#Distress

🦎 Alex 🚫

AlexAlicit

New thread on why I believe "dysphoria" is overused and has lost its original meaning. That when most people use it, it's nothing more then an excuse or a way

Elli Fischer

Adderabbi

The question of whether animals stunned before slaughtering is an interesting one, with an important history.In 1933, the newly-ascendant Nazi party banned shechitah (Jewish ritual slaughter) in Germany. 1/6ishhttps://twitter.com/Olumeneccl

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ZaneEmma

Something curious is happening in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Last fall, an article claiming that sex reassignment improves mental health was published. It took about a year, but this

Heath Miller

veryheathmiller

Yet again people assure me I can’t in fact be suffering from 12 mths of pandemic isolation, because I have a family. Love that for me. Discounting other people’s distress

K. Chen

tznkai

An analogy:Contemporary service tipping is a barbaric system and should be abolished. Yet, should could continue to tip. When businesses institute tipping systems, what they are doing is divesting themselves

InspiredTeenTherapy

SashaLPC

Thread:There have now been two separate attempts to formally attack my license, both of which I have responded to strongly, since they are baseless and gross mischaracterizations of my work.

MJ Leaver

MJ_Leaver

The thing about trauma, is that when something happens that reminds you of your trauma (a similar event, or a similar smell, or taste, or some other stimuli). It triggers

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CanparaCollin

Doxing can affect someone in a wide variety of ways. It can affect someone’s mental health, professional life and in some extreme cases, their physical health. #SayNoToOnlineGBV Living with the

Sam Dylan Finch

samdylanfinch

OCD is a maladaptive coping mechanism, which is why it presents in many different ways.You might experience trauma, and develop agoraphobia by compulsively avoiding leaving your home.You might have a

Carissa Byrne Hessick

CBHessick

Most of the reporting in this @nytimes story is about jail officials failing to provide inmates with enough protection against the coronavirus. Yet the whole story is framed in terms

David Juurlink

DavidJuurlink

On a weekend evening many years ago, my wife and I were in the kitchen making dinner. Wine had been poured. Music was playing. Fleetwood Mac or Neil Young if

Peter Fries

Peter_Fries

We just rewatched Jurassic Park (1993) — funny how the reaction I remember to the movie at the time was fans of the book complaining that Spielberg had softened the

Fiona Quigley

FionaQuigs

Reading about empathy and compassion this morning. Fascinating. Compassion is to take action to relieve suffering, but showing compassion while working with others helps with the relationships. We can strengthen

Mubin Shaikh

MrMubinShaikh

No one thinks it can happen ... until it happens. Trump terrorists openly talk about assassinations, across the various social media platforms. As reality of the loss sets in, as

SahmatiFirst

SahmatiFirst

Saying “no” clearly and decisively can be hard, especially for #women as they are often raised to be ‘nice’ and #NotBeDifficult It is also tough to say no if one

Akiko Hart

AkikoMHart

I’ve never found the social determinants and in particular the inequalities argument in mental health particularly compelling. Not because I don’t agree with it, but because I do. I just

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