I'd be afraid to try hypnosis in a criminal case even if I was 100% sure I was innocent. There have been some sketchy issues with leading questions and implanted memories. I mean, for a famous example, sketchy hypnotists were responsible for a lot of the "Satanic panic" recalled memories that were later proven false.

I just started listening to Criminal and it is fantastic. I started from the beginning and I think I'm on episode 11 or 12. It's so compelling and everyone should be listening to it. (edited because I originally wrote "everyone is listening to it"...come on people, make it happen)

Maybe. I've known people with schizophrenia who aren't that obvious, even when it was undiagnosed (so no treatment). Especially in childhood, it can be easy to delude yourself into thinking the kid is just "imaginative" or something. And speaking as a family member of someone whose mental illness developed in…

I mean, the other obvious option is that they were in denial about the severity of her illness. That happens all the time with mental illness in general but especially childhood mental illness, as well as developmental disabilities. Parents want their kids to be "normal" so badly that they do a disservice to their…

Also, I may have surreptitiously licked one of my dad's salt lamps (not one of the bathroom ones though because ew aerosolized waste particles). And then I was seized with the horrible thought that maybe others had done the same thing, but also meh, it's salt so not exactly conducive to anything contagious. Or…

That's an oversimplification. The Catholic Church is definitely conservative, but many actual Catholics are pretty far left. I come from a Catholic family (some Irish-American, most Hispanic) and almost all of my relatives are staunch Democrats. In fact, that dynamic is probably a significant part of why the attempt…

I'm not arguing that the overuse of antibiotics in livestock (it isn't just meat animals, for the record) and the overuse of antibiotics in general is a huge problem, because it is. But the amount of people who don't vaccinate isn't "minute." Community ("herd") immunity requires extremely high levels of vaccination to…

There are some safe, well-made ones. My dad has a bunch (not for any crazy toxin reasons, just because he likes the soft light they give off and his girlfriend is a massage therapist and uses them in her massage room for the same reason). He's an electrician and has mentioned that some are shoddy, but not all. :)

He's been on for a couple of seasons at least. He was one of the rotating cast of interns introduced when Zach was gone and now I think he's dating Cam? IDK, I'm way behind too (like a couple of seasons) but a new episode was on when I was visiting someone and he's still on the show. ;)

There's also Pej Vahdat, who plays Dr. Vaziri on Bones. He's Persian-American, according to Wikipedia, and the character is a devout Muslim. There was that weirdness when the character was first introduced with him being an immigrant and then just pretending to be one, but as of the last season I watched he developed…

I'd bet herding, given the nipping and the breed. I have some border collies and all those little jerks try to do that. ;)

It sounds like you might be pushing him too hard. Desensitizing is basically replacing a negative association with a positive or neutral one, and that's impossible if he's that scared because he's going to perceive everything as negative. What I'd recommend is figuring out where his threshold is—at what distance from…

<3 Thank you for that explanation. I apologize! I missed that (probably because my own dogs were barking *cough cough* not that such a thing would ever happen). Someone already showed me the video where she got used to the pineapple and it made me very happy. Stella is a lovely dog and you are clearly a lovely owner!

Everything about that series of photos is perfect.

I am drunk and will be online for like an hour, so hit me up I guess and I will do my best. Disclaimer: as previously stated, I am a bit drunk ;)

That's pretty much desensitization. ;) It's nothing fancy, just gradually creating a positive association where there used to be a negative one. I'm glad it worked for you and your pup!

Ah, they are definitely owners after my own heart then. Video and laugh, then fix the problem. ;) Thank you for sharing that!

Easy, remove either the dog or the pineapple then gradually reintroduce. I'd probably do a combination of both if this was my dog; remove the dog, move the pineapple to an area more conducive to the dog investigating it (as in, not the counter but rather a floor or low table the dog is allowed to sniff on). Then I'd…

I have to agree. I've tried it a couple of times on road trips and it's just...not good. I'd rather have a McDonald's chicken sandwich than Chik-fil-A. I was honestly surprised, back when the whole thing about their politics hit the news, to see people lamenting about giving them up because they were "so good." WTF…

The trainer in me has to say FOR GOD'S SAKE DON'T LET YOUR DOG PRACTICE THIS KIND OF STUFF. You can see Stella is reacting out of fear (well, obviously) and best practice would be to stop her barking and then desensitize her to the pineapple. Reactive/fearful barking gets to be a self-reinforcing loop and it's best to…