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I'm a therapist, and I've never had a good therapist. Seriously, I think most of them suck. I still have faith in therapy though, but a person's recovery mainly depends on the relationship they have with the therapist. If you don't trust this woman is competent, it's time to move on to someone else.

Sorry to hear that Mel :( Competition in the social sciences in the UK is fierce. I hope an even better opportunity comes along for you soon.

That's the thing, I find it hard to reconcile this article with the idea that women can do anything men can do. Obviously, I believe that women are every bot as capable as men, but this article gives ammunition to the people who say the US can't have a female president, as she'll start a war when she has PMS.

Yup, speaking as a psychologist, evo psych is pure unadulterated horseshit. It's like Kipling's Just So stories, myths fabricated to justify current social norms.

"mono y mono" is wonderful. It has me picturing all these people with glandular fever laid up in bed looking miserable.

Oops, my eye must have skipped over it out of my own stress. Better have a glass of wine to relax!

Don't forget stress!

They weren't kicked out of England, that's one of the big misconceptions about the settling of America. The settlers didn't flee persecution, they fled religious pluralism. They wanted an environment where they could preserve the purity of the Christian church, i.e. impose their religious views on other people.

I'm not at all offended, as I said, my message was meant as a friendly reminder. If you choose to be defensive rather than listen to me, that's up to you.

So to work backwards from the definition, does that mean that anyone who behaves "abnormally" or engages in a social interaction in a surprising/non-standard way is insane? People from other cultures, people with learning difficulties? The concept of normal/abnormal isn't even used in psych diagnosis anymore, it's…

It's not a wine glass, it's a whiskey glass.

I agree with you up until your last two words - basically #notallinsanepeople or even #notmostinsanepeople. Calling racists crazy may serve to marginalise them and their beliefs, but it also puts many quite nice mentally ill people in the same category.

Your friend's roommate should have realised she was getting a bad deal. I would need for more than $45 to watch Garden State again.

Just this.

When I read the first three words of your comment, I was convinced it was going to be "My friend's roommate earned 3 zillion dollars last week sitting on her ass looking at her computer" spam messages.

I keep rereading MissAndry's comment, and I'm still not seeing where she says that the best thing you could do would be to get off the drugs. I've come across many people who are all "come off meds and you'll feel alive and herbal tea will cure all your problems BIG PHARMA", but I've come across just as many people…

This is terrifying. Rubber bullets, tear gas, police attacking and intimidating citizens, making them feel small and powerless, police seemingly acting with no regard for the law or basic decency...this is like the Troubles in Northern Ireland all over again.

Yeah, womb tanks sound like the best thing ever, but I would still have concerns about the tactile and auditory stimulation caused by actual uterine incubation. Newborns recognise the language of their mother even when someone else speaks it. That amazes me.

The Cranberries were awesome! TAKE THAT BACK.