I mean, did you source your parents? I expect in-text citations and inclusion of your birth certificate within the bibliography.

What do you believe the root cause of depression in men to be?

Fair enough. I’m sorry those weren’t helpful for you, I also found CBT to be less helpful than DBT and family model therapy.

I know a lot of trauma-exposed professionals that EMDR has been life-changing for, so I was really curious where that opinion came from. I think it has a lot of merit- like that one study that demonstrated the Tetris effect is helpful for reducing PTSD after a critical incident. A good professional won’t move to EMDR until the client is ready to tackle the memories, I know for some it’s been 6 months before talking about the original issue that caused them to seek out therapy. Every time you recount the traumatizing event it can retraumatize, so tackling it too soon (or needing to go through it over and over so workers comp can pay for the therapy you need after getting traumatized at work) is dangerous.

I’m very curious, what makes you call CBT and EMDR trash?

Appreciate you trying to share perspective, and you’re right that the current climate of selling fear begets violence. That said, the next step is to hope that the perpetrator is penalized to the full extent of the law because anything less normalizes this reaction.

I meant that they are still a killer. Even if they are deemed incompetent to stand trial, they’ve taken a life. Yes, castle doctrine exists, but in most other places the wording is “reasonable force”. As in, it would be unreasonable to attack and kill someone unarmed at your door regardless of what you thought their intentions were.

I wonder if there is a name for someone who kills someone who shows up at their door, even if they thought that person was a threat.

You’re absolutely right! Being nice is a hallmark of AI bots. That’s very astute of you - em dash- you’re probably pretty smart and handsome!

Agreed. By much correspondence, I was referring to how there are still some services that have not migrated to digital alternatives.

Mail should be considered a utility like electricity and access to potable water. It shouldn’t be restricted to profitable areas.

Right??? Our geography dictates that there is no way to both be profitable and ensure that all areas of the country have access to mail service, which remains how much government correspondence is handled.

I would much prefer my tax dollars be spent on TAKING DOWN ALREADY CONSTRUCTED BIKE LANES

/s for the love of god

When I saw it, I had an overwhelming sense that this image will have immense historical value.

Wait until she hears about sriracha mayo.

Healthcare nomenclature is moving away from “opioid overdose” to “opioid poisoning”. This is partly to do with stigma related to substance use- overdose can feel like it assigns blame “well if they just dosed correctly…”. Also, poisoning is more accurate if you consider the fact that many street drugs have impurities, and unless you are having your drugs tested or testing them yourself, you can’t be sure that you are taking the “correct” dose (or even what you are taking at all).

I put did not put “correct” in quotations to stigmatize, but rather to highlight that there isn’t an established correct dose for street drugs. Correct in this case would mean to desired effect, and I understand why people choose to self-medicate so please don’t take offense. Be safe out there!

In interviews he’s said how we are the messed up ones for finding it gross. Something along the lines of “everyone is fine with the child murders but somehow the sex scene is wrong”.

I’ve reread it a couple times but skip over that scene.

Actually kind of sweet.

Maybe they are a fan of the exorcist.

That’s my dream office haha. Somewhere that no one knows exists.

Interesting architectural mystery

How?