Head shaping is still practiced in parts of Texas where Temperance is still practiced, using increasingly smaller Stetson hats to achieve the perfect beauty standard: fetal alcohol syndrome.

I’m only sad that the elephant that killed him died.

Hmm.

Yes, and on top of it, they graphically showed the “correct” way to slit your wrists fatally. (If she did it the short way across, those who care about you can save you in time) I had a morbid co-worker friend who was also an EMT. It enrages me how irresponsible they were in the last episode. Damned thing was like…

Definitely. Lack of impulse control, less developed understanding of finality, all of it. It’s not saying that teenagers are stupid. Far, far from it. Many of the kids I work with are quite thoughtful and insightful. They know that they are depressed because of brain chemicals, they know logically that suicide…

My 14 year old with asperger’s and type 1 diabetes had to be committed after she watched the show and then made threats for hours in a group text with classmates. With her social/interpersonal communication issues she watched the show and saw that this was a way to connect with peers and find out how they would feel…

I work in a psychiatric hospital and like half of the kids I work with are there because they’re at risk for suicide or have tried already. I have had my Netflix account for over a decade (so long that I remember the early days of streaming when they had limits on how many minutes you could watch per month) and may…

After responding to your comment, I looked up some articles, and holy shit, I never realized that most suicide experts were and are overwhelmingly against this show. One apparently told Netflix not to release it at all. In response, Netflix stated they have 4 experts advising on the script. But, we could take that…

My old (tiny) high school had three students attempt in two weeks. Other students are directly connecting the attempts to this show and even more were sent into tailspins as a result of watching it. Fuck this shit.

Yeah, I just came back from grocery shopping, pleased that my favourite pasta sauce was on sale and I bought two jars.

Ugh! I get lectured by coworkers about how I should travel more and the privilege and condescension drives me insane. Like hey, would love to. My husband has been unemployed for a year. I live in the most expensive real estate market in the US. I am in debt from taking care of an unemployed ex on entry level income in…

ARE YOU ME

If it makes you feel better, we’re in a high tax bracket and putting $500 on a wrist band is like something we’d talk about for a fucking week. “Should we? SHOULD WE?” Hell, I felt guilty spending $145 on comic books...at a comic book convention...where you buy...comic books.

Whenever I read stories like this in the world, I wonder how on earth people my age or younger can just go and willy nilly drop $2000 on something like this. Our household income is twice the median and anything over $200 is a ‘is this ok? Can we do this?’ type of purchase. I always wonder what these people do for a…

There was a terrific Mother Jones article on all the physical changes that can occur due to pregnancy and childbirth and how awful it is that doctors don’t seem to care about them. This is just another to add to the mental list.

I’m late to replying, but I hope Leigh will still look at this and have a convo. I shared this yesterday on FB. I had twins 8 years ago. I can stick 3 and 1/2 fingers in the space between my stomach muscles over my belly button. I run, but much slower now. I have excruciating pain when I roll over in my sleep. I…

Hey the Zodiac Killer never killed anyone in my family. He MUST be a stand up dude.

I have two kids (youngest is almost 3) and I regularly get people offering me a seat on public transit because I still look pregnant. I just thought I was fat - I mean, I am - but maybe there’s more to it.

I’m sorry that you have to put up with assholes such as these.

My Iranian friend is a biomedical engineer. With the help of her professor, she designed a type of wrist-watch device that could detect if the wearer is having a stroke about a 1/2 hour before it happens. Sends a signal to the smartphone to contact paramedics. She hasn’t been able to get any funding from VCs that…