Choking Game, Pass Out and Get a High Options

[Comptine]

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Choking game
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The choking game is not a game in the traditional sense but a method of self-asphyxiation whereby a person cuts off the supply of oxygen to their brain for a "rush" or "high". Knowledge of the activity has been passed around schoolyards, typically between 9- 14 year olds, for years.

The choking/fainting game became prominent in the news in early 2005 when a number of children across the United States died from self-asphyxiation, including Gabriel Mordecai of California, Chelsea Dunn and Dalton Eby of Idaho, Dylan Blake of Florida and Jason Linkins of North Carolina to name just a few.

The origin of the activity is unknown, but versions of the "game" have been reported for generations. One method was to cut off blood flow to the brain using one's own hands. This was achieved by pressing your thumbs against the carotid artery. The blood loss to the brain would cause the person to pass out for a moment at which time their arms would fall limp and blood flow would be restored. The resulting rush of blood to the brain would cause tingling and a slight sense of euphoria for a few seconds. Another method was for the participant to hold his or her breath while another person pressed the base of their hands in the area of the heart, thus stopping blood flow.

The method that came to prominence in the news media involved the use of a ligature. An accomplice would hold the belt or rope around the victim's neck. When they were seen to go limp, the accomplice would then release the pressure. If the airflow is restricted for too long or if the victim is alone using a ligature to apply pressure, brain damage and death can occur. Children are misled in believing that this activity is safe because it is not illegal.

Within the past two months, I had encounters with this game like three times. Once, it was when my friend told me that she played a version of the Pass Out Game. Another was on a news clip and another was in a magazine article. It's freaking me out because it seems more and more news stories are popping up about it. Like all kids do it or something.

Click for an article about the Choking Game.

Have any of you played it? Watched someone play it? Or even know about this game? Is anyone else freaked out by this?

[*wind&fire*]

idiots... killing brain cells..

[*salcha*]

I should try that before a test.

[Looow]

YEAH.

I heard about that a long time ago. My sister's friend was giving me a longgggggggggggg talk about how I shouldn't do stuff like that.

I think it's stupid.

[*Solipsist*]

I played that a couple of times in 8th grade.
You don't pass out for a long time though

- Solipsist

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

I used to play that in 7th grade. A bunch of girls would go into the bathrooms and faint one another. I was particularly good at it. But i was stupid back then. And i dont do it anymore, and i advise others not to.

Also in 7th grade, they fainted me too much ( like 7 times in a row ) and I passed out, went to the hospital, woke up and was temporarily blind for a while. A few girls were suspended for it later on that month or so.

[Looow]

Bella, I'm going to slap you next time I see you at the mall.

[Gigi]

That...I've never even heard of that before. But it's scary. It's freaky how people can say that choking themselves is a "game" and you can get high off it.

Now that I think of it, though, drugs and alcohol, smoking. It's all the same. We're doing things that harm our bodies in the short and long term in order to get a very, very short term high? That's so...dumb. That's so sad.

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

Suzy Q - Pshhh.
Lorena - ): I dont think i should meet you at the mall anymore Lol. xpp

Heey, i said i stopped.

[mzbbc]

nooo i never heard of that before. haha but i've played "pass the pain" before. yes i'm so daring.

[*Libertie*]

Reminds me of an episode of CSI.. or one of those tv shows, it may have been something else.

Weird though, and definitely scary. My brother's nine, I don't want to think about that. :(

[The_AZN_Godfathe...]

Never heard of that before.

Sounds like drugs. Except a lot faster results.

[silver-rain]

Hmm, I read an article on that in Seventeen.
Yeah, I agree, it's a stupid 'game.' I would never want to play it.

[iced__cappucino]

thats so..fking...retarded. and i remember seeing one of my friends do that. its so stupid, words cant explain it.

[*liquidize*]

i did it before LOL
yeah there were a group of guys doing it and one fell! HAHA

[xosteffanator]

I read an article about his in seventeen
Except there it's called the pass out game
It was so sad-a kid died from it

[sprezzatura]

Losers. This "game" is just...too stupid.

[ANG33ZY]

wow a choking game. -_-

reading how you're supposed to press your thumbs against the carotid artery to play. gives me the shivers.

[*stephinika*]

wow. that sounds scary. not a game i would like to play at all.

