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This reminds me of Mother Theresa. Who, growing up in the 90s, was somehow always this glorified selfless remarkable revered figure being brought up as a poster child for "good deeds" by religious and non-religious people alike. It's more recent that people have actually started talking about...

Yep. Hence the very clear requirement of having to have a disabilty as defined by ADA. And a "prescription" letter by your treatment team attesting to your need of said animal's emotional support as part of your treatment plan. That "prescription" is required as opposed to service dogs, as ESAs...

Legally, it's not, though, I think. Do our pets provide comfort? Absolutely, including to grieving people. However, to receive legal protection under the Fair Housing Act (and previously under the Air Carrier Access Act), the requirement for an animal to be considered an "assistance animal"...

NO such thing as registration/license neither for ESAs nor SDs. Disclaimer: this is for the US. Which - considering we're talking "ESA" here - is probably the location of the OP. Please please please please, if you try to get legal protection for your assistance animal (ESAs under the FHA are...

This is the fundamental basis of pretty much all religions. That you don't have to think for yourself. You have someone else do it for you. And inherent as well as taught lower cognitive/critical thinking abilities aside, it's a pretty comfortable position to be in and that's why many people...

That is an experience I share. I've met - even am friends with - the odd deeply religious person who are some of the nicest, kindest, most open and tolerant, intelligent people I know. The more it irks me that the same people would *still* follow their religion, including all the astrocities...

This is an older question (somehow the thread didn't pop up in my feed for a bit, or I just missd it in my own sheer craziness that were my last few months), but I still wanted to answer it, just in case anyone actually cares. This. I wasn't raised religious. I wasn't raised non-religious...

Do NOT, and I mean it, do ABSOLUTELY NOT feel stupid about this. Your feelings are valid. Your attachment to Ferdinand is valid. You think you have to feel stupid because of the way society has tried to condition us. "It's just a cat". Yeah, nope, it isn't. Because vvv It's valid. It's a...

No words 💔💔💔 Sitting with you in silence

I never understood why (in Western culture) adults are expected to dislike animated movies and be ashamed if they did. I've always loved animated movies and still do and always will. I love most Disney and Pixar movies from the 90s Renaissance onward. There's plenty more than the ones already...

I've come to realize that a lot of the normal "sleep hygiene" recommendations have the exact opposite effect on me (e.g. complete darkness, noise, ...). One thing I was taught in one of the courses on sleep I took (doctor's orders) was that one should establish that the bedroom is for sleep and...

To be honest? Radical acceptance that chronic fatigue just is and will continue to be part of my life. After well over a decade of fighting it, of endless doctor’s appointments trying to find solutions, after having tried literally every recommendation under the moon, I think I’m finally at a...

I'd be interested, too. As my other thread indicated, I'm struggling similarly. And what I've observed over the last decades, partly as a contemporary witness, is that we as a people strive for more, advance, improve, make progress... only to fall back into the exact same old. Point in case...

Pathogens don't make active decisions. They don't *intend* to do us harm. They don't plot. They don't have a concept of being 'bad scary motherf*ckers'. All they 'care' about is to propagate their DNA in the best and cost effective way possible. If they cause too much harm, eventually they'll be...

This one is one I've been struggling with for a really long time and with every new horrific event, it's getting worse. It's causing a lot of internal conflict because at the core my inherent nature is to naively believe in the good in the world and, by extension, people. That belief is what...

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2022/04/06/1091086672/animal-human-emotions?utm_term=nprnews&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR0RafPssuec5cE-GYdURKtx_tD859YMdB6bzzmm8zDurA1DheEtFiFql14 @Friday w'oops, soorry! 😳😳 Two be honest, I wouldn't even know...

To be honest, I'm the opposite. (disclaimer: no military trauma nor military connections on my end) Granted, while I'm from Europe, I'm currently far, far away. So this probably plays a major role. I've been anticipating this to happen, so it doesn't come as a surprise. And while I feel awful...

This ^^^ really can't be reiterated strongly enough. Because gawd damn is it true. When we were living in my grandparents' house (hah... you can already see the problem by my choice of words), we did have two completely separate apartments. But... it was always my grandparents' house. It was...

Not always an option and especially these days with the pandemic (and me being stuck on a rock in the middle of the ocean), but for me, physical distance always has been extremely helpful. As in ... travel. Not just for a day or a couple days, but actually physically be gone for weeks. But even...

I'm still reading through the article... holy cow, am I the only one having a really hard time reading this? Not for the content but for the language. Are all psych (if not philosophy) articles this... difficult to a point it almost feels forced (as in, make the language particularly convoluted...

I rarely have bad dreams or even nightmares. But when I do, the imagery has been extremely consistent for over a decade (decades if I consider that nightmare from when I was a kid ... which, funnily enough, as I just realized after I made the post yesterday, is pre-trauma, but that common...

Huh. I've always found the concept of 'monsters' very abstract if not bizarre. I don't recall ever having been afraid of 'monsters under the bed' or similar, for example. I remember being really scared of... something ... unnatural... like when being in a forest at night, I certainly was scared...

Happy (late) Halloween from this little witch! 🧙‍♀️👻🎃🦇

Not sure about the grooming, but the purring is scientifically proven to be calming, relaxing, and actually physically healing. (Hence why most cats also purr when they're not feeling well themselves). 😻