I work for Talkspace - and decided to quit a few months ago. They do collect data. They also run an algorithm in the back of the app to try to diagnose clients (Which is inaccurate btw). And they are doing something with data (marketinb based) based on the assessment they’re running. And lastly - they shaft…

I wouldn’t recommend it for someone who was in need of medication, for obvious reasons, or someone who was totally undiagnosed or in the midst of a severe psychiatric crisis of some kind. But I had seen a regional shrink through my job, who had diagnosed my general issue, but he was literally only in town once every…

Well, since everyone is telling their horror stories, I guess I’ll offer up my non-horror story. I have actually used Pride Counseling for around six months now. I was dealing with pretty severe depression and anxiety, and I knew that I needed help, but I live in France, and frankly, the prospect of trying to seek out…

I don’t see the fat lazy fucks

Everyone needs a backup plan.

I was also a little worried when I saw the old stories reposted. But they still did NP or CP this morning, and Elizabeth posted a story about racing. All is well.

This head chopping... we could at least give it a try, no?

Does it really matter in what form his wealth exists? He’s destroying the workforce, the planet, the economy, and the health of millions of workers.

“Constance” is already a good (but not great) stripper name. It has solid Puritan roots and moral connotations that evoke a delicious irony, but it might be too far out of the current parlance to hit on all cylinders the way “Purity” or “Chastity” might.

Alternate idea: keep ten, donate one twenty.

Okay, here’s the less cynical take. Let’s assume very generously that Bezos is spending all $10 billion on projects that will have an immediate effect on atmospheric carbon levels. That probably still doesn’t account for the carbon output Amazon has generated over the last 25 years, while still leaving him as the…

Nah. This is a performative and defensive action on Bezo’s part. He’s scared, with all of the political talk around re-distributing wealth and this is his reaction.

I had a c-section as my baby was never coming out the usual way and I used hypnobirthing techniques to get through that and they truly helped. I started having a massive panic attack with all of the tugging but remembered what I'd learnt and managed to calm down by breathing properly.

“Sounds a little hippie-dippie”

This write-up is weirdly dismissive of the pregnancy and birthing experience familiar to countless people for a site that professes to have a feminist viewpoint. Being miserable for 10 months feels endless. Labor is a much more limited process, finally providing a definitive end point to the pregnancy and the birth…

It seemed clear to me that she was comparing the relatively short pain of labor to the seemingly unending torture of hyperemesis gravidarum, but perhaps that’s because I’m currently at the end of an HG pregnancy?

First of all, came here to say first hand I know the Brits are really into hypnotherapy and it’s considered very legitimate over there. For all kinds of therapies. They also are much less likely to use an epidural than we are....laughing gas was more common than epidural at the time I was thinking about possibly…

That she’s talking about her labor experiences now make me think she’s done with family expansion via childbirth; sending her an extra ‘good for her’ if that’s so, because her repeated pregnancy hyperemesis sounded horrific.

To each their own. I bristle at the term “mindfulness”, to me it sounds like a lot of hooey that anti-vax, gluten-free, himalayan salt lamp, dream catcher tattoo, wannabe instagram influencers do. 

She had really bad morning sickness, or hyperemesis gravidarum during her pregnancies. Nausea that never subsides, vomiting enough to cause dehydration, weight loss that goes down to your pre-pregnancy weight, and the headaches, fatigue, and confusion that go along with it. Some women with hyperemesis gravidarum have…