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Welcome @SeanPeter ; I'm sorry you have what makes you visit but glad you made it here. Sometimes the first thing to do is to work out what the second and third things to do ought to be. Maybe those will involve putting a name to things, maybe elaborating so you can get more specific help...

Have you tried your MP, being straight to the point about this violation of statute? Have you tried the media? "Compus mentis individual calls NDVH and instead of being helped is drugged, assaulted and imprisoned for years" is one helluva headline.

I saw a bunny rabbit, a squirrel and a nuthatch on our deck and feeder. Nuthatch was diving in and chucking sunflower seeds away with a "this is a seed, not a nut dammit, where are the nuts?"

I had a lemon cookie.

Makes the amygdala feel as useful again as it once was. Because once upon a time it got things very right and you survived and it's been riding that reputation hard ever since despite safer conditions arising. Thanks for the consideration, little guy, but my prefrontal cortex has got this...

2024 was only possibly remarkable in that regard for its lack of crossover voters. Exit polls said that 4% of self-identified Democrats voted for Trump... but 5% of self-identified Republicans voted for Harris. Both numbers the lowest we've seen this century. Both numbers were down a...

Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia.

I feel that I should require myself to become much better at identifying feelings before I should be allowed to answer this question.

I have a therapist thanks, I just meant that CPTSD isn't its own thing in the DSM-V and so it's just not a formal diagnosis you can get in much of the USA. Feels rather stone-aged here in that regard.

What if you live in DSM-V-land and hence can't get a CPTSD diagnosis?

Stress cup thing.

I use 2mg risperidone at night. Tried an additional 2mg in the morning but that zombifies me all day. Also 150mg Wellbutrin in the morning to counteract the R's fatigue effects and get an antidepressant in there at the same time. The 2mg takes me from "there are presently 74 people in this...

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When I see that there's a new comment or thread by @parrotthepolly I think to myself "@parrotthepolly is nice. I like @parrotthepolly. I wonder what's new with @parrotthepolly". Even if it's crap news, it's good to be shared with.

I'm saying that sweeping claims require a heapin' helping of skepticism.

<Looks out window> Wonder where my mobs are. I was promised mobs!

That's exactly what the EPA's evaluation of the social cost of carbon was intended for. That is, until the concept was tossed by the current administration. You'll commonly get state Public Utility Commissions having a laundry list of social cost of various pollutants that utilities must use...

I don't care for it myself so Karen gets welcomed to my ignore list.

Depersonalization/derealization disorder is in both the ICD-11 (06 - Mental, behavioural or neurodevelopmental disorders -> Dissociative disorders -> 6B66 Depersonalization-derealization disorder) and the DSM-V (300.6 on page 302; pdf page 339). In both cases symptoms have to be not better...

The site has been noticeably snappier for me in the last few days. I always wonder about those uniques: they seem so high because the number of commenters in any 24 hour period is a few score at most. Seems an unusually high ratio of readers to writers. The 1% rule is doing a lot of heavy...

Insulin is life and you had to chuck most of what you had leaving you living vial to vial (or pen to pen). Yes, that's a normal reaction to having your peace of mind wrecked. Fording the blood sugar wagon across the river of stress hormones isn't much fun either.

I've already gone into why news media tends to highlight the sensational outliers rather than what represents the average data, while a balanced point of view requires appreciation of the average data rather than sensationalized outliers. I do? Where? Case in point here: in your linked video...

We each have our own traumas here and no, I wouldn't particularly care to have mine or reminders of it on national news. I don't see anyone fighting for perps. Where are they?