Everyone pay attention

Most of the replies in this thread, which seem well-intentioned, are trerrible advice. They’re all about supressing/ignoring/distracting ourselves from difficult feelings

The feeling are there for a reason. We attend to them & understand them (and ourselves), or we pay a price

Meet ⁦madeline odent⁩, the worst type of white antivegan. Weaponizing the indigenous to justify one’s own harming of animals for pleasure (esp when colonizers mass murdered animals in order to kill them) is gross AF. Classic colonizer deflection from her own cowardice.

'Neurobiology is one level of analysis, mental life another. Thoughts & feelings must be studied at their own level of analysis. Brain is the subject matter of neurobiology, mental life is the subject matter of psychology… neither can supplant the other'
psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psycho…

Discussing this fascinating paper with residents today. When administered intranasally, oxytocin (the 'love hormone') hinders trust and cooperation in patients with #borderline personality disorder #BPD . In healthy persons, oxytocin increases trust and pro-social behavior.

“I would rather be the child of a mother who has all the inner conflicts of the human being than be mothered by someone for whom all is easy and smooth, who knows all the answers, and is a stranger to doubt.”

—D.W. Winnicott

It rankles a bit when I hear people refer to therapy as a 'helping profession' or 'caring profession.' It’s not that the descriptions are necessarily wrong—but the emphasis is on the wrong thing

Psychotherapy is a *changing profession*

It’s purpose is helping people to change

Yes, unlike TWolf who has no understanding of basic chemistry or physics and gets paid to spread Drug War propaganda, I share actual expertise in this area for free bc people deserve to know that “secondhand fentanyl smoke” is still not a thing despite inaccurate coverage of it.

1/ Absolutely none of these conclusions are justified

1️⃣ Patients who exercised showed some minimal improvement—but not enough to matter

2️⃣ The patients were not severely depressed to begin with

3️⃣ We already know that both antidepressants & brief therapy (8-12 sessions,

Projection is a perpetrator who says, “look what you made me do” and the perpetrator believes it

Projective identification is a perpetrator who says, “look what you made me do” and the victim believes it

After following preventative cardiology friends like Danielle Belardo, MD I asked my primary care doctor for a lipoprotein A test and its 26 nmol/L which appears to be good 🫀💪. Thankful to everyone here who teaches!

This is your friendly reminder to celebrate the milestone on your way to your PhD title 🙂

Malhotra is a COVID-19 quack, an antivaxxer, and a cancer quack, all simultaneously.

Spending years of time, effort , and resources only to get your paper rejected is a feature, not a bug, of academic research, I guess 😅

If the therapist regularly feels a disconnect in ways they don't typically feel with other patients, we must consider the possibility that other people in patient's life experience this too... and how that might relate to the problems that brought them to therapy in first place🧵

lol

It’s a foul 10 times out of 10. She was moving and extended her arms like she was playing left tackle.

FOUL.

According to this quack doctor, access to insulin makes diabetes worse, so by his logic people whose bodies produce plenty of insulin actually have worse diabetes than those who don’t

How to invent a new mental health condition, in the absence of evidence, and in the face of skepticism that it’s any different from existing, well-known conditions:

Step 1: Give it an acronym

That’s it. That’s the only step. It’s now a thing

Taking reverence for life to a whole new level…