HeroicBSOD
#63145
This troper BSODs at least twice a year- Father's Day and December the 1st. This is because he hasn't seen his dad since he was 13, while before then he and his dad were inseperable- this troper no longer knows whether or not his dad is even alive, nor do any of the old man's family. I shall not talk about it any more for risk of BSODing again.
#63146
This troper had one at a very young age when her year was taken to the music room and told that one girl wasn't there today because yesterday her mum had died of an unknown heart condition. This woman was one of the kindest people I've ever met to this day and was so nice to me and everyone she met. Cue staring in silent horror while all the other girls cry.
#63147
I have never gone a year since I started high school that someone did not die. That was eight years ago. Last year it was my Mother. This year...it was my friend who died in the Tohoku Earthquake and resulting tsunami...and my Father who killed himself. I have no living family now. Whatever wanted me to suffer greatly succeeded. I blue screen harder ever year now and through spending most of the year in mourning the yearly loss. And yet somehow through all this death and misery I have gone through, I will still live. And I will live to live until my time to cross the veil arrives. And not a moment sooner. Whatever fells you fellow troper, believe when I say this: Time heals if you give it the chance. You are changed by what you have gone through. Bare the scars on your soul and continue on. And may you never know intimately the horror that I have felt these last eight years, one loss after the other, that has left me with barely a grasp of reality.
#63148
This troper proceeded to have this after being told bad news. It took her a good few minutes before finally snapping out of it and proceeding to cry.
#63149
My house was broken into and my late mother's jewelry - the ones I had admired and played with and were an integral part of my relationship with my mother - were stolen. Brain shut down in 3...2...1...
#63150
This troper has, unfortunately, had several.
#63151
During the entirety of her year of Tenth Grade, I had to, outside of school, be a caretaker for my grandparents nearly 24/7. This happening was all rather suddenly following medical complications. The sheer stress involved , in addition to giving me stomach issues I still have five years later, caused a mini-psychotic break. I basically shut down and blacked out for an hour. In class. I don't remember anything about this at all.
#63152
I had an inevitable one during my first (and currently, only) year of college. I had started college, only being 17 at the time. I was swamped and too immature to handle the stress. After finding out I had failed every single one of my classes I shut down for a good day and a half.
#63153
The year following that, I found out my Mother had breast cancer. I had one when she was in surgery to get the lump removed and became a gibbering mess in the Hospital cafeteria.
#63154
This troper had a Heroic BSoD during a trip to a Dave and Buster's in Maryland. It was over discovering that the awesome Galaxian 3 arcade cabinet there had been converted to a crappy game called Air Raid. HOW DARE THEY!!! I eventually went to a nearby DonkeyKong cabinet and took out my anger on Mario/Jumpman by killing him repeatedly. If you think I was being melodramatic...well, you know what, just look up Galaxian 3. It was pretty advanced for an arcade cabinet, even for its time.
#63155
This tropette gets these every once in a while nowadays. Just for posting certain comments on the internet. I wish people understood me!
#63156
This troper is pretty much in the middle of one since his girlfriend of 3 years cheated on him two weeks ago and told him the next time they met face-to-face. She regrets what she did, and he thinks they might be alright so long as this was just a singular stupid mistake, but his dumb brain can't help but dwell on the fact that she could do it again. Couple this with the fact that they work in separate towns during the week, and you have a man so unable to function normally that his only option is to sleep as much as possible in order to get to next weekend when he can see her again. This feels worse than the worst flu I've ever had.
#63157
Edit: I got better. Still a little paranoid, but things seem to be looking up.
#63158
Edit 2: Broke up with her this weekend because we both need time apart to gain some perspective and be independent people. It'll give her a chance to realize how awesome I am. Cue second Heroic BSOD over the prospect of me having to date again for 6 months when I really don't want to have to deal with other women.
#63159
Edit 3: I got better again. Talked to a good friend who helped me a lot. Also talked with the gf and the breakup is having the desired effect. I also feel better because I went on a sort-of-date last night with this nice girl.
