Dear Miley Cyrus, As a recovering addict, I can tell you that the “best of both worlds is not taking an upper and a downer at the same time” because I almost died. This is a dangerous message to be sending to your followers. You are better than this. ❤️

Mitch McConnell suffers lifelong disability from childhood polio. He has my sympathy and I feel very sorry for him as a fellow human being. I only hope he can extend that same understanding of his own illness to millions of Americans who need health care and lifesaving vaccines.

The party that’s constantly sounding the alarm about socialism has given us a president who hereby orders private companies to do things that are against their economic interests.

Hey, Amazon, is there any way a lowly Urgent Care doc who’s on his last N95 and wondering how he’s going to be safe continuing to do COVID-19 testing can get approved to order a respirator? My group has had zero luck ordering more. Any retweets to gain attention would be great!

So, I’m wondering. If God chose him in 2016, does that mean God didn’t choose him in 2020? 💁🏻‍♂️

Did you have an imaginary friend as a kid? Turns out it could be good for your mental health! Anna and Raven discuss the surprising mental health benefits of an imaginary friend, even as an adult! Dr. Joe Schippa calls in to lend his professional opinion. audioboom.com/posts/7783491-…

When we grow up abused or neglected, we can get VERY touchy about issues of control and autonomy. That's not us being difficult. That's us reacting to things that REALLY happened to us in our lives.

Just attended an online lecture and clinical workshop with Jonathan Shedler on The Efficacy of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. Thank you Dr. Shedler. You presented excellent information and it was a pleasure observing you do clinical supervision.

Tucker, you sentient dumpster fire: it’s racist to ask for her lsats because you’re only asking to see a black woman’s lsats. That’s pretty much the definition of racism. Treating someone as lesser or different because of the color of their skin.

It's not easy to talk about what happened in Texas with your children, but child psychologist Dr. Joe Schippa has advice for parents on what to say and how to respond. Check out the podcast. audioboom.com/posts/8089721-…

More states are allowing students to take #mentalhealth days off. While a growing number of states are trying to address the increasing mental health crisis among youths, many schools are woefully short of therapists and the budget to hire them. npr.org/sections/healt…

“Donald Trump has DSM-5 Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD)” by Dr. Daniel Winarick link.medium.com/fTeAQFBORqb

There should soon be criminal charges, indictments, and imprisonment. If not, an accumulation of overwhelming, irrefutable evidence and no consequence can also undermine the Rule of Law. It is unacceptable for the Department of Justice to be EITHER a bystander OR a perpetrator.

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1/ "I will generally use the term patient rather than client. Both words are problematic, but patient seems to me the lesser of evils. The origin of the word patient is 'one who suffers.' But for some, the word has come to connote a hierarchical power bit.ly/3lBJ8Q1

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1/ When you're feeling awful about therapy with a particular patient—hopeless, despondent, overwhelmed, incompetent, furious—it may be because they are (unconsciously) communicating something about their inner experience they need you to understand—but cannot communicate in words

“No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed” —S. Freud (1905)

My daughter needs help getting subjects for her first psychology research project. Can you take her survey and share it. It's quick (I just did it myself) Thank you for helping a future psychologist! qualtrics.uvm.edu/jfe/form/SV_1T…

1/ One of most important things I've learned: Severe personality problems find *camouflage.* No one thinks “I’m a sadist” or “I'm a malignant narcissist.” They find a belief system/social group that validates their most hateful, destructive impulses & construes them as virtues.