[Hiphop d[-_-]b]

i did it before LOL
yeah there were a group of guys doing it and one fell! HAHA

A few of my friends who fainted others ( We called it fainting ) said that if theyre head hits the ground while they were unconscious, that it could cause even more permanent damage, actual unconsciousness and possibly amnesia.

[fameONE]

I tried that in the 8th grade and didn't really know what it did. I passed out, woke up and whooped the kid's ass.

[Stephire]

:/
I've heard of it, but I've never seen anyone "play" it.
The only games they "play" like that here is the ABC game.
Which hurts, a lot.
That's really....sad.

[Nugget]

I think I read something about this on Seventeen Magazine or some magazine. This girl told this other girl about it and then that girl was telling other people about it because she loved the feeling and no one would play because they thought it was dangerous so she used a belt to play herself, but she never woke up and she was all purple. Dead in her closet. A lot of girls died from that game. Crazy.

[_sarcastic_]

^me too, i just read it last night. i think the magazine was seventeen.
sounds really scary, i wouldn't do it

[mouse_3k]

I saw this girl who loved playing this game on Dr. Phil. its stupid and retarded and people who play tht game deserve to die if they are just dangling dead infront of them and taunting it.

[jennyjenny]

I read this in the summer. It was on like the front page of the paper because some kid in another town like, died and ended up hanging himself. It seems so stupid.

[Rachel]

This is so sad. There have already been enough kids dying from this "game".

[*mipadi*]

Seriously WTF?

[-lana]

I've never heard of this.. it doesn't seem like a game I want to play either.

[Retrogressive]

...why does this remind me of Heathers?

[Jeng]

This was achieved by pressing your thumbs against the carotid artery. The blood loss to the brain would cause the person to pass out for a moment at which time their arms would fall limp and blood flow would be restored. The resulting rush of blood to the brain would cause tingling and a slight sense of euphoria for a few seconds. Another method was for the participant to hold his or her breath while another person pressed the base of their hands in the area of the heart, thus stopping blood flow.

thats creepy!
but hmm...wheres the carotid artery?
bot that im gonig to try it.
---

Another method was for the participant to hold his or her breath while another person pressed the base of their hands in the area of the heart

and for that one..would you just..take your hands and push against their heart?
--im just wondering..this is my first time of hearing this.and no im not going to try this or do it to anyone.

[racoons > you]

lol... this game entertained us for one school trip all weekend. you couldnt move for people fainting all over th eplace.

we're all very cool.

naw, tis a dumb thing to do, and we were made to stop

[Tribal J_Rome]

i never ever heard of this game before. why would u wanna suffocate urself...

[*StanleyThePanda*]

I was at a party and people were doing it.
Then I read in a magazine about some girl dying from it.
I wouldnt do it.

[ParanoidAndroid]

I caught my friend play it with this delinquent in the girls bathroom...i ended up slapping them senseless for worrying me so much

[cLinT_wEStw0oD]

i would never trust anybody with my limp, clueless, knocked out body. especially not my friends.


-Please use a more appropriate choice of words. thank you-

[StarryEyedSurpri...]

People used to do it at my school all the time. I haven't seen anybody do it this year though.

[Aoiro]

I've tried it a few times, and two of my friends tried it.
But they didn't make it too serious to pass out.

I haven't heard/seen anybody do that recently though.

[*lolita kitty*]

I've tried it a few times, and two of my friends tried it.
But they didn't make it too serious to pass out.

I haven't heard/seen anybody do that recently though.

I TAUGHT YOU GUYS THAT!!!!!!!!!
wait, that was brandi and aj. in 6th grade. wait did i teach you that?
im lost O_O.

yeah, brandi was at my house the other day, and we were doing that......

[Aoiro]

Jaylyn taught me that.
I think she did.
Or was that AJ?
O_____o;;

It was in the 7th grade.

[Ington]

That sounds like a fun game.

[*not_your_average*]

I think I read something about this on Seventeen Magazine or some magazine. This girl told this other girl about it and then that girl was telling other people about it because she loved the feeling and no one would play because they thought it was dangerous so she used a belt to play herself, but she never woke up and she was all purple. Dead in her closet. A lot of girls died from that game. Crazy.

Yeah! I read about it too. What a retard. SMH.

