The message of nearly all therapy “influencer” accounts with really large followings boils down to

“You are good, they are bad”

This is not psychological growth. It’s a defense. It’s at cross purposes with honest psychological work. And it’s a primitive, costly defense at that

lol, lmao, and so on, and so forth

There are currently less than 100 young people on puberty blockers via the NHS.

There are 1.2 million kids being treated- or waiting to be treated-by CAMHS. A vast proportion of these are about to be told they have personality difficulties or disorder with lifelong consequences.

New piece on Zone of Interest: the speech, the lies, most of all, Glazer's harrowing warning about how genocide can become 'ambient.'

This is what feels most contemporary, most of this terrible moment, about Glazer’s staggering film.

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Vice CEO Bruce Dixon just convened an all-company video livestream to tell his staff, hundreds of whom are being fired, about how well the business is doing. Staff flooded the call with thumbs down emojis, at which point Dixon had a tantrum and ended the call early

I’m a psychotherapist with a caseload that includes several trans clients. When sick jibes are made by the most powerful people — with a smirk — the consequences are not just ‘get angry at a clip online’. The words are events. They can make it feel even scarier to be visible.

What an excellent piece by ⁦@[email protected]⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Proud to give a few quotes for this sharp and smart piece. Of course we’re not okay and, well, that’s okay

This is a top contender for the unintentionally funniest tweet I’ve ever read

Also: renters spending bigger and bigger chunks of income on rent = saving becoming impossible. Many of us turn these systemic failings inwards. I increasingly believe that the precarity of renting + having no choice but to stay in the cycle is causing real
psychological damage.

Very good, and on-the-nose

The latest Section-28-by-any-other-name Govt ‘guidance’ re. trans children will hopefully be bypassed for compassion. But I genuinely worry that more people will be compelled to transition in an even more pathologised way if the freedom to TRY THINGS is squashed.

The swell of embarrassment I feel when I say, type or think the word ‘podcast’ (as someone who listens to them!) could sink a cruise liner.

Read it.

What a brave big boy!

annie ernaux 👍

Imagine doing what people are doing in this thread and just going home at night, having dinner, watching telly.

'What are Palestinians supposed to do? That’s a rhetorical question because the last three weeks have made the answer to this crystal clear: we are supposed to shut up and die.'

Every word. Thank you Arwa Mahdawi

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