#63160
There isn't really much middle ground between "let's deal with this" trouble (walking in on drunken landlord attempting to kill himself, his crazy and also drunk wife, and their dog by carbon monoxide poisoning...or perhaps just trying to burn the house down) and "complete meltdown hysterical sobbing" trouble (BIG trouble, the kind you don't want to talk about) for this troper...so she was shocked one day when she came home from the beach, checked the mailbox, and turned into the driveway, facing the house next door...and discovered the neighbour's beautiful tree had been cut down while she was gone. She just stood there, holding the junk mail, mouth open; she'd never felt that weird blank-minded numbness before. She unfroze a minute or so later, but it took seeing the reaction of the neighbours when they came home from their fishing trip and really went BSOD, before going berserk, to make it go away; it turned out that the tree-cutting was the idea of their landlord, not them, which somehow made it better. To make matters worse, this troper had to deal with an upside-down goldfish a few days later, causing the same kind of reaction...except this time it lasted most of the day. She had to ask her father to dispose of the fish. She sort of wishes she was still young enough to start sobbing over a cut-down tree or a dead fish, since it's much better than this.
#63161
This troper was leading a simple improv game today. He'd swap with the Junior manager to give topics. The Junior manager, without thinking, blurted out, "Arizona's Immigration Law". He turned to her and started cutting his throat with his hand, mouthing, "CHANGE IT! CHANGE IT!" Unfortunately, one of the people on-stage decided to run with it. After the change was made to running shoes as the topic, the entire team was treated to a scene where the first line was, "Welcome to Arizona, where we discriminate against you because you're not white!" Troper here pulls off glasses and puts his face in his lap, thinking, "Fuuuuuuuuuu-" Then he noticed the second problem: EVERYONE WAS LAUGHING AT A POORLY-INFORMED POLITICAL VIEW. BSOD occurs, with 15 minutes of practice left. He was able to control the shut-down-entirely bit, instead going from loud-and-energetic to quiet-and-reserved in speech and manner.
#63162
This troper went into a massive BSOD after episode 7 of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) to the point where she almost dropped the series altogether. My thoughts were basically reduced to "No... why?" and "Shou Tucker, {{You Bastard}}!" as I'd actually grown quite fond of Nina. She reminded me of myself when I was around her age, and to see her be turned into a chimera by her own father only to die a horrible death at the hands of Scar was just... it just crushed me. If the stoic image that I'd been forcing myself to keep up at my local Scout group hadn't effectively killed the darkest of my emotions, Ed wouldn't have been the only one crying... [-yes, it was that bad...-]
#63163
Have now gone into another one after episode 6 of {{Black Cat}}. Line of thought was reduced to "Saya... no..." and "I hate you, Creed... I hate you SO MUCH right now...". won't be able to watch any more of the series for a while. Scratch that. Am now up to episode 12. [-Creed Diskenth, I hope to God you get what you deserve for this.-] [--Why did it have to be Saya...? The one who reminded me so much of myself... dead... that--] ''[--bastard--]''[--...--]
#63164
Am now tempted to drop .hack//SIGN altogether due to Tsukasa's utter STUPIDITY. My thoughts? At the time, reduced to WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO TRY TO FIGHT THEM, YO]]
#63165
This tropers grandfather died. He stayed completely composed and stoic when hearing the news. He then went up to his room and had a BSOD of epic proportions.
#63166
This troper had one, along with my mother and brother, when we returned from a trip to see my father for the last time, and got a call from my auntie saying that he had died. We all just clung to each other and cried for ages.
#63167
This troper had one when he looked at his Geography guide for the semestral exam: 70 questions with full explanations. Then had another one when he received the final guide: 50 questions. I thought "this has got to be a fucking joke". In the same way, everyone will get one of these when they get to highschool.
#63168
This troper is coming out of a seven-year BSOD, due to a long string of traumatic events and circumstances under which she had to suppress her emotions to survive the situation and people around her. She figures she's stronger for having gone through it.
#63169
I pretty much broke after confessing to several relatives something that would have, with enough evidence, gotten the perpetrator (not me) jailed for sizeable portions of their life... years after the fact.
#63170
This troper used to cry like hell whenever something bad happened. Then she got mentally ill for several years, and has never quite recovered. She nows does not respond in any emotional way even if ''close friends get cancer''. She feels ''nothing''.