[ParanoidAndroid]

That sounds like a fun game.

You got a deathwish or something? You want Euphoria? Risking a life isnt worth it..so just have sex! (even though sex is sometimes life-risking)

[*not_your_average*]

You got a deathwish or something? You want Euphoria? Risking a life isnt worth it..so just have sex! (even though sex is sometimes life-risking)

Uh, Yen...he was being sarcastic.

[steezahh]

I think I read something about this on Seventeen Magazine or some magazine. This girl told this other girl about it and then that girl was telling other people about it because she loved the feeling and no one would play because they thought it was dangerous so she used a belt to play herself, but she never woke up and she was all purple. Dead in her closet. A lot of girls died from that game. Crazy.

yes.yes. i heard that story. my teacher gave us alecture on that story and the whole concept. that game scares me. i am too very daring.. but this is just crazy. i really want it to stop because i dont want my younger brother to get into that stuff.. it scares me. since i have and will always have a twin brother.. its like we have each other to tell us whats wrong a right.. but my little brother.. only has himself.. and his friends could lead that in a bad wayy. so i`m wayyyyy against it. oh and Bella im on your side. i know once a quitter always a quitter.. haha Suzzette & Lorena!

[5ayuri]

I hadn't even heard of this.
It's not something I would play. Kinda freaky.

[Smoogrish]

It's completely stupid. Not only that, but I heard it was possibly addictive - because after they've gotten the high once or twice, they can't stop wanting to get that "winderful high" again and again. And there've been several deaths too.. it's terrible. I don't really understand the fun in practically choking yourself and passing out. It's just as bad as doing drugs.

[smearedmakeup]

I just did that not too long ago.
I did it because I liked the feeling, but now.. I don't think I like the feeling anymore.

[Looow]

I TAUGHT YOU GUYS THAT!!!!!!!!!
wait, that was brandi and aj. in 6th grade. wait did i teach you that?
im lost O_O.

yeah, brandi was at my house the other day, and we were doing that......

Cassie! Why? Don't.

[faded23]

it kind of reminds me of the beginning of 13 where they're getting high off the dust off and punch each other and stuff and the one (Tracy?) passes out

[ParanoidAndroid]

^Yeah they were kinda doing the same thing

Uh, Yen...he was being sarcastic.

OH..wait howd u know my name?

[demolished]

It sounds very addicting after reading everyone's comments. Haha. I never played that game in my whole life. I never see anyone did it.

[ANG33ZY]

There's an article about this in February's issue of Seventeen. Just got it today.

[*not_your_average*]

^Yeah they were kinda doing the same thing
OH..wait howd u know my name?

Retrofied.

[LuvsDogs387]

I've heard of this before. Sounds stupid. Plus you could really hurt yourself by doing that...or even worse, kill yourself

[DaTru KataLYST]

never seen it or played it, have heard of it in the news. What a WEIRD, STUPID fad! idiots =S

[shortiiex]

i did that like 2 years ago.
My only memory was that i fainted and fell off the floor..and i was trying to get up but i just kept falling.it was a werid thing...
but i am never doing it again

[ParanoidAndroid]

Retrofied.

OYEAH ur radhika! lol

[m.ar.i.a]

some people are bored
and no, i haven't heard of this game.
but this is sad :(

[o0olaalaa]

nope but it is really freaky

[pandamonium]

I've heard of this before. Sounds stupid. Plus you could really hurt yourself by doing that...or even worse, kill yourself 

some of you guys are saying that its STUPID and that they are LOSERS. but think about it, they are just little kids. when i heard of it i wanted to try it i was in like 2nd grade and i tried it once but not seriously we gave up cause we didnt think it would work. but these kids are curious just like us.

look at it through their eyes. you guys look at them and called them losers but they are just kids they don't know better. they didnt know it could kill them.

[ParanoidAndroid]

some of you guys are saying that its STUPID and that they are LOSERS. but think about it, they are just little kids. when i heard of it i wanted to try it i was in like 2nd grade and i tried it once but not seriously we gave up cause we didnt think it would work. but these kids are curious just like us.

look at it through their eyes. you guys look at them and called them losers but they are just kids they don't know better. they didnt know it could kill them.

