Reading list request— any recommendations for medical memoirs? I’ve got A Thousand Naked Strangers on my list. Thank you!

THIS NEEDS MORE STARS

Huge hugs. While it may feel impossible, I hope you know that anything you’re feeling about this is valid and you have every right to feel the way you do. Cope how you need to cope, and try not to “should” yourself into doing or feeling anything. This experience can be traumatic, and you deserve to be kind to…

Also, immediately after a trauma, you often develop a sense of shock, and operating outside of your normal might be more than you can handle. Requesting an uber probably required less cognitive energy than calling for an ambulance.

Yup, it’s awful. Especially since a lot of folks are suicidal because of financial stressors, so when they’re hospitalized involuntarily, they often end up with an ambulance bill on top of it. It becomes a factor in deciding whether to send them to a good hospital further away, or sending them to a shittier one that…

I didn’t diagnose you. You stating, “I don’t know what to write” is much better than saying “everything happens for a reason” or “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger,” etc. You must have misinterpreted what i was saying.

As a mental health professional, I want to throw my arms around you and give you the biggest hug. Embracing the “I don’t know what to say” is so much better and helpful than forcing something out in a response to our discomfort of witnessing someone else’s pain. You rock.

Same. It feels like shedding a suffocating exoskeleton when you fully believe it also applies to you. Hugs. You deserved to know so much sooner.

Sending you all the love, both to present you and to three year old you. Both of you deserve safety and kindness.

I also had four very wanted pregnancies, and hated every second of each one. Any whisper I get that vasectomies aren’t 100% send me into a massive panic. Hugs to you.

Our self medication looks very similar. Rooting for your kids.

Spent over half my shift last night trying to place a suicidal pediatric patient, and had one of the more respected hospitals in our state slipped and told me they generally don’t accept unfunded adolescents. Not only is this illegal, it’s also super unethical, and I’m having a hard time with the fact that mental…

My dog looks like your dog! They told us he was a labradoodle, but we had suspected more Irish wolfhound. This confirms it.

Huge hugs.

It’s entirely possible that he got the phone call about being placed in the cabinet, and he took it literally and has just been hanging out in a cabinet somewhere.

Oh, c’mon, now— I’m sure brownback will advocate for your healthcare needs.

My kiddo’s school has an entire week dedicated to computer safety. I asked at the community council meeting if they were addressing online harassment, because the entire description seems to focus on porn and websites with “swears.” They talk about it— as a secondary. I hate this conservative state and its focus on…

I don’t consider it to be a panacea. But I also take issue with the pushback against something that can be helpful for a lot of folks, and no one has ever died from marijuana withdrawal— the same cannot be said of alcohol and benzos.

A friendly reminder that opiate overdoses have been decreasing in states where pot is legal. http://drugabuse.com/legalizing-marijuana-decreases-fatal-opiate-overdoses/

I got so upset the other night when a fellow social worker listened to me vent about how often I have to call coworkers out on their derogatory-toward-LGBT+ language is, and she just said, “you aren’t from here. This is just how people talk.” Nope. In the age of the internet, you no longer get to play the…