If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

a Tumblr screenshot for those of us whose GAD-7 scores have been creeping upward this year

So funny when people are filled with rage and consternation that consensus among mental health professionals supports trans people and transition care. Like you don't say, therapists are in favor of proactively changing the thing about your life that's making you miserable? Real head-scratcher.

Here's a thread on how I talk to my patients about Large Language Models. As a therapist, I really hate the idea of anyone turning to ChatGPT for emotional support. I am also radically committed to meeting my patients where they're at instead of saying "Don't do that!" Here is what say.

"If people don't estrange over politics then why are so many liberal-and-left young adults estranging from their MAGA parents" because people who believe in dominance ideologies abuse their kids a lot, hope this helps

I know this is a bold stance in America, but I simply do not believe we should be declaring war on another country for “stealing our oil” when the oil is, in fact, under the ground of that other country

carrie: big is moving to paris bluesky user in her replies: plus there’s a CHEETO 😡 in the damn WHITE HOUSE 😡

As a therapist, I am so tired of trend pieces focusing on the minority of adult child/parent estrangements that don't involve unambiguous abuse, neglect, or addiction. Nearly no one goes no-contact with their functional, nonabusive parents over political differences or nebulous "poor boundaries."

If you turn off the AI settings that let Google train chatbots with your emails, it takes revenge by dumping all of your spam into your main inbox so that you can't find anything. Always a good sign when a technology is so beloved you have to blackmail your users into adopting it.

Oh, I think it’s great. For millennia, the masses assumed the rich were chosen by God, and over the course of one decade we get to see daily just how untrue that really is.

My most therapist trait is that whenever I see this I think "parentified kitten"

Still laughing at this. Cannot imagine a more self-discrediting argument for socialism than “under socialism, you should be able to gesture to your crotch, tell a customer to suck it and keep your job”.

My Spotify Listening Age is 38, which I do think is the worst of all possible worlds. If it thought I was over 50 it would be like "I have an old soul! I appreciate the classics!" But I am merely about four years ahead of myself where being washed is concerned.

👏 WHICH 👏 PARENTS 👏 RIGHTS?

It makes me really uncomfortable seeing visible-sternum thinness coming back into vogue, because I WAS that thin and I viscerally remember how it physically sucked. I was so exhausted, moody, my blood sugar would crash randomly, and my teeth would literally chatter at 50 degrees.

If the Dems had any fuckin’ brains, saying “the part of Epstein is trying to make laws that let them look in your kid’s pants” would be a pretty easy way to crush the Republicans

Interesting thread

I'm so good at being like "why am I having a nervous breakdown? my life is great, I have nothing to worry about" meanwhile I didn't get the loan repayment grant I applied for, my husband is partially furloughed, our hot water was out for most of the week, and my debit card information was stolen.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

well, I read it, and the salient, non-gross part is Lizza alleging, midsentence and without elaboration, that Nuzzi ran numerous “catch-and-kill operations” on RFK’s behalf, which would give her a role in both his appointment and the untold preventable deaths he has abetted in office. Cool.

the implicit standard of "criminality" is doing a lot of work here, mostly as a desperate appeal to avoid thinking (not grading any of your students' exams is not criminal behavior either but you can very quickly see how that might nevertheless put a professor's employment in jeopardy)

The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.

Important 🧵! There's tons of research on this in school contexts (plus DV & cults as Sandy notes). The only programs that effectively address bullying 1) bolster community relationships & 2) provide explicit bystander training. Standing up to a bully/abuser runs counter to human survival instincts.

A lot of education discourse is at root an inability to decide whether the purpose of our education system is to 1) teach material and measure learning 2) reward students who work hard 3) separate the smart kids (destined for smart guy jobs) from the dumb kids (destined to serve the smart guys)

It's sort of a bummer to me that the reaction to the Epstein emails has basically been "kids are actually fair game to traffic after puberty" on the right and "LMFAO TRUMP MIGHT HAVE DONE GAY SHIT" on the left.

sorry but i think it’s newsworthy every time someone wants to fuck rfk jr. and we’re never going to fully understand human psychology if we don’t figure it out

Put another way, I think people are more scared of drinking something that they think could kill anyone, versus experiencing a condition that they believe could never happen to them—even though it very well could

Part of the reason I think there isn’t as much pressure around stopping ChatGPT re: suicide/psychosis as compared to stuff like Panera Lemonade is because people are inclined to blame it on mental illness versus the tech, a kind of victim-blaming mentality that fits neatly into just world fallacy

Pointless engagement bait/idle curiosity: If you believe that you were hotter at some point in the past than you are now: what was your hottest age? And if you believe your hottest days lie ahead of you, at what age do you think you will be at your hottest?

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

Despite the postcard on my refrigerator specifically instructing me not to, I must confess that I have, in fact, been letting the bastards grind me down.

Maybe the reason I haven't been able to kick this depression for the past two months is because I haven't observed the Depression Ritual of posting the Bo Burnham Feeling Like Shit Song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJbR...

Sometimes when I feel overwhelmed by my present political and historical moment, I close my eyes and say to myself, "All throughout written history there has been enormous wealth and power concentrated in the hands of a few assholes and very little the average person could do about it."

this feels completely banal? yes, a big tent political party is going to include voters who have bigoted views. i don’t think anyone has argued otherwise? the actual question at hand is “to what extent should a political party ostensibly committed to equality appeal to popular prejudices?”

Maybe my first Story Time thread on Bluesky. A little over an hour ago our building caught on fire. It was successfully confined to two apartments, about two floors above us, but we had to throw our cats in their carriers and decamp to the other building's courtyard for a little while.

This entire article uses the phrase "higher education" when what it actually means, contextually, is "business school."

I would love for more people to know and really process that "colleges and universities" are not a thing-- it is a complex, diverse, differentiated industry in which institutions have vastly different audiences, funding, even missions.

We should be asking this c o n s t a n t l y.

She's not anonymous (can't speak to her salary). Her name is Camille Zapata

WOW....👀👀👀

Bindi Irwin: here’s a beautiful baby tapir, these animals are endangered due to habitat loss The public: you DEAD DAD would be proud of you. Do you wish your DEAD DAD were here to see this? Your DEAD DAD is looking down on you now. 💗

Lot of dumb discourse is downstream of the marketing decision to label a couple of hundred different computer things as "AI" so that your average goober thinks theyre all one thing

Started to argue with someone in the replies of one of my posts and then remembered my resolution on Tumblr to block literally everyone who annoys me in the notes of my posts, and how much more manageable that has made Tumblr even though I have an actual following there.

I truly hate to say it because I have many good friends who are Swifties, but every song on the new album reminded me of that Donald Trump tweet that's like "happy Memorial Day even to the haters and losers." Even the horny ones are like that somehow.

This is a great jumping-off point for something that I think a lot of people don't understand when we talk about adding certain things to the DSM or ICD.

I have not been on here in ages but am wanting to post a thread. Do we have threads now?

I submitted my application to the Board of Behavioral Sciences and I don't even post about therapy that much #onhere but I am still 100% going to put "LCSW" in my header for at least a month after I finally get it.

Listening to Boys For Pele about it.