Hi Folks, Appreciate your help. Since I published on Amazon, I noticed some errors, which I've now corrected. Unfortunately, I can't get Amazon to update those ppl who already downloaded, but I will happily send anyone who wants one an updated copy! Let me know!
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🔔 Publication alert!
Findings suggest that men’s willingness to seek help for mental health is underestimated not only by other men but women too. Lower willingness to disclose help-seeking may play a role!
Check it out: rdcu.be/efguZ
Not the worst thing, I know, but it’s especially irritating to be perpetually condescended to by people with such limited insight & lack of self-awareness.
Oh to be so smart. I do wonder, as a mere pleb, why I never hear them discuss why, even if this is the case, why it is obviously a terrible system that will inevitably barrel us further rightward each time & that perhaps we ought to do something about it? Almost like they’re actually happy with it
Perhaps. I do get the point isn't to show an accurate psych assessment but rather Jamie's reactions to illustrate his inner world & relationship to women (& that's fine) but like medical Dr's with hospital dramas, I can't help but twitch watching it. The series was still brilliant regardless!
It's on Netflix www.netflix.com/title/81756069
Well worth a watch. Definitely got me in the feelings - all of them!
and then cutting the relationship dead, with no warning - recreating the rejection his rage functions to defend against. Seems like his responses were entirely predictable. Would definitely be taking that one for supervision afterwards, if I were them.
Watched Adolescence - like everyone, thought it was fantastic (if that's the right word) but I must ask, as useful as it was for bringing out Jamie's inner world on screen, what that psychologist thought they were playing at? Arguing, escalating, eliciting shame with no plan to respond to it >
As we all know, the most moral thing you can do to help ppl is to make simply existing as painful as possible. Grinding poverty is well known for its ability to spontaneously resolve mental & physical health problems, & not at all make them worse.
It’s for their own good.
We are the good guys™
The gov refuses to tax the wealthiest to fund services, or reduce inequality. As long as that is the case, ministers’ beliefs will be shaped by that objective.
The pushback here is correct but worth recognising that the evidence of over-diagnosis is not really the point. It’s a belief that follows from the intent to cut spending, not the other way around. >
Worth pointing out that, as the wealth of the super-rich grows faster than the economy they by necessity buy more assets, pushing up prices & making the rest of us poorer, in an economic death spiral. The answer is to tax wealth more than work, to put wealth back into the hands of ordinary ppl.
Oooof. Right smack on the nose here from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social writing in @theguardian.com
Constantly surprised that anyone is surprised by this. Literally walk around the average high street with your eyes open & you’ll see the decline.
This is what happens when you refuse to tackle inequality. The wealthiest take all the money & everyone else gets poorer, year on year, forever.
Another way to react, is to ask what must be going so wrong in our society that it's making 25% of us so unwell each year that we meet the criteria of a diagnosable mental disorder? But that, I suppose, might lead to less convenient conclusions.
One way to react to what is, admittedly, the epidemic of mental health problems in this country is to assume that they are over-diagnosed. (Also a pretty convenient conclusion when your aim is to cut spending on support - but I'm sure that is just a happy coincidence). >
How to stop the rich from taking your house
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Even if I had such a lack of integrity as to be for sale as an MP I’d be absolutely humiliated to have it publicly known how little I cost. Shameful by every metric.
First time at the Union Jack Club. It’s nice enough & I can hear the sounds of a 1000 sandbags being pulled up all at once in the bar, as I walk past. But it’ll have to wait, I have an afternoon to myself & I’m just middle-aged enough to think a nice museum instead is a better way to spend it
Fair warning.
Today, I will be negotiating London, & the underground, as a non-Londoner, trying to work out how those maps relate to the platforms.
I will be in your way!
#Bekind
Why are we asking Stephen Fry what he thinks about anything, beyond the entertainment industry, when there are scores of experts they could get on? So tired of this trivial nonsense.
Currently FREE for the next 4 Days. Feel free to take a look and maybe give a review if you like it!
No problem at all, just DM me.
Thanks, very much appreciated!
negotiating transition years after they officially left service with all that entails in terms of shifts in identity, leaving many feeling stuck when they could be moving forward. I'm hoping this might help some of them. Consider having a look, & share, if you know someone it might help.
Why? Because, in my experience working with military folks clinically for the last 15 years, we don't give this often stressful period enough attention, focusing on employment & underestimating the psychological & emotional impact of this major life event. In fact, for many veterans they're still >
Hi Folks,
Most of you know I work as a Psychotherapist with military veterans. I've also just written a self-help book for service people and veterans moving through transition to civilian life.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DXQZDNKQ
Cheers. Sporadically at the moment as I’ve been trying to focus on work stuff but I still need a fix of doom scrolling now & then lol
To be very clear, they haven't realised you were right. They've (in their minds) come to this realisation entirely independently and, let's be very very clear, before anyone else could possible have known.
Dangers of outsourcing NHS eye care to private companies.
High street optometrist refer people to private clinics over the NHS. Payback is guaranteed follow-up work.
All funded by public purse. 30%-40% profit margin. NHS hollowed out and privatised.
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