I would laugh except I keep breaking out into sobs and screams. *shrug* Nobody will riot with me yet.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT WHAT.

Fizzgigs are great and everything, and I would certainly adopt a herd of them if needed, but for me its all about the landstriders. I love them, their fed-up faces, their “ugh, fine” walks... they speak to me.

I’m screaming.

*golf clap* yes.

I watched the behind the scenes for the Netflix series and bawled my eyes out. Holy fuck, Baby Froud.

And yet schools keep cutting budgets for them. :(

There is room for every kind of care in this world.

I hadn’t heard much about this, but just from that article I wouldn’t touch them with a 10 foot pole. Anytime we have a major breakthrough that makes things ‘so much easier’ or gives researchers ‘plug and play’ access, there have been new foundational ethical guidelines created afterwards. But I don’t do anything in…

I wanted so say ‘vote for effective leadership’ and ‘advocate for the change your community needs’ but then I thought about the state of things generally and my final answer is ‘burn something down.' So. 

EXACTLY. And, I read a study somewhere one time that cussing a lot correlates strongly with a large vocabulary. So yeah!

That is awful, my Ham friend. If you don’t mind me asking, what state do you work in that has such ridiculous rules? One of the main things I enjoyed about my former employer is that they mandated wellness days and required at least a once-yearly check in with one’s personal therapist. Data they collected just within…

Ooooo yes. Drop in therapy, like an Urgent Care, tho being a clinician for that sounds terrifying/exhilarating.

Ya know what’s really frustrating to me about the example that you just shared? There is a school of therapy that promotes empathetic listening, and the clinician sharing anecdotes of their own that mirror what the patient is working thru. Feminist Therapy Institute was collaborated at Radcliffe in the 70's and…

I haven’t heard from her, either. Hmm. Welp. I am glad that you are (well) out of the path of the storm. lol

Ahhhh! Yes! And we have longitudinal studies to back that up. Kaiser Permanente’s ACES study was done in the freaking 90's and was kicked off by a statistician’s discovery that the majority of overweight patients who couldn’t seem to keep weight off ALSO had traumatic childhoods and a multitude of other health…

God yes. This. The amount we know about how brains actually work is so pitiful. Trying to rectify things when there’s a problem is like throwing spaghetti at the wall sometimes. And the stigma! We ostracize people for needing the medicine, for using the medicine, for NOT using the medicine...! Meanwhile the people who…

Treating mental health care like it’s actual health care!? Shocking, goddess, and utterly accurate.

Holy shit yes. I worked for a while in a juvenile psych facility in Kansas. There are not enough beds for mental health generally, fewer beds for kids and no beds that aren’t at shared facilities for anyone with acute emotional or behavioral disorders. And frankly, the behavioral disordered folks need better…

My dark gods, someone stop me before I suggest any insurance agency who makes more than 83 cents in profits in a fiscal year get investigated by the FBI! Next I’ll be calling for legal repercussions to those who purposefully emotionally injure children and that way lies maaaaaaadneesssssssss.......