It was a facility she had been in previously, and had made progress at and had a good relationship with the staff. The family actually had to create a go fund me to pay for the treatment :( . If the money just went towards her treatment, the facility she was in was likely fairly clinically intense as it costs around…

She hasn’t really been sentenced to 40 years. She can be released to a lower level of care (and probably will). She’s just be under supervision for 40 years. The majority of that is likely to take the form of community based commitment. I would imagine she will probably be kept in a facility (hopefully an adolescent…

She isn’t diagnosed with anti social personality disorder. She is diagnosed with schizophrenia. Not the same. Like, at all.

She is diagnosed with schizophrenia. She is not diagnosed with any level of anti-social personality disorder (sociopathy or psychopathy). So no, she isn’t a psychopath, she has a serious mental health disorders that need treated appropriately.

This is up to 40 years. It is very unlikely that her doctors will choose to keep her in a locked psychiatric institution for all of those 40 years. She will most likely transition down to a community based group home or even independent living, with periodic supervision.

Drew is a medical doctor. Oz is a surgeon. Phil is a psychologist.

ESAs are covered, just not under ADA, and only for housing and, weirdly, air travel.

I am 100% behind covering them for housing. A pet can do a lot to improve the well being of a person with a mental health related challenge. The plane thing is just weird, though.

ESAs aren’t allowed in restaurants. Only service animals (which I believe is now limited to dogs and some dog sized mini horses/ponys?).

There are a lot of people with that same fear of dogs.

Emotional support animals just don’t belong on planes anymore than any other pet. Service animals, sure. ESAs are another thing entirely.

He shouldn’t be charged unless new evidence emerges because it’s not a winnable case. There’s too much reasonable doubt with the currently existent evidence.

It is hard enough to prosecute abuse from decades ago *without* having parental alienation syndrome and false memory syndrome thrown into the mix. While those…

This case is really, really complicated. You have two compelling possibilities of what is happening. In both stories, Dylan almost certainly has memories of being abused by Allen. The veracity of those memories is in question, not the existence of them. Also, I’d tend to believe, either way, that Mia was an abusive…

Generally that is going to be a secondary, milder symptom (if it’s a symptom at all) of influenza. You are coughing so hard your stomach gets upset, you lose your appetite and when you force yourself to eat you feel nauseous, etc.

Yes and no. Not all flu viruses are created equally. Usually the severe illnesses are type A influenza. I’ve had type A about three times in the last 12 or so years (including 2009 H1N1, which was the worst one). It’s miserable. But I’ve almost certainly had type B and/or C influenzas that I wrote off as a cold, or a…

That’s not true of all classes and programs. I’ve certainly had many classes like that, but I’ve also had classes where nothing was online (the teacher didn’t even publish the class in one instance). In my current program (social work) none of my professors are using blackboard (oh how I miss canvas) to turn in…

Did you have a positive on the rapid test or a culture all six years? If not, my guess is that not every one of those illnesses was the flu. There are a lot of other things that can look a lot like the flu.

Face masks work OK if you have the flu and want to prevent it from spreading to other people, but they’re probably more or less useless to prevent getting the flu.

Wash your hands, avoid crowds, avoid sick people, get your flu shot, if you have preexisting conditions make sure they’re under control (ex: I have asthma,…

What happens with identical twins if your face is copyrighted? Or a natural doppleganger? A plastic surgery doppleganger? Where’s the line?

So much to unpack here.

I am aghast that Sykes was offered less than 250k when Schumer was offer 13mil. There is no way Sykes’s relative draw is less than 1/50th of Schumer’s.

Yeah, a lower pay level may be justified just based on the apparent selling power. But Netflix is clearly low balling these women.

Yeah, definitely when it’s severe, especially with kids, you want it fixed before you end up with amblyopia.

I do DIY therapy sometimes and wear prisms. I still end up shutting one eye when I’m in bright sunlight or trying to read up close without glasses, though. I’d love to have actual vision therapy to see if I can…

I’m not sure why she’s calling it a lazy eye. She doesn’t seem to have a lazy eye, or amblyopia. She has strabismus. Strabismus is not lazy eye, it’s when eyes diverge in or diverge out (cross eyed or wall eyed would be the colloquial terms- well I guess they can also diverge up or down but that’s uncommon).…