I can't believe this is the article that was published when Australia's actually deeply racist immigration and deportation policies are going on. I guess this is why people call Jezebel the repository for rich white feminists on twitter at #solidarityisforwhitewomen

It actually is a lot more complicated than that. A lot of people move to NZ for the free healthcare, so immigration has to be certain you're not taking advantage. It's a bit harsh to flat-out say that NZ is "deporting fat people." It's likely that there are many factors at stake in this one case.

Wait - there's a MAGIC pill? Where do I sign up? Cuz the ordinary pills are only slightly effective, take a long time to have an effect, and have horrible side effects.

I have breathing and visualization techniques that help me control them, most of the time. I'd also like to mention that I'm a fully functioning, contributing member of society who just has to deal with a chronic condition. I don't abuse my medicine, and I don't have to use self-harming strategies (cutting, drug…

Go shit in a hat. Fuck, that phrase is perfect.

I read the article and I just can't stand the smugness. Still, doctors and journalists perpetuate the fallacy that just getting through somehow is better then medicine. You know how my parents "got through?". Alcohol and drug abuse, familial violence, extramarital affairs and an inability to attend to the needs of…

As a young-ish adult, I have only personally known three people my age or younger that have died. ALL THREE were suicides from long-standing, well-known to all depression. Only one attempted treatment. The second one didn't "believe" in medicine, including advil, etc, because it was "unnatural." The last lived in a…