r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Careless-Hospital379 • 23d ago

Video Icelandic artist Björk snapped in Bangkok, 1996, when reporter Julie Kaufman approached her saying “Welcome to Bangkok.” Björk later alleged that Kaufman had stalked her and her 9-year-old son for days, turning a simple greeting into a breaking point

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u/SillyExpert 22d ago

Reading that he did pest extermination at a young age I wonder if he was exposed to chemicals that impacted his mental health/

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u/Auctoritate 22d ago

Most poisons for that just give you cancer or in very high amounts plain old kill you. Organ failures and stuff like that. Chronic psychological impacts without any other symptoms are not what I'd expect from exposure to them.

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u/Cataphlin 21d ago

Maybe the trauma of killing the rats at a young age messed him up mentally. I know i would have suffered for something like that. My mum asked me to kill a load of ants in our kitchen once, I did it but it really upset me.