People can overdose without being junkies. Two friends died in the last decade from using heroin. They were just getting into it and were not yet addicted.

So, with regards to the legislation that allows healthcare workers to deny services they don’t believe in...maybe I don’t read far enough past the headlines, but I feel like we never hear from a critical mass of healthcare workers asking for these laws that are supposedly protecting their rights. I do know some…

Thank you for posting this! I was about to ask someone to post the original artist. I’m not on TikTok, so I only see the like, third tier of imitations that make their way over to Instagram.

Yes! Grief is such a journey that is not only about the loss but also about reorganizing your life following a loss so that you get the support you need. Sometimes that’s being forced to give up or lose other things (sometimes known as secondary losses). Although giving up substance misuse and social media feels more…

Imagine that instead of your brother and his wife letting your know that you would take care of your niece in the hopefully-never-to-occur circumstances that they could not, they privately chose to name no one instead of you in their will because his wife disliked a life choice you had made. For example, you have a…

Why don’t you really read the letter? I’m not making assumptions. I’m restating the letter to you because you apparently skimmed it to cherry-pick keywords to argue against.

We talk about eating a variety of healthy foods and limiting “sometimes foods” but that’s basic nutrition and we leave any comments about appearance out of it.

Seriously. This is the kind of man who chose a random, physical characteristic in other people to hate. My money is on him also hating other physical characteristics for no reason (like...idk, skin color, gender presentation, etc.). So, yeah. This is a bad person. Who is in charge of raising someone. Dear Letter…

All of these points were actually addressed.

sugar actually acts as an analgesic for children

Weed impacts bipolar disorder and schizophrenia very differently than it affects other mental health issues and can trigger severe manic, psychotic episodes. This makes sense given that they are very different types of mental illness than anxiety, depression, or PTSD. I used to work with a population that had a…

Yep. Someone close to me once complained about not wanting to do group therapy for his bipolar disorder because everyone there claimed they didn’t really have it or didn’t have a severe case of it. Unironically, by the end of his statement, he too claimed that his case was so mild he didn’t belong in that group.

I’d really like her to take up a different high-powered administrative healthcare position - specifically the one that makes sure healthcare workers get hazard pay instead of donuts in the break room. Seriously. If she wants to go after unhealthy food, she should visit every freaking healthcare facility in the country…

I think it might mean owner of a million expensive assets but cash-flow is stuck? I know someone who just purchased a $900,000.00 home in city where real estate is always a good investment. She immediately started complaining about being “cash poor” because so much went/is going into the house. She can still afford…

The thing is that if you follow the link over to Page Six (yes, I am that person who needs to see the “source material” of Page Six) they have a photo of the soles of her feet (dear lord, I wish I were kidding now), and they are not very dirty at all. She’s also in full sweats/no make-up. It looks like maybe she’s…

So, technically she lost a job offer - she hadn’t started yet. It also really fascinates me that she is the Axios girlfriend in question at the center of that controversy over the White House press staffer threatening harm against a reporter.

This!

And with no fashion experience! Teen Vogue has pivoted a bit, but not that much. I wonder if employees first started to feel disgruntled over the fact that their future leader would have no experience in the main topic of their publication. I do feel sorry for her because she was set up to fail.

I think it’s worthwhile to note that Teen Vogue has a history of young, Black EIC. I’m not sure that employees would find it that new or difficult to work under a Black EIC. I’d think that the problem with anti-Black racism exists more in the higher-ups at Condé Nast than among the underlings. Slate is running an…

Emphasis on the Employability 101. I teach at a trade school. I teach my students how to Google themselves and clean up their online presence before entering the job market. It is so basic that it is such an eye-roll that anyone who merited an education at the University of Chicago and her resume would think it was…