This insane and utterly false headline is why this website has an atrocious reputation for its science reporting. I laughed at how incompetent the reporting was in that Mother Jones article, but seeing it regurgitated here days later on a site I actually care about is extremely disappointing.

Cheerful rejoinder: is that reminder based in any kind of fact whatsoever? Or just a way to make a bunch of children-of-narcissists feel shitty?

Wow. Or they come from our therapists recognizing the environment we were subjected to while we're in there trying to pick up the pieces. Fuck you.

It's more than $500 for an iPhone.

Really? Huh, you just accused a lot of people of narcissism by making this comment.

Wait, what? How could he "not help it?"

Well she's fine and happy. They're still crap.

But I do not have my phone on me at all times. Shocking, I know.

Fitbit Ones (as well as some of the other models) also help track your sleeping patterns. It can help you find out if you're actually getting quality, restful sleep or not. A friend of mine with cancer metastatic to her bones has a One, and while she certainly employs the exercise aspect of it to gauge how much she's…

That is absolutely devastating.

even though I am smack dab in the middle of millennial-age, I don't carry my phone on me everywhere (especially at work). I don't doubt it does a good job, but it only records 1/3 of my day (and I'm definitely not carrying it on the treadmill or when I'm out exercising with my friend at the park).

Im going to say what we're all thinking- this is a bad article. You need to draw a line: either fitbit IS bullshit according to science (meaning that fitbit doesnt effectively contribute to weightloss because an experiment was devised to test this, the findings of said experiment were that it didnt and the experiment…

Alrighty then. I opted out after debating it for months and lifehacker was promoting it like crazy and I always get what they tell me because I don't have a brain. Eventually, I figured I could accomplish my weight loss goals the old school way plus myfitness pal. As far as the science trumping the bullshit goes,…

So you're saying it...works? Doesn't that make it not bullshit?

Not really getting that a "Fitbit is bullshit" from the Mother Jones article. I'm interpreting it as your tracking apps on your phone are just as good but trackers offer convenience. Of course none of it is going to work if you don't use it. And marathon runners prob don't need this because they're already active.…

I grew up next door to a girl who was treated like shit by her parents. I was maid of honor at her wedding. Like a decent person, she tried her best to included her parents and draw boundaries and "make it work" (for whom?) but alas, they showed up as the same shitty, selfish, cruel jerks they always were, and kind of…

What? If someone's gonna be a little holier-healthier-happier-than-though forgiveness angel then I'm gonna be a twisted little truth monkey pointing out the obvious. Idealization is easier with dead people.

SO much easier to be like that when they're dead though.

Except so much of the abuse endured from a narcissist is that your voice is stomped out. You are silenced repeatedly, because their word is always the most important. It is healing and therapeutic to reclaim your voice, and at first, it can be raw and abrasive. Because of course it is— they haven't had the privilege…

I have relatives who are like her parents and they're still savoring what an awful person I am based on things I did as a small child. You can't win, you can just cut them off in the way that's truest for you. This was awesome.