I’m a medical writer and my job is to submit regulatory documents to the FDA. People, the FDA exists for a reason. The number of vulnerable, dying people who may now be actively harmed or outright killed by con men selling toxic snake oils just went up in a big, big way.

And people who would have seen their kid graduate if the experimental treatment hadn’t killed them 3 months early would also exist, is a problem.

Have we done the Vanity Fair article about the Department of Energy under Trump and Perry? It’s a long read, it is also completely terrifying:

The part I struggled with was convincing myself my brain was wrong. Like my friends all abandoned me when my depression got too heavy but I’m supposed to magically feel like I am a good, worthwhile person.

yes! i’ve found therapy to be mostly unhelpful with my depression. i get terrible black moods where everything is awful and i drown in despair, and no amount of talking about it with someone has ever helped. i already know that it won’t last forever, even if it feels like it will, that the thoughts i have are not…

Does he stop breathing? If he stops breathing, it’s sleep apnea. When my husband had his sleep study, they were like, “You only stopped breathing around 30 times throughout the night.” (Me: Horrified Emoji, “ONLY?!”)

You can definitely have sleep apnea without being significantly overweight. Weight is just one of the most common risk factors.

Did you read the politico profile of Reince from the weekend? He seems so .... sad... I almost felt bad for him and then I remembered he fucked the country with a huge, hairy, spiky, Russian orange dildo and no lube because he thought he’d have access to power and tax cuts for the rich. and i immediately stopped…

Haha I know! It made me feel worse to make a list of all the ways I think wrong and be forced to pretend I am learning to think right.

Totally depends on what typeof person you are. I hated CBT. I already knew exactly what those worksheets and books would tell me were “wrong thoughts” and “right thoughts” and hated torturing myself with those kinds of lessons. If any of the above apply to you I would not recommend CBT: analytical, overthinker,…

I think it depends on where your issues lie and how well you respond to coping strategies. I haven’t had much luck with CBT since I’m perfectly aware of why I do things and the usual strategies (affirmative statements to counter negative thoughts, breathing and meditation, working out) don’t really do much for me. But…

Maps are fake news! Sad!

Didn’t you get Scaramooch’s memo?

And this LW is the perfect candidate for CBT over analysis or dynamic therapy! She’s had her breakthroughs and her insights, she’s not interested in getting super emotional with the therapist, she just wants to do the work to think and feel differently. Like, the letter might as well have been “hi, I would really…

Same. I’ve clicked with a few of the talk therapists I’ve been to in the past, but even identifying my “issues” wasn’t really doing anything to solve them. CBT was, and is, the only therapy I’ve been to where I’ve been given the tools to actually do something about them.

I’m someone who knows what my issues are and have found CBT to much more helpful than psychoanalysis or talk therapy.

“Does he know that Cubans aren’t Mexicans??” Ummm...no.

all brown people who speak Spanish are Mexican, obviously.

ha ha if anything this makes Mexicans dislike him even more. Every single time the Cuban’s voting patterns are talked about we all roll our eyes. We think there should be a different category for them. They don’t count as Hispanics or Latinos because we may have language and culture in common but we surely have very…

I do not know if you heard, but with Cuba, I had 84 percent, with the Cuban-American vote. But overall generally, I had well over 30 percent and everyone was shocked to see this. I understand the community and they understand me, and I have a great respect for the Mexican people.”