‘I kept telling myself that this doesn’t happen to lads.’ The dark clouds of secrecy and shame that hang over this topic are slowly lifting. Just grateful to be coming out the other side. ⁦Bodywhys⁩ ⁦Keith Russell⁩ ⁦Jen Hogan⚡⁩ irishtimes.com/life-and-style…

"Could we up the dosage? I still have feelings."

All you Russian civilians getting arrested for protesting Putin’s war — I see you — I celebrate you.

Worth a re-read #Ukraine

Indeed

A #mentalhealth diagnosis doesn't have the same significance for all. It may come as a relief for some and as a burden or an unbearable label for others.

When psychologists fall prey to the fundamental attribution error facebook.com/inkcinctcartoo…

'Any girl' by @MiaChristina_ should be in the reading list of all teenage girls in Ireland.

At bedtime the 8 yo told me his teacher said: “Think of your mind like a pond full of fish and each fish is a feeling. Try to be the pond, not the fish.” And all I can say is primary school has significantly improved.

"Freud uses psychoanalysis to ask: why are people addicted to their own suffering? What makes them give up and attack their own enjoyment so enthusiastically and ingeniously?" (Adam Phillips, "On Giving Up").

I once watched a colleague (who had just returned to work after maternity leave) highlight every email in her inbox and press delete. When she saw the look on my face, she shrugged and said, "If they really need to talk to me, they'll find me." I think of her nearly every day.

Cats and dogs in stay-at-home wild psychoanalysis... "Sometimes I sleep eighteen hours a day. That may indicate that I am suffering from acute, clinical depression or it may indicate that I am a cat."

1963 poem by D.W. Winnicott about his mother

102 Ukrainian children referred to Tusla with 36 in State Care. Word of appreciation to Foster Carers & Supported Lodging Providers. Can you become Foster Carer or Supported Lodging Provider?? Tusla - Child and Family Agency #raisingamazing [email protected] rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

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