I'm on a Shirley Jackson kick, and whenever my half-my-age-oh-God coworkers ask me about what I'm reading, and I explain "you know, she wrote The Lottery?" and get blank looks—what the hell, schools? Do English Lit classes even exist anymore?

Saw another trailer for The Great Gatsby today and I have to say it doesn't seem anything like the book at all. There's far too much action and not enough of Gatsby worshiping a dock light and Nick staring at a fucking billboard.

Stephen Colbert also definitely, 100% read this book.

If letters are coming out of his typewriter and flying about his head, I hope to God Nick is in a mental hospital somewhere.

Ain't no party like a Gatsby party 'cause a Gatsby party don't stop until the stock market crashes and everybody dies from alcohol poisoning or internal car fenders.

I wanted to do the "I told you so dance" from Will and Grace, when my friend came back from seeing this. She hated it. Then I decided no, because she wasted 13 dollars. So I felt bad for her.

Ain't no party like a Gatsby party, 'cause a Gatsby party is a metaphor for the emptiness of the American dream.

No, but it certainly stigmatizes the vast majority of people with mental illnesses (who manage to live their lives without hurting anyone) when they're invariably lumped in with dangerous psychopaths and "lone gunmen".

If you're living in a house with three live women and don't know of their existence....well, that level of stupidity/ignorance should be considered criminal

I think she's a great example of a manufactured star. She's gorgeous and has really distinctive features, but, as some Jez commenter once said, "I have some respect for her just for making it to the highest tier of pop-stardom without being able to sing or dance". I don't know a lot about how these things work, but…

I still don't get Rihanna. She's not a very good singer (she's okay, can hold a note..) and her only talent seems to be dancing. Even then, she's mostly busting stripper moves, and when compared to some highly trained strippers she's not even that great. So why is she so huge? She writes no music, sings just okay, and…

Q: Suppose I am trapped and yield to temptation before I get married?
A: I know a man who married but divorced his wife because he found that she had committed fornication before they were married. Both their lives were wrecked. For this reason, you should remain single two years before marrying. Then you will be…

"Q. He asked me to pay for our lunch.
A. Do not jump to conclusions. He may have just been short of money. If he asks you once, go ahead and pay for it and forget it. If he keeps asking you, pay for it and forget him. It is best not to make an issue of it. Slip the money to him in advance and do not make a public…

"Most dates lead to marriage." HAHHAHAHAAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHA

The loss of earnings / taxes that arise from a chronically ill person aren't cheap either. It makes financial sense to get an accurate diagnosis and useful treatment. Otherwise hundreds if not thousands of pounds are wasted over years of trial and error medication and therapy.

In the UK (at least) Generalised Anxiety Disorder has existed as a diagnosis for a very long time. I was definitely diagnosed with it as a 17 year old, a solid decade ago. It's definitely not 'worries about everyday life'.

It's an initial diagnosis GPs/psychologists/psychiatrists tend to give before examining the…

I agree. My mom and i are both currently taking Wellbutrin. She went to her GP to get a prescription for it because one of the side effects is a decrease in appetite and she wanted to lose weight. I spent a year in counseling and tried multiple different therapies before I saw a psychiatrist and started meds for MDD…

the guy who wrote the sexual paraphilia section is a known anti-trans crackpot with bogus research. they got rid of gender identity disorder but he added new "fetishes" that pathologize mtf women who aren't exclusively attracted to men and any form of crossdressing.

DSM 5 isn't a paradigm shift, but the NIMH's choice to not support it definitely is. While Insel might say that we need to move toward a mechanism that uses neuroscience, genetics and biology to inform diagnoses, what he doesn't mention is the fact that the methodology needed to perform diagnostics using these…

This type of noise scares the crap out of me.