ENGLAND’S MORTALITY RATE, a thread 🧵 The updated CMI Mortality Monitor was published yesterday, with data to end of 2023. There’s one age group where excess deaths stands out head & shoulders above the rest... 🚨 1-14 YEAR OLDS

ironically i think this is one of the reasons i don’t like IFS. to me, i hear ‘what if my anxiety/fear isn’t an integrated feature of my whole self, but a part of me that i can in some ways “anthropomorphize” to feel like i have more control over it?’’

I've spent the last few weeks doing more things, out and about. The pressure to unmask is immense. I understand why people choose their denial. 1/x

My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in 1992.He collected rocks during amateur geology trips over 30 years. He says it had to be geologically correct and also aesthetically pleasing.He asked if I could share online as He wants to go viral so please share

“They wouldn’t let Covid spread if it was THAT bad…” 🤔 See: -HIV -Asbestos -Lead -Miners Lung Historically, governments ALWAYS put short-term financial gains above public health. Studies showed Covid organ damage in 2020! (Pre vaccines!) #LongCovid bmj.com/content/371/bm…

Psych major reads Viktor Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” and then asks, “Does anyone know what happened to the guards after the war? They couldn’t have been okay. Did they kill themselves because of the guilt?” Hard to top that level of empathy.

seriously feeling for covid conscious youth navigating covid careless schools and extracurricular spaces/places where the responsibility to not get/give covid is put entirely on the child(ren) and their one-way masking!

I often interact with therapists who consciously or unconsciously believe that certain emotions or thoughts of their clients are dangerous, and it's their jobs to soothe those emotions or challenge and banish those thoughts. Our job in therapy is the opposite. 1/3

This meme (from lesbianpulp on Instagram) captures one of the main reasons I believe in the value of long-term psychotherapy: It is a lot of work to let yourself be known by a therapist, to survive the "mortifying ordeal of being known" - and that work takes time.

“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

Danielle Beckman As an ex-clinical virologist myself, this is one of the main things I try to make people understand. Most are intellectually stuck at “it’s just a really bad cold and as long as I am relatively healthy, I will be ok.” I show them this…

NEWS: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just sent a letter to Congress revealing that the Biden Administration repeatedly pressured his teams to censor certain COVID-19 content. "I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it."

You don't need grad school or Europe or yoga or microdosing, you need this