Some of them are 13...I think at that age, they know whether they're taking too much of a risk

[pandamonium]

Some of them are 13...I think at that age, they know whether they're taking too much of a risk

yea you said "some", the others fall under the age of 13. and who do you think teaches them, their older brothers or sisters.

i am not saying they shouldnt be stopped i just think that calling some of them "losers" shouldnt be the way to solve it especially when we were little curious kids ourselves.

[Gigi]

^ Surely, if kids that young could have the ability to understand the human body enough to be able to "faint" themselves as a game, then they would know that it's potentially harmful?

[Comptine]

yeah, guys. it was from seventeen.

^ i agree with gigiopolis. what part of "choking game" sounds remotely healthy? yeah, little kids might not really understand (but they do understand we need air to live). but teenagers? in the news clip, this girl was like, "it isn't drugs or something. it doesn't mess up your organs. you just pass out. like on a roller coaster."

i was so shocked. i kinda thought she needed to die. some kids can't have someone to play the game with so they choke themselves by hanging from some strap thing. the strap sometimes doesn't unhook and they literally hang themselves. hello? heard of the gallows?

[Mr. Slowjamz]

i played that game ....once when i was at church and when my friend placed his hand on my heart .....it felt soo freaky ...its like you automatically faint ...and you dont remember what happens when you wake up . the 2nd time i tried it wasin the boys locker room during gym when my classmates held the arteries on my neck i fainted .....i woke up having a painful sensation on my stomach and legs ...and i found out that my shoes were missing too ...lol ..i guess they beat me up and copped my shoes while i was unconscious .

[Socialite]

Well that's just plain dumb.

[klumzy]

hey people do stupid things, just like that vonage commercial

[Saeglopur]

Hmm... far too much oxygen gets you high. I hope many know that.

I don't think I would ever "play" the choking game.
But who knows..

[Heathasm]

hmm...sometimes when i want to relax i hold my breath for as long as i can and then let it out and i feel pretty good

[*mipadi*]

hmm...sometimes when i want to relax i hold my breath for as long as i can and then let it out and i feel pretty good

That's not really the same thing as the "choking game".

[[Mediocre]Artist]

Only thing I've ever heard like that is Scarving, and its not exactly something you play with other people >.>

Meh, the kids I know play with real drugs *shrug*

[sharpandcuddly]

I am paranoid about choking cause I have bad allergies.
I would totally freak out if I saw ANYONE do this.
I'd be like HOLY SH*T CALL AND AMBULANCE.

yea, i read it in my seventeen too.

[Dragonfly_babe]

Woah some kids in my class were actually teaching my teacher how to do it

[Ington]

I have actually never heard about this until now.

Its like taking drugs, I suppose. Its done for the same reason kids sniff white-out and toxic markers.

[Smoogrish]

Yeah.. Sharpies are like elementary school drugs..

You see all htese tiny little kindergarteners running around elementary school brandishing sharpies and yelling "MMMMMM SMELLS SO GOOOOOOD". I swear, one day, it'll be some drug that gangstas (ME!) do on the street.. and then in Health Ed (NO THE TERROR) they'll have to teach children how to refuse Sharpies.

"What do you do if someone offers you a pack of rainbow colored Sharpies?"

"Use the exchange method and ask if they want to do something else!"

[heyyfrankie]

i'm remembering this "game" back whenever i was in 3rd grade. some friends were trying to do it one day in my room but did it wrong so it didn't work but yeah...s c a r y

[*chaneun*]

this was on oprah once.

[bballchick1]

yea..i saw something about this on dr. phil lol - it's really scary and he said it could turn out to be fatal for some people so it definitely freaks me out that people actually do it

[KissMe2408]

lol actually i was backstage at the theatre today rehearsing for a play, and while it wasn't our scene a bunch of friends were like, "hey let's pay the choking game" and they started to choke themselves/each other. and then they came torwards me and I was like ha, no way.
lol yah.

[Smoogrish]

lol actually i was backstage at the theatre today rehearsing for a play, and while it wasn't our scene a bunch of friends were like, "hey let's pay the choking game" and they started to choke themselves/each other. and then they came torwards me and I was like ha, no way.
lol yah.

WAH! Why didn't you stop them?

See, I don't understand this. Why do it if you could die?

