Looking Again at SSRIs in Adolescent Depression and Anxiety “Society gets the type of adolescent that it expects and deserves.” A response of sorts to @ploederl.bsky.social‘s recent blogpost www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/looking-ag...

'I once put forward the view that there was no need to be too much horrified at finding in a woman the idea of sucking at a male organ.' - Sigmund Freud, ladies' man.

Memorable qotes of the seminar: 'we all have our madnesses and psychoses - there is no such thing as the perfectly developed human psyche' 'too much reality is too hard - we can only take a little bit of reality at one time'

Having been in analysis for years with a therapist who really leans into the blank slate attitude, it is WILD to me that when a friend brought up cheating to their therapist, the therapist's first response was 'well that's why I'm poly' 💀

Tell me you're a Vodaphone customer without telling me you're a Vodaphone customer..

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Decided to have the online porn chat with the newly-eleven year old. Me: have you heard of porn/pornography? Him: no… Me: it’s images or videos of people having sex Him: oh yeah it’s in the Simpsons all the time. … Me [having never seen the film]: you know how Saving Private Ryan isn’t like…

Cats love Freud.

One Avro Vulcan in lemon and lime sponge. Idk it’s 2:34, it’s gin o’clock. 😴✈️

Being the entirety of a young person’s educational or health care provision is one of the most weighty aspects of my work. The LA get away with it because ‘it’s all they will engage with’, often for years, because it saves money. But tell me, would you want your child to have one or two sessions..

First bits coming soon… I may well live tweet on Friday/Saturday the trials and tribulations of making a 16” long realistic aeroplane cake.

‘Is Is Cake?’ is great and all but it’s set the bar waaaay too high for birthday cakes in my household. This year’s request: The Avro Vulcan. Fml.

My therapist told me he saw a movie which made him both think of me AND cry and I really don’t know what sort of glitchy parallel universe I’ve entered into.

Even if there is a drug or environmental factor that increases incidence of BEING A CERTAIN WAY, who cares. Surely the main thing is that ALL PEOPLE ARE VALUED, whatever?

Winding up right wingers on both sides of the pond by mentioning that I had giant boxes of paracetamol on prescription for each of my pregnancies. As well as three types of opiates which is presumably the pain relief mothers will get if they don’t get paracetamol. And if you’ve never had an…

Castratiob anxiety intensifies as my son walks in on me having a wee.. Son: mum do you have a penis? Me: no I don’t. Son: well I do. *strips* Look at my penis! 🫥

Kinda regretting signing up to a course reading a lot of Freud for this academic year. It starts this week. But look. I have this to pet instead!

Meet the new family members 😻

Half a pack of chocolate digestives with instant coffee. I spent a lot of my childhood working on markets with my mum and it was my usual drink/treat first thing in the morning on a cold day 😶

Wordle 1,550 3/6* ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 It describes me 🙃

Of all the places to pick up someone, I would rather be celibate than choose another mum doing the same school run as me. Surely I’m not alone?! archive.ph/Rnm9k

Every year we give every 7 year old in Stroud District - an FGR replica shirt. wWe nominate one game where anyone that wants can come and collect their shirt and watch the game - it’s one of the best match days of our season, with our north stand totally packed with kids.

It’s the night before we get the kitten and cat. it feels a lot like the nights in very late pregnancy, when you know your life is about to change, so you try to savour how it is right now. Rumi is winning on the nene front for mum btw, @alejandrahope.bsky.social 😹

So close to asking the school for their evidence base for this statement 🙃

The impulsive tomato box purchase was great. Only now I’m too full up of tomatoes from my head to-ma-toes 😝

No real life book but the audiobook voice acting on The Cut Throat Trial makes it super gripping and I can highly recommend for all your journeys. Especially tip runs in the rain 🌧️ @barristersecret.bsky.social

My analyst told me I have ‘good intuition’ today 🥺

Looking at my work schedule, feeling like Andy in his Dinosaur Adventures, thinking ‘we just need more time!’ and wishing I had his magical Dino Clock to take me away from everything for a while 😅

My ten year old’s ’ideal lunch’ is massively putting my coffee and hobnobs scoffed between sessions to shame 😭 I’m convinced one day I’ll grow up, like properly.

We are getting a kitten (and his mum 🙈)!

Spotted this in Roblox today in a driving in England simulator 🙃

My toddler, over dinner: ‘mummy I want to talk about how your job is a mystery to me’ Me too kiddo, me too.

One of those strongly held beliefs I’m developing as I get older is that children shouldn’t be given screens to stare at in supermarkets. Such a minor thing but I just see missed learning - not just maths/life skills but also social skills - waiting, helping others etc. I think of Winnicott here…

Eldest wanted to make up his own bread recipe (Greek yoghurt and Brazil nuts). I was not convinced. It is, in fact, delicious. I wish I had a tenth of his self confidence 😅

The Mail really stretching the concept of breaking news … www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

DVLA really keeping with the times. 🦠

Just putting it out there that I reckon Destination X will have Hungary as one of the destinations in the last two episodes because Hungarian was the only language at the airport of a country they haven’t been in yet 🇭🇺

Signs you are the youngest of three - being three years old and crying in the car that I could not find the ‘What the Romans did for us’ music he demanded that I find on Spotify 🏛️

Not a bad place to live. #cotswolds

Me: I just can’t remember anything, I have no idea where we are. What were we just taking about? Supervisor: I told you to write about your work [for publication] and you ignored me and moved on to another client. Me: ah! I’ve remembered where I was now… moving swiftly on… 😅

Found on Reddit.

Do I buy last minute Greenbelt tickets? ⛺️

35 today! I had a giant waterfight, delicious chocolate cake, and have been drinking cider in a field surrounded by family and friends all afternoon 👌

“In another essay, Winnicott writes, ‘Without one person to love and to hate he cannot come to know that it is the same person he loves and hates, so cannot find his sense of guilt, and his desire to repair and restore.’”

When people say I like to make life hard for myself, I would like to introduce them to my daughter who takes it to new levels:

The toddler has spent weeks asking me to make lasagna. I have finally made it. Anyway, what he REALLY wanted was the song: ‘Sing lasagna sing lasagna sing lasagna to the King of Kings’. Fml.

Thanks, Google. Meticulous research.

Our little town now has a second gelato shop on top of the two ice cream parlours… Pistachio + Bueno sauce + fresh waffles 🧇😋

Perfect ‘long wait in children’s A&E’ reading 👌 (Child had a tick bite and now v lethargic with a nasty fever)

Toddlers are hard work but when he asks for me to play ‘buddy and an old man’ (aka We Will Rock You), my heart just melts 🥺