Our landlords have decided against doing anything about the bug problem so to shut us up they’re kicking us out. If you or someone you know can rent me a room in the polk county area please let me know.
Even if it’s outside Polk County it’s fine, like I can do Orlando or Tampa
Please help my girlfriend even if the only people you know are someone who you know who knows a friend of a friend of a friend who may be able to help, ask them
President Trump’s vision of soldiers marching and tanks rolling down
the boulevards of Washington is moving closer to reality in the Pentagon
and White House, where officials say they have begun to plan a grand
military parade later this year showcasing the might of America’s armed
forces.
Trump has long mused publicly and privately about wanting
such a parade, but a Jan. 18 meeting between Trump and top generals in
the Pentagon’s tank — a room reserved for top-secret discussions —
marked a tipping point, according to two officials briefed on the
planning.
Surrounded by the military’s highest-ranking officials,
including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen.
Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Trump’s seemingly abstract desire for a parade
was suddenly heard as a presidential directive, the officials said.
Brain Meme 1: Trump wants a military parade because he’s planning on becoming a literal dictator, and he’s already figuratively a literal dictator.
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2: Trump wants a military parade because he doesn’t realize that this kind of political theater is for countries with weaker legitimization of the state, intended to show off its might both internally and externally. He is utterly clueless as to the functionings of statecraft or diplomacy.
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3: Trump wants a military parade because, due to the prominence of positions 1 and 2, it will piss off the Democrats, and causing enormous amounts of noise using symbolic gestures is his strategy and has been the entire time.
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4: Trump just thinks military parades look cool. His strategy is just to follow his instincts, and his instincts were selected for by the ridiculous American election process under the influence of media in the Internet age. There is no bigger plan.
all of the above, all of the above.
You know I am thinking back to that one line in the avengers from nick fury blowing of the higher ups and the very serious posts saying obama so say that to the Republicans blocking him…
How much of the glorification of that shit do you think, being absorbed as “cool” by idiots like trump has lead to terrible politicians yelling themselves “well this is a stupid decision so I will ignore it” or whatever.
Maybe it would be a good idea to stop glorifying authoritarian abuse of power…
that I used the words “ego-syntonic” and “ego-dystonic” when talking to a psychiatrist was used as evidence by that psychiatrist that I was obviously faking, additionally, the fact that I have read and memorized various portions of the dsm was presented as evidence by a psychologist that I was obviously faking
this is an attitude I have commonly encountered amongst mh professionals, which is, If You Appear To Have Accessed The Forbidden Psychiatric Knowledge And You Are A Patient, That Is A Bad Sign
like I remember a psychiatrist who got mad at me for my explaining that if I was bipolar I had to be having a manic episode and not a hypomanic episode because my symptoms were, by the criteria in the dsm, definitively manic and not hypomanic
the same psychiatrist brushed it off when i explained that me stimming was not an ocd compulsion, because it did not meet any of the dsm criteria for being a compulsion, saying that “well, no one is ever a textbook case“
same psychiatrist again, said “excuse me, are you the doctor?” when i was genuinely trying to be helpful by suggesting a starting dosage for a med I had been on before
he was clearly very threatened by me knowing or indicating that I knew anything about Official Psychiatric Information, and this is, aside from being very frustrating, is completely fascinating to me
why is it a threat if I know psychiatric terminology? why is it a threat if I have read the dsm? why is a diagnosis only valid if the patient doesn’t have the faintest idea what it means and adamantly disagrees that they have it? (one example: I was dxed with bpd for the first time, had never heard the term and disagreed, saw a different psychiatrist who I told about the dx and the fact that I had googled it and now I was more receptive to the dx given that I had read more about it, and this psychiatrist told me I “shouldn’t self diagnose” and dxed me with bipolar instead. in this instance, me agreeing with the bpd dx instantly made it no longer applicable)
like there is very much a power thing in psychiatry where the ideal patient knows nothing about their diagnosis or medication beyond what they are told by a mh professional, agrees with whatever they are told, and then complies with no further question, complaint or disagreement
I do not have OP’s experience with the mental health field but I 100% believe it because this appears to be sadly true for pretty much every branch of medicine. You are considered a “difficult patient” if you’ve actually done your homework and if you question the doctor in any way – even if all you are doing is advocating for your own health, which you should be doing!
i hate when the teacher’s like “write about a bad time in your life” like i ain’t tryna get a social worker up my ass, thanks tho fam
This ain’t no joke I had to write a essay about what your scared of so I did it (I was scared of growing up and where my life was going) it was great got a 100 but then I got sent to councilors office and was sent to therapy cause they thought I was suicidal and on the verge of breaking…Apparently they ment like spiders or some shit…
Also like, not everyone finds that at all useful or cathartic.
“Write about some difficulty you’ve experienced personally.” “Aight fam let me just break down into tears and skip the rest of my classes.”
Yes! I had a psych professor ask us to discuss outloud the hardest thing that ever happened to us literally two days ago and I said “you realize the position you’re putting us in? I feel obligated to lie to not only save my peers the awkwardness but also because I will find no relief in answering honestly but rather anxiety. The hardest thing in my life is having people repeatedly tell me I should find some sort of catharsis in reliving my trauma so someone else can feel pity for me!”
The whole class backed me up because they didn’t want to either! Those kind of exercises are only helpful for people who don’t have any real past/current issues– which is no one btw.
On par with this are those fucking self-assessments where they want to to be optimistic and positive about the future. You’re sitting there drowning in college stress and anxiety so bad you can’t look another human in the eye, fighting depression so that you can eventually achieve a piece of paper that might get you a better job if the economy doesn’t tank itself (guess what, it did), and the most optimistic thing you can think of is that the class ends in 20 minutes.
There’s a WIRED article that explains the history behind this practice.
Basically, this guy named Jeffrey Mitchell had a traumatic experience, then after months of PTSD, he told a confidant about the event that traumatized him. Retelling the event to a confidant was so cathartic for Mitchell that his PTSD went away after. He did a bunch of research to see if his personal experience of catharsis and relief could be replicated in other people suffering from PTSD. Years later he published a paper proposing a formalized psychiatric treatment revolving around this idea that expressing a traumatic experience helps relieve it. The paper was so influential that the whole psychiatric community adopted “critical incident stress debriefing” (CISD) as a standard treatment for PTSD.
Unfortunately … it’s bullshit.
Not only does the CISD treatment program Mitchell came up with not help the majority of patients who try it, but it actually makes PTSD worse in the majority of patients who try it.
The WIRED article explains why:
CISD misapprehends how memory works…. Once a memory is formed, we assume that it will stay the same. This, in fact, is why we trust our recollections. They feel like indelible portraits of the past.
None of this is true. In the past decade, scientists have come to realize that our memories are not inert packets of data and they don’t remain constant.
…the very act of remembering changes the memory itself. New research is showing that every time we recall an event, the structure of that memory in the brain is altered in light of the present moment, warped by our current feelings and knowledge.
Basically, Mitchell waited until he had some emotional distance before trying to recall the memory, and he had full control of the situation. It was fully his decision. Nobody was pressuring him to talk about it. So he felt safe. Thinking about the memory from a place of safety allowed his brain to re-contextualize the memory as harmless.
Conversely, pressuring a patient to recall a traumatic memory, particularly when it’s still fresh in their minds, makes the patient feel very unsafe. Recalling a bad memory in this unsafe context only serves to re-traumatize the patient.
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