[Comptine]

^ my friend played a different version. she said she got a high off of it. like she and her friends compared the feelings. some said that it felt like any high you can get on drugs. some said it gave them a thrill cause it felt like falling really fast. most of them agreed that after they woke up (after a few minutes of disorientation) that they had so much energy and it felt like they've been sleeping for quite some time.

[omgah_itsmaggiex]

yea, i remember that being on 20/20 like last year or something and some of them die.

[illumineering]

i am not saying they shouldnt be stopped i just think that calling some of them "losers" shouldnt be the way to solve it especially when we were little curious kids ourselves.

I agree. Judging and labeling these kids isn't going to help anything. I'm sure none of us have engaged in reckless behavior at one time or another. Nope. Not me. No way.

[Jeng]

i dont get how you play this.
>>>someone want to explain to me x;
i read thefirst post about it but i didnt really understand when they said..

This was achieved by pressing your thumbs against the carotid artery.

isnt that the artery where you feel your heart beat?...do you just put pressure on it really hard?

and on this one...

  Another method was for the participant to hold his or her breath while another person pressed the base of their hands in the area of the heart, thus stopping blood flow.

how would you do that?
>>but im just wondering..im not going to try it or make other people try it.<<

[Smoogrish]

You basically put your hands around your neck and block the air going to your lungs until you pass out. Some people actually half-hang themselves.. that's how some of them died, because they did it wrong basically hanged themselves.

Yeah, and about the blood flow, that would be the oxygen idea, because the blood carries oxygen to your brain. I've never heard of anyone becoming brain-dead because of it, but I bet it's possible.

[crazeegirl411]

Another method was for the participant to hold his or her breath while another person pressed the base of their hands in the area of the heart, thus stopping blood flow.

I've heard that one...and last year someone actually did it in class. I don't know if the guy did it wrong but he didn't pass out when she pressed his heart.

Also...yeah..I hate how people call people stupid when they don't know what's going on in them individually. Like caller cutters stupid or people that do drugs or this "choking" game. I'm not defending them, it's not right for them to do so...I'm just against those who don't understand and then end up calling them "stupid."

Not everyone is as sensible as you...whether you're their age or not. It's like playing tag when you were young...nobody's going to think, "Oh..no, I might trip and fall and hurt myself, I won't do it." Therefore they won't think, "Oh I might die from passing out."

It's like smoking also. I hate people that smoke..but you can understand that those that were curious of it tried it once. ONCE. And then they got addicted. There are those that are just not as strong willed.

It just makes me wonder how people could just call them "stupid." Wow, you've never done stupid yourself...you just happened to pick the right thing to be stupid on, perhaps.

[AnnahhbeL]

i would never play a game as scary and stupid as that.

[ikayto]

stupid white people :P

[WHOngos144]

Wow, they dumb.

[Gerifan04]

I just heard about this the other day on the news. I've never seen it happen or known anyone who does it but it doesn't surprise me. There is a whole subculture of people who cut off their oxygen supply during orgasms to highten the feeling. I've never tried that or the choking game and I don't plan to. I'm usually very supportive of people and openminded but I"m perfectly proud of saying I don't support people who do either thing. I hope they all wake up and stop this.

[ParanoidAndroid]

hey people do stupid things, just like that vonage commercial

[demolished]

stupid white people :P

Pathetic racist people.

[ikayto]

Pathetic racist people.

stupid white people :P

[maryissa]

I heard about this in a show. I dont remember what show thought.
I think this game is stupid.

[Lizzz.]

I saw this on 20/20. Except that version was with shoe laces & you hang yourself. Ugh how creepy .
Two word I think about when I heard this: Stupid, stupid.

[angel-roh]

OMG.

I hope my sister doesn't hear about this and try it.


She's like A DESPERATE TEMPTATION CRAZY GIRL.

wow did I said that out loud? OOPS.

[parallel]

That's sick&wrong.
Stupid game if you ask me.
&I read in some teen mag. that this girl died cuz she was overly obsessed with the pleasure she was recieving from passing out.

[Levy2k6]

i saw this on geraldo.. i wanted to slap those kids for being stupid

[Smoogrish]

It IS stupid. Honestly, if you want a high, do something nice or get something better to do. Why do it if it's dangerous and you could potentially die, get brain damage, and/or go into a coma from lack of oxygen in the brain?

People these days.