Alley and usually a storm shelter is all it takes to survive. An F 3 hit my town when I was in ninth grade and yeah is sucked for some whose homes were destroyed but in a month it was all back to the same except for the trees. I drove through OKC when the EF 5 hit and in a month it went back to normal and rebuilt.

If you want to HRT or SRS then do it but do it with professional medicine. A human with using a Tourniquet would probably get a septic infection and die. That is serious so think about your SO too.

Look I prep for a lot of bad things like weather. I have a week of food and keep it. I live in SE Louisiana and Katrina sucked. As much as I would hate it I can hunt too. To pass a good time then I can make my own whether it be wine, beer or whiskey.

Look. Prep and I am crazy enough to tell you that but don't prep for what you are asking about because it will end up killing you from septic shock or infection. And yes I know it is dysphoric but you would be surprised how much less you are dsyphoric when basic survival enters the picture in a doomsday scenario.

LOL and I don't mean to laugh but you can't plan totally for the end of the world because we don't really know and what difference does it make because all of our energy in an end of the world scenario will go toward survival and that would include your significant other too.

Does all that make sense? So don't do it. Your SO will love you no matter what when the world ends so.... Go with it and be thankful they love you and you are not alone.

But seriously don't worry about the apocalypse. Don't worry about Climate Change either because if the climate never changed we would not be here now. Just worry about the here and now and if the sun explodes tomorrow the screw it. You have an SO and you are who you want to be and that is all that we can ever ask for.

Dysphoria sux but please never kill yourself over it or die trying to escape it either. I will not tell you the world will be here tomorrow.  But wrapping a rubber band around your testicals in a situation where medicine will not be available is pretty serious.

So just think about things on all levels and how serious it may get in an Apocalyptic situation. But I don't believe that will ever happen until the sun expands and we all die. We have a very long time for that to happen.

If this is serious, you have my full apology. I thought we were redoing the "Nuclear war? What about my hotel reservations?" topic.

Hugs, Devlyn

The world ended at the end of WWII.  Fits the description of the end of the world to a T.  Then again, as long as people keep spouting the end of the world, it can't end.  We are not supposed to know the day or the hour, so if someone is saying the date of the end, then it is NOT that date.

Quote from: Artesia on September 27, 2017, 06:49:42 PM
The world ended at the end of WWII.  Fits the description of the end of the world to a T.  Then again, as long as people keep spouting the end of the world, it can't end.  We are not supposed to know the day or the hour, so if someone is saying the date of the end, then it is NOT that date.

Actually if you think about it, the day you die is the day the world ends for you.

I think the most important part of your post is that you get so worried/upset about these ludicrous predictions that you can change life planes and make important decisions based on that. You should focus on trying to talk about that with your therapist and trying to solve all the underlying fears.

The world is not ending anytime soon. This is probably the third time (since I was born) that people have said everything was going to end and nothing ever happens. It doesn't make any sense.

Before I had my orchiectomy, I tried rubber bands. I could not stand the pain, and found someone to remove them. Even injecting them with lidocaine would not reduce the pain enough.

If some apocalypse were to occur, my options would be: join a tribe, starve, or become dinner.

Quote from: Charlie Nicki on September 27, 2017, 07:56:08 PM
I think the most important part of your post is that you get so worried/upset about these ludicrous predictions that you can change life planes and make important decisions based on that. You should focus on trying to talk about that with your therapist and trying to solve all the underlying fears.

The world is not ending anytime soon. This is probably the third time (since I was born) that people have said everything was going to end and nothing ever happens. It doesn't make any sense.

I was only 2 at the time but my dad said people were sure the world was going to end when we reached the year 2000. He said it was more than just a small group of people. He said there were people stocking up on food and building bunkers all over the place. But here we all are.