My mom has lived her entire life with untreated depression. She wasn’t warm, maternal, or nurturing. It was hard as fuck as a kid. Even through all of that, I know as an adult what my mom endured, and I have so much respect for her for all the things she did in spite of the awful. The difference here is that, even if…

First of all, you putting words on all the awful feelings. You recognize what’s going on, and the monster has a name. That is a huge part of the battle, and you’ve got that part taken care of. Give yourself an enormous amount of credit for that.

Your kiddo is so fortunate to have you as an advocate in all of this. You’re doing the hard and impossible things so your kid doesn’t have to. You’re an amazing mom, and I hope you are kind to yourself as you do the hard things.

This. Unfortunately, those who are less empathy-evolved don’t respond to the high road, and we have to start speaking their language if we are going to make a difference.

I’m furious. She’s my little sister, and she’s in a male dominated field (she ran into gender discrimination from professors in grad school too). She has an anxiety disorder and has to interact with him on a daily basis. I’m so angry that he put this on her when she is damn good at her job. Thank you for the…

Fortunately she held on to them, and forwarded them to a non work email as well. You’ve been awesome, thank you for the feedback!

I told her to document everything, with hard copies and digital copies. This morning he told her to delete the emails. Ugh.

Jezzies, this is unrelated, but I need some help from those who know better. My sister received a strange text message from her boss last night, asking if she got his text messages, and after apologizing for the “text bomb”, he said, “I love you.” She went in to work this morning and found two separate emails from…

I don’t do Santa with my kids, so I already come at it with a bias. But there is something about the execution of the tradition of Santa that does have some issues with socioeconomic status, which often overlaps with race, because America. A coworker the other day was sadly recalling when their kiddo asked why Santa…

I’d like some examples of figuratively unconstitutional items.

Agreed.

It’s just like “light beer” in the same way that Andrew Jackson was a “great president.”

Hugs. You deserved better.

I nearly wept the other night when I was assessing a suicidal tween in the emergency room— his parents had some substance abuse issues in the past, and seemed uncomfortable being with a social worker. What I wanted to do was shout from the rooftops how happy I was that they *showed up*. So often I have kiddos in the…

The last time Gelman was on as Uncle Sam, I felt like Scott got suuuuper defensive of trump. And it didn’t make sense, but there were a lot of times when he would intervene if he felt someone was criticizing a presidential candidate. I listened every week, but it got to where I couldn’t handle it anymore. It may have…

Question: Scott Auckerman defended trump a LOT on Comedy Bang Bang. Was that just a character?

Depression and anxiety, as well as prolonged exposure to trauma, can have this impact on your brain. Be kind to yourself.

They both spoke in the Love Warrior tour, along with a few other folks. Abby was at the Portland and Denver stops.

There is no grief Olympic— nothing is better or worse, they just are. Hugs to you. Losing such a constant support when everything else has crumbled can feel like a final blow.