Survivoris, by design, an extremely onerous reality competition, particularly where peoples brains and bodies are concerned.
(Thats more or less why theres a million-dollar prize awarded to whoever wins.)
What about prescription medications?
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The only thing that gives me pause: What happens if you get your period?
(Mine is torrential.)
I got my period on my first day!
As Chong explains, Those of us who menstruate get to pack whatever we want.
(Perhaps theres a case to be made for Kit Kat bars as essential period management supplies too?)
For him, that was hit or miss.
Or probably Xanaxthats a big no-no.
What about OTC meds, like if you have a headache or are vomiting?
Alternatively, Coach says, A lot of us used our fingernails.
These products are, in fact, provided by production and kept close at hand at camp.
The cameras dont go thereits like your personal space, Coach explains.
Coach says that, during his tenure, contestants used a hybridized product for both critter and sun protection.
On all three [of my] seasons, they gave us bug and sunit’s like a combination.
It was, Jack of all trades, master of none.
Every season, you see people with massive bites on their legs, he says.
Thered literally be a hundred bites when I woke upand that wasslatheringon the bug and sun.
(CBS declined to comment about whether the show offered these instructions to contestants.)
Precautions aside, people are still sleeping outside, and that sometimes means encountering unexpected visitors.
There were snakes, Coach says.
I woke up one night and there was a snake crawling across the roof.
I cant believe nobody diedand you dont get on a helicopter, because youre literally dead within 30 minutes.
Somebody almost got bit.
Theres a snake right here.
So, uh, what do you do in that scenario?
They called in the snake handler, and he was freaked outhe removed it.
(CBS declined to comment or verify whether this happened as described, or at all.)
I think that its really, really low alcohol content.
Thats my opinionI dont think anybody else will say that.
(Again, CBS declined to comment.)
If I dont drink for a week, I know exactly how alcohol is going to affect me.
Were out there without alcohol for a month, he says.
Medically, physiologicallywe should have one drink and just be smashed, but you dont really see that.
So, Im not sure what theyre giving us, because theres no labels on anything.
But I would have to say that its not a very high alcohol content.
Ive not personally witnessed somebody getting completely smashed and then having a terrible hangover the next day.
Given that I was only on the island for five days, my body was fine, Chong explains.
Emotionally…thats another question.
I have found my sessions very helpful.
Im a really strong individual.
I have a great life.
I ran back to that life as soon asSurvivorhappened, Coach says.
Its the adventure of a lifetime, but something that is finite.
If your identity becomes the show that youve been on youre leading yourself to psychological disaster.
In terms of anything he wishes he did differently for the sake of his well-being?
