Or you could do what I did -

"Totally illogical" is the perfect description! And he's a mechanical engineer, so the cognitive dissonance is doubly incomprehensible.

The kind of guy who's into Palahniuk might be the kind of guy who also fails to mention his "pretty serious" other girlfriend in another town and the kind of guy who tells you he's just going to spend some quality time with his parents while he's in town so he can't see you but really it's because she's in town - the…

Friend of mine I considered dating since he's an awesome, smart, funny, hot person but was unsure of because he is also a conservative sealed his fate of not being with me by admitting he voted for Obama - whom he hates - because he couldn't vote for a Mormon. Wha?

There's a big difference between bitterness and justified disgust, especially when one's basic human dignity has been ignored at best, and defiled at worst: your anger and frustration are honest and appropriate. I'm sad that your "treatment" was so dehumanizing, but I'm also glad you are so strong and unbreakable -…

I didn't read the whole book, but those types of memoirs tend to at least end on a hopeful note, like the Dr. learned to be more empathetic, experienced growth, etc. But those stories also dwell on how broken and unjust the system is, so that's disheartening.

I was just skimming a new book we got in the library, "Behind the Gates of Gomorrah: A Year with the Criminally Insane", written by a psychiatrist, and some of his tales are harrowing, including the reason he was there - his predecessor was beaten into a coma by one of the patients and eventually died.

Also, indifferent/incompetent psychiatrists, woo "therapy", and predatory other patients, in my experience.

Facing the Facts forum at bpdfamily.com - specifically the subforum for family members of those with BPD/NPD - is also a great resource: [ http://tinyurl.com/oxfmdzu ]

I read it as "fetus paprikas", which has a lovely ring to it.

You ever been with someone who was bad for you but perhaps the sex was phenomenal so you stayed longer than you should have because you deluded yourself into believing it was worth it? Because maybe you had this secret, unrealistic view of how it COULD be vs. how it truly awful it was? Hate-watching is a similar…

What's even worse is that while his looks are fine for average people, his three younger siblings looks like they will take after Papa in their extraordinarily gorgeous features.

I'm an agnostic atheist and I'd be tempted to respond to that condescending jackass: "Actually, Mr. FEA, I'm thinking some very VERY critical thoughts right now..."

That's actually a beautiful idea, that a parent was first their children's child, and will be again when everyone's life is over... I don't know why I feel that is so touching - maybe because it means you are always connected, forever, and that death is just a pause to change places.

weirdo me thinks he's more attractive because he's less good-looking, but being in my 40s has definitely changed my perception of older men with character in their faces

Because I'm sexist I guess (in this case, against both men and women). I said I'm working on it - I obviously have programming I need to modify, but I'm doing it by being aware of these biases and listening more to my rational brain. I wanted to turn off this interview so bad because the woman's voice was so…

I listen to the radio to/from work and I've noticed that not only female guests/experts are more and more using uptalk, but now some of the female journalists are, too (especially the younger-sounding reporters). I was really disturbed when I heard a male reporter use it recently.

Most times I have to turn off the…

You're right that at best she was poorly written and at worst she was malevolently characterized that way. Hell, the first time we see her she sticks a gun in the face of the hero/protagonist/audience stand-in which = "hysterical 'female' overreacting and not handling guns correctly and threatening the 'good guy'". So…

What I think they were trying to do was show her deep capacity for empathy and caring nature but all it did was give the bro-fan haters more ammo on how stupid and useless she was in a crisis. Pfsst.

If the showrunners had any guts [ahem], there wouldn't have been a need for fan fantasy: it should have BEEN, not have been implied.